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On Sunday in a statement by the Atiku Campaign Organisation spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, Atiku said that Tinubu was being haunted by his scheme to relocate the FCT to Lagos State, his alleged criminal indictments, perjury, forgery and inconsistencies in age, name, ancestry and education qualifications.

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu, deliberately embarked on a foreign trip to the UK to avoid answering questions about his plot to move Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from Abuja to Lagos, among other issues.




On Sunday in a statement by the Atiku Campaign Organisation spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, Atiku said that Tinubu was being haunted by his scheme to relocate the FCT to Lagos State, his alleged criminal indictments, perjury, forgery and inconsistencies in age, name, ancestry and education qualifications.



Ologbondiyan said, “The APC presidential candidate should face Nigerians with an explanation for the exposed scheme instead of allowing his handlers to be playing to the gallery with disjointed denials and blaming other political parties for allegedly spreading the accusation that he wants to relocate the federal capital from Abuja to Lagos.




“The plan to relocate the federal capital was conceptualised and propagated by the Tinubu campaign and only became hysterical as a result of the public ire against such an atrocious plot to sequester the nation’s capital for his personal selfish interest.



“It is clear that the foreign trip embarked on by Asiwaju Tinubu was a deliberate plot to dodge the Arise TV debate scheduled to hold tomorrow following fear that Nigerians will take him to task on the FCT relocation plot, alleged criminal indictments, perjury, forgery and inconsistencies in age, name, ancestry and education qualification.



“Moreover, the handlers of the APC presidential candidate are not comfortable putting him before the cameras because of his constant embarrassing gaffes that question his fitness for the office of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria.



“If Asiwaju Tinubu cannot face Nigerians as a candidate because of his many pieces of baggage, he surely does not deserve their votes on February 25, 2023.



“Our campaign urges Nigerians not to relent for a moment in their continued support for Atiku until they elect him into office.”

Meanwhile, Tinubu’s presidential campaign team had described the claim that he planned to relocate the country’s capital from Abuja as an “egregious lie.”



https://saharareporters.com/2022/12/05/tinubu-deliberately-travelled-abroad-avoid-questions-alleged-criminal-indictments-plan

The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress have urged the Federal Government to put an end to the fuel shortages and price hikes in the country.

The Presidents of NLC and the TUC, Ayuba Wabba and Mr Festus Osifo said this in a statement, signed by them on Saturday in Abuja.

They said that the fuel shortages, price hikes and avoidable long queues in filling stations are unacceptable and no longer tolerable.

The labour leaders said the Federal Government should put an end to the avoidable, unnecessary, crippling and pain-inducing fuel shortages and unapproved price hikes of up to N240 per litre in the country.

They warned ”No excuse is good enough to cripple the country.

”If there are challenges, they should be fixed. We have a government in power to fix challenges not to make excuses,’’ they said in their statement.

The statement said the labour leaders were bewildered and disturbed by the persistent shortage and uncontrollable prices that players in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry were meting out to Nigerians.

It noted that the persistent shortages of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise called petrol, had become a source of pain to the Nigerian people.

It said this had led not just to long avoidable queues, but to adulteration of the product by unscrupulous elements, exploitation of the consumers and turning fuel stations to traffic menace.

“All these have tragic consequences for the Nigerian people and debilitating effects on the health of the economy which itself is not in a good state.

“We are reliably informed that the shortage is deliberately fostered by players in the downstream sector in other to hike the price far above the government-approved threshold.

“It is an added problem when non-state actors begin to arrogate to themselves the power to determine the price of a litre of fuel far above the rate pegged by government in the current subsidy regime,” it said.

The labour leaders also said that the Nigerian people and the taxpayers currently spend trillions of Naira annually to subsidise petrol.

They added that the same people could not be exploited and made to pay over N240 per litre when the current ex-depot price was N148.19k per litre.


Their statement noted that the opportunity cost of the subsidy payment was enormous and yet the benefit of the subsidy regime is gradually been eroded.

According to them, no country develops when its people are subjected to perennial hardship and its industries are shackled by unnecessary chains of miseries.

“It is more disturbing that the government is equally demonstrating a high level of culpability in the unwholesome situation by its silence and unwillingness to frontally and publicly address the harrowing experiences in the current situation.

“No concerned and responsive government will bury its head in the sands like the proverbial Ostrich while the citizens are being brutally exploited.

“We are strongly worried that leaving our energy security and sovereignty in the hands of unscrupulous capitalists and their collaborators will further plunge this nation into the economic abyss we are working hard to avoid,” it said.

The statement said that Organised Labour is ready and willing to engage the Federal Government and assist in all ways possible to overcome the country’s present challenges.

It called on the regulatory and law enforcement agencies to do more to protect Nigerians from exploitation.

https://punchng.com/end-fuel-scarcity-price-hikes-labour-urges-fg/

In June, SaharaReporters uncovered how Abdulhameed siphoned close to N1 billion using the private bank account of the agency's Head of Finance, Idris Issa Aweda, as a conduit.

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Managing Director of the Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, Aliyu Abdulhameed, over fraud allegations.




It was learnt that the president removed Mr Abdulhameed on Thursday afternoon and hauled him out of office shortly thereafter, Peoples Gazette reports.



Mr Abdulhameed had allegedly been siphoning money from the establishment since he was appointed to office in 2015.




It was gathered that the search for his replacement had begun.



“His exotic official vehicles were all withdrawn from him. He left the office in a small Ford vehicle and was grandstanding that he would soon be back,” a source told the newspaper.



In June, SaharaReporters uncovered how Abdulhameed siphoned close to N1 billion using the private bank account of the agency's Head of Finance, Idris Issa Aweda, as a conduit.



Aweda used three personal bank accounts: FCMB (4986133010), GTB (0245155058), and Stanbic IBTC (0021195810) to receive proceeds of fraud on behalf of Abdulhameed.







Although NIRSAL is not a security agency, Abdulhameed fraudulently ordered payment of money for “advance for security challenge in the North-East on the farms fields”, “security challenge in the North-Central on the farms fields”, “advance for external security issue armoured car” and “advance for security challenge in the South-East on the farms fields”.



He also summarily "dismissed" the organisation’s Acting Head of Internal Audit, Mr Olalekan Olusanya, in bid to conceal a deep-rooted multi-billion-naira fraud.



Abdulhameed also dismissed another staff member of the organisation, Olusola Omole, in a bid to conceal the corruption taking place under his watch.



Omole was the head of a technical unit with responsibility across the 36 states of the federation before he was removed.



NIRSAL is a $500 million non-bank financial institution, a creation of the Central Bank of Nigeria mandated to manage agribusiness-related credit risks in Nigeria.



Mr Abdulhameed’s corrupt practices also forced the Central Bank of Nigeria to suspend funding to NIRSAL last year.



The CBN has been guaranteeing all borrowings disbursed by NIRSAL, which is a parastatal of the government’s banker.



Another source said Mr Abdulhameed also misappropriated funds earmarked for wheat distributions across the country.



SaharaReporters also exclusively confirmed that Abdulhameed’s son, Imran Aliyu Abdulhameed was jailed by the United Arab Emirates government for money laundering, in case number 2018/4796.



It was further gathered that Mr Abdulhameed has been recommended for prosecution following his dismissal from office, although he has not yet been apprehended by security operatives.



SaharaReporters obtained the statement of account which details how Imran laundered money on several occasions.



SaharaReporters also obtained a copy of the bail bond of the public prosecution department, the government of Ras AI Khaimah with which Imran's release was eventually secured.



When Imran was arrested by the cops in Dubai, he was caught driving a Lamborghini Urus car, worth $400,000.00 (Four Hundred Thousand Dollars) and was wearing a designer wristwatch, Audemars Piguet, one of the world's most expensive wristwatches valued at tens of thousands of dollars.


https://saharareporters.com/2022/12/02/buhari-sacks-managing-director-nirsal-aliyu-abdulhameed-over-fraud-allegations-withdraws

NNPC blaming Lagos roads now is absurdity!

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This was made known by the NNPC Executive Vice President, Downstream, Adeyemi Adetunju, while addressing a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has said the fuel queues in Lagos State and Abuja is as a result of some construction projects going on in the state.
This was made known by the NNPC Executive Vice President, Downstream, Adeyemi Adetunju, while addressing a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
He claimed that the fuel gridlock was easing out and NNPC had programmed vessels and trucks to unconstrained depots and massive load outs from depots to various states were closely being monitored.
He however assured Nigerians that efforts were ongoing to ensure that normalcy returns as soon as possible.
He said, “The recent queues in Lagos are largely due to ongoing road infrastructure projects around Apapa and access road challenges in some parts of Lagos depots.
“The gridlock is easing out and NNPC has programmed vessels and trucks to unconstrained depots and massive load outs from depots to various states are closely being monitored.
“Abuja is impacted by the challenges recorded in Lagos. NNPC Retail and key marketers have intensified dedicated loading into Abuja to restore normalcy as soon as possible.
“We want to reassure all Nigerians that NNPC has sufficient products, and we significantly increased product loading including 24-hour operations in selected depots and extended hours at strategic stations to ensure products sufficiency nationwide.
“We are also working with the NMDPRA, MOMAN, DAPPMAN, IPMAN, NARTO, PTD, and other industry stakeholders to ensure normalcy is returned.
"The NNPC has a national PMS stock of over 2 billion litres. This is equivalent to over 30 days of sufficiency," he added.
The scarcity of petrol in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and other parts of the country is taking a new dimension as marketers have alleged racketeering at the depots.
Besides, the price of the product has gone past N180 per litre, although not the official rate, but largely used by major petrol stations in Abuja, nearly a month ago.

https://saharareporters.com/2022/11/30/nigerian-petroleum-company-nnpc-blames-fuel-queues-road-projects-lagos

BREAKING NEWS!!!

APPEAL COURT REINSTATES ALL PDP CANDIDATES, SETS ASIDE FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGMENT AGAINST PDP

https://twitter.com/lado_media/status/1597173008845918208.