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The Buildings Are Three Filling Stations * 9ja News : 27/01/2018 - 27 Jan 2018 17:00
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Olalekan Adetayo President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday mentioned as far his administration’s ongoing anti-corruption fight was concerned, the nation’s judiciary remained his significant headache. He mentioned the fight against corruption in Nigeria could only be correctly tackled with the robust support of the judiciary. According to a statement by his Specific Adviser on Media and […]Boko Haram burns youngsters, kills 86 in Borno attacksAdemola Oni, Olalekan Adetayo and Kayode Idowu Terror group, Boko Haram, was alleged to have burnt some youngsters to death when the militants overran Dalori, a village 4 kilometres outside Maiduguri, exactly where about 80 residents of the community were killed on Saturday night. The Area Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency in Borno State, […]NIS in fresh recruitment scamAdelani Adepegba The Nigeria Immigration Service has once more engaged in a fresh illegal recruitment of 300 personnel, the slots of which was shared amongst the prime management officials. Investigations on Sunday indicated that the personnel who have been on inspector cadre (levels 1-8), were employed in December, 2015. Sources stated that the personnel were placed on […]Anambra seals off 15 buildings for tax evasionTony Okafor THE Anambra State Government has sealed off 15 buildings in Nnewi, a commercial city in the state, for tax evasion. The buildings are 3 filling stations, two residential houses, 1 private college and one particular hospital. The Anambra Home and Land Use Charge carried out the closure of the buildings following judgments it obtained […]N221bn overall health budget’ll cause disaster - NMAFriday Olokor The Nigerian Medical Association has faulted the N221.7bn provided to the overall health sector in the 2016 Appropriation Bill, saying it portends disaster. Although suggesting that the allocation really should be urgently reviewed upward in the interest of justice, the organisation referred to as on the National Assembly to "mitigate this looming disaster in the well being sector […]Physicians protest colleague’s arrestBukola Adebayo Private doctors, beneath the aegis of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, Lagos State chapter, have referred to as for the release of Dr Olafisoye Odunayo from the police detention. According to the state Chairman of AGPMPN, Dr Jide Arigbagbuwo, Odunayo, who performs at the Awoyaya Hospital, Ibeju-Lekki, was arrested in […]Gunmen kidnap Dickson’s aide at Redeemed ChurchChukwudi Akasike Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped an aide to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Captain Henry Ungbuku (retd). Ungbuku, who is the particular adviser on aviation to the Bayelsa State governor, was abducted as he was about leaving the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Light Property Parish, right after service. It was gathered that his […]DELSU sacks errant lecturersNosa Akenzua AUTHORITIES of the Delta State University, Abraka, have sacked eight lecturers for alleged plagiarism and other offences. Thirty-six other individuals were also shown the way out of the university for other offences. The sacking of the lecturers, the university authorities mentioned, was aimed at instilling discipline amongst the academic and non-academic employees of the […]Metuh’s torn statement linked Jonathan to N400m -EFCCAde Adesomoju Information have emerged about what the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, allegedly wrote in the torn statement which he produced under caution when in the custody of the Financial and Economic Crimes Commission on January 5. The statements of the operatives who have been mentioned to have witnessed the […]Reps invite Amaechi, ex-PDP chair over N1tn rail contractsJohn Ameh The Property of Representatives stated on Sunday that it had invited the Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr. Seyi Sjuwade, more than the ongoing investigation into the contracts for the rehabilitation and modernisation of the country’s rail lines involving 2010 and 2014. An ad […]Sensible path to stronger naira and financial prosperityThis column has consistently maintained that the root cause of Nigeria’s financial paradox of escalating income, with unbridled unemployment rate, and deepening poverty will be discovered in the conscious but incorrect adoption of a faulty and distortional method for the infusion of our crude oil export dollar revenue. Hereafter, we will discuss the related adverse […]Maku slams Al-Makura for airport projectUmar Muhammed A former Minister of Facts, Mr. Labaran Maku, says the ongoing cargo airport project embarked upon by the Nasarawa State Government in the face of dwindling income is a bad idea. - Comments: 0
Correctly Interrogated, Mainagate Can Be The Defining Moment In The Buhari Anti Corruption War *. - 27 Jan 2018 16:28
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Too a great deal is involved in this scandal for it to be left to a senate inquiry, having said that, grandiloquent."Everyone who says he requirements a private jet to make vital appointments is a liar. He necessary it for his ego. Name me one who is busier than I am, who owns extra U.S corporations than I do. I travel consistently across the U.S and the globe in industrial jetliners, live in the very same house considering that the 70s, nonetheless acquire $9 ties and $75 suits and still drive my 22 year old immaculately maintained Lincoln. These flash lifestyles are basically ego driven!" - Warren Buffet.Let me start out this piece by quoting a commentator on Ekitipanupo: "There is no explanation why Maina can not be arraigned in the morning and executed by noon of the same day". To that I say yes, but please do me a favour, let the President initial set up currently, a judicial panel of inquiry into this Mainagate conundrum. Diligently handled, Mainagate could turn out to be the rewarding juncture in the Buhari anti corruption war. Spanning two administrations, and with the humongous amounts of revenue becoming bandied about, the last of which is Maina lawyer’s claim that Nigeria is indebted to his client, the fugitive at law, to the tune of N159 Billion, a judicial interrogation, as is being proposed here, top to full disclosure in the whole Mainagate saga, has the distinct possibility of entirely unmasking the stupefying corruption ravaging our country. In creating this suggestion, I am not unaware that the senate, this previous week, opened a hearing on the subject. But history getting our guide, Nigerians can only trust that workout to their own chagrin. Apart from the national assembly, specially the seventh senate, getting severally implicated in the rot, these national assembly hearings are by no means about what we are told. Witness what occurred in the Hon Herman Hembe-led inquiry into capital market operations, the oil subsidy probe as well as the Hon Ndudi Elumelu probe into the power sector just before it? The national assembly has become so unreliable in such matters as they have shown, definitively, that they are more concerned with added benefits for selves than for Nigerians, bearing in thoughts that in the instant case, in specific, there is too a great deal money to play with that we should really not so wantonly invest our trust.When beaten, they say, twice shy.At the end of a judicial hearing into this mess, not only are we most likely to identify the kingpins of pension corruption, largely domiciled inside the incredibly locus of energy in our country, we must be capable to positively assert that the workplace of the Head of Service is the pretty epicentre of pension corruption in the country. From what we discover every day about Mainagate, the office of the head of service appears more like a putrefying centre of nihilism. It must be clinically x-rayed with all the rogues identified. According to Maina, a extremely unsafe, certainly murderous, cabal operates with the connivance of that division of government. Maina could nonetheless be hung, even upside down, but for Christ’s sake, not prior to we’ve heard all he has to say. He ought to not be hushed, he will have to not be hurried, nor must he get killed ahead of his time. As well significantly is involved in this scandal for it to be left to a senate inquiry, having said that, grandiloquent.What to do then?President Buhari, if he is severe about this war, as I am confident he is, and is mindful of his legacy and place in history, he must set up a judicial panel of inquiry to be headed by an untainted, retired judge with some Nigerians of proven integrity, like himself, making up the membership. After that is completed, he have to, willy nilly, close his eyes to whatever is being unravelled, as what must interest him is the finish solution, the final report. Naturally, with an election only some two years away, all manner of characters would like to interfere, pleading the lead to of some individuals they would like to convince the president, are vital to his re-election. Mainagate ought to be the crematory of many a political/expert career.What is oozing out of Mainagate is like a horror film and unless Nigerians are allowed to hear the final of it, the anti corruption war could shed steam which would be rather a shame, and a enormous denudation, of a essential campaign guarantee by candidate Buhari.The most up-to-date Nigerians woke up to hear this previous week is Maina’s lawyer, Barr Sani Katu, like Jerry Kushner’s attorney in faraway United States, declaring his client a hero, and claiming that the Nigerian government was owing him over N159BN, as against the N2.1bn he is being accused of siphoning although in workplace. That, he claimed, represents five% of what Maina recovered, forgetting that even if the recoveries have been correct, the whistle blower law can't take retrospective impact.But he stated a great deal more.So let’s hear him at some length. Recalling Maina’s exploits, Katu stated: "In 2011, Maina stopped the stealing of N300m daily from police pension. Also, in 2011, he stopped the stealing of N1.04bn monthly from police pension allocations. Exact same 2011, he was capable to quit the yearly stealing of N52.5bn, which has been an annual ritual at the head of service pension." Involving 2011 and 2012 the PRTT beneath Maina’s leadership, he mentioned, recovered cash and asset worth N1.63trn which had been with the EFCC. "It would be recalled," he continued, "that some pensioners petitioned the National Assembly to make sure that EFCC generate these recoveries so that Nigerians would know about them. "Similarly, involving 2016 and June 2017, Maina, released the intelligence and tip-offs that stopped the annual stealing of N1.3trn. (This, he stated, has been confirmed by the Attorney Common and Minister of Justice). "Also," he continued, "between February 2017 and October 2017, Maina recovered N152bn, N60bn, and other sensitive materials". Now two factors: If these are correct, how many of these thieves have been punished, administratively, even if court situations continue, and, are we becoming told Maina has been back in the country and in the civil service considering the fact that February, 2017 - a fugitive at law, in a nation with an IG, a Division of State Service, EFCC and so forth, total with a sitting government?How secure are we in this country?The Mainagate conundrum is completely stupefying and only a judicial inquiry can prove conclusively that this government is not out to shield some individuals.Here is what has filtered out of the EFCC to confirm that for the good wellness of our nation, Mainagate should be completely unearthed. Not only is there a extremely risky cabal, going by Maina’s words, giving it life, this corrosive corruption has its pretty epicentre appropriate within the office of the head of service of the federation. This shows how unsafe this whole matter is for the reason that very a lot of individuals are now so loaded with big sums of income they can proficiently wage a war of attrition against the country. But there is a silver lining: government can recoup so substantially revenue it won’t have to borrow a dime to execute its 2018 price range.According to snippets from the EFCC, about N17billion has been traced to Maina with a long list of beneficiaries located all over the commanding heights of the Nigerian government, as nicely as sundry top officials of our safety agencies. It ought to be stated, having said that, that some of these alleged to be involved have because denied their involvement.One more major plank of Mainagate revolves around those government officials who colluded to bring him back to Nigeria, smuggle him into the service and facilitate his being paid millions of naira in back salaries. As I wrote elsewhere, it will be fascinating to see the Lawyer-Basic and Minister for Justice, convince Nigerians that he acted in the interest of the nation in the Maina saga. His Dubai meeting with Maina nevertheless rankles to higher heavens.In concluding this piece, I want to sincerely plead with the president to do that which this matter really urgently requires. Mainagate has damaged, and retains the clear possibility of further negatively affecting the country in the comity of nations in addition to diminishing the president’s well recognized integrity. - Comments: 0
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