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DICK4UCKPUSSY:
The police in neighbouring Niger Republic
have arrested a Nigerian carrying 4.6m Euros
(N1.05bn) in cash. The man was arrested at
the Diori Hamani Airport in Niamey, the
capital of Niger, en route Dubai in the United
Arab Emirate.
The Nigerien police said they suspected that
the man was fleeing with the money in order
to avoid being caught by the administration
of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has
been prosecuting an anti-corruption
campaign since assumption of office on May
29.
They also expressed worry that there had
been an upsurge in the number of Nigerians
trafficking
huge sums of money in cash through the
neighbouring country.
The police in Niger are already working on
the suspicion that the money traffickers have
accomplices in the country.
The arrest of the Nigerian has been a big
news item in the Nigerien newspapers and
television stations.
Curiously the authorities here on Wednesday
claimed ignorance of the money seizure in
the neighbouring country though the
Customs officers in Niger were already
kicking against repatriating the cash to
Nigeria.
A media report in Niger on Saturday said the
National Union of Customs Officers at a press
briefing “denounced the request of the
Nigerian authorities” to return the seized
money.
The Customs official said there had been
several similar seizures in Niamey from
people trafficking money from Nigeria,
putting the amount that had been so seized
in several billions of naira.
They said the seized money had been mainly
in dollars, euros and pounds sterling, asking
the Niger authorities to allow the Customs
officials to do their job without interference.
When contacted, the Senior Special Adviser
to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr.
Femi Adesina, said he could not speak on the
development because his brief was to speak
for the President.
He therefore referred one of our
correspondents to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
“I speak for the President. On this kind of
issues, I will advice that you speak with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he said.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
officials denied knowledge of the seizure in
Niger Republic. The ministry’s spokesperson,
Ogbole Ahmedu-Ode, said the ministry had
not received official communication on the
arrest of any Nigerian.
“I am hearing about this incident for the first
time from you, we have not received any
communication on the matter from any
quarters,” he said over the telephone.
PUNCH reports that calls to the Public
Relations Officer of the Nigeria Immigration
Service, Emeka Obua, did not elicit any
response. He also did not respond to text
messages to his mobile telephone on the
issue.
The Nigerien embassy in Abuja could not be
reached for comment on Wednesday as calls
to the mission’s phone lines failed to
connect.
The spokesman for the Nigerian Customs
Service, Mr Wale Adeniyi could not be
reached for comments as text message and
repeated calls made to his mobile line were
not replied as of the time (8.30pm) of filling
this report.
But a senior official of the Service told one
of our correspondents in confidence that the
issue had yet to be brought to the attention
of the agency.
The official said since the matter was a
diplomatic issue, there were protocols that
must be adhered to before the customs
could step in.
The official said, “As we speak now, the
matter hasn’t been drawn to our attention.
This is a diplomatic matter that has to be
treated with caution in order to avoid
diplomatic row between both countries.
“The identity of the person in question has
not been established and it is the Nigerian
embassy in Niger that would verify that.
“After that is done, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs will be notified before other security
agencies would be invited on the matter.
“So, it is not something that the Customs will
jump into and start investigating because the
Customs in Niger don’t report directly to us
in Nigeria.”


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This is a pure propaganda period. The name is withheld because, the culprit has access to power, imagine if the person is igbo... The man wanted to go and buy arms for Bokoharam...

Johnnyessence:
The State of Osun which recently increased its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) from N300million to about N1.5 billion annually but also got enmeshed in financial difficulties that led to over seven months salary areas for its workers has plans to bounce back and strongly too. It is planning further revenue increase as it is prepared to leverage its rich culture as a platform.

Of its about 63 tourist sites, the state wants to particularly play up the Osun Osogbo annual festival where it hoped to generate about $1 million yearly to boost its internally generated revenue to augment its financial status.

The former commissioner of tourism and culture in the state, Adetona Ayedun told BusinessDay at the grand finale of the 2015 Osun Osogbo festival that the state wants to grow its revenue base and from the Osun Osogbo festival alone “we are looking at a minimum of about $1m in a year. With this we believe that the Osun IGR will grow.We intend to add colour to the festival but in as much as we want to create modernity to the festival it has to be in line with the tenets of the culture”.

Grand finale of 2015 festival

The 2015, unlike last year festival that was almost marred by the scare for ebola disease, was grandious in many respects as it had more visitors and the clement weather complimented the festival.

Secretary to the Osun State Government, Moshood Adeoti who was delighted about the success of the 2015 festival said “This year’s celebration was interesting and a huge success compared to last year. There was ebola threat last year that prevented a unique ceremony but this year, a lot of visitors and community members came out to celebrate the festival”.

He hinted that the Osun state has entered into partnership with UNESCO to develop the festival and make the annual festival more grandious. “The paucity of fund has prevented some innovations at the site. As soon as we are over with the backlog of workers salaries we are going to concentrate because we are hoping of generating a lot of IGR here, as visitors come from all over Nigeria and world to Osun Oshogbo festival. We are still working on generating IGR from it. We are going to block the road and erect toll gates as people will need to pay to come in”, he said at the festival.

Over 200,000 visitors were seen crowded at the grove, the site of the celebration as some engaged in various activities such as worshipping the deity at corners, dancing and performing different traditional rites. A lot of security personnel were on hand to check misdemenour.

Traditional chiefs took turn to pay homage to Jimoh Oyetunji, Olanipekun Larooye 2, the Ataoja of Osogboland while den gun was shot intermitendly at the grove which has artistic carves at strategic places. The Ataoja said “this year makes it ten years since the enlisting of the Grove by UNESCO as a world heritage site”

Goldberg keys in to keep the culture glowing

For several years, NBL through one of its brands, Goldberg, has been partnering with the organizers of Osun Osogbo, a festival that continues to put Nigeria on the world tourism map, Patrick Olowookere, corporate communication manager, NBL said recently.

“This partnership is no doubt a working one between two historical brands: Osun Osogbo, a 600 year old festival that truly reflects the traditional culture of the Yoruba race and Goldberg, a brand that is the fastest growing beer in the western region”

During the two-week festival Goldberg uplifted the town with exciting communication materials as the brand owners also staged a 21-day Goldberg beer village where the people of Osogbo and visitors were exposed to an unforgettable experience. Goldberg involvements will not only keep the rich festival which got the endorsement of UNESCO recently flaming, but it will assist in realizing the aspiration of the state government to generate additional IGR from the festival.

According to the carnival consultant, Ayo Olumoko, the managers of the festival plans to list the festival on Nigerian Stock Exchange

The Consultant told BusinessDay in Lagos that the idea to list it on the stock exchange is to expose the festival to more stakeholders to be part of it. According to him, this is on the basis that it is one of the festivals with global recognition that has been organized consistently over the years.

According to him another idea for approaching stock exchange is to ensure that this pride and initiative of a community which is tourism is assisting Nigeria’s economy thrive so that government will not continue to depend on the oil.

About the festival

Osun Osogbo, an old age cultural festival celebrated in the grove has lasted for over 600 years.

The festival which has grown to become an international carnival was said to have begun in 13th century from a real live story in the acient Osogbo. A historian, Egbele Ben John, narrated that Osun was one of the wives of Songo. Osun was gifted in tie and dye called today as Adire in Yorubaland. She was the queen of indigo which represents colours. She had a particular pot called the dye pot containing dye solution. An account had it that she quarreled with one of the Songo wives and one of them broke the pot. Though there are different mythologies associated to the story. Probably also she broke the pot from mishandling consisting of the indigo dyes which is very laborious to produce. “The liquid started flowing and she got angry and flowed with it in to the river”, Egbele said.

At a point, a hunter and his family who lived in the hinterland lacked water. Then the hunter started searching for deposit of water when he discovered the Osun River from where Osun state derived its name. Then he told his people the need to settle where the water was found. When they settled, they were felling trees for fire and other things like erecting huts. In one of the incidences they fell a palm tree which fell into the Osun river and a female voice came from nowhere and shouted ‘you have broken my dye pot’. They played the oracle and realized that a goddess, Osun was living there.

From there, they started worshipping the goddess which today turned to Osun Osogbo festival. Osun, the goddess is known for fertility as people today also fetch the Osun water with beliefs to solve all sorts of barrenness.

BUSINESS DAY.http://osun.gov.ng/2015/08/28/destination-branding-osun-plans-boost-igr-1-million-annually/

Can someone tell these people to stop lying? I have been waiting for them to come up with their figures since last week, one man from osun came on channels and boldly stated that Osun state generates less than 200 million in a month. You should stop telling lies!! it's very shameful..... osun state governor sometimes in the past also said that the people can cannot pay tax, due to poverty..

There is this topic on how people defaced a wall in the north with inscription like " death to America " " free Palestine " Death to zionist etc, so why aren't they in support of biafra?

tobtap:
azikwe choose to form government with him rather than awolowo...see where that got the igbos

I have treated this awolowo blablabla! Awolowo was a double faced coward, that went to sarduna to promise prime minister, and came to. Azikwe and promised the same prime minister, Sarduna called Zik to inform him what awolowo is bringing to the table, Zik was dumbfounded, he told sarduna that the same awolowo n sent some people to him, for the same position!! They (sarduna and zik) now saw that awolowo was not trust worthy. that's was the situation! stop lying....

XBLadez:
Nwanne, hapu okwu. I know what I'm saying and I stand by my words. Ndigbo whatever are not representing me. Let them shut up for once

you are itiboribo! opposition is played by party not region or tribe! north didn't vote jonathan in 2011 but he didn't marginalise them! you son of dog!

they have deserted this thread

mad mad people from the zoo! my goodness me!!!

I said to my uncle, but yoruba supported him, he could have given them something, he replied " They will never give it to yoruba because they can not trusted, since they betrayed a fellow southerner how much more them the northerners!

I give up on them! meanwhile they still happy

But look at the comment by a northerner on the second picture....

Now take a look at their comments

neolboy:
Meaniless and unexplainable

I'm really serious! I need an explanation!

I'm not a tribalist, but I detest hypocrisy! why should a section of this country hold on to power from executive to legislative and judiciary! this a very dangerous trend!
You can come and defend him and write things like "I don't care where the person comes from provided he performs!
North are lagging behind in several field like education, private sector involvement etc.

while some section of the country will sponsor an advertorial like this.. Even when some northerners are condemning the appointment pattern this same people see see nothing wrong with it.. What could be the cause?

good

ok

ok can old pa write too? don't dull...

Oya cat face troop in and course your heart and soul out!

ok

what about northern under age vote? kano Returning officer assassination? owk! kwontinue

ok we don hear! next please

ok

maestroferddi:
EFCC don enter one chance.

This George Uboh guy clearly has got EFCC measure.

Laughable as the usually confident Wilson Uwajaren was reduced to a pathetic mess of incoherence.

Naija is getting interesting

How Uwujaren was irritated, shows that someone is touching the real tale.

UmuEri:
Is anybody watching!
OMG - Nigeria is a mess

I tell you! people are even trying to rubbish him.

UmuEri:
Is anybody watching!
OMG - Nigeria is a mess

I tell you! people are even trying to rubbish him.

abbey621:
I would have loved to see Hausas, Yorubas and other ethnicity condemning the president instead of an obvious bigot/ethnic induced dramatization, seems some people are still licking their wounds after their papa was voted out . Buhari scorecard so far for me is 3/10, he has a lot of work to do. Let's see how the next 100 days plays out!

this is the main reason why nigeria can never work!! hausas and yorubas condemned GEJ while igbos didn't, now igbo is condemning buhari, yoruba and hausas aren't...

He must rot in jail! shikena!!

Good job my people! let the haters go and die..

owk, we shall see.. The average northern youths listen to BBC hausa average southern youths listen to psqaure and ICE prince.

owk, we shall see..