WASTED GENERATION: PDP GOVERNORS DONATES N1.05 BILLION WHILE OWING WORKERS FOR MONTHS

In Nigeria, we like to show-off while we're nobody! Can you imagine that 21 Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] governors on Saturday night at the presidential villa in Abuja to announce N1.05 billion in donation to the PDP, while some states, the indebtedness to workers stretched a year.

In Ebonyi, authorities owed teachers under the Universal Basic Education scheme nearly 12 months of salaries. Abia State, secondary school teachers were last paid in August, while primary school teachers have been owed since October. In Cross River, the situation had worsened after months of indebtedness that state-run television, the Cross River Broadcasting Corporation, CRBC, shut off production last week.

 Akwa Ibom State, the nation’s leading oil producer which draws more than triple of what other states receive from the federation account monthly, local government staff were on strike. Before the strike, they were forced to receive half salaries for several months, while authorities claimed they had no money.

But on Saturday night, Cross State governor, Liyel Imoke, stood next to his Bauchi State colleague, Isa Yuguda, as Mr. Yuguda announced to a gleeful president and a shocked nation how the 21 governors who had been struggling to pay salaries long before the present oil crisis, rallied N50 million each in donation to the PDP.

“We may do more in future, but that is what we were able to raise for now,” Mr. Yuguda assured.

In all, the PDP and the president raked in over N21 billion, with donations coming from government contractors, nameless associates, and Tunde Ayeni, the head of Skye Bank, who has bought a string of government assets, including the mega telecoms carrier, NITEL/MTEL, in a process that has already become controversial. ,

Source: Premium Times

COURT MARTIAL: MILITARY JAILED LT.COLONEL & OTHERS OVER 200 CHIBOK GIRLS

                                                                                                            

Nigerian Military Court Martial which sat in Kaduna state yesterday Dec. 23rd over the abduction of over 200 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14^th have sentenced a Lieutenant Colonel, a Captain, a Second lieutenant and 12 other soldiers  to two years imprisonment

The soldiers, Col. A. O. Ojo who was in charge of Chibok when the abduction took place, Capt. O. O. Ogunrinde, and 2nd Lieutenant V.I. Godknows were all handed two years imprisonment for what the  General Court Martial panel termed failure to perform.

Col. Ojo was reportedly found guilty of passing out unverified information about the return of the abducted girls as well as not reinforcing the military personnel the night the abduction happened. In his response, Col. Ojo said he got information about the attack at about 1am at his station in Biu which was already late as the sect members stormed the school at about 11pm.

2nd Lieut. Godknows was charged with cowardly behaviour during the night of the attack. Counsel to Col. Ojo, Mr. Shuaibu Isah has however said his client would be appealing the verdict of the court martial through the office of the confirming authority which is the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah.

Source: Punch

BUKOLA SARAKI DONATES HIS N45 MILLION TO SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM !

Senator Bukola Saraki, Kwara state former Governor, says he'll be giving his N45 Million accrued pension money to deserving Kwara students which will be given through his foundation, Abubakar Bukola Saraki Students Foundation (ABSSF)......read his tweets below...

UNBELIEVABLE: GOSPEL SINGER ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY!

God have mercy! Akazue Nwakonuche, 26, alias Akachkwu, a Gospel singer, has been arrested by operatives of the Special-Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, for being part of a robbery gang that used to snatch tricycles and motorbikes from their owners.

Also in their custody are Okeke Christian, 29, and Paul Igwe, 20. Igwe is alleged to be the leader of the gang. The fourth member of the gang, Monday Nwankpa is still at large. 

A police source said: “The issue of tricycle snatching came as a surprise to us because most robbers go for cars. To remove tricycles from park without being caught is not easy. When information came to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, that a gang of robbers were snatching tricycles, he reacted immediately. The operation was led by officer in charge of SARS, Abba Kyari. The first two suspects were arrested at Ikotun. They were Okeke and Igwe.”

Nwakonuche, who said he sings both hip-hop and gospel, said: “I was the first person to be arrested because I was not able to escape with my colleagues. I’m a musician. I sing hip pop and gospel music. I want to wax one of my songs called, ‘How I suffered’ before I realised that the world is a school and every experience a teacher. I could not complete senior secondary three (SS3) because of my financial problem. I’m the first son of my parent’s eight children.

“I later went to do house-boy for my uncle, Mr. Nonso Nwankwo in Onitsha Head Bridge Market, where he trades on building materials. I worked there for five years. When he could not help me by the year 2010, I went to Lagos to live with another uncle called Anayo who sells clothes in Ikotun. I have two brothers in Lagos. One travelled to India and left his shop to me. It was my friend, Paul who got me into robbery. Paul told me about snatching tricycles. The next day he came with Nwankpa and asked me to join them. I joined.

“The next day being Thursday, they called me to follow them to do the job which put me in this trouble. Paul gave me a toy gun and was holding cutlass, while Okeke was not holding anything. We went to Ikotun Roundabout and chartered a tricycle for N300 to take us to Austino hotel. As we were approaching the hotel, Paul gave me a sign to bring out my gun. I pointed the toy gun to the head of the rider. But when he realised that it was a toy gun, he refused to comply. He jacked up his tricycle, fought me and ran to alert people, shouting thieves! Thieves!

“As I tried to escape, I fell down and they arrested me and handed me over to Ikotun Police while others escaped. They later transferred me to SARS and used me to arrest Okeke and later Paul, while Nwankpa is still at large.”

LAGOS GOVERNMENT ALLEGEDLY DEPORTED 70 BEGGARS TO KANO !!!

According to a local Hausa radio program monitored in Kano state, the Lagos state government has allegedly deported 70 beggars back to Kano state after they were found loitering around the streets of Lagos.

The beggars most of whom are indigenes of Niger, Kaduna, Kebbi, Jigawa Zamfara and Sokoto states, said they were bundled from their begging points, held for several months before they were deported to Kano recently.

Source: Sahara Reporters

FOOTBALL LEGEND MOSES OTOLORIN DIES @ 67..

Moses Otolorin, 67, has died. The former IICC Shooting Stars defender, died in his home town Ilorin Kwara state yesterday December 22nd.

He was a member of the team which lost in the final of the 1984 African Champions Cup. He is survived by wife and children.  May his soul rest in peace Amen

CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE & LATE STELLA ADADEVOH MAKE CNN'S LEADING WOMEN 2014 LIST

The international media house (CNN), recognized some of the world's leading women for the year 2014. In a list released earlier today by Cable News Network (CNN), late Dr Stella Adadevoh was recognized for her significant contribution towards the prevention of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria while Chimamanda Adichie was recognized for her contributions to African Literature.

Other women who made the list included Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Oscar award winning actress Lupita Nyong'o, and IMF Chairman Christine Lagarde