According to PDP's twitter handle, former Rivers state
governor and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, used this private
jet to transport N5 billion into the state yesterday night. The rerun
election for the state and National Assembly members in Rivers state
holds today
March 19th. See more photos after the cut...
The ex Big Brother Africa star last night shared on snapchat a chat she
had with a girl who she was supposedly asking out. In the chat she
asked the girl to send her a picture of her butt hole and even told her
she's gay whenever she's drunk. More of the chat after the cut...
This well dressed woman parked her Prado SUV on the road, came out and
started acting up on the streets of Duola, Cameroon yesterday March
17th. When people gathered no one could understand what she was saying
as it was all gibberish. She was about to remove her clothes when
passersby intervened and stopped her from going completely naked...and
called the police. Continue to see more photos...
The Code of Conduct Bureau has reveled that there is evidence that the
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, while in office as governor of Kwara
State between 1999 and 2007, obtained huge bank loans and paid back the
loans with funds belonging to the state.
The bureau revealed that Saraki used the bank loans running into
billions of naira to acquire landed assets in Lagos, Abuja and London.
The Bureau said it gathered the information from the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission which had conducted investigations into
various petitions against Saraki between 2010 and 2012.
The CCB’s position is contained in a counter-affidavit deposed to by one
of its operatives, Peter Danladi, in opposition to a fresh motion filed
by Saraki to challenge the validity of the 13 counts of false assets
declaration instituted against him before the tribunal.
Danladi stated, “That I was informed by Mr. Yahaya Bello, an operative
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in our office on March
14, 2016 at about 11am and I verily believe him that:
“The EFCC received various petitions against the defendant/applicant
between 2010 and 2012 alleging acts of corruption, theft, money
laundering etc.
“The EFCC conducted its investigation of the various petitions and made
findings which showed that the defendant/applicant abused his office
while he was Governor of Kwara State and was involved in various acts of
corruption as the governor of the state.
“The defendant/applicant borrowed huge sums of money running into
billions from commercial banks, particularly Guarantee Trust Bank and
used the proceeds of the loan to acquire several landed properties in
Lagos, Abuja and London while he was Governor of Kwara State.
“As against the defendant using his own legitimate income to defray the
loan, he took public funds running into billions from Kwara State
Government and lodged same in several tranches and in cash into his GTB
account in GRA, Ilorin, Kwara State.
“The defendant/applicant’s account officer in GTB confirmed that the
defendant/applicant gave him several cash in government house to lodge
into the account and in some occasions, the defendant sent his aides
from government house to give him the cash for lodgment into his
account.
“When EFCC submitted its report to its legal department and the Federal
Ministry of Justice, the Federal Ministry of Justice formed the opinion
that the offences revealed from the investigation, particularly as they
relate to the properties acquired by the defendant/applicant while he
was Governor of Kwara State and various monies sent into his various
accounts outside Nigeria can be better investigated and prosecuted
through the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal.
“The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation then sent the
findings and the evidence gathered during investigation by the EFCC as a
complaint to the Code of Conduct Bureau for investigation and that the
operative of EFCC would collaborate with the officers of the bureau for
effective investigations.
Nigeria's women football star, Asisat Oshoala has been signed by Arsenal
Ladies. Beautiful Asisat spent the 2015 season with Liverpool, as the
first African player to feature in the Women’s Super League.
The 21-year-old striker scored three goals in 12 league appearances for
the Reds. She has now been unveiled as part of Arsenal ladies.
Congratulations!
It was a sorry sight especially for the cows that were killed in the
fatal accident... Some Policemen from Ondo State, who were drafted to
Rivers State for Saturday’s rerun election in the state, were involved
in an accident on Friday.
The accident occurred along the East-West road near Akala-Olu in Rivers. See more photos...
The police truck conveying about 100 policemen collided with another
truck transporting cattle along the same road. Several cows died in the
accident while some policemen sustained injuries.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe addresses supporters outside his ZANU PF party headquarters in Harare in October 2014.Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters
HARARE
(Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe on Friday said veterans of
Zimbabwe's independence war had indicated they wanted him to retire and
he would consider it if they asked him directly.
Mugabe, at 92 Africa's oldest leader, pointed out however that others had tried to push him out in the past and failed.
He
told supporters at a rally in Bindura, north of Harare, that leaders of
the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association (ZLWVA) were pushing
for him to step down.
Mugabe,
himself a war veteran and patron of the ZLWVA, said the organization
would hold a "frank" meeting with him in the first week of April, where
the veterans should freely express their views.
"They have this
thinking that the president has overstayed and should go. So war
veterans come to Harare ... so that we can discuss this. No one should
intimidate anyone," Mugabe said in his native Shona language.
"We
will be saying: speak your mind. I will leave if that's what you want.
It has to come through the party. But will that help you at this
moment?"
Friday's comments are likely to be met with scepticism,
coming from a man who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain
in 1980.
War veterans have been key to the veteran leader's re-election at polls since 2000.
Last
month police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse veterans who
had planned a march on ZANU-PF's headquarters, amid tussles between
party factions over who should succeed Mugabe.
Zimbabwean media
has quoted ZLWVA chairman Chris Mutsvangwa, fired from the cabinet by
Mugabe two weeks ago, as accusing some members of the ruling ZANU-PF
party of trying to manipulate the president by rallying behind his wife
Grace.
Earlier this month Mugabe said his successor must be chosen
democratically by the ruling party, but that it would not be his wife
as some have speculated.
Mugabe said on Friday former army general
Solomon Mujuru, husband of former Vice President Joice Mujuru, had
failed to get him to retire ahead of elections in 2008.
Mujuru
died in a fire at his farm in Aug. 2011. His wife Joice was fired from
the vice-presidency in Dec. 2014 over accusations of plotting to remove
Mugabe from power and launched a new political party on March 1.
Mugabe said he was surprised by calls for him to step down midway through his five-year presidential term.
"Wait
until we go to congress. If there are those you think can do a better
job than the president, you then choose them. If congress approves them,
fine," he told Friday's rally.
ZANU-PF's next leadership congress
is due in 2019, a year after a presidential vote. No senior party
members are expected to openly challenge the veteran leader.
An army officer identified as Major Luke and a soldier were shot dead on
the waterways of Abonnema, the headquarters of Akuku-Toru LGA of Rivers
State by people described as political thugs.
The thugs
reportedly opened fire on the soldiers, injuring five others. The attack
came ahead of the tension soaked legislative rerun across the 23 local
government areas of the volatile Niger Delta state.
The Assistant
Director, Army Public Relations, 2 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Port
Harcourt, Capt. Eli Lazarus, who confirmed the “barbaric act”, which
heightened tension in the state, revealed that soldiers are now in
pursuit of the criminals, who he said would surely be apprehended. Capt.
Lazarus said: “At 11 am on March 17, 2016, troops on patrol along the
waterways in the general area of Abonnema had a fierce encounter with a
group of unknown gunmen, suspected to be sea pirates.
“Our men
displayed extraordinary gallantry during the encounter. Unfortunately,
an officer and a soldier, who sustained various degree of injury, lost
their lives.
“We are in pursuit of the criminals and we will
surely get them. All law-abiding citizens are urged to go about their
lawful activities. The army will continue to make necessary sacrifices
to ensure sustainable peace, security of lives and property of all.”
Also
on Thursday, gunmen stormed Mgbuitanwo in Emohua area of the state,
where the Rivers East senatorial candidate of the APC, Chief Andrew
Uchendu, hails from, killing and beheading a 28-year-old man, identified
as Ukeoma.
The gunmen, who laid siege to the community, according to sources, abducted another resident.
The police and other security agencies are being put under pressure by
political thugs. Hope they will be able to rise to the occasion and deal
with this ugly situation.
