FOR KNEELING DOWN IN CHURCH: OONI TELLS CRITICS ‘NO KING ON EARTH IS ABOVE GOD’

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi(Ojaja II) has berated those criticising him for kneeling in church to worship God, saying that “no King on Earth is above God”

A picture showing the monarch kneeling down during the installation thanksgiving held at St Paul’s Anglican, Ile Ife, on Sunday, December 13th, had gone viral on internet, attracting diverse comments.

While many that commented on the picture saw no wrong in the action of the newly installed monarch, many were of the view that the act desecrated the revered stool of Ooni.

The week-long coronation activities for the Ooni climaxed with a thanksgiving service on Sunday 13th December 2015, at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Ile-Ife

SARAKI: We don’t have any Anti-social Media Bill before us

Senate President Bukola Saraki

There has been huge agitation from Nigerian Social Media Users who see a Clamp down on the medium by the Senate as a blow to Freedom of Speech . The Senate President has stepped upp to the occasion to make Clarification.

According to the Senate President, ''I want to throw more light on the Frivolous Petition Bill. There is a lot of misrepresentation which has led to attacks on the Senate with some wondering whether we want to gag the press. We don’t have any Anti-social Media Bill before us. What we have is the Frivolous Petition Bill which concerns cases of writing and submission of petitions.

See What President Buhari and POPE Francis Have in Common

   

                                                                                         










President Buhari and Pope Francis: These gentle men Leaders who exhibit somuch grace and are well respected world wide happen to be born on the same  day. December 17th. The Pope is older than the President by six years. 

And the President received a Giant Birthday Card... and a Lovely Cake from his Wife.

The aides of President Muhammadu Buhari took him by surprise when they presented a giant card to him at the presidential villa in Abuja earlier on Thursday. An elated president beamed with smiles as he shook hands with them. Some of the aides who felicitated with their principal on his 73rd birthday were: Femi Adesina, his special adviser on media and publicity; Garba Shehu, senior special assistant on media and publicity;

EFCC to Tompolo: You can not escape Justice

Tompolo, Ex-Militant Leader

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has not given up its investigation of Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo. On December 10, the commission gave Tompolo a seven-day ultimatum to appear before it over alleged unclear dealings involving the sale of parcels of land worth N13 billion to the federal government during the administration of former president, Goodluck Jonathan. The anti-graft agency had threatened to declare the former commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) wanted if he failed to honour the invitation. 

Diezani is Alive- Family Sources

Former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke is not dead, it was learnt last night.

 Sources close to the family denied the rumour of her death which was spread on the social media.

Mrs. Alison-Madueke has been in the United Kingdom receiving treatment for cancer since May. In October she was arrested by agents of the National Crime Agency in the UK over an investigation for money laundering.

MTN says NO to the N1.04trn Fine , threatens court action

MTN Nigeria has finally concluded it would not pay the N1.04 trn fine, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC imposed on it, for its failure to disengage about 5.1 million improperly registered subscribers on its network in August and September 2015 and has decided to challenge the NCC in court. Not even the reduction of the fine to N780 billion last week by the commission, could sway the telecommunications company.

Addressing its shareholders, yesterday, MTN said that “all factors having a bearing on the matter have been thoroughly and carefully considered including a review of the circumstances leading to the fine and the subsequent letters received from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

Wike Threatens Intruders in Upcoming Elections, Says he will be back as Governor

Gov. Wike of Rivers State

The Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has said the Appeal Court ruling nullifying his election was a temporary setback, stressing that God’s will and the mandate of the people will prevail.

Wike while speaking with party supporters, who thronged the Port Harcourt International Airport to receive him on Thursday, urged them to remain peaceful as the state remains PDP despite the ruling.

He said that his lawyers have already filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, stressing that the PDP will go with any decision reached by the apex court.

Lagos State Gov. presents N662.58bn budget proposal for 2016

Gov. Ambode of Lagos State

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday presented a 2016 budget proposal of N662.58 billion to the Lagos State House of Assembly for approval.

Ambode, who tagged the budget “The People’s Budget”, said that it would promote massive investment in security, transport/traffic management, physical and social infrastructural development as well as enhance job creation.

The budget is made up of capital expenditure of N383.678 billion and a recurrent expenditure of N278.909 billion in the ratio of 58:42 respectively as against 51:49 in 2014 and 2015.

“This represents an improvement of 26 per cent over the budgets of 2014 and 2015 respectively, which stood at N489.69 billion,” Ambode said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the N489.69 billion year 2015 budget was later reordered and signed into law on Sept. 23, 2015.

Read Full text of official Chelsea statement confirming Mourinho’s sack

Jose Mourinho, Former Chelsea Manager

Chelsea Football Club and Jose Mourinho have parted company by mutual consent.

All at Chelsea thank Jose for his immense contribution since he returned as manager in the summer of 2013.

His three league titles, FA Cup, Community Shield and three League Cup wins over two spells make him the most successful manager in our 110-year history. But both Jose and the board agreed results have not been good enough this season and believe it is in the best interests of both parties to go our separate ways.

Decision Reached on Bayelsa postponed Polls, to hold January 9

Sylva and Dickson the two major Candidates representing the APC and PDP respectively

January 9 has been agreed upon as the new date rescheduled for the governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State .  The decision was reached  at a stakeholders meeting held in Abuja on Thursday to include some units in the seven other local government areas .

The meeting, it was learned, resolved that police should play a leading role in the rescheduled poll as against the military dominance during the botched December 6 election in the area.

Photos From Pro-Biafra Protest in Lagos, Demanding the Release of Nnamdi Kanu

Pro-Biafra protesters on Wednesday, grounded vehicular and commercial activities at the Alaba International Market, Ojo Local Government Area, Lagos, in a mega rally to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Radio Biafra Director and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

In a statement, IPOB had disclosed that it will hold its rally along the Alaba International Market axis, as well as  visit several Embassies and High Commissions, the Amnesty International and UN offices, in Victoria Island and Ikoyi axis of Lagos, to deliver protest letters.

Dokpesi meets bail Conditions,Leaves Kuje Prison, See Friends who went to celebrate with him

High Chief  Dokpesi

Former Chairman of Daar Communications Group, Raymond Dokpesi has finally left Kuje prison.

He left the prison three days after he was granted bail by Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

See What Dasuki Spent his Share of the $2bn Arms Deal Funds On

Dasuki in company of  EFCC Personnels

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has reportedly exposed what the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Mohammed Sambo Dasuki, bought with his share of the $2.1 billion arms procurement fund for the Nigerian armed force

The Nation reports that the anti-graft agency on Tuesday, December 15, arraigned the former NSA before a federal high court in Abuja, where he is currently undergoing trial.

The Federal Government through an agent of the EFCC, Hassan Saidu, explained to the court that Dasuki, who is on trial was involved in various activities that bordered on economic sabotage, compromise of the nation’s security and endangering the lives of Nigerian soldiers fighting members of the Boko Haram sect in the Northern part of the country.

Nigeria’s blood-sucking elite... A Must Read

NIGERIA’S political elite is a conclave of vampires. They survive on the blood of their innocent victims, in this instance the blood of struggling Nigerians who have nobody but God to protect them. This elite class of political jobbers are quick to amass wealth at the expense of the struggling majority. But they are never known to give out scholarship to indigent students who need it, nor are they famous for setting up foundations or charity organisations to research some of the killer diseases that the vast majority of Nigerians are ravaged by.

Not even such diseases like cancer that the jet set lifestyles of this greedy Nigerians expose them to increasingly are accorded the benefit of research grants that would ultimately be for their own good if not for all. Nigeria’s class of rich outcasts would rather travel abroad to spend their stolen wealth in the enrichment of the economies of those who already have more than enough to take care of their needs.

Reason Tompolo May Refuse to Appear before EFCC Today, might be Declared Wanted

Tompolo

Former Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, will not appear before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which penultimate Wednesday ordered him to report to the commission today (Thursday) or be declared wanted, Vanguard has learned.

EFCC is investigating Tompolo over alleged fraudulent sale of land to government at N13 billion and  first invited him to appear at its Lagos office, November 25, but he responded through his solicitors, saying he was already in court with the agency.

PDP Lacks the Audacity to Criticise President Buhari- Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed and Olisa Metuh

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed has taken a swipe on the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) over its criticism of the All Progressive Party’s (APC) led government for the poor state of the country’s economy and depreciation of naira, saying that the PDP lacks the temerity to insult President Buhari and the citizens for their failure in managing the economy in a transparent manner.

The Minister was reacting to the comments credited to Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, that businesses may collapse in the next six months because the Buhari Administration has mismanaged the economy, which he said was the clearest indication yet that the PDP and its leaders are still in denial about the massive body blows they inflicted on the Nigerian economy.

Arms Deal Scandal: Jonathan seeks one on one with President Buhari

President Buhari and Former President Jonathan

Following the Arms deal Scandal recurrently rocking the nation, a fresh revelation has it that some close associates of former President Jonathan were arranging a private meeting between him and Buhari to enable the former explain some things to the President.

It quoted the source as saying, “Jonathan will prefer a private audience with the President rather than taking up issues with the suspects in public. Some of the expenditures have grave security implications as they involve some neighbouring countries.

As Dasuki Sings....Meet other Accomplices in the $2b Arms Deal Scam

Bode George and fmr Gov Peter Odili

A source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has linked former Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State and a once convicted top member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George, with receiving N100 million each from the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.).

The EFCC source revealed that the largess to the two PDP officials was diverted from funds meant for the purchase of arms in order to better equip the Nigerian military in its campaign against Islamist terror group, Boko Haram.

Judge Overturns Oscar Pistorius's Verdict to Murder

Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict.

He killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 after shooting her four times through a locked toilet door.

He is currently under house arrest after spending one year of his original five-year sentence in jail.

Pistorius will have to return to court to be re-sentenced, for murder.

It was earlier incorrectly reported that the court had ruled the manslaughter verdict would remain.

Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears several times during his trial

Faleke stands his grounds, tells APC, INEC not to tamper with his victory

The deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21 election in Kogi State, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, has warned his party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to do anything that will compromise his mandate as the deputy governor-elect.

In two letters written through his counsel Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) to INEC and the APC yesterday, Faleke informed both parties of the court case he instituted and vowed not to betray the late Prince Abubakar Audu by surrendering their joint victory.

He told the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, that he was “not ready or prepared to negotiate, compromise, surrender, mortgage or part, in any way whatsoever, with the mandate already given to the said joint ticket by the electorate of Kogi State.”

Okonjo-Iweala to FG :Call Oshiomhole to Order, Denies Role in Arms Deal

Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has requested the Federal Government to call Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole to order over what she called efforts to link her name to the alleged $2.1 billion arms issue.

A statement from her media Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, said Mrs Okonjo-Iweala “has absolutely nothing to do with the issue”.

Okonjo-Iweala described as “an abuse of public office, the judicial process and her human rights for Governor Oshiomhole whom she stopped from taking a highly suspicious N15 billion loan to make false allegations against her while hiding behind the constitutional immunity granted state governors.”

Dasuki's Disclosure: Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala should face the Law - Oshiomhole

Gov. Oshiomhole

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has advised the federal government to prosecute former president Goodluck Jonathan and immediate past finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

This is coming following the arrest of the former national security adviser Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) by the Department of State Security (DSS) yesterday, December 1, in the on-going arms deal investigation.

According to Oshiomhole, Jonathan and Okonjo-Iweala should be prosecuted since it had been established that they made approvals for which billions of dollars released for the procurement of arms for counter-terrorism operations under Jonathan, Leadership reports.

$2b Arms Deal Scandal: Dasuki Lists Ex-Govs, PDP Chiefs

After being arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, December 2, 2015, the former national security adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki has listed some of his accomplices.

According to a source who spoke with The Nation, the ex-NSA made some “mind-boggling” revelations on the arms contracts on Tuesday after being arrested.

Former national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki makes stunning confessions about accomplices in arms deal scandal

Mark Zuckerberg,Facebook Founder is Officially a Father, ...gives out $45 billion

The Facebook founder announced on Tuesday that he and wife Priscilla Chan welcomed a baby girl named Max. To celebrate the arrival of their newest family member, the 31-year-old billionaire and his wife penned a touching letter to their daughter and also made a major philanthropic announcement: In honor of their newborn baby girl, Mark and Priscilla "will give 99% of our Facebook shares--currently about $45 billion--during our lives to join many others in improving this world for the next generation."

I SET UP My Boss’s Kidnap because she Maltreated me- Driver

 A suspected kidnapper, Solomon Michael, who was paraded alongside four others at the Lagos State Police command, Ikeja,  has confessed that he plotted the kidnap of his boss because she maltreated him.

suspectThe suspect, who was paraded alongside Ibrahim Sozza, Thankgod Husseni, Paul Brutus and Suleiman Mohammed, for allegedly robbing and kidnapping one Alhaja Modupe Idris, a business tycoon in Idumota and her sister, Alhaja Risikat Laminu, said: “I plotted to rob and kidnap my boss because she was maltreating me. It was one Emmanuel who organised four others that assisted me in carrying out the robbery and kidnapping.   After the operation, Emmanuel and his gang gave me the Toyota SUV, smart phone and one I-pad as my share of the loot.

Do Only the Poor go to Jail in Nigeria?

Nigeria’s criminal justice system has often been criticised and ridiculed for its inability to secure convictions, particularly for offences perpetuated by high profile individuals. Yet, one recalls the case of a young man, Kelvin Ighodalo, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for stealing Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s N50,000 Sony Ericsson phone.

Our justice system is inherently flawed but the current debate over reform efforts is lacking in substance as it focuses mostly on efforts to bring corrupt public officials to heel (which is definitely needed, corruption kills Nigerians let’s never forget it) but the brunt of the system’s injustice and unfairness is actually experienced by the poor masses who spend years in jail awaiting trial, while the rich accused of worse crimes, simply make bail and then wait it out while the case is adjourned till it is forgotten.

See What Chief Dokpesi Collected N2.1Billion From NSA For....???

Chief Raymond Dokpesi

The former Chairman of Daar Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. who was arrested by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was picked up in Abuja at about noon on Tuesday and was accompanied to the office of the EFCC by his son Raymond Dokpesi Jnr., who is the current Chairman of Daar Communications.

The Head of Media in the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, told Channels Television that Chief Dokpesi was arrested in connection with money disbursed from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.