SEE HOW METUH WAS TREATED IN EFCC CUSTODY

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that the national publicity secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh be remanded in Kuje prison.

Chief Metuh all smiles as he appears in court today

The court’s order came after the Metuh’s oral bail was denied. After taking his plea, counsel to the PDP spokesperson, Chris Uche prayed the

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) had on Friday, January 15 arraigned Metuh before Justice Okon Abang over allegations of illegally receiving public funds.

Chief Metuh acknowledging cheers from supporters as he makes his way to the courtroom

Abang further adjourned the case to Tuesday, January 19 for hearing on bail application. Metuh was accused of having collected N400 million from former president Goodluck Jonathan.

The accused PDP spokesperson who accepted receiving such money from Jonathan has however refused to disclose details of the assignments he did for the former president.

Metuh has been in  detention since Tuesday, January 5 and was also reported to have torn and chewed a statement he wrote at the EFCC.

Chief Metuhalongside EFCC and security personnel waiting to get into the elevator to the court room

Earlier this week, Metuh filed a suit through his lawyer before a Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking his immediate release from custody.

In the suit, the spokesman claimed that his arrest was part of a sinister plan of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to silence the opposition.

Meanwhile, EFCC had on Wednesday, January 14,  revealed the reason they are yet to release the spokesperson for the opposition party.

According to Rotimi Jacobs, counsel of the anti-graft commission, who spoke with reporters briefly after an Abuja Federal High Court, presided by Justice Abang Okon suspended hearing on Metuh’s case till January 20, “It is not unlawful to detain somebody on the order of the court. There are misinformation everywhere, it’s not done like that. We cannot ignore the law; we cannot do things without due process.

“Under the criminal justice act, you can arrest somebody and go to court to validate it. We have the order.”
In a related development, PDP lawmakers in the House of Representatives recently ordered the EFCC to release of the party’s spokesman within 48 hours.
According to them, it is “unconstitutional to detain anyone who has not been charged for a crime by a competent court of jurisdiction”.

court to permit him make an oral bail application for his client. But the court denied him that.

Missing $49 Billion: “I Leaked Sanusi’s Private Letter To Jonathan” – Rotimi Amaechi

JUST IN!!! Missing $49 Billion: “I Leaked Sanusi’s Private Letter To Jonathan” – Rotimi Amaechi 


Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s Minister of Transport has confessed that he was responsible for leaking a private letter written by former CBN Governor and Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

According to DAILY POST, Amaechi disclosed this during a round-table discussion organised by the Business Eye in Lagos.

He said, “Even before Sanusi and President Goodluck Jonathan began to quarrel, I had to leak that letter. Sanusi wrote that letter to the President in September, I leaked it sometime in January, and that letter was personal: ‘Mr. President, $49bn was missing,’ and I got a copy of that letter.”

“Instead of the Federal Government to say we are going to address this, they began to debate with the CBN governor and Nigerians joined in the debate. Oh, it is not possible. Now, they have seen that it’s possible”.

#BIAFRA : SEE WHAT AMBODE HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE AGITATION

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos has said that the best way to honour the heroes who lost their lives for Nigeria is to remain united.

The governor said this at the armed forces Remembrance Day celebration on Friday, January 15 at Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos. The celebration also coincided with the 50^th anniversary of the first coup in Nigeria.
The governor said the issue of the agitation for an independent Biafra state championed by some people did not reflect the honour that Nigeria’s heroes deserved. Instead, the governor urged every Nigerian to embrace peace and unity.

On the issue of insurgency in the north east, the governor said the issue was not a threat anymore as the federal government was committed to making it a thing of the past.

“They are really not threats because they are being fully combated by the Federal Government and as you can see, we are making progress and we are having improvement on security of the country.

Lagos state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode laying the wreaths in hornor of the falling heroes.

Naval chief, Lay his wreath in honour of the falling Heroes.

Services and parades during the armed forces Remembrance Day in Lagos. Photo: Emmanuel Osodi

“So, I just want to advise Nigerians that the unity of Nigeria is more important than anything you can think of. It is only when we are united that we can make progress. You know the present administration is so particular about the development of the country. Nigeria is bigger than any individual and so we advise all Nigerians to know that the cohesion and unity of Nigeria is what is paramount to this government.”

As part of the rite for the celebration, the governor laid the wreath in honour of the dead heroes and also released balloons and white pigeons.

Other dignitaries at the remembrance celebration include the Oba of Lagos, Abraham Adaji who is the commander of NNS Beecroft, Apapa, legion representatives, representatives of widows of fallen heroes, etc.

Guns were fired in honour of the dead heroes.

Commodore Adaji said it was significant that the country remembered fallen heroes and assured Nigerians that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari was committed towards the welfare of serving and families of dead officers.

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He however warned Nigerians to be careful about their utterances and also be security conscious.
The same ceremony also took place in Delta where Governor Ifeanyi Okowa laid the wreath after the inspection of guards.

Other dignitaries who laid wreath at the occasion, included, Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Monday Igbuya , the Chief Judge, Justice Marshal Umukoro, Commandants of different security agencies in the state, traditional rulers, religious leaders, chairman, Nigerian Legion.

Also, there was 21 one gun salutes in honour of the fallen heroes while pigeons were released to signify peace

Armed Forces Remembrance Day: See What A Soldier Wrote From Sambisa Forest

Armed Forces Remembrance Day: See What A Soldier Wrote From Sambisa Forest 

BIAFRA: GENERAL J.O ACHUZIE proved Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the IPOB leader right

SOUTH-SOUTH DOES NOT EXIST: GENERAL J.O ACHUZIE

Following an interview granted by General J.O Achuzie to Family Writers/Biafra Journalist in his

 

hometown Asaba Delta State,he proved Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and Director of Radio Biafra/Biafra Television  right, that the name South-South is an evil ploy devised
by the Hausa/Fulani to divide Biafrans,as the “DIVIDE AND RULE” ploy is the best way to promote hatred between all regions in Biafra Land and to have easy access to Biafra natural resources. In Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s words “I HAVE NOT SEEN WHERE ONE CAN BE CALLED A MINORITY, IN HIS OWN FATHERS LAND. THE SOUTH-SOUTH GARBAGE IS A DIVIDE AND RULE TACTICS CONCOCTED BY HAUSA/FULANI, INOTHER TO HAVE EASY ACCESS TO OIL AND GAS, FROM OUR BROTHERS THEY REGARD AS MINORITIES”.

In the interview, General J.O ACHUZIE “THE AIR RAID” said; “I was queried by some group of persons on how we say that South-South is part of Biafra? I laughed and asked them, what they mean by South-South?  Up till 1960-1970 there was no South-South, not until YAKUBU GOWON decided that the North was not satisfied with the Program against the South. 

N5,000 stipends: No country would give free money — Ngige

 

Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, yesterday, said that the stipend of N5,000 promised by the government of All Progressives Congress, APC, for unemployed youths was not for the indolent people.

 

He said that no country would give free money, stressing that Nigeria would not be an exception.
Speaking to journalists yesterday at the national secretariat of the APC in Abuja, Ngige, however, revealed that the Federal Government would ensure that the youths were trained in various skills and programmes to justify the money.

He added that the project would also involve the state governments.

According to him, there will be categories of people, who would earn higher than the N5,000.
“We also have the programme on the commission cash transfer. Though even you, the press, has said it,  we won’t pay N5,000 for people to be indolent. No country in the world would pay people to go home and sleep and collect cash. So, Nigeria would not be an exception.

“We will pay some people N5,000, we will pay some N10,000, and even for people in teacher conversion scheme, we will pay more than N10,000 and N15,000 as stipend while in training, and then after the training, they are going to be employed by state government and the Federal Government in different institutions.

“It is not a programme we shall run alone, the state governments are going to buy into it. They are going to synchronize with us.We are going to do it in synergy.”

Ngige also stated that some of the programmes will “span through Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Labour.

“Agriculture, because we have some agricultural universities, we will convert some people to teach the relevant agricultural science.”

The minister who stated that Nigeria has various skill acquisition centers also underscored the importance of training the youth.

“The ministry has specialist skills acquisition centres; we have seven like that in the ministry under the commissioner of skills or directorate for skills.

“The NDE have over 120 centres scattered all over the country. We also have those that have been built by state government and we want to capture all of these into that scheme and then get people to the scheme to be bricklayers,  POP designers, builders, welders, electronics repairers and the one they called mecha-tronic, repair of vehicles, automobile carpentry, painting and fabrication of all sorts.”

President Muhammadu Buhari declares he is still in control of the country

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari declares, that he is not caged by any group or individuals and that he is in firm control of the presidency and the country.

The President was reacting to assertion by Col. Tony Nyiam (rtd), who in an exclusive interview

stated that President Buhari was caged by some powerful forces around him who now dictate and determine most decisions of the President, especially in the areas of political appointments.

Nyiam was quoted as saying that some of the appointments of the president were lopsided
He said: “One of the greatest things I heard from Buhari was when he said ‘I belong to everyone, I belong to no one.’ I believe him, but I do hope he doesn’t allow some irredentists around him to prevent him from practicalizing it and not for his own ethnic nationality.

“The recent appointments we have seen so far suggest that President Buhari is being misguided and being pushed to be very partial. He has made critical appointments in three critical areas. One is the Accountant General of the Federa­ tion, the Director of DPR and the acting INEC chairman. These three critical appointments and of course that of the Chief of Staff are all coming from the same zone.

“There is also that of the Director General of the DSS, Daura. Not only is he a man that has been in retirement, he is directly from the president’s town. If Jonathan had done the same thing by appointing the Director of DPR and the Accountant General from the South-South, people would have raised hell.

“You must remember that the Accountant General took over from someone from the South-West, Otulana. Why couldn’t Buhari appoint a south westerner, at least as a gesture to the South-West for the support they gave him. The DPR director was an Igbo chap. I think these appointments are clearly indicative that the President has not been allowed to follow his principle that he belongs to everyone.

“President Buhari is a man I served with, he is a man who is a true Nigerian; he is a man who is a true man of God. What I am suggesting is that he appears increasingly and gradually being caged by irredentists who are going to spoil his chances of becoming the Mandela of Nigeria.

“I have said it before that the closest analogue of Mandela in Nigeria is Buhari. But it does seem to me that some elements, some irredentists with agenda will not allow Nigeria benefit from such a figure.”

But reacting to the statement, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said though individuals are entitled to their opinions, the comments credited to Nyiam were not true.

According to him, if Col. Nyiam admitted to have a vast knowledge and workings of the President in the past and also spotted his impeccability, he was in a better position to tell other people that President Buhari cannot change.

Said he: “Well, Col. Nyiam is just an individual. He is entitled to his opinion. But his opinion is not necessarily right. The fact that he said it does not mean it is true.

“I am happy that he knows the person of President Buhari deeply. If that is the case, he cannot easily admit that the man he spoke glowingly about cannot change or be influenced by anybody.

“Everyone in Nigeria knows President Buhari. He had been a Head of State and we saw how he dealt with corruption and even now, he is not relenting. As a matter of fact, he made corruption the chief issue among his campaign promises and he is dealing with that.

“Besides, he has said right from his swearing in that he belongs to no one but everyone. Why would he now change? And don’t forget that the President before he was elected, ran for the same office three times. So, would he win and then give his presidency to someone else to run for him?

“Again, the President has said he does not have northern agenda. Look, Nigerians needed change and they have got that by voting President Buhari to power. He has a national agenda because he was voted for by all Nigerians.

“So, it will be preposterous to accuse Mr. President of having pro-North agenda or that he is caged. Caged by whom? He is the President of Nigeria and should be seen and addressed as such.”