Davido’s new deal with Sony Music

Davido’s new deal with Sony Music

It is no longer news that David Adeleke, aka ‘Davido’, has been the talk of the town for sometime now. The HKN boss has taken his career a notch higher by signing a deal with Sony BMG Music. The 23-year-old millionaire announced this news himself on his twitter handle on Thursday.

Davido

He tweeted “to all those that doubted me, its a done deal! First African artist to sign a global record deal!! My story is just starting!! My mother is smiling in heaven right now!! Sony Music Entertainment!! Owo ti wole.” Davido sounds very elated about this new development in his musical career because the deal seems to be a promising one.

On the other hand, reactions have begun to trail his announcement. Some people are happy for the young and enterprising artiste while some feel very pessimistic about this development. Sesan Adeniji, publisher of Mystreetz Magazine seems to be very pessimistic about this deal.

Here is what he has to say about it “In this present moment, every news that is related to Davido will always make the headline. For Davido, any news that is far from his Baby Mama drama is a perfect distraction that is welcome and the news of his deal with Sony Music came at the perfect time. The announcement has been made and the 23-year-old star has just signed a lucrative deal with  Sony BMG Music  for a whooping $1 Million.

As much as this news continue to attract media frenzy, I, for one will not be joining this bandwagon without asking the nagging question, is this the real deal or the same Ol’ story?I won’t forget when P-square and some other Nigerian artistes came through with same news without proper details and information to backup their claims. Without throwing shades at any of these artistes, most of this deals have been sketchy. The media need to grow up, they need to stop jumping on news as if their whole life depends on it. They need to thoroughly investigate all this information to be able to feed their audience with adequate news.

In spite of what anyone thinks, 2016 may be a year of bumper harvest for Davido. But will this deal with Sony Music pay off? Let’s keep our fingers crossed

Who will ‘bell’ Donald Trump?

Who will ‘bell’ Donald Trump?

Mr. Donald Trump is a flamboyant and successful United States businessman cum politician who courts controversies and revels in them. Trump is undoubtedly the leading US Republican Party presidential hopeful in the coming elections. A son of a Scottish immigrant mother. But do not be deceived, his mother’s long journey from Scotland to the US has not in any way shaped his views on immigration. It is ironic that his political campaign seem to be anchored on immigration and he is not getting tired very soon of suggesting that immigrants are the cause of the problems in the US.

Trump’s ideas on immigration is simple –  keep as many illegal immigrants out of the US as possible. You will agree he is not alone in this desire. All over the developed world immigration has become an important issue, and leaders are doing all they could to keep their borders locked up. In Europe, especially the United Kingdom, there is no hiding the fact that non-EEA citizens (legal or illegal) are being kept out of the country by all means by recent immigration policies of the Tory-led government.

Trump’s views are not much different from what the UK Prime Minister David Cameron had been preaching for the past five years. And that is to keep Britain for Britons. The only difference between Trump and Cameron is in the choice of words.  On the other hand, Cameron has been pursuing his reforms silently to ensure non-EEA migrants are kept out that people barely notice.

Trump may be a man giving to careless words. He may seem to play to the gallery in some of his speeches, but on this immigration reform, he is “dead serious”.  He has been compared with Briton Nigel Farage who played on people’s sentiments on Immigrations in the run up to last year’s UK general elections, but ended up having his fingers burnt.  Trump seem to be getting the support of the mainstream Americans, who believe he may be the one to make America great again.

Illegal immigration, especially from Mexico, had been a great headache for the country for ages. Mr Trump seem to have dreamt of a permanent solution to this problem – build a wall across the southern border.  According to him, this is the only way to keep the immigrants out of the country.

Every leader is a dreamer. Without a dream, there won’t be any reality. Is Trump’s dream of a better US conflicting with reality? Is he courting more enemies than friends in his bid for the White House? He seem to have ruffled a few feathers as a  result of his recent comments, especially in the UK.

TRUMP AND BRITAIN

The British are reputed to be direct, frank and sometimes brutal in their comments. This does not mean they have no feelings. Not at all.  They may be “described” as conservative in their lifestyles, however when it comes to telling a story as it is, they do not mince their words. Obviously the British politicians are not in the same league as their Nigerian counterparts who would play the hide and seek game behind a finger.

A typical British politician is not known to tell fibs the way politicians do in this part of the world and will not go not out of his/her way so as to win votes of the electorates. Listening to some of these politicians campaign in run ups to elections you tend to wonder at the simplicity and down to earth method of winning votes. Likewise in every day relationship the British are very straight forward and you need no divination to realise the position of a Briton on any issue.

Watching proceedings of the British Parliament, the House of Commons, is a constant reminder that the Nigerian lawmakers can  be labelled as pretenders “to the throne” in the art of legislation. The decorum that is displayed in Nigeria’s National Assembly, which is the equivalent of the British Parliament, is nothing to write home about.

The British Parliament is not often giving to debating trivial matters that would not benefit the larger society. However, earlier this year, it seem to shift a bit when it announced that its Petition Committee would meet to debate a petition, spearheaded by Scottish freelance journalist and activist Suzanne Kelly. The petition had called for Mr. Donald Trump to be banned from entering UK.  To observers the subject matter of the petition was too trivial to engage the precious time of the parliament.

 

However, the provision of the law mandates the parliament to hear any petition with signatories over one hundred thousand. As at Monday morning, over 570,000 people had signed the petition.

In his plan to “protect” America from external “invasion” and “pollution”, Trump last month suggested the government should ban all Muslims from entering US.  Supporters of Trump had come to his defence that his comments should be considered against the backdrop of the terrorists attack by the radicalised Muslim couple in California earlier in December. The couple – Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik – shot and killed 14 people in San Bernando.

These arguments did not however hold water with the petitioners and members of the committee who reached into their rich vocabularies to find suitable words to describe the person of Trump. The members of the committee described Trump in various adjectives that are not in any way flattery of him.  “Idiot”, “a fool”, “a buffoon”, etc were some of the words.  A Labour MP Jack Dromey said in support of the proposed Trump ban: “Donald Trump is a fool. He’s free to be a fool. He’s not free to be a dangerous fool on our shores.”  The lawmakers were united in one purpose –  condemn the American who had suggested UK had serious problems with Islamic radicalisation.

Trump expressed his fears about radicalisation in the UK when he said: “We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant.” Although the Metropolitan Police, groups and individuals had condemned Trump’s views, the reality on ground may suggest a hint of truth in them. A TV documentary on Channel 4 last week, aptly titled “Jihadist Next Door”, featured two young Muslims preaching hate messages at various venues in London yet the police was helpless in dealing with them. Should Trump see this, he will feel right about his views?

Although the Parliament’s committee took no vote on the petition, it was however clear that should Trump visit the UK he would not be accorded any red carpet reception by these MPs. Many people had expressed disappointment at the Parliament’s waste of public resources to discuss the petition, and its lack of will to stand up to the US politician. The debate of the petition last Monday has not had any effect on the position of the flamboyant politician. Instead, his associates expressed surprise that the parliament could bring itself so low to discuss a non relevant issue.

It is certain though that the over 570,000 signatories to the petition would not cry for him should he lose his presidential bid.

By Babajide Alabi

Is Buhari fighting corruption

Is Buhari fighting corruption

The minister for justice just announced that judges found to be corrupt will be tried by this administration. This is problematic. Though this sentiment is much shared, it should not be left to the president and his administration to define “corruption,” or determine which judge is corrupt. For the avoidance of doubt the writ of this republic does not make the president the supreme authority of the land.

The constitution is the governing authority of this republic, and the president is, as are all Nigerians, governed by the Constitution. It would amount to overreach for the president to break the thin glass boundaries that established the separation of powers under the constitution. It would be power-grabbing, and the National Assembly and the courts must keep an eye on this president. In fact, it is about time that the National Assembly moved to reduce some of the powers granted the president, because one of the great sources of corruption in Nigeria is the enormous and almost limitless power granted the executive by this constitution designed by the military. Let me advert the minds of Nigerians to January 1, 1984: a military coup had just sacked the democratically elected Government of President Shehu Shagari. At the head of that coup was a tall, lean, unsmiling General, who came across as a Spartan, no-nonsense, missionary soldier, out to rescue Nigeria from political and economic collapse.

Shagari had just been re-elected in a very controversial election, which had the great Nnamdi Azikiwe spewing fire in his very prophetic, as it turned out, post-election letter to Nigerians, “History Will Vindicate the Just,” published widely in the Nigerian Press. It was clear that the election was riddled with irregularities. Yet, corruption in the politics of those years was the bread and butter kind. It was confined mostly in the political parties. The civil institutions were still intact: the public service; the judicial system; the entire bureaucracy of state governance which could put to check to the excesses of political leadership. And they were still all there in 1984. Then came Buhari and his dark-browed praetorian guard, sacking the civil government, and instituting a rule by decrees. The first order of business was to dismantle the credibility of the elected political leaders the soldiers had sacked. In very elaborate fashion General Buhari and his rubber-stamp Supreme Military Council authorized the arrest, detention, and prosecution of the discredited politicians. His Minister for Justice, Chike Ofodile quickly crafted decrees that established extrajudicial tribunals that evacuated the powers of the civil courts. Some of the trials were in-camera. But it soon became obvious that these arrests and detentions were skewered mostly against politicians from the South, particularly of the group that called itself the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) and by politicians from the Middle Belt. It might have been inadvertent, but the impression it created was of a partisan, regionalist witch-hunt of Southern politicians – some of them the most popular, and in fact, the more credible in their visible achievements in the four years between 1979 and 1983.

One of the most dangerous contributions of Buhari’s era as a military dictator was the erosion of the credibility, dignity and the aura of impartiality of the Nigerian judiciary, until then seen my Nigerians as the bulwark against tyranny; and most credible of the three arms of government, particularly with the sack of the parliament, and the seizure of executive power by military decree. The judiciary lost its independence.

Malleable and second-rate people were rapidly appointed to the bench. As the generation of solid jurists began to leave the scene by the attrition of time, a new generation of judges, the product of a corrupted judicature became more or less judicial executioners of the mandate of anyone in power. The corruption of the Nigerian judicial system, which had been subdued to military decrees began with Muhammed Buhari in 1984. The use to which he put the courts of the land was corrupt. This is the fear that President Buhari’s opponents are currently expressing in the current use of state power, in what is being increasingly seen as a partisan witch-hunt to suppress a political opposition. Again, the same method seems obvious: Buhari is arriving the scene of government again at a time when oil prices have dipped very dangerously, and perhaps more dangerously is that the era of hydrocarbon is rapidly coming to an end, which means, even more financial instability for nations like Nigeria that have long depended on oil to fuel their national economies. To all intents and purposes, as like in October 1984, Nigeria is broke.

Buhari has suddenly discovered that he is unable to meet the lofty promises of his campaign, and his political strategy now is to beat the drum of corruption ad nauseam, and blame his old political opponents for his own increasingly apparent inabilities to revive the economy, or lead. For a man who spent twelve years seeking the office he now occupies, this president does not seem to have any clear, alternative strategies, or able to deliver on the promises he made. Now, here is my worry: the arrest of the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, and his arraignment in handcuffs give negative optics to this government. Yes, Buhari claims to be fighting corruption, and Olisa Metuh is accused of receiving N400 million from Colonel Sambo Dasuki, allegedly from the $2.1 billion approved for the NSA for arms procurement, the question most Nigerians are now asking is: was Olisa Metuh awarded an arms contract which he didn’t deliver, or is it just about receiving money from Dasuki. Why lock him up, and bring him to court in handcuffs, when not even Sambo Dasuki was brought to court in handcuffs? Is this a ploy to intimidate, humiliate, and ultimately punish and silence the PDP’s spokesman who has so far been engaging the current regime and calling some oftheir assertions to question? Because even people like Falae received money, and have publicly declared that they’d not return it because it has nothing to do with arms procurement, and they have not been locked up or brought to the court in chains. While every Nigerian supports the president and his administration’s apparent resolve to investigate, prosecute, and retrieve Nigeria’s stolen funds from whoever embezzled such funds, we must continue to insist that unless it is all for show, the process must not degenerate into illegality of its own. It is both sad and distressing hearing distinguished scholars of the law like Itsay Sagay, and the Criminologist, Professor Femi Odekunle arguing in support of a “limited rule of law,” these days. It points exactly to what went wrong with Nigeria: a shiftless and inferior elite incapable of the hard, long view. If the argument were to be made about a limited rule of law, Abacha would have hanged Odekunle who was brought before a military tribunal accused with Diya of plotting a coup.

But in the convenience of his current elation, the good professor has forgotten. Buhari is not fighting corruption. He is enabling corruption by interfering in the judicial process. If he were fighting corruption he would have addressed the following questions: how did the system fail so much that Sambo Dasuki as the NSA could appropriate and dispose of state fund as though it were personal funds without oversight? What happened to the old system of financial control that required a vast and complex system of inter-departmental coordination?

What happened to the public tenders system? How come the police services, charged with crime prevention, did not anticipate and prevent this financial crime before it happened through its own police intelligence?

How come the EFCC is only just showing interest after the facts? How did the disbursement of this money escape the Federal Audit Department, the government’s official inspectorate arm, which ought to report all transactions and irregularities to both the National Assembly and the Executive, and if need be, to the police, in the event that any government agency is misappropriating state fund. What this president has been unable to do is understand that what happened here is beyond Dasuki, it is systemic failure. It is in part the result of some of the forces Buhari himself unleashed against the system in 1984. Corruption is not only the “looting” of public funds, it is the corruption of the institutions when they are turned to the private, and convenient tools of people in power – and they lose legitimacy and capacity.

 

STAMP DUTIES: Policy will stunt financial institutions patronage — Expert

STAMP DUTIES: Policy will stunt financial institutions patronage — Expert

As the Federal Government continues to put measures in place to prevent Nigeria’s economy from sliding into a recession in 2016, the system faces numerous challenges with a telling effect on the citizens. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all commercial banks to charge customers N50 on deposits from N1,000 and above, as part of Nigeria’s stamp duties law on financial transactions.  The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) wants to increase electricity tariff by next month. The CBN said no more sale of dollars to Bureau De Change (BDC) due to scarcity of forex. The naira is depreciating beyond the control of the apex bank, despite monetary policies formulated to shore up the  currency. A financial expert and the National President, Constance Shareholders Association of Nigeria, Mr. Shehu Mikail, speaks on issues in the economy and how government can prevent Nigeria’s economy from going bankrupt.

The CBN has directed banks to charge N50 for deposits of N1.000 and above, in  line with the Nigeria’s stamp duties law on financial transactions. What is your take on this?

I do not like this type of policy because it will discourage people from keeping money in the banks. At present, Nigeria is largely un-banked, especially the rural areas. So, this type of policy will worsen the situation, in particular for traders doing business in the rural areas. It will have negative effect on the cashless monetary policy that is already in place. It is also another way of imposing extra tax on the poor masses. The CBN should jettison this method of taxation and come up with a monetary policy that will strengthen the naira to grow the economy, instead of putting another tax burden on the people.

NERC wants to increase electricity tariff by next month. How does this affect low income earners in the country?

NERC must not increase power tariff without giving consumers pre-paid meters. Currently, about 80 percent Nigerians do not have pr-paid meters. Aside from that, what is the justification for increase in power tariff? Is it that power supply has improved better that before, and for that reason they want to increase the tariff? These are things NERC should make clear to us before talking about increase in tariff. Is NERC trying to make us pay more for what we are not consuming? Is this another way of taxing the people? If at all, NERC wants to increase power tariff, the amount must not be more than N4 per unit, because now we are paying over N2 per unit.

What is the economic implication of the purported  missing  budget 2016?

In the history of Nigeria, this is the first time we heard that a budget was missing. This is not  good for our economy, because investors will look at us as people who are not serious. If government altered the budget after it was presented to the Senate, it means they do not have a good economic team. Before the budget came out, they ought to have mapped out a good economic plan on how to  implement it, in order to rejuvenate the economy.  A budget is very important, because that is what investors look at in making decision on whether to put their money in any economy or not. So, for us to hear that the budget was missing, is ridiculous.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), advised government to restructure the tax system to curtail excessive borrowing from external source. Do you share such opinion?

Borrowing is a way of accumulating more debts for our economy, and at the same time, we spend so much to service debts. For instance, about N1.47trillion is allocated for debts servicing in the purported missing appropriation bill for 2016. But if we have good reasons to borrow to develop our infrastructure, I think we can borrow. The implication is that, continuous borrowing will make our currency to depreciate the more.

The exchange rate now is about N309 per dollar, which is the first time in the last 43years that the naira depreciated so low.

What is the way out?

Government should come up with a good economic blue print on how to restructure the economy. The immediate past minister of agriculture during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, did a lot to develop the sector. Let President Muhammadu Buhari look at some of his policies and see how he can build on them.  We need to revamp agriculture and the manufacturing sectors, so that we can start producing goods for domestic consumption and export.  Continuous depreciation of the naira shows that the economy generally is in serious stress. If nothing is done to strengthen the system, our economy will slide into a recession. Look at the capital market, since the second quarter of last year till 2016, the market has been experiencing huge investments outflow.

The CBN said no more forex for Bureau de Change from its official window.   Do you think the forex policy of the apex bank will strengthen  the naira?

The CBN is trying to manage the financial system, but the implication of restricting BDC from getting forex can give way to black market situation, because importers will look for other means of getting forex. At the end, the masses will suffer the outcome, because  prices of goods and services will increase due to high cost of foreign exchange. As such, there will be inflation in the system.

What can be done to reposition the economy at this point?

As I said earlier, let us come up with a good economic blue print on how to resuscitate the economy to prevent the economy from going bankrupt. Let us look inward to revamp the industrial sector for businesses to thrive and create wealth. The living condition of the people should be improved upon. Let President Buhari get experienced economic team to work with him. He is doing well on tackling insecurity, but he is not doing enough to revamp the economy.

Tenant removes neighbour’s 7-mth pregnancy with kitchen knife

Tenant removes neighbour’s 7-mth pregnancy with kitchen knife

A mother of two, Mrs. Oyinyechi Chinaka, is recuperating   after she was reportedly stabbed several times by her neighbour (names withheld)  in Mushin area of Lagos.

Mrs Chinaka was rushed to   the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, but she lost her seven months pregnancy.

The victim’s agony began   after she allegedly caught the neighbour   stealing   money from her purse and, not wanting the woman to expose  him  at number 11, Anjorin Street, Mushin, Lagos, the suspect was said to have stabbed Mrs. Chinaka with  a  kitchen knife severally  on her stomach ,arm and neck and   left   her to bleed to death .

The mother of two could have died   but for the timely intervention of neighbours who went looking for her and called for help after they saw her lying in her room in a pool of blood.

While neighbours were at a loss about   what   happened to her, the assailant went about as if nothing happened until he was found out by his elder brother and   he confessed to stabbing Mrs. Chinaka .

Oyinyechi-Chinaka

The victim, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard on her hospital bed, narrated, “ I was at home that fateful day when my children came to me in the kitchen where I was cooking to say electricity had been restored, and that I should come to the living room to play a cartoon video, called Power Ranger, for them. I left what I was doing and   went to operate the television for them. But to my astonishment, I saw the neighbour in my room. He was going through my purse to steal money. I caught him red handed. He was shocked .I said, ‘ So, you are the one stealing all the money that has been missing in this compound’. I was shocked because I trusted him and we had never quarrelled before. I usually left my children with   him and he entered  my house the way he liked, but for him to be stealing was shocking to me. As I was still talking to him, he ran out of the room and before I knew what was happening,  he came back with a kitchen knife and told me that he will stab me with it. I thought he was joking but to my shock, he moved close and, as I attempted to escape, he held me and started stabbing me with the knife . He stabbed me until I lost consciousness. I did not know what happened next. I only found myself in  hospital and, after surgery, I was revived. My husband told me that I was stabbed and would have died but for God’s mercy. I could not feel my baby anymore. I was seven months pregnant but my baby was not kicking”.

Mr. Henry , Mrs Chinaka’s brother-   in-law, explained the trouble the family went through to get medical help for her.

“ When we heard that she was stabbed, the family rallied round and rushed her to LUTH. Doctors told us that she had to use the only   ICU machine but a lot of people were on queue to use it. We ran helter skelter to look for money to deposit for her treatment. We had to deposit N500,000 and we have spent more than a million naira   on her treatment but nobody knew who stabbed her and she was on life support machine for months  . Unknown to us, the assailant’s elder brother had reported him to the police at the Olosan Police Station and the police had charged him to court for attempted murder   without carrying out thorough investigation nor did they   visit the woman in the hospital” , Henry said. “ We  have been prevailing on the police to include the case of murder in the charge against the assailant  because the woman lost her seven months old pregnancy due to the stabbing. The baby is in the mortuary     but the DPO of the Olosan Police Station and the IPO are not ready to cooperate with us as they went on to charge the boy to court without hearing from the family of the victim. We are appealing to the police to revisit the case and amend the   charge to include murder. We want justice to be done.”

A human rights activist, Mr. Ishola Agbodemu, urged the police to  get justice for the victim, especially in the light of the lost pregnancy.

“If she had not been stabbed and made to go through such a terrible experience, she would have given birth to a child by now.   The child’s murder should not be overlooked by the police”, Agbodemu said.

In his statement to the police, the suspect said he was pushed by an evil spirit to stab Mrs. Chinaka.

“I went to her house to steal money. She caught me but a spirit told me to stab her, so I went to the kitchen and took the knife and stabbed her with it. I stabbed her because I did not want her to reveal to other neighbours that I am a thief. I fled the house when I saw blood gushing out. It was my brother who exposed me. He saw a cut wound on my hand and he questioned me where I got it. I had to confess to him that I used knife to stab Mrs Chinaka. My elder brother took me to the Olosan police station and I was arrested”.

Sex-for-job-video: My story, by female banker

Sex-for-job-video: My story, by female banker

*How suspect lured 12  victims to bed, blackmailed them with nude photos —Police

Two years ago, the media was awash with stories on  the gruesome murder of 25-year-old Cynthia Osokogu, daughter of a retired general, inside a hotel room in Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos State by  friends she met on  the facebook   social network.

Nnamdi, the suspect

Today, some individuals still engage in using the social media  to commit  criminal activities. The latest  is the arrest of a 32-year-old graduate of   the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State,  Iweka Chigoziem Nnamdi, by policemen at Ajah  Division, Lagos.

Penultimate week, in Saturday Vanguard,  we published how the suspect, who allegedly posed as prominent Nigerians on the face book, used  the medium  to woo his unsuspecting victims, mostly  women, through the offers of job and business opportunities.

When people applied, he would  select only the females, married and single, and invite them to a hotel where the purported interview was scheduled. However  he would  identify himself as the agent or personal assistant to the prominent Nigerian that has the job and  demand for sex , with a promise to facilitate the application.

But unknown to the victims,  a hidden   camera  is  activated once the ceiling   fan is switched on, records all the fondling and sexual activities, at the end of which the   suspect  would  blackmail  them, with a threat   to post  their nude pictures and videos on the internet if his demand for money  was not met.

He  allegedly succeeded in blackmailing about 12  married women. The last straw  was said to be an encounter with a 27-year-old   female banker identified simply as Judith.

A close friend of the banker, who spoke  on  the condition of anonymity,  narrated the story: “ Judith is presently a  shadow of her former self  because of Nnamdi’s mischief. This is because she got information about  her sex video on the internet from close friends.

She met the suspect who posed as Mike Adenuga  on the internet and was convinced  because of Adenuga’s   photograph. They got chatting; at  a point, she accepted an invitation to meet him in an  hotel two months ago. But when she got there, she met Nnamdi   who   identified himself as Adenuga’s P.A and   told Judith that she   would have to go through him to see his boss.

One thing led to the other and she found herself in bed with him. But she got the shock of her life when Nnamdi called her on  phone to pay some money into his account, threatening to post  her  sex  video on the internet if she didn’t  cooperate.

Judith   called his bluff but was shocked when Nnamdi  made  good his threat by first posting photographs  on the internet .   Judith was yet to recover from the shock   when Nnamdi  went ahead to download  the video of them making love on her  facebook timeline. About 325 of Judith’s facebook friends watched the video.

“The video cost her, her five years relationship. After that, Nnamdi   kept calling and threatening to post  the second  sex video on the internet if Judith did not pay him.   It was at this point that she reported the case to policemen at Ajah who asked her to play along , in the process of which he was arrested”.

Laptops containing videos  and pictures of different women were said to have been recovered   by policemen during a search of the   suspect’s apartment in Ikota Villa  Estate, Ajah.

Police sources said about  12  victims contacted on phone revealed that they were married women, with some of them lamenting that the scandal  destroyed their marriages.

One of them(names withheld), who spoke with   operatives on phone   when asked to come and testify,was quoted to have said: “ I do not care if he has been arrested, killed or alive because   the harm has already been done. Can you imagine that scoundrel sent a video of  me and him on bed to my   husband? Today, I have been sent out of my matrimonial home. Of what use is my coming to testify? Will that restore my marriage?”

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, who confirmed the suspect’s arrest, narrated:  “The case was reported to the police on April, 20, 2014. The complainant alleged that the suspect chatted with her on  the facebook for months until he invited her to hotel in Ajah, under the pretence that he was Mike Adenuga, the Chairman of Globacom.

When Nnamdi finally met with the victim on March, 14, 2014, he chatted with her and finally convinced the complainant to have sex with him. Unknown to her, the suspect had bugged the hotel room with camera. So while they were having sex, the entire action was being filmed.

“After this affair, the suspect started sending threatening text messages to her, demanding she pay various sums of money to him, otherwise he would send the nude pictures to her friends and colleagues at her office. He also sent a GTB bank account number into which she was to pay.

“After his arrest on April, 21, 2014, in an  hotel at Ajah and following interrogation, police recovered the suspect’s laptop in which he had  quite a number of sex pictures and videos of the complainant and also a host of other victims. He made a  confessional statement to the effect that he did all that police recovered  in his laptop, his BB and Techno phone.

On his laptop, police discovered that he had a list of prominent Nigerians such as Mike Adenuga;  Pius Ayim Pius; Nwabara  Adolphus; Van Vicker, a Ghanaian actor; and  Joy Nnwedu, among others. He had been using these images and names to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians. In fact, he has broken marriages as confirmed  by our investigations.”

The suspect, according to her, has been charged to court  on  an  eight-count charge, informing that the case comes up tomorrow ( May  26) at  Court 6,  Tinubu, Lagos State.

According to the police spokesperson, the suspect  was as  “cool as cucumber” after he was arrested, smiling like he had not committed any crime.

FG sacks top civil servants over employment racketeering — Minister

FG sacks top civil servants over employment racketeering — Minister

Some top officials of the Civil Service have been dismissed by the Federal Government for extorting money from 400 applicants and offering them employment illegally. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the disclosure on Saturday in Lagos during a meeting with some selected On-Air-Personalities.

The meeting was part of the minister`s five-day consultations with critical stakeholders in the media industry. Mohammed said that the affected officers were on Grade Level 17 in one of the parastatals in the ministry.

He said that the officers had included the names of the applicants in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel System (IPPIS) before the fraud was discovered.

“The first scandal I met in one of the parastatals when I assumed office was the illegal employment of 400 people.

“This scandal started with very senior officers up to level 17 in that department. “They sent out letters and text messages asking people to apply for jobs for a fee of N400, 000 and they were given letters of employment.

“They did not stop there. They invited these people to go and be captured on the IPPIS and they even took cameras to hotels to get them captured. At the end of the day the bubble burst. “One of the victims told these officials, you cannot take my money and still disengage me. I have a valid letter.’’

“That is how we got to know that there is a dedicated account these people pay to. “Of course, we dismissed these officials and we even handed them over to the Police“ the minster said. Mohammed said that the incident showed how faulty the IPPIS was and how it had been compromised by unscrupulous elements. He said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was doing all it could to make the IPPIS tamper-proof and guide it from people who might want to load ghost workers on it.

He described On-Air Personalities as “very important’’ in the media industry and urged them to leverage on their platforms to educate the people on government`s policies. The minister said the current war against corruption was a war of survival for the nation and urged all Nigerians to give it the necessary support

Before you compare yourself to Donjazzy...-Teebillz serves a reminder

Before you compare yourself to Donjazzy...-Teebillz serves a reminder

I don't concur, why don't this dude mind his business and keep his mouth shut

Actress Princess Pemu Sleeping on Bundles of Money

Actress Princess Pemu Sleeping on Bundles of Money

That's Ghanaian money. She shared the pic to show she's working and earning..to avoid story of runs. Lol!

See Fresh Revelations on How Governors, others stole Billions openly

See Fresh Revelations on How Governors, others stole Billions openly

*N1.34trillion stolen with impunity
State governors, ministers, business leaders, public officials and bankers allegedly stole $6.7billion in public funds in seven years, information minister Lai Mohammed revealed on Monday.

Mohammed told reporters in Abuja that 1.34trillion naira ($6.72 billion, 6.15 billion euros) was allegedly stolen between 2006 and 2013. “The situation is dire and the time to act is now,” he added.

Giving a breakdown of the alleged theft, Mohammed said:

– 15 former state governors stole N146.84billion

– 11 businessmen took N653billion

– Eight people in the banking industry stole N524billion

– 12 former state and federal public servants made off with more than N14billion

– four former ministers took N7billion

The period covered starts toward the end of the second term in office for Nigeria’s first civilian president after military rule, Olusegun Obasanjo. He was replaced in 2007 by Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Goodluck Jonathan took over in 2010 when Yar’Adua died in office.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari came to power in May last year, vowing to crack down on endemic corruption in Africa’s most populous nation.

He accused Jonathan’s administration of leaving the treasury “virtually empty” and vowed to recover what he said were “mind-boggling” sums stolen from the public purse.

Former NSA Sambo Dasuki and a string of high-profile figures are currently facing corruption charges over allegedly bogus arms deals to the tune of $2 billion.

Recently, the investigation has been widened to military top brass who served under Jonathan.

Mohammed said tackling corruption is central to Buhari’s administration but added that it involved everyone. “This is Nigeria’s war,” he stressed

Nick Cannon's funny reaction towards Mariah Carey's engagement _ lolz

Nick Cannon's funny reaction towards Mariah Carey's engagement _ lolz

Mariah Carey's Husband, Nick Cannon, shared this photo of himself on IG. This photo is actually from one of the scenes in the show-- Real Husbands of Hollywood. Read what he wrote below:

This is so mature of Nick. 

Meanwhile, Mariah is still legally married to Nick and her fiance is also still married to his wife- Erica Packer who's now dating singer, Seal.

Ekiti State Governor, Mrs Feyisetan Fayose, is already in Dubai, sending tongues wagging on reports of her son’s arrest in the United Arabs Emirates country

As we write, the wife of Ekiti State Governor, Mrs Feyisetan Fayose, is already in Dubai, sending tongues wagging on reports of her son’s arrest in the United Arabs Emirates country.
Our usually reliable source said she hurriedly left Ekiti for Dubai three days ago  barely hours after her husband, Governor Ayodele Fayose, returned from the same Arabian country looking unusually unsettled.
Even though Mrs Fayose seldom travels outside the country, the unusual urgency of her trip may have confirmed the speculation that her son, Oluwajomiloju Fayose, had been arrested by Dubai authorities for money laundering running into millions of naira.



Recall that Fayose travelled to Dubai twice in the last one month, the latest being last week, but he hurriedly left before President Buhari’s delegation arrived for a summit on climate change. Our reporter learnt that Fayose had to leave the Arabian country when he learnt about the extradition and loot recovery treaty to be signed by Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi.The treaty was signed yesterday. Fayose was jittery over his shady deals in Dubai and thought he might be arrested there, as immunity would not cover him in a foreign land. The story also had it that his son had been arrested at that time, and sensing that the boy might mention him as the owner of the money found on him, Fayose bolted.
On arriving Ekiti, he reportedly asked his wife, Feyisetan, to embark on an emergency trip to Dubai ostensibly in connection with the rumoured arrest of their son, Oluwajomiloju.
There was a mild drama at the Government House immediately Fayose arrived as he directed that all the mobile phones of his drivers and close aides be confiscated for scrutiny because he suspected they are the ones who leaked his movements and his travails to the outside world. Fayose has also kept most of his security details at arms length and only relates with the few he trusts.
In the next few days, The Monitors will update you about Mrs Feyi Fayose’s mission in Dubai as our Dubai correspondent is working hard to get to the root of the matter but we are sure she is still there.
The question is why did Governor Fayose rush out of Dubai and arrive Ekiti very worried? Why did Mrs Feyi Fayose rush to Dubai when her husband just came from the same country? What is her mission in Dubai? Is it true that their son, Oluwajomiloju Fayose, was arrested for money laundering? These are the puzzles Ekiti State are confronted with, which only time will unravel as we continue to live with the nightmares of Fayose’s administration in the state.

Source:https://topealamposer.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/revealed-fayoses-wife-makes-emergency-trip-to-dubai-over-sons-arrest/

Notorious Gang Leader Bayo Ajia, known for terrorizing Ilorin residents, is now dead

Notorious Gang Leader Bayo Ajia, known for terrorizing Ilorin residents, is now dead

Palpable tension has enveloped Ilorin, the Kwara state capital over the murder of a notorious cultist, Bayo Ajia around noon on Monday.

Ajia was one of the ring leaders of the Aiye Confraternity, a notorious cult group that has grown in recent times.

An eye-witness, Alhaji Yekini Ishola, who operates a commercial motor vehicle popularly known as Okada around the area told Sahara Reportersnews that the incidence happened at about 12:34pm on Monday at the Car washing place of Mr. Ajia under the popular Stadium Bridge along Taiwo Road, Ilorin.

Taiwo road, as popularly called, is Ilorin’s commercial nerve centre. Ajia was said to have been killed in cold blood helplessly by an alleged rival cult group whose identity is yet to be determined as at press time. He was said to have been shot at severally by his assailants. When it seemed that, that would not bring him down, he was said to have been brutally hatched with machetes.

Ilorin has witnessed a resurgence of cult-related violence in the last four years. The cult groups and their affiliates receded during the tenure of former Governor and now Senate President Bukola Saraki due to stringent laws criminalizing the secret groups and an enhanced policing.

With Ajia’s killing, the relative peace being enjoyed in Ilorin is now effectively shattered as Ajia’s cult members and others would swing into full force in avenging the killing of one of their big gun.

See as Girl gets harassed after finding cockroach inside the meat pie she bought at Mr. Biggs

See as Girl gets harassed after finding cockroach inside the meat pie she bought at Mr. Biggs

 The victim released the photos and had this to say:

 "I am a student of Leadcity Uni Ibadan; as I was coming from school this afternoon, I was hungry so I went to an eatery that's ( Mr Biggs Mobil, it's in Ibadan too ). I bought 2meat pie n pet coke. . . I sat there to eat it; after eating the first one n wanted to eat the second I saw a dead half cockroach in it. I showed them the pie; as I was showing the guys working there; a security guy named Bode who works there; he says y r u shouting it doesn't mean n it's normal during production. . . I have the Bode guys pic; he even said he's gon slap me if I say anything again. Pls I have the pic of the meat pie. Thanks. And the receipt which has today's date for you to b sure. Thanks."

Disgraced Metuh seen in Court on Handcuffs.

Disgraced Metuh seen in Court on Handcuffs.

Sometimes when you do things and you never think of the consequences, its like you are paying the piper the cost of the funeral song he should sing for you when you die.

 The PDP National Publicity Secretary who was arraigned on a 7-count  money laundering and corruption charge ,arrived court in handcuffs . Now you have to cuff out N400 million to bail your life or you rot in jail.

 Images-Shara Reporters

Really Amazing as you Meet this couple expecting their 19th child...

Really Amazing as you Meet this couple expecting their 19th child...

The parents of Britain's biggest family have announced they are expecting their 19th child.

Sue and Noel Radford celebrated the birth of daughter Hallie in June, but now Mrs Radford, 40,, is pregnant again, with the baby due in July.The Radfords, who run a successful bakery business and do not claim any state benefits said the pregnancy had been a surprise, but they are excited to add to their huge brood.

'It has come as a huge surprise,' Mrs Radford told The Sun. 'We were adamant that we wouldn’t have more. But it is a brilliant start to the New Year.'

President Buhari meets with Nigerians residing Dubai, as well signs treaty with UAE government

President Buhari meets with Nigerians in Dubai, ministers sign agreement with UAE government

President Buhari earlier today met with some Nigerians residing in Dubai. Also, Nigeria today signed a range of agreement with the UAE including legal assistance treaty to help repatrieat looters.

The signing of the agreement was witnessed by President Buhari, Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah and the Attorney General and the Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami. Continue to see more photos...

Olisa Metuh granted N400million bail

Olisa Metuh granted N400million bail

Kuje Prison Don turn this man to Father Christmas oooh. Well the gossip is that A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted embattled National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh, a N400million bail. Olisa is being tried for receiving N400 million from the $2.1 billion arms deal fraud. The judge also ordered Metuh to submit his international passport and that as part of his bail conditions, he must provide two sureties with N200 million each. The sureties must have properties in Maitama district of Abuja.

Katy Colins a Bride jilted at the altar quits job and sells home to travel around the world(Photos)

Katy Colins a Bride jilted at the altar quits job and sells home to travel around the world(Photos)

After being left standing at the altar, a jilted bride quit her job and swapped weddings for wanderlust.

Heartbroken Katy Colins, 30, sold her house and her car and booked a one-way ticket to south east Asia after having her big day called off.

Little did she know that backpacking around Thailand, India and Nepal on her own would lead to her achieving a childhood dream of becoming a published author.

Katy, from Formby, England, has secured a three-book deal with Carina UK, an imprint of world-renowned publisher Harper Collins.

The former Manchester Airport public relations worker told how she was left confused and disillusioned with life after being jilted by her long-term boyfriend and sold “anything that wouldn’t fit into a large backpack” before jetting off to Thailand on her own.

Katy told the Liverpool Echo:

“Everyone did think I was a little mad especially as I’d never travelled anywhere by myself before but it just felt right.

“I needed the time away from everything and everyone I knew to find myself, but it wasn’t as cheesy as that.”

With a degree in English and journalism from Salford university, Katy said she always dreamed of one day writing a novel.

She kept a travel blog, mainly to keep family and friends updated during her trip, which grew and grew in readers.

Katy said:

“People who weren’t related to me started reading my blog and sending me emails, telling me how brave I was to quit it all and go.

“I received messages from other newly-single men and women who said they read my blog as an inspiration - that just because you’ve been dumped it doesn’t mean you have to listen to bad power anthems and devour ice-cream.

“You can use this as a catalyst for something much bigger and better.”

As she travelled around south-east Asia and India, Katy said the passion to start putting her experiences into words was hard to resist.

She said:

“I started writing a few chapters, not fully aware that they would be the start of a novel but mostly as a way to clear my head.

“Although I was experiencing things that I would never have imagined seeing, such as the Taj Mahal and trekking through the Himalayas, I was still working through the feelings that I wouldn’t be making wedding scrapbooks or be living the married life, well not just yet at least.

“I began to think what if you were given a second chance to find yourself?’”

Katy has since backpacked around South America for six months and lived in France teaching English for the past two years.

She was living in a small fishing town in northern France when she received news about the book deal.

Katy said:

“Ironically, an editor called me on what would have been our third wedding anniversary. “It is poignant to think how far I’d come through hard work, being brave and wanting to live the biggest life I could.”

Katy’s journey inspired her to write the first novel in The Lonely Hearts Travel Club series, a light-hearted romantic comedy, which has been described as “Bridget Jones goes backpacking”.

Destination Thailand, the first book in the series, follows hapless Georgia Green who spends what should have been her big day sobbing into a warm sex-on-the-beach cocktail wondering where it all went wrong.

She is forced to make a bucket list of her new life goals and packs her bags for a long-haul adventure to Thailand as she tries to discover herself once again.

With her unworn wedding dress still hanging in her wardrobe, Katy now thinks back to her ex calling everything off as the best thing that ever happened to her.

She said:

“His decision, although devastating at the time, was the wake-up call I needed. I had a good job, a lovely house and lived a comfortable lifestyle but it lacked adventure.

“That is something I hoped travelling halfway around the world on my own would give me, and luckily it paid off.

“I have climbed an active volcano in Chile, slept in a Thai jungle, got covered in Holi powder in India, skydived in France, and even taken a flight past Mount Everest. “I’ve experienced things that I would never have dreamed possible but the highlight is being able to call myself a writer. Nothing compares to that.

“I am a huge optimist and believe that everything happens for a reason. Life is about saying yes, being brave and knowing deep down that it will all end up alright.”

And see how 55 Nigerians stole N1.34 trn in 8 years – Min. of Information

And see how 55 Nigerians stole N1.34 trn in 8 years – Min. of Information

Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed while addressing a world press conference in Abuja to mark the beginning of the war against corruption in Nigeria yesterday said that 55 Nigerians stole a combined amount of N1.34 trillion between 2006 and 2013.

The minister said 15 former Governors stole N146.84 billion; four former ministers stole N7 billion; 12 former public officers both at Federal and State levels stole over N14 billion; eight Nigerians in the banking sector - N524 billion , while 11 businessmen stole N653 billion.

The minister said that using World Bank rates and costs, one-third of the stolen funds could have provided 635.18 kilometres of roads; 36 ultra-modern hospitals per state; 183 schools; educated 3,974 children from primary to tertiary level at 25.24 million per child and built 20,062 units of 2-bedroom houses.
He said:

“This is the money that a few people, just 55 in number, allegedly stole within a period of just eight years. And instead of a national outrage, all we hear are these nonsensical statements that the government is fighting only the opposition, or that the government is engaging in vendetta.”

Adding that no person found to have stolen public funds would go unpunished irrespective of their political, religious or tribal background.

He said:

“There is the erroneous impression out there that the war against corruption is a vendetta against the opposition, and that indeed it is one-sided. This is not true and indeed very nauseating. We need the media to lead the campaign against corruption.

“All we have heard from them are ludicrous reasons why they partook in sharing of the money. One said he collected N4.5 billion for spiritual purposes, another said he received N2.1 billion for publicity, while yet another said he got N13 billion to pay someone else for the Maritime University land.

“Based on these revelations, should we now fold our hands and allow these people to go away with public funds? Is anyone thinking about the innocent soldiers who lost their lives just because they did not get the necessary weapons to fight the terrorists?

“What about the families left behind by these soldiers who were sent to their early graves because of the misappropriation of these funds? What about those who lost their means of livelihood after the terrorists overran their towns and villages? What of the millions of Nigerians, especially women and children, who are now living in IDP camps?

“Is it not clear that the cruel fate that has befallen these unfortunate people is a direct result of the misuse of the funds meant to fight the terrorists? Are these not the true costs of corruption? he asked.

The minister pleaded with all Nigerians to join hands with the government to tackle corruption.

“As President Muhammadu Buhari likes to say, if we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria. There is no better way to say it,” the minister said.

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