Pro-Jonathan protest rocks Enugu. EFCC DON'T DISTURB JONATHAN

Numbers of Igbo youths have taken to the streets, protesting the on-going probe of former Nigeria First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan.

The youths see the probe, which had culminated into the freezing of her (Mrs. Jonathan) account‎, as a calculated plot to humiliate ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

The protesters are currently heading to the Enugu office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Details soon...

Sheriff will go to jail for claiming to be PDP National Chairman – Makarfi

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday insisted that self-acclaimed National Chairman of the party, Sen Ali Modu Sheriff is not the leader of the party, stressing that Sheriff risk jail terms if he continues to lay claim to his former position.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Dayo Adeyeye, the Makarfi’s faction warned Sheriff against posing as the party chairman.

The statement reads, “We wish to state categorically that in consonance with Judgment of various Courts, which Ali Modu-Sheriff and his team of confused travelers have not bothered to appeal, the former Borno State Governor is not the Chairman of our Party, the PDP.

“His consistent claim to the Office is a continuation of their plans to sustain mayhem in our Party, but nature and fair justice have taken care of his desperation.”

“The Courts have spoken, and their pronouncements are binding. However, those who wish to spend the rest of their lives behind prison bars may continue to utter heresy against the Court.

“We hope their children would be proud to bear the family names of convicts.”

Recall that the party has been ravaged with leadership crises since the Makarfi’s faction was inaugurated earlier in the year.
Just last week, Sheriff had insisted that he remains the national leader of the party. 

Kemi Olunloyo lists Nigerians going to hell December 31

US trained journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, has listed the names of Nigerians going to hell by December 31.

The Snitch Lady, whose public criticism of people knows no bounds, said this on her Instagram page @HNNImpact.

She wrote: “Speaker Dawg-gara, Maje Ayida (Toke Makinwa Ex), every employee at Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Department of State Services, DSS and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, top the list of Nigerians who will make hell.”

N4.7bn fraud: i will ‘testify’ against Fayose – Obanikoro

Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has agreed to testify against Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose and his aide, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, in the case of N4.7billion fraud.

Punch reports that a source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), disclosed that Obanikoro said this when he visited the anti-graft agency’s office in Abuja.

“Senator Obanikoro came to the EFCC office on Monday morning as part of investigations into the N4.7bn. Since he has confessed that he was the one who collected the N4.7bn and distributed it, he is in the best position to testify in court.
“The EFCC wants him to testify against Agbele which will also build a strong case against Fayose who currently enjoys immunity. Obanikoro has agreed and will be listed as one of the EFCC witnesses.

“If Agbele is convicted, it automatically means that Fayose will also be convicted once he is charged in 2018. So let Fayose continue to play games. Omisore and Obanikoro are cooperating and returning money. Their troubles will end soon while Fayose’s own will keep getting worse.

This will compound Fayose matter..will EFCC actually Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has agreed to testify against Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose and his aide, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, in the case of N4.7billion fraud.

Punch reports that a source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), disclosed that Obanikoro said this when he visited the anti-graft agency’s office in Abuja.

“Senator Obanikoro came to the EFCC office on Monday morning as part of investigations into the N4.7bn. Since he has confessed that he was the one who collected the N4.7bn and distributed it, he is in the best position to testify in court.
“The EFCC wants him to testify against Agbele which will also build a strong case against Fayose who currently enjoys immunity. Obanikoro has agreed and will be listed as one of the EFCC witnesses.

“If Agbele is convicted, it automatically means that Fayose will also be convicted once he is charged in 2018. So let Fayose continue to play games. Omisore and Obanikoro are cooperating and returning money. Their troubles will end soon while Fayose’s own will keep getting worse. him?

Davido sported in London at Stanford bridge

Davido is currently in London and after watching the match between Chelsea and Tottenham where Chelsea won, he decided to go congratulate the guys for their victory.

It is not easy gaining access into the team’s dressing room just like that but it is being perceived that he got in there through the help of Chelsea star, Victor Moses.

Well, being a Nigerian dude, he needed to use his connection wisely which he did and it paid off as he was seen taking pictures with some of the players who also had the opportunity of meeting him one on one.

An official of Diamond Bank Plc, Ademola Oshodi, told a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Monday that he managed the bank account of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, with number 0032091183, domiciled in the bank.

Oshodi told the court that he regularly visited the chamber of Justice Ofiili-Ajumogobia on the premises of the Federal High Court on Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos, where Ofili-Ajumogobia is a judge, to collect huge cash sums to be deposited in the judge’s account.

The banker said whenever the money was above the lawful threshold that could be deposited in the judge’s account, he would split the money into two, deposit a portion into Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s account and the remaining portion in his own personal account.
The banker explained that he would subsequently transfer the money from his personal account to the judge’s account.

He added that at a time, he had to help the judge get a Bureau De Change operator, named Abah Said, who helped the judge to convert the naira sums to US dollars whenever the judge was not comfortable with the normal mode of transaction.

Oshodi said this on Monday when he appeared as a prosecution witness before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, where Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia was arraigned alongside a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Godwin Obla for alleged bribery, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and unlawful enrichment.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia and Obla on 30 counts bordering on the offences.

The charges were read to them after Justice Oshodi ordered them to move from the court gallery into the dock.

“Unfortunately, you have to be in the dock,” Justice Oshodi said.

Obla, who was dressed in a clean blue suit on a white shirt and a blue tie and Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia, who wore a black suit and skirt, were first asked by the court’s registrar if they understood English language, to which they answered in the affirmative, before the charges were read to them.

The EFCC, in the charges, alleged that Obla, while appearing in a suit, numbered FHC/L/C/482c/2010, before Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia, offered a gratification of N5m to the judge to allegedly induce her to refrain from acting in the exercise of her official duties as a public officer.

Obla, the EFCC claimed, paid the money from the account of his company, Obla & Company Limited, with United Bank for Africa, to Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia through the bank account of Nigel & Colive Limited in Diamond Bank Plc.

The EFCC claimed that the judge and the SAN acted contrary to sections 64 (1) and 97 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, No. 11, 2011.

The judge and the SAN pleaded not guilty to the offence.

In 24 out of the 30 counts, Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia was accused of unlawfully enriching herself as a public officer, contrary to the provision of Section 82(a) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State No. 11, 2011.

The judge was accused of receiving a total of $793,800 in several tranches from different sources between 2012 and 2015 “so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you cannot reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.”

The judge was further accused of forging a deed of assignment between County City Bricks Development Co. Limited and Nigel & Colive Limited, dated July 5, 2010, which the EFCC claimed was purportedly prepared and signed by Charles Musa & Co.

The offence is said to be contrary to Section 467 of the Criminal Code Cap C17, Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2003.

In count 30, the EFCC accused Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia of giving false information to one of its operatives, Lawal Abdullahi, on October 19, 2016, by allegedly claiming on the telephone to be on admission at Gold Cross Hospital, Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, while she was not there.

The offence is said to be contrary to Section 39(2) (a) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004.

Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia, however, pleaded not guilty.

Consequently, the EFCC prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, prayed for a trial date and an order remanding the defendants in the prison custody pending trial.

But Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s lawyer, Mr. Wale Akoni (SAN), and Obla’s lawyer, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), said while they had no objection to the prayer for a trial date, they were opposed to the application to remand their clients in prison.

They both informed the court that they had filed bail applications for their clients.

Akoni urged Justice Oshodi to grant Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia bail on self recognition as a judge of the Federal High Court or to grant her bail on liberal terms, with a condition that the EFCC should not be the one to verify the bail conditions.

Adedipe also prayed Justice Oshodi to grant Obla bail on self recognition, assuring the court that he would make himself available for trial.

But the EFCC prosecutor opposed them and urged Justice Oshodi not to grant the defendants bail but to order an accelerated hearing of the case.

But after standing the case down for about two hours, Justice Oshodi, in a ruling, admitted both defendants to bail on self recognition.

He ordered them to deposit N20m each and their passports to the Chief Registrar of the court pending the conclusion of trial.

The judge said the bail would be revoked if the defendants failed to meet the conditions within seven days.

The case was, however, adjourned till January 9, 2017, for continuation of trial, after the defence counsel said they were not prepared for trial.
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Who is R Amaechi?

The withdrawal of majority of the security
personnel attached to the governor of Rivers
state by Rivers state police commissioner on the
order from above is not only a mutiny attempt on
the office of the governor of Rivers state but a
rape of democratic principles.
Though this is not the first time the APC led
federal government is using the instrumentality
federal to intimate the people’s governor of
Rivers state .
Recall that the Governor of Ekiti State , Ayo
Fayose and other PDP governors who were in
Portharcourt for PDP convention were held
hostage in their lodge by men of Nigeria police
and other security agencies, while the governor
of Rivers state was also denied exit out of
Government House on the same day.
Recently, operatives of DSS mahandled the
executive governor of Rivers state in their failed
attempt to unlawfully arrest a high court judge in
Portharcourt.
At times , one begin to ask what the interest of
APC is in Rivers state , an unarguably PDP
dominated state.
A government that promised Nigerians a positive
turnaround suddenly became one that causes the
citizenry pains ,hunger and intimidation.
I want to urge the APC led federal government
and it’s agents to channel their energy to
delivering on the uncountable promises they
made Nigerians and allow the governor of Rivers
state to concentrate in his good works for the
people of Rivers state.
The legislative rerun election bid for 10th of
December is strictly a Rivers affair, only popular
candidates can emerge. It is within the powers
of the electorates to choose who represents
them at any level, no amount of security threats
and militarization can surmount the will of the
people.
Rivers people are proud and solidly behind their
performing governor, and are determined to elect
those that will work in harmony with their
governor to achieve a Better Rivers state.
The ploy to intimidate the people’s governor and
expose him to security risk is an action in futility,
because the prayers of the majority of Rivers
people will subvert what ever evil calculations of
the extremists. ..

Bright Jossy
Director ( Media & Administration )
WIKE SUPPORT GROUP.

IKPEAZU BACK TO NYSC ...STILL SERVING

The Governor of Abia State Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu today, during the swearing in of 2,296 stream 1 corps members posted to Abia State at Umunna Orientation Camp in Bende LGA, Campaigned for made in Aba NYSC regalia.

The Governor who was kitted in full made in Aba NYSC uniform, promised to take the uniform to the DG of NYSC so as to consider looking inwards for production of the uniform.
He said that Service Year is the beginning of a new era in life and further asked the corps members to reflect about what they can take away from Abia considering that they found themselves at the Capital of SMEs in Nigeria as well as center for trade and commerce. He enumerated some of his plans and achievements in Education and Agric sector and asked corps members to key into the policies.

Earlier, the NYSC State coordinator Mrs Francisca Ifon noted that the scheme is designed to expose the members to practical aspect of learning, leadership roles, Security measures, National core values, skill acquisition, as well as foster unity among citizens. She thanked the Governor for his unflinching support. She pleaded that he addresses some challenges :Renovation of dilapidated hostels, Repair of borehole and Construction of additional hostel for corps members and Staff.

The NYSC Governing board and the commissioner for youth development in Abia State, Bar Hagler Okorie explained that Governor's presence at the ceremony is a demonstration of the high regard the Governor has for the scheme. He said that government has consistently supported the scheme and will continue to do more.

Ondo Election: INEC manipulated results to favour Akeredolu – PDP

Following the defeat of its candidate, Eyitayo Jegede in the Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, manipulated the poll to favour the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Recall that Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared winner of the keenly contested election after polling 244, 842 votes to beat his closest challenger, Jegede who polled 150, 380 votes.

Reacting to the outcome of the poll, the National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, in a statement issued on Monday rejected the outcome of the poll, insisting it will appeal the result.
The party described the result declared by the INEC as a “charade and not the true reflection of the will of the people of Ondo State.”

According to the statement, PDP claimed that INEC has “graduated from inconclusive elections as seen in Kogi, Bayelsa, Osun, FCT, Imo, Nassarawa and some other previous by-elections in the Country to ‘Advanced Election Rigging’, as in the case of Edo and Ondo States Gubernatorial Elections.”

It reads further, “In view of the fact that the election was blatantly manipulated from the beginning to the end to favour the APC, we vehemently reject the results of the November 26, 2016 gubernatorial election in Ondo State. The election and all actions leading to it fall short of laid down principles guiding conduct of elections in Nigeria.

“We have instructed our candidate and the Ondo State Chapter of our party to proceed to the Tribunal to challenge the outcome of the election. We call on the judiciary to redeem Nigeria’s image on this matter as we request for the total cancellation of the election in Ondo State.
“It is common knowledge that the APC agents openly bought votes of the electorates in the full glare of security operatives who did nothing to prevent such dastardly violation of the Electoral Law.

“It is not surprising that the electorates in Ondo state became so vulnerable to the corruptive influence of the APC because of the harsh economic situation in the country inflicted on Nigerians by the APC administration which have indeed made all Nigerians virtually beggars in their own country.

“Nigerians will recall that we had persistently called for the postponement of the Election before Saturday, for at least two weeks to enable our party campaign and prepare properly for this election as a result of the setback orchestrated by Justice Okon Abang and the charlatans in PDP who allowed themselves to be used by the APC to destroy our chances in the Ondo State Election.

“The actions of INEC in collaboration with the APC led administration left us no time to campaign and sell our candidate and party manifesto to the electorates in Ondo State. Our persistent call for the postponement of the election which was backed and supported by more than 20 other political parties were all rejected by INEC which were acting the script of the APC.

“It was a carefully planned and well orchestrated strategy to rig the election well in advance by preventing the PDP from planning and campaigning for the election. The APC has hereby introduced a new formula of rigging election in Nigeria.”

Also, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, had yesterday claimed that the INEC connived with APC to rig the Ondo Governorship election in advance.
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EFCC explains why Fayose’s seized assets cannot be released

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has explained why the six houses seized from the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose may never be returned to him.

The EFCC said the houses – both in Lagos and Abuja – were confiscated via a court order issued on July 20 this year while it was investigating the governor in relation to various offences, including diversion of public funds.

It said it had in the cause of investigating Fayose, found that the houses were acquired through third parties, who it had identified and had “proceeded against.”

The EFCC said this in its counter affidavit to a motion by Fayose asking a Federal High Court in Abuja to vacate the July 20 order for temporary forfeiture of his houses.

The house include: four units of 4 bedrooms at Charlets 3, 4, 6 and 9 Plot 100 Tiamiyi Salvage Victoria Island, Lagos.

Others are: No: 44 Osun Crescent, Maitama, Abuja and Plot 1504 Yedseram Street, Maitama, Abuja.

The EFCC said, in its counter affidavit, that its investigation had revealed that houses were acquired through companies known as J.J. Technical Service, Spotless Investment Limited and one Mrs. Moji Ladeji.

It said at the expiration of the July 20 order given by Justice Nmandi Dimgba (of the Federal High Court, Abuja) for 45, it went before another judge of the court – Justice Okon Abang – for a new order of interim forfeiture granted on November 3 this year

“An order was made by this court on the 20th of July 2016 for interim attachment/forfeiture of the properties contained in this application for a period of 45 days.

“The order has since lapsed and the respondent, upon further investigation, discovered the names through which the properties were acquired and had to proceed against those names.

“The respondent (EFCC) re-attached the properties and reapplied to this honourable court for fresh order before Honourable Justice Okon Abang, which application was considered and granted.

“An order of interim or forfeiture is meant to preserve the res (subject matter) pending investigation or conclusion of trial.

“It is thus of interest to state that in view of the respondent’s exhibit EFCC1 (a copy of the order by Justice Abang), the order now being sought by the applicant has already been overtaking by time and event.

“The applicant’s (Fayose’s) application is thus, a pure waste of time and an academic exercise, which is based on nothing,” the EFCC said.

The absence of Fayose’s lead lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) prevented the hearing of the Governor’s application Monday.

Following the agreement of lawyers to both sides to return another day for the hearing, Justice Dimgba adjourned to December 19.

Shiites don’t recognize Buhari as President – El-Rufai

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has claimed that the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as the Shiites does not recogise Muhammadu Buhari as the President of the country.

El Rufai also said the group doesn’t accord him the respect as the sitting Governor of the state.

Speaking with newsmen on Sunday, the governor said that the group was outlawed by the state government because its leader, Sheihk Ibrahim El Zakzaky and members had refused to respect constituted authorities and that their activities amount to running a parallel government against the state.

According to him, the state received the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry that looked into the clashes between the IMN and army which concluded that the IMN poses a threat to the peace, security and good governance of Kaduna State.

He said, “The IMN does not recognise the constitution of Nigeria, they do not recognise Buhari as president of Nigeria, they do not recognise me as the Governor of Kaduna state. Because they have their governor, yes, they had, I think he was killed during the clash.”

He said the IMN apart from being an illegal religious organisation, was in the habit of harassing and intimidating members of the public with impunity for several years.

Meanwhile, IMN, has decried the alleged killing of its members in Kaduna by the Special Adviser to governor El-Rufai on Youths, Awwal Yaro Maikyau.‎