Ms. Arumah Oteh, Nigerian official whose one day food bill can pay British MP salary
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-03-21 09:48:48 | 382 read this article |
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Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 tained by THE PUNCH on Tuesday revealed how the Director-General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Arumah Oteh, allegedly spent the sum of N850,000 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. There were, however, discrepancies in the figures on the receipt. The receipt, which was dated March 24, 2010, was issued at exactly 9.57pm to the SEC boss. The bill was issued by Zuma Grill Restaurant and it contained expenses incurred by Oteh in t...
I stole $250 million dollar, former governor Ibori pleads guilty in UK
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-28 03:24:07 | 544 read this article |
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"How a thief almost became Nigeria's president" - BBC James Ibori, formerly one of Nigeria's wealthiest and most influential politicians, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud, paving the way for British police to confiscate assets he stole and return them to Nigeria. On Monday, with his trial at London's Southwark crown court about to begin, Ibori, 49, changed his original plea and admitted stealing money from Delta state and laundering it in London through a number of offshore companies. Ibori admitted to fraud totalling more than $79m (£50m), said to be part of total embezzlement that could exceed $250m (£157m). Prosecutor Sasha Wass told the court Ibori had accepted he was in...
Five-year-old boy opts to become a girl with the support of his family, doctors and school
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-22 02:14:46 | 430 read this article |
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Five-year-old boy opts to become a girl with the support of his family, doctors and school A five-year-old boy who rejected his gender is now living as a girl with the support of his family, doctors and school. Zach Avery was three when he started questioning his gender, and began wearing dresses and ribbons in his hair. Following a psychological evaluation he was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (GID), and has now been living as a girl for more than a year. [Related story: Couple names baby girl after feature on Facebook] [Related story: Meet the parents raising a genderless baby] The disorder is a conflict between a person's physical gender and what they identify as. I...
The President Is A Good Son Of A Bad Family
Author: Dele Oluwole, MBCS | Published: 2012-02-19 18:01:34 | 400 read this article |
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"Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy" - Gandhi As a Nigerian, before I share my pain with you let it be known that the followership (all of us Nigerians) is as bad as the leadership and that is because we do not hold the leadership accountable like it is in Europe and America. Starting with a macroeconomic comparison between Ghana and Nigeria, Ghana foreign reserve is just below 3 billion US Dollars and the GDP of less than 40 Billion US Dollars. On the other hand, Nigeria's GDP is 320 Billion US Dollars and foreign reserve of almost 40 billion US Dollars. The euro bond issued by Ghana had a sovereign inte...
When You Marry An Illiterate Woman as a Wife, You Make Stupid Decisions Like Jonathan – Wole Soyinka
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-13 10:58:12 | 798 read this article |
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An analytical piece by Tobi Akiode. He has obliged to sharing this with as many Nigerians as possible. Please share this with friends and the general public. It's No More about Subsidy Alone. 1. The American President has only TWO aircraft, our president has 9[Nine] in his fleet and was voted money recently to buy ONE more! Making it TEN! 2. The British prime Minister has only TWO official cars, our president has 23 in his pool and only recently voted 300Million Naira to buy TWO more bullet/bomb proof ones! 3. Senators in the US earn about $6,000 dollars monthly and that's about what a university professor, or a director in a state department, or a doctor with 20y...
Robbers Strike at Nigerian Airport, Cart Away US$600,000
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-02-04 04:46:43 | 381 read this article |
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Dare-devil robbers yesterday struck at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport hit the Bureau de Change situated at the car park and carted away the sum of US$600,000 (N95, 969,998.17). Daily Champion learnt that the robbers, who were armed to the teeth, traced some Bureau de Change operators to the car park and had stormed the place like something out of a Wild, Wild West movie threatening and shooting sporadically. People using the car park at that time scampered to safety as the sound of gunfire and ricocheting bullets filled the air. Our reporter also learnt that the operator had wanted to prove stubborn by not giving up the money but the incessant gunfire around and in the air ...
Boko Haram’s leader rejects talks with President Goodluck Jonathan
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-28 11:15:27 | 635 read this article |
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Leader of the dreaded Islamic sect Boko Haram, Imam Abubakar Shekau, has rejected offers for a negotiated peace, instead promising to kidnap government officials' family members and bomb schools, according to an Internet audio message allegedly posted by the group. The 40-minute message also for the first time discusses Boko Haram's goal: Complete adoption of Islam across Nigeria. Shekau said he remains prepared to order more violence to accomplish that. "If (Nigerian security forces) are going to places of worship and destroying them, like mosques and Quranic schools, you have primary schools as well, you have secondary schools and universities and we will start bombing them," Sh...
Kogi: Idris Wada Swearing in nullified, Speaker told to Take over
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-27 11:30:32 | 468 read this article |
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The chief law officer of the federation says Speaker should take over from five governors sacked by Supreme Court this morning Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has asked all five state governors sacked by Friday's supreme Court ruling to immediately hand over to speakers of their various state assemblies. The attorney-general gave the orders in a statement issued Friday after the Supreme Court delivered judgment in the appeal emanating from the judgment of the Court of Appeal in respect of the tenure of the five governors - Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Sokoto and Kogi states - ruling that their tenures expired in May last year. "The Federal ...
Nigerian Minister of State humiliated in America - video clip
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-23 18:59:33 | 586 read this article |
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The Nigeria Democratic Liberty Forum (NDLF) has explained that it picketed last week's Town Hall meeting by a Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Viola Okwuliri, because it was "appalled by the unquestionable profligacy displayed by the Nigerian government in sponsoring the Minister on a whirlwind tour of such cities as Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, California, and New York." In a statement signed by its Executive Director, Mr Bukola Oreofe, and the Director, Publicity & International Affairs, NDLF said that its objective remains the same as it was two years ago when it protested in the frigid weather of New York against the cabal that had prevented then Vice President Goodluck J...
UNDP Job; GP PROGRAMME ASSISTANT - Abuja
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-23 05:07:31 | 290 read this article |
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GP PROGRAMME ASSISTANT Location : Abuja, NIGERIA Application Deadline : 23-Jan-12 Additional Category Management Type of Contract : Service Contract Post Level : SB-3 Languages Required : English Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 01-Mar-2012 Duration of Initial Contract : One year REFER A FRIEND APPLY NOW Background Effective day-to-day substantive, administrative and financial support to the national SGP team and the National Steering Committee to ensure the smooth operation and management of the GEF-SGP (Global Environment Facility - Small Grants Programme) programme portfolio, timely and efficient response to queries from differe...
IGBINEDION UNIVERSITY MASSIVE RECRUITMENT
Author: IGBINEDION UNIVERSITY | Published: 2012-01-20 08:21:04 | 267 read this article |
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IGBINEDION UNIVERSITY, OKADA Knowledge and Excellence Website: www.iuokada.edu.ng STAFF VACANCIES ADVERTISEMENT Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO), Nigeria's premier Private University, currently celebrating thirteen years of academic excellence, has produced nine sets of graduates including Lawyers, Engineers, Scientists and five sets of Medical Doctors - the very first by a private University in Nigeria and West Africa. Igbinedion University, Okada promotes diversity, and equal opportunity, with students from all of Nigeria's 36 states and FCT and abroad, and ha...
Minister Of Justice, Bello Adoke reacts to claim of Multi-Billion Dollars Bank Accounts
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-15 14:47:59 | 250 read this article |
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1. The attention of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, CFR has been drawn to Reports making the rounds in the social media including Sahara Reporters, Point-blank News, I-Reports etc, to the effect that he maintains accounts with First City Monument Bank, Diamond Bank and Zenith Bank Plc into which lodgements running into several Millions of Naira, Dollars and Pound Sterling have been made. 2. While these spurious allegations/reports would ordinarily have been ignored, the tendency for Nigerians to believe such blatant lies and malicious stories has necessitated this response so as to put the records straight and re-assure all w...
How governors, ministers, misled Jonathan
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-15 13:28:23 | 312 read this article |
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"Strike would not lastfor more than two days" - President's men "We can break the ranks of labour" But for the misleading counsel and false assurances given to President Goodluck Jonathan by some of his ministers and a few state governors, the president may have done more to avert the commencement of the strike action called by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade UnionCongress, TUC, Sunday Vanguard can reveal. The suggestion that Jonathan may have done more to ensure that the strike did not get off the ground, it was learnt, was sequel to security reports provided at a meeting, held, penultimate Monday, January 2, 2012, inside Aso Rock Presidential Vil...
Truck loaded with guns coming to Nigeria seized in Ghana
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-13 10:57:57 | 388 read this article |
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Ghanaian police have arrested five men and seized a soft-drinks distribution truck loaded with guns and ammunition believed to be heading to Nigeria, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. Nigeria, Africa's top crude producer, is facing unprecedented civil unrest as sectarian violence and a nationwide protest against the removal of state fuel subsidies threaten the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. Deputy Police Superintendant Cephas Arthur said police found double-barreled shotguns and boxes of ammunition beneath a false metal plate floor in the truck, which was searched in an Accra suburb on Tuesday after police received a tip-off. He did not say how many guns were found. ...
Wikileaks Reveals How NNPC Cost Nigeria Billions of Dollars
Author: Admin | Published: 2012-01-12 09:44:29 | 327 read this article |
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In the middle of a mass resistance that has virtually shut down Nigeria in response to the government's abrupt January 1 withdrawal of a subsidy on oil, a previously-unreleased United States 2009 Wikileaks cable has emerged which indicates official manipulation that may have cost Nigeria billions of dollars. According to the cable [C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 LAGOS 000767 SIPDIS NOFORN E.O. 12958], the scandal concerns prices paid by the government for imported fuel, as international fuel traders, taking advantage of massive corruption loopholes in Nigeria, engaged in falsifying the dates of bills of lading to reflect particularly high market prices. By so doing, they overc...
