POLL: Has Metuh Finally Won Back His ‘Freedom’?.

Olisa Metuh is turning out as much a hero as he may or may not be a villain. Since his arrest five days into the new year for allegedly laundering N400m out of the $2.1billion arms procurement fund, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman has been in detention. As at Friday, he had spent 17 straight days in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

On January 19, when he was first taken to court in handcuffs, Metuh received significant public sympathy for the “disgrace” – save for the likes of Adams Oshiomhole, governor of Edo state, who said : “If those accused of lesser crimes are handcuffed and paraded by the police and get no sympathy from the public, Mr. Metuh and others, accused of diverting huge public funds, should not have sympathy.”

UN Appoints Amaechi To Research Institute.

Ban Ki Moon, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), has appointed Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, as a member of the United Nations Institute For Training And Research (UNITAR).
According to PRNigeria, a media group for government and military press releases, Amaechi’s appointment took effect from Jan 1, 2016.
“The Hon. Minister of Transportation Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has been appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Ban ki-moon to serve as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) for a Three Years Term beginning from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018,” the statement read in part.

N50 Stamp Duty Is Per Transaction, Not Per N1000 – CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has clarified that the N50 stamp duty imposed on bank customers is to be charged per transaction and not per volume of N1,000. Hence, irrespective of the amount, the sum of N50 is to be charged provided such a transaction is N1000 and above.
Director, Corporate Communications CBN, Mallam Ibrahim Mu’azu, who said this in a statement made available to LEADERSHIP Friday yesterday, said it has become necessary to make the clarification following some misconceptions among members of the public.

Syrian Army Continues Destroying Daesh Positions on Several Fronts

The Syrian army together with the country's air force destroyed numerous Daesh terrorists’ positions, and struck heavy casualties on different militant groups in several provinces in the last 24 hours.

Earlier in the day, the Russian General Staff said that the Syrian army has been conducting offensives "on ten fronts," while preparing military operations in three more directions. Several militants' positions in Latakia, Aleppo, Dara'a, Damascus, Hama and Homs provinces came under attack.

Photo: Man who raped and beat a woman to death with a dumbbell executed in Alabama

 A 43-year-old man convicted of raping and beating a woman to death with a dumbbell has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama.

Christopher Eugene Brooks was convicted of the capital murder of 23-year-old Jo Deann Campbell, a woman he met when they worked at a camp in upstate New York. According to the court record, Ms Campbell was seen speaking to Brooks at a restaurant where she worked on 30 December 1992, and later told a friend someone was spending the night in her living room. The next day, police found her partially clothed body under the bed in her apartment in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood.

Dasuki’s Lawyer Links Jonathan To Arms Deal

A lawyer defending Sambo Dasuki in court appears to have indicted former president, Goodluck Jonathan, in the ongoing arms deal probe in Nigeria.  Ahmed Raji, one of the lawyers of Sambo Dasuki, the embattled former National Security Adviser to Jonathan stated that the arms deal probe cannot be discussed without reference to Jonathan. “The national security adviser will normally carry out the instructions of his president,” Ahmed Raji told AFP.

International Military Review – Yemen, Jan. 20, 2016

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Libya destroyed by the west, $7 billion in gold and silver missing

Hang the Bankers

A declassified email sent on April 2, 2011 to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reveals the invasion of Libya was launched to prevent Muammar Gaddafifrom establishing a pan-African currency based on Libya’s gold Dinar.

According to the document posted on the US State Department website advisors to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the second son of Muammar Gaddafi, told sources the Libyan government held 143 tons of gold and a similar amount in silver valued at more than $7 billion. The gold and silver was to be used to establish an alternative currency to the French franc for African Francophone countries.

Buhari Interfering With Court System, Joseph Daudu Suggests

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Joseph Daudu, lead lawyer for embattled National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki has suggested President Muhammadu Buhari might be interfering with the court system.
Daudu who claimed Buhari was reverting to his old autocratic habits from his days as military ruler in the 1980s, believes that there is an affront on the judiciary.
“He (Buhari) emphasised he was a changed man, open to democratic principals. But interfering with the court system, trying to find your own rule of law, is not good,” he told AFP at his office.
“It makes the outcome suspect.”

Melaye: Once I Was Blind, But Now I Can See

Dino Melaye, an All Progressives Congress (APC) senator representing Kogi west, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 budget as holy. Speaking on Thursday while making his contribution to debate on the 2016 appropriation bill on the floor of the senate, Melaye said he was once blind, but he could now see. Maintaining that the budget would serve the interest of Nigerians, he called on upper legislative chamber to pass it. “I thank President Muhammadu Buhari for giving us, for the first time in 17 years, a holy budget,” he said.

Falae One Of ‘Cleanest Men In Africa’ – Fasehun

Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun has expressed his support for onetime Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, saying, “he is one of the cleanest men to come out of Africa.” Fasehun made the remark in light of the $2.1 billion arms deal scandal that has seen many high profile politicians being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and being linked to the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party. The anti-graft agency had accused Falae, of receiving N100 million from Tony Anenih, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Troops Annihilate Boko Haram terrorists In Marte, Recover GPMGs, Others [PHOTOS]

Troops of 153 task force base, on Thursday, at old Marte, continued chase of Boko Haram terrorists after they carried out an unsuccessful attack at about 5:50pm on Wednesday.
During the operation, troops killed 5 additional fighters.
The casualty on the part of the Boko Haram sect now stands at 21.
Equipment recovered are 1 MC-H3 tube panhand aml 90 gun with registration number 0182; 1 36milimeter handset grenade; 7 pieces of 60milemeter bodies and 3 AK47 rifles.
The Army has now recovered 10 AK47 rifles in all.

Nuland meets Surkov to warn about imminent NATO attack by Scott

Opinion Post: Nuland meets Surkov to warn about imminent NATO attack by Scott

Since Maidan in Kiev two years ago, American life has become a reality show from the Discovery channel. Every day Americans are discovering something new. For example, this January they discovered that the US stock market is full of hot air, and that the world has turned nervous and angry. Also they have discovered that they have bolshoy (big) problem getting around the Persian Gulf. Which has been, if you think like a true American, their backyard. You see, if you think like an American, the entire world is your backyard and your outhouse.

NNPC Shuts Port Harcourt, Kaduna Refineries.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the “operational shutdown” of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries, owing to crude supply challenges arising from recent attacks on vital crude oil pipelines.
According to Ohi Alegbe, group general manager of the corporation, who released a statement to announce the move, the plants were shut simultaneously on Sunday after the Bonny-Okrika crude supply line to the Port Harcourt Refinery and the Escravos-Warri crude supply line to the Kaduna Refinery suffered breaches.
He stated that before the closure, the Port Harcourt Refinery was recording a daily PMS yield of over 4.1 million litres while Kaduna Refinery was posting a daily petrol production of about 1.3 million litres.

Why We Handcuffed Metuh − NPS

The Nigeria Prisons Service has said that putting handcuffs on the National Publicity Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh while appearing for his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday was at the discretion of the prison officer, who supervised his court appearance.
The NPS spokesman, Francis Enobore, said the officer in charge of the escort that took Metuh to court was at liberty to determine if the inmate should be handcuffed based on security situation, the environment and intelligence report made available to him.

Metuh Deserves No Sympathy, Says Oshiomhole

Adams Oshiomhole, Edo state governor, has expressed support for Tuesday’s handcuffing of Olisa Metuh, national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). There have been different reactions to Metuh’s appearance in court in handcuffs, with the opposition party accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of attempting to break the spirit of PDP through such measure. But speaking during a meeting with the new council of the Edo state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), in Benin on Tuesday, the governor said there was nothing wrong with restraining Metuh. “If those accused of lesser crimes are handcuffed and paraded by the police and get no sympathy from the public, Mr. Metuh and others, accused of diverting huge public funds, should not have sympathy,” Peter Okhiria, his spokesman quoted him as saying.

Court Orders FG To Produce Dasuki In Court Feb. 16

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Federal Government to produce the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), in court on February 16.
The judge made the order with respect to the charges of money laundering and illegal possession of firearms preferred against Dasuki by the Federal Government.
The four counts preferred against the former NSA before Justice Ademola are unrelated to the two separate sets of charges bordering on alleged diversion of arms funds pending against Dasuki and others before two judges of the Federal Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja.

Court Orders DSS To Take Nnamdi Kanu To Prison.

John Tsoho, justice of the federal high court, Abuja, has ordered that Nnamdi Kanu be remanded in Kuje prison pending his trial for treason. Tsoho, the judge, gave the order after listening to Mohammed Diri, counsel to the Department of State Services (DSS), and Chuks Muoma (SAN), counsel to Kanu. Muoma had argued that the accused person be remanded in prison custody away from the cell of the DSS. He said that his client had been kept incommunicado in the custody of the DSS for three months.

60 Minutes Defames Russian Effort in Syria

by Patrice Greanville for the Greanville Post

Taking no chances, CBS also manages to denigrate the brave Syrian Arab Army, just about one of the most heroic forces fighting ISIL and other brutal terrorists in the Middle East.

The Treachery of The Western Media

Patrice Greanville

South Africa To Stop Buying Crude Oil From Nigeria, Opens Talks With Iran

ABUJA— Nigeria’s woes in the area of dwindling revenue from crude oil sales is expected to heighten in the next couple of days, as the South African Petroleum Industry Association, SAPIA, yesterday, stated that South Africa would likely stop importing crude oil from Nigeria following the lifting of the sanctions on Iran.

fuel-pumpExecutive Director of the SAPIA, Avhapfani Tshifularo, told journalists that the potential return of Iranian oil exports to South Africa threaten to displace barrels from Saudi Arabia and Nigeria that plugged the supply gap when sanctions were imposed on Iran, which is OPEC’s fifth biggest producer.

Economy Downturn: Redeploy Adeosun From Finance Ministry , Group Tells Buhari

A civil society organisation, Rescue Nigerian Economy Project has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency redeploy Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun to another Ministry in order to save Nigeria’s economy from going into recession.
In a statement made available to Daily Independent on Tuesday, its Executive Secretary, Dennis Alamu- George said Adeosun’s handling of the Finance Ministry since her appointment has proven that she is a rookie who is not qualified to proffer solutions to the myriads of problems confronting Nigeria’s economy.

Nigeria Signs Agreement With UAE On Recovery Of Stolen Funds

Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday signed six agreements to enhance bilateral relations between them.

The signing of the agreements on trade, finance and judicial matters, according to a statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, was witnessed by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and the UAE Minister of State for Financial Affairs, Obaid Attayar signed the Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement, while the Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah signed the Agreement on Trade Promotion and Protection with the UAE Minister of State for Financial Affairs.

See The Rat That Causes Lassa Fever

The name of the rat that Possess and spread the virus that causes lassa fever is called multimammate rat( because it has many Tips like all these local street dogs after delivery). While the botanical name is mastomys natalensis.

There is also an upsurge of the disease everywhere. So we should all practice hand washing hygiene. Also all apple lovers should wash them with salt and warm water before refrigerating them to eat. Our wives should avoid testing of dry garri by chewing them for starch in the market. All garri soakers should let go for now.

#Dasukigate: Church Members Boo Falae - PerSecondNews

Former Presidential Candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) and All Peoples Party (APP), Chief Oluyemisi Falae on Sunday told worshippers at the historic St. David’s Cathedral, Ijomu street, Akure that he was not involved in the massive diversion and looting of security funds traced to ex-National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and other notable politicians and media executives.

Chief Olu Falae, amidst jeers and boos explained that one hundred million naira, which the former Board of Trustees (BOT) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, purportedly paid to him was in no way connected to the NSA funds but to logistics for voters’ mobilization in the alliance forged between the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the then ruling party (PDP).

Metuh Returns To Prison After Bail

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, was driven off in a prison pick-up van ‎from the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja, shortly after he was granted bail in the sum of N400m by the court on Tuesday.

Metuh, who was produced in court in handcuff for the bail hearing on Tuesday, is to remain in prison till when he meets the bail conditions.
After the court delivered its ruling on Tuesday, prison officials led him to a waiting pick-up van and he was locked up at the rear cabin of the vehicle.