Photos: Police parade men who killed ex-FUTA VC, say "We strangled him to death"

The driver and security guard of former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo state who was found dead inside a store in his home in Ijapo estate in Akure yesterday June 28th have given a vivid description of how they killed him.

Bamidele, who was fired by the late don for attempting to steal his car some months back, said he connived with Daniel Ita the security guard to carry out the act. He said Daniel lured the old man out of the main house before he strangled him to death.

“Daniel lured out Baba by telling him that there was an electrical spark in the house after I’ve stationed myself around the entry of the kitchen. Immediately Baba came out I grabbed him and strangled him to death. Daniel’s role was to put a piece of cloth in his mouth to stop him from shouting. After some few minutes, the old man gave up and we dragged him into the generator house and locked him inside the store that Sunday night. We left the house and locked the gate outside so that no one will suspect us. We went inside and took the car key and some other items like IPad, two phones, laptop, two bags and seven thousand Naira which we used to fuel the car. We left Akure and headed to Lagos. We left with those items so that the car will not be tracked again because Baba used these gadgets to activate the tracking.”he said

According to Bamidele, they were able to move the stolen car out from the estate where the late professor stayed because many people knew Daniel as his security guard. He said they were intercepted by men of the FRSC in Ijebu Ode while traveling but they sold the Ipad to get enough money for their bail.

“We sold off the phones and laptops after being booked by the Road Safety officials. We sold the phones to retrieve the car from them before heading to Ijebu Ode with the hope of selling the car there,” he said.

Ondo State Police Commissioner, Isaac Eke, while speaking on the incident said Daniel and Bamitale were arrested while trying to sell off the late academicians vehicle with Registration number GGE589 CF in Ogun state, He said the person who they wanted to sell the car to called in the police after suspecting the car was a stolen one as the suspects gave him a price way below the value of the car.

“Detectives from Ondo state command later discovered that the night guard and the former driver strangled the aged Professor and dumped his body in an isolated store in the compound of the professor,” he said.

He also said that relatives of the deceased had identified the corpse, which had since been deposited in the mortuary. One of the sons of the late professor, Adeseni Ilemobade, said the family demands justice for their father's death.

Source: Premium Times

ElRufai appoints BBOG co-founder as new Chief of Staff...Nigerians react!

Kaduna state governor, Nasir El Rufai today announced the appointment of Hadiza Bala Usman as his Chief of Staff. Hadiza is one of the conveners of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign. Nigerians took to twitter to react differently to her appointment. See their tweets below...

EXCLUSIVE: Buhari asked to dump Jonathan’s PIB

It is not yet Uhuru for the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as the APC transition committee has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to jettison the version proposed by the Goodluck Jonathan administration.



In its place, the committee said “Dr. Rilwanu Lukman’s version” should be passed into law by the national assembly.


The omnibus law for the petroleum industry is designed to reform the oil and gas sector, which gives Nigeria over 90% of its forex earnings as well as over 60% of national spending.
The delay in passing the bill is believed to have created uncertainty in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, leading to the loss of over $80 billion in fresh investments, with investors unsure of the regulatory, political and economic conditions under which they will operate.


Most of these investments have been diverted to Angola, which has enjoyed political stability in the last decade.


“Lukman’s version”
The house of representatives had passed the latest version shortly before the last administration wound down, although the senate could not vote on it and this effectively meant the bill could not become law in the life of the Jonathan government.


However, the proposal by the Ahmed Joda-led transition committee that “Lukman’s version” should be passed may generate political and administrative hitches.


Lukman, former minister of petroleum resources under President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from December 2008 to March 2010, did not originate the bill.


Lukman, who died in 2014, was special adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo when the first draft of the bill was prepared but was not sent to the national assembly until Obasanjo left office in 2007.


Several versions of the bill were being sent to the national assembly under Lukman’s watch as various interests struggled to tamper with it to maximise their benefits.


“Diezani’s version”
The exit of Lukman in 2010 led to a review of the various versions by Diezani Alison-Madueke, Lukman’s successor in the ministry.


The reasons for the proposal to adopt “Lukman’s version” are not very clear, as there were no significant changes in the contentious areas, such as the fiscal regime which the international oil companies (IOCs) considered to be unfavourable.


Whereas the “Lukman’s version” provided 10% equity to oil “host communities”, this was reduced to 7.5% in “Diezani’s version” passed by the house of representatives. The definition of “host” was also expanded to cover all communities that pipelines pass through, not just where exploration is being made.


The discretionary powers to award oil licences which were granted to the minister of petroleum resources under “Lukman’s version” were retained in “Diezani’s version”, but the house of representatives removed the provision.


The Joda recommendations are currently being reviewed by a committee headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.

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Oil barons don’t want me, says Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has dismissed the allegation by Bisi Akande, former interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that his emergence as president of the 8th senate was facilitated by “most northern elite, the Nigerian oil subsidy barons and other business cartels who never liked President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance”.


In a letter to the APC, Akande had alleged that Saraki’s emergence as senate president was to sabotage the change agenda of the APC.


“The attention of Senate president Bukola Saraki has been drawn to a malicious, false and totally reprehensible news report, wherein it insinuated that the election of Bukola Saraki as the senate president of the 8th senate was facilitated by Nigerians associated with dubious claims in the infamous oil subsidy,” Saraki said in a counter-statement released by Bamikole Omishore, his special assistant on new media.


“The news report went further to give a negative and dirty impression that the emergence of the President of the 8th Senate is aimed to sabotage the anti corruption posture of President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government, as well as sabotage the ‘Change agenda’ of the All Progressive Congress (APC).


“One of such desperate attempts to justify this blackmail and others was the story published in newspapers of Monday June 29 2015, as contained in a statement issued by the former Interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande. Ordinarily, we would have ignored the report, but for the sole reason that some undiscerning readers might mistake the fiction for the facts.”


Saraki stated it was wrong and mischievous for Akande to link what happened on the floor of both chambers on June 9 to some unnamed oil barons.


“We dare say that the entire story was the figment of the imagination of the author. We make bold to state that in the 7th Assembly, Senator Bukola Saraki was chairman of the senate ad hoc committee, which exposed the fraud and mismanagement in the oil sector,” he said.


“Until Saraki’s motion on the floor of the senate, no one was in the picture of the rot in the sector or took any action. Therefore, surely, Senator Saraki will be the last person the oil baron will want to see as senate president. No doubt, we make bold to state that Saraki is the last person to be so sponsored by the oil barons or cabals.


“In that position, Saraki did not only lead his colleagues in exposing the rot in the scheme, but made very strong recommendations on how the system could be reformed and made corrupt- free.
“It is on the record that through his motion on the floor of the Senate, the House of Representatives followed in what is to be known as Oil subsidy probe and to which ministers of finance and petroleum were summoned and at last over N500 billion was saved. Certainly, Senator Saraki is the last person to be so sponsored by the oil barons or cabals.


“Further to this, during the Senate hearing on the missing $20 billion, for those who attended the public hearing, Senator Saraki led the onslaught of difficult questions to both the minister of finance an minister of petroleum and other federal agencies despite being in the ruling party then. To this effect, Senator Saraki refused to sign the final copy of the committee’s report but rather put forward a minority report with a press statement that follow suit.


“Saraki went further to oppose the inclusion of kerosene subsidy in the 2015 budget, as well as his opposition to Petroleum Swop deal by NNPC. Let it be known, therefore, that the senate presidency of Dr. Bukola Saraki would not in any way be a stumbling block against President Buhariâ’s posture against corruption.


“Rather, the 8th senate, under him as the president, would give all necessary legislative support to the administration to fight and reduce corruption as his previous actions and bold step taken against the so–called oil barons indicates that Saraki is committed to anti-corruption.


“For avoidance of doubt, we want to make it abundantly clear that it is totally false, untrue and calculated mischief to suggest that Senator Saraki’s emergence as senate president was facilitated by oil barons. This is a case of calling the dog a bad name so as to hang it. Another blatant lies that can not fly. In any case, Senator Saraki was elected unopposed as the senate president, therefore the lies that he was sponsored by the oil barons cannot hold.


“Senator Bukola Saraki is determined and focused to achieve the senate-targeted legislative agenda and he is committed to support President Buhari to deliver on his promises to the people of Nigeria.”

‘Abducted Chibok girls now kill for Boko Haram’

 

Three women who claim to have been held in the same camps with the Chibok schoolgirls have said they witnessed occasions when the teenage girls committed murder.


The women told BBC that the insurgents had radicalised the students abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state on April 14, 2014.


Seventeen-year-old Miriam (not her real name) fled Boko Haram after being held for six months. She was forced to marry a militant, and is now pregnant with his child.


Recounting her first days in the camp she said: “They told to us get ready, that they were going to marry us off.”


She and four others refused.


“They came back with four men, they slit their throats in front of us. They then said that this will happen to any girl that refuses to get married,”


Faced with that choice, she agreed to marry, and was then repeatedly raped.


“There was so much pain,” she said. “I was only there in body… I couldn’t do anything about it.”


While in captivity, Miriam described meeting some of the Chibok schoolgirls. She said they were kept in a separate house to the other captives.


Miriam is pregnant with the child of a member of Boko Haram


“They told us: ‘You women should learn from your husbands because they are giving their blood for the cause. We must also go to war for Allah.'”


She said the girls had been “brainwashed” and that she had witnessed some of them kill several men in her village.


“They were Christian men. They [the Boko Haram fighters] forced the Christians to lie down. Then the girls cut their throats.”


Anna, aged 60, is one of them. She fled a camp in the Sambisa forest in December where she was held for five months. She now sits beneath a tree close to the cathedral in Yola, capital of Adamawa state. Her only possessions are the clothes she ran away in.


She said she saw some of the Chibok schoolgirls just before she fled the forest.
“They had guns,” she said.


Anna, a former Boko Haram captive, claims some of the girls were forced to kill


When pressed on how she could be sure that it is was the Chibok schoolgirls that she’d seen, Anna said: “They [Boko Haram] didn’t hide them. They told us: ‘These are your teachers from Chibok.’


“They shared the girls out as teachers to teach different groups of women and girls to recite the Koran,” Anna recalled.


“Young girls who couldn’t recite were being flogged by the Chibok girls.”


Like Miriam, Anna also said she had seen some of the Chibok schoolgirls commit murder.


“People were tied and laid down and the girls took it from there… The Chibok girls slit their throats,” said Anna.


Anna said she felt no malice towards the girls she had seen taking part in the violence, only pity.


“It’s not their fault they were forced to do it.” she added. “Anyone who sees the Chibok girls has to feel sorry for them.”


Exposing women to extreme violence seemed to be a strategy used by Boko Haram to strip them of their identity and humanity, so they could be forced to accept the militants’ ideology.


Faith, a Christian, says Boko Haram fighters tried to convert her to their version of Islam.


Faith (not her real name) aged 16, who is Christian, described how Boko Haram fighters tried to force her to convert to their version of Islam.


“Every day at dawn they would come and throw water over us and order us to wake up and start praying,” she said.


“Then one day they brought in a man wearing uniform. They made us all line up and then said to me: ‘Because you are always crying, you will must kill this man.’


“I was given the knife and ordered to cut his neck. I said I couldn’t do it.


“They cut his throat in front of me. That’s when I passed out.”


Faith said she had seen at least one Chibok schoolgirl who had been married off to a Boko Haram militant during her four months in captivity.


“She was just like any of the Boko Haram wives,” she explained. “We are more scared of the wives than the husbands.”


“I can’t get the images out of my head,” said Anna, breaking down in tears. “I see people being slaughtered. I just pray that the nightmares don’t return.”


For others, the nightmare is continuing every day. Miriam is expecting her baby any day now.


“I hope that the baby is a girl,” she said. “I would love her more than any boy. I’m scared of having a boy.”


Miriam’s future is bleak. She is terrified her “husband” will find her and kill her for running away. Her community has also rejected her.


“People consider me an outcast,” she said.


“They remind me that I have Boko Haram inside me.”


BBC says it has not been able to independently verify the information.


Apart from the girls who managed to escape, none of the over 200 girls have been rescued despite the assurances of the government.


The last time they were seen was when Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, released a video to confirm that the group was holding them hostage.


At the time, Shekau threatened to marry them off.

Pres Buhari orders all state Govs to settle unpaid salaries of workers in their state

While inaugurating the National Economic Council in the Abuja earlier today, President Buhari charged all the state governors present at the meeting to endeavour to settle the unpaid salaries of civil servants in their states. He asked the state governors to look inwards and find more ways to increase their Internally Generated Revenue...

Ikedi Ohakim: Politicians exploiting my trial

Ikedi Ohakim, a former governor of Imo state, has described the media reports about his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as “unnecessary drama”.


The commission arrested him on June 18 and he was bailed after being detained for several hours.
But in a statement issued on Saturday, Ohakim alleged that some unnamed individuals who were out to smear his reputation have been orchestrating unfavourable reports about him in the media.


Maintaining that he has no skeleton in his cupboard, Ohakim said such reports could create the “misleading impression” that anti graft agencies in the country were out to witch hunt public office holders.


“Let me seize this opportunity to make some clarifications over my so-called arrest by the EFCC on Thursday June 18 2015,” the statement read.


“I would submit, with the highest sense of responsibility, that the drama was unnecessary. I never evaded invitation by the agency. As a law-abiding citizen, I will always make myself available to any investigative agency because I have absolutely nothing to fear.


“What is playing out began with a petition against me to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by the same desperate politician in my state. The petition was written by a group he fabricated that goes by the name, Alliance For Good Governance. Those who are conversant with the politics of Imo state would recall that it was this same group that constituted itself into a vicious gang-up against my administration. It was this group, the Alliance For Good Governance, that sold the lie that I molested a Catholic Priest in Imo state.


“However, let me seize this opportunity to state that it is high time we stopped trying to create discord between vital agencies of government like the EFCC and pubic officers, past or present. The agencies are there to do their jobs. Orchestrating newspaper reports on their legitimate lines of actions gives the erroneous impression that the agencies and their officials are out to witch-hunt. This is unfortunate and, in my view, it is one of the major reasons why there is so much myth about the accountability by public office holders.


“There is no intention here to pitch my words against that of the commission which, as I noted earlier, is doing its legitimate duties. But I am compelled to make this clarification in order to erase the impression that Ikedi Ohakim was evading “arrest”. Let me repeat for the umpteenth time that I have no reason, whatsoever, to evade interrogation by any anti-corruption agency in Nigeria, or anywhere in the world, concerning my tenure as governor of Imo State.”


Ohakim added that the unnamed politicians are plotting to pitch him against top government officials in the current administration.


He alleged that as a means of achieving their agenda, they cloned his voice and claimed that he granted an interview to a radio station, saying some critical things against the government.


“Part of the script is to set me up against the federal authorities especially those manning the security agencies. I have it on good authority that, again, my voice has been cloned in a purported interview I granted to a radio station in which I supposedly lambasted some top federal government officials, including those heading the security agencies,” the statement read.


“The tape of this fake interview was then handed over to some of these key federal government officials.


“While I do not necessarily link this development with a recent incident with the EFCC, there can be no doubt that the intention is to put me on a destructive collision course with the federal authorities.
But I believe this plot will also fail because those top government functionaries being targeted are not vulnerable to such evil machinations and antics. Still, I feel it is important to alert fellow Nigerians to this practice which is however not new in my state, Imo. Apart from that this method was massively deployed against me prior to the 2011 general election. Another former governor of the state and an elder statesman, also from the state, recently suffered a similar fate in the hands of these criminals using the same trick.”




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Graphic pics from the suicide bombing which killed dozens in Kuwait Mosque

There were 3 terrorist attacks today. One in France, one in Tunisia and another in Kuwait. A suicide bomber attacked and killed at least 27 people at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City today. Above are haunting images of the terrorist walking into the prayer room before blowing himself up. He killed them while they were praying. He is reportedly a Saudi man with ISIS Wahabi Takfiri ideology. Graphic pics from the blast below..

 The youngest victim

The suicide bomber...

Photos: Ashanti puts her hot bikini body on display

The singer is currently on holiday in Costa Rica and showed off her amazing bikini during a beach visit. More photos after the cut...

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Between Nigerian people & a man who goes by NASS on twitter

So Nigerian people are angry with members of our National Assembly following all the craziness that's been going in the last few days. And of course we discuss on Twitter - the hashtag #Nass has been trending - only problem is - the @Nass Nigerians were attacking on Twitter is just a random guy in Qatar, not the twitter handle of our national assembly. At first the guy was confused about why Nigerians were on his timeline and abusing him - then he got it. The drama that ensued is hilarious. See all the tweets below...

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