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Friday, 11 November 2016

Fayose Shocks Ekiti People Imagine What He Did To This Woman

When Atoke Ayobami graduated from the college of Health Science and Technology, Ijero, three years ago, her dream like that of most ladies out there was to have her time as a National Youth Service Corps member, get a good job and settle down as a married woman afterwards.

The Police in Borno State on Friday said 10 suspected criminals who specialised in stealing domestic animals in Maiduguri had been arrested.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Damian Chukwu, who made this known in Maiduguri, told newsmen that the command also recovered 63 domestic animals from the suspects.
Chukwu said the suspects who have been responsible for the loss of sheep and goats in the city and terrorising residents, were apprehended on Sept. 3 on a tip-off.
He said the recovered animals comprised 61 sheep and two goats and were valued at N 5.7 million, adding that the suspects confessed to stealing the animals.He said the police also arrested a suspect over allegation of criminal trespass, and explained that the man was believed to be going into homes of people and stealing various items.

I earned millions from kidnapping –Suspect

A suspected kidnapper has said that he earned money running into several millions of naira while he engaged in the criminal act.

He confessed that he bought cars with his earnings and that he was proposing to establish a private business before he was caught.

Buhari, Saraki meet third time in Aso Rock

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met for the third time within one week with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
They met first last week Friday while the second meeting was on Wednesday after the President met with members of the South East Caucus in the Senate led by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and Eyinnaya Abaribe.

Alleged N2.1b debt: Skye Bank takes over Obat Oil’s depot

The Federal High Court in Lagos has directed Skye Bank Plc to take over Obat Oil and Petroleum Limited’s depot over an alleged N2.1billion debt.
Justice Jude Dagat issued an order directing the Inspector-General of Police, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, the Lagos Commissioner of Police as well as the court’s Deputy Sheriff to assist in the enforcement of the order.

Senators visit Fani-Kayode, others in EFCC custody

Some senators on Tuesday paid a solidarity visit to three former ministers, Femi Fani-Kayode, Musiliu Obanikoro and Bala Muhammed, and former presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati, who are in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja.

Our correspondent learnt that among the visiting senators are four serving ones identified as Isah Hamma from Bauchi Central, Ali Wakili from Bauchi South, Ali Ndume from Borno South, and Philips Aduda from the Federal Capital Territory.

A 40-year-old man, Victor Emafolomi, has been detained by the police for allegedly raping his wife’s daughter, Keji.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect was apprehended on Sunday by the police from the Agbado division after the mother of the victim reported the case.

Keji (pseudonym) lived with her mother and Emafolomi on Olukososi Street, Jafa, Agbado, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has appealed to the World Bank to assist the state as it struggles to meet its financial obligations.

While hosting the World Bank Country Director, Mr. Benmessaoud Rachid, and his team at the Governor Office in Ibadan, the governor thanked the bank for its financial commitment to the state, stressing the importance of the partnership between the state and the bank for the development of Oyo State.

The World Bank was said to have committed about N13bn to six projects in the state, including urban flood management programme, Ibadan master plan, health and agriculture.

Senate dumps Buhari’s bid to borrow $29.96bn

SENATORS yesterday rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to borrow $29.96 billion under the 2016-2018 External Borrowing Plan.
The upper chamber voted massively against the request.
Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki put the question twice – “that the Senate do consider the request of the President C-in-C on the 2016-2018 External Borrowing Rolling Plan”. Twice it was rejected.
Senate Leader Mohammed Ali Ndume moved the motion for the consideration of the request. Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Bwacha seconded.

A Federal High Court Judge, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, risks losing properties worth about N500m if she fails to explain to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission where she got the money to buy the houses,

Impeccable sources within the commission told our correspondent that a house located at 18 Lai Ajayi Bembe Street, Parkview Ikoyi, Lagos was traced to the judge while another property on Atlantic Drive, UPDC Estate, Lekki, which has been marked by the EFCC, was said to belong to the embattled judge.

Our correspondent, who visited the property located at Ikoyi, observed that the property which is a two-storey building stands close to the house of a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, who is in the EFCC custody.

Jose Mourinho is facing only the latest in a series of touchline bans after being charged with misconduct for the second time in less than a week by the English Football Association on Tuesday.

Here, AFP looks at some of the Manchester United manager’s most notable previous brushes with authorities.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed to resist the dismissal of the Ogun state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Akeem Ambali, and his Vice-Chairman, Dare Ilekoya, who is also the state Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, by the State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun.

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The National Judicial Council has said it is not part of its statutory responsibilities to hand over judges who are accused of corruption to anti-graft agencies for investigation and prosecution.

The NJC also clarified that it could not recover proceeds of corruption and had no power to dismiss erring judges.

A peep into the Presidential kitchen

An African adage says: “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Whether in Africa, Europe or Asian continents, leaders are burdened. And the support of his family has to come with the full measure for him to succeed.

Leaders of nations battle to contain disparate interests; strive to leave a legacy and unquestionably accept responsibility for acts of commission or omission from subordinates. A leader of any nation spends more time cogitating and less for leisure. He deprives himself and his family the comfort of his presence most of the times. It’s worse when a leader operates in a clime where there is stiff opposition.

In faraway Germany, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari decried the burden posed by a multi-coloured opposition in Nigeria in these words; “It’s not easy to satisfy the whole Nigerian opposition parties or to participate in the government.”

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Manchester United great Ryan Giggs has described former manager David Moyes’s decision to buy Marouane Fellaini from Everton in September 2013 as a “panic” buy.
Fellaini joined United from Everton, Moyes’s former club, in a 27.5 million pounds ($33.6 million, 30.9 million euros) move on transfer deadline day.

Victor Moses is enjoying life under Antonio Conte at Chelsea, having had a strained relationship with former manager Jose Mourinho.

The former Wigan Athletic winger moved to Stamford Bridge in 2012, but has failed to hold down a first-team place, going out on loan on three occasions.

However, he has earned Conte’s trust in the Italian’s first few months in London and is playing regular football, albeit as a wing-back.

“I’m delighted to be back,” Moses told ESPN FC. “I thought I did well in my first season here, but due to circumstances – a manager [Rafa Benitez] going, a manager [Mourinho] coming in – I wasn’t really given a chance.

“[Mourinho] never spoke to me. I thought in my head, ‘He’s got his own players already. I think we chatted a couple of times on the phone – he asked if I was alright at Liverpool [where Moses was on loan], but that was it.

Buhari was joking with remarks on Aisha over interview, Presidency insists

The Presidency is insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments last week in Germany regarding First Lady Aisha’s position being in the kitchen and the other room was nothing more than a joke.

The Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu,said yesterday that his principal is gifted with a high sense of humour.

Woman, if you don’t strive for greatness and empower yourself, you will be relevant only in the kitchen, the living room and ‘the other room’. You will never get to the boardroom.”

I wholeheartedly agree with ‘the quoted’.

However, I wish to make us understand that not everyone is destined to end up in the ‘boardroom’ (as most of us understand it) and it is not every woman that desires to tow the ‘boardroom’ path, either.

Less than 12 months since his second spell as Chelsea manager ended amid on-pitch turmoil and bitter off-pitch recrimination, Jose Mourinho returns to Stamford Bridge with Manchester United on Sunday.

With three Premier League titles, three League Cups and one FA Cup won across his two stints in west London, Mourinho is the most successful manager in Chelsea’s history.

The love affair ended last December after nine league defeats and what technical director Michael Emenalo termed “palpable discord” between manager and players, but Mourinho prefers to remember the good times.

A mobile phone software marketer, who specialises in downloading applications on mobile sets, has been reportedly found dead in a hotel room in Ovwian, Udu Council area of Delta State after allegedly demanding sex from a female customer who could not pay for the service he rendered to her.

The deceased identified as Nelson Eni Millz operating at a popular Robinson Plaza along Deco road in Warri South was said to have demanded that the female customer ‘pays in kind’ since she could not pay the entire fee.

This lady made headlines a few months back after a video of her crying profusely and begging P-Square to re-unite went viral. Apparently, she contacted Paul Okoye for help and he granted her request. See what she wrote after the cut...

Former Man U player Patrice Evra has decided to bury the hatchet with former Liverpool and Current Barcelona striker with an Instagram post where he praised him saying he was the best striker in the world.

In October 2011 during a football game between fierce rivals Liverpool and Manchester United, Liverpool's Luis Suárez was charged with, and found guilty of, racially abusing United's Patrice Evra by an FA commission .. Suárez was fined £40,000 and banned for eight games.

Read the press statement from FFK's aide below...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) once again lived up to its billing of being used by the current administration for the sinister purposes of silencing the opposition under the guise of fighting corruption.

As expected and as earlier stated in his press statement, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode had already raised the alarm that he was going to be rearrested by the EFCC as the

A 23 year old bride-to-be, Omolara Oluwagbemi Abosede, allegedly killed her fiancé, Sodiq Dauda on October 18, in Ijebu-Ode town of Ogun State, just two months to their wedding, after an alleged argument.
The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident to on Friday said the suspect has been arrested on a murder charge.

Actress Laide Bakare shared this picture she took with her 2 year old son on Instagram which caused an uproar amongst readers. Some said it was inappropriate, while others didn't see anything wrong with it. Read some of the comments after the cut...

Five suspects – Natei Okunna, James Akegbe, Thank-God Jegede, Trust Bourdillon and Timi Inomi – who carried out the kidnap of four landlords in Isheri North area of Lagos State on September 17, are now in the custody of the Inspector-General of Police Response Team.

The suspects were hunted down across three states – Ondo, Ogun and Delta states – after they got a N12m ransom to free the landlords.

Nigeria continued their impressive rise in football after climbing to 60th in the latest FIFA Rankings, which were released by the world football body on Thursday.

Three-time African champions moved up four spots in the rankings from 64 to 60, while their 2018 World Cup qualifying opponents Algeria and Cameroon retained their previous spots. The other team in their group, Zambia, failed to progress in the rankings.

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The Federal Government’s National Prosecution Coordination Committee is meeting over the draft charges already drawn against three among the seven judges arrested by the Department of State Services between October 8 and 9 this year.

Baring any unplanned situation, the charges were likely to be filed next week after the meeting of the committee members, a credible source who is familiar with the ongoing process confirmed to Saturday PUNCH on Friday.

The PUNCH had reported that the draft charges were originally meant to be filed last Thursday. But a source confirmed to Saturday PUNCH on Friday that the filing was delayed because of the absence of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, who was on an official trip to Turkey.

Hadiza Buhari-Bello, one of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari, has faulted a statement credited to a former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, that she is using her Africa Support and Empowerment Initiative to infringe on the franchise of the Bring Back Our Girls group.

Buhari-Bello, in a statement she jointly signed with AFRISEI Secretary, Don Uche, on Friday, said her organisation was a responsible body that would never engage in illegal activities by stealing someone else’s franchise.

Tight security as Oba of Benin receives staff of office

Security has been beefed up in Edo State, ahead of Thursday (today’s) coronation of the crown prince, His Royal Highness, Eheneden Erediauwa, as the new oba of Benin Kingdom.

Prince Eheneden will leave Usama Palace, where he has been since October 9 for Benin, the state capital.

He is also expected to pass through Isekherhe to perform the ceremonial crossing of a river before moving to Urho-Okpota for the coronation ceremony.

Ondo Poll: APC flays Fayose's call for political violence

The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ondo state has described Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose’s call for violence should the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loss the forthcoming Governorship election in Ondo State as unfortunate and a barbaric conduct.
The Party emphasised that the statement was unbecoming of a Governor and a supposed Chief Security Officer (CS0) of Ekiti state.

Fayose, Omisore got N3.8b arms cash, says Obanikoro

DETAINED former Minister of State (Defence) Musiliu Obanikoro yesterday made more revelations on how the N4.745billion wired to a company linked to him by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) was shared.

Lionel Messi ran riot through Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City defence as though it was a playground game, according to Barcelona coach Luis Enrique as he savoured a dazzling 4-0 Champions League win.
Inspired by Messi’s hat-trick, Barcelona joined Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint Germain in registering important wins on Wednesday night.

Ahead of his coronation on Thursday, the crown prince of Benin Kingdom, His Royal Highness, Eheneden Erediauwa, has procee‎ded from the Usama palace on Siluko road to Urho-Okpota.

The procession is part of activities lined up for his coronation as the 39th Oba of Benin Kingdom.

Prince Eheneden was accompanied by several Benin chiefs, the Ekassa group, the Isenwenro group and other traditional societies and groups.

BREAKING: Buhari's full Ambassadorial list

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday sent 46 names of non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation and approval.
The names were contained in a letter from President to the Red chamber, which was received and read by Senate President Senate, Bukola Saraki, during Thursday plenary.
Below is the full list:

Fayose: Obanikoro’s return planned to nail me

The testimony of former Minister of State (Defence) Musiliu Obanikoro in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) appears to be rattling Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose.

Obanikoro claimed that he gave Fayose N2.3 billion, which came from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) in the run-up to the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State.

Apparently troubled by Obanikoro’s evidence, Fayose, in a statement made available to reporters yesterday, alleged that the ex-minister’s return from the United States was “arranged and compromised” in a bid to nail him (Fayose).

Buhari to Chibok girls: your best time has come

President Muhammadu Buhari told the 21 freed Chibok girls yesterday that their best time has come.

He promised that the Federal Government would take over the education of the girls.

The president received the girls and their parents at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

LAUTECH Crisis: Ajimobi, Aregbesola pledges irrevocable commitments

Following the lingering crisis rocking the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology(LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and his counterpart from ‎Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola on Wednesday evening pledged their irrevocable commitment to the joint ownership of the institution in accordance with establishment laws.

'We're vindicated over claim on Ekitigate'

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has said that the revelations by former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has vindicated its claim that Governor Ayodele Fayose’s election on June 21, 2014, was compromised through heavy funding by the Federal Government, which also deployed the military, including compromise of INEC, to give victory to the governor.

I robbed to raise N45,000 surgery bill – Suspect

A suspected armed robber arrested by security operatives attached to Ndiegoro Police Division in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, has said that the quest for money to pay his medical bill led him into armed robbery.

The suspect, identified as Ifeanyi Chukwundukwe, and other members of his gang allegedly robbed a betting shop (BET9JA) at No. 21, Ogechi Street, Aba on several occasions.

Dele Giwa’s assassination: The verdict of history

October 19 this year marks the 30th anniversary of the gory assassination of Dele Giwa, the first Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch, Nigeria’s path-breaking newsmagazine. Dele’s life was cynically shortened by the novel method of a parcel bomb that was delivered to his house at No. 25 Talabi Street, Ikeja, Lagos on Sunday October 19, 1986 at mid-day.

Obanikoro: I gave Fayose $5.37m cash for Ekiti poll

DETAINED former Minister of State (Defence) Musiliu Obanikoro has implicated Governor Ayodele Fayose in the probe of the N4.745billion wired to a company by the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA).
The cash was wired to Sylva Mcnamara, which has been linked to Obanikoro within seven months in 2014.
Sen. Obanikoro said of the cash, N2.23billion was transferred to Fayose.
He handed Fayose $5,377,000 in cash and N1.3billion was received by the governor’s associate, Mr. Abiodun Agbele.

Four people, including a mother and her two children, were killed yesterday when an articulated vehicle lost control at Ojaoba, Ibadan, Oyo State capital, and ran into them. Four people were also injured.
Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred at 7.45 am, adding that the truck, registered as AGL883XQ, swerved to the other side, colliding with parked cars and tricycles picking up passengers.
The truck driver, according to reports, came to Beere to offload cement, and later faced Oja’ba towards Molete when its brake failed.

The police in Lagos State have arrested a man, identified only as Nathaniel, for allegedly drugging and raping his 14-year-old housemaid in the Ikotun area of the state.

NEWS MEN learnt that Nathaniel, who stayed on Ajisegiri Street, in the Egbe area, was arrested by the Ikotun Police Division on Sunday.

The wife of a former Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Precious Fani-Kayode, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of lying about her account balance.

Mrs. Fani-Kayode was on Monday detained for four hours in the Ado Ekiti branch of Access Bank on the instruction of the EFCC.

A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he gave the sum of N2.3bn to the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, in the run-up to the Ekiti State governorship election in 2014.

Obanikoro was said to have also told operatives that N60m was converted to dollars at N168 per to a dollar and given to Fayose.

Obasanjo has no shame, he is becomimg a laughing stock – Fayose

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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has blamed the current spate of corruption in Nigeria on former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
The fiery governor who used to be in close affinity with the former President but strained relationship after accusing the elder statesman of attempting to impeach him in 2006, described Obasanjo as a laughing stock.

Mrs Rifkatu John carried her daughter Jummai Bakwa, on her back like a baby after they reunited in Abuja 2 years after Jummai was abducted by Boko Haram. Jummai was part of the 21 Chibok girls released last week Thursday.

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