Images of wanted Boko Haram members released by Nigerian Army

In order to beat the deadline set by President Muhammedu Buhari to end insurgency in the country, the Nigeria Army has released images of some of the most wanted suspects of the sect (Boko Haram)
The images of the wanted sect members were today, boldly shown on a banner and were displayed by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt – Gen. Tukur Buratai among other officers.
Inscription on the banner however urged Nigerians to report to the Army if any of the persons on the banner is seen anywhere in public.

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I will lead a war against them like Ojukwu. Am not joking– Wike

Yesterday, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 11 governorship election in Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike declared war on those he considered to have betrayed outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan and the South-South. Addressing his supporters in Port Harcourt via a media briefing monitored by Sayelba Times, he said Governor Chibuike Amaechi is Judas Iscariot.
He further declared that nothing can stop his victory at the polls. Barrister Wike also alleged a plot by the State Governor to sponsor thugs to disrupt the election in order to use that as a pretence to annul the results when President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in. He however promise to lead Rivers people to an Ojukwu style war against the Federal government to resist such attempts.
Below is his full statement.

“Today, I want all South-South and South-East to remember this, that we’ve two Judas. Let me confess to you, we held a meeting before the elections on Saturday, and we said as people from this part of the country, we must standby our brother. Some APC leaders bought into the idea. And that was why with all the money Amaechi throw around, we still gave our brother almost 1.5million votes.

Amaechi is the only betrayer that raised his ugly head to say we rigged elections. When he knows it’s obvious that you and I gave our best to our brother. In Edo state,the governor only complained of Army that was deployed in his residence. He never said the elections should be cancelled. IMO state the same thing. But it is only Amaechi that stood like Judah to tell Jega to cancel elections in rivers state.
We heard he has gone to Abuja, trying to persuade Jega to change the returning official here. In fact, let him tell Jega to come down to conduct the election himself. Amechi, Jega,and Buhari will still fail. We have taken over the Senate and the state house,we are left with the governorship, and with you again,we will get 2million votes to silent Amechi for once. We will treat him like a betrayer, and call him a stranger in his own house. He is coming to beg us, to let go. When he has succeeded in using Rivers Rtate money to fund his Fulani friends.
Amaechi, eyes will see hell the highest they can give to him is Secretary. And after 8 years, he will return home and become irrelevant. Trust the Hausa people,they will soon betray him just the way he betrayed the south south struggle. I was told he is paying some thugs so that elections will be cancelled in Rivers State,in order for them to come back and conduct it after GMB is sworn in. If they try it, they should just carve Rivers State out of Nigeria map. I will lead a war against them like Ojukwu. Am not joking, I know am on air,and I am warning them now. Any attempt to rob us the way they rob our brother (GEJ) the battle will start from rivers state.
We will remain opposition state like Lagos. In fact we from the south south and south east we remain in PDP. We leave the south west and north to run APC. That is how they tactically shared the country. And we will not allow them use our resources to develop their States.. I am urging you all to come out April 11th to do it again. We will be at the field to defend our votes,and revenge for our brother.

THANK YOU.”

TO WHOME IT MAY CONCERNE

Dear All,
Kindly help rebroadcast, retwete,  share,  comment on this message till it get to the Owner of this car .
The Driver taking your kids to school, on Monday, 19th of October, 2015, was the most reckless person that I have ever seen on wheels, in recent times.
It is better to put him on check now before the imminent danger happens. The car was almost hit behind where the kids were sitting as a result of his bad driving, around the Otedola Estate and underneath the Bridge .It was as if he was on drugs. Please, get rid of him now before you blame yourself.
I have cleared my conscience as regards this, may God keep you and your family from danger.
Best regards.

TEN THINGS GUYS THANK WHEN YOU DON'T TEXT THEM BACK.

1. She better be dead: This is a horrible thing to wish upon someone, but admit it, you’ve thought it when someone didn’t text you back. There are only a handful of reasons that excuse you from being a shitty person, and all of them involve personal tragedy. Being dead is a pretty good reason to not shoot back a “lmao” text.

2. Don’t send a follow-up text …: don’t send a follow-up text … don’t send a follow-up text. This becomes a mantra. You don’t want to be that person who just starts trying to stretch the conversation out by sending sparse half-sentences every few hours until your chat history is just a one-sided time-stamped graveyard.

3. Maybe she didn’t get my text?: This is almost as bad as thinking follow-up texts are OK. Resending the same text is also a pretty bad idea. You can do this to a person, like, once a year. That’s all you get.

4. Is this a mind game?: Maybe she wants to see how I’ll react. If this is a test, there is no right answer.

5. Screw this, I’m just going to do whatever: Guys typically have an innate ability to just throw their phone into a corner of the room and forget about it for a few hours. Honestly, if you’re playing hard to get, 90 percent of their time is devoted to not thinking about the fact that you didn’t text.

6. Oh, I have a text, maybe it’s from her:K Whenever you’re hoping to hear from someone, the alert on your phone is always because of a text from Verizon saying your bill is ready to view online.

7. Maybe I did something wrong?: At this point, it’s about eight hours since he last heard from you. Now is when doubt starts to creep in.

8. WHAT DID I DO AM I A MONSTER?: This won’t occur to a guy until right when he’s trying to go to bed. Now is the time to analyze every word of that last text and wonder if they fucked up.

9. Should I try calling? : No. No one calls anymore unless it’s an emergency, and even then, I’m pretty sure most people would Snapchat 911 if that was an option.

10. If she’s not responding, then neither am I: And now the relationship falls into a very tenuous place. Maybe you were just busy and you hit him up the next day, and everything is fine. Or it becomes a texting cold war and you both let your soul mate slip away because you were too proud.

I have slept with over 10 dogs, Woman from Akwa-Ibom state confesses

My name is Ini-Obong. I am from Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria but I reside in Malaysia. Only last year, I returned to Nigeria on completion of my studies. For a lot of reasons, I may want to hide some other details for fear of been humiliated by my folks. All I desire are kind and encouraging words to get out of this thing I have come to realise is a huge mess.

I have been living in shambles and mystery and decided to speak out before I get consumed. I am 29 years old and I have never had sex with any man, except my dogs.

Growing up, we had dogs as guards or say pets. As an only child, I got what I wanted. On this fateful day, specifically January 12th, I asked my father for one of the dogs to live in my room. He granted my wish as a birthday present to me. This was where my ordeal started.

I would bath with the dog, eat with it and all. On this particular day, I played with the dog and I got tickled and turned on. In the process, one thing led to another and I had an ‘insertion’ with the dog.

For 15 years, I have slept with over 10 dogs. I have lived my life sleeping with any cute dog I came across. All I need do is either buy it or cajole it to a corner and have sex. I am a full grown adult and I still can’t kill the urge. Whatever you can imagine doing with a man in bed as a lady, I do with my dogs.

As much as I love dogs, I detest men. I get every satisfaction from my dogs. The more effort I put in trying to stop sleeping with dogs, the more urge I have to have sex with them.

I’m the only one who knows this and the burden is too heavy for me. It’s far more than I can swallow.

Am I alright? Is it out of the ordinary? How can I talk to my parents about this?

Can this confession even help me when I keep battling with myself over this matter? What do I do please? I need help!

(Source: DAILY POST)

I have slept with over 10 dogs, Woman from Akwa-Ibom state confesses

My name is Ini-Obong. I am from Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria but I reside in Malaysia. Only last year, I returned to Nigeria on completion of my studies. For a lot of reasons, I may want to hide some other details for fear of been humiliated by my folks. All I desire are kind and encouraging words to get out of this thing I have come to realise is a huge mess.

I have been living in shambles and mystery and decided to speak out before I get consumed. I am 29 years old and I have never had sex with any man, except my dogs.

Growing up, we had dogs as guards or say pets. As an only child, I got what I wanted. On this fateful day, specifically January 12th, I asked my father for one of the dogs to live in my room. He granted my wish as a birthday present to me. This was where my ordeal started.

I would bath with the dog, eat with it and all. On this particular day, I played with the dog and I got tickled and turned on. In the process, one thing led to another and I had an ‘insertion’ with the dog.

For 15 years, I have slept with over 10 dogs. I have lived my life sleeping with any cute dog I came across. All I need do is either buy it or cajole it to a corner and have sex. I am a full grown adult and I still can’t kill the urge. Whatever you can imagine doing with a man in bed as a lady, I do with my dogs.

As much as I love dogs, I detest men. I get every satisfaction from my dogs. The more effort I put in trying to stop sleeping with dogs, the more urge I have to have sex with them.

I’m the only one who knows this and the burden is too heavy for me. It’s far more than I can swallow.

Am I alright? Is it out of the ordinary? How can I talk to my parents about this?

Can this confession even help me when I keep battling with myself over this matter? What do I do please? I need help!

(Source: DAILY POST)

#MinisterialScreening Here are 21 quotes from Amaechi’s screening:

1. ‘If they send a girl to you to do something for her
and you sleep with the girl, you are corrupt.’
2. ‘We refined governance and repositioned
leadership under my tenure as Governor
3. ‘During my administration, we started over 500
primary schools and completed over 300. It’s there
on records.’
4. ‘Under my leadership as Governor of Rivers
State, we redefined governance – Rotimi Amaechi.’
5. ‘I am one of the few Nigerians to serve as
speaker for 8years, at a time speakers were
impeached regularly.’
6. ‘Whether or not I get confirmed, this would ho
down in history books that I addressed the senate.’
7. ‘Education is must not only be qualitative but
accessible.’
8. ‘Amaechi says one of the Rivers Senators was
his roommate, the other was his Finance
Commissioner.’
9. ‘All we did in the Governors Forum was to defend
the rights of Nigerians’.
10. ‘The former president (GEJ) obviously did not
like my idea of an accountable government.’
11. ‘There is no where the report indicted me. I
have a copy here.’
12. ‘If there is one man that doesn’t like corruption.
I am that man.’
13. ‘I was born to fight for my right.’
14. ‘I find it difficult to do what people want me to
do, if it clashes with my principles.’
15. ‘If the Constitution says you are a woman,
when you look like a man, you are a woman.’
16. ‘If legislators want the president to assign
portfolios to nominees then it should be included in
the constitution.’
17. ‘I believe there are resources in the Niger-Delta,
that is why there is Militancy.’
18. ‘If I become the Minister for Niger Delta, the
East – West Road will be first to be completed’.
19. ‘I want to be a minister now, after that I want to
be a Senator.’
20. ‘If you invest in Agriculture & invest in
Technology, you will hire as many workers as you
can get.’
21. ‘We must improve on the Social Rights of the
people; if you have peace you’ll have investors.’

AMAECHI'S FULL ADDRESS TO THE SENATE

AMAECHI'S FULL ADDRESS TO THE SENATE
Your Excellency, the President of Senate,
Your Excellency, the Deputy President of Senate
Your Excellency, the leader of Senate,
Your Excellency the minority leader of Senate and former Governor of Akwa Ibom State,
Distinguished leaders of the Senate
Very distinguished Senators,
Good morning. It is a rare pleasure to stand before you distinguished Senators in this hallowed chambers.
I am deeply humbled and honoured to have been nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari to serve in the office of a Minister in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
My name is Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and I am the immediate past governor of Rivers State.
Before then, I had served as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly for two terms of eight years and as Chairman, Conference of Speakers, for two tenures.
I am perhaps the first Nigerian to have served as Speaker of a State House of Assembly, for eight years.
I served as Governor of Rivers State for two terms during which period, I had the honour and privilege to serve my colleagues as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, for two terms.
Taken together, whether as Governor or as Speaker, these two career paths tell a story of public service.
During my tenure as Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, we achieved a lot.
Some key bills were passed like the Anti Kidnapping Law and the Rivers States Schools Rights (Parent, Children and Teachers) Law. However, my most fulfilling moment as Speaker was the passage of the Rivers State Schools Rights (Parent, Children and Teachers) law, No. 2 of 2005.
This bill clearly enunciated and defined the
responsibilities of parents, teachers and children to guarantee our children access to qualitative education.
As Governor, we inherited a state that was comatose and in the throes of insecurity. Rivers State bore the fault lines of the Niger Delta militancy.
Our immediate task was therefore to restore security and improve the social and economic well being of our people.
Ours was a two-pronged approach of fiscal and physical security.
Whilst we confronted criminality with aggressive law enforcement measures, we embarked on massive social and infrastructural development.
We declared an emergency in the education sector that guaranteed free and compulsory education up to secondary school level. During my tenure as Governor, we awarded the construction of some 500 primary
schools. 314 of these were 100 percent completed while others were virtually completed by the time we left office in May 2015.
We undertook the training and recertification of teachers already in the service of the state and employed over 13,000 new teachers.
Our efforts and investments in the education sector did not go unnoticed as Port Harcourt won the UNESCO World
Book Capital city for 2014, beating cities like Moscow and Oxford.
In the area of healthcare delivery, we built over 140 primary healthcare centres, three secondary healthcare facilities, employed 400 doctors and 200 nurses to improve the manpower in the healthcare sector.
Anyone who visited Port Harcourt while we served, will testify to the fact that we worked to bring back the old glory of Port Harcourt as the garden and city as the third leg in the economic tripod of Nigeria.
We built a dualised network of 1500 Kilometres of roads, 23 bridges, 2 major fly-overs and 2 interchanges.
In the area of power, of the 350 Megawatts (MW) total capacity generation assets invested by the government before ours, only 70MW (equivalent to about 20 per
cent) was available.
With enthusiasm, we ramped up the efficiency to 77 per cent availability including injecting another 360MW Green Field Generation Project at Afam. That massive investment is partly the reason why today, residents in Port Harcourt enjoy almost 24 hours of electricity supply.
On the whole, Mr. President of Senate, I say with pride that during our stewardship of eight years we consistently maintained our pledge to our people to render “transparent and accountable stewardship.”
To guarantee that we did not deviate from that pledge, we were the first state to pass a Fiscal Responsibility law and the Rivers State Bureau of Public Procurement law. Both laws stemmed from executive bills, and we are pleased that we maintained our stance of surrendering the power of the governor to award contracts until the end of our tenure.
Mr. President of Senate, Distinguished Senators, it is therefore fair to say that under my leadership as governor of Rivers State we redefined governance and
repositioned Rivers State as a destination choice to live, work and do business.
Accordingly Mr. President of Senate, Distinguished Senators, I give you my word that if I am confirmed as minister by this distinguished Senate, I will bring to bear my vast experience as a Legislator, Speaker and Governor in the execution of my duties

7 Things To Do If She’s Sleeping Over for the First Time

Whether you planned it or it came as a surprise, having a girl over can make any man anxious. Find out what you need to do to get her comfy.
So you’re finally letting her into your home. Depending on the state of your humble abode, she’s either the luckiest woman in the vicinity or someone who might start running for the hills. You, as the owner of said abode, have a responsibility to make your guest as comfortable as possible.
Not every guy is lucky enough to afford a housekeeper on call. And not every guy has the luxury of setting aside an entire day to clean up the house at the drop of a hat. That’s why we’ve come up with ways that are relatively easy and quick to execute, if you happen to suddenly find yourself expecting a house guest, while your home is in dire straits.
What to do on a planned sleepover
She may say she’ll love you no matter what, but you don’t have to show her the warzone that is your house on the first sleepover! Set aside an hour or two to make your home more inviting.

#1 Clean up . This one’s a no brainer, but where do you start if you need a quick fix? Start with the bedroom. Stuff all your junk someplace she won’t bother to look, like the laundry room or your closet or under the bed. You can worry about it later. Not sure what stuff you should prioritize? As a rule of thumb, anything on the floor and at eye level will catch her attention first, so declutter those areas first.
Then sweep the floor or quickly run a vacuum through any area you can be bothered to cover. As for the bathroom, just stash all the unsightly stuff into a cupboard or above the dresser. Scoop out the hair from the drain. And please, on behalf of all the women in the world, clean your toilet!
Last but not least, anything that is even remotely related to any of your exes, whether they’re pictures, gifts or clothes, must be stashed away in a place where your current lady love will never, ever find!

#2 Change the sheets. We’re not too fond of lying down on sheets that are covered with hell knows what bodily fluids. And even if your sheets don’t have stains, change them anyway to make sure they’re fresh and ready for a night of sweaty lovemaking. Fresh sheets always feel ten times better than week-old ones that have been marinating in your man-sweat.

#3 Hide the porn. Yes, we know you buy the occasional magazine, but we don’t need evidence of it staring us in the face as we use your bathroom.

#4 Warn the roomies. If you have roomies, the best case scenario would be to get them out of the house for the duration of your girl’s stay. There’s nothing more awkward for a girl than walking down the hall and having a strange shirtless man suddenly run into her.
If you can’t get the roomies out of the house, at least ask them to expect a visitor. Who knows, they might be nice enough to help you make your home a little more presentable.

#5 Replenish the stash. Your girl will probably already bring her own toiletries and clothes, so there’s no need to worry about that. But since it’s your home court, you’ll need to be the one to supply all the other necessary implements such as food, drinks, condoms and lube.
Nothing kills a mood faster than suddenly stopping to blame each other for the lack of condoms. So stock up on a couple of different ones and let her pick out which one she’d like you to use.

#6 Get her some entertainment. Of course, you won’t be getting it on throughout the entire night. So in the moments in between, plan something to keep both of you busy. Sure, you could always just talk and bond and cuddle and whatnot. But it still pays to be prepared.
The internet may be your savior. Just give your girl the wifi password, so she can go online when you’ve dozed off. If you don’t have a connection at home, bring out a couple of books and magazines that she might like, and keep them by the nightstand. If she’s not into that, pop a DVD and let her go on a series marathon with Suits or Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad or whatever else she might be into. You’ll have a ton more to talk about when you’ve woken up.

#7 Prepare some mood lighting. Scented candles work wonders as they provide the perfect ambient light, while masking the smell of whatever she’s better off not smelling. If it’s too much of a fire hazard, go for a dim lamp. Relying on the street lights outside might not provide you with enough light to get anything done, while using your laptop as a nightlight might prove to be too distracting.

#EKITIGATE : NIGERIAN ARMY TO INVESTIGATE EKITI AND OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTIONS OF 2014

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday announced a
high-powered Board of Inquiry (BOI) to
investigate serious malpractices involving its
personnel and to review the involvement of its
formations/units and their officials in elections
and other duties in aid of civil authority.
“The BOI is to investigate the alleged unprofessional and unethical conduct of some Nigerian Army personnel in Ekiti and Osun States’ Gubernatorial Elections 2014, as well as in any other State in Nigeria where other allegations of misconduct were made during the 2015 General Elections in the country,” the Army’s Acting Director of Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, said in a press statement.
It would be recalled that last February,
SaharaReporters published an exclusive story about how some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in collusion with some army officers led by Brigadier-General Aliyu Momoh,the commander of the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Ekiti State, rigged the gubernatorial elections in Ekiti and Osun States in 2014.
Our report included documents and audio recordings providing substantial courageously prepared and provided by Sagir Koli, a Captain in the 32nd Artillery Brigade stationed in Ekiti State who accompanied Brigadier General Momoh to a key PDP planning meeting in Ado-Ekiti on 20th June 2014 ahead of the Ekiti election which brought the current governor, Ayodele Fayose, back to power. The meeting involved Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro, Iyiola Omisore, Jelili Adesiyan, Omobolanle Oluwo, Wasiu Kayode Bawa-Allah and a crew of Nigerian army officers led by Brig. General Momoh. Captain Koli fled the country for fear of his life, but his teenage secondary school brother was arrested and tortured by army officials.
According to Tuesday’s statement, the mission of the BOI is to “prevent future unprofessional conduct by officers and men in the performance of the constitutional roles while strengthening Nigerian Army’s support to democratic values and structures in Nigeria.

By : Godwin Onoghokere

20 Sexy Text Messages to Start a Sexy Conversation

Naughty and raunchy text messages are an integral part of every relationship.
We’ve all been there, and we’ve all sent it to a special someone.
But have you ever felt awkward to start a naughty conversation through text messages?
Or at another time, did your mind ever go blank when your partner asked you to say something sexy in a text?
Well, worry no more.
Using sexy text messages to seduce your lover
Firstly, if you want to seduce a sexy friend or a new lover, or want to start talking dirty for the first time through text messages, you need to read these features.
And once you’ve mastered the art of sending sexy texts, read on.
Sending a sexy text to a sexy someone should come naturally. You can say anything you feel like, and as long as you feel horny, chances are, you’ll say all the right things.
Things to know before texting sex
You can always text a naughty line like “I want you now… come on and f**k me!” It works and sends the message straight through. But it comes with a major flaw.
When you make a sexy text sound too explicit or say a sexy line without hiding any meaning, your text loses its sensual appeal. It’s too direct and as exciting as it seems, it’s still boring because you leave nothing to surprise. Your partner may read it, smile and just play along with your mood.
Let’s face it, shocking sexual sentences don’t always work. They’re fun, but they cut the suspense and go straight to the end. And in a realistic world, how many times can you ask your lover to leave everything and *come and get you*!
If you want to enjoy a sexy text conversation, you need to involve your partner. You need to excite them slowly and you need to make them feel like they’re a part of the sexual buildup.
And the best way to start a sexy text conversation is by starting slow and easy, and playing with the sentences to turn the person on one step at a time.
20 sexy messages to start a sexy conversation
Keep your sexy text messages naughty and mysterious. It makes the exchange of texts more exciting because your partner wouldn’t know what’s on your mind.
Instead, they’ll feel like they’re the one that’s building up the sexual texts by asking the right questions, when in fact, you’ll be the one who actually starts the whole sexy game by saying the perfect first line!
Are you ready to get naughty while texting sexy? Just use these subtle and sexy conversation starters while texting and go with the flow.

And remember to think sexy and talk sexy.

#1 I can’t believe I texted you while I was peeing.
#2 I’m feeling so cold even though I’m under the blanket. Hold on for a minute, lemme put on my clothes.
#3 I wish you could be with me now.
#4 I’m watching a sexy video of a girl/guy who looks just like you *link it to an explicit video with a really attractive person so your lover would be flattered*.
#5 What are you wearing right now?
#6 Can you guess the color of my underwear?
#7 My legs are missing you in between them.
#8 I just bought new underwear and can’t wait to show it to you.
#9 If I were with you right now, where would you want me to touch you?
#10 I’m watching porn.
#11 My hands were busy, but they took a break to text you.
#12 I’m imagining you’re with me right now…
#13 I’m trying to sleep, but I can’t stop thinking about all the things you could do to me if you were with me right now.
#14 I’m looking for sex toys online…
#15 I had a naughty dream last night and you were in me… I mean, it…
#16 Do you believe in kiss and tell? Cause I want you to kiss me and do things to me in your mind and tell me all about it.
#17 I’m lying in bed and bored. Do you want to play Simon Says?
#18 What would you want to do with me after our date tomorrow?
#19 I can see two pussies humping outside my window. They’re meowing so much it’s hard for me to go back to sleep.
#20 Wanna play a game with me?

Once you use any of these lines as your sext text conversation starter, it’ll automatically get your lover’s mind racing into sexual overdrive.
All you need to do after that is play along and answer the questions keeping sex in mind. And before you know it, both of you would be all hot and bothered.

OSUN STUDENT STIFF HEAD WITH THE GOVERNOR

Polytechnics Students in Osun State are preparing for legal battle against the governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola alongside the state police force after their protest against their staying out of school for over four months was violently interrupted and were teargassed by the police, which led to the death of three students.
This was make known in a write-up posted on social media by some members of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS.
The state owned tertiary institutions lecturers declared an indefinite strike for non-payment of salary by the State government.
In a write-up tagged “ATTEMPTED EXTINCTION OF Nigerian students voice in Osun state by Aregbesola: NANS POSITION” posted in walls and pages of social media, the students stated why they embarked on the grievance resolution and also expressed their shock over the manner at which the protest was halted violently by the state riot police.
The content contained in the write-up says “The entire Nigerian Students family is still very shocked by the reckless and brutal assault and attack on Nigerian students by the Nigerian Police Force and government Agencies under the watch and instructions of the Osun State Governor in Osogbo yesterday, which shows the highest degree of leadership irresponsibility and inhuman posture of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
“Nigerian Students of some tertiary institutions in Osun State which include Osun State Polytechnic Iree, Osun State Polytechnic Esa-Oke, Osun State College of Education Ilesha and Osun State College of Education Ila Orangun, that have remained at home wasting over four months, due to the inability of the State Government of Osun to resolve the current industrial dispute between her and the teaching staffers of the institutions. The students however, having waited patiently enough and had on several occasions appealed to the state government to resolve this dispute, embarked on a peaceful protest to call the attention of the osun government to their plights in the most civilised manner and global best practices guaranteed by the students movement modus operand, but to our utter disappointment, the government of Osun state unleashed terror on the students during which several students were injured and three lost their lives in a pitiable manner in the water.
“One is therefore made to wonder what manner of legacies is the Governor of Osun state trying to put in place for coming generations, when he has permanently short the door of his conscience against Nigerians students.
The students, nevertheless, seek for parents and well meaning Nigerians that understand the value of education to come to their aids
“We therefore use this medium to call on all well-meaning people of Osun State and Nigerians to rise against this senselessness in the position of authority, which is a reminiscence of the infamous military oppression”.
However, NANS made clear their position on the matter as they prepare to institute a legal action against the state and her Police Force
“We in the National Association of Nigerian Students will not accept this. We will not surrender our liberty and future on the alter of socio-political oppression.
The national secretariat of NANS having duly consulted with other civil society organisations with supportive mandate with NANS have resolved to constitute a three man committee to visit Osun State to investigate the matter more adequately and report to the National secretariat of NANS in 7days on the next line of action particularly as instituting a legal action against the Nigerian Police Force and the government of the state of Osun.
A news medium called The Lead reported that “when the protest was becoming violent with the manner the students were harassing passers-by and shop owners, the riot policemen were deployed to disperse the protesters.
The Lead included in its report that some of the students sustained serious injury while the policemen arrested some of them and also seized some Students Union Buses.
Reacting to the development, the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola explained that the state government was working tirelessly to ensure the lecturers are paid soon. The Lead reports.
Meanwhile, there has been speculation that some of the institutions have called off the strike following the students’ protest.

See how to make natural Medicine from WATERMELON to help you stay Longer in Bed

All you need is the watermelon as the main ingredient – it is said to be rich in an amino acid called citrulline, which relaxes and dilates blood vessels. It functions like Viagra and other enhancers used by men with ED.
It is sad that too many men suffer from Erectile Dysfunctions(ED).
They either cannot get their pe.nises erect enough for se.x or they lose the erections as quickly as they get it, making se.x awful.
However, every man must know that ED is a health signal that simply indicates a lack of adequate blood circulation, especially to the sexual organs.
Now, instead of going to buy the expensive counter Viagra or any other similar supplement, many of which are fake, you can actually make your own se.x-booster at home, naturally, with readily available fruits.
All you need is the watermelon as the main ingredient – it is said to be rich in an amino acid called citrulline, which relaxes and dilates blood vessels.

DEAD WOMAN’S FAMILY PUTS HER BURIAL ON HOLD TILL BOYFRIEND MARRIES HER CORPSE IN EBONYI STATE

A family of a deceased woman have suspended her burial rites until her ‘husband’ who she was living with, performs her wedding rites.
The woman, Chinyere Mbam, died from a snake bite she sustained while returning from the wake-keep of her friend, Oge Ogashi.
She was taken to a traditional healing home in the area for treatment and thereafter back to the husband’s home where she died.
Her uncle, Ishiali Ikwe, confirmed her death.
But the deceased’s family have mandated her partner, Stephen Mbam, of Enyi Igwe Village, Ezzainyimagu community in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State to carry out her traditional marriage rites before she is buried.
It was learnt that the woman had been living with Stephen for three years and their relationship produced a child even though he did not perform marriage rites.
According to the Uncle, the family, who are from same village, have put the burial on hold until Mr. Mbam performs traditional marriage on the deceased.
He further said that Mbam’s family, in line with the tradition, have scheduled a date for payment of the bride price to be preceded by the wedding.

BREAKING NEWS :Former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, is dead

Former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, is dead

A former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, is dead, the Bayelsa State radio is reporting.
He was 63.
Mr. Alamieyeseigha died Saturday at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, where he had been in coma for days.
He was the governor of the Niger Delta state from 1999 to 2005 when he was impeached on corruption charges.
The former governor was succeeded by former President Goodluck Jonathan, who was his deputy.
Close family sources said Mr. Alamieyeseigha was diabetic and was treated in Dubai, but recently returned to Port Harcourt.

STUDENT OF THE STATES INSTITUTION PROTESTING THERE INDEFINITE STRIKE

The student of all the state owned institutions  on the March to the state governor's  office in person of OGBENI  RAUF AREGBESOLA to show there displaces about the ongoing indefinite strike at all the state own Institution. 

Update is coming soon. 

See face of fake Army General who sponsors Boko Haram

Another suspected Boko Haram sponsor, Aliyu Hussaini, who has also been parading himself as a military brigadier general has been arrested.
The Nigerian Army in a statement on Tuesday said that Hussaini was arrested by soldiers of the 33rd Artillery Brigade in Bauchi State during a raid.
The fake Army General, Aliyu Hussaini
The statement read, “The 33 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army, has recorded another landmark success in the ongoing Operation Zaman Lafiyah as troops of the brigade recently arrested one Aliyu Hussaini, popularly known as Colonel, a suspected Boko Haram terrorist and an Impostor who has been parading himself as a Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army.
“The troops, who were acting on a tip-off, said Aliyu Hussaini was a sponsor and also a member of the Boko Haram terrorist organisation. (They) carried out a raid operation, which led to the successful arrest of Aliyu and another suspected Boko Haram member, one Ibrahim Mohammed, who is also known as Yuram.
“It was later gathered that Aliyu had been defrauding innocent citizens (with the claim) that he was a general in the Nigerian Army.”
The military had earlier today announced the arrest a financier of the terror group in Bama, Borno State. It was reported that the sum of one million naira and other items were found on the suspect.

MEET THE NAME IN #THELIST AS IT IS BEEN FINALLY UNVEILED

President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki finally unveiled the names of the Ministerial nominees submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari.
They include;
1. Dr. Chris Ngige Fmr. Governor of Anambra State
2. Dr. Kayode Fayemi Fmr. Governor of Ekiti State
3. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi Fmr. Governor of Rivers State
4. Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN Fmr. Governor of Lagos State
5. Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazau (Rtd.) Fmr. Chief of Defence Staff
6. Hajiya Aisha Alhassan Fmr. Federal Lawmakers and Governorship Candidate
7. Dr. Ogbonaya Onu Fmr. Governor of Abia State and Fmr. National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (which is part of the ruling All Progressive Congress)
8. Mrs. Kemi Adeosun Fmr. Commissioner for Finance in Ogun State (South West Nigeria)
9. Alh. Abubakar Malami A Senior Advocate of Nigeria
10. Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu Group Managing Director, NNPC
11. Chief Audu Ogbeh Fmr. Minister of Agricultural and Fmr. National Chairman of PDP
12. Sen. Hadi Sidika Fmr. Federal Lawmaker
13. Ibrahim Usman Jibril
14. Udoma Udoh Udoma Fmr. Federal Lawmaker
15. Ahmen Musa
16. Alh. Lai Mohammed Nat. Publicity Secretary of APC
17. Suleiman Adamu
18. Chief Adebayo Shittu
19. Barr. Solomon Dalong A Legal Practitioner
20. Missus Amina Ibrahim - Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning.

Ministerial List: What Buhari Did That Shocked Tinubu, Osinbajo

Geopolitical zones lobby for ‘juicy’ portfolios
A cold war is brewing among top leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ministerial list released last Wednesday by President Muhammadu Buhari, New Telegraph gathered at the weekend. Sources said some party leaders, especially Vice- President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, were upset that the list did not contain the names of their nominees. It was learnt that the ministerial list, comprising 21 names, did not feature any of the nominees compiled by Tinubu for the South-West, which is regarded as his major sphere of influence.
Even in Lagos State, which is Tinubu’s exclusive preserve, he did not have the final say on who will represent the state in the cabinet. Rather than pick any of his nominees for the cabinet, Buhari did it alone and even selected Tinubu’s estranged godsons such as former Governors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti). Osinbajo, a protégé of Tinubu, also failed to get Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on the list. Falana, from Ekiti State, was being tipped to emerge as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
Osinbajo was said to have made a case to the president four times to consider Falana, without securing any commitment from Buhari. Instead of Falana, the president opted for Fayemi, whom sources said was being positioned to head the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Osinbajo also rooted for Prof. Pat Utomi as a ministerial nominee for Delta State, but the president opted for the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu. Kachikwu will serve as Minister of State for Petroleum since the president has said he would hold the portfolio of Minister of Petroleum Resources.
One of the sources said Tinubu, who had relocated to Abuja since Buhari came into power on May 29, hurriedly returned to Lagos last Thursday. “Asiwaju was disappointed with the ministerial list as none of his nominees made the Buhari’s cabinet. He felt used and dumped,” a senior party member told New Telegraph.
Tinubu invested his resources to prosecute the Buhari presidential election such that the president’s wife, Aisha, said the former governor drafted her to join the campaign train. But a source in the presidency said the president sent copies of the ministerial list he sent to Senate President Bukola Saraki to Tinubu and the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
It was learnt that Tinubu received the ministerial list in company of his aides and political associates, including former Interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande. A source said Tinubu ran through the ministerial list and was so surprised that he did not utter a word.
“Tinubu just took the list and called Chief Akande into an inner room in his Abuja residence,” the source said. The discussion, it was learnt, centred on the ministerial list after which Akande called the president requesting for an audience. The president was said to have fixed a meeting for last Wednesday at 11p.m. New Telegraph learnt that at the meeting, Akande sought to know why the president rejected Tinubu and South-West leaders’ recommendations for the ministerial list. Buhari was said to have told Akande that since Tinubu produced the vicepresident, he has to allow other ‘tendencies’ in the South-West to have a share of the appointments meant for the region.
Buhari explained that since Fayemi lost his reelection in Ekiti, he has served the party in many capacities unlike Falana. Fayemi was the chairman of the APC National Convention in Lagos where Buhari emerged as the party’s presidential candidate and was the Director, Directorate of Policy and Strategy of the APC Presidential Campaign Council. On Fashola, the president said Tinubu’s successor was chairman of the presidential fundraising committee and he worked more for his campaign unlike Mr. Yemi Cardoso, a former Lagos State Commissioner that Tinubu had proposed. New Telegraph learnt that Buhari had earlier told Fashola and Fayemi to reconcile with Tinubu to ease their appointments. It was learnt that Fayemi, through the intervention of Akande, met Tinubu in Lagos to rebuild their relationship.A source said the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, intervened on behalf of the former governors to appease Tinubu.
The president also justified the choice of Mr. Adebayo Shittu as Oyo State ministerial nominee. He added that Shittu had been with him since his days in the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). Shittu, a 2007 CPC governorship candidate in Oyo State, is not on good terms with Governor Abiola Ajimobi. Buhari said he had to defer to Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on the state’s nominee, because of their relationship since the days of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP).
While Buhari was the ANPP’s presidential candidate in the 2007 general elections, Amosun was the gubernatorial candidate of the party in Ogun State. Former National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode Mustapha, was the candidate of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. However, Buhari agreed to cede the Osun ministerial slot to Obasanjo’s candidate, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former governor of the state.
Besides the reasons adduced by the president for rejecting Tinubu’s ministerial nominees, a group of young elements close to the president worked against the APC leader. It was learnt that Governors Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna) and Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), former Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and Pastor Tunde Bakare played crucial roles in the choice of the ministers.
It was learnt that the idea was to whittle down the political influence of Tinubu as El-Rufai’s group was said to have impressed it on the president the need to cut Tinubu to size before he takes over the government. But an associate of Tinubu said his camp was not surprised about recent developments. “We knew it was a conspiracy.
I can tell you El-Rufai and Tambuwal’s marriage is that of convenience because the two of them have presidential ambition. So, let’s see how it plays out,” the source said. Also speaking on the ministerial list, National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, stated that Tinubu had lost out in the Buhari’s government. Odumakin said: “When a man thinks he’s too smart, he will ultimately dribble himself. What has happened to Tinubu is that those he launched all kinds of war against have become the victors. He never knew that the attack he was launching against them was a way of actually helping those people.
“President Buhari who appointed Fashola, Fayemi and others doesn’t want people under Tinubu’s influence in his cabinet. Now, he can’t begin to claim them after they have been appointed despite his opposition.” Former Chairman, Presidential Advisory Council on National Conference, Senator Femi Okunroumu, also told New Telegraph that his prediction had come to pass that Tinubu would be humiliated by Buhari. “I am having a good laugh. This is what I expected. In any case, Tinubu is stretching his luck too far as he wants to dictate who will rule Nigeria. Tinubu’s wings need to be clipped.
With the ministerial list, Tinubu has been dumped. He should not just be dumped, he should be disgraced,” Okurounmu told New Telegraph. Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, said he was not surprised with Buhari’s approach to governance. “I’m not disappointed at all. I warned before the election that Buhari would not change, although he said he is a converted democrat.
“APC is not a party; it is a gang of people whose sole aim was to remove Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as president. In a real party, you share the spoils of office before elections not after elections. This is what is happening in APC. We warned our people, but they failed to listen,” Adebanjo said.
New Telegraph also gathered at the weekend that ahead of tomorrow’s screening of the ministerial nominees, lobbying had begun among geopolitical zones to corner portfolios considered juicy for their kinsmen. Senate President Bukola Saraki is expected to read out the full list of 21 nominees who made the first batch of the federal cabinet tomorrow.
Besides Fayemi and Fashola, other ministerial nominees included Senator Chris Ngige, Amaechi, Lt-General Abdurrahman Dambazzau (rtd), Senator Aisha Al-Hassan, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Mallam Abubakar Malami (SAN) and Senator Sirika Hadi.
A top party source confided in New Telegraph that although Buhari could not be directly approached by the nominees, their lobbyists commenced moves to engage the services of those they considered close to the president to make a case for them. It was gathered that the most sought after ministries are those of Justice, Works, Finance, Defence and Interior. For the Finance Ministry, while some powerful APC elements are already said to have argued that the portfolio had eluded the region for too long, APC leaders from the South-West are also making a case for one of their own to be the next Finance Minister. Same argument is being pushed in respect of the Agriculture Ministry.
For the Justice Ministry, Fashola and Malami are strong contenders, even as close confidants of the president, like Alhaji Ahmed Joda, are favourably disposed to Malami who once served as national legal adviser of the defunct CPC. For the Works Ministry, some APC elders were said to be rooting for Onu.
However, some Northerner leaders were said to be rooting for a nominee from the zone, whose name is to be in the second batch of the ministerial nominees to be sent to the Senate. The source said: ”I think lobby is part of politics; it is allowed like the would be ministers are said to be doing with the senators.
We like it because as a party, we have no intention to coerce the senators to give the nominees a blanket clearance. Let all prove their worth before the lawmakers. ”The only thing we find laughable is that aspect of going beyond that level to scheme for specifics in the planned cabinet.
”You know that people are naturally insatiable in their wants, especially when it comes to politics, nothing is seen to be enough until the last is given out. ”As a party, we all waited for this moment in anxiety and apprehension because no one knew before now, I think no one still knows what is contained there.
”But it is curious and unexpected that some persons are already lobbying to be made minister of this, minister for this, it is wrong because the thing is already generating interregional concerns among the party leadership. ”All we know is that President Buhari has picked his team.
They have to work as a team and not what any of them desire to hold as a portfolio. Only the president has the right to allocate offices and he should be given the chance to so do. ”For God’s sake, what do we want a juicy ministry for? Under the present arrangement, there is nothing like Grade A or B ministry. So, for those who have the chance of being nominated that are already lobbying for specific portfolios, they will be disappointed at the end of the day.”

2016 Budget’ll Diversify Nigeria’s Economy – PMB

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that the 2016 national budget is being fashioned in a manner that would accommodate fresh policies and measures to encourage rapid diversification of the Nigerian economy away from its current over-dependence on the oil and gas sector.
The president hinted this during a meeting with the president of the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF), Mr. Pierre Gattaz, and a delegation of French investors.
LEADERSHIP recalls that following Buhari’s visit to France last month, firms under MEDEF had offered to visit Nigeria between October 4 and 7, with a view to exploring its business climate for possible investment in the country.
The president had got this assurance at a meeting with French firms and investors who had converged at the Nigerian-France presidential business forum held at the headquarters of MEDEF in Paris three weeks ago.
Buhari’s visit to that country may have started yielding results, as the umbrella organization of French investors, made up of 800,000 French manufacturing firms and businesses, met with him behind closed doors at Aso Rock, Abuja, yesterday.
At the meeting, Buhari stated that policies being evolved by his administration to boost domestic manufacturing and attract greater investment in Nigeria’s agricultural and mining sectors would be given full effect under the 2016 budget.
The delegation of the French investors that met with President Buhari included over 50 companies with interest in manufacturing, agriculture, infrastructure development and other areas.
The president’s senior special assistant on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, noted in a statement after the meeting that the president urged Gattaz and the French trade mission to return to Nigeria again next year in order to take full advantage of the new policies.
Buhari also assured the French investors that, under his leadership, Nigeria will not fall short of international standards in the protection of foreign investments and the repatriation of returns on such investments.
According to Shehu, the president admitted that domestic security and the inflow of foreign investment were intrinsically linked, and gave the assurance that his government was taking all necessary measures to overcome Nigeria’s security challenges.
The presidential aide quoted the president as saying, “Our government came into office at a time when many people had abandoned the country’s manufacturing, agricultural and mining sectors.
“We are doing our utmost best to encourage diversification into these sectors which can employ a lot of people and we will welcome your support in this regard. Ultimately, reducing unemployment will also help to improve security because unemployment and insecurity are inseparable.”
Buhari further said that Nigeria would also welcome more French investment in its power sector because the availability of steady power would lead to the reopening of closed factories and the creation of more jobs.
He also assured the delegation that his administration was tackling corruption with vigour to ensure greater probity in the management of national resources.
Earlier, MEDEF president, Gattaz, who spoke on behalf of the French investors, had sought assurances from President Buhari on the safety of their planned investments in Nigeria and the easing of bureaucratic bottlenecks.
He noted at the business forum that the organisation’s delegation that would embark on the trade mission to Nigeria next month would consist of prospective investors with varieties of interests in area like agriculture, mining, automobile, energy, skills development, light manufacturing, food processing, military and civilian transportation services and “business to consumer” products among many others.

Buhari confirms plan to reduce ministries

• To retain a minister per state
• ‘Badly’ privatised public assets to be
revoked
• MDAs to receive zero budgeting framework
AS part of measures to reduce redundancy
in public service, President Muhammadu
Buhari is working on reducing the number
of federal ministries which currently stands
at about 28.
He intends to merge those with similar
functions.The Guardian had recently
reported the plan to reduce ministries.
Also, state-owned enterprises dubiously
allocated to friends or relations under the
guise of privatisation are to be reviewed
and reclaimed by the Federal Government
while those that went through transparent
and credible processes are to be retained by
their investors.
However, to abide by the provisions of the
Nigerian Constitution that each state shall be
represented by a minister at the federal
cabinet, the President will still recommend
36 ministerial nominees to the Nigerian
Senate for consideration.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo revealed these
plans of the Buhari-government in a chat
with The Guardian and two other media
organisations in Abuja at the weekend.
The implication is that most of the ministers
to be appointed would serve as Ministers of
State to the few senior or supervising
ministers.
Osinbajo explained that the plan is part of
an overall strategy to reduce waste of public
resources and channel same to human
capital investment and key infrastructural
revival.
The Vice President was responding to
questions during the chat on the Federal
Government’s economic agenda.
He said: “Definitely, we are not going to
have as many ministries as we have now
and there is no question at all about that.
The President has made it quite clear that he
intends to work with fewer ministers and of
course you may not have fewer ministers
because the constitution says you must have
a minister from every state. But surely we
must have fewer ministries. That’s
definitely what the President has said not
once or twice and I believe that we will
overcome.”
On the privatisation of public assets,
Osinbajo said: “Obviously, there is no
intention whatsoever to roll back
privatisation. Government generally must
honour the obligations because government
is a continuum. But suppose what has
happened in some cases, for example, is that
there was no bidding process and if it was
just mere allocation? Some of the noisiest
people who complain about policies that
would not favour them are people who have
benefitted from the system where things
were not done properly.
There is no reason why anybody will
interfere with the process that was done
properly, but if you were just allocated a
major government facility without due
bidding process, then, it is the duty of
government to ensure that you are put
through the right process. When individuals
have been allocated resources that are very
beneficial and there was no due process,
then, it cannot be allowed to stand.
Look at the bidding process that took place
for telecoms in 2001 and even some of the
bidding processs for some of the National
Independent Power Project (NIPP) plants
although that was stalled and we have to
reopen it. People would come forward and
make completive bids. That’s the way
government grows its resources and you
can’t give people gifts that belong to
everybody. Privatisation must have
integrity, must be transparent and must be
proper.
As chairman of National Council on
Privatisation (NCP) I very, very strongly
believe in privatisation in the first place
and I believe that it’s the way to go. I also
believe that the process must be strictly
transparent and it must be clear to all that
there are no entries through back-doors or
anything not transparent. It must be stated
that there is no intention to roll back any of
the privatisation process that has already
taken place,” he reassured.
Speaking on the preparation of the 2016
Fiscal Plan of the Federal Government,
Osinbajo said efforts were already on, just
as he expressed the hope that the budget
would not suffer too much delay as the
framework will be submitted to Ministries,
Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on
Tuesday for their input.
His words: “What we are doing at the
moment is on the Medium Term
Expenditure Framework (MTEF) in
particular and we expect that it would be
submitted to the House of Representatives
very shortly.
‘‘We also have many ministries already
working and by Tuesday we would be
sending guidelines for the zero budget
process and all of that. We have tried to
sensitise the heads and have held several
meetings between the revenue generating
agencies and the Budget Office, the National
Planning Commission (NPC) all the revenue
generating agencies, like Customs, Federal
Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and others.
We are basically meeting and working out
the parameters for the new budgeting
system and would by Tuesday, be sending
the guidelines to the MDAs. We are trying to
work round the clock, holding meetings
daily. It’s a rigorous process and I don’t
want to commit to any timeline or dates and
anyway very soon we are going to have our
ministers in place.”
Meanwhile, the Director-General of the
NILS, Dr. Ladi Hamalai, who has been
talking on the place of the institute and its
relevance in the overall contribution to the
political and economic growth, regretted
that the bill seeking the establishment of the
Budget Office of the National Assembly in
Nigeria suffered a set back leading to it’s
being thrown out.
She gave assurance, however, that NILS, as
part of the research base of the National
Assembly would spearhead the
representation of the bill and push for its
passage.
Hamalai explained that the passage would
correct the erroneous perception by a
section of the population that the National
Assembly was not productive enough.
She said: “We are working on it and very
soon we will re-present the bill for the
Budget Office of the National Assembly
because of its importance to even the
lawmakers and for the speedy passage of
budget proposals by the executive."

By : Godwin Onoghokere

VERY REVEALING!!! HOW NIGERIA'S EX - MINISTER OF PETROLEUM MADUEKE LAUNDERED LOOTED MONEY, HER ACCOMPLICES REVEALED

An investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed
some of the ways in which former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and her network of accomplices, family members, and shell companies sought to conceal and launder an astonishing amount of the former minister’s corruptly acquired wealth. The laundered funds are the focus of twin investigations by British and Nigerian anti-corruption agencies.
Last Friday, the International Corruption Unit of the
British National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Mrs.
Alison-Madueke and four other suspects in London.
SaharaReporters has exclusively obtained intelligence
documents and briefing on financial information
regarding Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s extensive acts of
corruption and money laundering. Our investigation
also involved interviews with several individuals in
possession of highly sensitive information about the
illicit flow of funds to the former minister’s front
companies and individuals.
An intelligence analyst with intimate knowledge of the
embattled ex-minister’s family and business network
told SaharaReporters that UK investigators were
focusing on several real estate properties in the United
Kingdom. The source added that “[Diezani Alison-
Madueke] was most likely aware that the Crown
Prosecution [in the UK] was investigating her
properties going back as early as 2013.”
SaharaReporters learned that British prosecutors
decided to be low-key about their investigation of Mrs.
Alison-Madueke’s suspicious ownership of real estate
assets in the UK because the UK Foreign Office and
security establishment did not want to unsettle UK-
Nigerian ties by going after the former minister during
the administration of former President Goodluck
Jonathan.
Sources in the Nigerian government and law
enforcement told SaharaReporters that the National
Crime Agency (NCA), which arrested Mrs. Alison-
Madueke and four other suspects last Friday, did so
unilaterally and without the cooperation of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
However, once the EFCC read media reports about
Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s arrest, their agents moved
swiftly to search her residences in Abuja and
elsewhere in Nigeria. The EFCC’s action led to media
reports, now established to be misleading, that UK and
Nigerian authorities were coordinating their
investigations of the former minister.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke was the most powerful minister
in the Jonathan administration, and had long been
linked to shady deals and policies in Nigeria’s oil
sector. She fled Nigeria in May, days before the
official end of her tenure as Minister of Petroleum and
the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration.
Earlier in May, SaharaReporters reported that Mrs.
Alison-Madueke booked herself a seat on the same
flight in which then President-elect Buhari was
traveling to London, and made awkward attempts to
strike up a conversation with Mr. Buhari. A source on
the flight told SaharaReporters that Mr. Buhari quietly
ignored the former minister during the flight.
A Nigerian who met Mrs. Alison-Madueke in the UK said the former minister claimed she was receiving medical treatment.
HOW ALISON--MADUEKE LOOTED NIGERIA AS OIL MINISTER:
Two of our sources said that the former Petroleum
Minister acquired an astonishing sum of looted funds
through shady dealings that included theft of kerosene
subsidy payments, manipulation of fuel subsidy
payments, so-called swap deals in which she used a
number of personal and corporate fronts to sell
Nigerian crude oil that was meant to be refined and
brought back for local consumption, fraudulent
acquisition of marginal oil fields and allocation of other
lucrative oil field to fronts.
Our sources disclosed that Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s
most daring fraudulent deals were her strategic
partnership agreements with two respective companies
officially owned by her most notorious fronts, Jide
Omokore and Kola Aluko. The agreements were worth
over $6 billion, according to one source. He added that
another avenue of money laundering by the former
minister was the controversial Malabu deal in which
she, former Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke, and
President Goodluck Jonathan may have pocketed close
to $2 billion between them.
Our financial intelligence source said Mrs. Alison-
Madueke was able to get away with her deals and
schemes in the oil industry because she was “one of
[former President] Jonathan’s money managers.” The
same source pointed out that the Jonathan
administration had designed the Petroleum Industry
Bill (PIB) to give Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-
Madueke “sweeping discretionary powers to award
contracts, licenses, and leases for the Nigerian
petroleum industry.”
ACCOMPLICES AND COMPANIES IN MRS. ALISON-- MADUEKE'S ORBIT:
SaharaReporters learned that several key individuals
helped the former minister to hide her loot. Two
separate intelligence reports identified one Donald
Chidi Amamgbo as a key figure in Mrs. Alison-
Madueke’s money laundering activities. Mr. Omokore,
Mr. Aluko and Walter Wagbatsoma were also named
as close collaborators in the former minister’s
suspicious web of financial activities.
Mr. Aluko, who went to near-anonymity to become a
flashy, high-flying and yacht-owning “entrepreneur,”
was identified as a “money-launderer” for Mr.
Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke. Our source
claimed that Mr. Aluko recently bought several real
estate properties in Los Angeles and New York ranging
between $8 million and $23 million. Recently, rap
mogul, Jay Z, and his wife, Beyoncé, spent their
vacation on a $50 million yacht owned by Mr. Aluko.
According to our source, Mr. Aluko’s flamboyant
lifestyle led Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke to
decide to use more discreet fronts. Besides, the
source added, Mr. Aluko also fell out with the former
Petroleum Minister Diezani when he absconded with
funds he was supposed to have laundered for her and
the former president.
Mr. Aluko’s Atlantic Energy, formerly known as Atlantic
Energy Drilling Concept Limited (AEDCNL), was one of
the major corporate entities used to stash away the
former minister’s looted funds. Mr. Aluko established
the company in Zug, Switzerland, along with Nigerian
national Temidayo Adeoye Okusame and British
national Oscar Seda Mbeche.
In July 2015, SaharaReporters had published an
investigative report that revealed connections between
Mrs. Alison-Madueke, Nigerian Petroleum Development
Company (NPDC), and Atlantic Energy. This website
reported, “on July 19, 2010, Atlantic Energy Drilling
Concept Limited (AEDCNL) was incorporated as a
portfolio company,” adding that this was barely three
months after Mrs. Alison-Madueke assumed office as
the Minister of Petroleum Resources. The report
continued: “Atlantic Energy, even without prior record
of successful experience in the oil and gas sector,
announced that it had entered into a Strategic Alliance
Agreement (SAA) with the Nigerian Petroleum
Development Company (NPDC) in April 2011. That was
exactly six months before AEDCNL was legally born.”
One oil industry expert told SaharaReporters that there
was widespread shock when Mrs. Alison-Madueke
awarded an unknown company like Atlantic Energy a
strategic agreement with the NPDC “without following
any process as stipulated in the government
procurement laws and policy.” The stated that oil
industry operators knew that the deal between Atlantic
Energy and the NPDC “was an unholy arrangement”
between the former minister, top NPDC officials, Kola
Aluko and Jide Omokore. He identified Mr. Omokore as
a “controversial business mogul” and political
financier.
According to a report published by the Natural
Resource Governance Institute, Atlantic Energy had
entered into strategic alliance deals with the NPDC for
at least five oil blocks or oil mining leases.
Walter Wagbatsoma, also listed as a “money manager”
for the former Petroleum Minister, runs several
companies that investigators found to be entangled in
Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s financial activities. An
intelligence report discussing Mr. Wagbatsoma’s
business dealings found that “he holds a private plane,
said to be bought by [Mrs. Alison-Madueke], probably
in 2011, in trust for the Petroleum Minister.”
However, Mr. Wagbatsoma is associated with a
shadowy energy company named Ontario Oil and Gas,
which trades Nigerian crude on international markets
and whose directors are currently facing money-
laundering trial in Nigerian courts. According to the
Berne Declaration, an independent watchdog
organization, Ontario Oil and Gas continues to export
Nigerian crude despite accusations by the Nigerian
government that the company misappropriated more
than 4.2 billion naira—and arrests of the firm’s
executives by the EFCC. According to the company’s
own website, it exports at least 2 million barrels of
crude oil a month.
The Natural Resource Governance Institute reported
that Ontario Oil and Gas, along with another company,
Aiteo, saw “their shares of the Nigerian crude and
products markets grow rapidly under the Jonathan
government,” despite their very limited experience. The
report also noted: “Ontario relied on a few foreign
traders to take its [petroleum] allocation to market.”
Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s third accomplice, who was
described as such in two separate intelligence reports
leaked to SaharaReporters, is Donald Chidi Amamgbo.
Mr. Amamgbo reportedly studied law at Howard
University in Washington, DC at the same time Mrs.
Alison-Madueke was studying there as a student of
architecture. It is believed that they met each other in
DC.
According to biographical information available in
intelligence reports, in January 2012 Mr. Amamgbo was
suspended from practicing law in California, where he
relocated, for one year. However, his main focus
seemed to have already turned to managing three
companies under his ownership, specifically Tidax
Energy, Mezcor SA, and Lynear SA.
Tradax, Mezcor, and Lynear are all based out of
Geneva, Switzerland and all three are connected to a
Portuguese national, Daniel Roy Joanes, and an
American national, Richard Levinson. The Natural
Resources Governance Institute characterized Tridax
as an example of suspicious conduct because the
firm’s “corporate structures stretch outside Nigeria.”
The report found that Mr. Amamgbo owned 49% of
Tridax with the remaining 51% of the ownership
belonging to Tridax Oil domiciled in Switzerland.
Further tracing the corporate structure of Tridax, it
was revealed that 100% of it is owned by a sister
company based in Malta, with 99% of that company
owned by Calpenergy Fund in Gibraltar, with 67% of it
owned in turn by Daniel Roy Joanes, with the
remaining 33% owned by Turicum Private Bank also
located in Gibraltar. This kind of circuitous ownership
arrangement often typifies an attempt by a corporate
entity’s real owners to hide their identities.
SaharaReporters obtained an intelligence report that
stated, “Mezcor SA is clearly the lead company of the
three run by Amamgbo.” Mr. Amamgbo also owns 49%
of Mezcor, with the remaining 51% owned by Mr.
Joanes and Mr. Levinson. Mr. Joanes, who previously
worked as an asset manager for Clariden Leu, later
worked for Bank Hapoalim. He also owns NFS
Partners, which is co-located in the same office as
Mezcor in Geneva.
Mr. Levinson is described in one report as having “a
scandalous past” and has the dubious distinction of
owning one of the first companies to be suspended by
the US government for fraudulent activity during
reconstruction after the Iraq War in 2003. According to
the Wall Street Journal, “a [US] federal jury in
Alexandria, VA found that Custer Battles [owned by
Levinson] defrauded the US government of $3 million
by filing faked invoices.”
US authorities later discovered that Mr. Levinson’s
companies billed the American government $10 million
for work estimated to actually cost only $4 million. In
a curious corporate sleight of hand, Mr. Levinson sold
Custer Battles to Danubia Global Inc., a company
based in Bucharest, Romania, for one dollar. It turned
out that he owned Danubia as well.
One intelligence investigation found that Mr. Levinson
“acts as a director of the five companies [in which]
Daniel Roy Joanes is also a director.”
According to another investigation, Tridax is a
beneficiary of one of “38 contracts for 1,179,000
barrels per day crude lifting awarded by the [Nigerian]
Federal Government last year.” The NNPC, which
awards these contracts, also awarded a contract to
Mezcor SA and two companies it worked with—India
Oil Company and Fujairah Refinery.
These companies’ ties to Mrs. Alison-Madueke extend
beyond questionable crude oil lifting contracts and her
relationship with Mr. Donald Chidi Amamgbo.
Investigators showed SaharaReporters documents that
established that Timi John Agama, the former
Petroleum Minister’s younger brother, has a financial
stake and is a part owner of both Mezcor and Tridax.
THE Madueke-Agama FAMILY BUSINESS NETWORK:
SaharaReporters has learned, from profiles of Mrs.
Alison-Madueke’s sons, brothers, and nephews, that
the family’s core businesses are suspiciously located
at a single address: Unit 8, Quebec Buildings,
Manchester M3 7DU in the United Kingdom. The main
business is listed as Hadley Petroleum Solutions Ltd.
But other corporate entities registered at the same
location include Ryan and Bell Solutions Ltd., Callserv
Ltd., Parrot Mobile Ltd., Mail Express Ltd., and Stone
International Ltd.
All these companies are associated with close
members of Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s family, including
nephews Abu Fari, Abiye Agama, Somze Agama, and
her son, Ugonna Madueke. According to one
intelligence report, “key in the Diezani Alison-Madueke
family business structure is her elder brother, Doye,
who is a Pentecostal Archbishop based in Manchester,
UK. SaharaReporters learned that in addition to his
business activities with the Madueke-Agama family,
Bishop Agama presides over the Apostolic Pastoral
Congress located in Manchester, UK.
Before becoming part of the clergy in 1994, Mr. Doye
Agama worked as a telecommunications consultant to
the oil industry, central and local government and the
emergency services.
Investigators told SaharaReporters that Mrs. Alison-
Madueke owns a number of properties in the United
Kingdom and the United States, under a variety of
names, often those of her family. One property,
located in London at 22 Parkwood, St. Edmunds
Terrace, St John's Wood, London, NW8 7QQ is
registered in the name of her mother, Beatrice
Agama. Her younger brother, Timi John Agama, has a
property registered under his name at 67, Wades Hill,
Winchmore Hill, London, N21 1AU.
The former minister’s elder brother, Bishop Agama,
has a property located at 27 Tavistock Square,
Holburn, London, WC1H 9HH registered to his name.
Winihin Ayuli-Jemide, a younger sister to Mrs. Alison-
Madueke, is active in organizing a series of
conferences ostensibly to empower African women.
Her seminars are called the Winihin Jemide Series.
Curiously, her conferences and seminars are often held
in cities like London and Vienna where her elder sister,
Mrs. Alison-Madueke, is suspected to have business
interests. The former minister was often invited to
speak at the conferences.
In the United States, the former Petroleum Minister
owns three properties that are registered under her
maiden name, Diezani K. Agama. They include a posh
apartment located at 1220 West Highway, Silver
Spring, Maryland, with the zip code of 20910. Her son,
Ugonna Madueke, has at least three properties
registered in his name, two in Virginia and one in
Maryland. The former minister’s son’s properties in
Virginia are located at 11711 Scooter Lane, Fairfax, VA
22030, and 4227 Summit Manor Ct, Fairfax, VA 22033.
His property in Maryland is at 13116 Silver Maple Ct,
Bowie, MD 20715.
The former minister’s husband, Admiral Alison
Amaechina Madueke, was Nigeria’s former Chief of
Naval Staff. On retiring, Mr. Madueke went into the
maritime services business, serving as the chairman or
director of numerous companies, including Radam
Maritime Services Ltd.

By : Godwin Onoghokere

CSNAC Petitions EFCC Over N67.2b Illegal Withdrawal UNDER Jonathan

The Civil Society Network against Corruption (CSNAC), has petitioned the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the movement of N67.2billion from the
Central Bank of Nigeria under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
In a petition written by the coalition’s chairman,
Olanrewaju Suraju, and made available to
journalists, the group said it is demanding a swift and
thorough investigation into these allegations in order to
recover the nation’s dwindling resources at the hands
of unscrupulous elements and the deserved
punishments meted out where necessary.
“In its publication of the 19th day of September, 2015,
the Premium Times, an online newspaper reported that
the former President Goodluck Jonathan, authorized
the withdrawal of a whopping N67.2 billion in cash
from the Central Bank of Nigeria between November
2014 and February 2015 for what was called ‘special
services’ during the lead up to the 2015 general
elections. Insiders at CBN said the huge cash was
carted away in bullion vans.
“The report further states that one of the withdrawals
was made through a memo which originated from the
office of the former National Security Adviser Sambo
Dasuki, while the second was generated by the
National Petroleum Investment Management Services
(NAPIMS), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation in charge of the Federal
Government’s investment in the petroleum industry.”
Furthermore, the report states ‘the first memo dated
November 2014 contained a request for the withdrawal
of $47 million cash out of N10 billion earmarked for
release for an unbudgeted ‘special services’. In the
memo with reference number NSA/366/S and titled:
’Request for Funds for Special Services’, an official
from Mr Dasuki’s office had drawn the CBN’s
governor’s attention to a previous discussion and
requested the release of the said funds by the bank’.
“The balance from the N10 billion the memo directed
was to be paid out in Euro, while a certain Director of
Finance and Administration with the name S. A. Salisu,
was authorized to sign and receive the haul of US
Dollars and Euro in cash, on behalf of the NSA’s office.
"It remains unknown for what purpose the ‘special
services’ fund was utilized.”
While stating that the huge withdrawals violate the
Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 which was
signed by the ex-president, the group noted that the
transaction was a brazen disregard for the rule of law
and due process that should be condemned and
discouraged. “From the foregoing, this is another case
of high profile corruption and money laundering that
deserves a thorough investigation to identify the key
players and circumstances surrounding the movements
of such huge sums of money.
“One would wonder how a President who signed an
important act such as the Money Laundering Act into
law will now be responsible for flouting the same
enactment, whether personally or through his stooges,”
the petition said.
THE FULL PETITION CAN BE FOUND BELOW:
23rd September, 2015
The Chairman,
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
No. 5, Fomella Street,
Off Adetokunboh Ademola Crescent,
Wuse II, Abuja.
Dear Sir,
REQUEST FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE
CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE MOVEMENT OF
N67.2 BILLION FROM THE CBN UNDER THE FORMER
PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ADMINISTRATION
FOR “SPECIAL SERVICES”
Civil Society Network against Corruption (CSNAC) is a
coalition of over hundred and fifty Anti-corruption
organizations whose primary aim is to constructively
combat corruption vigorously and to ensure the
effective monitoring of the various Anti-graft agencies
in the fight against corruption and contribute towards
the enthronement of transparency, accountability,
probity and total commitment in the fight to eradicate
corruption in Nigeria.
In its publication of the 19th day of September, 2015,
the PremiumTimes, an online newspaper reported that
the former President Goodluck Jonathan authorised
the withdrawal of a whopping N67.2billion in cash
money from the Central Bank of Nigeria between
November 2014 and February 2015 for what was called
‘special services’ in the build up to the 2015 general
elections. Insiders at CBN said the huge cash were
carted away in bullion vans.
The report further stated that one of the withdrawals
was made through a memo which originated from the
office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo
Dasuki, while the second was generated by the
National Petroleum Investment Management Services,
NAPIMS, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation in charge of the Federal
Government’s investment in the petroleum industry.
Furthermore, according to the report, ‘The first memo
dated November, 2014 contained a request for the
withdrawal of $47 million cash out of N10billion
earmarked for release for an unbudgeted ‘special
services’. In the memo with reference number
NSA/366/S and titled:’Request for Funds for Special
Services’, an official from Mr Dasuki’s office had
drawn the CBN’s governor’s attention to a previous
discussion and requested the release of the said funds
by the bank’. The balance from the N10billion, the
memo directed, was to be paid out in Euro, while a
certain Director of Finance and Administration with the
name S. A. Salisu, was authorised to sign and receive
the haul of US Dollars and Euro in cash, on behalf of
the NSA’s office. It remains unknown for what
purpose the ‘special services’ fund was utilized.
Also, the second memo raised by NAPIMS and dated
February 25, 2015 conveyed an instruction to the
Director Banking and System Payment Department of
the CBN to urgently pay in cash, the sum of
$289,202,382 (N52.7 billion) to the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA). ‘Upon receipt of this
mandate, please pay urgently the under listed
beneficiary the cash amount indicated. Please debit
CBN/JVCC Foreign Account No. 000000011658360
with the JP Morgan Chase New York and advise (sic)
as soon as the payment is made’. The payment
instruction in favour of the NIA was signed by one
Okonkwo Godwin, General Manager, Finance, NAPIMS,
with staff no 18526 on February 25, 2015. However,
sources claimed the funds were taken away at night
with bullion vans under heavy security cover. When
contacted, according to Premiumtimes, "the CBN’s
Director, Corporate Communications, Ibrahim Muazu
declined comments as well as former spokespersons
of the former president. However, a senior official of
the bank on the condition of anonymity confirmed the
report. He said ‘My brother, the report is true. Every
detail is on point but since they claimed the
withdrawal was for security services, anything could
have been referred to as such. Nobody knows”
These huge withdrawals violate the Money Laundering
(Prohibition) Act 2011 which was signed by Mr.
Jonathan. According to Part 1, Section 1 of the law,
“No person or body corporate shall, except in a
transaction through a financial institution, make or
accept cash payment of a sum exceeding- (a)
N5,000,000.00 or its equivalent, in the case of an
individual; or (b) N10,000,000.00 or its equivalent in
the case of a body corporate.”
Section 16(d) of the Act says anyone who makes or
accepts cash payments exceeding the amount
authorised under this Act shall upon conviction be
liable to a forfeiture of 25% of the excess above the
limits placed in section 1 of the Act.
From the foregoing this is another case of high profile
corruption and money laundering that deserves a
thorough investigation to identify the key players and
circumstances surrounding the movements of such
huge sums of money. One would wonder how a
president who signed an important Act such as the
Money Laundering Act into law will now be responsible
for flouting the same enactment, whether personally or
through his stooges. This is a brazen disregard for the
rule of law and due process that should be prosecuted
appropriately to serve as deterrent.
In the light of this, CSNAC is therefore by this petition
demanding that a swift and thorough investigation be
launched into the allegations as contained above, in
order to recover the nation’s dwindling resources in
the hands of unscrupulous elements and the deserved
punishments meted out where necessary.
Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.
Yours faithfully,
Olanrewaju Suraju
Chairman.

By :  Godwin Onoghokere