FLOOD MASSACRE: Over 60 Dead In Jos?

It was another distater in Plateau State,following a flood which killed over 38 people at Rikkos Tundun Gangare and Angwan Rogo in Jos North local government area.
Besides,  Abdulhamid Useni, a victim of the flood, lost seven of his 12 children to the incident.
The distraught man said his wife and the other children were lucky to survive the flood.
According to him, “I have recovered the corpses of six of my children but we are still searching the corpse of the seventh one”.
Residents of the affected areas are not searching for 68 person, while over 200 houses were destroyed.
Among the dead is a 90-year-old woman and a three-month-old baby according to Manasel Phampe, head of the Nigerian Red Cross in Plateau State.
He said 20 bodies had been recovered in Gangeri and 18 in Rikkos.
The death toll was expected to rise last night after 68 people were declared missing.
The floods followed downpour which lasted for many hours between Sunday afternoon and early yesterday. It caused the overflow of waterways, forcing River Rikkos to overflow its banks. The rampaging flood consumed everything on its path.
“So far, we have recovered 16 bodies but many others are still missing,” the Publicity Secretary of Jama’atul-Nasril- Islam, Alhaji Faruk Umar, told reporters in Jos.
“Already, we have just buried 14 bodies. Two bodies have just been discovered, but we are also still searching for more bodies because many people are still missing.
“More than 200 houses were washed away following the flooding of Rikkos River,” he said, listing the worst-hit areas as Gangare and Ungwan-Rogo.
Umar blamed what he described as “colossal damage”, on the practice of building houses on waterways and blocking of drainage. He called for a massive drainage evacuation to allow free flow of water.
An official of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Kazeem Olanrewaju, said NEMA officials were already taking stock at the scene.
“NEMA has evacuated some of the displaced persons from Dilimi, Ungwan-Rogo and Gangare to a nearby school and we are battling to see how much assistance we can render for now.
“The figure of those affected is rather much and we expect the situation to be tougher with the Ramadan season but we shall do our best to help them,” he said.
Source: Daily Post

IMPEACHMENT THREAT: Jonathan Running From Pillar To Post?

As the Battle of impeachment against President Goodluck Jonathan takes the center stage, information available to 247ureports disclose that all may not be ease for President Jonathan who is reportedly running from pillar to Post to quench the impending impeachment threats coming against him.
Inside sources within the Villa disclose that soon after the threat issued by the House of Representatives on their resolve to commence impeachment Process against Mr. President on 18^th September as soon the return from recess if he fails to implement the budget to 100%.
According to the Source; “Soon after that announcement by the House to commence impeachment process against President Goodluck Jonathan, knowing fully well  that the country is bankrupt and there is no money in the treasure that will be used to implement the budget to 100% as demanded by the House.”
According to the source; “The President summoned the CBN governor asking him to release money from the CBN, a request which the CBN Governor turned down telling him there is no money, and he also made another request to him asking print more money, the CBN Governor this time told him if that is done the inflation will go up and the value of naira to a dollar will be up to N300 to one dollar.”
“He met with the Economic team, and told them that the Subsidy on fuel should be removed totally, the Economic team also disagreed with him, as they told him that if that happen the country will be thrown in flames as what happened in January will be little compare to what will happen if the subsidy is being removed totally.
At the moment the President is said to be in total confusion as the House is said to be adamant to his pleas even as the intervention of the Senate President and PDP top shots is said not to have done anything.
Source: 247ureports

EXPOSED: Why House Of Reps Is Conspiring Against Jonathan Over 2012 Budget

Although some concerned Nigerians have begun to wade into the renewed face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and the House of Representatives as evident at the weekend, more facts have emerged as to why the lawmakers had actually moved against the president, last week.
THISDAY gathered that the renewed hostilities between the president and the House were informed by three factors, namely, delay in the release of funds for constituency projects, disenchantment on the part of the presidency with the leadership of the House, and the recent bribery scandal involving the suspended chairman of the House Committee on Education, Hon. Farouk Lawan and Chairman of Zenon Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola.
This revelation, however, came against the backdrop of the criticism by the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) of the National Assembly, declaring that the lawmakers have not lived up to expectations in their constitutional responsibility as a check on the executive.
ACN’s position was contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, wherein it stated that the “country has stealthily but steadily entered into an era of impunity and anomie under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan.”
THISDAY’s findings revealed that the lawmakers have taken the battle to the president because they are cashed strapped and one of their major sources of making ends meet, that is, through constituency projects, has been blocked by the Federal Government.
For instance, the budget for constituency projects in the recent past was in the region of N40 million per quarter for each federal constituency, which was accomplished each time the legislature padded up the federal budget.
But in this year’s budget, the allocation to constituency projects was pruned considerably by the Jonathan administration to just a little above N20 million per quarter and for each lawmaker.
That apart, while the lawmakers personally executed such constituency projects using their own companies in the past through the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government, the Federal Government has insisted that the projects must pass through due process before the contracts are awarded.
As a result, the lawmakers are said to see the development as a deliberate attempt to frustrate them and starve them of funds.
The second factor is said to be predicated on the crisis over the House leadership, which has festered since the current leadership defied the zoning arrangement of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last year, to elect its own officials.
Besides, the House leadership is said not to be oblivious of the growing belief that it presently shares its loyalty between the PDP, the platform on which its members won elections into the House, and the ACN which gave the leadership the necessary backing to scuttle the PDP zoning arrangement.
This is believed to have influenced several anti-executive pronouncements and motions of the House since the leadership emerged over a year ago.
This is evident in the way ACN members always shoot down ideas that generate from the executive or presidency without the Speaker, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, batting an eyelid.
For example, when the Federal Government recently proposed troops deployment in Edo State for the July 14 governorship election which eventually returned the incumbent, Adams Oshiomhole, members of the ACN had opposed the idea, suspecting that government was up to something sinister.
Similarly, last week, when the executive presented the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), ACN leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, curiously stood against it, arguing that the House would not consider the bill because its submission coincided with the time they were about to go on recess. Such instances are further believed to have indicated a sharp division even in the PDP.
The Otedola-Lawan issue is also another major reason that has contributed to the schism between the House and the president. It is believed that Lawan may have become an albatross for the House, especially after his admission that he took a bribe from Otedola to influence the House’s ad hoc committee report on the monitoring of the fuel subsidy scheme.
But the House believes that the presidency had a role in the bribery scandal, ultimately to clamp down on the lower legislature.
But as eminent persons, including party faithful continue to mediate in the simmering crisis, there are indications that both sides might shift ground soon and give peace a chance in the overall interest of the nation.
Meanwhile, the ACN, in its statement yesterday said with the judiciary effectively cowed by the president, he “is now closing in on the legislature, as any discerning observer of the polity knows that the resolutions of the National Assembly are today treated with utmost disdain by our imperial presidency.
“It is irrelevant and besides the point that our National Assembly today, especially the House of Representatives, has not lived up to expectations, but that is no excuse for the deliberate assault on the doctrine of the separation of powers by President Goodluck Jonathan.”
The party added that it is now common knowledge that when the House relying on Section 89 (d) of the constitution had invited Jonathan to appear before it to explain why his government was failing to tackle the worsening security situation in the country, the president failed to honour the invitation.
ACN said: “But the president’s advisers-in-mischief have under one pretext or the other justified the president’s refusal to honour the invitation.
“May we remind President Goodluck Jonathan and his advisers-in-mischief that Section 89 (d) of our constitution gives the House of Representatives the power to summon ‘ANY PERSON’ in Nigeria to appear before it.
“Of course what President Jonathan by this singular misadventure is telling Nigerians and the whole world is that he is not only above the law but he is the law.
“Who says we are not back to the era of Louis XIV of France who infamously pronounced ‘l’etat c’est moi’.”
According to the party, the arrogance, insouciance and contemptible manner with which the president has treated the case of Justice Ayo Salami, the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, has dealt a near mortal blow to the independence of the judiciary from which it may never recover unless men and women of courage immediately rise up to rescue the institution.
Source: Information Nigeria

ANTI-CORRUPTION SERMON: SSS Now After Tunde Bakare?

Nigeria's secret police, the SSS, has invited fiery Lagos Pastor Tunde Bakare to explain the content of his Sunday sermon asking President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office.
Pastor Bakare was invited to meet with the State director of the SSS at its Shangisha offices in a Lagos suburb for a 4 PM meeting.
The fiery Lagos pastor and political activist yesterday delivered a damning sermon titled: "How To Change Government Peacefully And Make Society Better".
The pastor leads the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) which has had the government in an uncomfortable stare-down in recent times. In December 2010, the group visited President Jonathan in Abuja in connection with its advocacy of certain public policies.
On its way out of the presidential villa, the group was handed a $50,000 bribe, which it refused. The embarrassed government explained that the money was not a bribe, but “transport fare.”
Pastor Bakare eventually ran for vice-president on the ticket of the Congress for Progressive Change. As pastor or political activist, he has always strongly criticized anti-people policies.
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"It is a three-part message I'm giving, and they are free to attend," he told the SSS
Tunde Bakare, the pastor of Later Rain Assembly and vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the last general election has said he will not tone down his church sermons critical of the administration.
Mr Bakare was called in by the State Security Service in Shangisha, Lagos, on Monday following a sermon he delivered in his church Sunday on how to peacefully change governments.
Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES Monday night, the activist pastor said at the SSS office, the director requested him to moderate his sermon given the huge following he enjoys nationwide.
In response, Mr Bakare, who went to the Shangisha office of the secret police Monday afternoon, flanked by his lawyer and Yinka Odumakin, a close comrade, handed the director a signed copy of his Sunday sermon, and requested him to peruse it carefully.
"I then asked him whether there was anything in the sermon that was false or misleading," the pastor said via telephone from Lagos. "I then informed him that I won't tone down my sermons."
Mr. Bakare also said he handed an invitation to the SSS directors to attend his church where more critical messages would be delievered this and next week.
"It is a three-part message I'm giving, and they are free to attend," he said.
The pastor said he had a cordial deliberation with the security agents, as all those who engaged him were civil.
"In fact, I spoke far more than they did," Mr. Bakare, a fiery critic of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, said.
Source: Premium Times
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SHOCKING: Bamanga Tukur's Son In Fuel Subsidy Scam?

His oil-magnate son is to answer questions for fuel subsidy

The first batch of subsidy thieves will be in the dock Tuesday
Barring any last-minute change in its plan, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Tuesday, at the Federal High Court, Lagos, arraign the first batch of companies believed to have defrauded the country in subsidy claims totalling over N2.7trillion.
A source familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES Monday night that at least six company executives including Mahmud Tukur, the son of the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bamanga Tukur, would docked to answer questions over their involvement in the monumental fuel scam.
Mahmud is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Eterna Oil Plc, which was indicted in the report, and listed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) among companies that reportedly benefited from the Petroleum Support Fund (PSF) Scheme, but defaulted in their tax obligations.
The other board members of the company, who might be put in the dock in the absence of Mahmud, include the former Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) presidential running mate to Nuhu Ribadu in the 2011 election, Fola Adeola, who is the Chairman of the Board; Boyi Tukur and Ojo Michael Ade, owner of Elizade Motors, a Toyota dealership.
It was gathered that the other companies, whose proprietors are to be arraigned, include those owned by the former PDP Chairman and immediate past Chairman of the Board of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Ahmadu Ali.
The subsidy probe report had demanded the prosecution of Mr. Ali for his role in the monumental corruption that characterised the PSF management between 2009 and 2011.
The lawmakers had noted that the proliferation of real and pseudo companies that benefited from allocation of products for imports in the subsidy bazaar took a turn for the worse when the one-time senator was presiding over the Board of the PPPRA as chairman.
The report had shown that at the onset of the PSF scheme in 2006, just six importers were involved in the importation of petroleum products, with the figure progressively increasing to 36 in 2007 and later 49 in 2009 prior to the appointment of Mr. Ali, who single-handedly raised the number to 140 between his assumption of office and 2011.
The report quoted Mr. Ali as admitting that the number of importers was deliberately raised by his board as a ploy to break the major marketers’ stranglehold on the petroleum product supply system to help flood the market with the products in times of scarcity, although observers say it was a way of dispensing patronages to loyal party faithful.
The report cited the example of two promoters (Eco-Regen Limited), who came to Nigerian from the USA with a proposal for waste management contract with the NNPC, but ended up being awarded a plum contract to import 15,000 metric tons of products, for which it collected about N1.99billion as subsidy for products it never supplied.
Source: Premium Times

NOLLYWOOD: Mercy Johnson Is Pregnant?

It is now glaring that Nigerians help married people count the days and months after a marriage, as all they are interested in is what follows after a marriage-pregnancy.
Almost a year after she tied the knot with her beau, Prince Odianosen Okojie, the talented actress is expecting her first child. Linda, the popular acclaimed blogger has announced to Nigerians that Mercy Johnson is pregnant, and that she personally confirmedthat from her publicist who declared it true.
It is always a thing of joy to expect a new life being born into this world, and for a celebrity like Mercy, the feeling of having a new being kicking inside is one of the greatest that could happen, and most just prefer it better than being a celeb itself.
Source: Information Nigeria

SCANDALOUS: Woman Beaten, Striped Naked By Lover's Wife?

The photos attached below show a woman mercilessly beating another for sleeping with her husband.
The woman then goes on to strip the adulterous woman and embarass her in public.
The neighbours who watched on with shock took the pictures seen here and shared it.
It is sad that couples have to resort to washing their dirty linen in public and even sadder that the trend of stealing others husbands has not abated.
What do you think?

 

Source: Information Nigeria

WICKED: Nurse Bathes Lover With Acid?

The police in Calabar, Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, have arrested a nurse, Dorothy Hayford Nkanu, who allegedly poured acid on her lover, Edmund Educhukwu with acid on suspicion that he was dating another lady.
Neighbours later rushed Edmund to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, where doctors have been battling to save his badly damaged face and left eye. The right eye was damaged beyond redemption.

Edmund Educhukwu

Narrating his ordeal to P.M.NEWS, at the Intensive Care Unit of the UCTH, the final year student of Education Technology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calabar said he and Dorothy have been lovers for some years  and that they spent the night before the day of the attack together
“We even had passionate sex that night.  It was in the morning that she did this to me without any fight.”
On what may have prompted the lady to inflict such damage on his body, he said that “Dorothy had once complained that some people had told her that I was dating another lady whom I intend to marry and abandon her after these several years together.  But I reassured her that it was not true that people were only trying to destroy our relationship.  It did not occur to me that she was still harbouring the grudge,” he said.
He said the morning the incident happened, they woke from bed without any sign of trouble and he led her on morning devotion. “It was when I was rounding off the prayers with my eyes still shut that she sneaked out and brought the paint rubber where she hid the acid and oured it on me.”
He said his girlfriend who is from Agwagwune in Biase area, Cross River State like himself,  attacked him while he was not wearing a shirt, so that the acid would have maximum impact on his body.
“After pouring the acid on me she said ‘if the God you are praying to supports your plan, I will now see the woman that will accept you with your eyes blind and face destroyed’ and she ran away”.
Doctors at the UCTH confirmed that one of Edmund’s eyes had been completely destroyed while the second one could be salvaged.
“He needs a skin transplant and adequate care for the other eye to be restored at least for him to see with it and that cannot be done here but outside this country, perhaps in UK or USA, ” our source said.
DSP John Umoh, the Public Relations Officer for the Cross River Police Command said the woman has been arrested and is currently in detention.
Source: PM News

DANGEROUS: Man With Bomb Discovered In Lagos?

The Police in Lagos have confirmed that they are interrogating a man who was apprehended while carrying some items suspected to be explosives. It was gathered that the suspect was arrested at Orile Bus stop in Lagos.
Confirming the arrest, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the bomb disposal unit, Mr Foluso Adebanjo, said that the man is in their custody. He said: “A man was arrested and we are still interrogating him and cannot say whether what was found on him are explosives or not for now.”
The suspect, who was simply identified as Lawal, was said to have joined members of Living Faith Church (aka Winners’ Chapel) who were going for worship at the church’s headquarters in Sango Ota, Ogun Sate. Some of the church members who suspected him to be carrying explosives raised the alarm.
One of the worshipers who pleaded anonymity said the suspect was shabbily dressed and was acting strangely: “He was looking shabby but when scrutunised closely, we discovered he had some taped substances with a taped mobile phone on his hand… We became suspicious because wire was attached to the substance and it looked carefully seal.”
A source at the Orile Police Station confirmed that the suspect was carrying heavy gadgets, including a cell phone connected with a wired attached to the substance and carefully sealed and taped. The Police source said the suspect also had an extra phone that was equally taped.
Source: Information Nigeria

GOOD NEWS: UNILAG Rated Best University In Nigeria, 16th In Africa?

In the newest ranking of the top 100 universities in Africa, by 4icu.org in its 2012 World University Web Ranking: Top 100 Universities and Colleges in Africa, the University of Lagostakes the 16th position on the continent, coming behind University of Nairobi and University of Ghana, both of which took the 14th and 15th positions respectively.
However, the ranking meant that UNILAG is the number one university in Nigeria as the other Nigerians in the ranking are farther behind. They are: University of Ilorin (39),University of Ibadan (40), Obafemi Awolowo University (42), University of Benin (45),University of Port Harcourt (52), University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (64), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (84) and University of Jos(88).
University of Cape Town, South Africa was the first on the list, followed closely by University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and the University of Pretoria, also in South Africa. As a matter of fact, the first six Universities on the list were South African Universities, with Cairo University, Egypt coming seventh.
According to 4icu.org, this ranking is based on web popularity of the universities. 4 International Colleges & Universities is an international higher education search engine and directory reviewing accredited Universities and Colleges in the world. 4icu.org includes 11,000 Colleges and Universities, ranked by web popularity, in 200 countries.
Source: Information Nigeria