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The Senate Committee on Aviation, during an
oversight visit led by the Committee’s Deputy
Chairman, Senator Bala Nallah in Zaria on Friday,
threatened to arrest the contractor for
absconding with the said funds meant for the
completion of the college’s third hangar project.
The committee, which visited several ongoing
projects within the school premises, were angry
that school’s third hangar project had not been
completed after it allegedly paid the Mushaj
Fahaj Nigeria Ltd the contract sum.
Senator Nallah threatened the arrest of the
contractor upon realization that he had been
mobilized with N37m and had only performed but
had only done 20 percent of the job. While given
a presentation of the College’s challenges the
College Rector, Captain Abdulsalami Mohammed
stated that non release of funds meant for
projects within the college, fluctuating exchange
rate for dollar denominated projects, non-
availability of foreign exchange, high cost of
Aviation gasoline (AV GAS 100LL), inadequate
number of instructors and personnel and
insufficient office space for staff were among
the many problems facing the institution.
He noted that these challenges were affecting
the efficient operations of the college while he
added that the college still thrived amidst all that
to record some feats. He also disclosed that
several projects have been completed such as
establishment of an airfield lighting workshop,
provision of infrastructure for aircraft piston
overhaul, provision of a water treatment plant,
provision of airfield advance guard security
equipment and successful completion of several
international certifications.
Other members of the Senate committee include
Senator Ben Murray-Bruce representing Bayelsa
east, Senator Mohammed Lafiagi representing
Kwara North, Senator Rilwan Akanbi representing
Oyo South, Senator Ahmed Ogembe representing
Kogi Central and Senator Bala Nallah, all
commended the school for a job well done.
Senator Nallah criticized the absence of key
infrastructure especially runway lights which he
said that had they been installed within the last
fifteen years, they would have saved the nation
millions of dollars in foreign exchange The
committee finally agreed that if a one week
ultimatum given to the contractor was not
honoured, he would be reported to the economic
and financial crimes commission for due
prosecution and full refund of the sum. source: http://saharareporters.com/2017/02/12/contractor-escapes-ncat-n37m |
Former Special Adviser to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Electronic Media, Reno Omokri has urged Nigerian critics of President Muhammadu Buhari not to allow their hate for the president affect their love for Nigeria. Omokri gave the advise while commending the presidential call between U.S President, Donald Trump and Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari today. According to Omokri said the call by the two presidents expressed a willingness to boost US/ Nigeria relations. I salute both Presidents @realDonaldTrump and @MBuhari for their call which expressed a willingness to boost US/Nigeria relations. — Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) 13 February 2017 Don’t allow hatred for @MBuhari affect your love for Nigeria. The @realDonaldTrump /@ MBuhari call indeed took place and is good for Nigeria! — Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) 13 February 2017 Give @MBuhari his due. When opposition becomes hatred or death wish, it stops being Godly and becomes satanic. I am an opponent not a hater. — Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) 13 February 2017 Recall that President Buhari today spoke with President Trump on phone from his London base. The telephone conversation was at the instance of the American President. The development has apparently ended the rumoured death of President Buhari who is currently on medical vacation in London. A statement from the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina stated that “conversation was cordial and President Buhari congratulated Trump on his election as President of the United States, and on his cabinet.” The statement added that the “two leaders discussed ways to improve cooperation in the fight against terrorism through provision of necessary equipment.” It further stated that “President Trump encouraged President Buhari to keep up the good work he is doing, and also commended him for the efforts made in rescuing 24 of the Chibok Girls and the strides being taken by the Nigerian military.” Trump “assured the Nigerian President of US readiness to cut a new deal in helping Nigeria in terms of military weapons to combat terrorism.” The America President also invited Buhari to Washington “at a mutually convenient date.” |
Mrs. Jonathan is demanding $200 million from
the anti-graft commission as damages for
infringing on her rights.
The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on
Monday adjourned the hearing of a fundamental
human rights suit by former first lady Patience
Jonathan against the EFCC to March 6.
Mrs. Jonathan wants the anti-graft agency to
unfreeze her account.
Justice Muhammed Idris granted the
adjournment at the request of the counsel to the
4th-6th defendants in the suit.
At the resumed hearing, Ifedayo Adedipe, counsel
to Mrs. Jonathan, said he had served the
application to every party and that he was ready
for the matter to be heard.
While EFCC counsel Anana Nkerurem and other
counsels in the case affirmed they were also
ready, Jeff Kadiri, the counsel to the 4th-6th
defendants who was holding brief for Chief Mike
Ozokheme, pleaded for an adjournment. He said
he had only just been briefed on the matter, and
sought the indulgence of the court to enable him
file the necessary processes.
Mr. Adedipe said he would not oppose Mr.
Kadiri’s request. But observing that the counsel
to the 4th-6th defendants were first served the
application in 2016 and later served on January
1st, 2017, was not pleased Mr. Kadiri needed
more time to go through the matter.
Meanwhile, a group of women calling itself
"Nigeria Women" today occupied the court
premises in solidarity with Mrs. Jonathan, who
was absent. They expressed disappointment at
the way the former first lady was being
"harassed and maltreated".
The group headed by one Mrs. Kate Onyejere,
dressed in the attires of various ethnic groups,
said they were not happy because “they” just
want to punish Mrs. Jonathan.
"Patience Jonathan is the only first lady who
stood by the Nigerian women and touched the
lives of the Nigerian women,” she said. “I want
to ask, why freeze this woman's account? This
woman has been an independent woman and
was part of the women who sponsored her
husband during the governorship race, to tell you
she's solid and independent. Why are they
harassing her and going to her house with
masks? Is she a criminal? Why are they going to
her mother's house and saying they won't touch
the husband? When you touch a man's wife,
haven't you touched the man? When you touch
the child, haven't you touched the man?"
She called on all former heads of state and
presidents to come to the rescue of Mrs.
Jonathan.
"This is the time for stakeholders in the country
to speak up. The likes of General Abdusalam
Abubakar, General Ibrahim Babangida, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo, they should speak up now,"
Mrs. Onyejere said.
When asked about her group reportedly having
been paid N40 million for the job, she said she
was sponsoring the effort by herself.
“Who can pay me?” she asked. “Who can pay
these women here, among them are doctors,
lawyers and other professionals from various
tribes and walks of life, how much can you pay
each of them? Patience may be in Germany, I
don't know, but I sponsor these buses that bring
us here every day. So the answer is no, nobody
pays me."
Mrs. Jonathan is demanding $200 million from
the anti-graft commission as damages for
infringing on her rights.
She is also asking the court to issue an order
discharging the freezing order and restraining the
EFCC and its agents from further placing a
freezing order on the said accounts.
Joined in the suit are Skye Bank Plc, and a
former Special Assistant to ex-President
Jonathan, Waripama-Owei Dudafa.
Others include Pluto Property and Investment
Company Ltd, Seagate Property Development
and Investment Company Ltd, Transocean
Property and Investment Company Ltd and
Globus Integrated Service Ltd.
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Mr. Daramola and Mr. Oresegun have been accused of diverting funds from various related subheads of the institution to finance their personal pockets. Barring any last minute change in plan, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign the embattled Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Akure (FUTA), Adebiyi Daramola, and the Bursar, Emmanuel Ademola Oresegun, at a Federal High Court in Akure. SaharaReporters learned on Monday that EFCC officials have arrived in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on a mission to drag the embattled Vice Chancellor before the Federal High Court there by Tuesday morning. Mr. Daramola and Mr. Oresegun have been accused of diverting funds from various related subheads of the institution to finance their personal pockets. The embattled VC has specifically been accused of withdrawing furniture allowances annually and paying himself a housing fund while residing in the Vice Chancellor's quarters, actions that violate the university’s rules. A top staff of the university disclosed to our correspondent on Monday that the anti-graft agency has gathered enough evidence against Mr. Daramola over an alleged financial misappropriation of the institution's funds. The source, who pleaded anonymity, confirmed that the anti-graft agency has completed its investigation of the case. “I am aware that the EFCC officials, with some of their lawyers, have arrived in Akure and they are prepared to charge the Vice Chancellor (Adebiyi Daramola) and the Bursar (Emmanuel Oresegun) in court unfailing tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Federal High court. "I just left the police headquarters of the SIB in Akure where the VC and Bursar have been detained on the instructions of the EFCC and am sure details of this will be revealed to you later," the source said. It would be recalled that Mr. Daramola was arrested by the anti-graft agency following various petitions over his alleged financial mismanagement at FUTA. Both Mr. Daramola and Mr. Oresegun have been regular visitors to the Iyagankun office of the EFCC in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to explain allegations against them. Since the discovery of the misappropriation, union leaders from the Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian Universities (SSANU), National Association of Academics Technologists (NAATs) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have called for the removal of the Vice Chancellor. The scandal has led to a series of protests on the campus of the institution, with one side led by union leaders and the other by the management team loyal to the embattled Vice Chancellor. http://saharareporters.com/2017/02/13/efcc-set-arraign-futa-vc-bursar-court-over-misappropriation-funds
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i extend my warmest sympathy to president buhari on his sick bed
it is a measure of the fragility of our democracy
that an elected president insists on hiding his
frailty from the people who are compelled to pay
for his treatment abroad. There is no hiding
place in the constitution.
Nonetheless, President Buhari is scheduled to
return to Nigeria tomorrow. He will be welcomed
with at least one Lagos street protest that the
police are trying to muzzle. That would be
another self-inflicted injury, and I urge Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo to tell them to back off
and go pursue Lagos’ many criminals.
I reiterate that it is a shame and an
embarrassment that despite Mr. Buhari’s
promises and posturing for many years, he sees
no irony in running off to the United Kingdom for
his medical needs, leaving behind the nation’s
most expensive (and presumably best-equipped)
publicly-funded clinic in the presidential palace.
This fact underlines a broader reality. Which is
that Buhari’s much-heralded leadership has
become a farce, and his ability to make a
positive impact on Nigeria, a hoax.
I was one of those who pushed for his
presidency. At one level was the mistaken
confidence that his age-old claim to being the
man best-prepared to stop Nigeria’s slide into
oblivion was true. There was no way to tell for
certain he could deliver, but it was a strong and
persuasive message: give me control and I will
take Nigeria back from her army of leeches,
shake them vigorously until there is none left of
the blood they sucked.
His catchy slogan, just 24 months ago, was: “If
we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill
Nigeria.”
I was an early buyer even before he found a
catchphrase by which the children could sing in
the streets. In 2011, and again in 2015, I wrote
advocacy pieces in which I affirmed that Buhari
was “the missing link,” and “an opportunity.” If
he fulfilled 10 percent of his sloganeering, I
hoped, the planting season would have begun.
At the second level, Buhari faced a rival for the
presidency in 2011, but more especially at the
tipping point in 2015, whose claim to any
credibility was deeply flawed. What seemed to be
Buhari’s superiority of morality and mission was
obscured by the nation’s hunger for change, and
there was no means of rejecting Buhari without
endorsing Jonathan.
As it has turned out, every one of us who
stepped out of our comfort zone to support his
leadership is not now merely disappointed, but
betrayed. Buhari’s words have proved to be
emptier than a basket of water. Every hope that
he would bring enough with him for Nigeria to
build on has drowned in a sea of poor policies,
no-policies, and cynical manipulation.
To think about Buhari since May 2015 is to
observe how power affects individual holders.
Sometimes, a man takes office and becomes a
prime instrument for building that nation or that
community or that era. And then sometimes, a
king assumes the throne clothed in layers of gold
and the finest linen but only to expose his
unclothedness. Buhari appears to be the latter.
Yes, Buhari is ailing now, but in nearly two years
in office, it is not an absence of health that has
held him back but an absence of will,
temperament and capacity. The president is not
leading with strength, he is being led by his
weakness.
Yes, Buhari promised to cleanse and change
Nigeria, but it is obvious now that he was better
in the chase than in the capture. He has
diminished the broad expanse and potential of
his office from an empire to a cave.
To be sure, some progress has been made in
fighting Boko Haram, and allegedly in recovering
some sums of money. But given his and his All
Progressives Congress’ (APC) loud bragging, this
is but tokenism, and fear and regret are
overtaking the land.
First, there is no holistic, transparent and
consistent structure to the work of the Buhari
government beyond the nepotism the president
himself has demonstrated. There is neither clear,
strategic thinking about the issues, nor
commitment to the quest for answers.
Buhari says he is fighting corruption, but
corruption is thriving in every measurement that
matters. Buhari has done nothing of note to
make anyone wake up in the morning afraid, or
respectful, of Buhari.
Sixteen years of the Peoples’ Democratic Party
that Buhari lampooned daily, and yet you can
count on the fingers of one hand its members
who are in trouble. There is a ton of stolen funds
all over the place begging to be creatively
cornered and plunged into the national cause,
but Buhari’s government would rather beg for
foreign loans.
The Naira has collapsed, and there is still no
electricity, no commitment to the rule of law, no
foreign investment, no jobs and no management
of what we have: which all mean the same
thing.
Yes, there is an armada of excuses, but
deception and denial have become standard for
APC, which would rather steal the harvest of
other farmers than start its own farm. Party
chairman John Odigie-Oyegun is going around
the country prospecting for prominent Nigerians
—particularly the vilest and most sordid—to
defect to the party.
This is how far APC, the party of “change” and
of Buhari, has deteriorated in two years. But that
is too far, and were you to ask the legions who
stood in long lines in the hot sun to vote and
those who spurned hunger to wait until their
votes were counted so Buhari could become
president, all he has now earned is a ticket out
of Aso Rock, not back into it.
Yes, Buhari spoke tough and acted tough in his
first time around in office, in 1983-1985, but he
would appear to have been standing on the
shoulders of his hard-as-nails deputy, Tunde
Idiagbon, God bless his soul. For himself, Buhari
has demonstrated neither mettle nor fettle in his
second coming. He is far more Goodluck
Jonathan than Lee Kwan Yew.
Buhari marketed a product he could not
manufacture, and APC used Buhari’s legend to
grab power in the center. He has compromised
his own cause by treating it as if it were a
private skirmish, perhaps to be drawn out over
two terms of office and fought in the media
rather than in the court of law and the court of
personal example, and in which only the
opposition, can remotely be guilty. And he gives
economic management a bad name.
Perhaps then, Buhari’s health challenge is really
motion sickness: he is going around in circles so
often he is dizzy and confused.
What next? Unless a miracle has taken place and
Buhari returns from London outfitted with the
pacemaker Nigerians had hoped for in 2015, he
has proved the era of faith in demi-gods to be
over. Younger Nigerians—if they can refuse to be
bought and if they can see beyond narrow
prisons and prisms of ethnicity and geography
and religion—must unite and step forward and
into the streets and into politics, and demand the
soul of their country.
There is no answer any day soon, but through
arduous—and inevitable—battles, lies the
Promised Land.
sonala.olumhense@gmail.com
Twitter: @SonalaOlumhense
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hilarious indeed
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Hello friends! This question goes to all. Do you
believe no matter how good your attitude is,
there is still some of them that are imperfect
and that makes all of us humans?
Have you ever thought for once that you have
one attitude you wish none of your future kids
should inherit? Well, as for me I do think about it
many times and if I should ask you, “ What’s That
Habit You Wish Your Children Don’t Inherit From
You? “
Mine is football addiction...
What about yours? Drop your comments!!! |
goallllllllllllllll .........luiz d world class has done it |
pls i how much will the program cost me including accommodation and how can i get the form |
doctokwus:the apc agent was allowed according to ait news |
pls my brother lives around unizik will i b allowed to stay with him |
nah dem dem,,,buhari pack him people full for idp camp |
he is positioning his boys ;but God pass them |
[color=#990000][/color] tobimillar: |
kai...what if they had not won the trophy?? |
hope they spoke sense into his head |
peterovanski:how come non of them have never complained of non payment of salary |
chelsea for the league............HATERS Can die |
can someone give more info about ijmb, i want to apply for it |
This is just the begining....Edo go hear am tight tight |