Fayose dares FG to stop him from travelling abroad, says; “Governors not Buhari’s appendages”

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has dared the Federal Government to carry out the alleged plot of preventing him from travelling out of the country , saying; “under the federal system of government, State governors are not appendages of the President and as a leading opposition figure in Nigeria, he cannot be cowed by President Mohammadu Buhari and his agents.”
The governor, who reacted to reports that two governors, one from the Southwest and another from the South South have been placed on travel restriction on President Buhari’s order, in a press conference addressed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said; whenever he wished to travel out Nigeria, he will do so in the full glare of the public.
He said; “I am not surprised or disappointed by this latest plot of the Buhari’s government because the President Buhari that we know is a man without any atom of respect for the rights of Nigerians as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and this he demonstrated as a military dictator and now demonstrating as a democratically elected president.”
The governor said he was however amazed that “this dangerous dimension of compelling a sitting governor that enjoys Constitutional Immunity like the President to obtain clearance from the Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS) before travelling out of Nigeria can ever be contemplated.”
He said President Buhari and his agents should be mindful of the fact that under a federal system of government, the states and national government both enjoy some autonomy, with sovereign power formally divided between the national government and the States such that each State retains some degree of control over its internal affairs.

Olayinka, who was flanked by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi said; “Few days ago, when Governor Ayodele Fayose was reliably informed that President Mohammadu Buhari had directed that he should be banned from traveling outside Nigeria, he simply took the information as mere rumour, concluding that disrespect for the constitution of Nigeria and Buhari’s dictatorship would not be extended to the most ridiculous level of preventing a governor elected just as the president from traveling out of the country.
“The thinking of Governor Fayose was that even though the Buhari’s presidency was capable of even attempting to prevent those opposed to the President from breathing the air, it must still be sane enough to be conscious of the consequences of placing any Nigerian under travel ban without an order of the court, not to talk of a sitting governor that enjoys constitutional immunity like the President. “However, when we read the story titled; “2 govs under watch, face travel ban” published on Sunday by two major national dailies, we have no option than to once again alert the public on President Buhari’s new dictatorial plot to infringe on the constitutional rights of Governor Fayose just because of his critical position on the President’s dictatorial tendencies.
“The question is; if Governor Fayose has become a threat to the security of Nigeria just because he criticises President Buhari and says the truth about his mis-governance of the country, is this not a confirmation that the President hates dissenting views? “Section 35 (1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) provides that; “Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of such liberty,” while Section 41 (1) provides that “Every citizen of Nigeria is entitled to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part thereof, and no citizen of Nigeria shall be expelled from Nigeria or refused entry thereto or exit therefrom.” “Article 13 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Nigeria is a signatory provides that ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the border of each State’ while Article 13 (2) provides that ‘Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and return to his country,’ ditto Article 12 (2) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. “President Buhari and his agents should also be mindful of the fact that under a federal system of government, the states and national government both enjoy some autonomy, with sovereign power formally divided between the national government and the States such that each State retains some degree of control over its internal affairs. “Therefore, the President of Nigeria cannot lord himself over any State governor and President Buhari and his agents should accept this basic reality and stop behaving as if they own Nigeria in totality. “President Buhari and his agents, especially his kinsman; Alhaji Lawal Daura of the DSS need to purge themselves of this blood of dictatorship running in their veins and be guided by the Constitution of Nigeria. “Even ordinary Nigerians do not require clearance from the DSS or any security agency to travel outside Nigeria unless travel restriction is placed by an order of the court, not to talk of State Governors that enjoy immunity just like the President and are not under the control of the President. “The president and his agents should know that this is not 1984 when General Buhari, as a military dictator prevented late Chief Obafemi Awolowo from travelling outside Nigeria for medical treatment, thereby leading to his (Awolowo) untimely death in 1987! “They should also be reminded that the same way Buhari humiliated the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade; late Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero and late Obi of Onitsha, Ofala Akulalia Alphonsus Ogugua in 1984 by seizing their passports and restricting them to their palaces just because they travelled to Israel for business, he cannot restrict State governors from travelling outside Nigeria under whatever guise. “I therefore wish to state on behalf of Governor Ayodele Fayose that as an opposition figure, he cannot be cowed by this pettiness from the presidency. Governor Fayose, by this press conference is daring President Buhari and his anti-democratic agents to carry out this evil and shameful plot and let us all see how far it will take them.
“Anytime Governor Fayose wishes to travel out of Nigeria, he will do so in the full glare of the public and we await how he will be prevented from exercising his rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution (as amended) as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. “We also wish to inform the President and his DSS men that as they were disgraced when they invaded Ekiti State House of Assembly, arresting members of the House indiscriminately, they will be put to shame this time too.
“Also, the National Assembly is being alerted of this new threat to the Constitution of Nigeria by those who swore to protect it. Members of the National Assembly should by now begin to imagine what will be their fate if attempt is now being made to place travel restriction on State Governors.
“It is our considered view that President Buhari should rather concern himself with the growing insecurity in the country and charge the security agencies, especially the DSS to perform their functions as enshrined in the constitution instead of running after petty issues.
“The President should focus his attention on the economy of Nigeria that is almost collapsing and stop using his position to oppress other Nigerians. He should know that Nigerians are only interested in having food on their tables, not the number of people their President hounds into detention or oppress with his powers.”

‘I pity Lai Mohammed’ – President Buhari

President Buhari says one of the ministers he feels pity for is the Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed who is saddled with the responsibility of explaining the progress or lack of it of this administration to people. President Buhari said this when he hosted state house Press Corps members at the presidential villa in Abuja.
“One of the men I pity is Lai Mohammed. Everyday he is on TV explaining our performance or lack of it. The ministers sit down day and night to work. Some of them have literarily lost weight because they were sleeping less and eating less (while working on the budget). They were working on every kobo to be spent. We recently just found out that we are poor because we don’t have anything to fall back to. This is the condition we found ourselves and this change mantra had to go through hell up till yesterday. And for you to talk to whoever came to visit us throughout that year, I wonder how each of your diaries would be, because people were expecting this change mantra in their own way. How do you define change? Luckily our party identified three major items, security, economy and corruption.”‎he said

Annie Idibia shares her thoughts on child abuse, praises 2face’s babymama, Sunmbo

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Annie Idibia took to her IG page to share her thoughts on how child abuse could result from situations where separated parents & exes stress one another over seeing their biological chidren. She also gave a shout-out to Sumbo Adeoye, the mother of two of 2baba’s sons, for being a great woman. What she wrote after the cut….

Photos: Goodluck Jonathan’s son in-law inaugurated as SA on Youths Affairs to Cross River state governor

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s son in-law, Godswill Edwards, was inaugurated as the Special Adviser on Youth Affairs to the governor of Cross River state, Ben Ayade last Friday May 27th. Godswill is married to Faith Sakwe who is Jonathan’s daughter..

2face’s babymama, Pero Adeniyi’s sister comes for Annie Idibia over her IG child abuse post

Yesterday, Annie Idibia took to her IG page to share her thoughts on how child abuse could result from situations where separated parents and exes stress one another over seeing their children. She then gave a shout-out to Sumbo Adeoye, the mother of two of 2baba’s sons, for being a great woman.
Turns out the post was actually for a reason. Eniola, a sister to 2face’s babymama/mother of his three kids, Pero Adeniyi, clapped back at Annie for the post. Continue to read all the drama
According to Eniola, Annie is jealous that 2face ‘got away from her claws’ to throw a birthday party for his daughter with Pero. 2face allegedly traveled to see his kids yesterday and this is his first visit to them in over two years. Eniola alleged that Annie harasses Pero with text messages anytime 2face tries to make contact with their Kids and wants to cut them off from him. That even 2face has to hide to contact them in order not to face her anger. Annie responded to the allegations by asking her to get off her Instagram page but Eniola continued to fire back.

10 Funny Facts About Lagos

Lagos or Lasgidi, Lagosians can totally relate to the fact that it’s one hell of an interesting place and wouldn’t trade it for anything. The hustle in Lagos is real and Lagosians have grown the strength to accommodate the rigors that come with it. INFORMATION NIGERIA has observed 10 very funny things about Lagos that we want to share with you in this piece.

1.Almost all Lagos girls are fair

Thought we are African

2.Landlords have no chill

They be asking for their rent 2 years before it even expires and be increasing it every other year
3.Danfo drivers are never wrong

Even when they hit you from behind, its your fault
4.Agberos have more power than some state governors

Don’t want to dare these guys
5.Upcoming artistes must come to Lagos to blow

Ask Ice prince, MI, Psquare and Tubaba
6.Its easier to buy a plot of land else where in  Nigeria than fix your hair at Ikeja, Surulere or Island



7.Sports betting shops pay more youths than government

Guys would rather crowd sports betting shops to make their first one million than look for actual jobs
8.Every owambe on your street is a potential lunch and dinner date for many Lagos guys

So you rock your best owambe outfit and dash out
9. 95 percent of salaries are spent on transport and feeding

House rent is another matter
10.Most guys who haven’t hit big yet claim to be on the street

Streets ti take over…

Bukola Saraki’s Trial Adjourned

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who is on trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on allegations bordering on false assets declaration and money laundering had his trial stalled today.

The hearings which have been heard almost daily since May was did not hold today because Mr Micheal Wetkas, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness was absent.

The hearing for the continuation of cross-examination of Wetkas, which resumed Wednesday, 1st June was adjourned on the request of EFCC lead prosecution counsel, Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), via a letter to the tribunal.
The prosecution begged that the hearing be adjourned till either June 9 or June 10 and as at the time of filing this report, a new date had not been fixed for the continuation of hearing.

Nigerian Army Lied, None Of Our Members Arrested – Niger Delta Avengers

The new militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, which has claimed responsibility for recent bombings of oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta, has denied the Nigerian Army’s claim that its members were arrested.
The 4th Brigade, Nigerian Army, had on Sunday paraded 10 suspected militants specialised in disruption of oil and gas facilities and their weapons, saying they confessed to be members of the Avengers during interrogations.
Refuting the claim via its Twitter handle on Tuesday, the militant group said none of its “strike team” was arrested by the Army.
“Our attention has (been) drawn to the arrest of 10 Niger Delta Avengers’ boys by Nigeria Military. None of our strike team has been arrested”, the group said. “It’s all a lie.”
It also denied that any of its members had been killed, discrediting a claim by the military Joint-Task Force codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, operating in the region.
“Nigeria Military also lied that NDA kill(ed) soldiers. We haven’t engaged in combat with them but if they want us to kill them let them come after us”, it said.

Real Reason Baseline Records Arrested Skales Manager, Osagie Osarenkhoe

Earlier today, Music Talent manager Osagie Osarenkhoe was arrested by the Nigerian Police at the instance of Skales Record Label, Baseline Records.
She was accused of fraudulently diverting N13.3m belonging to the record label for personal purposes.

The label in a lengthy petition obtained by INFORMATION NIGERIA dated May 19, 2016 and addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2 Zonal Command, Onikan, Lagos, Baseline claims that Skales’ manager, Osagie committed fraud against the company with monies totalling N13,374,000.
See details of the petition below:
1. THEFT OF COMPANY MONIES EARNED BY SKALES FROM MARCH-APRIL 2016
The Company noticed that although Skales was listed as performing at various concerts, shows, tours and other events, none of the monies received from these events was remitted to the Company. In this regard, the Company invited Skales and his manager Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe to various meetings seeking an account and a reconciliation. At these meetings, both Skales and his manager Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe insisted that the events in question were not paid events and as such there were no monies to remit. These dubious activities continued for a period of 12 (twelve) months wherein the Company was fraudulently deprived of its legitimate earnings by the said Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe as payments made for performances were paid directly into her account in violation of the procedure set up for payments at the beginning of the Contract. The Company in March of 2016 decided to catalogue some of the paid shows, performances, concerts and tours wherein Skales performed and the monies were fraudulently converted for personal use by the said Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe.
Please find below a list of said performances which only covers the period from 3rd March 2016 to 1st May 2016.
3rd March, 2016- Malaysian private party- $6,000
8th April, 2016- MTN NOISELESS PARTY ENUGU- N750,000
16th April,2016- AFRICA NIGHT 2016 AFRO-FUSION AFFAIR UNIVERSITY OF ALBANNY- $6,000
1st May, 2016- Private event at Thisday Dome- N1,000,000
7th May, 2016- AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL MOSCOW- $6,000
By the Company’s estimation, from the aforementioned events, Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe has fraudulently converted the sum of N7,474,000 from this brief period without accounting to the Company or making payments first into the Company’s accounts as stipulated in the Contract. This is without factoring all the other performances, tours and shows where no remittance was made from the period January 2015 to April 2016.
In order to properly document this fraud and catch Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe in the act of theft, the Company created an email address, and sent an email to Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe requesting the performance of Skales at an event in California on the 2nd June, 2016. In the email communication, Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe requested the sum of $5,000 (five thousand US dollars) for the performance as well as one business class ticket, one economy class ticket and two hotel rooms in a 4-star hotel. (please find enclosed here with the email communication between Skales and Femi George with respect to the said performance) On 18th May, 2016 the first tranche of $2,500 (two thousand five hundred US dollars) representing 50% (fifty percent) of the performance fee demanded by Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe was wired into the following account:
‪Bank of America.
Name: Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe.
Account Number: 483063945907
Subsequent to the transfer of the money, our Samuel Gbemileke Samuel telephoned the said Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe requesting for an account of all monies received by Skales for performances and tours for the month of May. Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe insisted that there had been no paid performances for Skales during the period in question.
2. THEFT OF THE SUM OF N5,000,000 (Five million naira) BEING PAYMENT FOR MTN PULSE
The Company in 2015 entered into an agreement with Upfront and Personal, for the engagement of Skales to appear in TV commercials, billboards websites and other social media on behalf of MTN Pulse. As per the terms of the agreement, Upfront and Personal was to pay to the Company the sum of N5,000,000 (five million naira) in two tranches of N2,500,000 (two million five hundred thousand naira each). The said Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe representing that she was authorized by the Company obtained the sum of N5,000,000 (five million naira) due to the Company without being so authorized. Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe has failed after repeated demands to repay the said N5,000,000 (five million naira) fraudulently obtained.
Given the above circumstances, the Company believes that a fraud has been committed against it by Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe.

Osagie is a respected talent manager in the music industry who has over the years worked with acts such as Kel, Wizkid, Morell, Sarz, Dammy Krane, Niyola, Banky W and others.
She currently manages Skales signed to label Baseline records, whom she is in the middle of a dispute with.
She could not be immediately reached for comments as at the time of this posts as her phone numbers were unreachable.
She’s however taken to Twitter to dismiss reports that she’s been arrested;

I Never Promised To Refund N5m Campaign Fund To EFCC – Adamawa PDP Chai

The outgoing Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, Mr Joel Madaki, has refuted media reports that he promised to refund N5 million to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Recall that Madaki’s name was featured among those said to have received money from former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke for the 2015 Presidential Campaign.
But the Adamawa PDP chieftain in a statement issued in Yola, the state capital Tuesday, denied making such promise to the anti-graft commission.
“I never promised to return the N5 million.
“What I said was that if it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that the N5 million is from the Presidential Campaign Fund and when it is discovered that it was not used for that purpose, then the Adamawa PDP Secretariat and myself (sic) shall arrange to refund”.
Madaki acknowledged that he received N450 million as campaign fund for the state, but said that the money was delivered to a “Disbursement Committee” at the Government House, Yola.
He maintained that out of the sum, only N5 million was given to the party by the disbursement committee.
“Since I was not a member of the distribution committee, as soon as the money was handed to the committee and they counted it to be correct, I left the venue”, he stated.

How Wada Stole N2billion – Bello

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has accused his predecessor, Captain Idris Wada, of embezzling the N2 billion Youth Enterprise Fund obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Bello, who made the accusation on Sunday in a statewide broadcast to commemorate Democracy Day, said the immediate past administration used fictitious beneficiaries to siphon the money.

He said: “This money is a loan meant to stimulate commerce among the youth.
“We will recover it back from whoever has stolen it.”
The governor said he was not out to witch-hunt anyone but would not condone corruption by closing his eyes “to obvious cases of outright embezzlement of state funds”.
Bello urged the youths not to despair and disclosed that his government was assisting the Dangote Group to negotiate the acquisition of 20,000 hectares of land for commercial rice cultivation and processing, while it has also signed memorandum of understanding with tested large scale farming enterprises.
He said government has also engaged consultants to review all projects awarded by the previous administration and advise it on the way forward.
He said: “We did discover that most of the contractors who rushed back to site when we assumed office had abandoned those projects before. This has led us to wonder what other abandoned projects exist for which the state has made payments and received little or no value.
“We advise other contractors who know they have not given value to money to quietly return to site and complete their obligations. We will not condone corruption where discovered.”
Bello said he was employing creative financial and social engineering to re-distribute the meagre allocations coming from the Federation Account in the interest of the citizens through cost cutting, prioritization and elimination of wastages.
“We have set up an Economic Team and a Fiscal Responsibility Committee to assist the administration in the areas of probity and accountability,” he explained.
Reacting to the allegation of embezzlement, Wada’s media aide, Jacob Edi, in a statement said the money in question was given to all states of the federation through the Central Bank of Nigeria with clear guidelines on disbursement.
He said the government had set up a Special Purpose Vehicle Committee as directed by the CBN to disburse the money.
Edi said the then State Executive Council also deliberated on the guidelines before approving the disbursement of the money.
While stressing that every transaction was done in accordance with the CBN guideline, Edi asked those in doubt to reach out to the beneficiaries who are still in the state and verify.
Source: Daliypost