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- Meet 2018 NOUN Best Graduating Student
- Nigerian Man, 6 Others Escape From Ghanaian Prison As Police Declares Them Wanted With Bounty (Photos)
- Even If You Give Buhari 20 Years, He'll Still Fail To Deliver - Ozekhome supports Obasanjo
- YABATECH Female Student Allegedly Battered By A Lawyer In Lagos (Photos)
- Patience Jonathan's Sister Arrested At Abuja Airport
- 6 Areas Obasanjo Scored Buhari Low In His Warning Letter
- The hike in price of transport should reduce very soon - Reedorf
- Obasanjo Trashes Buhari: "You & Your Party, APC, Lacks Capacity To Develop Nigeria"
| Meet 2018 NOUN Best Graduating Student Posted: 24 Jan 2018 02:45 AM PST   culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2018 02:20 AM PST  The seven inmates on Sunday, escaped from the Kwabenya Police Cells in Ghana after it was attacked by armed robbers suspected to be their members, the Accra Regional Police Command has said. The suspects on the run are; Dickson Ofori, 24, Nigerian Chibuzor Akwabu, 34, Edem Rockson, 32 and Prince Osei 27. The rest are; Emanuel Kotey, 21, Kofi Darko, 21 and Attah Kwadwo, 20. One police officer sustained gunshot wounds during the raid but unfortunately passed on whilst receiving treatment at the 37 Military Hospital. The police said the suspects are being pursued with all the urgency it deserves. The Ghanaian press on Tuesday, highlighted the police bounty put on the head of some armed men who invaded a police station in Accra on Sunday morning. The suspected armed robbers, shot and killed an officer in charge of the station at the time, Inspector Emmanuel Ashilevi, and freed some seven prisoners, thereby creating public anxiety. It was gathered that the police have put a $3,400 (GH¢15,000) bounty on the heads of the escapees, whose pictures are published in the middle pages of the newspaper. The Police said Akwabu and Dickson were on remand for robbery while Darko was held for possessing firearm without authority with Rockson in cage for stealing. The rest were held for other offences. The Director-General of Police Public Affairs, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) David Eklu, said that the freed criminals are dangerous to the public and appealed for public support to nab them.   culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Even If You Give Buhari 20 Years, He'll Still Fail To Deliver - Ozekhome supports Obasanjo Posted: 24 Jan 2018 02:00 AM PST  Ozekhome said that even if Buhari is given 20 years, he will still fail to do anything reasonable in the lives of Nigerians. Obasanjo's 13-page letter on Tuesday upset the Nigerian political atmosphere as he criticized the President and warned him against re-contesting in 2019. Ozekhome thanked the Elder statesman for releasing the letter and discouraging Buhari from vying for the country's number one seat again. His words; "Even if you give Buhari another 20 years, he will only take Nigeria backward more and more. It is better to save Nigeria from him.That is why some of his supporters in the ruling party are backing off because they have realized that he's a wrong horse to back. "Some APC governors are still playing the proverbial ostrich, saying this man is doing well even when they know that he is not doing well.So, I totally agree with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Indeed his call is coming too late."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| YABATECH Female Student Allegedly Battered By A Lawyer In Lagos (Photos) Posted: 24 Jan 2018 01:45 AM PST  According to activist lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye, the man allegedly attacked the young lady as he smashed a rock on her head before proceeding to bite her all over her body.   As at the time of this report, the cause of the fracas between the lady and the lady was not revealed. But it was gathered that the man involved has apologized to the lady and her family after the case was taken up legally.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Patience Jonathan's Sister Arrested At Abuja Airport Posted: 24 Jan 2018 01:45 AM PST  EFCC investigators are to interrogate her in connection with the alleged laundering of over N359,397,458.26 through two firms linked with the former First Lady. The companies are AM-PM Global Networks Limited and Finchley Homes Limited. About N317,397,458.26 was traced to the suspect in AM-PM Global Networks Limited. She is expected to explain how she came about the management of N42million in Finchley Homes Limited. Esther Oba was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about noon on Monday, shortly after arriving from Dubai in company of her husband, three children and a house help. Upon ascertaining that she was the person watch-listed, the Nigerian Immigration Service alerted the EFCC whose operatives immediately took custody of her. Clad in a flowery green Ankara with a touch of yellow, the woman was seen yesterday being relocated to a female cell at the EFCC headquarters. The Nation reports that EFCC sources said the suspect is central to the ongoing probe of the former First Lady. One of the sources said: "We have been looking for her but she has been faceless. We watch-listed her for arrest by any security agency. "Fortunately at about noon on Monday, the Nigerian Immigration Service(NIS) contacted us that she was arrested while returning from Dubai with her husband and three children. She was arrested at Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport. "Her name featured in the operation of one of the accounts of ex-First Lady Patience Jonathan. The account is in the name of AM-PM Global Networks Limited which is domiciled in Stanbic IBTC. It is one of the accounts we have frozen. She is the sole signatory to the account of this firm suspected to have been used for money laundering." The source gave an insight into the preliminary findings of the EFCC which necessitated Mrs Oba's investigation. The source added: "From our findings, the closing balance in the account was N317,397,458.26 as at August 10, 2017. The inflows came without a clear narration as to the source. However, investigation is being intensified in that direction. Her claim is that the company was owned by their mother who is deceased. However, major inflows into the account occurred after the demise of their mother, Mrs. Esther Fynface Charity Oba. She claimed that transactions were continued by her late brother, Mr. Tamuno Mohammed Tonye(who was buried in December 2017), but in an attempt to regularise the account at the advent of the of BVN, a board resolution was submitted to Stanbic IBTC requesting that Esther Oba should be the signatory to the account. "She took charge of this account on 3rd February 2016 and between March and May 2016, the account had an inflow of N350m but she said she does not know the source. She is attributing the source to her brother." The source quoted Mrs Oba as saying: "It is only my brother that can explain the source of the cash and he is dead." Another source said: "We are suspecting that she and others became involved in money laundering in their quest to mop up money after they left office. "For instance, on the same day February 3, 2016, another board resolution was submitted to Stanbic IBTC by Finchley Top Homes Ltd authorising the same Esther Oba to be the sole signatory to the company's account which had about N42million. "The signatories to the Board Resolution were Ama Emilia and Ama Ada who are reasonably suspected not to be in existence. "When confronted, she said she doesn't know the signatories to the Finchley Homes Board Resolution. She told investigators: 'I have never seen them in my life.' "When we showed her the international passport of Ama Emilia, she said she cannot remember the face."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| 6 Areas Obasanjo Scored Buhari Low In His Warning Letter Posted: 24 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST  Obasanjo had in a strongly worded letter titled: 'THE WAY OUT: A CLARION CALL FOR COALITION FOR NIGERIA MOVEMENT', highlighted the failings of the ruling All Progressives Congress-led government. Below are the six critical areas Obasanjo addressed: Poverty (Hardship) "Already, Nigerians are committing suicide for the unbearable socio-economic situation they find themselves in. And yet Nigerians love life. We must not continue to reinforce failure and hope that all will be well. It is self-deceit and self-defeat and another aspect of folly." Insecurity/Herdsmen menace "The herdsmen/crop farmers issue is being wittingly or unwittingly allowed to turn sour and messy. It is no credit to the Federal Government that the herdsmen rampage continues with careless abandon and without finding an effective solution to it. And it is a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness that some Governors, a day after 73 victims were being buried in a mass grave in Benue State without condolence, were jubilantly endorsing President Buhari for a second term! The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics. This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced. It also has effect on general national security." Poor economic management "The third is passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one's own responsibility. Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today. If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in. He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the blame game. Our Constitution is very clear, one of the cardinal responsibilities of the President is the management of the economy of which the value of the naira forms an integral part. Kinship and friendship that place responsibility for governance in the hands of the unelected can only be deleterious to good government and to the nation." Nepotism "One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court. This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation. It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest. What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action?" Condoning misdeed "There were serious allegations of round-tripping against some inner caucus of the Presidency which would seem to have been condoned. I wonder if such actions do not amount to corruption and financial crime, then what is it? Culture of condonation and turning blind eye will cover up rather than clean up. And going to justice must be with clean hands."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| The hike in price of transport should reduce very soon - Reedorf Posted: 23 Jan 2018 09:41 AM PST The incessant and alarming increase in the price of transportation in the University of Ilorin has driven students to an almost-bankruptcy stage if there's a thing as that. Many students have written open letters to the administrative body in this respect which should be addressed as soon as possible. Mr Olumide's Blog was able to reach the Students' Union president popularly known as Reedorf in respect to this matter; the President explained that the hike in transport prices is due to fuel hoarding by some self centered individuals. Though it seems that fuel is gradually made available at stations but still yet it's not so easily accessible to by Taxi drivers and other transport workers that's why the prices remain the way they are for now. He further explained that the prices should go back to normal very soon. So we hereby urge students to keep calm and be law abiding students of the University of Ilorin while we all carefully wait for the prices to return to normal. Share this news with friends... Source: www.mrolumide.com |
| Obasanjo Trashes Buhari: "You & Your Party, APC, Lacks Capacity To Develop Nigeria" Posted: 23 Jan 2018 09:15 AM PST  Obasanjo disclosed that he feels disappointed with Buhari's performance... OBJ also wrote a similar letter in 2013 against President Goodluck Jonathan, wrote; "Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard. "He has a role to play on the sideline for the good of Nigeria, Africa, and humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing such a role nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria again." "The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today," he wrote. "With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of 'blood'," he added. OBJ thanked Buhari for the way he handled the Boko Haram crisis but pointed out that he failed to be efficient in other areas. He admitted knowing that Buhari was weak in handling the economy, he went ahead and voted for him because at the time "it was a matter of 'any option but Jonathan'" and because he thought Mr Buhari would appoint qualified Nigerians to help out in that area. He slammed Mr Buhari for turning a blind eye to corruption within his government saying it amounted to condonation and cover-up saying whoever is "going to justice must be with clean hands." He also berated Mr Buhari for allowing the clashes between herdsmen and farmers to go "sour" and messy saying the endorsement of the President by some governors to seek re-election barely 24 hours after 73 people who were killed by herdsmen in Benue State were given mass burial was "a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness." But Mr. Obasanjo reserved his harshest words for what he described as Mr. Buhari's clannishness, lack of understanding of the dynamics of politics, and his tendencies to pass the buck of his government's inadequacies to the immediate past administration. "But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him. One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court. This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation. It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest. What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action? How many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare of the media and the public? "The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics. This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced. It also has effect on general national security. "The third is passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one's own responsibility. Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today. If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in. He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the blame game." Buhari and the APC not the Solution to Nigeria's Problem Mr Obasanjo thus argued that neither Mr Buhari nor his party, the All Progressives Congress hold the solution to the country's problems. He suggested that Mr Buhari was not healthy enough to withstand the rigour associated with running a country like Nigeria neither does his party capable of providing the answer needed to sail the country through its difficulties. Mr Obasanjo said Buhari should step down at the end of his first term with honour and dignity and attend to his health and should not listen to the his "self-serving so-called adviserswho would claim that they love him more than God loves him and that without him, there would be no Nigeria say." "President Buhari needs a dignified and honourable dismount from the horse. He needs to have time to reflect, refurbish physically and recoup and after appropriate rest, once again, join the stock of Nigerian leaders whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country. His place in history is already assured. Without impaired health and strain of age, running the affairs of Nigeria is a 25/7 affair, not 24/7. "I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time and at this age. I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement from active public service. President Buhari does not necessarily need to heed my advice. But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to move on and move forward," he said. "I have had occasion in the past to say that the two main political parties – APC and PDP – were wobbling. I must reiterate that nothing has happened to convince me otherwise. If anything, I am reinforced in my conviction. The recent show of PDP must give grave and great concern to lovers of Nigeria. "To claim, as has been credited to the chief kingmaker of PDP, that for procuring the Supreme Court judgement for his faction of the Party, he must dictate the tune all the way and this is indeed fraught with danger. "If neither APC nor PDP is a worthy horse to ride to lead Nigeria at this crucial and critical time, what then do we do? Remember Farooq Kperogi, an Associate Professor at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States, calls it "a cruel Hobson's choice; it's like a choice between six and half a dozen, between evil and evil. Any selection or deflection would be a distinction without a difference." We cannot just sit down lamenting and wringing our hands desperately and hopelessly. Coalition of Nigerians Having ruled out the PDP and the ruling APC of possessing the panacea to the malaise that ails the country, Mr Obasanjo therefore called for a movement he termed Coalition of Nigeria, which he offered to be a part of, to wrest power from the present ruling class and lead the country into the path of rebirth. "We can collectively save ourselves from the position we find ourselves. It will not come through self-pity, fruitless complaint or protest but through constructive and positive engagement and collective action for the good of our nation and ourselves and our children and their children. We need moral re-armament and engaging togetherness of people of like-mind and goodwill to come solidly together to lift Nigeria up. This is no time for trading blames or embarking on futile argument and neither should we accept untenable excuses for non-performance. "Let us accept that the present administration has done what it can do to the limit of its ability, aptitude and understanding. Let the administration and its political party platform agree with the rest of us that what they have done and what they are capable of doing is not good enough for us. They have given as best as they have and as best as they can give. Nigeria deserves and urgently needs better than what they have given or what we know they are capable of giving. To ask them to give more will be unrealistic and will only sentence Nigeria to a prison term of four years if not destroy it beyond the possibility of an early recovery and substantial growth. "The development and modernization of our country and society must be anchored and sustained on dynamic Nigerian culture, enduring values and an enchanting Nigerian dream. We must have abiding faith in our country and its role and place within the comity of nations. Today, Nigeria needs all hands on deck. All hands of men and women of goodwill must be on deck. We need all hands to move our country forward. "We need a Coalition for Nigeria, CN. Such a Movement at this juncture needs not be a political party but one to which all well-meaning Nigerians can belong. That Movement must be a coalition for democracy, good governance, social and economic well-being and progress. Coalition to salvage and redeem our country. You can count me with such a Movement. Last time, we asked, prayed and worked for change and God granted our request. This time, we must ask, pray and work for change with unity, security and progress. And God will again grant us. Of course, nothing should stop such a Movement from satisfying conditions for fielding candidates for elections. But if at any stage the Movement wishes to metamorphose into candidate-sponsoring Movement for elections, I will bow out of the Movement because I will continue to maintain my non-partisan position. Coalition for Nigeria must have its headquarters in Abuja. "This Coalition for Nigeria will be a Movement that will drive Nigeria up and forward. It must have a pride of place for all Nigerians, particularly for our youth and our women. It is a coalition of hope for all Nigerians for speedy, quality and equal development, security, unity, prosperity and progress. It is a coalition to banish poverty, insecurity and despair. Our country must not be oblivious to concomitant danger around, outside and ahead. Coalition for Nigeria must be a Movement to break new ground in building a united country, a socially-cohesive and moderately prosperous society with equity, equality of opportunity, justice and a dynamic and progressive economy that is self-reliant and takes active part in global division of labour and international decision-making. "The Movement must work out the path of development and the trajectory of development in speed, quality and equality in the short- medium- and long-term for Nigeria on the basis of sustainability, stability, predictability, credibility, security, cooperation and prosperity with diminishing inequality. What is called for is love, commitment and interest in our country, not in self, friends and kinship alone but particularly love, compassion and interest in the poor, underprivileged and downtrodden."  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
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