NNPC TO RECOVER N1.9TR FROM JV PARTNERS.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation has commenced the process of recovering over $7bn (N1.4tn) in over-deducted tax benefits from joint venture partners on major capital projects.

It was learnt on Sunday that the corporation had also engaged an international accounting firm to ascertain the exact amount due to government on the Strategic Alliance Contracts entered by Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, where up to $2.46bn (N484.6bn) of government money would be recovered.

In a report submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari by its new management, detailing the corporation’s successes so far, the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, stated that the firm had commenced its performance measurement and benchmarking.

NDDC BOARD DRAGS PRESIDENT BUHARI TO COURT OVER DISSOLUTION.

Members of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC board, have asked the National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja, to declare that President Muhammadu Buhari has no powers to sack them as their appointments are governed by statutes and for a fixed period, as same period has not expired.

It will be recalled that there were recent circulars from the office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, dated July 16, 2015, Ref. No. SGF.19/S.81/XIX/964 and July 23, 2015, Ref. No. SGF.55/S.2 that all boards stand dissolved. The Sen Bassey Ewa-Henshaw led board, through their counsel, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegborowa, is contending that the circular were wrongly applied to NDDC.

Defendants in the suit are the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senate and House of Representatives. Their counsel pointed out that by virtue of section 6 (6) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, once parties have submitted their dispute before a competent court, none of them is allowed to resort to self-help or to take any step that may jeopardize the due hearing of the matter on its merit.

PRESIDENT BUHARI ISSUES ULTIMATUM FOR COMPLIANCE WITH TREASURY SINGLE ACCOUNT.

President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a Tuesday, September 15, 2015 deadline for all Federal MDAs to comply with the Treasury Single Account (TSA) directive. 

The statement read: ”President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Deadline for all Federal MDAs to comply with the Treasury Single Account (TSA) instruction.

“By that deadline, all Federal Government revenues must go into the Central Bank Treasury Single Account (TSA), except otherwise expressly approved.”

KADUNA GOVT UNCOVERS N4BN IN 470 BANK ACCOUNTS.

The Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai said on Saturday that with the adoption of the Single Treasury Account, the state had traced and uncovered N4bn stashed in 470 different accounts in 23 commercial banks.

He noted that the Peoples Democratic Party administration had been operating these (470) accounts in different banks over the years with various names.

According to the governor, but for the adoption of the Single Treasury Account system, nobody would have traced and discovered the accounts or recovered the said money.

40-YR-OLD FATHER DEFILES 7-YR-OLD DAUGHTER, GIVES HER N10 AFTER ORAL SEX. #SAYNOTORAPE.

Seven-year-old Ngozi (pseudonym) is no longer a child. Her innocence has been stolen by her 41-year-old father, Emeka Igwe, who not only raped her, but got her addicted to masturbation.

It was gathered that anytime Ngozi felt sexual urge and her father was not around to stimulate her, she would invite boys into her parents’ apartment in the Federal Housing Estate, Meiran, Ojokoro, Lagos State, to “play with her private parts”.

It was learnt that the victim’s mother first detected the act in January, 2015, and after reporting to policemen at the Ojokoro Police Division, the case was dismissed as a family matter.

BUHARI MAY BE AFRICA'S LEAST CORRUPT LEADER - WASHINGTON POST.

By the standards of sub-Saharan African leaders, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is dirt-poor.

According to a statement released by his government, he has $150,000 in his savings account. He owns five homes and two mud houses, an orchard and ranch with 270 head of cattle, 25 sheep, five horses and a variety of birds. He has bought two cars from his savings

"President Buhari had no foreign account, no factory and no enterprises. He also had no registered company and no oil wells," reads the statement released by the spokesman, Garba Shehu, describing the president's assets as "Spartan."

10 PERSONS ELECTROCUTED WHILE VANDALISING POWER SUPPLY INSTALLATIONS.

No fewer than 10 persons were electrocuted while vandalising the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company installations last year even as 10 more were arrested.

This was disclosed by the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of the company, Mr. Collins Chabuka, during a public safety sensitisation campaign in Lafia, Nasarawa State.

Chabuka said most of those that who were killed were either vandals or quack electricians who tampered with the installations at night.

THE IMMINENT CONFRONTATION BETWEEN BUHARI AND JONATHAN.

Barely 100 days after President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, some ministers under the previous administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, last Sunday, declared war against the incumbent over a perceived lack of “due respect.”

The ministers, who were said to be acting at the behest of Jonathan, accused Buhari and members of the ruling All Progressives Congress of condemning, ridiculing and undermining the achievements of the ex-President. According to them, the vilification amounted to rubbishing the integrity of the individual members of the past administration.

Jonathan’s ministers, in a statement by a former Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, said the efforts of the Buhari government was to portray all members of the previous administration “as corrupt and irresponsible, in an orchestrated and vicious trial by the media,” which they said had created “a lynch mentality that discredits our honest contributions to the growth and development of our beloved nation.”

NIGERIAN CONMAN WHO CHEATED PENSIONERS OUT OF £5M LIFE SAVINGS WEEPS AS HE IS JAILED.

 A conman funded a playboy lifestyle by cheating pensioners out of their life savings.

Godwin Nwaofor, 36, kept a 'suckers list' of potential victims to send bogus letters saying they had won the Australian Lottery.

The Nigerian national received around £1million from the scam and blew the money on luxury cars, gold jewellery and expensive champagne at top nightclubs in London.

CURSE OF WOLF FAMILY - HOW THEY HAVE SURVIVED BULLYING, PERSECUTION AND POISONING.

Jesus 'Chuy' Aceves woke up one morning to discover another one of his family's cats has been murdered.

Then on his way to work at a Mexican building site, he was howled at by strangers who jeered at him, calling him names like 'satanic beast', before whipping out their cameras to take pictures of him.

This is a normal day in the life of the 'Wolf Man' who became a world-famous circus performer whose entire face is covered in thick, black hair.

His entire family of 30 are all covered in the same dark fur as him - and cruelly shunned in their home town of Loreto, north-west Mexico, because of it.

FAMILY PETITIONS IG OF POLICE OVER SHADY CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING TO THE DEATH OF SCHOOL PROPRIETRESS AND HER BUSINESS PARTNER.

The Amungo Family of Adubabiri compound in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase,  to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Ebiegberi Ejor (nee Amungo).   In a petition signed by Dr. Ebimo Amungo,  on behalf of the family, they stated that they have lost faith in the ability of officers at the Rivers State Police Command to find the true killers and determine probable cause of the death of Mrs. Ejor, who, the family believes, was murdered with her business partner.

CHRIS OKOTIE DENIES BEING BEHIND EMEKA IKE'S MARRIAGE PROBLEMS.

OKOTIE & EMEKA IKE

Pastor of the Household of God Church, Lagos, Chris Okotie, has described an allegation levelled against him by Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike, that he is responsible for the crisis rocking his marriage, as rubbish.

Ike had, in a statement on Thursday, accused Okotie of stalling efforts he is making to save his marriage with Suzanne.

Trouble started in Ike’s home recently, when the wife accused him of assaulting her.

While the actor has repeatedly denied this, the woman is said to have filed for a divorce in a Lagos court.

FASHOLA SNUBS QUESTIONS RELATED TO CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS.

The immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday refused to answer questions on the allegations of corruption levelled against him.

Fashola was alleged to have spent N139m on two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja, and another N78.3m for the upgrade of a personal website.

The former governor, who was the guest speaker at the 16th Bishop Mike Okonkwo Annual Lecture, urged Nigerians to ensure that they hold their leaders accountable always.

ASSETS DECLARATION - PRESIDENT BUHARI DECLARES, 270 CATTLES, MUD HOUSES WHILE VP OSIBANJO IS WORTH SEVERAL MILLIONS.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday made public details of their assets, which had been declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau.

According a statement by the President’s Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President has about N30m in his only bank account with the Union Bank Plc, while the Vice President has a balance of N94m, $900,000 and 19,000 pounds in his bank accounts.

Shehu’s statement said the President had shares in Berger Paints, Skye Bank and Union Bank and a total of seven houses, comprising two mud and a standard house in Daura, his hometown; two homes in Kaduna, one in Kano and one in Abuja.

DSS SACKS MARILYN OGAR & 44 OTHER SENIOR OFFICIALS OVER ALLEGED PARTISANSHIP.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has sacked its former spokesperson, Ms Marilyn Ogar and 44 other top directors in the security agency.

Marilyn Ogar who was the former deputy director of agency was removed two months ago and equally lost her promotion following President Muhammadu Buhari’s nullification of the exercise upon assumption in office.

The secret service former spokesperson’s fate may not be unconnected with her alleged role in the last administration and the run-up to the 2015 election.

It will be recalled that Ogar had been accused of alleged partisanship in the build-up to the general elections.

COURT BARS EFCC FROM PROSECUTING SEN. STELLA ODUAH OVER PURCHASE OF 2 ARMOURED CARS FOR N160M.

Justice Mohammed Yunusa of a Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from inviting a former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, for questioning.

The judge ordered the EFCC to stay action on Oduah as regards the purchase of two armoured BMW cars at a cost of N160m in 2013 by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority under her watch.

The order, made on August 26, 2015, is also binding on the ICPC, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police.

THREE DIE IN OJUELEGBA AS 40FT TRAILER CARRYING A CONTAINER FELL OF THE BRIDGE & CRUSHED TWO VEHICLES.

No fewer than three people were killed on Wednesday after a container on a 40-feet trailer fell off the Ojuelegba Bridge onto the road below.

It was learnt that the container, which was not latched to the trailer, crushed two private vehicles which were in motion.

The vehicles, a white Toyota and a black jeep, were reportedly mangled under the weight of the container.

I ONLY RAPED MY 14-YR-OLD SIX TIMES - RAPE SUSPECT CONFESSES - #SAYNOTORAPE.

A 34-year-old factory worker, Mohammed Ahmed, on Wednesday said he raped his daughter six times.

Ahmed, who was paraded by officials of the Osun State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said he started having sex with his 14-year-old daughter ( name withheld) in April, 2015.

The distraught primary five girl was not allowed to speak with reporters .

FIVE WITNESSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST EX NSA SAMBO DASUKI.

The Federal Government has proposed five witnesses to prove its case of illegal possession of firearms against a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).

The ex-NSA was arraigned before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday.

The five government witnesses, according to the prosecution’s list of witnesses, are operatives of the Department of State Services, who were part of the search operation conducted at Dasuki’s residence at 13, John Khadiya Street, Asokoro, Abuja, on July 16, 2015.

BODIES OF THREE POLICEMEN KILLED BY PIPELINE VANDALS/MILITANTS IN OWUTU-IKORODU STILL MISSING.

The attack on a team of policemen in Owutu area of Ikorodu, Lagos, in the early hours of Monday, during which three policemen were shot dead and others injured, was said to have been carried out by militants-turned vandals. 

This is just as the policeman, who managed to escape from the scene of the shooting, attributed his survival to his name.

The surviving policeman, a Sergeant identified as Fortunate Endurance Imasuen, according to a family friend who spoke on condition, said: “My name, Fortunate, saved me. For the first time in my life, I knew the meaning of my name.