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Bishop jailed five years for diverting N69m belonging to Christian board in Adamawa

A former Executive Secretary of the Adamawa Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board (CPWB), Bishop Jinga Mayo, has been sentenced to five-year imprisonment without option of fine.

A Yola High Court, which passed the judgement on Monday, further sentenced Bishop Jinga to six months imprisonment with N50,000 option of fine.

The court, presided by Justice Nathan
Musa, said that the jail terms are to run concurrently.

Bishop Jinga was convicted for diverting N69.189 million out of the N346.8 million released to the board by the previous state government in respect of 2016 Christian pilgrimage.

The court convicted Bishop Jinga Mayo on count 2 and 3, for converting government’s money for his personal use, while discharging and acquitting him on count 1 for failure of prosecution to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.

The convict was earlier charged to court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for “making false return in respect to finances, conferring of corrupt advantage upon himself and making false statement to the officer of the ICPC.”

A history of the case has it that the convict, who was the Executive Secretary of the board, diverted the money which was meant to settle the entailments of the committee members for the exercise to his private pocket.

The Bishop had earlier told the court that he used the money to sponsor agricultural training programme organised for Christian pilgrims in Israel but could not provide evidence.

https://dailypost.ng/2020/03/23/bishop-jailed-five-years-for-diverting-n69m-belonging-to-christian-board-in-adamawa/

End times....

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I hope so....

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Foolish move.....

Swiss Super League side FC Sion have sacked nine players who reportedly refused to sign an agreement for a wage cut during the coronavirus crisis.

Former Arsenal players Alex Song and Johan Djourou and ex-Fulham midfielder Pajtim Kasami are among those confirmed as being dismissed by the club.

The league was indefinitely stopped on 1 March after the government banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people.

Sion are eighth in the 10-team league, four points clear of the drop zone.

There are 13 matches to play once the season resumes.

Captain Xavier Kouassi, former Newcastle loanee Seydou Doumbia, Ermir Lenjani, Mickael Facchinetti, Christian Zock and Birama Ndoye are the others to be sacked.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51980881

Bruno.....

Will you listen now?

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Useless country...................useless people.

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Looters

35 Nigerian Governors, 15 Ministers, Others Purchase Dubai Properties With Suspected Public Funds

A report published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has revealed how Nigerian public officials and their proxies steal public funds and invest it in luxurious properties in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

According to the report, Politically Exposed Persons under scrutiny by anti-graft agencies are seeking new ways to hide their ill-gotten wealth by purchasing expensive properties in Dubai.

The 800 Dubai properties linked to Nigerian PEPs are estimated to be worth well over N146bn ($400 million).

This equals roughly two-thirds of the Nigerian Army’s annual budget and over three times the annual budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Quoting Sandcastles data, the report said 158 suspected PEP proxies bought 226 houses, 13 known Nigerian law enforcement suspects bought 216 houses, 50 PEP-linked businessperson bought 91 houses, 14 security sector leader bought 71 houses, 35 governors bought 69 houses, 16 legislators bought 45 houses, 16 heads of department and agencies bought 25 houses, 15 ministers bought 24 houses, 11 NNPC officials bought 19 houses, five Presidency staff bought 13 houses and one judge bought one house.

Some of the officials listed in the report include Kebbi State governor, Abubakar Bagudu, who is regarded as Abacha's money man and godfather of Nigeria’s Attorney-General, Abubakar Malami.

Bagudu is affiliated with eight properties worth over $4.8m in total on the 12th floor of Dubai’s Capital Bay Towers, according to the report.

Mohammed Alabi Lawal, a former governor of Kwara State between 1999–2003, is reputed to own the most property on the list.

He owns six properties with a total purchase price of over $2m. At least one of those properties, a villa, was bought in January 2003 while Lawal was still in office.

Lawal died in 2006 but the properties haven't been recovered.

Sandcastle data also showed that four political associates of former Delta State governor, James Ibori, have ties to properties in Dubai.

Ibori, a well-known financial offender in Nigeria, was arrested in 2010 under an Interpol warrant and was subsequently extradited to the United Kingdom.

In 2012, he pleaded guilty to 10 counts of fraud and money laundering involving at least $66.

In 2017, Ibori returned to Nigeria after serving six years in prison and remains a major political figure in Delta State.

One of his friends purchased four Dubai properties with a total value of $3.8m.

Another is affiliated with a two-bedroom flat on the 21st floor of the DAMAC Residenze, which, according to the developer, “comes with all the trappings of an indulgent lifestyle” as well as “uninterrupted panoramic views of the ocean”.

The official reportedly purchased the apartment for over $1.5m and also bought a flat in another development for $500,000.

A third Ibori ally is linked to a two-bedroom flat on the 23rd floor of the DAMAC Residenze that he purchased for over $1.3m.

Yet another is tied to four luxury flats in Dubai purchased for over $2m.

Ahmadu Ali, a former chairman of the board at the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (2009–2011) facilitated a $6.8bn fuel subsidy fraud scheme.

Ali, his wife and son are linked to 11 properties in Dubai.

His wife, Marian, unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 2007 and is now a member of the All Progressives Congress.

Seven of Ali’s properties are together worth at least $4m; the other four are worth an estimated $2m.

Ali also owns two high-end London properties – a $10m house near Hampstead Heath and a $1.3m flat in Marylebone.

Ali did not respond when confronted with being connected to the properties in Dubai.

A former Minister of Petroleum, Dan Etete is also linked to a parcel of land in Emirate Hills worth over $920,000.

He also owns a $500,000 apartment in the Palm Jumeirah’s Marina Residences.

Etete used an informal money changer to bring $21.5m into Dubai and this cash formed part of the $1.1bn that two international oil companies paid his company – Malabu Oil and Gas – for the license to an oil block that he awarded to himself while minister.

One such currency exchange operator, Mohammed Saminu Ibrahim Khalil, is linked to over $3m in Dubai property, according to the Sandcastles data.

In 2013, his business named Dan Kawu was accused of facilitating a N2.05bn bank fraud (worth $12.8m at the time).

Khalil was able to buy a three-bedroom luxury apartment in the DAMAC Residenze and a similar flat in Flamingo Cove, even listing his Dan Kawu email address on the purchase records.

When given an opportunity to comment on these allegations or his possible connection to property in Dubai, Khalil did not respond.

Shehu Badamasi, a businessman involved in the technology and petroleum sectors, created a Dubai property empire worth over $120m, according to the Sandcastles data.

He accomplished this despite being well-known to Nigerian law enforcement agencies.

Badamasi asserts that he and his companies do not as at February 2020 own any Dubai property.

When asked to clarify—he did not deny owning it.

At least one former NNPC Group Managing Director has ties to a Dubai property.

Shehu Ladan – a career government official, who briefly served as NNPC MD from April to May 2010, was linked to a flat in Dubai Marina.

He however, died suddenly in Dubai in October 2011.

Another NNPC alumni linked to Dubai property is Samuel Chuba Okeke, who served as Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company – NNPC’s corruption-prone downstream subsidiary – from April 2010 to February 2011.

According to the Sandcastles data, Okeke is affiliated with a villa in Jumeirah Park worth roughly $1.1m and a property in the high-end Jumeirah Beach Residences where the average apartment sells for $614,000.

Two former chairmen of the Military Pensions Board—including retired Rear Admiral Bala Mohammed Mshelia (2011–2013)—are linked to three properties.

One purchased a flat in the Lago Vista complex for $670,000, while Mshelia is linked to two flats in Dubai Marina worth up to a total of $1m.

Mshelia did not respond when given the opportunity to comment on these unproven allegations.

Two of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate Presidents, Ibrahim Mantu (1999–2007) and Ike Ekweremadu (2007–2019), are separately linked to multiple luxury properties in Dubai

According to the report, Ekweremadu is connected to eight Dubai properties with an estimated total value in excess of $7m.

These include a luxury flat in Park Towers bought for $2.2m and one in Burj Dubai purchased for $1.4m.

According to the United Kingdom’s public records, Ekweremadu is also linked to at least two properties in the country purchased between 2008 and 2011 for a total of $6.5m.

One of these properties, an upscale flat in central London, is registered in the name of Ekweremadu’s charitable foundation.

The second, a detached house in a North London suburb, is owned by a shell company registered in the British Virgin Islands.

Through his spokesman, Ekweremadu has denied owning “purported ‘hidden properties’” and has stated “unequivocally that he declared all his assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau as required by law.”

The reports found out that many Nigerian elites use proxies to hide their ownership of property but just as many buy with impunity.

The vast majority of people mentioned in the report have been investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes with no known conviction.

http://saharareporters.com/2020/03/21/35-nigerian-governors-15-ministers-others-purchase-dubai-properties-suspected-public

This one scatter my head...

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Karemarealty288:
Ofeke..learn to brush your mouth before commenting...the ozzing nearly damage my screen...see name Idonki abi Donkey

Wickedness.....

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hoax virus...

Im sure this project was started by others.

Useless man....

Albino child?

Expected......Nigerian politicians are only out for themselves. They're extremely treacherous!

First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has called for a review of cases of multiple taxes and interest rates on loans by banks for the establishment of private hospitals.

Speaking when she received the Guild of Medical Directors, on a courtesy visit to her, Mrs. Buhari observed that private hospitals play a strategic complementary role in providing a social service that benefits millions of Nigerians, appealing for tax incentives to reduce the cost of healthcare.

She commended the patriotic zeal with which doctors discharge their duties, in some cases even at the cost of their lives. She called for a one-minute silence for the repose of the soul of the late Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, who lost her life while saving an Ebola patient in Lagos, and two other doctors that died while saving the life of a Lassa fever victim in Kano. These doctors, she said, displayed a high sense of patriotism.

Mrs. Buhari also appealed to Nigerians to be vigilant and observe the stringent prevention and control measures against the novel corona virus (COVID 19), which has become pandemic.

Earlier, President of the Guild, Prof. Femi Babalola listed some of the challenges hindering practitioners from optimal provision of universal healthcare for the teeming masses to include: non-recognition of private hospitals as an essential arm of the healthcare structure in Nigeria, multiple and excessive taxation and lack of access to reasonable credit facilities.

He called for the establishment of a special private healthcare intervention fund to cater for the services of private hospitals.

https://guardian.ng/news/aisha-buhari-wants-review-of-multiple-taxes-interest-rates/

But a president with any waec is ok?......