PWC REPORT CONFIRMS $18.5BN OIL MONEY WAS DIVERTED. - SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI.

Just over a year ago President Goodluck Jonathan suspended me from my position as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria after I questioned an estimated $20bn shortfall in oil revenues due to the treasury from the state oil company. As I said then, you can suspend a man, but you cannot suspend the truth. The publication last month of a PwC audit into the “missing billions” brings us a step closer to it.

When I was central bank governor I raised three broad questions. First, did the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation remit to the government the entire proceeds of its crude oil sales? Second, if it did not, is there proof of the purpose to which the unremitted amounts were applied? And third, did NNPC have the legal authority to withhold these funds?

Contrary to the claims of petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the audit report does not exonerate the NNPC. It establishes that the gap between the company’s oil revenues between January 2012 and July 2013 and cash remitted to the government for the same period was $18.5bn. And it goes into detail about the NNPC’s account of how it used that money, which raises serious questions about the legality of the state oil company’s conduct.

WHY WE KILLED THE 3 POLICEMEN - LEKKI ROBBERY SUSPECTS.

Four suspected members of a robbery gang that unleashed terror on the Lekki area of Lagos on Thursday, March 12, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command.

Our correspondent learnt that the suspected robbers ─ Duke Odogbo, 38, said to be the gang leader; Lawrence Kingsley, 31; Ebi Tosan, 20; and 30-year-old Ekelemo Kuete ─ were arrested in Delta, Ogun, Ondo and Lagos states.

It was reported on Friday, March 13, that three policemen and a fish seller were killed by the gang which stormed the First City Monument Bank Limited on Admiralty Way in the Lekki area.

NDIC DRAGS DOYIN OKUPE (@DOYINOKUPE) & TWO OTHERS TO COURT OVER UNPAID DEBT.

The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation, (NDIC), Liquidator of Gulf bank Nigeria Plc in a debt recovery suit before a Federal High Court in Lagos, against the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe and two others filed an application to place the suit on an undefended list.

Joined as Okupe’s co-defendants in the suit are an investment company, Value Trust Investment Limited, and a Director of the company Mr. Ray Ahazie.‬

NDIC is claiming Okupe, who is the chairman of the company and other defendants owe the sum of N34,168,064.51.‬ as outstanding balance of a loan they took from liquidated Gulf bank Plc.

POLICE PARADES DEADLY LEKKI BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS.

The police in Lagos, western Nigeria, have arrested four suspects who allegedly robbed a bank and killed three policemen and two civilians and carted away millions of naira.

The deadly robbery incident that led to the death of five persons happened on 12 March, 2015 in Lekki area of the state. The suspects were pararded on Wednesday by the State Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Aderanti at Ikeja, Lagos.

The four suspects are gang leader, Duke Odogbo, 38, Lawrence Kingsley, 31, Ebi Tosan, 20, and Ekelemo Kuete, 30.

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BURUNDI ARMY GENERAL OVERTHROWS PRESIDENT PIERRE NKURUNZIZA.

PIERRE NKURUNZIZA

 A Burundi army general says senior officers are have dismissed President Pierre Nkurunziza, amid unrest over his bid to be re-elected for a third term.

Maj Gen Godefroid Niyombareh announced that a national salvation committee had been set up to run the country.

However, it is not clear how much support he and the other officers have. President Nkurunziza is currently in Tanzania meeting other East African leaders to discuss the crisis. His aide dismissed the coup claims as "a joke".

DOWNLOAD VIDEO - 69 MISSED CALLS - @JAHBLESSME FT OLAMIDE, REMINISCE, LIL KESH, CDQ & CHINKO EKUN.

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The music video for Jahbless‘ “69 Missed Calls” which features Olamide, Reminisce, Lil Kesh, Chinko Ekun & CDQ has been released. Unlimited LA shot the video in Lagos.

“69 Missed Calls” is housed on Jahbless’ “I aM Me” album, slated to hit stores on the 29th of May 2015.

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JONATHAN SACKED SULEIMAN ABBA OVER INDISCIPLINE - MIKE OKIRO.

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Mike Okiro, on Tuesday quoted President Goodluck Jonathan as informing the Police Council that he sacked Mr. Suleiman Abba, as the Inspector-General of Police because of the gross indiscipline he noticed among the rank and file under his watch.

Okiro spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting of the council during which Mr. Solomon Arase, who was earlier appointed as Abba’s successor in acting capacity, was confirmed.

He said the meeting deliberated on issues bordering on security and how to ensure that Nigerians live in peace.

ADAMU MUAZU'S (@MUAZUAA) MEDICAL TRIP - AN EVIDENCE OF 16YRS OF MISRULE BY PDP (@PDPNIGERIA).

Election loss is apparently an insipid pill that could demoralise the strongest of politicians. But some were muttering yesterday that it could have been worse for the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Adamu Mu‘azu, after his party’s historic loss in the recent general elections.

Recent whispers about the whereabouts of Dr. Mu‘azu were confirmed first by his office, and subsequently by the national secretariat: Mu‘azu is abroad on a medical.

However, against the suggestions of political detractors, Mu‘azu affirmed that his medical flight abroad was not on account of heartache arising from the PDP’s loss of his ward, local government, state and the country in the recent general elections.

THREE BRITISH JIHADI BRIDES ESCAPES FROM ISIS CLUTCHES.

Three British schoolgirls have escaped the clutches of ISIS and are on the run in Iraq, it was claimed last night. The girls, thought to be 16, are said to have gone on the run from the extremists, sparking a frantic bid to track them down by the brutal militants, a source within the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul revealed.

The exact identity of the girls and their fate is not known, but their reported ages match those of the three friends from east London, who ran away to join ISIS in February.

Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana - who were all pupils at Bethnal Green Academy - flew to Turkey together, before crossing the border into war-torn Syria earlier this year.

ADAMU MUAZU (@MUAZUAA) KICKED ME OUT OF HIS HOUSE TO MEET WITH TINUBU (@ASIWAJUTINUBU) - FAYOSE ALLEGES.

The ship of the PDP, the once acclaimed largest party in Africa seems to be coasting for total destruction as the war of words without empirical evidence between the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose and his party's chairman Adamu Muazu is becoming extremely embarrassing. 

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has alleged that the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, was not totally committed to the party during the elections, claiming that the chairman even had a secret meeting with the national leader of All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Fayose said this during a Channels Television programme, ‘View from the Top’, aired on Monday.

He said, “Shortly before my election, he (Mu’azu) was to see me and I waited for him in his house for about five hours and then he came out to say he was sorry and that we should give him space. He said the Yoruba people should give him some space because he was expecting someone who did not want to see any Yoruba man.

NORTH KOREA'S KIM JONG-UN EXECUTES DEFENCE MINISTER WITH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN BECAUSEHE DOZED OFF AT A MILITARY CEREMONY.

 

North Korea's defence minister has been publicly executed with an anti-aircraft gun for falling asleep during military meetings and answering back to leader Kim Jong-Un.

Hyon Yong-Chol, 66, who was named head of North Korea's military in 2012, was killed in front of hundreds of bloodthirsty officials at a military camp in the capital Pyongyang on April 30.

It is not the first time a ZPU-4 anti-aircraft gun has been used for executions in North Korea, with recently released satellite images showing a number of unidentified people being killed using the brutal method at the same camp last October.  Those images showed the targets just 100 feet from the guns, which have a range of 26,000 feet. 

EARTHQUAKE HITS NEPAL AGAIN JUST WEEKS AFTER DEVASTATING QUAKE KILLED MORE THAN 8,000 PEOPLE.

 A massive earthquake shook Nepal this morning, killing at least four people and sending thousands of people in the capital Kathmandu rushing out in to the streets.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 7.4 and struck in an isolated, conservation area 42 miles west of the town of Namche Bazar, close to Mount Everest and the border with Tibet.

An international agency confirmed that at least four people had been killed in the town of Chautara. 

Shockwaves were felt over thousands of miles and as far apart as Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and the Indian capital New Delhi, where buildings swayed for more than a minute and people scurried into the streets.

JOURNALIST EXPELLED FROM ASO ROCK FOR ASKING EMBARRASSING QUESTION.

The Nigerian State House Media accreditation was on Monday withdrawn from a German Radio Deutsche Welle correspondent, Ubale Musa, by handlers of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Mr. Musa’s accreditation tag was withdrawn by security operatives attached to the Presidential Villa, for asking a visiting Chadian President, Idriss Deby, a question they found embarrassing.

Confirming the withdrawal, Mr. Musa said the Chief Security Officer to the President appears not to be comfortable with the question he asked the visiting Chadian leader.

ADAMU MUAZU (@MUAZUAA) PDP'S NATIONAL CHAIRMAN IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING MEDICAL TREATMENT ABROAD,

The Chief Press Secretary to Dr. Ahmadu Adamu Mu'azu, PDP's National Chairman who has been widely criticized for his role in PDP's poor showing at the 2015 polls has said that his boss is currently undergoing medical treatment abroad.

Below is statement from his 

The National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Ahmadu Adamu Mu'azu is currently undergoing medical attention abroad and will return to the country as soon as his doctors are satisfied with his medical condition. He left the country last week and hopes to be back soon.

FUEL SCARCITY MAY BITE HARDER TILL JUNE 2015.

Nigerians may need to brace up for more hard times, as indications emerged yesterday that fuel scarcity may persist till June, after the incoming administration may have been sworn in on May 29,2015.

The Guardian’s investigation revealed that the scarcity of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol may continue till after the official take-over by the Buhari led administration, as marketers are wary of further importation for the fear of the unknown.

Although, the Federal Government recently paid the marketers about N154 billion as part of the subsidy claims, reliable industry sources told The Guardian yesterday that the marketers are now shying away from importing products due to uncertainties surrounding the payment of their outstanding N200 billion.

THIRTY SENIOR NIGERIAN ARMY OFFICERS TO BE COURT-MARTIALED. SEE FULL LIST.

The Nigerian Army has ordered 30 of its top officers to proceed to the Army Headquarters Garrison in Abuja to face a judicial panel reportedly over their conduct and performances in the ongoing war against Boko Haram.

According to an internal army memo dated March 11, 2015, the officers are to be court-martialed for various offences.

The memo listed 30 senior officers who were instructed to depart their current posting and head for the Army Headquarters garrison for “jurisdiction”.

BUHARI AND THE ENERGY CRISIS.

The virtual unavailability of fuel and electricity especially in the last three months paints an ugly picture of Nigeria as she transits from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

The embarrassing scarcity, the longest and perhaps most expensive in recent times, paints a sad picture of a country in dire straits.

The impression is that governance stopped after the March 28 presidential election in which the incumbent President Jonathan lost while Buhari of the opposition party won. Could that be the reason there is no fuel?

ONYEKA ONWENU & PATIENCE OZOKWOR FIGHT DIRTY OVER JONATHAN;S CAMPAIGN FUNDS.

The President Goodluck Jonathan 2015 presidential campaign has left a lot of bad blood in its wake; turning sisters against sisters and causing erstwhile good friends to be at daggers drawn. 

One of the irreconcilable differences brought about by Jonathan’s recent bid for the presidency is the brawl between the singer, broadcaster, actor and Director General, National Women Centre, Onyeka Onwenu and popular actor, Patience Ozokwor. Onwenu had made it her business to have a majority of the creative population in Nigeria channel their request to see Jonathan and/or participate in his campaign.

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN INJURED IN SHOOTING.

George Zimmerman, who has had a series of legal scrapes since he was acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin, was involved in a shooting in Lake Mary, Fla., police said Monday.

Zimmerman had a confrontation with a man named Matthew Apperson, who reported the shooting to 911, Lake Mary Police Officer Bianca Gillett said at a news conference. Zimmerman was not the shooter, she told reporters.

Last September, Apperson had a confrontation during what police said was a road rage incident. No charges were involved. Investigators have not determined how or why the latest confrontation took place.