WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH MEN TODAY? : Tragedy in Megida in Ayobo Lagos as tricycle driver sold all 4 kids of a banker to ritualists ... Eko onibaje

Tragedy in Megida in Ayobo Lagos as tricycle driver sold all 4 kids of a banker to ritualists
I have a neighbour who has 3 daughters, leaves for work by 5am while the wife leaves by 5:30am. The eldest who is nine takes care of her siblings while both parents are away to work. Both parents return from work around 7pm daily.
They are still lucky their children has not suffered any form abuse or probably not known yet. But this banker is not that fortunate. All four kids are dead, courtesy of the tricycle driver who has been driving them to school for more than a year. This particular day instead of driving them to school he took them to ritualists who according to him killed them immediately. If not for their teachers he would have been long gone. According to their devastated mother he got a call from their school around 10am in the morning that none of them have been seen around school that day. So their mum hurriedly left for school from her office went straight to the school to confirm the tragedy. Immediately they left for Ayobo police station in front Salvation Army primary School Ayobo to report to the police, she is smart enough to know where the murderer lives. He was already packing by the time the woman arrived with police but not early enough to stop the death of her four children. What a tragedy?

NIGERIA WE HAIL THEE : Nigerian senate appoints prominent thief, Sen. Bagudu, to head probe of NIS recruitment scandal ... TheScoop

Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan has so far chosen not to move against Abba Moro, the minister of interior, despite the overwhelming outcry by Nigerians over this month’s failed Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment exercise.

It is believed that one of the reasons Pres. Jonathan is shy to move against Moro is because the interior minister has a strong backer in the person of senate president David Mark whose 2011 senatorial campaign was run by Moro.

David Mark’s senate meanwhile ordered an investigation into the failed recruitment exercise that resulted in the death of 16 applicants and the man who will head that investigation is the chairman of the senate committee on interior whose profile does not give much hope of a favourable outcome.

Senator Atiku Abubakar Bagudu is the chairman of the senate committee on interior. But how Bagudu himself managed to become a senator in Nigeria is troubling as the man has one of the shadiest records in the upper chamber dating back to the Abacha days when Bagudu was a prominent front for the looting done by the Abacha family.

Read this excerpt from Sen. Bagudu’s Wikipedia page:

Bagudu became a close friend of Ibrahim and Mohammed Abacha, sons of military ruler Sani Abacha. He and Ibrahim Abacha were involved in a scheme to buy vaccines and resell them to the government at a steep mark-up, earning $66.6 million profit. Later, he helped divert much larger sums of money that had been earmarked for security spending into foreign accounts.

After Abacha died in 1998, the interim military government that followed started an investigation into misuse of state funds. Mohammed Abacha and Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, his business manager, returned $750 million. There was no criminal prosecution. Bagudu moved to the USA in 2000, and in 2003 was detained there for six months on charges of financial misdeeds during the Abacha era. He was released in November 2003 on condition that he repaid about $300 million to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo apparently made a deal to recover part of the money in return for dropping prosecution and leaving the remainder with the family.^[5] Bagudu was Chairman of Phil Nugent Nigeria Ltd. from 2004 until December 2005.

The 53 year old senator was elected to the national assembly in a 2010 by-election after Adamu Aliero, the former senator representing Kebbi Central was made a minister by Pres. Goodluck Jonathan.

At the time, not much was made of Bagudu’s entry into the senate apart from the reservations of a few activists.

Bagudu was Abacha’s bagman in the days when the dictator pillaged the nation’s treasury. He was Abacha’s conduit through whom passed most of the $4-5 billion Abacha was reputed to have stolen.

Considering how much money Bagudu made from that administration, he had lots of cash to spend and win the senatorial election. He won overwhelmingly, polling 285,578 votes out of the 310,800 total votes cast. The Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, candidate, Alhaji Sambo Aliyu, who scored 8,377, emerged a very distant second, while 16 other candidates got inconsequential votes. The ANPP boycotted that election.

Let’s share some more details of Bagudu’s role in the Abacha government.

According to a report by a newsmagazine, The News:

He had set up Morgan Procurement Corporation and Mecosta Securities which, as Africa Confidential put it, “were involved in the illegal transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars from the Nigerian state to the Abacha family.” According to other reports, Mohammed Abacha and Bagudu siphoned $66m from the $111m purchase of vaccines from the French firm Pasteur Merieux. The loot was kept in foreign financial institutions through the assistance of David Jones, a director of Borough High Street, South London-based Smith & Tyers, where Mohammed is a principal shareholder. For his complicity in this and other illegalities, Bagudu and Mohammed faced court charges on many fronts.

Problem started for Bagudu when the federal government asked for the assistance of the Isle of Jersey government in recovering money fraudulently transferred into the banks in that territory. Thereafter, the Isle of Jersey began its own probe which resulted in the arrest of Bagudu on 22 May 2003 in Houston, Texas, where he had been living for three years. According to reports, Bagudu’s arrest was based on an extradition warrant requested by Britain from the Isle of Jersey. It accused Bagudu of “fraudulent transfer of money from Nigeria to the Deutsche Bank, making false declarations to open the bank accounts, and using federal government fund to purchase notes that federal government had defaulted on, then selling them back to it for twice the purchase price.”

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo visited Jersey in June 2004, to thank the island’s authorities for their efforts at investigating laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars by the Abachas and Bagudu through that country’s financial institutions and the return of some $150m (£73.25m) to Nigeria.

According to The Lawyer, an on-line medium, “the Bagudu matter has been the most high profile in a series of criminal investigations by the island’s attorney-general into the misuse of the services of local financial institutions for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of corruption.” At the request of the Nigerian authorities, Bagudu coughed out $150m.

Nigeria also had its own charges against Bagudu and Abacha’s son, Mohammed: assisting in concealing stolen property, the sum of £10 million each on 6th, 9th January, 1998; £9 million on 12 January 1998; $25 million on 27 January of the same year and others which were “punishable under Section 97(1) of the Penal Code”.

To facilitate the repatriation of the stolen funds, the Federal Government had an agreement with Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. In all, according to reports, Switzerland returned about $615 million.

Very unrepentant, Bagudu hired big lawyers––Gordon Pollock, Lawrence Cohen, SJ Berwin and other Queen’s Counsel––to defend himself and the Abachas. According to a report, “more than $12m is estimated to have already been spent, of which $8m has gone to lawyers in Britain.” They fought feverishly so that the former home secretary, Jack Straw, could soft-pedal in assisting Swiss and Nigerian criminal investigations with banking evidence held in London.

When all his strategems failed, Bagudu, detained in the US for this financial crime, agreed to transfer about $300 million (N40.566 billion) to the federal government. It was paid into Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Limited Bank on the Isle of Jersey. After paying $500,000 bond, he was released from a six-month detention at an American prison by Magistrate Calvin Botley “on the condition that he would transfer the said sum and return to Nigeria to face charges of assisting Mohammed to transfer looted funds abroad”. Bagudu’s counsel in the US was Bob Sussman. The movement of Bagudu, the newly elected senator, was restricted and monitored through an electronic ankle bracelet!

However, Bagudu defended himself when he was questioned at a Swiss court in September 1999. He said that the late Ibrahim Abacha was his childhood friend whom he knew before Mohammed Sani Abacha. He claimed that he became close to the latter after Ibrahim’s death, in a plane crash. Ibrahim and Mohammed, according to Bagudu, had an international sugar company and, “therefore as early as 1985, we had business links without being business partners”.

Bagudu told the court that in February 1994, he and Ibrahim established Morgan Procurement Corporation. “I agreed to work with Mr. Ibrahim Sani Abacha in 1994 because the latter had a huge fortune and I had a lot of ideas about how to invest or manage the fortune. At that time, my fortune was much smaller than now,” he added. But he argued that there was no direct link between the rise to power of General Sani Abacha in November 1993 and the fact that he accepted in February 1994 to become the business partner of his eldest son, Mr. Ibrahim Sani Abacha. “It was only coincidental. However, it is probable that the fact that my new trading partner is the son of the head of state contributed to a large extent to the expansion of our business,” Bagudu admitted.

One of those who have opposed Sen. Bagudu’s rise is former president Olusegun Obasanjo. In 2010, Obasanjo notably protested against Sen. Bagudu making a speech during the launching of a book on late Abubakar Garba Koko at the Shehu Yaradua Centre in Abuja. This event occurred after Bagudu had won the senatorial election but by then he had not been sworn in.

When Bagudu was called on to speak at the event, Obasanjo, who was the Chairman of the book launch ceremony, vehemently objected. 

With such a character placed in charge of the NIS recruitment investigation, does anyone have any hope that a thorough job will be done? Does Bagudu have any moral right to stand among decent members of the society to perform such a function?

JISOS ... APC Settles On Buhari And Tinubu As Presidential And VP Candidates ... ThisDayLive

The leadership of the opposition All Progressives Congress may have decided on Major-General Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Bola Tinubu as party’s presidential and vice-presidential candidates, This Day reports citing ‘reliable party sources’.

This information comes a week after Sunday Independent gathered that the APC settled on Buhari as its presidential candidate as, allegedly, he could guarantee vast support for the party from the North-West and North-East.
The former head of state obtained an APC membership card in February 2014. However, the first indications that Buhari might contest the party’s presidential primary emerged in August 2013.
According to This Day’s sources, the party’s decision was informed by the massive votes that the pairing of Buhari and Tinubu could gain during the election as Buhari is very popular at the grassroots level in most parts of the North-West and North-East, while Tinubu comes from the South-West.
The APC estimated that Buhari will be banking on some 44,848,911 registered voters who accounted for 61 per cent of total registered voters of 73,528,040 in the 2011 election.
This is in contrast to the 27,735,678 registered voters in the North-Central, South-South and the South-East zone combined, who accounted for 39 per cent of total registered voters in the 2011 election.
APC’s strategists also suppose that with Tinubu as Buhari’s running mate the duo will be able to secure the bulk of the 2,941,214 votes cast for President Goodluck Jonathan in the South-West and Edo State in 2011.

“With Buhari and Tinubu as presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively, our goal is to secure the core north and South-west, which are the most populous sections of the country and can guarantee us at least 50 per cent of the total votes in the country during the presidential election,” an APC source told This Day.

A compromise : Muslim-Muslim ticket and ‘new PDP’ chairmanship
On the impact of the Muslim-Muslim ticket on the electorate, especially with the insurgency in the North-East, the source said the party had decided to forge ahead with the ticket because it is certain that it has a winning formula, “ irrespective of the accusations by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that APC is a Muslim party“.

“Like most South-Westerners, Tinubu is quite liberal and we hope this would persuade Christian voters that they have nothing to fear. So Buhari and Tinubu have reached a quiet agreement to contest on a joint platform, with the latter already setting up structures nationwide,” the source added.

The source said that by fielding Buhari and Tinubu, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar – who joined APC recently – has effectively been left out in the cold.
Another party source, when asked how Rotimi Amaechi who has been against a Muslim-Muslim ticket reacted to the pairing of Buhari and Tinubu, said that the issue had been discussed and the party had decided to handover the party leadership to the members of the so-called ‘new PDP’.
To recall, seven PDP governors – Amaechi among them – had announced their decision to join the APCon November 26.
“Our plan is to ensure Amaechi secures the senatorial ticket on our platform and wins the election to go to the Senate. “But before this happens, we shall immediately make Sam Jaja, who is his kinsman, the chairman of APC. Then when Amaechi becomes a senator, our goal is to see him emerge as the senate president, following which Jaja will be asked to step down as the party’s chairman to ensure ethnic balancing,” the source said.

AS EXPECTED, THEY WILL TURN ANGST AGAINST THE CHURCHES IN THEIR MIDST : Irate Youths Burn Churches In Katsina ... LeadershipNews

Irate youths on Monday went on rampage and attacked two churches, St Theresa Catholic Church and Celestial Church of Christ, in Funtua town of Katsina State.
It was gathered that the youth burnt the Reverend Father’s apartment at St Theresa Catholic Church along Katsina road in Funtua Municipal.
The rampaging youths also brought out some property of Celestial Church of Christ at Tudun Malamai and set them ablaze.
Confirming the incidence to our correspondent, the spokesman of Katsina State command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Aliyu Jamilu said the youth went on rampage over alleged defamation of Prophet Muhammad.
He said “A corp member serving with a secondary school, in setting exams questions, made some reference to Muhammad and Amina. These youths felt he was trying to defame Prophet Muhammad and so went on rampage.”
The Civil Defence Spokesman also confirmed that part of a secondary school, Ideal Secondary School, where the Corps Member teaches, was also set on fire.
Our correspondent reports that tension was high in Funtua town following which security personnel including military personnel were deployed to restore order.

FOR THE RECORDS ... A MUST READ : REVOLTING: The Source And Solution to The Menace Called Boko Haram (BH) – By Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo

WARNING: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS DAMAGING TRUTH ABOUT THE PRESIDENCY, CAN, BH AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT EXIST BETWEEN THEM.
If there is anything I have learnt in my short stint on earth as a Nigerian, it is how to solve problems because there are just too many and solving them means survival. If there is one unique way of doing it that I have discovered, it is identifying the source and cutting the supply off.
The spate at which BH has been unleashing its menace on innocent harmless Nigerians got me so frustrated and concerned as well, the freedom with which they carry out their raving attacks that last for hours without being checked is gradually pushing me out of the realm of sanity, and I can imagine things getting worst if something is not done. I began to ask questions, searching through the pages of Nigerian history to see if the past has faced a similar, and if it has, maybe it can help solve the problems of the present and prevent this cancerous phenomenon from stemming into the future.
History gave me a lead when I came across the word “Mai-Tatsine” (The one who damns); here is a link to the truth about the sect CLICK HERE ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitatsine. I dug deeper, hoping to find the root of the matter, hoping the source will still be in control and in a position to stop the menace, but what I found was heavier and revealing, the truth has been in the open all along. Don’t be surprised, the source of BH that I found is one that you’ll least expect, it’s the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), perhaps it is nemesis of CAN’s role that is catching up with the church.
THE ORIGIN
Mai Tatsine is perhaps the older version of BH led by Muhammad Marwa, a movement that began its reign of terror in Kano and other parts of Northern Nigeria in the late 50’s. Like BH, the ideology of “western education is a sin and technological advances are a pollution of the sanity and culture of the Nigeria state”. Stuffs like radio, wristwatches, television etc were regarded as “haram” in those years probably because they were the definition of technology or perhaps western influence in the 50’s. Over 8000 lives were lost in battles between the sect and the Nigerian state between 1960 and 1984.
 Video: Maitatsine, Tijjaniyya & Christianity late Shiekh Albani With Prof. Dauda Ojobi (1)
[Sheikh Albani Zaria was recently killed by Boko Haram after being hounded by Nigerian security agents]
THE SOURCE
I know a lot of people will find it hard to believe this, but I have listened to it myself although the lecture was delivered in Hausa language and if the records are correct, Professor Dauda Ojobi, is a former secretary of Northern Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), a retired Professor in Benue State University faculty of Law, the 3rd Reverend Father from northern Nigeria, after Paul Gindiri, and GG Ganaka. He is the first Nigerian overseer of Baptist Church in Kaduna, and One time commissioner of Justice in Bauchi State.
“Marwa Maitatsine, was a Christian until his death. Back in 1954, there were series of meetings by the highest body of Christian association in the northern Nigeria, in Jos, which I happened to be the secretary, taking the minutes of that meeting (then, I was an undergraduate student of Christian Theology). Part of the resolve of that meeting was, to sponsor some people among ‘us’ to go to Arab countries as new Muslim converts, and learn Arabic and Islam. Their mission is to come back to Nigeria as Muslims clerics, use their Islamic knowledge to preach violence, distort original Islamic teachings and if possible cause a riot in the North that will make northern Nigeria a history. Five people were nominated for the job, and sent to Sudan to start their mission. Three of them refused to come back and execute their plan, but spent the rest of their lives in Sudan as true Muslims. The remaining two; Muhammad Marwa and Birema came back, Marwa was sent to Kano, and Birema was sent to Niamey Niger Republic.”

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Prof. Ojobi also made this submission in the “Anya Goru Panel” set up by Shehu Shagari, to investigate the crisis then, but when Shagari saw the report, he ordered that the white paper should not be issued because it may result to more crises. Prof. Dauda is still alive, Shagari is still alive and the leadership of CAN is very aware of this fact and had never denied it. My assumption at first was that the extermination programme of CAN went out of control because their mules became too powerful and broke the leach, I probably might be wrong because even in recent history, a relationship still exists between CAN and the new breed of Mai Tatsine called Boko Haram in the flesh, blood and bone of Prof. Jerry Gana, a chieftain of CAN.
This new chaotic Order was initiated by Muhammad Yussuf, and before his extra-judicial killing by the police, he was bailed from custody every time he was arrested for extremist activities that posed a threat to national security by Prof. Jerry Gana, and this happened severally. I have the feeling Yussuf was killed because he started saying things he wasn’t supposed to say so they had to shut him up. Rumour had it that the last call on the phone recovered from him was to his affiliate and CAN Chieftain Jerry Gana, more like a quick call to the boss for a rescue operation when the cops came calling.
Yussuf’s killing sparkled the venom we have now in BH, a bitter sect, hell bent on avenging their leader and DE-westernizing Northern Nigeria (at least for now). Perhaps I am no longer surprised that certain groups are accusing GEJ of being the one fending BH, he’s still patronizing Jerry Gana the supposed prime suspect according to this my discovery, probably I am not the only one aware of it, and I believe a lot more people should be made aware of it so we can know where to face and who to ask for the way on the road that leads to finding BH, and eliminating it from the root.
A more recent activity still points in the direction of the President GEJ. A letter supposedly sent to Premium Times and other media houses by wendellsimlin@yahoo.com was traced to his special adviser Reno Omokri  on 26^th Feb. 2014. The phony document was created by Reno on behalf of GEJ with the sole aim of implicating the suspended CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi for complicity in the recent activities of the insurgent but was burlesqued by his own digital signature on the document. According to Premium Times
“The document’s digital signature shared a 100 percent resemblance with that of others PREMIUM TIMES had received from Mr. Omokri in the past.

The document was created by Mr. Omokri or someone else who used his Hewlett Packard computer at 10:01 on Wednesday. Sixteen minutes after it was created, the document was printed and revised once before it was sent out at 11:54 using the Wendell Simlin’s email address.
The email was sent out using the Nigerian government’s official internet service provider, Galaxy Backbone, from Abuja, Feyi Fawehimi who first investigated the mail told PREMIUM TIMES.”
Why are we still looking for the source? With this action alone, it is a clear that the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration would rather reap politically from the violence than end it, no wonder he responded rudely to the complaint of Borno governor about the lackluster approach of the military in Borno State with this sloppy statement at the media chat.

Reno Omokri

“If we pullout the military from Borno state, let us see if he (governor of Borno state) will be able to stay in the government house,”
Reno Omokri should be arrested immediately; it is evident that he knows something about BH because if in his attempt to implicate SLS, he decided to share details about BH coordinated activities, he definitely knows something or someone in BH and should be charge for complicity, treason and for the mass murders that occurred in the last few days, at least those were covered in the document he created from his laptop. The senate should not continue to sit and sleep but act in the best interest of Nigerians.   Damn! Immunity, a warrant of arrest for GEJ for the mass murder of Nigerians should follow suit, maybe by cutting off the source, the supply of BH will run dry. If he can’t be held for corruption, maybe he should be held for murder.
The hand writings are on the wall and they are in capital letters, I hope they point us in the direction of how to end the menace of BH. Now we know the truth, I hope we will allow it to set us free.
The aim of this outcry is to stop #JosMassacre #YobeMassacre #BornoMassacre #AdamawaMassacre and to demand from them #WhereIsOurMoney.
Here’s Document   http://newsrescue.com/jonathan-media-man-reno-omokri-caught-distributing-sanusi-boko-propaganda-fake-name/#axzz2xW7kSJPs
I  am Abidemi Babaolowo Oderinlo
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A NEEDLESS LOSS : ‘MS didn’t kill her, ignorance did’, Yemisi Ilo blames Zara’s family for her death... Yemisi Ilo

By Yemisi Ilo Yemisi Ilo Yemisi Ilo says she has also been battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 10 years and that Zara’s situation shouldn’t have deteriorated to the point of death. Photo: Facebook/Yemisi Ilo I also have MS and I am currently in Singapore – where by His grace I will finally halt the progression and hopefully and prayerfully reverse some if not all disability. I spoke to Zara on Tuesday. She said she was being given ‘Agbo’ to drink by her family and that it was killing her. Those were her exact words. I told her to NOT drink it. With an already compromised immune system – Agbo is bullshit. It is poison. MS is not malaria. I gave Zara clear details of exactly what she needed to do to try to get well. It isn’t easy AT ALL – I should know but unfortunately for her, she was surrounded by very ignorant people at the end who felt that they knew best. I first heard of Zara when I read about her on Linda Ikeji‘s blog a year ago. I got in touch with her immediately and started a Skype friendship. I was in London and she was in the States (US). We spoke regularly. When I went back to Lagos, we would WhatsApp and I would call her. When she came to Nigeria in October last year, I went to see her and she was surprised that she could move better than me! I organized the Battabox interview (which we did at my parents house). She said she didn’t want to live with her mum in the States – yet she had no one to look after her there apart from her mum. She needed someone. She even wanted to come and stay with me, but I am married with small children and my own MS issues were already enough for one house. READ: Zara’s family says no one has paid them condolence visit I am so pissed off, so angry, so fucking sad, teary and frustrated. If I had been in Nigeria, I would have gone to pick her up on Tuesday when I spoke to her. She was so desperate to leave Ogba. She said she had a return ticket to America and would try to leave ASAP. I gave her my neurologist’s number so she could get some steroids to help her get over the horrible relapse she was having. Also to get her to explain the condition to Zara’s family so they would realize that this was not an ‘Agbo’ matter. I have had MS for nearly 10 years. My walking has deteriorated and I am currently alternating between a walker and a wheelchair. Zara was worried that she wouldn’t get married and have kids – I told her that I had 4 kids and was happily married and continued to work and that there was hope. I have always been vocal about MS and even appeared on a ‘Moments with Mo’ episode talking about it. There are many Nigerians with MS – I know a few but they want to keep quiet. Their families are embarrassed. Why? I don’t know? It can happen to anyone at any time. Granted, I am extremely fortunate to have the strength of character and a loving and supportive and enlightened family to deal with this HORRIBLE condition that has led to this opportunity for me to undergo Hemapioetic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) – Google it. It has taken donations from over 100 people to do this. It costs over $150k (N24,727,501). I told Zara that since she was a US citizen, she could get on a trial at the University of Chicago under Dr. Burt for free. I just want people to know that MS didn’t kill Zara – ignorance did. As well as our fatalistic attitude in Nigeria where everyone prays and no one takes action. Thanks Bless Yemisi. *Ilo is a creative consultant with many years experience in book and magazine publishing, film production as well as project and artist management....