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A major road project in Imo State that has gulped
about N12.7 billion in the past 11 years is yet to
serve its purpose amidst allegations of fraud and use
of substandard materials.

The project has passed through four different
administrations in the state, with each showing
interest in completing it due to the road’s
importance to residents of the oil-producing state.
The project, officially called ‘Dualization of Inner
Ring Road,’ is a double lane road from Egbeada end
of Onitsha road through Amakohia, cutting across
Orji-Okigwe road, to Bishop’s court through
Chukwuma Nwaoha street out to Egbu road.

The 6.1-kilometre road includes two interchange
flyovers at Amakohia and Orji, and a bridge across
Nworie river.

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AMAKOHIA FLYOVER

The flyovers, located at Amakohia and Orji, are very
strategic to motorists as they provide easy routes to
Orlu and some parts of Anambra State and also to
Okigwe en-route Abia and Enugu states.

The First Contract
The road project was first awarded in 2010 by the
Ikedi Ohakim administration. The contract for the
construction was awarded to Raycon Construction
Company for N5.6 billion.

The exact amount paid to Raycon out of the contract
sum could not be ascertained as officials involved
declined to speak on the matter. Officials of the
works ministry who spoke off the record claimed
that documents relating to the contract were
destroyed when the works ministry moved its office
to a new one.

Raycon was to complete the contract within four
years. However, one year after the contract was
awarded, a new administration, led by Rochas
Okorocha, came into power.

Mr Okorocha’s administration terminated the
contract in 2011. Findings by this reporter, however,
show that before the contract was terminated,
Raycon had executed a large part of the project. It
completed the sub-structure of the flyovers,
commenced the superstructure, did a part of the
retaining walls but could not complete the remaining
part of the superstructure and the beams.

After the contract was terminated, the project lay
abandoned till 2014 when Governor Okorocha re-
awarded the contract to a separate firm in 2014.

The ‘Completion’
A few weeks before Mr Okorocha was to leave office
in 2019, after completing his two terms as governor,
he declared the road project as completed and
opened it for public use.

Many residents, however, accused the state
government of rushing to ‘complete’ a substandard
project; saying the road and the two flyovers were
structurally deficient. They made reference to floods
that appeared under the flyovers each time it rained
as evidence of the poor job.

Governor Emeka Ihedioha, after assumption of office
in 2019, urged the state chapter of the Nigerian
Society of Engineers (NSE) to carry out an integrity
test on the flyovers.

The test was aimed at determining the structural
suitability of the elements of the bridges, and to look
into the conformity of the construction to the initial
drawings and design.

A team of engineers from the NSE, who carried out
the structural integrity test on the flyovers, said they
were of poor quality and needed to be reconstructed
to avoid a calamity.

The NSE Report
The chairman of the Owerri chapter of the NSE,
Innocent Ochiagha, said that when they noticed the
‘poor’ quality of work being done on the flyovers,
the NSE raised an alarm on the defects and wrote to
Governor Okorocha requesting him to provide the
details of the contractors and consultants handling
the project. We never got a reply, he said.

Mr Ochiagha said Governor Ihedioha on the
assumption of office directed the NSE’s integrity
committee to look into the flyovers and other
construction works done by his predecessor.

He described the integrity committee as an ad hoc
committee of the NSE saddled with the responsibility
of inspecting both government and individual
projects to make sure contractors follow rules and
regulations for the safety of the people.

“It is a state technical committee,
which makes sure that rules and
regulations are followed for the
safety of all of us. It is a purely professional body,
we advise from the professional point of view,” he
said.

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“A report was sent by that committee. Emeka
ihedioha was ready to act on it, but unfortunately,
the game changed and that report did not see the
light of the day.

“Government should exhume that report. If they
want a fresh one, they can communicate with us,
we can give them a copy. And if they need expert
advice, we will still give them. Our major interest is
the welfare of Imolites,” the engineer said.

The NSE official decried the use of “cheap labour and
quacks” for the construction.

A member of the NSE’s integrity committee,
Emmanuel Ossai, told this reporter that the
committee made an in-depth report on the bridges
and sent its findings and advice to the state
government.

Mr Ossai described the construction as an
engineering aberration, pointing out that the
retaining wall built is the type meant for fencing
which cannot be subjected to heavy loads.

“The bridges have a lot of structural defects, ranging
from the beams, the slabs and the slope of the ramp.
The slope is not good enough because we have what
we call an exciting distance. If you are climbing a
bridge, the driver should be able to see far of the
oncoming vehicles,” he said.

Mr Ossai said some of the defects his team observed
on the bridges include deflections of the beams,
rough finishing of the concrete and faulty alignment.
He also said that the interchange bridges do not meet
up to engineering standards and therefore, are not
good enough for public use.

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“Coming to the components of the bridge proper, the
beams are not seated on the bearing, so we have
some level of eccentricity on the beam-bearing
relationship. And again, instead of having two
abutments, one on each side, we have four
abutments. An abutment has its own peculiar design,
you cannot use abutment as a bear that is what we
are seeing at that site. The abutments have already
started having cracks,” he said.

He advised the state government to revisit the
bridges and make corrections by following the initial
design.

Another member of the integrity committee, Ebere
Ononiwu, said the committee used a ‘non-destructive
method of structural integrity test’ for its work.

He said the committee noticed that the flyovers had
cracks and big holes with failed abutments caused as
a result of poor construction technique, non-
compliance with specifications and lack of use of
adequate re-enforcement.

He also said they discovered cracks at the beams due
to excessive deflections.

“We suspected that the previous government used
some marine boards [plywood], to conceal the
deflections at the beams,” he told this reporter.

Mr Ononiwu noted that the comprehensive strength
of the materials used for the construction failed far
below the “BS Code 1-8-1-8 specification” of what the
concrete strength should be.
He said the bearing and the beams were not placed
in proper positions.

“The few structures that could pass according to our
test, were the few structures done by Ohakim.
Virtually all the structural elements introduced by
Rochas (Okorocha) failed. None of them was okay
when compared with the chart shown in the BS
1-8-1-8,” he said.

Mr Ebere said the test result showed that the
infrastructure is not suitable, and needs urgent
repairs or total removal.

Revealing Okorocha’s Contract
When Governor Okorocha re-awarded the contract,
the details were not made public. Many residents
were also unaware of the contractor handling the
project.

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FLOOD ON AMAKOHIA FLYOVER

However, the project was one of those investigated
by the judicial panel of enquiry on awards of
contracts, set up by Governor Ihedioa on May 29,
2019, to investigate abandoned and uncompleted
projects in the state, find out how much was paid to
contractors and to what extent the jobs were done.
After Mr Ihedioha was sacked by the Supreme Court
in 2020, his successor, Hope Uzodinma, allowed the
panel to continue its work.

The panel led by Justice Benjamin Iheaka has since
completed its investigations and sent its findings to
the state government.

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FLOODED DITCH ON AMAKOHIA FLYOVER

Although the report of the committee has not been
made public, this reporter learnt from a senior
official of the Imo government that the panel found
that the Okorocha administration awarded a N3.7
billion contract to Gosh Projects Limited on February
26, 2014, for the construction of the flyover at
Amakohia. Of the contract sum, N3.6 billion was
reportedly paid upfront.

Similarly, a N3.75 billion contract was reportedly
awarded to the same Gosh Projects Limited on the
same day, February 26, 2014, for the construction of
the Orji flyover. A mobilization fee of N3.5 billion
was also reportedly paid.

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FLOODED ON ORJI FLYOVER

In other words, the Okorocha administration paid
N7.1 billion for the project, a large part of which had
been constructed by the previous contractor who
charged N5.6 billion for the entire project.

Contractor Speaks
When this reporter contacted Gosh Projects Limited
through its official phone number, the person who
took the call refused to disclose his identity. He
declined to say anything on the project saying his
company had already appeared before the
government panel.

‘’Every discussion on the contract we had in the
administration of Rochas Okorocha have been
deposited with the judicial panel of enquiry, our
position is well spelt out, we specified what we did
and what we did not do,” the official said.

“The ring road, we did not do. We didn’t do
anything on the ring road. Nobody paid me that kind
of money. These are our positions. It has not
changed. That was what we told them at the judicial
panel of enquiry,” he said.

The official also queried the amount the panel found
that the Okorocha administration paid for the
project.

“When you say you paid someone, then you have to
show it. Is it by mouth that they pay? You don’t pay
by mouth,” he said. He, however, refused to disclose
the exact amount his firm got from the Imo
government for the project.

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DEEP HOLE ON ORJI FLYOVER

When contacted, Mr Okorocha’s spokesperson,
Samuel Onwuemedo, refused to speak on the
amount spent on the project by his principal and the
quality of work done.

He said there are court cases relating to the project
and so he would not want to speak about it.

“As a media man, I cannot talk on issues before the
court. These issues are in about four courts, about
two courts in Abuja, one in Port Harcourt and one in
Owerri,” he said without providing details of the
court cases.

Current Imo Government Speaks
The present commissioner for works in Imo, Ralph
Nwosu, who was also the works’ commissioner
when ex-governor Ohakim first awarded the
contract for the road, said he could not defend the
quality of work done and would not speak on the
finances of the project.

“I was the commissioner for works that started that
project, but when they finished it, I was not here. So
I am not in a position to say anything about it,” he
told this reporter.

Mr Nwosu confirmed that the Integrity Committee of
the NSE gave a verdict that the bridges do not pass
the integrity test and are not fit for public usage. He
said people plying the flyover do so at their own risk.

“We have also contacted some contractors to go and
look at it and see what can be done. If at the end of
the day, there are things we can do to reduce the
traffic that will go on it, so that we have light
vehicles ply on it without compromising the security
of the people, we will do it,” he said.

Transporters, Residents lament
Residents, who should have benefited from the road
project, have continued to lament the situation.

When this reporter visited the flyover at Orji, it was
barricaded to avoid motorists plying on it. There was
a gridlock caused by vehicles trying to make a u-turn
and flooding due to the heavy downpour.

The chairman, Imo transport workers, Orji branch,
Chika Nkewrem, said the people were excited when
the flyovers were ‘completed’, with the belief that it
would ameliorate the long hours they spent on the
road due to traffic congestion.

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GIRD LOCK AT ORJI FLYOVER

He lamented the current situation where motorists
are barred from using the flyover.

“If you come here in the morning or in the evening
time, you will see that this Orji road is a no go area
because of the traffic congestion. People now look for
a way to manoeuvre to make it to their destination.

Since the flyover has not been in operation, it has
not been easy for us,” he said.

Mr Nkwerem called on the state government to
facilitate the reopening of the flyovers to ease their
suffering.

Another transporter, Joseph Adimekwe, decried the
flooding experienced around the bridge whenever it
rains.

“If you are here when rain is falling, no road. The
rains come from the flyover and join the ones on the
ground. Everywhere is flooded,” he said.

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ORJI FLYOVER

Mr Adimekwe said the flood also brings dirt from
different places and heaps under the bridge thereby
blocking some parts of the road and hindering free
movement.

It was a different scenario at the second flyover, in
Amakohia, when this reporter visited as the flyover
was in use and there was no traffic jam.

An auto engineer, Ikechukwu Okoh, commended the
past governors for their efforts in constructing the
flyover, although he described it as “substandard.”

He called on the present administration to find a
way of improving the standard of the bridge.
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The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC
and Shell Exploration and Production Company have
donated 10 Solar Powered Boreholes and 16 VIP
latrines to thousands of Internally Displaced Persons,
IDPs and other host communities across seven local
government areas of Borno state.

The donation and handing over were done on
Wednesday virtually at the Council Chamber, Deputy
Governor’s office, Alhaji Umar Usman Kadafur.

Speaking, Kadafur lauded NNPC/ SNEPCO for the
intervention which he said would impact positively on
the lives of the benefitting communities.

Kadafur whose speech was read by the State
Commissioner for Inter-Governmental Affairs, Alhaji
Mohammed Wanori, said the intervention was in line
with the administration’s policy of restoration of
livelihood in communities worst affected by the decade
long insurgency.

“Let me also reiterate the fact that this administration
places a high premium on the adage which says ‘water
is life’ and therefore has placed the issue of providing
portable water for human and animal consumption
among its 10-point agenda.

“On behalf of the people of Borno State, we remain
appreciative for this uncommon intervention as part
of your corporate social responsibility.

“This will certainly go a long way in addressing water
scarcity being experienced in the selected communities.

Therefore, this intervention is quite commendable and
should be sustained for the benefit of the people of
Borno State,” Kadafur said.

While assuring sustainability of the projects, Kadafur
urged benefiting communities to ensure maximum
utilization of the facilities.

Speaking earlier, the Project Manager, Alhaji Ibrahim
Ringim, said the projects which comprised 10 hybrid
solar boreholes and 16 VIP latrines that are friendly
for the usage of people living with disabilities were
executed in seven LGAs across the three Senatorial
Zones of the state.

Speaking on behalf of benefiting LGAs and
communities, the Chairman of Gubio LGA, Alhaji Mali
Gubio, and General Manager of Ruwassa in Borno, Mr
Mohammed Aliyu, lauded the intervention and
assured their commitment for its protection and
maintenance to ensure the sustainability of the water
projects.

In their respective messages to the occasion through
virtual, representative of NNPC, Aliyu Jafaru and that
of SNEPCO, Alice Aje, said the joint projects as part of
their corporate social responsibility to communities in
Borno and other states across Nigeria.

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Ghana has started its first fully digital national Housing and Population Census (PHC) on Monday in a bid to capture the exact number of population for better national development.
Ghana’s last census was done in 2010, which put the number of the population at 24.6 million. The 2020 census was postponed to 2021 due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the Ghana Statistics Service (GSS), there are 67,419 field enumerators deployed to collect data nationwide and to collect data on digital tablets within the borders of the West African country.
Samuel Annim, Chief Government Statistician, said that the enumerators would target persons traveling, persons in short-stay institutions such as health facilities, hotels, and prisons, and those considered homeless at their locations.
“The counting that we do at GSS during a PHC is the snapshot of the population, and it is an all- inclusive exercise,” added the government statistician.
He urged all those within the country as of the commencement of the census to make themselves available to be counted since the population numbers would help in planning for various sectors of the country’s socio-economic architecture.
Peter Takyi Peprah, the Field Operations Manager at the GSS, said in an interview that the digital data collection marked a significant difference between the 2021 census and the previous ones.
“The digitisation will help us deliver results more promptly and accurately than we used to have with the paper and pen data collection in the past,’’ he stated.
Dennis Agyemang, a Ghanaian bus driver, said that he was glad to have been counted on Sunday night since that would help the government to plan well in developing the country.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/06/ghana-commences-1st-fully-digital-census/

A 28-year-old trader, Pious Amos, on Monday
appeared in an Upper Area Court, Zuba, Abuja, for
allegedly using fake N1,000 to buy suya.
The police charged Amos, who lives in Tunsan
Kwaso, Abuja, with using counterfeiting note and
cheating.
The prosecution counsel, Chinedu Agada, told the
court that the complainant, Jenedu Ibrahim of Dei-
dei live stock market reported the matter at the Dei-
dei Police Station on June 22.
Ogada told the court at about 6: 44 pm the
defendant presented a fake N1000 note to the
complainant, at his suya stand.

The prosecutor said that the defendant fraudulently
and unlawfully uses the counterfeit N1,000 note to
buy suya N300 but the complainant caught him and
raised an alarm.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of
sections 433 and 322 of the Penal Code.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty.
The judge, Gambo Garba, admitted the defendant to
bail in the sum of N50, 000 with one surety in like
sum.
Garba ordered that the surety must reside within the
court’s jurisdiction and produce reliable means of
identification.
He adjourned the case until July 21 for hearing.
(NAN)
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The Group Managing Director/CEO of Access Bank PLC
Herbert Wigwe has been recognised as the African
Banker of the Year at the 2021 edition of the African
Banker Awards.

A winner of one of the most prized categories at the
Awards ceremony for the second consecutive year,
Wigwe was recognised for his stellar leadership in the
market expansion of Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest
bank despite the negative impact of the COVID-19
pandemic. Over the last 12 months, Access Bank has
established a presence in South Africa following its
acquisition of Grobank.

Accepting the award, Wigwe said Access Bank is
focused on promoting corporate discipline, adding that
the Bank wants to be in key markets on the continent,
building a payment gateway and providing trade
finance support.

“We want to be seen as the best bank supporting the
African Continental Free Trade Area agreement
(AfCFTA). In terms of diaspora remittances, we are
present in key areas in the continent,” he said.

The African Banker Awards have become the most
respected and recognised industry event celebrating
African banking achievements. The organisers this
year, put emphasis on recognising and rewarding
institutions that contributed to the real economy
which has suffered from the impact of Covid-19 as
well as contributed to women empowerment on the
continent.

Commenting on the award, Group Publisher of African
Banker and Chair of the Awards Committee, Omar Ben
Yedder said, “Herbert is one of the most respected
bankers on the continent, without a shadow of a
doubt. The Bank has gone from a lower ranked
Nigerian bank when he joined the group as Deputy
CEO to become one of Africa’s leading financial
services groups. He has shown a relentless pursuit for
growth, but has done so in a measured and calculated
manner. What he and his team have done at Access
Bank is nothing short of remarkable.”

The Awards ceremony held virtually during the
Annual meetings of the African Development Bank.

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Despite repeated denials that he was not planning to join the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has now joined Nigeria’s ruling party, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari has suggested.

In a cryptic post shared on his verified Facebook
account on Sunday morning, the president’s
Personal Assistant on Digital and New Media, Bashir
Ahmad, suggested that Mr Matawalle has left the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC.
“So Zamfara is back home! Welcome Matawalle✊,”
Mr Ahmad wrote.

Mr Matawalle was elected on the platform of the
PDP after the Supreme Court nullified the victory of
the APC in the 2019 elections in the state due to an
internal party crisis. Before then, Zamfara was an
APC state with the governor and majority of the
federal and state lawmakers from the ruling party.

Prior to Mr Ahmad’s announcement, PREMIUM
TIMES reported the dissolution of the Zamfara State
Executive Council by the governor, a move a source
close to the governor confirmed was in preparation
to join the APC on June 12.

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The source said Mr Matawalle dissolved his cabinet
due to the reluctance of some members to defect
with him to the ruling party. After that report, Mr
Matawalle denied plans to join the APC.

The governor said that he sacked his cabinet
members in a bid to reinvigorate his government for
the second half of his tenure. He said he has not
decided on defecting nor fixed a date for such.

On Sunday, state officials close to Mr Matawalle
confirmed again to PREMIUM TIMES that the
governor was set to join the APC. Some of them said
they had already been told to start ditching the PDP
flag in preparation for the official defection.

However, Mr Matawalle’s spokesperson, Yusuf Idris,
told PREMIUM TIMES early Sunday morning that Mr
Ahmad’s post should be ignored. The governor has
not decamped, the spokesperson told this
newspaper, declining to speak on whether or not
there were plans to decamp/

A Gale of Defections

When Mr Matawalle’s defection is made official, the
Zamfara governor would be the second governor
from the PDP to join the APC in less than two
months and the third in the last seven months.

The Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade,
formally defected to the ruling APC in May after
months of speculation.

His defection came six months after the exit of his
Ebonyi State counterpart, David Umahi, who also
joined the ruling party in November 2020.

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Content is king, so the saying goes but these are
queens who not only understand the logic but are also
making a good living out of it.

From purely nothing these young women have taken
their lives by the scruff of the neck and dragged it to
the front row. When the saturated movie and music
space proved too hard for them to hang their hats,
they found a space in the dessert of Instagram and
created their own oases.

With Instagram as a tool in their hands, they needed
no producer or director to decide their fates. All they
needed was guts, their wits and a smiling face of
destiny and the limelight soon illuminates their
hustles. And they all have something in common –
beauty, attitude and a bit of outpouring sexuality.

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Whykayy: Her real name is Adeyinka Ogunjimi but
simply known as Whykayy or Miss versatile because
she can do pretty much anything as far as
entertainment goes. She’s a rapper, singer, music
producer, actor, YouTuber and more. She creates
amazing content to entertain her followers.

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Ada La Pinky: Ada Ebere has made a name for herself
as an actress, content creator and social media
influencer but she got on the entertainment train as a
video vixen. Ada doesn’t spare her followers with
those humongous twin towers of hers.

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Nons Miraj: Her real name is Chinonso Ukah and also
known as Ada Jesus. She once confessed she made her
first million on Instagram. She loves to take on the
character of an overbearing mother in most of her
skits or content.

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Ashmusy: Amarachi Amusi known as Ashmusy found
fame via Instagram as an actress, model, brand
influencer and a content creator of note.

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ShirleyCurvy: Shirley uses her dose of sexuality to
arrest her teeming followers. She’s the total package;
an actress, brand influencer, dancer, professional
masseuse and an aviator.

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Kofankii: Kofanki Efunke is just coming into her
element as a content creator of note. Most of her
content is centred around the ripple effects her
erupting towers leave in their wake. She’s beautiful,
sexy and she knows it.

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Geeftooo: Abena Gift Omotayo also known as Geeftooo
is a curvaceous beauty who uses her sex appeals to
win souls. She grew into her own element under the
wings of another content creator and comedian, Sir
Balo.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/06/behold-7-sexy-divas-creating-stimulating-content-on-instagram/

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Baijranji Bhaijan
Jab We Met
Bang Bang
Ek tha Tiger
Tiger Zinda Hai
Fanaa
Lagaan
Dangal
Sultan
Brothers
Kesari
Baby
Special 26

I can go on and on. The above is a list of Bollywood movie that cut across all popular genre (horror) that will start toe to toe with any top class movie from any industry in the world.

mary kom, jab we met: Super movies

EFCC needs to up its game

jubrilcastle:
The skulls

For Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson), an invitation to join the prestigious secret college organization, The Skulls, is a dream come true. But he soon comes to realize just how powerful The Skulls organization really is -- and that the truth, like success, comes at a very high price.

i remember this film like yesterday. Very tense

bukatyne:
Is Baba Ijesha in court because he slept with someone or because he allegedly raped/sexually assaulted a minor multiple times?

Baba Olofa Ina, e gbenu dake sir. E ma did agbaya lori oro ti o kan yin.

none of the above. baba ijesha is in trouble for reasons best known to him and princess. The whole thing look like a frenzy

Hamiltonii:
They've been acting naa.

sweetporn9jaa

BDXTRA:
He is good too; a veteran. And what I love about him is that he is very versatile. He can perform excellently in both modern and traditional movies skilfully. But here, I'm talking about the Yoruba language and accent (the Oyo type; the Ogbomoso, Ibadan kind of accent being spoken with ease and ancient aroma

what about afeez owo, sanyeri

The Karate Kid
Not what i expected

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has
launched an investigation into a report of an alleged $3 million
fraud involving a Nigerian firm, Zenith Carex.

Global Fund, an international health sector funding
mechanism, had raised the $3million fraud allegation in the
latest report issued on March 9 by its Office of Inspector
General (OIG).

The global organisation, which pools the world’s largest
financial donations for the prevention, treatment, and care of
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and malaria, blacklisted Zenith Carex in its
report.

It accused the firm of systematically inflating invoices for the
distribution of health commodities to warehouses and health
facilities throughout Nigeria.

The company committed the alleged fraud between 2017 and
2019, a period of two years, the report had stated.

EFCC confirms probe

EFCC, Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption agency, has
confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that it has begun an
investigation into the matter.

It confirmed the ongoing investigation against Zenith Carex
and others in its reply to this newspaper’s Freedom of
Information (FoI) request.

PREMIUM TIMES’ request was fuelled by the rising concerns
about the poor attention, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies
pay to Global Fund’s indictment of Nigerian firms over the
years.

This is despite the reputational damage and possible loss of
goodwill the blacklisting of the Nigerian firms is capable of
causing the country in the global space.

Assuring this newspaper of its efforts to ensure justice is done
regarding the matter, EFCC wrote that it is investigating
“Zenith Limited for an alleged offence of conspiracy and
criminal breach of trust with regards to contracts for the
distribution of drugs/vaccine supply chain programme in all
states of the federation.”

The letter signed by the head of FoI desk of the agency,
Elizabeth Ayodele, wrote that the commission had also met
the representatives of Global Fund over the matter.

“It will interest you to know that the investigation has reached
an advanced stage,” the letter read in part, adding, “A zoom
meeting was even held with representatives of Global Fund to
enable them to assist our office on the allegations against the
suspects.”

Zenith Carex contacted

When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES in March, a
representative of the firm said the company was aware of the
OIG report. The contact, however, said the company would not
want to comment publicly on the matter as their lawyers were
exploring the best possible legal option to take.

But, Zenith Carex denied the allegations in a report by Punch
Newspaper on March 11, three days after the OIG’s report was
issued.

The firm said EFCC was aware of the development and had
invited some of the parties involved. It also called on the
federal government to intervene in the matter.

Confronted with EFCC’s fresh revelation to PREMIUM and
asked to comment on it again on Friday, an official at Zenith
Carex whose phone number appears on the firm’s website,
declined to speak.

The official, whom Truecaller identified as Adelana Olamilekan,
told our reporter, “The commission had already invited some
of our staff for questioning regarding the matter.

“So, I cannot speak further as the case is still under
investigation.”

Background

Global Fund is a funding mechanism that pools the world’s
largest financial donations for the prevention, treatment, and
care of AIDS, Tuberculosis, and malaria.

Given that Nigeria has the highest malaria burden in the world
(one in four cases globally), the world’s fourth-largest
tuberculosis burden and about two million people living with
HIV, funding programmes to stem the tide of these grim
indices became a central focus for Global Fund.

Since 2003, the Global Fund has disbursed over $2 billion in
Nigeria. But despite that, the country is still dogged by
disturbing health statistics partly because corrupt and
incompetent officials undercut progress in health management, health experts say.

Zenith, a sub-contractor of Chemonics International, who
managed an integrated supply chain for Global Fund Principal
Recipients in Nigeria and the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) was blacklisted by the
Fund.

The OIG report said Zenith allegedly inflated distribution
invoices up to ten-fold and misrepresented the services
executed, resulting in a $3 million overcharge.

The revelation builds on previous yearly reports by the OIG
accusing Nigerian companies and government agencies of
abusing millions of dollars of the Global Fund aid.

Aside from the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices
Commission (ICPC) had previously said it commenced
investigation into allegations against Nigerian firms, agencies,
and their proxies.

We also sent a similar FOI request to the ICPC seeking to
know the status of its investigations of allegations reported by
the OIG but there is no response yet.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/470027-exclusive-efcc-probes-global-funds-3million-fraud-allegation-against-nigerian-firm.html

kenzysmith:
Noise as usual

yes. I go manage. Where she base

kenzysmith:
Girls with big boobs smell wen I bang one for my room I nearly faint 2 am for night I knock my neighbour house enter inside sleep till dey break. Tell the girl say I get emergency the next day make she come dey go, throwaway d bedshit finish full spray for my whole apartment. Tope if u reading this abeg they bath wella u dey smell

she dey give head

Allsortng:
Omo choker yesterday, and I taught she was the saint in the house till the end.Nothing when miss not go see for gate

I thought so too. wonders shall never end

PacAmaru:
Team black woman or nafin

team big yash or nothing

Jman06:
Congrats to the couple.


Guys like me still prefer our black sisters because they're sexier.

I like them randy

PrincessGlow:
Congrats my nyash. Leave all we Igbo girls go marry Korean. How many Korean don marry Igbo girl?
All u abroad people better come home to marry

you are just jealous

Pharaoh4rin:
My kind of gurrlll. I detest big brezz or Big nyansh.

you are missing

We would see who laff last. Mynd44

The Nigerian government has told the ECOWAS
Court that its ban on Twitter does not affect the
human rights of Nigerians.

In its preliminary objection to a suit filed by a civil
society group, SERAP, and 176 other entities, the
Nigerian government argued that banning Twitter
had criminalised the operations of the social media
platform in Nigeria. The government, however,
argued that such ban did not violate the freedom of
expression of Nigerians.

“The subject matter of the SERAP suit relates to the
indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria. This is
not in any way connected to any Nigerian or SERAP.
Individual user’s Twitter accounts are not
suspended.”

“The right to freedom of expression is completely
different from freedom of reach. The suspension of
Twitter does not fall under the provisions of arts 8
and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights,” the government argued.

“Twitter as an entity is not an organization of any
member state as it is an American microblogging
networking service. The suspension of Twitter in
Nigeria is not a right recognized under any treaty
enforceable by this Court.

“In the unlikely event that this Honourable Court
agrees with SERAP that the suspension of Twitter is a
fundamental right, the dissolution or liquidation of
twitter as a profit-making entity may as well open a
floodgate and vest the users the rights of a non-
existent right.

“Twitter is a profit-making entity which can be
proscribed/dissolved in compliance with any national
laws. The compulsory shut down of an entity cannot
be termed the breach of any fundamental rights by
this Honourable Court.

“The suspension of Twitter in Nigeria is in
compliance with the provisions of sections 420, 419
of the Penal Code [Northern Nigeria]; Federal
Provisions Act, and section 58 of the Criminal Code
Act. The operation of Twitter is in violation of
Nigerian domestic legislation.”

Details of the arguments by the parties and the
ruling by the court were sent to PREMIUM TIMES by
SERAP.

The Nigerian government also argued that the
ECOWAS Court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the
suit.

“Ground Two: This Court lacks the jurisdiction to
determine the criminalization of an act under
Nigerian laws. The subject matter of the SERAP suit
borders on the criminalization of Twitter operation
in Nigeria pursuant to the Penal Code and the
Criminal Code.”

“The use and operation of Twitter in Nigeria
constitutes the offences of Importation of Prohibited
publication under sections 420 and 421 or the
offence of possession of seditious articles under
section 419 of the Penal Code Federal Provisions
Act.”

“In any event there is a right of action vested in the
suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, the said right vests
directly on Twitter and not individual users of
Twitter. This is more so that individual user’s
Twitter accounts were not tempered but only the
operation of Twitter.”

“Nigerians and SERAP have no cause of action. The
suspension of Twitter in Nigeria is in compliance
with the provisions of sections 420, 419 of the Penal
Code and section 58 of the Criminal Code, and
sections 78 and 79 of CAMA 2020.”

On Tuesday, the court dismissed Nigeria’s
preliminary objection and granted a temporary order
that essentially allows Nigerians to continue to use
Twitter.

The court “restrained the government of President
Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully
imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to
harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or
any other social media service provider(s), media
houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the
Plaintiffs and other Nigerians who are Twitter users,
pending the hearing and determination of this suit.”

The ruling followed the suit filed by SERAP and
others, arguing that “the unlawful suspension of
Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and
other people using Twitter have escalated repression
of human rights and unlawfully restricted the rights
of Nigerians and other people to freedom of
expression, access to information, and media
freedom in the country.”

The court gave the order after hearing arguments
from the Solicitor to SERAP, Femi Falana, and lawyer
to the government Maimuna Shiru.

“The court has listened very well to the objection by
Nigeria. The court has this to say. Any interference
with Twitter is viewed as inference with human
rights, and that will violate human rights. Therefore,
this court has jurisdiction to hear the case. The court
also hereby orders that the application be heard
expeditiously. The Nigerian government must take
immediate steps to implement the order,” the court
ruled.

Nigeria recently suspended Twitter’s operations in
the country, after the social media giant deleted a
controversial tweet by President Muhammadu
Buhari.

The Nigerian government also accused Twitter of
working against Nigeria’s interests and accused its
founder, Jack Dorsey, of sponsoring Nigerians who
protested against police brutality last October.

The Twitter ban has been condemned by many
Nigerians, civil society groups and foreign
organisations and governments as a clampdown on
the freedom of expression.

The government announced on Tuesday that it had
set up a committee to negotiate with Twitter.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/469469-twitterban-what-nigerian-govt-told-ecowas-court-about-human-rights-violations.html