EX-BANKER JAILED 115YRS FOR N8.9M FRAUD

I can't remember how many years jail terms Cecilia Ibru, Tafa Balogun & Co got for their various thefts running into billions of naira because the EFCC released the outrageous statement below of 115 years jail term for N8.9M fraud. hehehe........ 

A Lagos High court sitting in Igbosere, presided over by Justice Adebisi Akinlade on Monday February 17, 2014 sentenced Jamiu Seun Odunayo (pictured above), a former banker, to One Hundred and Fifteen Years (115) imprisonment with no option of fine over an offense which borders on fraud, stealing, and obtaining money by false pretense.

The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on 39-count amended charge for fraudulently obtaining money by false pretences, stealing and suppression of funds to the tune of Eight Million Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Naira, (N8, 829,650) belonging to a customer and diverted it for personal use.

CULTISTS MURDER 17-YR-OLD BOWEN STUDENT IN LAGOS FOR REFUSING SEXUAL ADVANCES.

LATE OPEYEMI ODUSANYA

The life of a 17-year-old student of Bowen University, Opeyemi Odusanya, has been cut short by some cult members in Lagos. It was gathered that the undergraduate was murdered for allegedly rejecting sexual advances from some youths in the area and also for “being too proud.” The victim was a 300 level student of Biochemistry at the university.

Police authorities told our correspondent that Opeyemi was stabbed to death by the cultists at her parents’ house in the Alakuko area of Lagos on February 3, 2014. Police said that investigations had revealed that the culprits were residents of the area.

A police officer, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “In the afternoon of February 3, 2014, the deceased went to buy airtime for her telephone. As she was returning, a group of cult members trailed and entered the house with her.

(VIDEO) DISAPPOINTING MAN CITY LOST AT HOME TO BARCELONA (0 -2)

MANC 0 BARCELONA 2

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ZLATAN INSPIRED PSG DESTROYS BAYERN LERVEKUSEN IN GERMANY 4-0

B. LEV 0 PSG 4

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the best striker in the world..... shikenah.... His PSG side mauled german club Bayern Leverkusen at home by 4 - 0... One leg in the Q-finals already....

SEE VIDEO HERE.

EX-MILITANTS AND JONATHAN'S RE-ELECTION BID.

The build-up to the February 2015 general elections, especially as it concerns the fate of President Goodluck Jonathan in the February 14 presidential election has been generating ripples across of the country.

The controversy over the presidential poll assumed a new twist following the argument for and against the eligibility of Jonathan to seek re-election for the highest political office in the country and Jonathan’s kinsmen in the Niger Delta, especially those of Ijaw stock, who probably smelt a rat over alleged clandestine moves by some powerful political gladiators to edge him out of the contest have mustered concerted efforts to back and protect “their own” in the countdown to the election.

2FACE LAUGHS OFF IMPREGNATING BANKER RUMOURS.

International act, 2face Idibia has laughed off rumour that he impregnated his account officer, noting that his life is an open book and he will not be afraid to take responsibility for his action.

The social media was filled with rumour of the alleged pregnancy, with some of them even mentioning the name of the lady in question and the bank she allegedly work with. It was also alleged that the Africa queen crooner has pleaded with the lady to abort the pregnancy with a promise of financial reward.

BLOATED COST OF PACIFICATION IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION

The observation by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bukola Saraki, that several aspects of the belated 2014 Appropriation Bill failed to give priority to critical sectors; and that it is a blueprint for fiscal recklessness and leakages in government expenditure, are quite distressing. Particularly worrisome is the allocation of N54 billion to the Presidential Amnesty Programme meant to rehabilitate Niger Delta restive youths (militants), vis-à-vis the N46 billion voted as capital expenditure for the military and the nation’s police.

Saraki, a former chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), noted, for instance, the dangers of increased extra-budgetary spending and the impunity with which agencies, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), spent public funds; and serial breaches of budget implementation rules by civil servants. He equally regretted that the budget process had become a mere procedural ritual designed to fulfil a legal condition, rather than a scrutiny on efficient resource allocation and use for the improvement of the welfare of the people. He said N54 billion was budgeted for stipends and allowances for 30,000 Niger Delta militants as follows: Presidential Amnesty Programme (N23.6bn) and Reintegration of Transformed Ex- Militants’ (N35.4bn), while the total capital budget for the Nigerian Army was N4.8bn; and that of the Ministry of Defence Headquarters – Army, Navy and Air Force – was N34.2bn. Saraki likewise flayed a situation where desktop computers would be purchased for N2 million each under the budget of the Ministry of Education, or N1 million each in the Ministry of Works, whereas the market price of each unit is N200,000.

NNPC MUST BE TAMED NOW.

WHO authorised the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to unilaterally subsidise the price of kerosene? Unable to satisfactorily answer this simple question, the corporation and its backers in government have been dishing out unconvincing justifications and rebukes to its critics. But the emerging picture is that of a state-owned agency that operates unencumbered by checks or censure and where corruption and impunity have reached unimaginable levels.

At the heart of the latest scandal is money accruable to the Federation Account that, according to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, ought to have been remitted by the NNPC. Revising his earlier estimates, Sanusi told the Senate Committee on Finance that NNPC had failed to account for $20 billion of the $67 billion realised from crude oil sales. Since the issue of missing funds cropped up, the NNPC, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and, curiously, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, have been at pains to debunk the claims. After meetings among them, including Sanusi and the Director of Budget, Bright Okogu, to “reconcile the accounts,” CBN now agrees that $47 billion has been accounted for. While Sanusi had initially insisted that $12 billion was still unaccounted for, Okonjo-Iweala and NNPC only agreed that $10.8 billion (N1.68 trillion at N156 to US$1) was yet to be “reconciled.” Later, the NNPC claimed it had “legitimately” spent about 80 per cent or $8.76 billion (N1.366 trillion) on kerosene subsidy, partly on petrol subsidy and the rest on repairs to damaged pipelines.

SMOKE IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND GO TO JAIL - FASHOLA SIGNS LAW BANNING SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES IN LAGOS.

A piece of bad news for smokers in the city of Lagos. I personally support this though.

Governor Babatunde Fashola has signed a bill banning smoking in public places in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, into law.

With the signing of the bill into law today, nobody can smoke in public places anymore in Lagos State as offenders would be made to pay fine or go to jail. The Lagos State House of Assembly had recently passed a bill banning smoking in public places and placed fine of N10,000, three months imprisonment or both for first offenders.

The bill for a law to prohibit smoking in designated places and vehicles, which was sponsored by Gbolahan Yishawu, the lawmaker representing Eti-Osa Constituency 2 at the House, had lingered since last year.

DETAILS OF HOW TIWA SAVAGE ASSAULTED A POLICE OFFICER AND GOT ARRESTED IN LAGOS

Many who thought Mavin Artiste & recently married Tiwa Savage(Mrs Balogun)  is an AJEBO were shocked to hear she actually assaulted a police personnel and was arrested thereafter on Saturday in Lagos. A simple proof that Mrs. Balogun has the full Naija genes in her...lol.

Read as reported by PunchNG.

Mavin Records artiste, Tiwa Savage, has been arrested by the police for allegedly humiliating a policeman who apprehended her for violating some provisions of the Lagos State Road Traffic Law.

Tiwa, often referred to as Mavin First Lady, was said to have argued with the policeman, who flagged her down for flouting traffic rules in front of Eko Hotels and Suites Victoria Island, on Saturday. She was recently signed a brand ambassador deal with Forte Oil, allegedly came down from the vehicle she was driving in and confronted the policeman.

THE SALE OF JUMIA TO FOREIGN INVESTORS...GOOD OR BAD DECISION?

Two young Nigerians founded the online retail store "JUMIA", barely 2 years after, it became a household name catering for the needs of many but..........the founders have sold the company.  Read why they took such a crirtical decision as reported by "The Nation".

Emotions ran high the day co-founders of Jumia Raphael Afeador and Tunde Kehinde broke the news to their young team of 500 experts at their Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos campus that new owners are taking over the business.

Inside the long horizontal office dormitory built beside their 90,000-square foot-warehouse, the largest campus in West Africa, where young men with an average age of 23 attend to thousands of online shoppers at the speed of light, Afeador, noted: “Jumia was an exciting one and a-half-year journey for us. We are extremely proud of Jumia and wish all the best to the company and all the people here.”

BOKO HARAM MURDERS MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BORNO STATE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No fewer than 100 people were, weekend, killed in separate attacks in Baga and Izge villages of Kukawa and Gwoza local government areas of Borno State, by Boko Haram insurgents, who also reportedly wounded several others and destroyed property worth millions of Naira. This came as President Goodluck Jonathan said in Lagos, yesterday, that the security challenges facing the country would have been worse without prayers from religious groups across the country.

It has also emerged that the Federal Government may be under pressure to open fresh negotiations with the terrorist group.

President Jonathan, who spoke at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Olive Tree Parish, in Banana Island, Lagos thanked Christians and other religious groups for their prayerful intercessions for the country. He said, but for their prayers, Nigeria would have been worse than it is in terms of the security challenges.

However, the Military High Command has now suspended further rotation of troops deployed to the North East region to fight the Boko Haram terrorists over alleged discovery that troops now play hide and seek to avoid being killed by the terrorists. The order banning further rotation of troops every six months came into effect on February 3.

Aside the weekend attacks, investigations by Vanguard showed that  the Boko Haram terrorists had killed over 200 people within the last few weeks as well as inflicting severe wounds on residents who lost property worth billions of naira in Konduga, Gwoza and Kukawa council areas of Borno State.

Vanguard gathered from reliable sources that the attack in Baga village bordering the Chad Republic Friday evening, claimed 10 lives, while the Izge massacre at the Cameroon border with  Borno State yesterday morning also left 90 people dead.

(PHOTOS) PRESIDENT JONATHAN'S PRIVATE VISIT TO TRADITIONAL RULERS OF 4 APC CONTROLLED STATES.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday continued consultations on his political direction in Lagos in meetings with stakeholders and solicitations for prayers for the country from religious leaders.

In a surprising development, the president, however, left regional leaders of his party out of the consultations as many of them expressed surprise on the president’s business in the nation’s commercial capital city.

The president’s efforts to woo support for his political future in the south was also being helped in the north by efforts by the new national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Alhaji Adamu Mu‘azu to break the ranks of the opposition in the north as represented by All Progressives Congress, APC.

A NATION WITHOUT EMPATHY - FEMI FANI-KAYODE

A few days ago (12th February 2014) in Borno state Boko Haram killed 60 innocent Nigerians and carted off 24 young girls without any trace. On January 27th 2014 no less than 70 innocent Nigerians were murdered in cold blood by Boko Haram in a series of attacks in Borno and Adamawa states. 

On January 14th 2014 at least 50 innocent Nigerians were blown to pieces by a Boko Haram suicide bomber in  the heart of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state. Not too long before then they attacked an army barracks in Borno, killed 200 soldiers, carted off the wives and children of our military personnel and burnt the barracks to the ground. 

A few weeks prior to that, numerous schools were attacked and hundreds of our children were either shot to death, hacked to pieces or had their throats cut and blood drained. Consequently many schools have been closed down in Borno and Yobe states respectively. 

A few weeks back no less than 160 of our soldiers were killed by Boko Haram in one skirmish simply because they ran out of bullets. Worst still it has been generally acknowleged that the Boko Haram fighters are better equipped and better supplied than our soldiers. Goodness me....what a mess.

Finally no less than 130 churches were burnt down in Borno state in 2013 alone and the Catholic Church alone lost 53 churches out of that figure. All in all Nigeria has lost almost 8000 innocent civilians to Boko Haram in the last three years and that includes women and children. It does not however include the vast number of women that have been captured and kidnapped by them and that are now being used as sex-slaves. 

(PHOTOS) FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT THE BAFTA 2014 (BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS)

The BAFTA Awards were FULL of surprises and well-deserved wins

Best Picture: 12 Years A Slave

Best British Film: Gravity

Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Best Original Screenplay: American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell

Best Adapted Screenplay: Philomena, Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

GLAMOROUS LAWYER DISAPPEARS AFTER £3.6M VANISHED FROM CLIENT ACCOUNTS.

A high-flying lawyer has disappeared after being placed at the centre of an investigation into millions of pounds going missing from clients' accounts.

Deidre Newell-Austin, who set up Austin Law just three years after graduating from law school, has been accused of one of the largest ever frauds investigated by the solicitors' watchdog. British Police are also involved in the probe which centres on the disappearance of £3.6million from at least 15 alleged victims, it was reported.

MUSIC MOGUL "SIMON COWELL" AND GIRLFRIEND WELCOMES SON

Simon Cowell has become a father...

Cowell tweeted three black and white photos featuring himself, Silverman and Eric, telling his followers: ‘…now you can see how handsome little Eric is’.

QUICK REVENGE - ARSENAL KNOCKS LIVERPOOL OUT OF FA CUP RACE

ARSENAL 2 LIVERPOOL 1

Arsene Wenger's men suffered a very humiliating 5 - 1 defeat in the hands of Liverpool (EPL) at Anfield about a week ago but took their pound of flesh when they won by Two goals to one in the FA Cup tie today.

Goals from Oxlade and Podolski were enough to see off Liverpool.

Arsenal are now in the quarter finals and will be hoping for an easy tie.

SEE VIDEO HERE.

#FLASHBACK - MASE BINU SI MI - CLENCH

MA SE BINU SI MI

This song was a massive hit back then...... 

I wonder where CLENCH is at the moment...

Enjoy the song.

RAPIST GOT KNOCKED DOWN BY A COMMERCIAL BUS AS HE ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE FROM THE POLICE STATION

Another rape story as reported by PunchNG....This madness must stop....

In the emergency ward of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, 21-year-old Oye Adeleke was lying on a bed like every other patient who had suffered different degrees of fracture to their limbs from accidents.

But Adeleke’s case is peculiar. In fact, the story behind how he landed in the hospital had circulated around the ward. Some of those who were discussing the issue when our correspondent visited him, used the word “karma” to describe his fate.

On January 18, 2014, Adeleke, who is an apprentice meat seller at Tinubu Market in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos, allegedly added his name to a long list of sexual predators walking the streets of Lagos. That day, which would change the life of 12-year-old Bisola (not real name) forever, was when Adeleke ambushed the young girl and raped her for one hour.