Sunday, 30 October 2016

2015 CAN BRIBE SCANDAL: HOW PASTOR ORITSAJAFOR SHARED JONATHAN N7 BILLION LARGESS

As investigations continue into various allegations of sleaze in the past administration, information has emerged that the former leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) may have presided over the sharing of the sum of N7billion allegedly provided by former President Goodluck Jonathan to solicit support of churches to vote for him in the March 28, 2015 elections.

Pentecostal pastor, Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, in an exclusive interview with Sunday Telegraph, said that CAN’s national and state executives, as well as various leaders, received various sums of money under the supervision of former CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsajafor and CAN General Secretary, Rev. (Dr.) Musa Asake, to campaign for the then President in the last election. “When we received the N7billion, you know CAN has five blocks. Each block in CAN collected N50million.

While National CAN executives got N30million each, some got N20million while women’s group was given N25million. All the state CAN officials collected N3million each. Zonal CAN chairmen got N5million each and former CAN President, Pastor Oritsejafor, went with the remaining part of the N7billion,” he said.

Besides the N7billion reportedly given for campaigns, Dikwa added: “There were Toyota Sports Utility Vehicles given to them. Let me tell you, there are lot of people that can come out to testify if not because of fear. They came church by church, to campaign for former President Jonathan as their candidate, just because they had collected N7billion for the campaigns.

But they didn’t exhaust the whole money on campaigns and the people that received the money were the former President of CAN and the General Secretary.” Giving reasons why he got N1million from CAN, he said the money was received as part of ‘out of court settlement’ in a suit against them.

“The matter is currently being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, which had informed me to play along with them.” He said shortly after the money was paid into his Ecobank account, a lien was placed on it and he never touched it as part of the investigators’ directive. “The reason why they bribed me with N1million was because I took them to court last year.

When I raised the issue of N7billion, the General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Asake, wrote a letter signed by him to the DSS to arrest and investigate me,” he said. Efforts to get reactions of Pastor Oritsajafor was unsuccessful as he neither picked his phone nor respond to our text message. The text message to Oritsejafor by 8:09am Saturday, after repeated calls reads: “Good morning His Eminence.

Hope you had a restful night sir. I have been calling you since yesterday, (Friday). One Pastor Dikwa alleged that you and Rev. Asake presided over the distribution of N7bn from Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for pastors to campaign for him in the churches last year. What is your position on this sir?” But Rev. Asake said Dikwa’s story is old and a figment of his imagination. He said neither he nor Oritsejafor presided over any sharing of N7billion because such money was never given to CAN leadership during their tenure. “He has been telling this story since last year.

He has spoken in Abuja and in Kaduna. The story is not straight forward because he (Dikwa) is attempting to dribble all Nigerians. The incident allegedly happened before the elections. Tell me, if it was true, would the government, which is arresting all indicted persons, not have arrested us? “On one occasion, when he brought up this issue, he was asked to produce evidence; he said he had no documents.

He even wrote a letter of apology to us, but now he has started going the old path. I am not afraid of probe. If EFCC invites me over this matter, I am willing to go there,” Asake, CAN General Secretary said. Current CAN President, Rev. Supo Ayokunle, who could not pick his call at about 13:25hrs, because his aide said “Baba is preaching,” later replied to our correspondent’s text message, saying, “Call the people concerned. I don’t have anything to do with it.”

Source: weeklypostng.org

PRESIDENCY GIVES EFCC, DSS GO AHEAD TO ARREST FORMER PRESIDENT, GOODLUCK JONATHAN FOR CORRUPTION

The Presidency through the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo may have given the Economic and Finan
cial Crime Commission, The EFCC and the Nigeria secret police, the DSS blanket approval to arrest the former President, Goodluck Jonathan over various corruption and fraud allegations

Punch Newspaper reports that the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday, assured Nigerians that the Federal Government would not interfere in the work of security and anti-corruption agencies if they decided to move against former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Osinbajo, who said the current administration did not believe in arbitrary arrests, explained that the agencies of government were being empowered to do their jobs without undue interference.

The vice president, according to a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, spoke on Friday in Houston, Texas in the United States at a meeting he had with Nigerians based in the US.

He was said to have answered questions on the economy, the anti-corruption war, the recent arrest of judges and the menace of herdsmen in parts of the country, as well as community policing.

The statement read, “Answering a question from the Internet on when former President Jonathan would be arrested, Osinbajo pointed out that the Buhari administration was not in the business of arresting people anyhow.

“He said all the Buhari administration did was to empower the security agencies and the anti-corruption agencies to do their jobs, without the administration trying to teleguide (monitor) them,”

Osinbajo was also quoted as saying that the fight against corruption in the country was not based on ethnic, hasty or premeditated grounds.

He said, “Corruption is not an ethnic thing, there is an equal representation in the stealing as no one operates with his or her ethnic group alone, the culprits are in every case seen so far, united by greed to steal and not by ethnic or religious interest.”

Osinbajo disclosed that as much as $15bn had been stolen from the national coffers by individuals.

He said no responsible government would wave that aside so as not to offend people.

Commenting on the recent arrest of some judges in the country, Osinbajo said the Federal Government was only exercising its executive function in attempting to check excesses.

He said impunity could be dangerous in any sector.

He said due process was followed as the judges were released about 24 hours after their arrest, having written their statements.

Osinbajo also disclosed that security agencies have arrested about 800 suspected herdsmen across the country in relation to violent attacks on innocent people.

He said, “The President has given firm instructions to the security agencies to arrest not only herdsmen, who are attacking communities anywhere in the country, but anyone of them or anyone at all in possession of firearms.

“There are about 800 of suspected violent herdsmen in the country who are currently in custody,” he said.

The vice president, however, lamented that the slow pace of the criminal justice system was affecting the prompt trial of such suspects.

Osinbajo said killings by violent herdsmen had been a perennial issue, especially as grazing lands continue to disappear over the years with the cattle feeding on people’s crops on the farmlands.

He clarified that the matter did not start when President Buhari assumed office.

Answering questions on the need for community policing, the vice president indicated that community policing via state police was a cardinal programme of the ruling party.

He, however, said the party’s agenda could not be introduced until there was an amendment to the nation’s constitution.

“The Federal Government is currently working to introduce community policing, that would be in line with the constitution,” he said.

He also responded to a question on the state of the nation’s economy and attributed the current recession to the loss of about 60 per cent of government revenue due to pipeline vandalism and endemic corruption in the country.

He, however, stated that getting back oil production was a sure way to get out of the recession

Source: Spynigeria

I went to Nigeria to meet the man who scammed me – 69-yr-old Swede woman narrate her 419 Romance

BBC.com

I went to Nigeria to meet the man who scammed me – 69-yr-old Swede woman ON OCTOBER 29, 2016 8:26 PM IN CRIME GUARD COMMENTS An internet romance scam took an unexpected turn, writes Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani. When Maria Grette first discovered that the “58-year-old Danish man” with whom she had fallen in love was actually a 24-year-old Nigerian “419” internet scammer, the 62-year-old Swede was distraught.
But, soon, her feelings changed. “The most terrible thing was not that he had cheated me, but that he had lost his innocence,” she said. She became consumed with what she describes as “a profound need to make a difference to the people of Nigeria”. Ms Grette’s relationship with Johnny (not his real name) began after an evening of fun and games with her girlfriends, during which they playfully created a profile for her on an online dating website.

A few years before, she had gone through a traumatic divorce, and her friends teased her about finally starting a new relationship. Maria Grette But when the fun of creating her profile was over, Ms Grette, who works as an arts teacher, painter and arts therapist, didn’t give much further thought to the website. “I received messages telling me that people had contacted me, but I never looked at them,” she said. Then, one day, she did. “I still don’t know why,” she said. “It was like a sudden impulse happening before I could stop it.” That particular message was from a man who described himself as a Dane raised in South Carolina, USA; a civil engineer working on a contract in England; a widower with a son in a Manchester university. “I was caught up by the atmosphere and by something in his words,” she said. Johnny: “I wish I could see through your eyes and see what you like to see” Maria: “I like to see the truth, and often the truth is more beautiful and greater than people dare to realize” Johnny: “You talk in parables. I can´t wait to see you” Maria: “I can’t understand how you can think so dedicated of me, when you have never met me.

That scares me.” “We spent some time writing, then he called from a UK number.” Ms Grette, who had lived in different countries across Europe, was surprised that she could not place the man’s accent. She mentioned this to him but didn’t give it too much thought. He told her that he was planning for his retirement; had Sweden in mind for a place to settle; owned a house in Denmark inherited from his parents; wanted to leave that to his son, Nick, who was very attached to it, while he looked for a new home for himself in Sweden. “I wanted to meet him because I liked him,” she said. “He had a way and a sweetness I had never known in a man before. And he was innocent in a way that puzzled me.” Ms Grette put all these qualities down to “an old fashioned upbringing and an isolated life – living in hotels and spending his free time on golf courses owing to much travelling”. After three months of communicating, the man agreed to come over and visit her in Sweden.

But before that, he and his son needed to make a quick trip to Nigeria for a job interview, he said. Johnny called to let her know that he was at Heathrow Airport. And to say that he had landed in Nigeria. He also got her to speak with Nick. The next phone call was to tell her that he was in a Lagos hospital. They had been mugged, his son shot in the head, and they were without money and papers. Unfortunately, his bank did not have a branch in Africa, he added, so it would take time to transfer money from his UK account. Meanwhile, the hospital management was requesting €1000 to proceed with treatment.
The request “Honey, I am in the hospital right now using the doctor´s laptop to send you this message so you can know my situation. Honey, if Nick dies I will also die with him, I have been crying, I wish I could call you, I wish I never came here, I will never forgive myself for bringing Nick along with me. I will call you with the doctor´s phone and send you an email later if I have the chanse. “Honey, I am happy to hear from you and I am still at the hospital. The doctor said we where lucky we where not kidnapped.
The bank does not have a location in Africa, so it will take time to get money and the management are requesting 1000 euros to proceed with treatment. Nick is all I have got and I will not forgive myself if anything happens to him. I am confused, and I do not know where to turn at the moment……” “I will never forget how I rushed to the Western Union office, trembling while I did the transfer,” Ms Grette said. “All I could think of was to get the two persons in Nigeria out of danger.” The plot developed after that initial transfer. Medical complications called for more money.
The doctors demanded more advance fees. Several thousands of euro later, in what she describes as “coming to her senses”, Maria realised that something was amiss. She stopped responding to his messages.
Three weeks after her silence, he called her and confessed. He told her that he was not who she thought he was. “I said I already knew that. I asked him to tell me his true identity and he did.” He was a 24-year-old Nigerian “419” scammer. He had finished university two years earlier but had no job.

These kind of advance fee frauds are known as 419 scams in Nigeria after the section of the Criminal Code which covers fraud. He further described himself as a “devil” who had wronged “a lovely woman”.
“He said he had never met anyone like me before, that he had been fighting his feelings for me for a long time. He said his scamming mates had warned him about falling in love with a ‘client’, that he had ignored them because he trusted me and did not want to lose contact with me.” The revelation From this point on, their communication took a new turn.

There were no further requests for cash. “The attraction I started feeling was to the person who was revealing himself to me… It was still him, but with a new name and different age and circumstances,” she said. Johnny sent her a photograph of himself, but Maria was not satisfied with that. “I wanted to meet him,” she said. “I could not live with this relationship unless it was adjusted to reality in all senses.” Unable to get him a visa to travel to Sweden, she made up her mind to go to Nigeria.

In October 2009, Ms Grette travelled to Africa for the first time in her life. “When I saw him at the airport in Abuja, tears fell over his face, and I knew I had known him all my life.” Ms Grette described her two weeks in Nigeria as blissful, a period during which she and Johnny succeeded in transforming their romantic feelings for each other into a good friendship. She met his friends, many of whom were also scammers. It was while enjoying their company one night in a local bar that she began to wonder how she could make a difference. “I asked myself what I could do to prevent a situation where healthy, good young men fall into this trap,” she said. An idea came to her two years later, in 2011, after she saw an article on a Nigerian news website about an arts exhibition.

Over the past six years, Ms Grette has arranged for a number of African artists to visit Europe for arts exhibitions, workshops, conferences and competitions. She has assisted them to source international grants and other funding to advance their work.

She has also visited Uganda to give talks on art, and is looking forward to another visit to Nigeria scheduled for later this year. Ms Grette, now 69 and living in Norway, is elated at the opportunity to improve the lives of these young artists. “Johnny has given me more than he took,” she said, “Without him, I would not have met Africa.” When she’d visited him in Abuja, Johnny promised Ms Grette that he would give up scamming. With her assistance, he left Nigeria shortly afterwards, to study in America.
Although they have not met each other again since, she continued to provide him with financial assistance until he completed his degree a few years ago and got a job in the American oil sector. They still communicate frequently, updating themselves on each other’s lives; and last year, he bought one of her paintings which she shipped over to him in America. “He is very dear to me,” she said. “He has asked me so many times to forgive him and I told him that the most important thing is to forgive himself.”

“Source: BBC

BANKER HIRES ASSASSINS TO KILL HER EX-HUSBAND IN LAGOS

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two suspected hired-assassins and a female banker over failed attempt to assassinate her ex-husband identified as Tochukwu Onyebuchi.

The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu paraded the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Abeokuta on Wednesday.

He said the banker, Oluchi Tochukwu, hired the suspected criminals to assassinate her husband in his residence at Ayobo area of Lagos State.

Iliyasu named the two suspected assassins as Chigozie Smart (32) and Kingsley Ikechukwu (36).

He said they were intercepted and arrested on Oct. 19 at Ijebu-Ode while attempting to escape to Onitsha with the victim’s Range Rover Jeep.

He said Oluchi was arrested at Ayobo area of Lagos State.

He said, “One Oluchi, a 32-year-old banker, who is married to one Tochukwu Onyebuchi years ago, got separated from her husband following some matrimonial problems.

“The custody of their only child is currently being contested in the court but Oluchi has another plan.

“She connived with the trio of Chigozie Smart, Kingsley Ikechukwy and one other who is now at large to eliminate her husband.

“She arranged for the weapons which includes cutlass, iron rods and acid which she kept in her husband’s compound at Ayobo area of Lagos State and described where she kept it to the assailants.

“The suspects went there on Wednesday as planned and matcheted the man severally on his head and poured the acid on him.

“The suspects thereafter abandoned the victim and took away his range Rover Jeep which Oluchi instructed them to drop at her brother’s place in Onitsha, Anambra State.

“Luck ran against them when a patrol team of the Ogun State command on Wednesday sighted the vehicle along the Ijebu-Ode/Benin expressway and stopped it for search.

“While searching the vehicle, blood stain was seen and the two occupants were unable to give satisfactory account of the blood stain, hence, they were arrested.

“It was during interrogation that the suspects revealed all that transpired to the police.”

The commissioner said that the victim, who had been treated at an undisclosed hospital, was in the custody of the police helping them in the process of investigation.

Oluchi, however, denied contracting the duo of Chigozie and Kingsley and one other at large to assassinate her husband.

Oluchi, who acknowledged that her three-year-old marriage to her husband had crashed, told journalists that she had no reason to kill him.

Meanwhile, Chigozie told newsmen that it was Oluchi who hired them to kill her husband with a promise to purchase “Tokunbo” cars for each of them after a successful operation.

BOMBSHELL: ALL IS NOT WELL WITH NIGERIA, NIGERIANS ARE SUFFERING – BOLA TINUBU

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday threw his weight behind the withdrawal of the forgery charges against Senate President Bukola Saraki, and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.

He said the move was particularly welcome at what he called this crucial time when active and innovative governance is required to “bring the progressive change the APC vowed to the people of this nation.”

“New legislation will be required to help pull the nation out of the economic mire. More importantly, such visionary legislation will be even more needed to permanently reform our national economic architecture so that we may promote the type of diverse, durable economic growth and employment that will ensure a stronger future and better insulate the nation from the fragility inherent in basing the economic welfare of the nation on the global price of a single commodity,” Tinubu said in a statement in Lagos by his Media Office.

He added: “with these forgery charges found not to apply, it is good that they be dismissed so that the national assembly may focus on this important work ahead.

“While those involved may understandably feel a sense of relief or vindication, this is no time for them to celebrate or to believe all is well with the nation simply because all has turned out well for them on this matter.

“All is not well. Throughout the nation, the people stagger and groan under the weight of economic hardship. This government and our party must hear and respond to their plea. We must lead the way.

“A mind and heart unburdened by the specter of possible legal liability is also free to devote itself to the pressing matters of state. Consequently, this action presents a unique window of opportunity for the national assembly to reset its bearings and to focus on the real issues at hand.

“History will not look kindly on those involved if they were to squander this fine chance.

“As never before, Nigerians look to the various arms of government to perform their roles so that the country can walk the path of change and renewal.”

Tinubu asked Saraki and “those who are the beneficiaries of this legal outcome to now rededicate yourselves to fulfilling the progressive tenets of the APC and to honoring the promises we made to the people with regard to their governance and well being.

“Now that you have overcome this legal battle, you must dedicate yourselves to helping Nigeria win the greater war against poverty, despair and failure. No matter our past difference, in this effort we must stand united in purpose and resolve. Nigeria must do more than survive. It must thrive.”

Source:The Nation

Saturday, 29 October 2016

Berger Paints Nigeria Plc Recruitment for Graduate Technical Sales Trainees

Berger Paints Nigeria Plc – Founded on the 9th Day of January, 1969, Berger Paints Nigeria Plc is a leader in the manufacturing, development, distribution and sale of paints and coatings to professional, Industrial, commercial and retail customers in Nigeria. We operate in 5 business segments; Decorative, Industrial coatings, Marine and Protection coatings, Automotive/Vehicle refinishes and Wood Preservers and finishes. Our portfolio includes well known brands such as Luxol,Texcote and Superstar.

Berger Paints Nigeria Plc is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Graduate Technical Sales Trainee Reference Code: STP/302017
Location: Nigeria
Department: Sales and Marketing
Level: Entry level
Job Summary

Berger Paints Technical Sales Trainee program is a six (6) months extensive program designed to develop competencies needed to succeed as a Technical Sales person.
It involves gaining professional technical sales experience in both field and technical paint manufacturing which you will find challenging and inspiring.
The program is supported by experts to guide, mentor and help you achieve a successful career.
Upon selection, you will be engaged in periodic rotation in different segments of the business to aid your development and success throughout the training programme

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Why Secondary School Students are engaging in premature sex

In the olden days, virginity was valued to the extent that non-virgins were seen as plagues. These days, where three or more young people are gathered, a virgin will only be in that movie they are watching. Sexual debut has drastically dropped to 14yrs among girls and 16 years among boys. The question is where did the rains start beating? Are the generation Y more “atomically charged in their garage”? My analysis points towards;

1. Swag - What's up Babe; the young people nowadays form cocoons of peers adept at exploiting their sexual prowess. Sharing of sexual experiences remains the best stories and thus promoting early sexual debut to conform.

2. Absentee parents; modern parents are more pre-occupied with jobs and have no room for their children. Discussing sexuality with children is like taboo leaving the children with the alternative source-the friends, who give misconceptions leading to sex.

3. Sexting; the emergence of WhatsApp has promoted high sexual activity. Youth are these days fond of ‘having sex’ through phones until the feeling become unbearable leading to demand for sex. Let’s be careful with what we do with our phones. Couples these days hide their clandes in pretext of “sweetie I’m just in group chats”-unachezwa.

4. Insensitive school rules; students best release their sexual pleasure through letters. To the schools that still tear letters you are courting lesbianism and gayism. Allow these young peopleto socialize during outings and through letters. Let them have sex with that kasuku foolscap. However, constant guidance should be given to control this.

Another Bomb Blast Today ! - 9 Dead, 24 Injured in Maiduguri Twin Bomb Explosion/

Abuja – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said nine persons had died and 24 others were injured in two explosions that occurred in the early hours of Saturday, in Maiduguri, Borno. Mr Sanni Datti, Head of Media, NEMA, confirmed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Saturday in Abuja.

Datti said that one of the explosions occurred at the entrance to the Bakasi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, while the second happened at the NNPC filling station along Damboa road, Maiduguri.

He said the injured persons had been evacuated from the scene of the incidents and admitted to various hospitals in Maiduguri. “As at the time of this report, the NEMA rescue team had evacuated victims. More updates on the incidents and rescue details will come later,” the spokesman said.

Pastors fight dirty over N16.5m church land commission

Three Pastors of the Living Faith Church also known as Winners Chapel at Isheri Olofin area of Lagos state are engrossed in serious fight over the sharing of N16.5m realized from the purchase of some parcel of land and property by the church in Lagos.

The fight which was said to have started from the church premises has now moved to the Lagos court where the parties are seeking justice.

The three pastors in the matter are Deacon Dolire Oluwaniyi who is also an estate agent on the one hand and two other Pastors, Edwin Iky and Peter O. Odama on the other hand.

The last two acted on behalf of the church over the purchase of the property. In the suit before Magistrate’s court sitting in Ogba, with suit number, MIK/4174/16, Deacon Oluwaniyi stated that the two pastors cheated him after they collected N140m from their General Overseer, Bishop David Oyedapo and paid N130m to the owner of the property.

Apart from that, Deacon Oluwaniyi also stated that as the agent who linked the church to the owner of the property, he was entitled to N6.5 million commission which was also paid by the church but was shared between the two pastors and he was not given a dime.

Following the alleged scam, the claimant dragged the church to the court seeking an order that he should be paid his commission as a registered agent with his company’s name, Bedek properties that facilitated the transaction. In his affidavit in support of the claim, the claimant stated that his company wrote to the church introducing the properties which contain two big church halls and a story building on one acre of land located at Iyana Odo, along Igando road in Sheri Olofin area.
He stated that he was contacted through the pastors and he linked the church to the owner of the property, one Bishop Emmanuel Omobajesu.

The claimant said after the payment for the property he demanded for his commission and the two pastors asked him to bear it as seed to the church where as they had already collected the money from the church.
The claimant also stated that the pastors involved in the transaction are not honest and sincere as they both ate with both hands and thereby soiled their hands in the transaction.

In response, the defendant under the registered trustee of the church stated that the claimant was not appointed as its agent, legal representative nor hold any partnership and did not authorise the claimant to act on behalf of the defendant. It also stated that the claimant have no locus standi to sue the defendant as regard the property and demanding N6.5m agency commission.
The presiding Magistrate, Mrs. M.O Osibajo has adjourned the matter till 23 November, 2016, to deliver rulings on the motions filed by the parties.

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Friday, 28 October 2016

Secondary schoolgirl chained to pole in school premises

JAYA: Photos of a girl in school uniform who appears to have been chained to a pole in an apartment block here have gone viral on social media.
The images circulating on Facebook since Wednesday evening show the girl’s right leg being chained to a pole while her school bag and water bottle are left lying on the ground beside her.
It was not immediately clear if she had been left there by a parent or guardian, and for how long.
Based on the photos, the incident appears to have occurred in the parking lot of a residential block, with one Facebook user claiming it is in school premises

Facebook users were quick to condemn the act, with many of them blaming the girl’s parents for resorting to such measures to punish their child.

However, there were those who defended the “tough love”, but disagreed with such public punishment.

Some also criticised fellow Facebook users for widely sharing the images of the girl, urging them to lodge a police report instead.

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