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Looting Ecological Fund: SGF Office, Boss Mustapha Engulfed In Billion Naira Contract Fraud
https://247ureports.com/2020/04/ecological-fund-sgf-office-boss-mustapha-engulfed-in-billion-naira-contract-fraud/
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While the SGF had paid little attention to Nigeria’s Healthcare sector, he, however, have paid a wealth of attention to more lucrative and shady areas of his office – such as the Office of Ecological Fund – where billions worth of contracts are awarded and funds disbursed without completion of work. In many cases, the contract cost are overly inflated by over 100% the original cost.

Breaking News: Obiano orders total lock down of Anambra
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Anambra Governor Willie Obiano has ordered total lockdown of the state, which recorded its index case of COVID-19 on Friday.

He directed security operatives to arrest violators of the new order where necessary

The Governor gave the directives on Saturday during a broadcast to the state on the new development

Fight against spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria: Issues and Factors Hindering Success – By Salihu Moh. Lukman
https://247ureports.com/2020/04/fight-against-spread-of-covid-19-in-nigeria-issues-and-factors-hindering-success-by-salihu-moh-lukman/
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This is dedicated in prayers to all the people who unfortunately tested positive of Covid-19. May God Almighty endow humankind with the knowledge and wisdom to produce cure for the virus!

Introduction

As we approach April 14, 2020, the close of the two weeks lockdown of Abuja, Lagos and Ogun, expectedly government will be reviewing progress the nation is making in terms of containing the spread of Covid-19 in the country. Noting that as at Sunday, March 29, 2020 when President Buhari addressed the nation and declared the lockdown, Nigeria had 111 confirmed cases. Also, recognising that by Thursday, April 9, 2020, we had 288 confirmed cases, an increase of 177 in 10 days, which gives an average of ...

Timi Frank Exposes The Level Of Rot Under Buhari’s Administration
https://247ureports.com/2020/04/timi-frank-exposes-the-level-of-rot-under-buharis-administration/
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A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has made more startling revelations about the ongoing looting that is capable of sinking Nigeria.

Comrade Frank made the revelations via his verified Twitter handle on Saturday as he described the cabal running the government as a profit making bunch whose only interest is to loot the treasury dry.

According to the Bayelsa-born political activist, “no government in the World has looted their country like the Buhari’s government”.

Insurgency: Army Chief relocates to North East
https://247ureports.com/2020/04/insurgency-army-chief-relocates-to-north-east/
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has relocated to the North East to oversee and direct the overall operation in the theatre and other army operations across the country.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.

Ahmed Mu’azu Is A Political Parasite Says Blood Brother
https://247ureports.com/2020/04/ahmed-muazu-is-a-political-parasite-says-blood-brother/
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"What I know is that he is always jittery and envious of the success of any member of our family. He wants to remain the rally point of the family that he does not deserve. We have respected him all along as the most elder brother. He has offended each and every member of the family and has caused the downfall of many of us in different ways. We have tolerated him enough and I have vowed to drag him to the cleaners. Things cannot continue the way they are. We have to voice out to save others from falling to his trap. Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu does not deserve to be trusted with any leadership position anywhere."

Folks

My name is Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe, associate publisher of 247ureports.com. I am not a blackmailer. And I will not go into the details of what happened between me and Uche Ekwunife and the SSS. But I'll please ask interested parties to contact the SSS in Anambra to ascertain what REALLY happened.

But before you do that - I will want you to ask what happened to the case? Why was it not charged to court? Why am I a free man today?

For those you want to reach the SSS, I will please encourage you to do so.

I am used to the this.

Thanks

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A cantankerous fete of deception appears taking form within the administrative offices of the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan government. This is as Nigeria finds herself battling at 50 in her attempt at conducting her first free, fair and credible elections - amidst an already fractured perception within the international community of her inability to conduct elections acceptable to the international community. Ukpakareports.com has unearthed highly sensitive information indicating that the rigging of the 2011 Presidential elections may have begun.

Investigative checks reveal that the reported secret negotiations with a Chinese firm [Lenovo] by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] while subjecting the other 8 selected firms to integrity checks at the State Security Service [SSS] and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] – had the markings of three operatives within President Jonathan’s cabal who had held secret meetings with the Chinese firm – prior to the INEC Chairman’s letter.

According to a report in a major Nigerian News daily [ThisDay], the INEC chairman had written directly to the Chinese firm [Lenovo] a letter referenced INEC/CH/GC/073/Vol.1 and dated August 18th 2010. The letter to the Beijing, China-based Company was said to have been prompted by the China office of the United Nations Development Program [UNDP] - and Lenovo’s address was given as 6 Venture Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China 100085. It was personally signed by the INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega.

It read in part, “Further to the enquiries by the China office of the UNDP on behalf of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria regarding the acquisition of hardware for Direct Data Capture, I write to request for additional information from you. In order to complete the procurement process, the government of Nigeria would want to know the prices and delivery timelines for different quantities of equipment”.

A highly placed source prominent in the Abuja power circles informed Ukpakareports.com of the clandestine moves on the offing - against the development of the N87billion voters register. The source indentified the 1st Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Chief of Staff, Mike Oghiadomhe and the Oil Mogul, Emeka Offor as having financial interest in the Chinese firm, Lenovo. Through the makings of Emeka Offor, a close and old friend to President Jonathan, who played the role of a middle man, the Chinese firm was introduced to the Jonathan people in the later weeks of June 2010.

Following the introduction, the Chief of Staff, Mike Oghiadomhe who enjoys a close relationship with Emeka Offor, sought the attention of the President on the clearance on whether to approach the Chinese firm. The Chief of Staff reportedly is said to have the ears of the President more than the 1st Lady does. However ukpakareports.com is not certain whether a clearance was given but it is certain that Mike Oghiadomhe went on to approach officials of the Chinese firm – in the company of the 1st Lady and two other undisclosed Federal Ministers. The meeting took place in the first week of July 2010 with three senior officials of Lenovo - which comprised of the Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Michael O’Neill, Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets, Chen Shaopeng and Senior Vice President, Global Services, Peter Bartolotta.

The Chief of Staff and the 1st Lady who both have been reported by inside sources to have assumed the role of ‘consultants’ to the EFCC for a good number of Governors [past and present], took over the matter. [The Chief of Staff had been reported to have collected the sum of N175million from the Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and the sum of N115million from the Governor of Oyo, Otunba Alao-Akala – while the 1st Lady collected the sum of N150million from the Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva and monthly disbursements from Governor of Abia State, Theodore Afam Orji of N35million – along with other monthly disbursements by PDP Governors.] Both the 1st Lady and the Chief of Staff thus engineered the internal wrangling that resulted to the preference showed the Chinese firm over the other 8 firms.

What appears puzzling and a tad careless is the action taken by the Chief of Staff with only 30days following the meeting with the bigwigs of Lenovo. On Thursday, August 5th 2010, Mike Oghiadomhe signed off on the purchase of N1.3billion property located in Aso Villa with address – 3 Udi Hill Street. A mansion located at the end of Aso Drive and near the former American Embassy and SSS building. The property, which the source indicates will be Mike Oghiadomhe’s new home, is scheduled for renovation. Prior to the purchase of the property, Mike Oghiadomhe lived in Gwarimpa Estate, Abuja – an area that does not compare well, in terms of estate value, with Aso Villa where his new mansion is located.

[Click here to view picture of Mike Oghiadomhe’s Mansion]

Thirteen days after the purchase, the INEC’s letter was drafted and delivered to the foreign based firm. Keen observers familiar with the political development in Nigeria point to the unfolding saga as having a marking resemblance to the Halliburton bribery saga. They also point to the present administration as having traits of political corruption that dates back to Bayelsa – when President Goodluck Jonathan served as the State Governor. A N500million hotel development in Yenogua, the capital of Bayelsa belonging to the 1st Lady of Nigeria is said to pose a worry to the international community who had taken President Jonathan as a corrupt-free politician.

[Click here to view picture of Dame Patience Jonathan’s Hotel]

Prior to becoming the wife of the deputy governor in Bayelsa State, Patience Jonathan had worked as a secondary school teacher – having earned a diploma from a College of Education in Rivers State. Other than her stint at the teaching profession, Dame Patience Jonathan, according to available information, has had no known means of income except from the Government of Bayelsa State. The question as to the source of income to finance the said hotel development remains to be answered.

And so Nigeria finds herself at the choke hold of deception and quagmire.

ureports, Sep 16 2010 01:32pm
South East roads have become the most neglected roads in the six geo-political [cultural] zones of Nigeria since the end of the 3-year war that saw the South East zone suffer heavy infrastructural damage like no other zone.



After the war, the SE roads situation worsened. The marginalization meted out to the SE zone by the Federal Government by their policies resulted to a failed program to rebuild the damaged SE infrastructure. And the South East House of Representatives have displayed an inability to act to help rectify the problem in the South East constituency.



As a result, the contact numbers to the South East members are published in Table 1 below for the members of the South East to contact them and ask them what they have done to checkmate the continued marginalization and road dilapidation.



Table 1: Cell phone numbers of SE Representatives



South East House of Representative Members
Hon CID Maduabum
08033109855

Hon. Emeka Ihedioha
08033155273

Hon. Wilfred Onyeama
08034023992

Hon Mayor Eze
08033435145

Hon Chuchu Onyeama
08034023992

Hon Chinedu Eluemuno
08033134695

Hon Eziuche Ubani
08033119405

Hon Austin Nwachuwu
08037100300

Hon Bethel Amadi
08085255555

Hon C. Umeoji
08037044571

Hon. Ernest Ibejiakor
08033384910

Hon. Gozie Agbakoba
08037197300

Hon. Oguakwa
08033156175

Hon. Ogunewe
08036579862

Hon. Ralph Okeke
08033118346

Hon. Rufus Omerie
08022736600

Hon. Stanford Oyirimba
08067194981

Hon. Vitalis Okafor
08063649727

Hon. Uche Ekwunife
08037620002







Below in Table 2 is a breakdown of the South East roads in the 2010 Appropriation Bill. It shows that the FGN had set aside the sum of N26billion [N26,319,695,840]for South East roads out of the total of N210.8billion [N210,773,218,922] it set aside for the entire 6 geo political zones – an equivalent of 12.5%.



Each member of the South East constituency is asked to please call and/or text each of the members of the House of Representative repeatedly. Ask them the extent of completion for the various roads.



We, “Rural Community Development Outreach” [an NGO] recommend that you send this text “Honorable Greetings. Out of the N26.3billion set aside in 2010 Budget for South East roads, how much have been used to develop our roads in the South East? What have you done and why should we vote for you in 2011?”




Click here to Open Table 2

Hardly anyone in Nigeria needs to be convinced of the value of preventing war. Conflicts give rise to continuing instability and unrest, with negative consequences for everyone. If one considers the premise that long-term political struggles in Africa are "cold civil wars" with periodic "hot flashes," then it could be argued that the protracted "civil wars" in Latin American countries like Colombia, Bolivia, etc. have followed similar patterns. However, the latter situation is now changing, and perhaps African nations like Nigeria could learn something from new developments regarding the implementation of Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) in Latin America.

The Invincible Defense Technology is a field-tested, practical approach to world peace and national defense – an approach validated by more than 50 replications and 23 studies published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. It is a direct technological application of the most advanced discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, neuroscience, and human consciousness. The approach calls for the immediate establishment of large national groups of peace-creating experts practicing specific "technologies of consciousness" that have been scientifically shown to neutralize acute ethnic, political, and religious tensions that fuel violence, terrorism, and social conflict.

Four countries in Latin America are now in the process of deploying IDT. They are establishing "Prevention Wings of the Military" – large groups of soldiers who have been trained in these technologies of consciousness, including the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. At least one of these Prevention Wings will consist of 3,000 military personnel. Although details are still being finalized, the leader of the Latin American TM organization has provided the accompanying photographs of one of the Prevention Wings for publication.

In addition, another Latin American country has decided to implement Consciousness-Based Education, which utilizes the same technologies of consciousness applied in IDT, throughout the national school system. Furthermore, the Brazilian government is training 1.5 million of its citizens in these technologies. And civilian groups in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, The Netherlands (Holland), Trinidad and Tobago, already are staffing fully operational IDT systems.

Scientific research has confirmed that large groups of peace-creating experts practicing the TM and TM-Sidhi program together can create measurable positive change in the surrounding population, including reductions in crime, violence, war and terrorism. The underlying mechanism appears to be a field effect of consciousness in which collective coherence within the group spills over into the surrounding population, dissolving the buildup of racial, religious, and political tensions in society that fuels the outbreak of violence. To create this effect on the national level, research shows that a country must maintain a TM-Sidhi group of at least the square root of one percent of its population. The powerful coherence generated by such groups defuses enmity so that no enemies arise, thereby leading to a more invincible nation.

Here is an example of how to calculate the size of these groups. According to Wikipedia, the country in Latin America with the largest population is Brazil. In The World Factbook, the CIA gives Brazil's population as 198,739,269, which when multiplied by 1% equals 1,987,393. The square root of 1,987,393 is 1,410. Therefore, if the military of Brazil wanted to become invincible, it would need to maintain a minimum of 1,410 Invincible Defense Technology (IDT) experts. (Nigeria would need approximately 1,222 experts.) A Military Prevention Wing of 3,000 soldiers well exceeds the square root of one percent of the population of any Latin American country. So the military leaders organizing the new Prevention Wing pictured above, and those in other countries who have launched earlier such projects, are to be congratulated for their wisdom of deploying a military strategy of "overwhelming force" to ensure invincibility for their countries.

Countries that have implemented IDT have based their defense on the Unified Field of all the laws of nature. According to the Harvard-trained physicist Dr. John Hagelin, the technology of the unified field is a thousand million million times more powerful than the nuclear force. Yet it is inherently safe, despite its power, because it is based on the application of a completely holistic level of natural law. Years from now, in retrospect, it is likely that this development may have far more historical significance than the US military's Manhattan Project quest to develop nuclear weapons.

Despite the extensive scientific research validating the efficacy of IDT, as well as the results of field tests by the militaries of Mozambique and Ecuador, African nations like Nigeria have still not tried IDT. Perhaps in the future the predicted successes of the various Military Prevention Wings in Latin America will inspire African leaders to deploy IDT after they endure future crises. But it would make more sense for them to act now by preventing the danger before it arises - and before the next crisis escalates into another full-blown and very hot "civil war" potentially worse than previous conflicts.

“Upon this motion exparte dated and filled on the 17th day of May, 2010 coming before this Honorable Court; upon reading the affidavit in support of motion ex-parte deposed to by U. B. Darazo [Esq.], male, adult, muslim, Nigerian citizen of No. 12 Ahmadu Bello Way, Bauchi on the 17th day of May, 2010 at the Federal High Court Registry, 17th day of May 2010; and after hearing P. A. Daffin Esq., of counsel for the judgment creditor/applicant move in terms of the motion paper; it is hereby ordered as follows:- That all the monies due or accruing in the judgment debtors account with the garnishes and/or monies which shall future accrue to the judgment debtors but in the custody and power of the garnishes to disburse as is sufficient to satisfy the judgment in Suit No. BA/226/2009 entered in favor of the judgment creditor/applicant on the 2nd day of February 2010 in the total of N561,164,556.71`plus N50,000 cost” – ordered presiding Judge J. N. Auta of the Federal High Court Holden at Abuja under Suit Number FHC/ABJ/CS/344/2010 in a suit brought by Puritano Limited against the government of Bauchi State and others.

The order in effect garnished all monies belonging to Bauchi State government in all banks within Nigeria, in particular it garnished 5 of Bauchi State accounts domiciled at the FIN Bank PLC namely:

1.       Main account                       – 230430000642501

2.      Government account         - 213430000532701

3.      Sub Treasury Account       - 213430000677…

4.      Excess Crude Account        - 2134331834701

[See Court Order of Garnishment]

The Bauchi State Government and its Governor find themselves grappling through the maladies of corruption and greed as it battles through endless and self inflicted obstacles – partly stemming from the ongoing battle between the former Governor of Bauchi [Mu’azu] and the present governor [Yuguda].  Governor Isa Yuguda in his battle stance against the former governor decided to not honor all contractual agreements or payments agreed upon by the previous administration.

Puritan Nigeria Limited, an electrical company who had performed rural electrification contractual work for the Bauchi State Government during the Mu’azu administration appears at the receiving end of the battle. Yuguda, as ukpakareports.com can confirm through court documents, stopped all payments due to the company even at the receipt of certificate of no objection. The contract was valued for N561million [N561,164,556.71] and a valid certificate of completion was issued upon completion.

Rather than remit payment to the company the governor of Bauchi resorted to “intimidation and harassment” of the principal operators of the company. The governor used the police commissioner of Bauchi State in togetherness with the other security agencies to chase the Chief Executive Officer [CEO], Chief Eddie Brown out of Bauchi State. Responding to the persistent attacks by the government, the CEO sought an order of restraint from the Federal High Court Holden in Abuja. On May 28th 2010, an interim order of injunction was given by Justice H. T. Soba under Suit Number FHC/ABJ/CS/359/2010. It reads, “that an order of interim injunction restraining the respondents either by themselves, servants, agents, functionaries or whomsoever from arresting, detaining, harassing, intimidating or in any other way interfering with the applicant’s fundamental rights to dignify of person, person liberty, freedom of movement and right to property in relation to simple contract performed and/or executed, by the applicants pending the determination of the motion on notice is hereby granted”.

[See Interim Order against Yuguda’s administration]

In a related development, the Yuguda administration, in an attempt to subvert the garnishment order, issued a ‘suspicious’ check from the State’s Main account in FIN Bank for the amount of N1,378,899,461.26 [check number 6452936] on May 27th 2010 made payable to the Bank Manager of FIN Bank. On the 26th of May 2010, another ‘suspicious’ check was issued to the Bank Manager for the amount N1,740,013,295.60. At the end of May 2010, the Bauchi government had drawn its account down to N792,767,037.97.