Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Female UNILAG student electrocuted at Campus hostel

Female UNILAG student electrocuted at Campus hostel

A female University of Lagos student was electrocuted yesterday Sept. 8th after a high tension cable fell on her in front of the Sodeinde hall of residence in the campus. According to reports, the young lady was immediately rushed to the Lagos state Teaching Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. Sad! May her soul rest in peace, Amen.
A female University of Lagos student was electrocuted yesterday Sept. 8th after a high tension cable fell on her in front of the Sodeinde hall of residence in the campus. According to reports, the young lady was immediately rushed to the Lagos state Teaching Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. Sad! May her soul rest in peace, Amen.

PDP says they’ll never hang Buhari’s portrait in their offices

PDP says they’ll never hang Buhari’s portrait in their offices

The PDP has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja, despite the fact that it has removed that of former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

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The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh on Tuesday said:
“We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,"
Metuh said the APC did not hang the portrait of former Pres. Jonathan in its offices while he was in office. Hence they wouldn't hang Pres Buhari's portrait because he is not a member of their party.
He said: 
"We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,”
The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, expressed shock at Metuh’s comment saying:
“This is ridiculous and we have no comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter,” Mohammed said.
He said the PDP spokesman had a shallow understanding of the concept of opposition politics.

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Nigeria's Anti-corruption Unit, ICPC Accused Of Covering Up Corrupt Acts By Former Inspector General of Police, Okiro

A network of anti-corruption groups has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) of engaging in a cover up of corrupt acts by Mike Okiro, a former Inspector General of Police who currently serves as the chairman of the Police Service Commission.
In a joint statement issued today, the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) and the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), expressed dismay that the ICPC had failed to take appropriate action on a petition that detailed serious acts of corruption by Mr. Okiro.  Mike Okiro
Specifically, the two anti-corruption organizations remarked that Aaron Kaase, a member of the Police Service Commission (PSC), had written a petition to the ICPC accusing Mr. Okiro of illegally appropriating N350 million after the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) had refused to approve the transaction.
According to Mr. Kaase’s allegation, the BPE had denied Mr. Okiro’s request to pay N350 million to contractors nominated by the former IGP for the training of the PSC staff during the recently concluded 2015 general elections.
Despite the BPE’s rejection of the proposal, Mr. Okiro “illegally appropriated the N350 million and spent N217 on the training program,” said the two anti-corruption groups, adding that the chairman of the Police Service Commission “decided not to return the remaining sum of N133 million and other over coated rates which he diverted and converted.”
The statement observed that the ICPC “investigated the allegation and confirmed the diversion and criminal conversion of the said sum of N133 million by Mr. Okiro,” but “instead of recommending Mr. Okiro for prosecution for stealing and diversion of public fund the Independent Corrupt Practices & Other Related Offences Commission ‘advised’ him to refund the said sum of N133 to the coffers of the Federal Government.”
According to the joint statement, the “ICPC has no power whatsoever to advise indicted criminal suspects to refund the money allegedly stolen by them.”
The two groups also noted that the ICPC also confirmed an allegation that Mr. Okiro received N4.6 million in 2013 for a trip to the United States that he never made. Their statement expressed shock that the ICPC failed to make a strong recommendation even though the commission had also confirmed that Mr. Okiro used several fronts to collect various sums of money from the PSC.
The statement also accused the ICPC of deliberately refusing to “direct that Mr. Kaase be recalled from suspension for exposing the corrupt practices of the PSC chairman.
“In view of the foregoing we urge the Presidential Advisory Council to recommend the recall of Mr. Kaase from illegal suspension and the immediate prosecution of Mr. Mike Okiro for corrupt practices without any further delay,” the two anti-corruption organizations suggested in a joint statement signed by Olanrewaju Suraju for CSNAC and Okechukwu Nwagwuma of NOPRIN.

Declare your assets now- Ekiti APC tells Fayose

Declare your assets now- Ekiti APC tells Fayose

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has asked the state governor Ayodele Fayose to declare his assets in line with President Buhari and VP Osinbajo, who he always criticizes.

In a statement released today September 8 and signed by its Publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party accused Fayose of having properties in Ghana, Dubai, South Africa, Abuja, Ibadan & Ikoyi.


“The governor must seize the opportunity of declaring his assets to douse speculations of his alleged funneling of the state resources to his private enterprises abroad. It is curious that he has not abused President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo after they declared their assets. Fayose’s loud silence on the President in this case is curious because the governor has never seen anything good in whatever the President does. We are worried by the unconfirmed reports of primitive acquisitions by the governor who allegedly own properties in Ghana, Dubai, South Africa, Abuja, Ibadan and Banana Islands and Magodo in Lagos which were believed to have been acquired in the last nine months after he assumed office. Our party is aware that Fayose had no visible means of income prior to October 16, 2014 when he became governor and the properties he owned in Ibadan and Lagos are subjects of litigation by the EFCC, which is probing the governor for misappropriation and diversion of N1.3b poultry project cash to personal use in 2005. “Fayose is alleged to be building a state-of-the-art hotel in Dubai after he became Ekiti governor and after he is also reported to have paid a whopping N722 million to himself as “arrears of his allowances” as governor during his first term on the strength of the Supreme Court judgment which nullified his impeachment. Curiously too, Fayose has kept mute on various sums of money he has received on behalf of the state government, such as the N22 billion refund on Federal roads, N2billion ecological fund, N2billion micro credit fund, which he has diverted, N2.1 billion bailout NLNG fund, N9.6 billion bailout cash, N8.5 billion windfall received in June and an average of N3billion regular federal allocations he has been receiving since October 2014 till date. It would be recalled that in his former declaration of assets in 2003, the governor allegedly swore to an oath declaring two barren lands in a thick forest as two completed mansions in Ibadan, the properties the EFCC later confirmed as properties built with the alleged proceeds of the fraudulent poultry project four years after he became the governor. The recent appointment by Fayose of a 72 year old illiterate as a council boss and many others of his yes-men in other Council areas has fuelled our suspicion that he has successfully converted the resources of Local governments to his personal use without being accountable to anyone. It has thus become a matter of necessity for Mr. Fayose to declare his assets"the party said. The party added it might have to consider legal action if the state governor fails to declare his assets “We will stop at nothing to make sure that Fayose declares his assets openly so that we could remind him if he leaves any of his assets undeclared,”the statement read

Photos: Buhari gets briefing from Ministry of Foreign affairs

Photos: Buhari gets briefing from Ministry of Foreign affairs

President Buhari earlier today September 8 got briefing from the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by the permanent secretary Amb. Bulus Z. Lolo. Continue to see more photos..


The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, arrived Accra Monday to pay a one-day official visit to Ghana.

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, arrived Accra  Monday to pay a one-day official visit to Ghana.  President Buhari acknowledging cheers from Ghanaians
During the visit, President Buhari met with his Ghanaian counterpart, President John Dramani Mahama.

Buhari was accompanied by the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen Babagana Monguno (rtd) and several Nigerian officials.
The major of the visit centered on bilateral relations, regional security, trade and investment and other issues of common interest to Nigeria and Ghana.

Before returning to Nigeria, President Buhari is expected to have a short meeting with Nigerians mostly entrepreneurs in Ghana.
He is expected expected back to Nigeria by Monday evening. President Muhammadu Buhari arrives Ghana

Monday, 7 September 2015

7yr old girl narrates how her dad touches her, puts his manhood in her mouth & offers her money

7yr old girl narrates how her dad touches her, puts his manhood in her mouth & offers her money

A 7 year old girl (name withheld) has narrated how her father Chukwuemeka Odunzie, pictured above molested her by touching her body and putting his manhood in her mouth and afterwards gives her money so she wouldn't tell anyone. According to Vanguard, the young girl who is a primary 3 student and resides with her parents at their Ojokoro Housing Estate, Meiran, Ijaiye, Lagos, said her dad usually touched her private part whenever her mother wasn't around or was busy with domestic work
"My daddy usually gives me money after touching my private part or putting his penis in my mouth. He touches my private part when my mother is outside washing clothes or when she is not in the house.” she said
The victim’s mother, Mrs Odunzie, while narrating her experience said she began to notice something was not right with her daughter who later confessed that her father was molesting her.
“Last year, my son told me that his younger sister was fond of playing with her private parts. It sounded strange that a seven-year-old child would be doing that. I will talk to her, scold her and sometimes beat her. There was a time I told my husband. All he said was that if she was acting strangely I should take her to any of these white garment churches. I was alarmed when one day, while we were in the sitting room, she started touching and playing with herself. Immediately, I called her inside the room and asked her what the problem was. I asked her if anyone was fiddling with her private parts. She said it was her father that always touched her private parts and that after touching her private parts, he would give her money. I confronted my husband when he returned from work but he denied vehemently. I reported a case of defilement to Ebenezer Divisional Police and the policemen invited my husband for questioning. He was arrested later by the police, who gave me a report to take my daughter to the hospital. The doctor said there had been no penetration, but that there is an opening in her virginal and advised that the victim be tested for infection. By the time we came back from the hospital, the IPO said it was a family issue and that we should go home and settle the case. Members of his family were shouting, saying that I had no right to report the case to the police, that it was a family issue that should be treated as one. They pressurized me till I withdrew the case, after which he promised not to defile our daughter again. After I withdrew the case, my husband began to beat the children at the slightest provocation. And at times, he would beat them for no tangible reason. Two weeks ago, it happened again. I asked her what she did for her father that made him give her money without giving her siblings. That was when she said that daddy gave her the money after touching her private part. Her siblings said it had been ongoing for a while and that they refused to tell me because the last time they did, their daddy kept beating them. Her brother said whenever I was not around, or I was outside washing clothes, daddy would send him and his other siblings inside the bedroom, while he would ask the victim to kneel down in between his legs and bend her head towards his manhood. She also confirmed that after touching her, daddy would put his penis in her mouth. There was even a time my daughter was caught in the act with a four-year-old boy, who is a neighbour’s child.”she said
The swine of a father who confessed to the crime, said he molested his own daughter once and that he wasn't doing it for any thing fetish or occultic. He has since been handed over to the police.