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But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Matthew 5:44

Keneking:
Buhari should call him...if he goes, the people would suffer.

Libya - Ghaddafii
Nigeria - Goodluck Jonathan
US - Clinton
Ekiti - Fayemi

Please remove Fayemi, after plunging Ekiti into 38 years debt and nothing to show for it except relocating Bisi market and turned it to round about.

Less than two weeks that David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, was invited and quizzed by police detectives over his friend’s death in Lagos State, another of his friend, Mayowa Ogunbayo, has reportedly been knifed to death in the United Kingdom.
Curiously, within same month that Umueke Tagbo died in questionable circumstances, another two of his friends were alleged to have died of drug overdose, also in Lagos.
The superstar’s deceased friends are now Umueke Tagbo, Olugbenga Abiodun, aka DJ Olu, Chime Amaechi and now, Mayowa Ogunbayo.
Ogunbayo, 29, also known as Johnny John, was stabbed to death at a London flat he shared with his fiancée. He owned an entertainment company.
The late Ogunbayo, also said to be a friend to Italian striker, Mario Balotelli and Nigerian striker, Obafemi Martins, was found dead by paramedics inside a west London luxury home on October 20, 2017.
The Mirror of UK said he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after a post-mortem examination revealed that he died from a wound to his heart.
Detectives have launched a murder investigation, but police say they are treating his murder as unexplainable.
The police said it arrested a 21-year-woman, who was at the scene when officers arrived, on suspicion of murder.
She was later freed pending further enquiries.
The statement read: “Officers attended along with the LAS and a 29-year-old man was found suffering from stab injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 02:57 hours. Next of kin have been informed and formal identification has taken place. At this time, the death is being treated as unexplained. A post-mortem examination took place at Northwick Park Hospital mortuary on Friday, 20 October, which gave the cause of death as a single stab wound to the heart. Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command took over the investigation on Wednesday, 25 October and are leading the investigation. Enquiries are ongoing.”

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/10/another-davidos-friend-knifed-death-london/

Use of bromate in bread has reduced drastically –NAFDAC



Despite the global ban on the use of Potassium bromate and Azodicarbonmide (chemicals used in embalmment) in bread making, many local bread and confectionaries in Nigeria are still laced with these dangerous chemicals – CHIJIOKE IREMEKA writes






“A traditional loaf needs only four ingredients – flour, yeast, water and salt and there is no need for azodicarbonmide (ADA), Potassium bromate (substance used for body embalmment), calcium propionate, amylase, chlorine dioxide and L-cysteine hydrochloride in our daily bread,” says, Dr. Gladys Okoh, a food scientist and a fellow, Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria.
She argues that instead of these chemicals, the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved a number of flour enhancers to be used in bread making, including Vitamin C and Ascorbic Acid; but bakers have found these improvers less effective than those unhealthy improvers.
Sunday Telegraph’s investigations revealed that most local and artisan mortuary attendants (morticians) make use of potassium bromate and azodicarbornate (substances used in baking the popular Agege bread and some other local confectionaries) in, which are used treating and preserving dead bodies.
This was also confirmed by NAFDAC’s Director of Special Duties and Media, Dr. Abubarka Jimoh, when he said: “Yes, a number of people abuse the original use of preservatives and other chemicals in the country, though corpse embalmment is not the original purpose for potassium bromate, this may have been abused by artisans morticians and quacks.”
Again, a neurosurgeon from the University of Munich, a UNESCO Space and Brain researcher, who is the Managing Director, Chidicon Medical Centre in Owerri, Imo State, Prof. Philip Njemanze, confirmed same when he said: “What is bromate doing in the bread? These are heavy metals, which some people use in corpse treatment and embalmment.”
Also, former Director General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, said though potassium bromated is regarded as unsafe ingredients by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of WHO’s Expert Committee on Food Additives, and banned it, “a nationwide surveillance revealed that some bakers still use this dangerous chemical.”
Sunday Telegraph learnt that interest in these substances, especially bromate, lies in their availability, affordability, efficacy and the way it enhances and matures dough, which takes natural improvers between 12 and 24 hours to achieve, which makes mass production friendly.
Chemical leavens are used in quick breads, cakes, cookies and numerous other applications, where a long biological fermentation is unfeasible and undesirable. “This has transformed our foodstuff staple into an industrial conquest, but a nutritional and culinary disaster,” said Chukwunulu Samuel, a food scientist.
Bread improvers aim at boosting the amount of the enzymes artificially, thereby increasing fermentation early in the bread production. This eliminates the need for a long fermentation, which helps companies to produce more products in less time.
Sunday Telegraph learnt that bromate and ADA are authoritative oxidizing agents that mature flour faster than natural air. They bleach dough and enhance its elasticity by strengthening its networks of molecular bridges, which makes for the formation of tiny, thin-walled bubbles as the bread rises. The end product is fluffy, soft and unnaturally white products.
These characteristics are mainly found in popular Agege bread. About 98 % of Agege bread baked in Nigeria contain Potassium bromate, which is a preservative/addictive known for causing cancer. It gives Agege bread the fluffy and tasty feel desired by its consumers.
Sunday Telegraph gathered that up till the 1950s, bread had been baked using sourdough leavening as the main technique, which would take up to a day to produce. This amount of time was necessary for the proper conditioning of the dough. But in recent times, the flour and yeast were changed and a combination of intense energy and additives displaced time in the maturing of dough.
However, as technology finds nifty ways to adulterate our bread, science reveals the havoc this may be causing to public health as recent research suggests urgent need to rethink our bread making methods. More so, with the advent of bakery manufacturing facilities and mass-production of condensed loaves of bread, the production time for bread had to be accelerated.
It was discovered that the addition of certain chemicals and enzymes, especially banned Potassium Bromate and yet to be prohibited, Azodicarbonamide to the bread could shorten the process to two hours instead of the usual12 to 24 hours.
According to a nutritionist and a lecturer at Yaba College of Technology, Dr. Emmanuel Opeifa, commercial bread and confectionaries’ manufacturers have no interest in nutrition but money; they use refined white flour fortified with synthetic vitamins, which are poorly absorbed.
Dr. Opeifa, said ‘bromate free’ expression displays on the label of most bread and confectioneries in the country is a ‘make belief’ in order not to elicit agitations from the public, which will draw NAFDAC’s attention to the products, saying most of them are baked with bromate.
He warned that bromate has adverse effects on human’s health when consumed, insisting that bromate reduces Vitamins A2, B1, B2, E and niacin, which are the main vitamins available in bread and its consumption causes cancer.

…Bakery enzymes derived from unhealthy, non human diet
According to a food scientist, Philomena Akpowheve, a whole host of enzymes are used in baking. Their status as processing aids is based on the assumption that they are ‘used up’ in the production process and are therefore, not really present in the final product.
She argued that such position was a strong deception as that allows the food industry to manipulate what Nigerians eat without their knowledge. She noted that enzyme manufacturers extol the ‘thermostability’ of products, which in other words, its ability to have a lasting effect on the baked bread.
The manufacturers, she insisted, have developed enzymes with two main objectives – to make dough hold more gas (making lighter bread) and to make bread stay softer for a longer time after baking.
“Funny enough, bakery enzymes are derived from substances that are not part of a normal human diet,” he said.
Corroborating her, Sunday Telegraph gathered that the principal use of Azodicarbonamide is in the production of foamed plastics. The thermal decomposition of azodicarbonamide results in the evolution of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and ammonia gases which are trapped in the polymer as bubbles to form a foamed article.
Common examples of this application are window and door gaskets, padded floor mats, gym/exercise mats and shoe soles among others. It was learnt that Azodicarbonamide causes allergic reaction in those sensitive to other azo compounds such as food dyes, while Potassium bromate is a salt widely used as an anticonvulsant and a sedative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It’s used as a veterinary drug, as an antiepileptic medication for dogs. Under standard conditions, potassium bromide is a white crystalline powder. It is freely soluble in water.

…Bromate, ADA: Corpse embalmment chemicals –Morticians, pathologist, sellers
According to an artisan mortuary attendant, Efemina Iriruaga, Potassium bromated is used in treatment and preservation of dead bodies due to its efficacy and cheapness. “While other preservatives, like formaldehyde and formalin, are expensive and not readily available, bromate is everywhere. We also use hot drinks ogogoro too,” he said.
“We are not allowed to use bromate because it’s not an official chemical for us. We make use of formaldehyde and others in its class but bromate helps to remove the blood from the body to ensure that the body doesn’t smell or spoil. When bromate is used, the body will be tied tightly with bandage so that the blood will go out. And this will prevent decomposition of the corpse.
“The bacteria that cause body to decompose live in the blood and body fluid. So, the first thing is to get them out. After tying bandages, we will allow for some time for the bandages to absorb the blood in that body. It also helps to dry up the remaining fluid in the corpse,” said Dr. Kim Egwu, a pathologist at Iyienu General Hospital, Ogidi, Anambra State.
Bromate seller on the Lagos Island, Oscar

Ojukwu said: “Yes, Potassium bromide is used by some local and quack mortuary attendants to preserve dead bodies. Though, it’s not the main reason for the chemical, yet bakers and mortuary attendants also buy from us. That is why I don’t eat Agege bread and some local bread.”
NAFDAC’s Director of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FSAN), Mrs. Mainasora Ogochukwu, earlier said there are many violations from bakers, ranging from use of banned substances such as potassium bromate to improper packaging and labeling.
According to her, the agency has put measures in place to ensure that the flour is well fortified with Vitamin A and B as well as enforcing mandatory compliance with good hygiene practice at food production facilities.
Sequel to this, NAFDAC had recommended the use of Vitamin C, Ascorbic Acid and other reagents as alternative flour improvers and oxidizing agents to replace potassium bromate but most bakeries have shunned the new alternatives because they allegedly lack the perceived magical touch, which Potassium bromate gives to dough.




Why we can’t stop using bromate in bread – Bakers
The Chief Executive Officer of Anambra-based Amy Best Catering Services, Miss Amarachi Okeke, said bromate is the cheapest of all dough improvers readily available.
“There are different types of bromate. There is one for cakes and others for bread. Cake bromate makes the cake crispy. It comes in blue package and whitish in colour, while bread bromate comes in tablet forms and has different colours. It makes the bread to rise.
“If you buy a bag of flour and put one tablet of bromide inside it when mixing, you can get up to one and half bags. Cake bromate sells for N100 (two table spoon). Ideally, two kilos of flour takes a table spoons measure of bromate. Ordinarily, golden syrup (enzyme) and egg make cakes crispy. To get the crispy nature right, half a crate of eggs (15 eggs) goes for one kilo of flour. Compare N100 bromate with N600 half a crate of eggs. These are the places we cut cost. So, you can see why it’s impossible to rule out bromate from bread and other confectionary making,” she said.
A source at Vianna bread factory, Awka, Anambra State capital, said though the company ensures normal practice in the factory, others, who are conscious of profits, put excess quantity of bromate in the bread.
The source said: “One tablet of bromate supposed to go for a bag of flour but people put three tablets in a bag to maximize its effect. When they make use of bromate, they put small dough in the bread pan and it rises beyond your imagination.”
A private bread baker at Ikotu Egbe, Lagos, who spoke on the position of anonymity said, “The major reason bakeries still use bromate is because of its action in rising flour. Potassium bromate acts faster than Vitamins C and others, especially, when used on poor quality flour. The major challenge in both flour milling industry and bakeries is the baking quality of flour, which is determined by the capacity of the dough to retain gas.”
He said due to poor quality and wide variations in the composition of some flour, various treatments and supplement conditioning agents, flour improvers are added.
A local and cheap bread maker in Ojo area of Lagos State, Razak Ibirogbe said: “We can’t stop using bromate but we ensure that we don’t use it in excess. We produce bread two times a day and it’s only bromate that has allowed us do this. Yes, NAFDAC gave us Vitamins C and other improvers but Vitamin C does not do what the potassium does. We have problem with the quality of flour produced in Nigeria.
“So, Vitamin C does not bleach flour to have the whitish colour of the bread. Having said that, Vitamins C is more expensive than Potassium bromate. Potassium bromate is used up in the oven and does not show up in the final bread. This what some people don’t know. If anything remains, it will be a negligible quantity.”
On the contrary, at Ijeoma Bread, Nkpor, Anambra State, Blessing Obi said her company does not use bromate in bread baking, saying there are other flour and dough improvers, they use including Vitamin C, though she refused to mention other improvers they use.
At Tank and Tummy, another eatery along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the same was the case. At Domino Pizza, Ogba, Lagos, one of the officials said their products are free from all harmful flour improvers, saying that standard is their watchword. Also, Big Treat Bread on the same axis claimed the same.
“We are aware of the NAFDAC’s standard and we do not want to estrange our good relationship with NAFDAC and the Federal Ministry of Health. We started this business to succeed. It’s too early for us to start making case with Nigerians,” said Ozioma Iwunze, the Managing Director, Kay-D Bread, Ojo, Lagos.

Agege bread consumers’ dilemma
One of the elitist bread consumers, Barr Emeka Ndukwe, said: “If NAFDAC, which controls and regulates the food we eat and provides us with expertise health information that would help us live healthy and says that bromate in the bread is bad, then, I should obey and go for the ones that do not have such substance.”
Mr. Adelekan Abiola, an automobile engineer, said Agege bread has always been the bread he knew right from childhood. He will not pay heed to any news that will discourage his continued eating of the bread, whether bromate inclusive or not, adding that the world has always discourage people from eating what they enjoy eating.
“My father had been eating Agege bread and has not died of cancer or had any serious health crises. Eating Agege bread is not going to kill any Lagosian. Agege bread is cheap, soft, delicious and available in all sizes that everybody, both rich and poor, can afford. So, if NAFDAC is going to start the battle again, they are free, but Agege bread has been on for ages. Even, there are rich Yoruba families that do not eat any other bread except the Agege bread. What will you say about that?” he said.
Mutiyat Adeoye is aware of NAFDAC’s crusade against potassium bromate but couldn’t be separated from Agege bread. “I’m aware of potassium bromate, but to stop eating the bread a difficult task for me. I’m attracted to Agege bread for its softness and taste.

Bromate, ADA in children, lead to deafness – Experts
Dr. Magomya A. Magomya of the Department of Chemical Sciences, Federal University Wukari, said bromate toxicity occurs primarily in children due to its strong oxidizing effects.
“Bromates are bio-stable and are easily able to cross cellular biologic membrane to cause intracellular toxicity. Its cytoxicity to the outer hair cells in cochlea leads to deafness. In renal tubles, it leads to acute renal failure and deformation in babies unborn as well as mental retardation in children. Sometimes, severe cases are fatal.”
He noted that Potassium bromate in human is harmful and can cause serious health crises such as cough and sore throat when inhaled, abdominal pain, diarrhea bronchial, nausea, vomiting, kidney failure, hearing loss, and ocular problems, including other non cancer-related problems.




Bromate in corpse embalmment abuse of purpose – NAFDAC
However, NAFDAC’s Director of Special Duties and Media, Dr. Abubarka Jimoh, said there are tendencies for people to abuse the use of one product or the other, but the purpose of bromate is not for embalmment.
“From the result of our surveillance and mentoring activities nationwide, the use of bromate in bread has reduced drastically. We cannot say totally eliminated because there is the possibility of some of culprits making use of it in bread in some areas of the country, which has not come to the knowledge of the NAFDAC. But we have over 90 per cent compliant in area of bromate use.
“It was possible for us to achieve this because we partnered with Master Bakers Association nationwide. We educated them on the dangers of using bromate and other dangerous substances in consumables. Initially, when we tried to win bakers, they asked of alternative and we gave them ascorbic acid and Vitamin C.
“But they had a challenge with that, saying they cannot achieve the dough foam as in the case of Potassium bromate. So, we brought in experts who went round teaching the association how to achieve dough foam with Vitamin C. So, the act has been perfected and the use of bromate has been put behind us. If there is an issue please tells us where they are so we can achieve 100 per cent complaint. We believe in intelligent information from the public and media.”
Responding to the question on-the-spot-testing of bread for bromate, he said: “Three years ago, we did recertification all over the country, where we sent experts to do on-the-sport testing of bread to know whether it has bromate or not. In the past, we took samples to the lab and how many bread will be taken to the lab? Our lab was inundated with bread samples and so, itemised efficient and simple way of monitoring bread on the spot.”
On the use of Azodicarbonmide, he said NAFDAC has not certified it yet but will confirm from the Directorate of food and Applied Nutrition as at the time of press.
However, in line with on-the-spot bread test initiative for the detection of the bromate and other harmful bread improvers, bread is said to have bromate once the bread is squeezed and does not bounce back to its original form.
Most Agege bread is made from white flour known for containing high levels of refined sugar, which increases the chances of Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity. Hence, Agege bread as well as other breads made from white flour is less nutritious and bad source of carbohydrates. It contains high levels of table salt, which triggers the development of high blood pressure.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/10/still-use-embalmment-chemicals-bakers/

LET'S TEST THE CONSTITUTION... Thanks Olisa Agbakoba for this

OCTOBER 16, 2017

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Agbakoba asks court to sack Buhari as petroleum minister
�by Fredrick Nwabufo

Olisa Agbakoba, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has asked a federal high court in Abuja to remove President Muhammadu Buhari as petroleum minister.

Buhari appointed Ibe Kachikwu as minister of state for petroleum resources, and made himself the senior minister.

In a suit which the attorney-general of the federation is listed as a respondent, Agbakoba asked the court to determine if Buhari could hold the position of minister without the confirmation of the national assembly.

He said the chaos at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) would not have happened if the president was not petroleum minister.

“I verily believe that the governance chaos in the NNPC could not have occurred if the president is not also the minister of petroleum resources,” he said.

“I am aware that the NNPC provides up to 90 percent of the revenue accruing to Nigeria.

“I am worried that the crisis in the NNPC will greatly reduce Nigeria’s revenue-generating capacity and will affect the revenue distributable to federal, state and local governments in Nigeria. This will gravely affect development nationwide and drastically impact one and all Nigerians including those in Anambra state (my state of origin) and Lagos state (my state of residence).

“I looked at section 138 of the 1999 constitution and I verily believe it disqualifies the president from holding executive office including that of the minister of petroleum, during his tenure of office as president.

“I also know that the president did not go through nomination process and confirmation by the senate, before holding the office of minister of petroleum resources

“I again looked at section 147(2) of the 1999 constitution and I verily believe it prohibits anybody from holding the office of a minister of the federation, without confirmation by the senate‎.”

The case has not been scheduled for hearing.

Agbakoba had also filed a suit against the government challenging the composition of the board of the NNPC at a federal high court in Abuja. He asked the court dissolve the board because it was illegal.

The court is yet to hear the suit as well.


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By Dominic Adewole

An Ozoro High Court in Delta State yesterday sentenced a 38-year-old farmer, Francis Williams, to death by hanging for snatching N170 and a N5,000 handset from a former councillor, Mr. Noah Ovie, at gunpoint.

Justice A. O. Akpovi found Williams guilty of the charge of armed robbery punishable under Section (1(2)(a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act Cap RII Volume 14 Laws of the Federation, 2004. The convict got 10 years for wounding his victim with intent and was sentenced to death by hanging for being in possession of firearms.

An Assistant Director in the Ministry of Justice, T. R. Anuhwin, through prosecution witnesses, told the court that on June 4, 2014, at a Palm Kernel Farm located at Ewu in Ughelli South Local Government, the accused robbed Ovie and his personal assistant of a Nokia handset valued at N5,000 and N170 cash while armed with a cut-to-size locally-made gun. Prosecution witnesses also recalled how the convict was apprehended.

“The victims summoned courage and overpowered their assailant. In his desperation to escape after being apprehended, he bitoff one of the fingers of the former councillor before his escape bid was foiled by some passers-by, who rushed to the scene and held him down and handed him over to the police,” the prosecutor averred.

Williams, who confessed to the crime after he was arrested by the police, retracted same during trial but called no witness to testify for him. The prosecutor, however, called four witnesses to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/10/farmer-die-hanging-stealing-n170/

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NEXT TIME IGBOS CALL YORUBAS COWARDS, BETRAYALS, SHOW THEM THIS POST...

During the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Abiola won only Anambra State, the other South East States voted for Tofa (a northerner). Cross River, Delta, Edo voted for Abiola. An Igbo person (Arthur Nzeribe) got an overnight black-market judgment to annul Abiola's election; when it was becoming obvious that he would win.

Note that the Igbo man together with a northerner (the judge) and military dictator IBB(another northerner) saw to the annulment of the election. I need not remind you that the Electoral Chairman (Professor Humphrey Nwosu ) at that time was also an Igbo man. In 2008 he published a book in which he claimed that Babangida was not to blame for annulling the election.

During the fights to restore democracy, great Nigerians like Frank Kokori, Alfred Rewane, Ken Saro Wiwa, Kudirat Abiola, Gani Fawehinmi, Abraham Adesanya, Wole Soyinka and other democracy activists fought against Abacha. Some of them were killed, others hounded out of the country, Odumegwu Ojukwu and his colleagues were busy frolicking with Abacha, he even traveled to the US at a time to shore up the image of Abacha (a northerner who was trying to turn himself into a democratic life-president).
That reminds me, another "Kanu" back then organized the "Youth Earnestly Ask for Abacha" rally. Onyeka Onwenu sang the praises of Abacha at the rally.

These guys wined and dined with the conservative northern oligarchs back in the day; but now that the arrangement is no longer suitable, they think burning down the country should be the only way out. Me think, that is childish; only infants try to scatter the game when they lose.

Till date, no Yoruba group has come out to call Igbo people "betrayals", "cowards" or "animals" for the action of some Igbo elites. We understand that the elites do not represent an entire ethnic group.

Next time, they call Yoruba people betrayals show them this post; next time they call us cowards, tell them, the only successful offensive ever undertaken by Biafra against Nigerian territory was led by a Yoruba man, Victor Banjo. Remind them also that cowards don't build empires.

They should also be reminded that their enemy is not the man from the other tribe, but their own "elites". They should learn to hold their leaders to account.

Olu Adegoke
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It’s a lie, applicants paid N40, 000 camp fee -Agency

The controversy surrounding last year’s recruitment by the Peace Corps of Nigeria, had yet to be resolved, as some personnel claimed that they paid through the nose to secure enlistment into the organisation. Sunday Telegraph’s investigation revealed that the personnel some amount to get enlisted. How much did the Peace Corps of Nigeria collect from applicants in 2016?

Was it forty thousand naira (N40, 000), or a hundred thousand naira (N100, 000)? Again, is the organisation recruiting? Sunday Telegraph’s investigation has revealed, that some personnel of the Corps, who participated in a one-month training exercise last year, may have paid as much as N100, 000, to resume training at designated camps.

Aside from the alleged payment, some of the affected persons further alleged that training items said to have been captured in the fee charged for form, were later sold to “trainees” in camp.

But, the Peace Corps has since described the claim as false, insisting that its form was sold for N40, 000. The organisation further stated that the money covered accommodation, medicals and other expenses. One of the successful applicants, in an interview with our correspondent, said during the training, they were made to pay for Passing-Out-Parade (POP), buy training kits, among others.

The personnel, who pleaded for anonymity, for fear of being victimised, said his documentation had been completed. His words: “I paid N100, 000 , (and) I paid N7,000 for Passing Out Parade (POP), and N2,700 for Boot. N500 for Magazine, … plate (N500). Magazine I didn’t get, …plate I didn’t get. Name tag, 300, I didn’t get.

I paid N1, 200 for T-shirt, which I got. “Cardigan was N3, 500, but I didn’t pay, sleeveless cardigan was N2, 500; I also didn’t pay. I paid the N100, 000 before I went for training.” He further alleged that “after camping, they called us to the office, that we should pay N6, 500 for documentation.” Meanwhile, another personnel, who claimed to be an “officer”, had offered to help secure placement for any interested person.

The “officer”, who spoke in confidence with Sunday Telegraph, said: “But, if there is anybody that is interested, I can still do something for the person.” Asked how much will be required, he said: “He should bring N100, 000, and N10, 000 for transportation; the other one (N100, 000) is for my ‘oga’.” Reacting to the allegations, the spokesperson for the Peace Corps, Ms Milicent Umoru, said it was not true that N100, 000 was paid for enlistment. This was as she denied claims that recruitment was still ongoing.

According to her, procurement of form was not a guarantee for automatic employment, as applicants were made to obtain endorsements from court and hospital, to make them eligible for training.

“I want to make it clear that Peace Corps of Nigeria is not collecting money from anybody for recruitment. Secondly, we are not recruiting currently. “The process of recruitment is this: you get the form, which is for N1,500 in the office, and not go toget it from the back door. The form is not online. Secondly, you fill your form, take it to the court, and get it signed. You go to the hospital yourself, and get a doctor’s report…

“The N100,000 registrationallegation is completely false. You first of all go through the training, and if you are able to scale through you will get a text message to say you’ve been successfully enlisted to go for training. And, the training is for one month.

“The amount you are going to pay, which is the subsidised amount of N40, 000, is for your camp fee, accommodation, medical treatment, uniform kits… and all that. Your …ID Card, certificate of training, training materials, training manuals are allencompassing inside this N40, 000”, Umoru said.

On how the organisation met its salary obligation to staff, since it had yet to be accorded full statutory recognition and budgetary allocation, she said: “Basically, Peace Corps officers work in schools.

When they are posted to schools, the schools take care of their salaries, pending when government takes over.”

It will be recalled that the House of Representatives had, sometime in July, passed the National Peace Corps bill into law, in concurrence with the House of Representatives. Until it gets presidential assent, the processes leading to Peace Corps’ establishment remain incoate. Currently, Peace Corps has over 140, 000 regular and volunteer staff. According to the organisation’s spokesman: “The last camp we had was at Kwara State, and it was last year.”

When asked where the training exercise held, she said: “We use NYSC Camps or government schools/ facilities for our training/ camps.”


https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/10/racket-peace-corps-cadets-paid-n100000-enlistment/

Adedayo Odulaja

Men of the Pipeline Surveillance Right of Way yesterday arrested a policeman, a woman and two others for alleged oil bunkering at the New Oko Oba area of Lagos.
Led by a man whose name was given simply as King, the team stormed a hotel in the area about 2.30.a.m. and arrested the policeman, identified as Lukman, and his alleged accomplice.
Lukman, said to be formerly of Area G Police Station in Ogba, allegedly acted as the security officer of the bunkering operation for months and was fending off any untoward enquiry into activities at the hotel.
The hotel, located opposite the Water Gate Hotels on Social Club Road, New Oko Oba, was allegedly being used for the diversion of thousands of litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol.
The security team, working directly with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to check pipeline vandalism and oil bunkering, stationed at least four patrol vehicles on the road yesterday. Around, in different locations also, were about four petrol tankers either fully loaded already or being loaded when the team swooped on the bunkerers.
Bizarrely, officers of the Ijaiye Police Station, who were accused of rushing to the area to help the suspects, were also apprehended by the heavily armed team of men numbering about 40. The four policemen, all from Ijaiye Ojokoro Police Station, were made to sit on the bare floor when our correspondent got to the scene.
The policemen, who were accused of always aiding the bunkerers while loading of fuel went on, were overpowered after having driven into the hotel and quickly drawing their weapons when the hotel owners reached out to them.
With “UTM” pinned to the right of their branded Polo shirts along with “King Young Lion” directly under the NNPC logo on the left, the armed men seemed committed to what they said was their avowed duty despite being owed months of salaries and allowances by government, even if a bit unruly.
“The people we have arrested as such are those involved in oil bunkering. There is an NNPC pipeline that runs through this area and they have vandalised it and are always diverting fuel into tankers from the hotel. It is something they have been doing for a long time but the end has come to their activities now.
“We have been here since 2.30a.m. and there are about tankers around. Even the tanks you see inside the hotel, which are supposed to contain water for the facility, are filled with petrol and they bring in tankers regularly to take it away and nobody knows that is what they really do. The hotel is just a cover-up. We did not harass those who are there as guests but we only dealt with the workers who cannot claim not to know about what was going on,” a member of the team, who gave his name as Wale, told our correspondent.
Also, Gladys, a receptionist at the hotel who said she started working there on September 5, said: “What I used to see is that there are some guests that always come in the night with fuel and the security will offload it. I started working here on September 5 and I met Mr. Lukman here, he has been sleeping here since then and has always been here. They told me that he is the SP here, with another man like that. The last time they worked on fuel apart from this one was on Monday.”
When interrogated, Lukman confessed to being one of the ring leaders of the bunkering operation in the hotel while taking journalists and officials around some of the tools used for diverting fuel from the pipeline.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, said no policeman was involved in the bunkering.
He said: “We have arrested the bunkerers and they are in police custody. We are still investigating the case. If any policeman is involved, we will make it public.”

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/10/policeman-three-others-arrested-lagos-oil-bunkering/

Tony Anichebe

Judge, court, task force officials escape gunshots


Police in Akwa Ibom State said they had commenced investigation into an alleged attack on Sanitation Court in Uyo by heavily-armed policemen led by the officer in charge of the Anti- Robbery Unit, SP Idorenyin Akpabio.

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Bala Elkaner, who disclosed this to journalists, said the Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Umar, was aware of the incident. Akpabio, a relative of the immediate past governor of the state, now Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, is said to have led two patrol vehicles filled with policemen to attack and disrupt proceedings at the Sanitation Court which was in session at Nkemba Street, Uyo, last weekend.




It was learnt that a girl, said to be Akpabio’s daughter, was one of the 23 sanitation defaulters apprehended by sanitation task force officials attached to the state Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources during last Saturday’s monthly sanitation exercise and subsequently arraigned before the Sanitation Court.

The girl, who was taken to the Sanitation Court along with other defaulters, had reportedly insulted the court officials, threatening that her father was a senior police officer in the state.

She reportedly made good her threats when she put a telephone call across to her father, who initially stormed the court with six armed policemen who cocked their rifles and threatened to open fire at the task force and court officials.

Angered by the court and task force officials’ refusal to release his daughter, it was learnt that Akpabio called for more reinforcement, prompting the arrival two patrol vehicles filled with policemen on the court premises. According to those present at the scene, the over 20 policemen stormed the court and shot into the air thereby causing panic, forcing everyone to run helterskelter while they whisked the girl away. Elkaner said that Umar was unhappy with the behaviour of the O/C, Anti-Robbery.




He said: “The state police command is aware of the unfortunate incident. The commissioner has ordered an investigation into the incident and disciplinary action would be taken against the O/C if found guilty.”

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/10/police-officer-storms-court-armed-policemen-snatches-daughter/

Those who witnessed military regime warn those who don't but know one listens.

Job you don't like!
God remember me jo.

NwaAmaikpe:


This is wrong...

My Bible tells me not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers.

When the Pharisees complained about Jesus mingling with sinner's, what was his reply? I didn't come because of the faithful but because of sinners. It's only those who are sick who needs doctor. Please read the 4 books of gospel more and learn from the teaching of Christ.

StakerLives:




Truth Be Told That You Can't Find Afonjas In Gainful Protests Like This, They Can Only Be Found In Shrines At Ogun State, Osogbo And Underground Canals In Some Parts Of Lagos With Human Parts!!



Afonja Why

Is Deji Adeyanju Igbo or Hausa?

sammydoe:
If u are serious go to lagos state homs website u can see a room and parlour for 1.5 m in epe, with monthly payment of 15k and a 5 per cent deposit.

What of 5years tax records and other requirements?

Governor Fayose, who maintained that President Buhari must resign, said; “Today is the 184th day of 2017. Out of these 184 days, our President has spent 107 days abroad taking care of his health.

I weep for this country.

State with little or no resources and the Governor is performing. To those nominating Ambode, take Fashola as an example. Fayose, Umahi I wish.

Golf 4.

She becomes a teacher(through college of education) before others could got admission into university.

Twitter poll of APC performance.

https://twitter.com/APCNigeria/status/869199205109305344

Our highest denomination should be #100. Not converting it to coins.

Op. Before concluding, do a proper research. In Ekiti where I was born there are more than 140 towns each with a catholic church and a Yoruba parish priest. In Akure (Ondo state) as a student of Sacred Heart seminary I attended Holy Ghost Conference in 1996 where more than 500 priest, Monsignor and Bishops from Southwest gather and 99.9% of them are Yorubas.

Simple to comprehend, Nigeria and Ghana has 1 hour time different. when its 12am in Nigeria, it still 11pm in Ghana. And flight duration is just 45 minutes.

prospero5:
fayose is only having fun. he seems a flamboyant guy to me. he is lively, I think.


the writer of this piece truly deserves my respect. they simply remind me of Funke Egbemode (not sure of this last name) of the Nation newspaper.

You're correct, Funke Egbemode of Punch and Sun, now MD New Telegraph.

maxwell767:
I used my phone.... And I did all the uploading with my phone

Please which browser did you use? I had try UC Browser, Opera Mini, Chrome Beta, Firefox Beta and phone browser still can't upload passport.

ikenna2323:
How do I upload my passport it's not even selecting

After using different 5 browser I still can't upload passport.

MMM (Milking Millions of Mumus).

Lere Olayinka was pictured eating this.

jake2much:
dis kind of opening how are we preparing for d interview

Get shortlisted first, then test follows before talking of interview.