CONGRAT 23-year old Nigerian lady emerges best graduating student in India
Samiat, an indigene of Ikorodu, Lagos State couldn't hide her excitement after receiving her final semester result for 2016/17 academic session early this week.
She broke the good news to her friends on social
media saying "I made it! I made Islam proud! I made Nigeria proud.
Alhamdulillah, rejoice with me as I emerge the best graduating student
in my department."
She has the highest score of 75.5 % after spending more than 4years in
Ghandi's country, known to be one of the best countries in Pharmacy.
In a chat with LIB, Samiat said 'my dad, Qasim Owo-Alade has always been
there for me psychologically and financially. He kept on encouraging
me. He wanted me to be a medical doctor or an engineer while I wanted to
become an Astronaut, but to the glory of Allah, I am here today as
pharmacist."
Twitter users express outrage at Ezekiel Elliot's nude pic for ESPN's Body Issue
Japanese men find true love with silicone sex dolls
In the bid to end heartbreaks, loneliness, and the frustration to get
loyal spouses, some Japanese men have now found true love and peace with
silicone sex dolls. Photos below show how these men spend time indoor
and outdoor with their companion (sex dolls).
According to reports, around 2,000 of the life-like dolls which are sold
in Japan cost around £4,600. It comes with adjustable fingers,
removable head, and life-like genitals.
Nicki Minaj shades ex Meek Mill after JAY-Z dropped his latest album, Meek responds with a hotter shade
Oh so u niggaz gon sit up here & act like #Wifey aint BEEN tell y'all 1. Don't lose the baddest girl in the world. #EricBenet 2. Stop throwing money ya ass ain't rlly got. 3. Stop posting them tired stacks on the gram 😂😂😂😂 oh but when Jay say it it's #bible tho. Bad btchs unite!!!! We ain't BEEN droppin jewels on these niggaz behind closed doors? 😩😂ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ tuh! 😅😛😘❣️ every girl is making one of these 3 faces at a nigga right now. 😠womp womp #PrettyGang 💛 #FAX
Then he responded without mentioning her name either. He wrote:
Bank manager jailed one year for N200 million fraud
Tajudeen's journey to prison started on May 16, 2013, following a petition from Skye Bank Nigeria Plc, Jos branch, alleging that Yusuf fraudulently collected the sum of N200 million from the bank's customer, Alhaji Usman Tetengi and issued him with fake deposit certificate.
Tajudeen thereafter diverted the N200m to his personal use while all efforts to recover the funds proved abortive.
The convict was arraigned on 19th November, 2014 and he pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.
After over two years of diligent prosecution, Justice Ambrose Alagwa sentenced the convict to six months imprisonment with an option of fine of N100,000:00 ( One Hundred Thousand Naira) on counts two and three. The sentence is to run concurrently
Gov. Ben Ayade allegedly forcefully collects car he gifted Senator Florence Ita-Giwa
The former presidential adviser said the car was taken back following allegations of diversions of relief materials sent by the National Commission for Refugees to the displaced persons of Atai-Ema in Bakassi, whose houses were burnt in April 2017. Mama Bakassi had led a team of security operatives to recover some relief materials in a private residence in Calabar on June 3.
A good number of Ita-Giwa's kinsmen staged a protest in Akpabuyo over attempts to tarnish her image. Speaking shortly after the protest, Ita-Giwa condemned the action of the aides who invaded her compound in her absence.
She said, “They stormed these premises in my absence to remove the car the governor gave to me. They removed the Prado Jeep. Even if they had wanted the car, they should have written to me or waited for me to come back. But they stormed the premises in my absence and collected the car. What has car got to do with the missing relief materials?”
A letter made available newsmen after the protest indicated that the Director of Administration, Governor’s Office, David Edem, had, on June 9, requested for the return of the vehicle, Dailypost reports.
The letter read in part: “With compliments and best wishes from the office of the governor, I most respectfully request you to please return the black Toyota Land Cruiser Prado Jeep officially allocated to you by this office on September 6, 2016.
“The vehicle with chassis number JTEBX9F…71, is required to boost our depleted fleet and deepen our service delivery. Any inconvenience caused by this request is regretted, while thanking you for your understanding.”
Also, on June 15, the Transport Officer in the Governor’s Office, Bisong Egbe, acknowledged in a handwritten note that the vehicle had been received in good condition.
It read: “I acknowledge receipt of vehicle, a Prado Jeep returned by Senator Ita-Giwa. The vehicle is in good and working condition.”
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Christian Ita, while reacting to the allegation said, “We won’t join issues with her.”
Davido's brother, Adewale reacts after Jyoti Matharoo mentioned his name in her dirty IG fight
Adewale reacted via Instagram, writing 'Hoes be looking for that come up' and thanking God
for saving him from "the situation". See what Jyoti wrote about him after the cut...
Etisalat Nigeria Chairman, Hakeem Bello-Osagie, Resigns
A statement obtained by PREMIUM TIMES confirmed the development, saying
the decision followed “the approval of a restructuring plan for the
telecommunications firm.”
Mr. Bello-Osagie, the one-time Chairman of the United Bank for Africa,
UBA, was the surviving shareholder in the embattled mobile operator
currently embroiled in a $1.2 billion (about N377.4 billion) loan
repayment crisis with a consortium of 13 Nigerian banks.
He was the promoter of Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services,
EMTS, which controlled 15 per cent of the equity holding of the company
Mr. Bello-Osagie, the one-time Chairman of the United Bank for Africa, UBA, was the surviving shareholder in the embattled mobile operator currently embroiled in a $1.2 billion (about N377.4 billion) loan repayment crisis with a consortium of 13 Nigerian banks.
He was the promoter of Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services, EMTS, which controlled 15 per cent of the equity holding of the company
His resignation followed the withdrawal, two weeks ago, of the company’s major shareholder, Emirates Telecommunications Group Company, which announced the decision to quit effective June 15, 2017.
Kidnapped Director Of Ondo Board Of Internal Revenue Regains Freedom After Payment Of N5 Million Ransom
Monisola Margret Olaoye, a Director in the Ondo State Board of Internal
Revenue who was kidnapped penultimate Thursday has been released,
SaharaReporters just learned.
Mrs. Olaoye was released this evening (Thursday) by her abductors
suspected to be armed Fulani herdsmen terrorizing the notorious
Lagos-Benin expressway.
SaharaReporters gathered that the release of the female director who is
in charge of PAYE-C in the Ondo State Board of Internal Revenue was the
result of negotiation between the kidnappers and her family members.
Mrs. Olaoye was released this evening (Thursday) by her abductors suspected to be armed Fulani herdsmen terrorizing the notorious Lagos-Benin expressway.
SaharaReporters gathered that the release of the female director who is in charge of PAYE-C in the Ondo State Board of Internal Revenue was the result of negotiation between the kidnappers and her family members.
A source who is close to the victim's family confirmed the news to our correspondent in a telephone chat.
The source who pleaded anonymity said the female Director was released by the side of the road after her abductors confirmed the payment of a ransom.
"Mrs. Olaoye was released this Thursday evening by her abductors after family members and colleagues finally raised the sum of N5 million as ransom to effect her release from captivity.
Mrs. Olaoye is currently on an admission at the Trauma Centre in Ondo where she is receiving treatment because she is too weak to stand.
"Immediately, she has released some people in her office were contacted by the gunmen and she was rushed to the government facility at Ondo town," the source said in a chat.
Femi Joseph, police spokesman in Ondo State could not be reached for comment over the release of the female Director.
Mrs. Monisola Olaoye
Anxiety As Gov. Akeredolu Prepares To Forward Cabinet List To House Of Assembly
Barring last-minute change of mind, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of
Ondo State, will soon forward the list of nominees into the state
executive to the state legislature for screening and confirmation.
Sources told SaharaReporters that Mr. Akeredolu has decided on the names
to be included in his cabinet.
Twice, Mr. Akeredolu had promised that he would soon compose his cabinet. The first occasion was during the 2017 budget signing ceremony, with the other being a book launch. A top source in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) told SaharaReporters on Friday that the governor decided on the nomineess after extensive consultations and negotiations targeted at compensating those who worked for his electoral success.
Another source said Mr. Akeredolu had initially planned to have a lean cabinet made up of special advisers. That plan has been jettisoned for nominees chosen from the 18 local councils in the state.
“Don’t forget that the governor said he wanted a compact government, which would include technocrats and experts that can work with him. But we had to quickly plead with him to expand the scope of his appointment in order to accommodate some of our members, who worked hard during the election and still remain loyal,” said the source.
The arrangement decided upon, it was revealed, is not considered satisfactory by Mr.Agboola Ajayi, the deputy Governor, who is said to be sore that his input was insignificant. Sources close to Mr. Ajayi, however, denied that the deputy governor is displeased.
“That’s a lie, it is just a rumor being peddled to cause disaffection. The deputy governor is at peace with his boss over the list,” said a source close to Mr. Ajayi.
A source close to Mr. Akeredolu told this website that the list may shock many of those hoping to be nominated as commissioners and special advisers.
“The cabinet list might be a shocker to everyone because some of the names being speculated on the social media are not included. The governor may send close to 30 names.Don’t forget that the governor, last week, got approval from the House of Assembly to appoint 10 special advisers," he said.
Among those said to be on the list as commissioners is Mr. Gboyega Adefarati from Akoko Southwest Local Government Area. He is the son of a former governor, the late Mr. Adebayo Adefarati. The former governor's son got the nod over Mr. Victor Olambitan, a former House of Assembly Speaker, who is thought be the choice of the people. He is, however, tipped to be compensated with a meaty federal appointment.
From Akure South Local Government Area came two nominees Messrs.Omowunmi Olatunji and Charles Titiloye. Ose Local Government Area produced Mr.Timehin Adelegbe, a staunch supporter of Mr. Akeredolu and owner of the Royal Park Lane Hotel, Akure. His hotel was said to be the venue of numerous APC meetings both before and after the 2016 governorship election.
Sources confirmed that Mr. Adelegbe is on the list for an appointment because he has contributed immensely to Mr. Akeredolu’s political career since 2012.
The nominee from Odigbo Local Government Area is said to be Mr.Samuel Aderoboye, Speaker of House of Assembly between 1999 and 2003. He is thought to have gotten the nod over Mrs.Yetunde Adeyanju, a former commissioner under the immediate past administration, who is likely to get a juicy appointment for her contribution to the governor's victory in the council area.
Also on the list is Mr. Rasheed Badmus from Akoko Northwest Local Government Area, where he is Chairman of the party. He is said to the candidate of lawyer and pro-democracy activist, Mr. Tunji Abayomi, who hails from the council.
Insiders also hinted that majority of the political leaders in the area endorsed his nomination via a letter written to Mr. Akeredolu. His major rival for the slot is the state party secretary, Mr. Rhaman Rotimi,who has been assured of a compensatory appointment.
Mrs. Lola Fagbemi from Ondo West Local Government Area, sources told SaharaReporters, has been lined up to head the Women Affairs. Mrs. Fagbemi, abetted by Professor Ademodi, was a counter force to Mr. Bola Ilori, who hails from the council, but worked against the APC by supporting the Alliance for Democracy candidate, Mr.Olusola Oke.
Mr. Saka Yusuf-Ogunleye is said to be on the list as the nominee from Akure North Local Government Area. He saw off the bid of Comrade Dele Ologun, who mobilized the youths of the council for Mr.Akeredolu during the election
Mr. Solagbade Amodeni, a former Commissioner for Natural Resources, is the nominee from Akure Northeast Local Government Area. He was one of the earliest decampees to the APC in the state. He served as commissioner during the first term of Mr. Mimiko.
Sources, however, said his nomination has provoked a flood of petitions, but added that the governor is unlikely to change is mind. State Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Abayomi Adesanya, got the slot for Okitipupa local council.
Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo Local Government Area will be represented in the cabinet by Mr. Wale Akinterinwa, a financial expert. He trumped a former governorship aspirant, Mr. Boye Oyewunmi, who will be made a Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the governor. Akinteriwa is tipped to head either the Commerce or Finance Ministry .
In Idanre Local Government Area, sources said, it is a toss up between Messrs. Kayode Aroloye and Yemi Olowolabi
The latter is said to have the support of acting Chairman of the APC in the state, Mr.Ade Adetimehin. Mr. Olowolabi, a media consultant to Mr. Akeredolu, was Chief Press Secretary to the late Mr. Olusegun Agagu, former governor of the state.
From Ifedore Local Government Area, Mr.Akeredolu is thought to have picked Mr.Tunde Dohart, Chairman, APC Ondo State chapter in the United Kingdom.
Governor Rotimi Aketi Akeredolu
Suspected of Badoo member in Ikorodu
When he was approached and asked some few questions, his responses were not clear. He couldn't defend himself. He said he was a farmer, and that all his family members were dead. The elders in the community prevented the youths from carrying out jungle justice as they held him down before they handed him over to the police at the Igbogbo Police station where he is currently being interrogated.
Wisdom Comes To Maradona After The Whistle By Louis Odion
While we cannot take anything away from IBB's latest composition for its
poetry and perspicacity, its hypocrisy should not be allowed to pass
unchallenged, especially for the sake of the generation of Nigerians
under-30 unfamiliar with the nuances of recent history.
With intense words, retired General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida seized the last Sallah holiday to pen a strong petition against the present federal arrangement suffocating the states.
Time, he declares, has come to devolve more powers - and, of course, resources - to the constituents of the federation. With that, IBB deftly keys into the popular mood today as the Buhari administration increasingly looks helpless against centrifugal forces tugging at Nigeria's soul.
However, the Maradona of Minna has harsh words for those advocating the country's dismemberment. He even waxes poetic: "The drums of war are easy to beat, but their rhythms are difficult to dance. Starting wars or political upheavals comes with the slightest provocation, but ending them becomes inelastic, almost unending with painful footages of the wrecks of war. I have been involved and its ripples are tellingly unpalatable, with gory details of destruction and carnage."
Such stirring talk.
But IBB failed to be specific; was he nostalgic of the 30-month civil war or the national paralysis inflicted by June 12?
While we cannot take anything away from IBB's latest composition for its poetry and perspicacity, its hypocrisy should not be allowed to pass unchallenged, especially for the sake of the generation of Nigerians under-30 unfamiliar with the nuances of recent history.
One, the epistle would have sounded more sincere had the author, for once, evinced some humility by prefacing same with an apology for his poor understanding while in power and therefore the Herodian persecution of those who had foreseen and forewarned that the inherited rickety federal structure was tottering to a collapse.
Indeed, the unique convergence of historical forces of the 80s quite positioned IBB to radically alter the Nigerian narrative for good in the same way Nasser led the Egyptian military to transform the North African country from its age-old feudal squalor.
Rather, Maradona only clamped down on the likes of foremost nationalist Anthony Enahoro and courageous lawyer Alao Aka-Bashorun at the forefront of the restructure advocacy in the late 80s and early 90s. High on the agenda they were pushing then were the issues of fiscal federalism, redefinition of citizens' rights and return to parliamentary system.
Inspired by the tectonic shift in world order as signposted by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the nation's progressive community actually took practical steps to convoke a sovereign national conference in 1990. But afraid that the movement could trigger a momentum that would sweep him out of ill-gotten power, then dictator IBB sent his goons to chase and tear-gas the activists away from where they assembled in Lagos.
Across the border in Benin Republic, a similar movement had ushered the ouster of dictator Mathew Kerekou. But the latter's loss was only temporary. He would reap bounteously few years later as he got elected president democratically through a process dictated by a sanitized political order.
Again, when Maradona now pontificates that "war not romantic", we wonder if he had, by any chance, come to that wisdom before June 23 in 1993 when, without fear of God nor respect for fellow citizens, he summarily annulled the results of the June 12 presidential elections clearly won by Abiola, thus plunging the nation into needless crises, exacting heavy human casualties, inadvertently inflicting lunatic Abacha on the country for another five dark years.
Only a shameless hypocrite would canvass the kind of lofty views contained in IBB's statement of last Monday and also be implicated in the June 12 perfidy.
Or, maybe the Maradona of Minna is still groping in the darkness of poor knowledge today. Otherwise, he should know that June 12 had substantially answered some of the national questions for which answers are still being sought today. June 12 had meant an end to ethno-religious tension and suspicion.
For predominantly Christian states voted a Muslim-Muslim ticket that day. A Southern presidential candidate defeated his opponent in his own native state in north. The presidential candidate of Yoruba extraction won an Igbo state.
That was the golden chance Maradona willfully squandered. Alas, he now seeks to affect wisdom long after history had blown the whistle on his sorry reign.
Former military ruler of Nigeria Ibrahim Babangida
Buhari’s Anti-Corruption Agenda Is Crumbling - It’s Taken Saraki’s Acquittal To Really See It By Kolawole Olaniyan
On assumption of office, Buhari put fighting grand corruption, sending
high-ranking officials and politicians to jail and recovering stolen
public funds at the top of his list of priorities and political agenda,
something the public overwhelmingly supported. But over two years after,
his supposed anti-corruption agenda seems to be falling apart.
But the famous dictum that Buhari is ‘Mr. Integrity’ personified that could take on the corrupt system in the country may after all not be wholly true, if the corruption crisis and apparent lack of capacity or will by his government to end the prevailing impunity of perpetrators are anything to go by.
On assumption of office, Buhari put fighting grand corruption, sending high-ranking officials and politicians to jail and recovering stolen public funds at the top of his list of priorities and political agenda, something the public overwhelmingly supported. But over two years after, his supposed anti-corruption agenda seems to be falling apart.
The Nigerian democratic project still looks very much like a system run on a basis of self-interest and profit. The simple truth of the matter is that the Buhari/Professor Yemi Osinbajo government is neither “frying big fish” (sending top officials and politicians to jail) nor promoting the much-needed reform in the justice system that could hold corrupt leaders to account, serve as a robust protection against systemic corruption and allow access to effective remedies by those affected by corruption.
Corruption remains in full public view. A handful of Buhari’s friends have come under criticism for their apparent mixing of official position and business interests, but no charges have been brought against them. Much of the noise has been on the opposition camp.
The outcry against the recent judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal letting the Senate President Bukola Saraki off the hook by discharging and acquitting him of all false asset declaration charges, brought against him in September 2015, seems to suggest that the public is no longer having any of the excuses by the government as to why its professed anti-corruption agenda is tottering. The government has appealed the judgment but public optimism of a positive outcome appears low.
Saraki’s case is just the latest in a series of major corruption cases that the Buhari/Osinbajo government has lost in recent times. So, it has become so easy for public officials and top politicians to steal with almost absolute impunity.
This increasing level of corruption in the public sphere, and the abject failure of the criminal justice system and anti-corruption agencies to secure convictions in clearly simple corruption cases, have battered public trust and confidence, and strengthened the perception that corruption is unavoidable.
Apart from the cosmetic sacking of some officials in the Budget Office, those leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives accused of ‘padding’ the 2016 budget or tampering with our commonwealth are allowed to walk free; the president and acting president couldn’t even respond to the letter of the whistle-blower Abdulmumin Jibrin urging the government to do justice in the matter.
Several lawmakers and former governors under corruption investigation are getting away with their alleged crimes. Former first lady Patience Jonathan and some of the judges accused of corruption have also been set free, due to a combination of factors, ranging from incompetence of the criminal justice system to political expediency.
The leadership of the National Assembly and many of their members, top politicians, and state governors (who have refused to pay workers’ salaries for several months despite the so-called bailout funds they got from Buhari) are taking full advantage of the president’s absence (away in London for medical treatment) to exploit the system for financial and other benefits, and position themselves for the 2019 general elections.
The government doesn’t seem to have the capacity or will to end the growing evidence of intense inter-agency rivalry and conflicts within the security and anti-corruption agencies.
The justice system and key anti-corruption agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Code of Conduct Tribunal, you name it—that are supposed to provide accountability—seem overwhelmed and overpowered by Aso Rock power brokers, the leadership of the National Assembly, state governors, and no match for a small but powerful group of politicians, a coterie of elite bureaucrats, and those in their inner circle.
The tragedy of the country’s criminal justice system is that it’s quick to impose maximum punishment on petty criminals while curiously reluctant to get tough with top officials and politicians who confuse their private accounts with the public treasury.
A government’s role, especially in a democracy, is first and foremost to uphold the rule of law but under Buhari/Osinbajo’s watch, the judiciary and operation of the rule of law have weakened considerably, to the point that orders of properly constituted courts are now routinely disobeyed by the government.
A landmark judgment by Justice Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to publish and account for the spending of recovered stolen public funds since the return of democracy in 1999, and another by Justice Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordering the release of the leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeinab, remain ignored.
Yet, persistent disobedience of court orders is a recipe for state tyranny and corruption to grow and take even deeper root.
The country is dropping deeper into a pattern of corruption, impunity, insecurity, and instability; with Nigerians still feeling a complete disconnect between what’s happening down in Aso Rock, and what’s happening on their doorstep.
This isn’t the ‘change’ that Nigerians apparently voted for.
It’s rather unfortunate that Nigerian politicians seem more concerned with their personal gratification than the relief of poverty and suffering of their own people. The love for public treasury and personal aggrandizement has in effect dried up in them the milk of human kindness. Systemic corruption has caused majority of the citizens to fall below an unacceptable level of well-being while corrupt officials are taking care of their own families, relatives and associates.
Let there be no mistake: Nigerians won’t buy into the Buhari and Osinbajo’s anti-corruption agenda if they can’t even challenge corrupt behaviors within their own government.
It’s true that corruption cannot be eradicated overnight but combating the problem requires a fundamental change of direction, and not more of the same. Radical reforms of the anti-corruption laws and institutions are overdue, and must begin to happen now, if the country’s anti-corruption agencies are to become more independent and free from the whims and caprices of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
The fight against corruption has to be backed by firm and fair enforcement of the laws, and effective sanctions if top officials and politicians are not to continue to get away with their crimes. The judiciary and anticorruption agencies themselves would need to break free of the corrupt system to hold corrupt leaders to account, challenge the political elites and spoil their efforts to protect themselves.
Until Buhari and Osinbajo restore public trust in the criminal justice system and the credibility and legitimacy of anticorruption agencies, the corruption crisis would get even worst. If Buhari and Osinbajo are sincere about ‘rooting out corruption and jailing top officials’, the time is now for them to show courage and political will, and seize the initiative to revitalize the government’s crumbling anti-corruption agenda.
Olaniyan is the author of ‘Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa’.
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