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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested an internet fraud syndicate which specialises in stealing the identities of influential Nigerians and duping foreigners.

The EFCC said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that seven suspects including a serving corps member were arrested in Port Harcourt for duping foreigners of over N30m.

The suspects were accused of impersonating the immediate past Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde; the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun; a former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Bello Adoke (SAN); and the current AGF, Abubakar Malami (SAN).

The EFCC said one of the suspects, Promise Nwalozie, allegedly posed as Lamorde using the former EFCC chairman’s identity card to send scam mails to foreigners, mostly Europeans and Americans and in the process extorted sizeable amount of foreign currencies from them.

The statement read in part, “Besides, he also posed as Barrister Peter Jackson, a spurious lawyer working with the National Judicial Council. As a ‘lawyer’, he was allegedly defrauding his victims by assuring them that he would help in the recovery of money lost to different Nigerian cyber fraudsters. To do this, Jackson was collecting various sums of money as service charges from his victims.  Some of his victims are: Betty. G. E, an American and Georgina M, an Australian.

“In addition to all these, Nwalozie had multifarious electronic scam documents in various folders in his email box,  ostensibly for the payment of a spurious N12,500,000 to one Robert Giese, an American, by the ‘Office of the Presidency, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja.’

“To further deceive Giese, he swore to a fictitious ‘Affidavit of claim of Federal High Court of Nigeria’ deposed to by a fake Justice Ibrahim Auta, OFR, on behalf of Giese.  The ‘affidavit’ was signed by a former AGF, Bello Adoke. To achieve his fraudulent schemes, he had several e-mail addresses such as:[email protected], [email protected],[email protected] among others.”

The anti-graft agency also arrested one Prosper Onukagba who is a youth corps member serving in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Onukagba was allegedly involved in online dating scam, also known as romance scam. According to the EFCC, he defrauded unsuspecting foreign widows, mostly from Europe and America.

http://punchng.com/fraudsters-impersonate-three-ministers-dupe-foreigners-n30m/

Ekugbeh:
Buh he was collecting pension b4?

Any evidence?

The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has said that anyone who claims that the President received pensions from the army should face “criminal investigation.”

Garba said this on Wednesday, claiming that the President did not receive pension or cars from the army, as did former commanders-in-chief.

“After his overthrow, they didn’t remember him, even in the annual distribution of diaries or calendars. Since his overthrow as military ruler, the army did not institute a pension for him,” Garba said.

He added that the President stopped collecting “allowances that are usually paid to former heads of state” the moment he took office as elected President last year.

“This is verifiable from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,” he said; adding that, “If anyone is laying his/her hand on any such payment, they should face criminal investigation.”

He said though the army was known to supply cars to former heads of the army, Buhari did not get any.

“On the other hand, there is a directorate in the SGF’s office paying allowances to all ex-heads of state. This is not pension. And President Buhari stopped collecting this from last year.

“The cars he got came from the former President through the ONSA. This was after the bomb attack on his convoy in Kaduna.

“Before this time, the Presidency did not supply cars to him as they did to the former heads of state,” Garba said.

http://punchng.com/accuse-buhari-receiving-pension-risk-criminal-investigation/

This video has been on social media in the last 2year.
Very old and disturbing video.

Lukmann1:
why will she also posted such important detailed of hers on Facebook. who do that now and days. These shall service as a lessen with others of her types.

Funny you, I believe you joking right?

With the present level of decadence in US, I wonder how longer it will take for them to retrace their steps back to doing the lord's will.

Jarizod:
This is pure madness!

More than madness, if there is something like that

A mum and son who say they are ‘madly in love’ have vowed to remain together despite a court order that they should stay away from each other.

The 36-year-old mother, Monica Mares, and her son Caleb Peterson, 19, will be standing trial on incest charges in Clovis, US state of New Mexico in September.

The couple may be jailed for 18 months if found guilty.

However, they have vowed to fight for their right to have a sexual relationship and are appealing to the public to donate to their legal fund, according to Daily mail UK.

They said this in an exclusive interview they granted Daily mail online. They said they were willing to risk everything to be together – and had decided to go public with their affair in a bid to raise awareness on Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA) relationships.

Mares, a mother of nine, gave birth to Peterson when she was 16 years old and gave him up for adoption.

The 36-year-old mother saw Peterson for the first time in 18 years last Christmas after they got in touch on Facebook and brought him to her home.

They developed romantic feelings for each other and their relationship became sexual a few weeks later.

Mares said, “The first time we were physical we ended up holding hands, and then we ended up kissing – and the kissing led to other things.”

“I felt comfortable with him and we fell even more deeply in love.”

Peterson on his part said, “I never had anyone cook me meals or give me anything.

“I never got anything my entire life and she went out of her way to make me happy.

“After about a week or so I started having feelings for her, and I guess I fell in love.”

Nobody knew about the relationship as the couple lived in a mobile home with Mares’ two youngest children until they had a row with their neighbours.

The police soon found out about the affair and charged them with incest, a fourth-degree felony in New Mexico, following the row in February.

Though released on a $5,000 bond and would face a trial by jury in September, Mares maintains that she would prefer staying with Peterson than seeing the other children.

http://punchng.com/mum-son-vow-remain-lovers-defy-court-order/

Nigerians on Tuesday tackled members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet about poverty and rot in the country at a dramatic town hall meeting in Abuja.

 The Sultan of Sokoto and Chairman of the occasion, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, set the tone for the interactions between Buhari’s nine ministers and members of the public when he said in his opening remarks that government policies should be reviewed if they were not working.

He said, “If policies don’t work, there is nothing wrong in reviewing them. The government must be open to suggestions.

“If the people say they are hungry, the government should listen to them.”

The Sultan said there were 11 ministers in the hall even though they were nine.

He was jokingly referring to the multiple portfolios occupied by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN).

In his speech, the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said, “There is a cry in the air that Nigerians are hungry and we hear them loud and clear. There are also unbelievable stories about people taking their children as human collateral for food with no intentions to pick them up.

“This situation in Nigeria today was going to happen; whether it is this administration or another. We headed this way a long time ago.

‘‘In 1986, we were forced to devalue and deregulate. We were forced to open our doors to importation. We began devaluing the naira. We have done it steadily for 30 years. We are now N400 to one dollar and we are told to continue devaluing; that devaluation will bring wonders. I don’t believe it.

“I hope we don’t hit N1,000 to $1 someday because the demand for dollars is $2.5bn a week and I have this from high authorities within the system.

 “We simply don’t have it. We don’t print dollars, but the people are angry that we are not making dollars available. We became importers of rice; $5m a day; wheat, $6m a day; tomato paste, $400m a year; and $20bn a year on food.’’

One of the participants, the Vice-Chancellor of the Bingham University, Nasarawa State, Prof. Leonard Kursim-Fwa, expressed worry about the state of education, infrastructure deficiency and poor electricity, among others.

But a former Director-General of the National Mathematical Centre, Prof. Sam Ale, said electricity had improved since Fashola became the Minister of Power, Works and Housing.

His remarks did not go down well with the people in the hall, as there were murmurings of disapproval.

Another participant asked Fashola why Nigeria continued to rely on gas for electricity when there were alternatives in hydro and coal.

Fashola responded that Zungeru and Mambilla hydro plants were being worked on.

He regretted that even though Mambilla was conceived in 1982 when he was 19 years old, the project had not been realised.

To a questioner who said the three ministries being supervised by Fashola were too big for one minister, Fashola said, “We have spoken about the cost of running the government, and in trying to reduce that cost, the President decided to merge the three ministries.

“My work is supervisory and today in the ministry of works and in the ministry of housing, there are over 4,000 personnel and the number is reducing. The ministry of power has about 800 workers today and the number is reducing.

“So, it is no longer a government-driven sector, it is now a government-regulated sector driven by private sector. And if you have issues about that, I think you should complain to Mr. President.”

Another participant, Mr. Farouk Mohammed, challenged the Federal Government for approving an exchange rate of N197 to a dollar for pilgrims at a time of foreign exchange crisis and economic recession.

Mohammed, a former OPEC worker, expressed displeasure at subsidising pilgrims, saying such would continue the cycle of wastage.

 Responding, the Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Mr. Abdullahi Mohammed, explained that the commission requested that the pilgrims be granted the official exchange rate when the dollar was still selling for N197 to a dollar.

 He said the approval which was granted did not amount to subsidy.

 According to him, the fund was warehoused in the Central Bank of Nigeria after the approval.

 The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, was queried on ghost workers, continuous borrowing and why so much was being spent on one per cent of the population that form the government.

 Adeosun said, “There is no quick solution to the present challenge. There is a fundamental problem, but if we can be patient, we shall get there.

“We have a conservative borrowing programme; and we must borrow to do rail and other projects — the rail that we have now was done in the colonial era.

“We have to do rail to enable agriculture and solid minerals to be competitive. I don’t see any other option than to borrow.

“We will borrow sustainably; we will borrow to make sure that we don’t burden future generations.

“We have been borrowing in the past to pay salaries; now we borrow to invest.”

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, said, “When the budget was signed into law in May, it set for us a 12-month implementation framework. So far, we have released for capital projects N331bn. The bulk of it was power projects. The National Assembly provided that it should run from when it was signed into law. That means we have till May next year to implement all the capital projects.”

Some of the participants wanted to know why the Minister of Education was not present at the forum despite the rot in the education sector.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the education minister was not part of the list given to him by the organisers of the meeting – the alumni of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies.

Other ministers that addressed the gathering are Geoffrey Onyeama (Foreign Affairs), Kayode Fayemi (Solid Minerals Development), Amina Mohammed (Environment) and Prof. Isaac Adewole (Health).

http://punchng.com/town-hall-drama-nigerians-tackle-buharis-ministers/

A reader of The PUNCH, Bayo, sent an SMS that he needed to track and recover a smartphone he lost in January.

According to him, the phone is a very expensive Huawei Ascend P7 and he is ready to pay for information that could lead to its recovery.

A lot of people are like Bayo; their phones get snatched from their hands while they are making a call or taken out of their pockets. But according to http://www.ehow.com, to assist people in finding a lost device, both Google and Apple have included ways to track a missing phone in their respective operating systems.

The features are in-built but we have researched on procedures to set up, access them and use them to track your lost devices.

Finding a lost iPhone

Apple’s solution is called Find My iPhone. This same service is capable of tracking any and all of your iOS devices (as well as any Mac associated with your Apple ID). To enable it on your iPhone, follow the steps below:

Launch the Settings app on your iPhone

Scroll down and tap on “iCloud.”

Near the bottom of the list, find and select “Find My iPhone.”

Slide the switch next to Find My iPhone to the On position.

While you’re there, you can equally turn on Send Last Location.

With Find My iPhone enabled, you can track a lost or stolen device through the Find My iPhone app on another iOS device or by visiting iCloud.com and signing in to your iCloud account. When tracking a device from either the app or iCloud website, you can lock it with a new passcode, track where the device currently is as well as where it has been, and as a last resort, you can fully erase all contents of the device.

Note that your iPhone will need to be turned on and connected to the Internet in order for the service to work. So, if a would-be thief picks up your device and immediately turns it off, you’re out of luck until it’s turned back on and able to connect to a network. If Send Last Location is enabled, your iPhone will report its last known location as the battery gets low. This won’t help you pinpoint the exact spot of the device if it’s been moved after the battery dies, but it will provide you with a good starting point to begin tracking your device.

In order to disable Find My iPhone on a device, Apple requires the user to approve the change with his or her Apple ID password. In other words, should a thief pick up your device they will be unable to disable Find My iPhone altogether unless they also know your password.

Finding a lost Android phone

Google’s Android Device Manager works more or less the same way as Apple’s Find My iPhone. Instead of having the service pre-installed, however, you will need to download the app from the Play Store and set it up in order to use it. Here’s how:

Search the Play Store for “Android Device Manager.”

Install the app and then sign in with your Google account.

Be sure to leave the checkbox “Never Ask Me Again” unchecked. If you leave that box checked, anyone with access to your device will have the ability to disable the feature or track your other devices.

You can also use another Android device to track your phone using the app, or visit Google’s Android Device Manager Website. You’ll need to log into the site using the same Google account you used to sign into the app on your phone.

Using the app, you can play a sound on the device, lock it, or completely erase it. As with the iPhone, if the device is powered off, you will be unable to track it until it’s turned back on and connected to a network.

http://punchng.com/track-lost-cell-phones/

I just love this OP. How I really wish to meet her in person to discuss business.

What can we do?

I bought 22G data on the 28th of June and plus the rollover from the previous 30days, I have over 25G.

On 3rd of this month which was 6 days after, my data was still exactly 25,469

On Wednesday, to my greatest surprise my data was 0. On enquiry from customer service, I was told I used 25,469MB within 72hrs. 

Even streaming live Tv series at rate of 300MB per hour for 72hours will not exhaust 25G data.

The irony of it all was that, previous 30 days I was very active online with a lot downloads including movies. Yet I was able to rollover more than 3G to the super speedily exhausted data of this month.

I know this is not what is obtainable in other countries.

I really hope our government can save us from these scammers masquerading as network providers.

Etisalat is a scam.

Just Yesterday, I was told I used 25,433MB within 72hrs.

Even streaming live Tv series at rate of 300MB per hour for 72hours will not exhaust 25G data.

Retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has declared his readiness for trial over the alleged $1.5 billion arms deals facilitated by his office, The Nation has reported.

Former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in court

The report said Dasuki further protested his continued detention adding that he only obeyed the directive of former President Goodluck Jonathan as dictated by civil service rules.

“I am ready for trial because they have destroyed my family's name and my professional integrity, especially how we successfully fought Boko Haram and recovered major towns and cities, not villages.

“They should let my trial start in earnest to enable Nigerians know the truth from falsehood.

“I don't believe in secret trial and there is no basis for it because the government has filed all necessary papers in court and attached the list of witnesses.

“Since the witnesses have become public knowledge, there is no basis for secret trial,” Dasuki reportedly said through his associates and further queried his continued detention without warrant.


“Since I was detained in the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS), I have not been shown any warrant to this effect or court order.

“I deserve to be shown the warrant of detention by DSS and the purpose for restricting me to house arrest. My detention is unlawful,” he complained pleading with Nigerians to prevail on the government to admit him to bail in line in obedience to the government's commitment to the rule of law.

“All those who collected funds from ONSA have been granted bail but I am still in custody.

“I have been granted bail on all the cases filed against me by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and even DSS, but I have not been released.

“If all the beneficiaries of the so-called funds are on bail, what have I done wrong? Nigerians should help prevail on the government to grant me bail.

http://www.nigeriannation.com/news-headlines/15b-dasuki-finally-speaks-out-from-prison-indicts-jonathan.aspx

CecyAdrian:
Karma is a real bad b1tch!!

What is your take on current PDP crisis?

The hard truth is that the architect of the current crisis facing the PDP is Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State.
That is why he has been the most vociferous and the loudest among the governors striving laboriously to justify his “bolekaja” and thuggish kind of politics.

I saw him the other day on TV after the PDP Governors’ Forum meeting expressing his jaundiced personal views as those of the Forum. He is the only one who can indulge in such loose talks as if his job as governor is to be shooting from the hip at all times.

He talks down on the President and every other person as if that is the job he was elected to do as Governor of Ekiti State, at the detriment of the good people of the state.

I am aware that various aids and intervention programmes of the Federal Government, such as the Cashew/Cococa and Fertiliser Intervention Funds have been launched, without Ekiti State benefitting from them because he refused to attend or send representatives to the meetings held in respect of the programmes before they were launched.

He has used the same blind politics to scheme Ekiti State out of the recently-launched School Feeding Programme. He neither attended the launch nor sent a representative. In one breath, he said the invitation was sent late.

The next moment, he said Ekiti State does not have money to support it. But, when it comes to his fancies, the state will have money to meet them. Every Friday, he hosts young girls of easy virtues, who are young enough to be his grand children, lavishing money on them.

He betrayed the trust of one of his aides who had worked for him for over 20 years by sleeping with his wife. Today, two of the five children born by the woman are for him. He slept with the girlfriends of two of his children. One of them got annoyed and made away with millions of naira.

In Port Harcourt, when Fayose saw that Sheriff would not support his VP ambition, he resorted to blackmailing him. At a time Ekiti workers are suffering because of his inability to pay salaries, he took the state funds to pay lawyers and part-sponsor the botched convention where he said they spent N1.5billion.

Fayose alleged that Sheriff has Presidential ambition and lied that he had promised him Vice-Presidential ticket, just like he had allegedly promised other governors.

The question is: even if it is true that Sheriff promised him such, people should ask him why it took Sheriff’s refusal to be his lapdog for him to begin to sing like a bird? I know many governors who have Vice-Presidential ambitions like Fayose, and quite naturally they were angry and decided to move against Sheriff when they heard that some other persons had been promised the same ticket.

They fell for Fayose’s cheap blackmail of Sheriff with the intention to disgrace him out of office. They sought to embarrass an accomplished Nigerian and rubbish his career, forgetting that they were the same people who brought him months ago and told the rest of us to support him as the best man for the job.

When they saw that they could not manipulate him as they had erroneously thought, they resorted to lying against him. We are not fools.
It was based on the position of the Governors that Sheriff was the best man for the job, other critical stakeholders and organs of the party followed them. We trusted their sense of judgment because we know some of them are well-exposed and educated.

Confusion set in when they allowed a psychiatric patient from the South West to brainwash and manipulate them; it is like mixing apples with oranges. The questions all genuine stakeholders should ask are: Why is it that no National Chairman of the PDP has stayed for four years? Why do we take delight in disgracing and embarrassing them out of office?

Do we enjoy the bad reputation of being seen as a lawless organization? If there is anyone or group of persons that is making this bad image to stick, it is those trampling on due process, the rule of law and the constitution of our party. You do not use the media to destroy people’s career, and by extension the party.

I am not against members of the National Caretaker Committee but the process that brought them is faulty and it has to be addressed in such a way that whatever they do will not be injurious to the party in the nearest future. For me, the process is as important as the end that we earnestly seek.

In my position paper, I proposed that the NEC give dignified respite to Sheriff and subsequently ratify the appointment of members of the Caretaker Committee in such a way that they will become members of an interim National Working Committee that will pilot the affairs of the party till an acceptable and all-embracing National Convention is held.

There was no need to resort to impunity and the attendant public ridicule that the actions and inactions of a few misguided persons have brought upon the party.
I agree that nobody is bigger than the party and the National Convention is the highest decision-making organ of the party. But, this saying should not be limited to certain people. It should also apply to Governors, lawmakers, BoT members and other classes of people.

Let us not just parrot it when it is convenient for us. If anything, I dare say that those that are trampling on the constitution of the party and the rule of law are the people acting as if they are bigger than the party and the laws of the land.

The National Convention and the party itself are creations of the law and they cannot be bigger than the Nigerian constitution which created the courts. Instead of resorting to hooliganism and violence, the courts are there for civilized people to ventilate their grievances and allow the courts to adjudicate on them.
Alternatively, being political issues, they can be resolved in a give-and- take manner. But, people have to be open-minded, genuine and sincere.

I wish to also say that the renewed hostilities would not have arisen if the issues had been well managed. There was an impasse and the Police moved in and sealed off the National Secretariat.

Upon the intervention of our respected leaders and elders in the BoT, the Police opened the secretariat and handed it over to them. How could anyone have handed over the secretariat to one of the contending parties without reaching a truce with the other party? That was what raised the tension between the contending groups.
But thankfully, apart from the issues being in court, respectable leaders and elders of the party have intervened and peace talks are ongoing.

The tension between the Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State and the Federal Government is palpable, what do you think is the reason for this imbroglio?

Recent revelations have shown that Fayose has been lying and deceiving Ekiti people and Nigerians that he is fighting for the masses. Where is his credibility with all the revelations we are now hearing?
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Nigerians can now see that all of Fayose’s criticisms against the anti-corruption fight and other policies of the Government are self-serving.
As the Governor of Ekiti State, the welfare of the people of the state and Nigerians from all walks of life who live in the state should be his priority. And no interest, whether political or otherwise, should override that.

He chose to elevate rabid criticisms of almost every action of the Federal Government as if that is the official policy of the state government or what he was elected to do and as if that is what will bring the dividends of democracy to the good people of Ekiti State.

For goodness sake, the elections are over. Every reasonable politician and leader should know that what will matter at the end of the day is what you were able to do for the people and not how strident you were in criticizing anyone.

It should be recalled that I had in the past stated that the loudest and the most vociferous among us are not necessarily the cleanest. Some of them have defecated in the public arena.

They have skeletons in their cupboard and merely want to prepare the ground to make their wanton criticisms of the government their alibi when the searchlight is turned on them. Now the wind has blown and the fowl’s anus has been opened.

He kept acting as if he was a messiah that was fighting for the interest of the masses whereas he was one of the beneficiaries of the funds that were meant to buy arms for the security of Nigeria and Nigerians.

Even if he says someone does not know how to do it right, the questions to ask are: what has he done differently? What innovation has he brought to governance in Ekiti State?

How come once there is a shortfall in monthly allocation governance grinds to a halt in the state? Does he have the moral right to criticize anyone if he cannot provide answers to these posers?

Now that his secrets have been exposed, he lied against Zenith Bank that it was the bank that funded his election.
How could a bank fund anybody’s election? The most any organization can do is to make a donation towards a candidate’s cause. They do it across the board, but not so much as to claim that the bank was the major sponsor of his election.
He didn’t say how much Zenith Bank gave him. I think he decided to rope in the bank because he felt the bank did not cooperate with him. I will not be surprised if he chooses to implicate more individuals and organizations in his desperate bid to extricate and exonerate himself.
But thankfully, records don’t lie. If the bank did, the records will show it; if not, the records will also show it. And there are people involved in all these transactions.
The other day, he turned a visit meant to discuss the state’s indebtedness to the bank given recent developments into a comic show, saying the bank officials came to beg him. How does that comedy show detract from the facts of the case as rightly put out by the media and EFCC?

We have also heard that he ran to the bank two weeks ago asking them to perfect the records.
In his statement, Fayose claimed that the bank asked him to submit the name of a trusted ally in whose name the account could be opened. That in itself is curious. How could a bank have suggested to you in whose name an account should be opened and you agreed if you have no criminal motive or intention? I think he suffered some kind of depression when he was younger.
Only God knows what happened to him in his early years. While he was in Ibadan, he was said to have worked as a courier of some prohibited substances for a certain Charlie, maybe he is still high on those substances.

That must be the reason why he is attacking innocent people and even those who helped him on his way up. He has betrayed almost all his benefactors and paid them back in bad coin, destroying the lives of over 40 of them.

But Fayose insists that he is being targeted because of his principled stand against the APC-led Federal Government and his fight for the interests of the masses?

It is all deceit. What principles is he talking about? It is all about his personal interest. First, he wants to be seen as the leader of the opposition; two, he wants to position himself for the Vice-Presidential ticket of the PDP in 2019 and he wants to prepare the ground to blackmail the Government as he is doing now once they call him to account for the arms fund which he also benefitted from.

In essence, it is all about his interest alone and not that of the highly sophisticated and good people of Ekiti State, let alone other Nigerians. This is not about political party affiliation or any other interest. I have always condemned all those who diverted the funds that were meant to secure Nigeria and Nigerians.
This is about a few individuals feeding fat on our commonwealth at the detriment of the vast majority of our people. Instead of the beneficiaries to accept their faults and apologise to Nigerians, they are trying to justify the unjustifiable and grandstanding all over the place. It is a shame.

I have it on good authority that the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro is willing to testify against Fayose as a prime witness. ‘Koro told a lawyer that he was sent to give Fayose over N2 billion from the arms fund in the build up to the governorship primary election.

He said he could not understand why Fayose is running his mouth, abusing the President, his wife and everybody when he knows he is culpable. So, why is Fayose lying and deceiving the good people of Ekiti State, Nigerians and the international community? He is fooling himself, not anyone.
The good and sophisticated people of Ekiti State gave him another opportunity because they thought he would have changed. Indeed, he told everyone and anyone who cared to listen that he was a changed person; more matured and experienced.

But alas, it is a fluke. For a man who could hardly pay his bills, we now know that in just two years, he has bought houses in Lagos and Abuja and a lot of exotic cars while workers are being owed in Ekiti State.
People are hungry and relocating to their villages because of the poor economic situation in the state. How can a man who is fortunate enough to escape from the throes of poverty consign others to it? One would have thought that his various life experiences would have shaped him into a better person. He once told me of how he worked as a bus conductor and danfo (bus) driver in Ibadan.

One would have thought that all the years he was shouting “Mokola, Mokola”; “Bodija, Bodija”; “Dugbe, Dugbe” all over Ibadan would have changed his perception, character and disposition.
At least he later managed to go the Polytechnic in Ibadan. If he did not go to school, people would have said he is behaving the way he does because he did not go to school.
The education should have made him to be intelligent a bit.

Although it is true that education itself does not guarantee intelligence. The irony is that before he became governor he was going everywhere prostrating; he could hardly feed and pay his bills. After his emergence as Governor, he turned himself to a thin-god.
When he is going on the road, he will be pushing people off the road as if the other road users do not have the right of way.

I have cautioned him twice against such attitude. I told him that it was important for him to always realise that all powers belong to the Almighty Allah, and so he should be humble and learn to invest in people. But, he will not. Rather, he continued in his arrogance and only gives to girls in exchange for their bodies. God neither sleeps nor slumber.

But some people argue that the actions of the EFCC are arbitrary and unlawful, how would you react to this?

On the contrary, I commend the acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, for the detailed and methodological approach to their investigations. The EFCC under Magu is more professional and thorough. The President did not make a mistake in appointing Magu. He has shown that he is a thorough-bred professional, a crack detective, a patriotic Nigerian and a man of integrity. That is not to say they might have some shortcomings as with every human organisation.

But, let us be real and honest with ourselves. Given the harm that corruption has done to our country, there is no way this country will move forward without first cleaning the Augean Stable. And this must be done with some level of zeal and seriousness, albeit within the ambit of the law. The problems in various parts of our national life are caused majorly by corruption. Mr. President, I urge you to continue to clean up Nigeria for a better tomorrow. I wish to implore my fellow Nigerians to patiently continue supporting the anti-corruption fight.

What has come to the open is that the funds that could have been used to secure our country, build infrastructure and develop our economy were cornered by a few people through various means. And as people gradually realize that there are consequences for every act of corruption that they perpetrate, they will be careful and the nation will be the better for it; and within the next one year or thereabout things will improve. Meanwhile, let all those who have questions to answer honourably do so.

But as a serving governor, Fayose enjoys immunity...

I think it is high time the National Assembly, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Government in general took another look at the Immunity Clause. I am sure that the intendment of the drafters of our constitution was not to provide a cover for criminals in public offices. The drafters of our constitution had expected the highest level of responsibility from our leaders and thought it fit to provide for their immunity to prosecution. But when people have demonstrated crass irresponsibility and betrayed the trust of the people, I think we should take another look at such a provision.

We should not condone criminals and allow them to hide under the Immunity Clause to shield them from being held accountable for their actions. Can a lawless person enjoy immunity? Can immunity cover someone who is involved in treasonable acts by going against the interests of his state and nation? Is such a person qualified to enjoy immunity from prosecution?

Fayose cannot seek refuge from laws he flagrantly violates because he can simply refer to Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution. I cannot imagine how someone who has been a beneficiary of the law and derives his authority and power from the law would boldly encourage the violation of the same law.

Let’s take a look at his track records; he knew that the tenure of the South West Zonal exco has not expired and the court ordered that no election should be conducted to replace them, yet he chose to ignore the court order and went ahead to organize a sham congress. He took the impostors and another set of renegades from Ogun State to the National Convention in clear violation of the party’s constitution and subsisting orders of the court.

As if all these were not enough, he printed and super-imposed the name of fake delegates as representing the zonal exco and other states in the South West that refused to join him in his illegalities. He went against the orders of the court and the sound legal advice of his lawyers on the impropriety of his actions. I think it is safe to say with his current predicament, it is the Law of Karma.

tonymax19:
why has uba atm electrocuted me 5 tyms?'

And you are still alive to tell the story. Maybe you sent this as a ghost.

iamblisz:
no source

Punch

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved the appointment of of Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru as the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

The appointment was contained in a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina.

With the latest appointment, Baru replaced Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who has been doubling as the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources and GMD, NNPC.

Buhari also approved the composition of the Board of the NNPC as provided for under Section 1(2) of the corporation Act of 1997, as amended.

The new board has Kachikwu as its chairman, while the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, is also a member.

Apart from Kachikwu, Baru and Kyari, other members of the board are the Permanent Secretary of the  Ministry of Finance; Dr. Thomas M.A John; Dr. Pius O. Akinyelure; Dr. Tajuddeen Umar; Mallam Mohammed Lawal, and Mallam Yusuf Lawal.

According to the statement,  Buhari urged the new board to ensure the successful delivery of the mandate of the NNPC, “and serve the nation by upholding the public trust placed on them in managing this critical national asset.”

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onatisi:
That was because he himself couldn't believe what happened. It was like a dream.

Yes, like unforgettable dream.

bewla:
FIFA 100 worst miss goal

I don't know where you get yours. Most documented world most unfortunate miss, this usually comes as one top 10, some even rated it as worst ever.
This video will help you in picking his miss as number 1 on the list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPG2JvrtJdQ

bewla:
let him be there are far worst miss then this

Proof

Mudley313:
Ozil, Schweinsteiger, Pelle, and Darmian


Other Fun Fact:

Zaza the first player to take more steps in the run up to his penalty than in the game itself

I tot Ozil converted his penalty, but on second look, I think you are right. Those penalties were awful.

We have forgiven but we still remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPG2JvrtJdQ

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