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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...

OZAOEKPE:
God of arsenal, please come win with us!

Ur juju don die tey tey

Rawani:
OPEC would be seriously embarrassed to have their serving President of such an organization arrested like a common thief and docked in the witness box tomorrow.

'Tis curtains closed for this corrupt character in our book of national history.

We all know she would have never been arrested under the corrupt and impunity loving Goodluck administration (who pardoned UK convict Alamiseyigha) so stop the cheap propaganda already.

A thief is a thief...

Because god does not exist...shikena

TheFreeOne:
It's so disheartening that it got this bad. I wonder what happens to intelligence gathering by our security operatives.

The govt needs to reappraise strategies to combat BH.

No one knows what will happen to him the next day. The country is just filled with uncertainties.

Jman06:
1diot!
I am a god. I don't get consumed by disasters or wars, rather I consume all infidels.

I am a mighty god!

What is dis one saying

franchizy:
With the prediction by China okoro on twitter as read in NL, one can conclude that these bombings are been carried out by a particular tribe who claim to be Muslims.
We all know how these tribe hate the Hausa's inspire of the fact that they have the highest population in the North.
Hands joined to hands, the wicked (Biafra) shall never go unpunished. The truth shall prevail one day.

Guy relax, what u typed no make sense jare...

Tho country is something else...

nairalandbuzz:
Again?

One thing is so sure... This boko thing will end one day. If not in this dispensation, it will surely in the next.

Again o, my brother....

Dis tin don tire person sef...which kind tin be dis...

Imagine, u read newspaper say dem blow people for nyanya on Friday, two days later dem come blow u join....na wa o...

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) – Multiple explosions were heard Sunday, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, a city in northeastern Nigeria that has repeatedly been attacked by Boko Haram Islamists, locals said.

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Scene of the blast. AFP
File photo: Scene of the Maiduguri blast in 2014, AFP

They said loud explosions were heard from the areas of Kayamla and Dalori, three days after Maiduguri was attacked by the insurgents, leaving 10 dead and many more injured.

This is barely four days, after five suicide bombers had stormed the city, killing no fewer than 14 people with 39 others injured, on October 1, the nation’s 55th Independence Day Anniversary.

Also, on Friday, Boko Haram bombed Nyanya and Kuje, the suburbs of Abuja, the Nigerian capital. About 18 people died, including the bombers, even as 41 people were injured.

Details later

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/breaking-10-feared-killed-as-multiple-blasts-rock-maiduguri-locals/

omenka:
Lmao. These aren't supporters, including all those who protested for Saraki wearing funny caps- what they are is a bundle of "auctionable" conscience with a minimum price tag ready for hire. Nothing more, nothing less.

You read my mind. They are only bunch of hired hungry souls.

anigbajumo:
My God,hw cum dis pwetiee woman gonna do inside prison.....Anyway,the man that legalized corruption will soon join her ....Did u knw the man?Ask google,just type "stealing is not a corruption"......

Funny you...

liberty300:
No wonder my able presido no send am, he's busy taking pictures with Obama. He's probably thinking "people way die no plenty nah"

Keep hating...

arbitter:
Lets not Forget the Most important thing here! Which is to ' NOT GIVE BUHARI CREDIT!!'

Whatever

So sad

eyesofgod:
The hangman's nooze will soom get tighterned.

Yepa

Aromas:
The worst path is that her supporter's still went ahead t disgrace Nigerians by carrying placards for protest with silly mistake.

That's not new. If you ask the protesters who Alison is, trust me they might not even know. It may be an arranged crowd paid to demonstrate. If they like, let them carry billboards or carry tv, dis thief will go to kirikiri...rubbish!

Abeg they should leave no stone unturned. It's about time people start answering to their misdeeds. Imagine, how can $20bn just disappear like that without a trace.

MKO4ever:
I heard that somebody actually tweeted about this for more than one hour before the attack. Nawa o

Source

The British National Crime Agency has dispatched a team of detectives to Nigeria who are now working with the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH revealed that the team of investigators from the UK Police was drawn from the Seizures Organised Crimes Agency.

A top operative of the EFCC, who spoke to one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity on Saturday, said the SOCA team had been involved in a discreet investigation of Alison-Madueke for two months before they finally moved against her.

The former petroleum minister left Nigeria shortly before the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari in May this year.

It was further gathered that the team from SOCA had been working alongside a team of EFCC operatives from the Subsidy Unit led by a Chief Superintendent of Police.

The EFCC team was constituted in August 2015 by the Chairman of the anti-corruption agency, Ibrahim Lamorde, to investigate the activities of Alison-Madueke and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

The SU team was mandated to probe all the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which were under the supervision of the former minister.

SUNDAY PUNCH gathered on Saturday that the intensified investigation into the activities of the former minister was being supervised by Lamorde and the Director of Operations of the EFCC, Mr. Olusola Adegbite.

Investigations further showed that the operatives from the subsidy unit of the EFCC carried out the operation at Alison-Madueke’s Asokoro residence in Abuja, following her arrest on Friday.

An operative of the commission, who spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed that the EFCC’s subsidy team ransacked the residence of the former minister for hours.

The operatives were said to have recovered several files from the ex-minister’s residence and they were carted away for further analysis by the combined team of investigators from the EFCC and the SOCA.

It was gathered that the operatives did not find anybody within the residence to guide them, so they had to get some security personnel who had worked with the former minister to gain access into the building through one of the windows.

It was further stated that the operatives later got the keys and searched all the rooms in the house for hours before they carted away the files.

The source said, “When our operatives got there, there was nobody in the building. What they did was to get the security men who were working with her to guide them through the building.

“They entered the building through one of the windows and later found the keys with which they accessed all the rooms. They found some documents in some files and they carted them away.”

Ex-minister’s probe began in 2013 — Britain
Similarly, the NCA has revealed that contrary to speculations that the corruption investigation leading to the arrest of Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister started in 2013.

The Nigerian media, both the traditional and social media platforms, were awash with reports that it was President Buhari’s recent meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, and other world leaders that led to the investigation and arrest of Alison-Madueke.

The ex-minister and current President of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was arrested on Friday by the NCA’s recently formed International Corruption Unit, along with four other persons.

She was arrested in London as part of an investigation into suspected bribery and money laundering offences.

Alison-Madueke was, however, granted bail but her passport was withheld by the British authorities, pending further investigations, both in the UK and other countries.

In an update on its website, the NCA noted that the investigation started about two years ago.

“The investigation commenced in 2013 under the Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and transferred to the NCA earlier this year (2015). The International Corruption Unit investigates bribery of foreign public officials by individuals or companies from the UK and money laundering by corrupt foreign officials and their associates,” it stated.

The UK crime agency added that the ICU would also trace and recover the proceeds of Alison-Madueke’s alleged corruption and support Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies with international anti-corruption investigations.

Meanwhile, the Coordinator of a UK-based group, Security in Africa, Mr. Ben Oguntala, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the arrest and possible prosecution of Alison-Madueke would only scratch the problem of corruption in Nigeria at its surface.

He said, “To have a simple Police Unit in the UK bring up partial evidence of corruption against a former minister is barely scratching the surface. You cannot fight corruption in this manner; it is far too complicated for ordinary corruption prosecution.

“What would have made this case extraordinary would be if Mrs. Madueke decides to reveal all. However, she is unlikely to do that, if your strategy is to arrest her first, embarrass her and drag her through the UK courts with little or insufficient evidence. Now, she will get a good lawyer and make the process the lengthiest as legally permissible.”

According to Oguntala, what President Buhari needs to do is not to allow a UK-led corruption charges.

He noted that the British government’s approach at fighting corruption cases emanating from Nigeria is putting the cart before the horse.

Also reacting to the ex-minister’s arrest, the Executive Director of Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the news of Alison-Madueke’s arrest in the UK was a good one.

According to him, the news will show the world that Nigeria is serious about fighting corruption and impunity usually perpetrated by its public officials.

“It came as a cheering news when we heard about her arrest in the UK. I felt relieved; at least a big fish has been caught in the cause of our anti-corruption crusade. It also shows that President Buhari is intent on bringing to book those who have looted the country’s treasury.

“We also want the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries as an august organisation to deem it fit to replace Alison-Madueke as its president. She does not enjoy the trust and respect of Nigerians,” Adeniran stated.

Checks on the webesite of OPEC on Saturday night showed that the organisation had been quoting its alternate president, Dr. Mohammed Bin Saleh Al Sada, lately.

There was no recent mention of Alison-Madueke.

Efforts to get the Presidency to comment on the incident failed on Saturday.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, kept mum.

He also refused to speak on whether or not the Federal Government would seek the ex-minister’s extradition.

http://www.punchng.com/news/uk-investigators-in-nigeria-join-efcc-to-probe-diezani-%e2%80%a2ex-ministers-probe-began-in-2013-britain/

zenith4biz:
That statement is uncalled for.

By the power bestowed on me as the number 1 Igala man on Nairaland I declare Audu and Wada unfit to govern the state for the next four years

Are you just knowing that?

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After the evacuation of victims of bomb blasts in the Satellite towns of Kuje and Nyanya to various hospitals in Abuja, the Abuja Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ishayah Chonoko has confirmed that 59 people were affected.

He said that eighteen persons lost their lives, while forty-one got injured.

According to him, Three dead and 21 injured victims were recorded from Nyanya incident, while fifteen persons lost their lives in Kuje with 20 persons being treated for injury.

Meanwhile the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), Mohammed Sani-Sidi, who led some of the evacuations and visited victims in the hospitals, has assured that the government would foot the medical bill of the victims.

He also reiterated the need for security consciousness among the citizens by reporting any suspicious objects and strange movement in their localities to security agencies.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/10/03/abuja-blasts-update-18-dead-41-injured-as-fg-pledges-to-pay-bills/

I see no difference...trying to separate Iraq and Iran...

Meanwhile, this audu worwor no be small...

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Former Kogi state governor and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),Prince Abubakar Audu has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is already training thugs ahead of the November election in the State.

Addressing the zonal rally held in Kabba , Prince Audu stated that the ruling PDP in the state has recruited 10 thugs from each of the 21 local government areas of the state.

While advising party supporters to be vigilant, the APC flag bearer equally asked them to kill any thug that dares them as their objectives will be to intimidate and steal their votes. He emphasised that they should not spare the thugs,”kill them” if you see them at your villages and polling units.

The crowd cheered in ecstasy in response to the charge by the former governor.

The APC candidate therefore warned the PDP and its government in Kogi state to refrain from their evil plans and give peace a chance and allow democracy to flourish as being enjoyed in other states.

According to Audu, the state has receded in terms of development since he left office 2003 due to lack of commitment to the peoples desire for prosperity and progress.

In his remark, Deputy Majority Leader of House of Representatives, Honourable Umar Buba Jibrin urged the people of Kogi West Senatorial district to vote massively for APC as the state cannot afford to be in the opposition.

The law maker advised APC supporters not to allow themselves to be intimidated or succumb to PDP doctrine of do or die.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/10/03/kogi-guber-audu-tells-supporters-to-kill-pdp-thugs-on-election-day/

Eh yah....

Meanwhile....

Awesome

Agree

Choi