Thursday, 28 January 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to extend anti-corrution war to NNPC and NCS

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to extend his administration’s ongoing anti-corrution war to other departments and agencies  of government.



Buhari, according to a news item monitored on the Nigerian Television Authority on Thursday, spoke in Nairobi during a meeting he had with members of the Nigerian Community in Kenya.







Buhari said although heart-rending, the revelations may not be compared to the corruption that would be exposed by the time his administration commence the probe of other agencies like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Nigerian Customs Service.
“It (the arms deal)  is heart-rending.  But that is just once source.  You know we have not got to NNPC yet not to talk of Customs,” he said.
The President promised that he would not relent in his effort to eradicate corruption in the country.

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President Muhammadu Buhari sent his first two executive bills to the Senate.

The bills are: ”The Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2016″ and “The Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, 2016.”
Buhari, in a letter to the Senate and addressed to the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, said he was introducing the bills for formal consideration and enactment into law by the legislature.
In the letter read by Saraki, during plenary, Buhari informed that the first bill provides for the repeal of Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 as amended in 2012.
He explained that the bill would “make comprehensive provisions to prohibit the laundering of criminal activities, expand the scope of money laundering, and provide protection for employees of various institutions, bodies and professions who may discover money laundering”.
On the second bill, President Buhari said it “seeks to facilitate the provision and obtaining by Nigeria of international assistance in criminal matters.”
These, he stressed, include the provision and obtaining of evidence and things, and the making of arrangements for persons to give evidence or assist in criminal investigations.
He further stated that the bill seeks “the recovery, forfeiture or confiscation of property in respect of offences, the restraining of dealings in property or the freezing of assets that may be recovered, forfeited or confiscated in respect of offences.”

Cobhams, MI and 2Face in the studio


  Ibinabo saw Cobhams, MI and 2Face in the studio on MI's snapchat. When are we getting blessed with new music? 

Metuh Paid N70 Million Into My Relation’s Company Account


At the resumed trial on Thursday, a witness, Yomi Ogunsanya, said that the sum of 70 million Naira was paid into the account of his relation’s company for the management of the image of the PDP and its presidential candidate, Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the presidential elections.
Mr Ogunsanya, who is the fifth witness, told the court that their first job was appreciating the military in their role in the fight against the terrorist group, Boko Haram operating in the north eastern part of Nigeria through the placement of adverts in several national newspapers and television stations.
A sixth witness, Kabiru Ibrahim, also told the court that he received $1 million from a previous witness, Nneka Ararume, a staff of Assets Resource Management Company (ARM) and an investment officer to Mr Metuh, which he converted to Naira and paid into the account of Destra Investment Limited belonging to Mr Metuh.
He, however, told the court that he never sold Dollars to Mr Metuh at any point in time.
With a request for an adjournment by the prosecutor, Sylvanus Tahir, Justice Okon Abang adjourned further trial till February 4.

Governor Mimiko Should Return Ondo State Looted Funds Before It's Too Late- Ondo APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo state, on Thursday, called on Governor Olusegun Mimiko, to return all funds stolen from the treasury of the state by his government before the expiration of his government. 


He disclosed that the opposition party was aware that Mimiko had been deducting an average of N1.5 billion naira monthly from the state allocation as security votes for the past seven years of administration without any corresponding benefits.
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