Reps Reply OBJ, Say He’s Most Corrupt

                           

The House of Representatives has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the most corrupt Nigerian to have held a public office, deploring his tactic of always seeing himself as the only clean human being.

It made a formal reaction on Thursday to the ex-President’s latest attacks on the National Assembly, saying that he churned out “outright lies and falsehoods, and mischievous innuendo.”

On Wednesday, Obasanjo had attacked the legislature on several fronts, including their salaries/allowances and the alleged diversion of constituency projects.

He had stated, “Once you are a member, you are co-opted and your mouth is stuffed with rottenness and corruption that you cannot opt out as you go home with not less than N15million in a month for a senator and

Sack Justice Abang, Fayose Tells NJC

                    

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has called on the National Judicial Council to “save the judiciary by sacking Justice Okon Abang.”

Fayose, in his reaction to the Appeal Court judgment, which nullified Abang’s ruling of the October 14, 2016 and declared it as a fraud, said, “it is obvious that Justice Abang is representing the interests of some cabals.”

In a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said, “In the face of these indictments by the appellate court, the NJC must wade in and save the judiciary from Abang.”

Senate Condemns 2017 Draft Budget, Says Assumptions Unrealistic

                          

The 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper sent to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari for legislative approval narrowly escaped being rejected again at the Senate on Wednesday.

The upper chamber of the National Assembly condemned the projections in the documents as unrealistic, even though it said the Presidency had set December 1 for the presentation of the 2017 Appropriation Bill to the legislature.

The senators, who took turns to criticise the new version of the MTEF/FSP as well as the officials who prepared the documents during the day’s plenary, submitted that it should be sent back to the Executive to include the “correct” figures showing the true state of the economy.

YABATECH Suspends Academic Activities As Fire Destroys Hostel

Academic activities at the Yaba College of Technology have been suspended for three days after the female hostel of the school was gutted by fire in the early hours of Wednesday, destroying 20 rooms.

The building, Bakassi Hostel, is a double wing four-storeyed structure occupied by female students. The affected wing has 72 rooms, 20 of which were razed.

It was learnt that the fire, which started around 5am, was caused by a surge from a faulty socket in one of the rooms.

No fewer than 30 students reportedly sustained injuries in a stampede that resulted from struggle to flee their respective rooms to safety.

OBJ Attacks Buhari, Knocks N’Assembly Members

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday came hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to fix the country’s economy as he promised during electioneering rather than expressing frustration at the gloomy economic situation.

Obasanjo spoke during a lecture he delivered at the First Akintola Williams Annual Lecture in Lagos titled, “Nigeria yesterday, today and tomorrow: Governance and accountability.’’

He said that it would have been needless for Nigerians to cry for a change of government if things were rosy in the country before Buhari took over.

A School Teacher On Trial For Trying To Sell 13-Year-Old Schoolgirl For $10, 000

 

A school teacher on Wednesday appeared in court in Ukraine after allegedly trying to sell a 13-year-old schoolgirl under her care for more than $10,000

Language teacher Galyna Kovalenko, 52, who has been charged with human trafficking, faces up to 15 years in jail if found guilty of targeting the girl who was a pupil at the state boarding school where she worked.

Kovalenko denies the charges and says she has been set up.

Why Nasarawa University To Increase Tuition Fees By 20%

                            

The Vice chancellor of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof. Mohammed Mainoma, says the institution has proposed a 20 per cent hike in students’ tuition fees.

Mainoma disclosed this on Wednesday when members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Nasarawa State Council, visited him.

However, he said the proposal made by the management was still subject to approval by the governing council of the university and the State Government.

Actor Seun Egbegbe, Accused Of Stealing Nine iPhones

A mob at the Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Tuesday reportedly accosted and beat up a Yoruba film-maker, Seun Egbegbe, for allegedly stealing nine iPhones at a shop in the area.

However, the film-maker reportedly told policemen investigating the incident that he had no intention to steal the phones, but had stepped into his vehicle to pick some money when the sales boy raised the alarm.

omoade Metro learnt that Egbegbe had gone to the shop around 10am on Tuesday and had told the sales boy he met in the shop that he  wanted to buy some iPhones.

Court Rejects Patience’s Application To Restrain EFCC Over Frozen $15.5m

                         

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday rejected an application by the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, seeking to bar the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from tampering with a sum of $15.591 frozen in four Skye Bank accounts.

The EFCC placed a ‘No Debit Order’ on the four bank accounts in July while probing Jonathan’s former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, for money laundering.

But Patience, who had laid claim to the money, filed a fundamental rights enforcement action against the EFCC, Skye Bank, Dudafa and the four companies in whose names the accounts were opened.

She is urging the court to order the EFCC to remove the ‘No Debit Order’ on the accounts and to release the $15.5m to her.

An A Letter To President Buhari No Sensible president Continuously Travels Round The Globe While His Country Is In A Mess - Trump

No sensible president continuously travels round the globe while his country is in terrible hardship and economic mess - Trump to Buhari

Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election in the United has allegedly hit out at General Muhammadu Buhari's incompetent government. According to report by an online news media, RitaFamous, Trumped lashed at at Buhari's incessant foreign trips, describing it as insensible.

Forte Oil, Livestock Feeds, Total Top Losers’ Table

 

Nigerian equities market closed on a negative note on Tuesday as Forte Oil Plc, Livestock Feeds Plc, Total Nigeria Plc,

 Neimeith International Pharmaceutical Plc and Nascon Allied Industries Plc emerged the top five losers at the close of trading on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

The market extended Monday’s loss position, as the NSE All-Share Index shed 0.15 per cent, dragging the year-to-date return to -11.11 per cent.

Stop Misleading Nigerians, Group Tells Opposition Parties

                   

     The Buhari Media Support Group has advised the opposition to stop peddling falsehoods that can promote disaffection and ill will towards the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

BMSG gave the advice while reacting to allegations that the Buhari’s administration donated $500m to the Hillary Clinton Campaign.

Drop Non Performing Ministers, APC Chieftain Tells Buhari

 

          Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress [APC] in Kaduna State, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to drop non performing ministers.
Baba-Ahmed in an interview in Kaduna on Sunday,  also urged the President to quickly push through, policies that would reduce current high level of poverty in the country.

US Says We Don’t Have Criminal Case Against Atiku

                    

         The United States Department of Justice has denied having any record that indicates that Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has a pending lawsuit in the US.

In an email to our correspondent on Friday, a spokesperson for the US DOJ, Peter Carr said, “Thank you for reaching out to us. I have checked the public court records, and they do not show cases filed against a defendant named Atiku Abubakar.”