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iamord:
lol. Oh yes I do. And am not deceiving myself about it. You are still yet to bring up a reasonable defence for your God.

I worship Jehovah the Father n his son Our Lord Jesus Christ n the Holy Spirit n m not deceiving myself about it, y shud I bring up a reasonable defence to u, I dnt owe u ny defence.............

Achirimma:
All of you claiming Easter is biblical, let's have 2 or 3 bible quotations where it was mentioned or referred to.

Didn't Christ die n resurrect on the third day? If u agree he he did, then wah other reference r u looking for.

iamord:
I will take this as a form point that you agree that you don't know what you are worshipping. But you are ready to protect it cos that's how it has always been

Nd u u know wah u r worshipping

Op, nobody is interested in the exact date Tht he resurrected or d date he was born, we dnt care if those days where originally meant for pagan worship, the church wasn't der to know d exact date n time so they might b wrong, but it still doesn't tke away d importance of celebrating d birth n even most importantly d resurrection..Doesnt d Bible teach n d New Testament Tht what ever is agreed on here on earth is agreed In heaven, so if the church leaders come together to agree On a day to celebrate d resurrection Tht glorylifies the name on d Lord, it is agreed in heaven.... Who are u then to come here n spew thrash!!!...... All this Jehovah witnesses sha, ur understanding of scripture is very shallow

ghuzy01:
Guy pls keep quiet,we 're talking about the game,he played very well so stfu if u didn't watch d game.

I dont need to watch d game to know who is not good enough to wear our national team Jersey, I didn't realize Moses Simon is ur brother, buh if it pains u tht much go n hug transformer, d guy is a terrible footballer, if he played so well as u say, y did we not win d game...rubbish!!!!

I don't like that Moses Simon of a guy, I didn't watch d game but I watched him play in the ucl second round.. Gent vs wolfsburg, the guy was a shadow of him self, forming pace, dribbling n trickery Tht didn't work not even once, until he was sub bfre his club was able to score..... The guy is no good, u can't win a game with Moses Simon in ur attack.... Play iwobi n Moses on d flank, thts better, cos even musa does not have sense. I dnt tink he plays from d flank at cska. am nt so sure.....


Ighalo

Ideye


Iwobi. V. Moses


onazi mikel


Emerson. omeruo. Balogun. Shehu


Ikeme
My Nigerian eleven
This team is sure to hold their own against any team

Why are you guys so tribalistic, whats wiv d my tribe, their tribe, our tribe, nd yet we want to grow collectively as a nation.....hmm we are our own problem

I'm know say BUBU go soon ask am how far, so bfre bubu tell am afar, e won give imself brain

I am not surprised the head of d group is igbo, those guys are opportunists....

I am not surprised the head of d group is igbo, this day guys are opportunists....

One would wonder y he didn't see a collaspe of his own church building, so he could have saved the lives of the South Africans n Nigerians n all tht were killed.....

Buhari, so far so good has been one of the most sincere and sensible president I av seen in Nigeria all my life, Nigerians hate a good leader, when we had murtala Na xo dem complain O, till dem gang up kill am, later on, they tagged him a hero, but d truth is d devil never wants the poor to b liberated so am not surprised when pple complain n wail, they are just tools used by the devil to continue to keep our pple n abject poverty. They want a president Tht would allow a certain group of pple (cabals) eat the collective wealth of the people, buh God pass them, Buhari carry on we plenty way dey with u, even in d south south, Co's I'm born n breed in d south south n I know thousand Tht support u down here....

Rayhutar:
Despite criticisms Catholic Church remain the best Christian church in the world, no preaching of prosperity, build your riches in heaven where no termites will devour it, no sowing of seed for you to be rich, God can give riches to anybody and Satan can give riches, a muslim,Pegan,Budha,Jewish, Atheist,Armed robbers, Ritualist,Corrupt politicians and dubious business men etc can be rich. That somebody is rich does not mean that he is blessed by God, but most Pentecostals see riches of this world as must for all believers.

My broda u nack am for head kpoko

Dnt mind ur boss and these guys spewing trash here, ur not a Dundee, weren't u doing ur job?, am sure u were, u r not dere to open teeth with nybody, am sure u wud get another job were u wud be appreciated...... Wah u av to do is whereever u working, since ur not the so likeable type, u just have to work extra hard to be seen as an asset.

Catholic Church indeed understands d scriptures, they are not bout miracles n witches n wizards killing pple, or about enemies dying, they just understand d scriptures, n follow their sacred traditions tht even a modern world cannot threaten..... I think I'll join them mark this Easter period, I am tired of prosperity teaching n my church n sowing of seed everyday, no moral teaching, it's just prosperity.

Just watch n c, these haters wud soon start criticising Buhari as to y he I'd killing Boko Haram , they would say he is not following the rule of law, when they av run out of criticism... Buh wait, this news used to be the other way round when their hero was president, then it was boko clearing villages week in week out.... I wonder is this d same army Buhari met or did they do underground recruitment that no one knows of... GEJ was to do service recruitment to fight Boko Haram, he was stil asking for money to buy the form, how clueless, Kai Tht guy no get sense... I just heard Buhari has ordered the clean up of ogoni land........

Frankiss44:
It's either you have lost your fuccking memory or you are just being mischievous.. I repeat the only time we experienced scarcity of fuel was at the tail end of GEJ tenure, during the campaign to be specific. Even the worst of his critics know this... How can a Minister of petroleum come out to say scarcity will last till May and you see nothing wrong with it.. Rubbish

He did give reason, he said tht d nnpc is doing 100percent importation nd need to have reserve, so until d reserves r filled, bfre 100percent of imported fuel would be distributed...All we need is to feel a pinch if this would solve the problem, the problem with u is that u dnt want to feel a pinch yet u want change, it won't come by magic.... I remember buying fuel during jonahs time like u mentioned in may 5litres for 4k, wah cud b worse than that, what about the fuel subsidy time, didn't fuel shortage linger on for a long time, like I easier said not all of us have short memories

blueto:
Buhari is just being paradoxical.

He said “I am for everybody and for nobody” and yet, he refused to probe his party affiliates. And now he solely designated APC states as beneficiaries for the implementation of the building of 250,000 houses and reneges on the promise of establishment of 1m houses.

Pls give me one reason why he should probe his party members when pdp nd GEJ didn't probe them

Years past to go into the police Na man no man, I really wanna thank Buhari for this, this guy is a more masses friendly president, not d .'d president is good but pple rlarnd him r bad' president we had bfre....

Frankiss44:
These idiots that told GEJ that not having fuel scarcity throughout his regime wasn't something he should use in campaigning because to them there is nothing special about it... Now just few months into their own regime, Nigerians are being faced with untold hardship... Na wah o

For months now we have been buying fuel for 150 and above and everybody is getting used to it.

What a bunch of failures... Noise makers without action... Yet zombies are still linking their fuccking ass.

No fuel scarcity under jonahs time?? , not everyone is tht forgetful, not everyone can be deceived

I served in rivers State, ogba/egbema/ndoni LGA in 2015, I was involved in both elections Tht Brot pmb n woke to power, worked as a presiding officer, at my pop wike abi woke wht ever his name is, promised to pay us our state allowee, almost a year after, one kobo we aff not seen, we were fooled, just d way they fooling these guys... I was 2014 batch B

ckmayoca:
Bros I don't I know u in person or u knowing me. I see no reason for u ask me to shut up when am not even talking.
Mind how u talk to people abeg. If politics hurts u like one u lost his job pls don't bring the anger toward me. I posted my opinion so post urs and move forward.
I see nothing wrong in wanting to see the name.

Bros no vex shut up abeg, ur view no mke sense , so keep quiet

Winning123:
This is not a story to turn to a joke. Will you advise your children to make the choice of Esau since it is a mere joke

Some one like u will see that boy that was abandoned in akwa ibom for been a wizard, turn ur face the other way, then come here n talk about sacred story, hypocrite!!!, I dislike ur type....

My advice man to man, guy gbaga............hiv no know love O, u say u trust ur woman, thts trash talk, a woman fit dey profess her love for u ontop or under anoda man, never trust 100percent....

No wonder this ICPC has been a shadow of itself, since it's inception, I am happy FG has set up a team to probe both EFCC nd ICPC, MR ICPC boss, what term would u give to a man that tkes money meant for buying arms for our military, shares the money to his best friends n lavishes the money...stealing or corruption??

ABUJA— The Nigeria Customs Service has re-introduced the restriction order on importation of rice through land borders across the country. Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), gave the approval for the reversal of an earlier policy in October 2015 which allowed rice imports through the land borders, once appropriate duty and charges were paid. At a review session held with Comptrollers of Border Commands and Federal Operation Units in Abuja, yesterday, the service noted that dwindling revenue from rice imports through the land borders did not match the volume of rice landed in ports of neighbouring countries. The Customs in a statement by Wale Adeniyi, Public Relations Officer, said: “Rather, reports from border commands indicated an upsurge in the tempo of rice smuggling. Implementation of the restriction order got off to a smooth start, with a high level of compliance in October 2015. “However, revenue started dwindling from January 2016, with importers blaming access to forex as major impediments. “During the five-month period when the importation was allowed, October 2015 to March 17, 2016, a total of 24.992 metric tons of rice valued at N2,335,131,093 were imported through the land borders.” “During the period, total revenue generated amounted to N1,685,112,810, which is considerably lower than the revenue projected to be generated with the removal of import restrictions. “However, an upsurge in the number of the seizures has been reported across the land borders since January 2016. ‘’In the first two months of the 2016, a total of 9,238 bags were seized, with Duty Paid Value of N64,666,000 made by the Customs anti-smuggling patrol teams of Federal operations and border commands. The Comptroller-General of Customs noted that his officers and men could not be totally exonerated from the abuse associated with the implementation of the order on rice, saying his office had been inundated with reports of collusion between them and rice importers.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/customs-re-imposes-ban-rice-importation/

ABUJA — Owing to allegation that N2 billion bribe was traced to his bank account, Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, disqualified himself from a suit seeking to stop the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT. Though the suit was scheduled for judgement, Justice Kafarati, however, said he was left with no option than to hands off the matter after his attention was drawn to two online publications alleging that he had been compromised by the Senate President.

The judge bemoaned that his integrity was gravely “maligned” in two separate reports carried by Sahara Reporters and Naij.com, which he said claimed that the N2 billion was traced to his account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Justice Kafarati said: “The two publications made allegations against my person, alleging that I have been compromised with N2 billion. They also alleged that I am known in the legal cycle for being susceptible to corruption. “What this has done is to put my integrity to question. I, however, regard the publishers as people of unsound mind. They know that what they said is not true. They derive pleasure when they malign the integrity of a judicial officer. “It is unfortunate that we don’t have the appropriate laws to take care of this. As it stands, I am caught between two devils. If the judgement goes in favour of Saraki now, they will say that I have been compromised, on the other hand, if it goes against him, they will say I have been intimidated. “In light of the allegation, the right and appropriate thing to do is to disqualify myself and return the case-file to the Chief Judge for re-assignment to another Judge.” Meanwhile, the decision resulted to a war of words between Saraki’s lawyer, Dr. Kayode Oluyode, and EFCC lawyer, Mr. Adebisi Adeniyi. Whereas Oluyode fingered EFCC as the brain behind the publications, Adeniyi maintained that it was improper for him to make such “spurious allegation” without proof. “Your lordship has taken the right steps. It is, however, unfortunate that the applicant is the one to suffer. It is equally bad that the EFCC has gone to this level. We know that it is behind the publications,” Oluyode insisted. Saraki had approached the high court, praying it to declare that the chairman of the CCT, Justice Danladi Umar, is not fit to preside over the 13-court charge preferred against him by the Federal Government. He told the court that Justice Umar was still being investigated by the EFCC over allegations bordering on corruption.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/cct-trial-judge-hands-off-sarakis-suit-alleged-n2bn-bribe/

P-HARCOURT—THE National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has threatened to review its collaboration with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on conduct of polls, following recurring deaths of corps members on election duties. This came as the Federal Government, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, condemned the killings in Rivers State. During the 2011 presidential election, 11 corps members were killed in Bauchi State and about 150 others had their limbs hacked off in Kaduna State by people protesting the outcome of the polls. Last weekend, another corps member, Samuel Okonta, was killed by gunmen in Rivers State and some went missing during the federal and state legislature re-run polls in the state. The NYSC Director General, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, who vowed that the scheme would not relent until the killers of Okonta were brought to justice, said NYSC had set up a committee to look into the killing of Okonta, adding that the committee would determine whether or not the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU it signed with the INEC on participation of corps members in electoral process would be reviewed. Olawumi spoke when the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung and INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmud Yakubu, paid a condolence visit to the NYSC in Abuja, over the death of Okonta.
“I want to use this avenue to call on the Rivers State government and community leaders to do everything humanly possible to bring those who killed this young, innocent man to book. We shall work with relevant agencies to ensure that the perpetrators of this heinous act are fished out and made to face the full wrath of the law,” he said. Perpetrators will not go unpunished – FG Meanwhile, the Federal Government assured that the perpetrators of the electoral violence in Rivers would be fished out and punished. Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, who blamed the violence on politicians, who refused to play the game according to the rules, described the crisis as a display of primitive political culture. The minister, who attributed the death of Okonta to the inordinate ambition of politicians, said “under the administration of change, this impunity will never be celebrated.” Dalung said: “I want to use this opportunity to appeal to Nigerian politicians that in playing the game, officials for the match and spectators are not players. I observed that each time we play this our political game, our tentacles and anger are extended to wrong persons…. It is very terrible that we cannot conduct ordinary election without conflict and crisis.” Earlier in his remarks, the INEC chairman, conveyed the electoral commission’s ‘sincere condolence’ to NYSC over Okonta, saying “the other corps member, who could not be accounted for, has been found alive, hale and hearty but we understand she was traumatized and unconscious.” UK, US condemn violence, irregularities Also, the United Kingdom and United States embassies in Nigeria, yesterday, condemned the violence and irregularities that hallmarked the polls and indicted supporters of the major political parties for the ugly incidents. Disturbed by the irregularities, violence and reported attacks on electoral officials during the elections, the two embassies, in separate statements in Abuja, said the development was totally condemnable and unacceptable. Major parties must encourage their supporters to be peaceful – UK Specifically, the British High Commission in Nigeria, in a statement by its Spokesperson, Joe Abuku, said the UK government was disappointed by reports of violence, in particular against electoral officials and the INEC. “UK observers in Rivers State saw irregularities around the voting and noted the low turn-out of voters at polling units which was in part a consequence of fear of violence. The British High Commission urges the leadership of both major political parties to encourage their supporters in Rivers to behave peacefully and call on those still dissatisfied to pursue resolution of their grievances through the courts in accordance with the rule of law,” it added. On its part, the US embassy said: “We condemn the use of violence and disruptions of the democratic process. We call upon the leadership of Nigeria’s political parties to urge their supporters to conduct themselves peacefully throughout the electoral process. We call on those dissatisfied to pursue a resolution of their grievances peacefully in accordance with the rule of law.” APC candidates flay Wike, seek cancellation of polls Candidates of the APC in Rivers East senatorial district, yesterday, lashed the state government, saying Governor Nyesom Wike’s style of governance was putting the state in bad light. Senatorial candidate of the party in the district, Andrew Uchendu, said as leaders in the state, they would not keep quiet when things were going wrong. Flanked by Maureen Tamuno, candidate of the party for Okrika, Ogubolo Federal Constituency, Mr Ogbona Nwonke contesting for the Etche Omuma federal constituency seat and other candidates of the party in the senatorial district, they alleged that some adhoc staff of the INEC, who were not authorised went ahead to declare results in areas where elections had been allegedly suspended. Wike, PDP urge INEC to release collated results However, Governor Wike, the PDP and the party’s Reps Caucus have called on the Electoral Commission, to declare results of the rerun elections that had so far been collated. The governor, who spoke, yesterday, when the Federated Correspondents Chapel of Nigerian Union of Journalists, in Rivers State paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Port Harcourt, said it was shocking that the electoral body was still holding back several results already collated and announced at the various collation centres. Continuing, the governor said the commission lacked powers to cancel results that had been announced at the various local government collation centres. The national leadership of the PDP, spoke in like manner. Addressing a press conference in Abuja, yesterday afternoon, the National Chairman of the Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, also called for the immediate constitution of a panel to carry out a dispassionate investigation of the circumstances that led to the violence during the rerun with a view to unraveling the truth and bringing the culprits to book. Senator Sheriff condemned the role played by some members of the Armed forces who were supposed to provide security during the elections. The statement read in part: “The PDP is also appalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission, after results had been collated and declared on the ground in many Wards and Constituencies, yielded to the pressure and instruction of a highly placed politician in Rivers State to suspend the much-awaited declaration of final results and return of the winners, who are already well known to the electorate. We stress that the Electoral Act 2010 (as Amended) and applicable regulations do not support the suspension of the declaration of results after collation has been completed. We, therefore, demand for the declaration of all results already collated and the return of the winners of the elections. Wike lauds Buhari over non-interference Meantime, Governor Wike, yesterday evening, lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for distancing himself from the rerun elections in the state, saying he did not interfere with the exercise. Wike, who spoke in Government House, Port Harcourt while addressing PDP party faithful, said Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi came into the state noisily and left quietly after results showed he could not deliver his candidates. “No Army is stronger than the people. No police is stronger than our people. How many times will they cancel elections for the APC? Those who were overzealous during the rerun elections did so without the knowledge of the president.” INEC summons REC, other officials Meantime, INEC has summoned its Rivers Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr. Aniedi Ikoiwak and other officials involved in the exercise. The commission will today meet with all the affected officials with a view to determining what exactly transpired and, thereafter, take informed position on the Rivers electoral logjam. Vanguard checks revealed that all the concerned officials have relocated to Abuja and are set to brief the INEC Chairman and other national officers of the commission. Director, Voter Education and Publicity at the commission, Oluwole Osaze-Uzi, in a telephone chat, said the commission would not be quick to make any pronouncement without being appropriately briefed by its personnel. “We are meeting with some of our stakeholders tomorrow (today). We will meet with the REC and all those (INEC officials) who participated in the polls. It is after then that the commission would make its position known,” he said. INEC had suspended all further actions concerning the court ordered re-run elections in the Rivers State National Assembly and State House of Assembly seats held on Saturday, 19th March 2016. The Commission had premised its action on the widespread reports of attacks leading to fatalities, kidnappings, ballot box snatching, diversion of officials and materials amongst others. Ikoiwak expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of politicians in the state during the elections. He disclosed that auditing of the materials and personnel used for the election were on, adding that the commission awaits directives from its national body for the next line of action.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/fg-nysc-rise-killings-rivers-uk-us-condemn-violence/

NgeneUkwenu:
Comedian

EDO Is APC and APC Is EDO!

Anybody Oshiomole Chooses Becomes Our Candidate and automatically the governor...


IPOB Youths leave Nigerian Politics For Nigerians....

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Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki’s desperate bid to evade prosecution for false assets declarations and corruption has been met with a robust response. Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, continues to push the claim that his prosecution is politically motivated, despite a welter of evidence. He similarly concocted other stories and engaged in legal manoeuvres to ensure the trial does not proceed. On March 7, Saraki had filed a motion to restart the jurisdictional battle, asking once again that the Code of Conduct Tribunal decline jurisdiction validly affirmed by the Supreme Court in February. This has resulted in another shift in the date of the commencement of his trial till March 24th.

On March 18, when the trial was billed to open, Kanu Agabi, Saraki’s counsel, had ambushed the prosecution by requesting the tribunal to give room for the hearing of Saraki’s motion, arguing that it was in accordance with the law.

Agabi had also argued that that the Attorney-General of Federation and Minister of Justice lacks the powers to file charges before the Code of Conduct Tribunal and claimed that the failure of the Code of Conduct Bureau to confront him with discrepancies in his assets declaration forms makes the charges against the Senate President invalid

But a counter-affidavit, filed on 15 March by Peter Danladi, an operative of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), punched holes in the Senate President's claims and laid bare what he is struggling to conceal from the public.

Danladi’s counter-affidavit, exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, identified depositions contained in paragraphs 5 to 34 of Saraki’s motion as false and made with the intention to mislead the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

In the counter-affidavit, Danladi said Saraki, who was elected twice as governor of Kwara State filed four assets declaration forms. The law requires certain public officers to do so on the assumption of office and at the end of their tenure.

The first assets declaration by Saraki (Form CCB1), with ID 001440, was filed on September 16, 2003, following his assumption of office as Kwara State governor. The second (Form CCB1), with ID 000041, was filed on July 11, 2007, at the end of his first term as governor. The third, Form (CCB 1), with ID 000040, was also filed on July 11, 2007, on assumption of office for his second term as governor.

The fourth (ID000218), which marked the end of his second term as governor, was filed on 3 June 2011.

Danaldi added that he was informed by one Yahaya Bello, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on 14 March 2016, that the EFCC was in possession of a slew of petitions alleging the existence of dinosaur-sized skeletons in Saraki’s closet. As governor, Saraki has engaged in a variety of corrupt practices, including money laundering and theft.

Danladi said EFCC operative told him, these revelations provoked investigations into the petitions by the Commission. The investigations yielded valuable information showing that Saraki on numerous occasions abused his office as well perpetrated corruption with impunity.

Specifically, Saraki, the EFCC discovered, obtained loans running into billions from commercial banks, particularly Guaranty Trust Bank, and used proceeds of such to acquire eye-popping landed properties in Lagos, Abuja and London while serving as governor of Kwara State.

Rather than use his legitimate income to repay the said loans, the EFCC discovered, Saraki took billions of naira in public funds and lodged same in several tranches and cash into his Guaranty Trust Bank account in GRA Ilorin, Kwara State. Saraki’s account officer, the EFCC said, told the commission that the he was given cash many times by Saraki in the Kwara State Government House for lodgement into the current Senate President’s account. Occasionally, disclosed the account officer, Saraki sent his aides from the Government House with cash to hand over for lodgement into his account.

On completion of its investigations, the EFCC submitted its report to its legal department and the Federal Ministry of Justice. With the gravity of what was perpetrated, particularly regarding properties acquired and the various huge amounts transferred into Saraki’s many overseas accounts while he was governor, the Federal Ministry of Justice was persuaded that the matter can be better investigated by the Code of Conduct Burea and prosecuted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) then sent the findings and evidence sourced through EFCC’s investigation of the misdemeanours as a complaint to the CCB, directing the bureau and EFCC to collaborate for effective investigation.

Danladi explained in his affidavit that collaboration is the norm among all the anti-graft agencies.

“That I know for a fact that there is a long-standing collaboration between the EFCC, ICPC and the Code of Conduct Bureau and that as 2006, the Presidential Committee headed by EFCC and comprising of other anti-corruption bodies in Nigeria, including the Code of Conduct Bureau, was set up with the responsibility to investigate cases of corruption involving public officials,” Danladi said in his affidavit

The CCB operative added that the various assets declaration forms submitted by Saraki were forwarded to the CCB, which has the responsibility of ascertaining the veracity of declarations made.

In the process of doing this, Danladi said, the CCB found a variety of financial misdeeds perpetrated by Saraki. For instance, the landed property listed by Saraki as No. 42 Gerrard Road, Ikoyi in Lagos, was visited by one Ikechi Iwuagwu, a Deputy Director with the CCB, who found it was still an empty land. The implication was that contrary to Saraki’s claim that he was earning a yearly income of N110m in rent on the property, there were no tenants as the property was a vacant piece of land.

Saraki was also found to have lied on the properties at 15A and 15B McDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, which he listed as his in his 2003 assets declaration. CCB investigators found that the said properties were acquired in 2006, three years after Saraki had claimed to be their owner. The properties were acquired by Saraki in 2006 from the Implementation Committee of the Federal Government on Federal Government Landed Properties through his companies Tiny Tee Limited and Vitti Oil, paying N396, 150,000.

The CCB also discovered a whiff of a graft within graft in the above transaction. Saraki made an anticipatory declaration of the two properties, acquiring them in the name of the two companies because he could not buy two government properties in his own name.

Also, Saraki was discovered to have bought properties listed as 17, 17A and 17B from the Implementation Committee of the Federal Government on Federal Government Landed Properties, paying a total of N497,200,000. This was despite his monthly income, as shown by a scrutiny of his account with Intercontinental Bank (now Access Bank), could not have yielded the amounts he spent on properties. His account (No. 0100857813) showed that he earned N500,000 monthly. Public officials, by law, are barred from engaging in trading.

Saraki, despite earning the said amount monthly and barred by law from trading, also bought Plot 2A Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, from the Central Bank of Nigeria, which is a Federal Government agency, through his company, Carlisle Properties. He paid the sum of N325m between 2007 and 2008 while he was governor.

The said property, however, was not declared in his asset declaration form, dated 3 June 2011, which he submitted to the CCB. Similarly, Saraki failed to list the property at No.3 Targus Street (otherwise known as Cadastral Zone A06), Abuja, in his declaration of assets dated 16 September 2003, shortly after being sworn-in for his first term as governor. Saraki claimed to have to have bought the property in November 1995 from one David Baba Akawu.

In the same vein, his declaration of assets document of June 3, 2011-at the end of his second term as governor-was silent on his ownership of 3 Targus Street (otherwise known as 2481 Cadastral Zone A06), Abuja. This he claimed to have bought off one Alhaji Attahiru Adamu.

Saraki’s first asset declaration document as governor in 2003, Danladi’s affidavit showed, did not include the fact of his leasehold interest in No 42 Remi Fani-Kayode Street, which he acquired in 1996 via his company, Skyview Properties from First Finance Trust Limited on 12 December 1996.

Saraki, through Carlisle Properties, also bought Plot 37A Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, while he was governor.

During the same period, Saraki operated a domiciliary account with Guaranty Trust Bank ( account number 441441953210, from which he made cash transfers totalling $3.4million between 2009 and 2012 to American Express Service Europe Limited with account number 7030580 domiciled with American Express Bank, New York. Various sums were then transferred from this to the card account (No. 374588216836009) that Saraki maintained outside Nigeria.

The Senate President’s misdeeds while he was governor also included obtaining a N375 m loan from Guaranty Trust Bank in February 2010 and converting to 1, 516, 194.3 GBP, which he instructed the bank to transfer to the United Kingdom in favour of Fortis Bank SA/NV that Saraki claimed was the full payment for the mortgage on a property he purchased in London.

Danladi, in his affidavit, said the assets declaration forms submitted by Saraki and information supplied by him were sworn to at the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin and on being discovered to be false, given that they were made under oath, would make Saraki criminally liable.

Saraki had claimed in his motion, filed on 7 March, that the gaps in the assets declaration forms submitted between 2003 and 2011, which forms the basis of the charges against him were mere inconsistencies, irregularities and discrepancies. But Danladi, relying on the investigation by anti-graft agencies, contends that they were made to conceal corruption and theft of public funds.

Saraki had also claimed that he was given a clean bill of health by the CCB, a claim Danladi described as false. He also dismissed Saraki’s claim that his prosecution was politically-motivated, saying charges were not filed in bad faith before the CCT but because investigations came up with strong prima facie case against Saraki.

Danladi also challenged paragraph 30 of Saraki’s motion. “That contrary to paragraph 30 of the Affidavit in Support, the Code of Conduct Bureau, upon receipt of complaints from Attorney-General’s Office and preliminary investigations made by the EFCC, the Bureau investigated the assets declaration forms submitted by the defendant/applicant between 2003 and 2011 and the facts contained in the declarations are quite fresh in the minds of the investigators and the defendant,” said Danladi.

The CCB operative added that he was told by Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), counsel to the EFCC, that Saraki's motion amounted to an abuse of court process. Jacobs, who urged the CCT to dismiss Saraki's motion, Danladi said told him that the Senate President had, in a similar motion, argued up to the Supreme Court, contended that the charges were incompetent for being filed at a time the Office of the Attorney-General was vacant. But the Supreme Court ruled that the charges and the jurisdiction of the tribunal were valid.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/21/no-hiding-place-saraki-code-conduct-bureau-exposes-his-new-lies

Those teachers and the principal tht dished out this wicked treatment to this girl, if u should be beat their own child like this, u will be surprised the way they would react. It's funny how pple can do to others wht they cannot take from others. This is barbaric, it's insane, it's wicked, she's just 14 for christs sake.. Those responsible should pay.

ABUJA — As operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, move to unveil the beneficiaries of the N3.1 billion withdrawn from the account of the National Security Adviser in the Central Bank of Nigeria for political campaign, one of the recipients of the cash bonanza has slipped out of the country. Sources at the anti-graft agency said last night that the former minister, who hails from one of the South-East states, sneaked out of Nigeria just before the EFCC blew the lid on the huge cash withdrawal. The former minister, who is believed to have collected as much as N350 million of the cash, left for a European nation just before the information on the six key Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains, who drew the cash was made open by the anti-graft agency last week.
But a source close to the former minister defended her, claiming that she left the country two weeks ago for the foreign country without prejudice to the cash or investigation by the EFCC. “Madam has, however, been informed of the amount of money she is said to have received from the ONSA for political campaign but she is not in Nigeria as we speak. “The woman has been informed of what the anti-graft agency has said about her but we don’t know when she will return to Nigeria,” a close aide of the former minister said yesterday. Of the N3.1 billion cash withdrawn from the CBN on the instruction of the embattled former NSA, a former minister collected N840 million, leaving the balance to be shared by five other party chieftains. Last Sunday, another former female minister who reportedly provided the account into which the cash was paid and actually disbursed the money, left Nigeria and is yet to return. A source said that although most of the beneficiaries claimed they had the permission of the former President to collect the cash to campaign for him, the President might not have had any knowledge of such transactions.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/alleged-n3-1bn-fraud-another-minister-sneaks/