Saturday, 30 June 2018
Photos: Adekunle Gold & Simi Show PDA As They Perform On Stage In London
Court Remands Ex-Ondo PDP Chairman, Faboyede, For Alleged N500m Fraud
Faboyede was arraigned alongside the Ondo State Coordinator of President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation in 2015, Modupe Adetokunbo, before the Federal High Court in Lagos.
The three charges pressed against them border on conspiracy and money laundering.
The EFCC claimed that in the charges that Faboyede and Adetokunbo received a cash sum of N500m from one Owolanke Michael in the build-up to the 2015 general election.
Faboyede was accused of making N500m cash payment to the Ondo State Election Committee of the PDP without through any financial institution.
The prosecuting counsel for the EFCC, Ekene Iheanacho, said the defendants committed the offence on March 27, 2015, adding that they acted contrary to Section 18 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 and are liable to punishment under Section 16(2) of the same Act.
But upon their arraignment on Friday before Justice Saliu Saidu, Faboyede and Adetokunbo pleaded not guilty.
The judge, while adjourning the case till September 17, 2018, ordered that the defendants should be remanded in the prison custody.
Meanwhile, the PDP, while reacting to the arraignment in a statement by its South-West Zonal Publicity Secretary, Ayo Fadaka, said Faboyede and Adetokunbo committed no fraud.
The party said, “It is imperative to clearly underscore the fact that the N500m upon which this case is built is the campaign fund released by the party to the Ondo State PDP through the Fidelity Bank and not in any manner a fraudulent issue.
“It was these gentlemen who signed and withdrew the money on behalf of the party and this is the reason why the EFCC is prosecuting them.
“While we are not interested in the politics surrounding this matter, we however wish to state categorically that the APC is merely abusing the privileges of power to persecute the PDP endlessly, this we consider pedestrian and cheap.
“We reiterate very firmly that these gentlemen are no criminals as they only acted on behalf of the party. It is the PDP that is on trial here and as a party, we continue to repose confidence in the ability of the judiciary to adjudicate on this matter.”
Buhari has left Nigeria for Mauritania...
The summit will hold from June 30 to July 2.
The presidential aircraft conveying the president and other members of his entourage to Mauritania took off at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, Katsina, about 10. 20 a.m.
NUPENG Threatens Nationwide Strike Over 300 Sacked Oil Workers
NUPENG said the planned strike was as a result of the alleged sacking of 300 of its members by some oil companies.
Chairman of the union, Port Harcourt Zone, Mr. Alex Agwanwor, who said the proposed strike would be indefinite, gave a seven-day ultimatum for the sacked workers to be recalled or leave the union with no choice but to withdraw its services.
Agwanwor urged government at all levels and the Ministry of Labour and Productivity to prevail on the firms to reinstate the workers.
“A seven-day ultimatum is hereby issued for unlawfully disengaging our union members. Over 300 of our members were disengaged by some oil companies. We will embark on an indefinite strike if these companies do not reinstate these workers.
“If by midnight of Monday, July 9, 2018, the concerns of the union are not addressed by these companies, the union shall have no choice but to embark on an indefinite industrial action until our grievances are addressed.
“We are calling and directing tanker drivers, drilling workers and pump attendants to withdraw their services if there is no counter-notice to this,” the NUPENG chairman added.
Agwanwor alleged that the oil workers were laid off because they refused to sign a document that would turn them to casual workers.
Meanwhile, the union at the national level has expressed its support for the planned indefinite strike, even as it sympathised with the families of victims of the recent fire incident in Lagos, which claimed nine lives.
My Son’s Wife Bent On Destroying Him –Obasanjo’s Ex-Wife
Olujonwo had about a week ago dragged his wife, Tope, who is the daughter of billionaire businessman, Chief Kessington Adebutu, before the Ogun State Judicial Service Commission and a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Igbosere, over allegations of domestic violence, intimidation and threat to his life.
He said on one occasion, his wife slapped him twice and that she was emotionally unstable, aggressive and ready to attack him in the head anytime.
He therefore asked the court for an order directing his wife “to stay apart pending when critical issues in the marriage of the parties are determined,” among other prayers.
But in her counter-affidavit, Tope denied being emotionally unstable, saying it was her husband who subjected her to emotional and psychological hardship by abandoning her in his father’s house and rendering himself incommunicado.
She also alleged that he treated her with cruelty and that he was at an unknown location for drug rehabilitation between the end of January and second week of March 2018.
Meanwhile, her mother, Mrs. Rosemary Adebutu, also alleged that Mrs. Obasanjo collected N4m from her husband, popularly known as Baba Ijebu.
But responding to the allegations, the wife of the former president told Saturday Punch that she never took any money from Adebutu and that it was untrue that she and her son were drug addicts, as alleged by Baba Ijebu’s wife.
She said, “I heard they said I took money from him. Chief Adebutu is alive and he can testify whether I collected money from him or not. If I had taken money from him, would I still be able to talk? I never took any money from Chief Adebutu. My son’s wife is just bent on destroying him.
“They also said my son and I are drug addicts, which is a lie. What is the problem if a man wants to quit a marriage that would send him to his grave early?
“They also said my son got a contract worth N35m from Segun Adebutu and that he ran away with the money, which is not true. It is true that he was awarded the job, but he did not abandon the job.
He had started executing the job but it was when this problem arose that they called my son to threaten him that there would be war if he decided to leave the marriage. They said they would make sure they finished my son and his wife had said she would destroy him.”
“The unfortunate aspect is Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who has done nothing over this issue, and he’s the one prodding my son’s wife and her mother into continuing this because he wanted my son and his wife to stay in the marriage, so that my son could become collateral for him to keep having access to the Adebutu family.
“I leave them all to God because He’s the one who knows how to reveal things done in the secret and pay people back for their deeds. They think I’m not okay, but everything I warned them against is happening. However, I won’t let them destroy my son.”
Is Meghan About To Cut All Ties With Her Father?
Of all the problems Meghan Markle anticipated in her transformation from actress to duchess after marrying into the Royal Family, this was surely the one she least expected.
So imagine what must go through her mind when she reaches for the telephone to call her father. Hardly a day goes past without a headline that seemingly emanates from the private thoughts of Thomas Markle.
Just this week we’ve had reports of his sadness at not receiving a Father’s Day card from his daughter and a bizarre outburst about Donald Trump’s meeting with the Queen next month.
‘If the Queen is willing to meet our arrogant and insensitive president,’ he was quoted as saying by the U.S. gossip website TMZ, ‘she has no excuse not to meet me, I’m nowhere near as bad.’
All this has followed hot on the heels of his bombshell interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain, in which he repeated private conversations he’d had with his new son-in-law Prince Harry and discussed Meghan’s desire to have children. It is, of course, an unwritten rule that the royals never discuss politics, yet here he was giving Harry’s views on Brexit and Donald Trump.
As upsetting as having such intimacies aired undoubtedly is for the Duchess of Sussex, she is also facing the accusation that she has now cut her father adrift.
According to reliable sources close to 73-year-old Markle, the father of three has not spoken to either Meghan or Harry since his interview with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid 12 days ago.
For his daughter there is understandable anxiety about whether she can call her father for fear that everything she says to him seems likely to appear somewhere or other in public.
It is a unique predicament for the royal family because, until now, in-laws have almost always been discreet — you need only to think of the sensibly silent Middleton family.
But discretion seems to be something that Thomas Markle either doesn’t understand or chooses not to understand. What an absurd, tawdry and decidedly unroyal mess the Markle affair has become.
From the moment he announced he was pulling out of the wedding just days before he was due to walk his daughter down the aisle at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, the unworldly Thomas Markle has run rings round the so-called sophisticates of Buckingham Palace.
To begin with, there was nothing but sympathy for the retired Hollywood lighting director and his brutally honest explanation that after his collaboration with the paparazzi over staged photographs his presence at the wedding would be a distraction.
He admitted the collusion had been a ‘serious mistake’.
Then came the news that he had suffered a heart attack and was not well enough to travel to Britain even if he wanted to.
While this seemed a plausible — if convenient — excuse, there were the first stirrings of discomfort inside Kensington Palace regarding Markle’s habit of making his announcements via the media.
Kenneth Omeruo Supports Wife Against Okocha
Block the noise (JJ and Nigerians criticizing his wife)
Stay humble
Stay focused
Pray
Work harder
And of course LOVE (Love in capitals to indicate he is with his wife?)
Recall his wife of only few months had taken to IG to call Okocha a mad man, shortly after he criticized her husband on Super Sports. Don't worry Kenneth we got the SUB!
Fan Slams Rosy Meurer For Praying Half N*de
‘’In Jesus name, I ask the God of all grace to grant wisdom to political leaders In Nigeria to know what to do till hope returns to the hopeless. Amen 🙏 #prayfornigeria #ournigeria #nigeria’’
After Almost A Year Teebillz Returns To Instagram
He wrote;
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.”
Lagos Tanker Fire: Togolese President Condoles With Nigeria
Eyadema, who is currently the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority, said he was in Katsina to brief President Buhari on the latest situations in the sub-regional organization.
He, however, used the opportunity to commiserate with Nigeria over the Thursday’s Lagos tanker fire.
“I came here in my capacity as Chairman of ECOWAS Authority to brief him on the different situations in our region – the situation in Guinea Bissau; the situation in Mali which is going to have presidential election at the end of July including my own situation in Togo,’’ he said.
“I used the opportunity to express my condolences to the President over what happened last night in Lagos state,’’ he said.
Photo: The Prophet Who Predicted Disaster On Some Certain Days In Nigeria Has Been Unmasked
In the audio, which was released weeks back but has now gone viral, the preacher specifically warned his congregation, to pray and avoid traveling out of Lagos on some certain days and avoid certain transport companies. He said,
“I saw a lot of dead people and over flow of blood, please let’s be careful.
“June 23, June 28, July 11, July 24, July 30 and August 1, these days have been marked for evil and disasters.
“Do not travel out of Lagos using any of these transportation companies on these dates.
“Okeyson, Benue Links, Agofure, Young Shall Grow, Air Peace, God is Good, Abia Links, Efosa, GUO.
“On July 22, August 5 and 19, no one should travel out of the state using plane, you can travel with them any other day but on these dates, avoid them, they have been marked for blood,” he had said during one of his services few some weeks back.
Barely one week after his prophecy, over 200 persons were brutally butchered by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Plateau State on June 23, one of the days he mentioned in his message.
Just on Thursday, June 28 (another day he mentioned) nine persons were roasted to death and more than 54 vehicles burnt to ashes after a fuel-laden tanker fell on Otedola Bridge along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and went up in flame, trapping motorists and passengers.
Friday, 29 June 2018
Practice What You Preach! Dayo Amusa Gets Rude To Fathia Balogun
Sigh! So Fathia Balogun wrote something about how beautiful a friendship is and how it can turn sore if certain things are missing and Dayo Amusa jumped on her page, asking her to ‘Practice what she preaches’. Sigh!
You know the irony of this all, just days ago, Dayo Amusa said the younger ones in Nollywood don’t respect their elders. Now hasn’t Dayo shot herself on the leg? Too sad! Their industry STINKS lately… Damn!
