₦airaland Forum

blueto:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N1CK4JX?rpc=401&

I disagree with this figure. A bag of rice rose from 11k to 25k, a dollar from 198k to 350k and you tell me inflation has risen by 17.9%. You must all be joking. That figure is to conservative. Inflation has gone up by more than 100% please.

dre11:
http://punchng.com/efcc-files-fresh-charge-fani-kayode/

Una never file charges against Amacchi, na FFK una dey file fresh charges against because e no give una breathing space.

dainformant:
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain who was gruesomely murdered by assassins in Rivers state has been laid to his along with his wife and son.

Late Comr Franklin Obi, the Ward 4 chairman in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, was beheaded by the gunmen who also killed his wife, Mrs Iheoma Obi, and 18-year-old son, Bestman Obi, in their residence earlier this year.

The assailants took the head of the APC leader away, while the daughter of the deceased, Victory, cried at the sight of the gruesome killing of her dad, mum and brother.

The unknown assailants left behind six orphans as seen n the picture below...Quite sad.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/10/rivers-apc-chieftain-who-was.html

Chai. Nigerian politics. That is why demons have taken over Aso rock as claimed by Reuben Abati.

Papishi:
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declared Barr. Jimoh Ibrahim of the PDP, Sherrif led faction as the authentic Candidate in the forthcoming guber election coming on the 26th of November, 2016.


Details and media source for this will be added as soon as I get it online.

Ondo State election will be very interesting...

https://mobile.twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/786924964398202880

The state's economy has almost collapsed. Workers are owed salaries running into several months yet they are falling over themselves to be governor. Even the man leaving now, if you give him the choice, he will want to continue. This Naija people self.

ridwanomooba:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/212749-aisha-buhari-vindicates-confirms-buharis-government-hijacked-saraki.html

There is obviously a cabal. They take major decisions. They are the ones who decided to clip Tinubu's wings. I assure you that if something happens to Buhari today, they will plunge this nation into crises because they will not allow Osinbajo to be sworn in. They may even terminate his life. It is this cabal that decided to fill all sensitive military & para-military agencies with northerner to facilitate their grip on power.

shay101:
A man was caught red handed and pants down today in Opume community in Ogbia local government of Bayelsa state. It was gathered that he was trying to sleep with the woman right inside her matrimonial home and bed when he was caught by the woman's husband.

The woman's husband deserves flogging too. If he settle madam well she for no go outside. It reminds me of the day I would have been killed. I innocently followed a friend to go and see his lady friend. I saw a man frowning seriously. His eyes were red but still didn't know what was going on until another friend accused me of not advising my guy to stop sleeping with somebody else's wife. I flashed back and confronted my friend who told me that it was because the woman's husband was impotent. I asked him a simple question. If the woman's husband is impotent, are you the one to help him take care of his wife? He had the boldness of going to see the woman in her husband's house. Thank God the man didn't bring out cutlass because he would have escaped since he knew from onset that he was doing the wrong thing.

Islie:
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/pdp-chieftain-supports-buhari-s-anti-corruption-fight/166659.html

Start the fight in the national assembly. Your jumbo pay is official corruption.

Islie:
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/pdp-chieftain-supports-buhari-s-anti-corruption-fight/166659.html

Let this man just decamp so that we can rest. He started by being a member of Sherrif faction & now he is backing Buhari. If he wants to back Buhari should he make it headline news. Jesus spoke to his disciples concerning the one to betray him, what you want to do, do it quickly. So Mr Agbonayima, please declare so that we know where you are especially now that your party has lost in the state.

passionate88:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/1739E/production/_91743159_a2601a1f-8199-4293-b9f1-7fe884f7b46c.jpg




http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37642282

if what the president's wife is saying is true. Then it confirms the claims here that the man is clueless. Some few people are capitalising on his age to use him. They just give him files to sign at will. This is dangerous for the country.

emamos:
7. Their names will be released soon by the presidency via the director general of the department of state security, Lawal Daura.

Daura no fit do sting operation catch BH people, na judge he dey do sting operation catch.

Scoop9ja:
According to eyewitnesses, the Dangote spaghetti factory in Ebute, Ikorodu, Lagos state, is on fire. No word on whether firefighters have reached the scene.

More photos after the cut..

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SOURCE:http://gidibest.com.ng/2016/10/breaking-dangote-spaghetti-factory-in-ikorodu-is-reportedly-on-fire-photos/

Dangote, who you offend?

Vicadonis:
The federal government says the released 21 Chibok schoolgirls were not swapped with Boko Haram prisoners.

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, said this at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.

More to follow…


https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-fg-not-swap-boko-haram-prisoners-chibok-girls?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThecableTopStories+%28TheCable+%C2%BB+Top+Stories%29

Lai don start again. BH people tell us say na swap, Lai say no be so. Ok BH people just chop belleful come tell chibok girls to come dey go home? If you ask me, I believe the BH people. Na lai dey lie. He no help matters with him former lies. For citizens to know say the minister of information for their country na liar, e get as he be o.

investnow2013:
So! So!!! Sad See What Some People Caught In Oraukwu Anambra State

SOME PEOPLE IN ORAUKWU TOWN IN IDEMILI LGA OF ANAMBRA STATE CAUGHT THIS BIG CROCODILE @ THE RIVER BETWEEN ABATETE TOWN AND ORAUKWU BOTH IN IDEMILI NORTH LGA OF ANAMBRA STATE. THEY ARE LOOKING TO SELL IT ALIVE FOR 50K.

if the tiny tape for the mouth cut, sorry.

MxtaMichealz:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/12/two-women-accuse-trump-of-unwanted-sexual-touching/

if the allegations are true, it may not matter for a man like him to become the president of Nigeria. In the US, the stakes are too high. He is just not qualified.

pedel:
So if a Supreme Court judge commits felony he can't be charged to court?

Let's say a Supreme Court judge shot his gate man dead in the middle of the night and the neighbours call the police, does it mean the judge can't be arrested and charge for murder?

This country is definitely screwd.

There is a general anger against corruption & this is normal but if you want to fight corruption, do so within the appropriate constitutional provisions except we say the constitution of Nigeria is no longer binding on us. Once you breach the constitution, no mater how good your case is, you can't succeed in court. The approach of the DSS, no matter how good it looks to us, has already provided loopholes for lawyers to exploit. We all support the fight against corruption, but the approach in a democracy cannot be like in a military regime because there are no decrees to support it. We will eventually come to the constitution for interpretation.

[quote author=pedel post=50152732]So if a Supreme Court judge commits felony he can't be charged to court?

Let's say a Supreme Court judge shot his gate man dead in the middle of the night and the neighbours call the police, does it mean the judge can't be arrested and charge for murder?

oldninja:
. Taken, but what about the Judges, should their alleged corruption issue be forgotten since Amaechi isn't yet behind bars? Just wondering shaa

Let him fight corruption holistically. Infact he should start from his party & his financiers. Then we will take him seriously. All he is doing are the attributes of a dictator who go after opposition once they attain power. With the way things are going I hope they don't plunge this nation into crises because I know they will manipulate the 2019 elections to maintain their grip on power.

odiks:
Two more judges were yesterday arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS), taking the number of judges so far picked up to nine.

Justices Bashir Sukola and Ladan Manir of the Kaduna State High Court, were arrested in Kaduna and taken to the DSS Headquarters in Abuja at about 8.30pm.

A top source said they were immediately taken in for interrogation.

Six other judges are under probe.

The DSS, it was learnt yesterday, has frozen the accounts of some of the judges under investigation.

In some of the accounts are “huge lodgments”, a source said yesterday.

The agency has received more petitions against the judges. Many of the petitioners, it was learnt, are willing to testify against them.

There were strong indications last night that the judges might be arraigned in court next week because the DSS has set a deadline in order not to extend the investigation of the judges beyond this week.

All of them are to face trial, the source said.
Under probe are two Supreme Court Justices – Sylvester Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro – the suspended Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin Division, Justice Mohammed Ladan Tsamiya, who was picked up in Sokoto; Justice Adeniyi Ademola (Federal High Court); the Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice I. A. Umezulike; Justice Kabiru Auta of Kano State High Court; and Justice Muazu Pindiga (Gombe State High Court).

The source, who spoke in confidence because he is not allowed to talk to the media about the investigation, said: “Some accounts have been frozen through orders of the court. This affects some of the judges. Not all of them.

“We found some huge lodgements that are questionable in some accounts and in addition to that we also observed the inflow of their salaries over a long period without them making any withdrawal at all.

“What that means is that they don’t live on their salaries at all. Those accounts have been frozen but as I said not all of the judges are affected.”

On why the judges were yet to be charged to court, the source added: “We are waiting for the action of the NJC. We expect the NJC to suspend them, otherwise it’s like taking a sitting judge to court.

“In the Service, when anybody is being investigated for any serious crime, the first thing we do is to place such a person on suspension.

“After the investigation, such a person would face trial and get dismissed from service on conviction and later face prosecution in the law court.”

Asked what will happen if they are not suspended, the source quipped: “The NJC does not have the luxury not to suspend them.

“We wrote the NJC on Monday but we haven’t received any response.”

There has been a rumour of a hot exchange of words between the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed and the Director-General of the DSS, Mr. Lawan Daura on Monday during a session with the President. “There was no such meeting,” the source said.

The secret service is said to have discovered that a governor, who is sympathetic to the judges, was behind the online publications against the DG of DSS.

The source said: “There is no truth in that at all. There was never such a meeting. The President does not even have such luxury of time.

“Maybe what they are referring to was the visit of the Chief Justice to the DSS headquarters on Sunday afternoon.

“The CJN paid a solidarity visit to the detained judges and expressed some concern. He probably saw the DG too when he learnt that he was in his office at the time of his visit.

“The CJN did not even know that they would be released on bail later that Sunday evening.

“We know it is the handwork of a governor to launch vitriolic media attacks on the DSS. We also know those being used. But Nigeria is greater than all.”

The source gave insights into more petitions being received against the judges by those described as “victims” of bribe.

He expressed confidence that the trial of the judges might begin next week because the DSS has set a timeline to conclude the investigation on or before the end of the week.

The source said: “We are almost through with investigation. The ongoing investigation is not supposed to go beyond this week.

“We have written the NJC about what has happened and we expect the NJC to take some decisions about the affected judges this week. Once that is done, hopefully by next week or thereabouts, we should arraign them in court.

“For now more facts in the form of petitions are coming in about the judges. It’s like everyone who has had cause to go to court for one reason or the other has been a victim.

“Some victims have even indicated their readiness to testify in court.”

The source added that contrary to insinuations, steps were taken to accord the seven judges arrested at the weekend the desired respect before their arrest and while they were in custody.

The sourced added: “Justice Ademola Adeniyi requested that his lawyer should be present before his residence could be searched.

“The counsel came, examined the search warrant and confirmed the validity of the warrant. He thereafter asked the judge to cooperate with the DSS team.

“Some of the judges also allowed their lawyers to witness the search of their homes.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/two-judges-held-dss-freezes-accounts/

I like the war against corruption but just don't understand how this government is going about it. They appear to be fighting corruption in a corrupt manner. In a meeting yesterday among top government officials including the president, the CJN, director of DSS the CJN was said to have accused the director of DSS of coming to him alongside the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi to request the CJN to interfare on some cases on the ground the president was interest in those cases. Folks, is there a worse corruption than this? Using the name of Mr president to pervert the course of justice. How can you get justice when corrupt people are the ones fighting corruption?

jossy4joseph:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/212594-dead-whale-found-nigerian-beach.html

In civilised clime, what they do is to insert explosives & get it exploded to prevent smell. So what is our man talking?

Laredojohn:
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/12/osinbajo-buharis-friends-wont-be-spared-in-anti-graft-war/

If he does not spare his friends, what of his sponsors? Tell that to the birds.

LocalChamp:
http://saharareporters.com/2016/10/11/justice-mary-odili-wept-and-begged-supreme-court-judges-accept-n5billion-bribe-behalf-gov

Story. So they agreed to collect the money because of her tears. Was the money shared through bank transfer or cash. Please let them throw more light.

xerxes456:
Unless your car is serviced by a professional autocare in which case a mtce schedule card will be updated after each service, and the next due date given, I will advice you go with the three months schedule... I service mine every three months used or not.... If I happen to travel far I will service before and after the journey, you may change the filter after every two services etc...

Wrong. If you change oil & leave oil filter, the new oil turns black in minutes. Instead of replacing the oil & leaving the oil filter until the next service, its rather advisable to replace the oil filter twice before the next oil change if they have to be alternated.

benedictnsi:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/recession-bread-biscuits-others-prices-go-15-ambcon/

the prices are already up, please.

Ipobdevil:
From Okey Sampson, Aba and Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha



http://sunnewsonline.com/justice-ademola-arrested-for-granting-kanu-bail-ipob/

So the moment a court gives judgement contrary to the wish of the state, then the judge gets arrested? If the authorities fail to obey court judgement then someone has to be held liable. If government refuses to obey court orders then we are heading for anarchy because very soon we will copy what the government is doing.

kahal29:
*** Letters between agencies reveal bickering over right nomenclature for Daura

As mixed reactions continue to trail the arrest and investigation of 15 judges nationwide for alleged corruption by the Department of State Services (DSS), it has emerged that the investigation into the judges started as far back as January or February this year, with the correspondence exclusively unearthed by THISDAY showing that the National Judicial Council (NJC) rejected the investigation into the judiciary, citing separation of powers and rule of law.

The NJC also informed DSS that it was not amenable to “invitations being extended to judicial officers by departments and agencies of government for any reason”.

It was the refusal by the NJC to co-operate with the DSS that prompted the crackdown on the judges around the country at the weekend.

Preparatory to their arrests, the DSS on October 5, 2016, had obtained search warrants from a magistrate’s court in Abuja for Justices Nnamdi Dimgba, Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta, A.A. Ademola and John Inyang Okoro.

In the search warrants sighted by THISDAY, all the judges were alleged to have engaged in corrupt practices, falsehood and under-declaration of assets.

The warrants granted the DSS the power to search their residences for money in Nigerian and foreign currencies, bank tellers, computers and other incriminating evidence.

However, after the crackdown the DSS late Sunday night released seven of the judges it arrested between Friday and Saturday, ostensibly because it did not get the co-operation of the NJC.

This was evident yesterday when the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed appealed for calm over the unprecedented arrest of two of his colleagues and other judges of lower cadre, and expressed deep regret over the “distressing and unfortunate incident”.

The CJN, who broke his silence on the issue during the valedictory session held in honour of a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Suleiman Galadima, also said he was saddened by the event.

Mohammed’s stance was reinforced in a number of letters between the NJC and DSS, which were obtained exclusively by THISDAY, showing that the investigation into the alleged corrupt practices by the judges started early this year.

The letters also showed the reluctance by the NJC to co-operate with the DSS in its investigation of the judges.

In one letter dated April 19, 2016, the NJC through its secretary, Mr. Danladi Halilu, on behalf of the CJN, wrote to the DSS, acknowledging its letter titled, Re: Corrupt Practices of Justice Pindiga, which was dated February, 26, 2016.

In the said letter, the NJC wrote: Reference your petition dated 26th February 2016, to the Hon. President of the Court of Appeal and copied to the Honourable, the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the Nigerian Judicial Council, Hon. Justice Mahmud Mohammed, GCON, against Hon. Justice M.A. Pindiga of the High Court of Justice, Gombe State on the above subject matter.

“I have been directed to inform you that your complaint has not complied with the extant Judicial Discipline Regulation 2014 of the Council, as it was not accompanied with a verifying affidavit deposed to by you before a court of record.

“In view of the forgoing, you may wish to comply, please.”

In yet another letter to the Director General, DSS, dated August 29, 2016 and signed this time by the CJN, the NJC acknowledged receipt of a petition dated August 5, 2016 on corrupt practices and professional misconduct by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.

It further informed the DSS DG that action was being taken on the petition.

Then in a letter dated September 7, 2016, titled “Re: Corrupt Practices of Justice Pindiga”, which was signed by the secretary of the NJC, the council adopted a more dismissive tone saying that its investigation had not found Justice Pindiga wanting that would warrant his sanction.

It stated: “Reference your Petition No. DGSS.71/3161, dated February 26th 2016 to the Honourable, the Chief Justice of Nigerian and Chairman of the National Judicial Council, Hon. Justice Mahmud Mohammed, GCON, against the Hon. Justice M.A. Pindiga of the High Court of Justice, Gombe State, on the above subject matter.

“At its meeting of 1st and 2nd of June 2016, Council constituted a Fact Finding Committee comprising its members under the chairmanship of Hon. B.A. Adejumo, OFR, President of the National Industrial Court, to investigate the allegations contained in your petition, among others.

“At its meeting which held on the 14th and 15th of July 2015, Council considered and deliberated extensively on the report and noted that the officer that represented your office at the investigative committee, averred that your office could not conduct full investigation of the petition to obtain hard facts to support the preliminary report, as allegedly, your organisation was directed by the Honourable, the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the National Judicial Council, to stay further action on the matter to allow the National Judicial Council look into it.

“At the end of deliberation, Council found that the claim by your organisation is not correct, as the Honourable, the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the National Judicial Council, Hon. Mahmud Mohammed, GCON, did not stop your office from conducting full investigation so as to obtain hard facts to support preliminary findings and proof of allegations without inviting Hon. Justice Pindiga to your office, having done so when he was serving as the Chairman of the Election Petition Tribunal.

“Consequently, in the absence of any patent evidence to substantiate the allegations contained in your petition against the Judicial Officer, Council was unable to find any act of misconduct to warrant His Lordship being sanctioned.

“Council further directed that while it is appreciative of the wonderful working relationship between the Judiciary and other Arms of Government, in fidelity with the Principles of Separation of Powers and Rule of Law, it is not amenable to invitations being extended to judicial officers by departments and agencies of government for any reason.”

The council’s letter elicited a swift and angry response on September 14, 2016 from the DSS, which first reprimanded the NJC for having the temerity to address the DG of DSS, Mr. L.M. Daura by his name, in its letter of September 7.

Signed by Mr. Ahmed Ahmad on behalf of the DG, the DSS made it abundantly clear that the NJC’s letter should have been addressed to the “Director-General, Department of State Services, simpliciter”, and all correspondence should henceforth bear the correct nomenclature and address of the DG, DSS.

After letting off steam over the correct nomenclature to be used for the DG, DSS, the letter stated: “I am further directed to note paragraph 5 of your letter in which it was stated that the “Council is not amenable to invitations being extended by Departments and Agencies of government for any reason” and to observe that if this is strictly adhered to, it would constitute a serious obstacle on the path of Agencies of Government saddled with the responsibilities of carrying out or conducting investigation into any criminal act by the Judicial Officers concerned.”

The letter went on to remind council that under the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution, “only the president, vice-president and sitting governors and their deputies are conferred with immunity”.
“Even then, this immunity does not exempt them from criminal or security investigation,” it noted.

It said: “In view of the foregoing, and the fact that Council has concluded action on the Pindinga case, I further directed to humbly request you to direct Justice Mu’azu Pindiga to report to the National Headquarters of the Department of State Service to see the Director Operations on 15th September, 2016 at 1100 hours unfailingly.

Responding on the day Pindiga was supposed to appear at the DSS, the secretary of the NJC wrote to the DSS reminding it that its manner of address in the letter of September 7 in which it used Daura’s name and his designation was not disrespectful, nor was it unusual and that the council had in the past written similar official letters to “Mr. President, Senate President, Hon. Ministers, State Governors and Heads of Government Departments, Agencies and Institutions in similar manner by addressing same in their names and designations as well”.

It stated, however, that the council had noted the DSS’ observations and would henceforth address all correspondence to the DG, DSS.

The NJC added: “I am further directed to inform your office that what was communication to the office on the above caption vide letter Reference No. NJC/HC.GM/5/1/134 of 7th September 2016, was the decision taken by the council at its meeting which was held on 15th July, 2016.

“Therefore, all the observations contained in the letter aforesaid, will be presented before Council at its next meeting scheduled for 28th and 29th September, 2016 and the outcome of which will be communicated to your office, instant.

“In the meantime, the Honourable, the Chief Justice of the Nigeria and Chairman of the National Judicial Council, Hon. Justice Mahmud Mohammed, GCON, has directed the Hon. Chief Judge of Gombe State to immediately contact the Subject Judge and to ask him to appear in your office as requested; and the Judge has complied.

Ostensibly, the DSS was believed to have written another letter to the NJC requesting for the records of proceedings of deliberations and or decision of the council, but this was turned down by the council in a letter dated October 7, 2016, thus prompting the DSS to move in to arrest the judges under its watch.

In the said letter signed by Mr. Halilu to DSS, NJC said: I have been directed to inform the Department of State Security Services that by the precedents and practice of the Council with respect to the subject matter, no Record of Proceedings or deliberations and or decision of Council, including the Report of its Investigation Committee are released to the Complainant or Petitioner or Subject Judge or any Institution, save by an order of Court.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/11/how-njc-rejected-dss-request-to-probe-judges/

The leadership of some agencies like INEC, EFCC, DSS should be neutral. If Daura is APC as claimed. Then the opposition is in trouble. How do you appoint a party man to head an agency like DSS & expect fairness. And the chap has to come from the hometown of the president? Give me a break. I am looking forward to when folks on nairaland will be as matured as Americans & stop their die-hard partisanship. Folks here support their party whether they are doing the right thing or not. See the way republicans are turning against their own because of a leaked tape of comments made by their candidate.

ijustdey:
https://www.thecable.ng/paden-buhari-incriminating-evidence-jail-jonathan

If he has the evidence to jail him & does not do so, then what right do they have to jail others?

TunezMedia:
Nigerian football legend, Victor Ikpeba got called out over his series of error while he ran commentary for the Zambia vs Nigeria World Cup Qualifier Match.

The former African footballer of the year did not just make basic grammatical blunders, he mispronounced names and gave wrong facts.

The Super Sport OAP, was blasted by fans on twitter and below are just some of the hilarious reactions...


http://www.tunezmediablog.com/2016/10/victor-ikpeba-put-on-blast-over.html

You people complain to much. Victor lived in Monaco, France. He is a french guy, undermining he was burn in Nigeria. Imagine a german learning to speak Ibo. It can't be fluent so please let us manage while assuming he did his studies in France.

idris93:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/212476-breaking-nigerias-secret-police-sss-releases-detained-judges.html

The fear of NBA is the ............

ever811:
chineke....is this what the almighty PDP has been reduced to?....parking refuse...

not packing refuse but keeping Owerri clean. Moreover, the cleaning is being done by a PDP member representing Owerri.

onomeasike:
See arrogance,thanking NBA who is in cohort with the criminal judges. If he's not one of them, these man should be apologizing to Nigerians who have borne years of corruption in the Judiciary.
Nigerians will recover their country from your brothers ,NJC or no NJC. This is a serious indictment on you, Mr CJN and as a matter of fact, you lack what it takes to lead the NJC . These obscene culture of paying judges retired or suspended for committing crimes will be resisted vehemently. Corrupt judges must be jailed you can keep your paddy paddy NJC. Shiorr.

you sound funny. Are they not coming back to the same courts to secure judgement or they will set up military tribunals to try them. Everyone including the CJN, NBA are not defending corrupt judges. All they are saying is fight corruption & other societal vices in line with the dictates of the Nigerian constitution.

DONSMITH123:
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday morning picked up the President of Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Mr. Uche Ogah, on the premises of a Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Tinubu, Lagos Island.

Ogah was arrested as soon as he stepped out of the courtroom after the forgery charges filed against him by the Police were withdrawn.

Ogah, who was declared winner of the last governorship election in Abia State by Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja on June 27 was, on June 16, arraigned by the Police for alleged forgery.

But the police on Monday morning withdrew the charges.

When the case was called, the Police prosecutor, Henry Obiazi, told the presiding magistrate, Mrs. Kikelomo Ayeye, that he had the instruction of the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to withdraw the charges against Ogah and his co-defendants.

“I am instructed by the IGP to withdraw this case, as the issue is pending with the SFU,” Obiazi said.

The charges were consequently struck out by the court.

But as soon as Ogah stepped out of the court room, he was arrested by the waiting EFCC operatives who drove him away in their van.

A source at the EFCC said the commission had received a petition from the complainant in the case against Ogah.

The source said Ogah was being interrogated, adding that others would also be invited.

The other defendants in the charge which the Police withdrew against Ogah were his company, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited; and an ex-employee of United Bank for Africa, Deji Somoye.

The defendants were accused of conspiring with some persons still at large to forge a Memorandum of Understanding between Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited and Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited sometime in March 2011.

Ogah and some other persons still at large were alleged to have forged the signature of one Mrs. Bridget Adeosun.

The charges read, “That you, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and others at large sometime in March 2011 at Ikeja, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to wit: forgery.

“That you, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and others at large, on the same date, time, place and in the aforementioned magisterial district, did forge the signature of one Mrs. Bridget Adeosun and a document known as MoU between Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited and Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, with an intent that it may be in any way used or acted upon as genuine.

“That you, Deji Somoye, United Bank for Africa and others still at large, sometime in August 2011, at UBA regional office, Palmgrove, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did knowing that Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited designed to commit an offence, failed to use all reasonable means to prevent the commission or the completion of the crime.”
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty; after which they were admitted to bail in the sum of N200,000 each, with one surety each in like sum.


http://punchng.com/efcc-arrests-uche-ogah-outside-lagos-courtroom/

though he is presumed innocent until proved otherwise but I just imagine if this one became governor of Abia state. He will only get richer & the state get poorer.

HungerBAD:
By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor



: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/crackdown-corrupt-judges-bvn-gave-suspects-hidden-cash/

when they treat his case as a special case, will they be the accusers & the judge in the case at the same time? Though it is obvious now that the PH judge & Abaka collected stuff in the PDP crisis. By the way, why is Abaka not among the judges arrested?