APC ALLEGEDLY DRESSED BABOON IN PDP'S 'DESIGNER' WEAR IN BENIN

 Thou Reno Omokri, the Special assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on News Media, is a man you can never be trusted when is come to news disseminations...however, he  shared this photo of a baboon clothed in a PDP ‘designer’ wear, chained to the stage at the APC campaign ground in Benin!....See Reno Omokri's tweet &other picture after the cut.....

EFCC: MAN BAGGED 10-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR CONTRACT SCAM

Find the EFCC press statement below...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, recorded its first conviction for 2015 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 as Justice A. Ongetenu of the Federal High Court Abakaliki, Ebonyi State convicted and sentenced one Monday Agha to 10 years imprisonment for offences bordering on conspiracy, impersonation and obtaining money by false pretence.

Agha, who was arraigned on July 20, 2013, allegedly fraudulently opened several accounts in different banks using fictitious names with which he conspired with one Moses to defraud some unsuspecting victims.

After diligent prosecution, Justice Ongetenu convicted the accused on six of the eight count charge preferred against him and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment.

The convict was also ordered to pay N2,730,000 (two million, seven hundred and thirty thousand naira) in restitution to the complainant

One of the charges reads: “that you Agha Monday (a.k.a Nwachukwu Peter Elom), Elder Emmanuel Elom, (at large) Obinna Chijioke (at large) Agatha Chigbata Munachi (at large) Anthonia C. Nwigwe (at large) Hon. P. A. Odonio (at large) sometime between December 2010 and April 2011 in Ebonyi State, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Abakaliki with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of five hundred and fifteen thousand naira (N515,000.00) from Chinyere Bright through Oceanic Bank (now Eco Bank) account number 0190001034503 by false pretence that the said Chinyere Bright has been awarded a contract for the printing and supply of 25,000 pieces of polo shirts by the government of Ebonyi State and the said money is for mobilisation and processing of the said contract, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of Advance Fee Fraud and other fraud Related Offences Act,2006 and punishable under Section 1(3)of the same Act”.
The convict had previously been convicted by a Federal High Court, Enugu and sentenced to 7 years in prison for defrauding a University don of N805,000.

Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
29th January, 2015

BUHARI WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN KANGAROO PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE...APC

APC says it's presidential candidate Gen Buhari will not be participating in the presidential debate being organized by the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria BON and the Nigeria Election Debate Group (NEDG),  as the composition of those organizing the debate was mainly of agencies and allies of the incumbent People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) administration. Continue...

In a statement released today January 29th by Garna Shehu, the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), said( excerpt):

“A cursory inspection of the composition of NEGD brings into focus the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), National Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Africa Independent Television (AIT, owned by a PDP chieftain). And going by the avalanche of inflammatory statements, misinformation and blatant lies being propagated by some of these media against our Party and candidates contrary to the Kofi Annan brokered Abuja Peace Accord, and the failure of these aggressors to desist and apologise, have left the APC Campaign with no option than to steer clear of any premeditated smear campaign that could be inimical to our prospective electoral success,” .

WORDS OF WISDOM: ARREST ASARI-TOMPOLO & OTHERS NOW..T Y DANJUMA SAYS

General T.Y Danjuma, the former Minister of Defence has called on President Jonathan to order the immediate arrest of Asari Dokubo, Government Tompolo and other Niger Delta ex-militants who declared that they would destabilise the country if the president does not win next month's presidential election.

In an interview at the North West University,today January 28th, General T.Y Danjuma said the militants must be punished for making such unguarded utterances which could throw the nation into chaos.

"The statements were very reckless coming from irresponsible individuals and they should be condemned, in fact they should be arrested" he said.

Source - Daily Trust

A WELL DRESSED MAN JUMPED FROM 3RD MAINLAND BRIDGE THIS MORNING

This morning few people saying they saw a well dressed man driving a Toyota Sienna who parked on Third Mainland Bridge, calmly walked over the edges and jumped into the sea. They said it happened so fast they couldn't believe they had witnessed an apparent suicide.  More details when government agencies in charge of such things get involved . 

STOP USING CHIEF ADEKUNLE AJASIN'S NAME TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST APC...AJASIN'S FAMILY WARNS PDP

The family of Chief Adekunle Ajasin, the first civilian governor of Ondo State, have cautioned the PDP to stop using their father’s name to campaign against the APC.

The Ajasin’ family also said they had forgiven Buhari over the arrest of the former governor in 1984.

Chief Tokunbo Ajasin, who spoke to journalists in Akure on Thursday, maintained that his father had forgiven the former head of state long before his death.

He said, “It will be totally wrong for anybody to say that Gen. Buhari ‘s government jailed my father. No, that is not correct. It was true that my father was detained under Buhari’s military regime along with other former governors in Nigeria and two panels of inquiry were consequently set-up to look into the allegations against my father and others. But the panels found my father innocent and exonerated him as well.

“What Buhari did then was part of military policies and tradition. Though many
Nigerians were not happy with that, but my father had since forgiven Buhari before his demise.

“As far as the issue is concerned, the family of Ajasin had forgiven Buhari as well. Because as Christians we should exhibit the spirit of forgiveness always. The bible says Father forgive us as we forgive those who offend us.”

The former governor’s son said he met Buhari at a function sometime ago where the duo happily embraced each other, indicating that the disagreement was over.

The Nation

ASSAULT: LEBANESE EMPLOYER ASSAULTS A NIGERIAN WOMAN IN NIGERIA

A Lebanese couple Joseph and Hala Yasbek , members of the management at a logistics company in Ibafo, Ogun state ,was allegedly  dragged one Mrs. Grace Okpara,37,on  the floor by during an argument.

According to her: “I work as a cleaner at the Lebanese company, and I earn N20,000 as salary. The incident happened on January 14 at about 11.30am. We were three working as cleaners in the company.

“That day, Hala said I did not clean the premises very well, but as I tried to explain, she kicked me and I fell. Minutes later when the husband showed up, I reported Hala to him, but he also slapped me.
“I fell ill after the incident and went to the hospital for treatment. I was treated at a private hospital in Ibafo. I was discharged on Thursday and then went to report to the police. The fee for my treatment was paid by the police at Ibafo.”

The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed the incident saying, “The two Lebanese were invited, and we have asked them to come back with officials of the company. The Lebanese husband explained that it was the complainant who wanted to hit his wife, and he had to block her (Grace) by pushing her away.
“The fact is that the two parties had been having conflicts for some time.
“It is not a matter of assault alone. We are trying to mediate between them.
“But if the woman feels she had been so badly maltreated, the police can charge the matter to court.”

However, it is high time our Police and Immigrations officers must  do their job right, from the research, Lebanese people are violent when it come to domestic staffs....I will urge Mrs Mrs. Grace Okpara, to press charges against the couple, because this is a case of an assault.

Source: Punch Newspaper