Nigerian Arrested For Forging Ghana Chief Of Staff’s Signature

The police in Osu have arrested a 38-year-old Nigerian who used the name of a top government officials to defraud a foreign investor to the tune of 150,000 dollars.

Dennis Ndukwu, is alleged to have forged signatures of Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper and other high profile personalities.
The operations of Dennis and his gang, was uncovered in June this year following suspicion of the victim’s bankers.
The police said Dennis Ndukwu and his gang, through internet hacking, got to know about challenges being faced by the victim, a Vietnamese investor who had invested over 8.5 million dollars in Ghana.
Dennis Ndukwu, allegedly introduced himself to the investor, Le Van Khiem, as the secretary to the chief of staff, Julius Debrah, and can use the high office to assist him.
The police said Dennis later produced various documents purportedly signed by the chief of staff and the finance minister Seth Terkper.
These convinced the victim to give his personal items including his visa card and code to Dennis and his gang to enable them withdraw 100,000 dollars from his account to aid the process.
But the unusual withdrawal attracted his bankers’ suspicion to raise query on the account.
Yet the gang managed to get the victim to part with several thousands of dollars after noticing that the bank had blocked the account.
It was during the withdrawal of the last tranche of the money transfer that Dennis was arrested at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
According to the police, Dennis Ndukwu admitted the offence and mentioned one Robert Amuzu as an accomplice.

Angry Nigerians Blast NAN MD Over Insensitive Post

Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, has angered Nigerians over a post he made on his Facebook profile this afternoon.

The post which was ostensibly made to help launder the image of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration had carpeted the media and bloggers for misleading the masses and international communities about the correct situation in the country.
In the post, Onanuga relayed how he had told his daughter on the Virgin Atlantic Flight to London “to find out whether the plane was filled up or going to London near empty judging by the noisy campaign from a section of the country about the ‘hardship’ in our country“, to which his daughter had replied: “daddy, the flight was filled up o”
He then related “how food was cheap everywhere” on his trip to Jos and Bauchi over the weekend.

Onanuga ended the post by charging the media to objectively conduct a reality check about their reports, which he described as “over sensationalising so-called hardship” the country is passing through.
The post immediately sparked anger with Nigerians taking to Facebook to attack the journalism giant for being insensitive to the plight of the masses. Many Nigerians who commented on the matter expressed strong views while practically calling him a failure as Managing Director and Editior-in-Chief of TheNews/PMNews.
Onanuga was the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of TheNEWS/PMNews before he was appointed MD of NAN in May this year.
Bayo Onanuga’s post below.

My daughter was on the Virgin Atlantic Flight that took off from Lagos to London today. I asked her to find out whether the plane was filled up or going to London near empty judging by the noisy campaign from a section of the country about the ‘hardship’ in our country.
My daughter sent back this one-line text, after boarding: “daddy, the flight was filled up o”.
This makes me to wonder whether all the seeming orchestrated campaign in the media was not mere propaganda to make the Buhari regime look really bad.
I was in Bauchi and Jos at the weekend, I also found that food was cheap everywhere. In our hotel, we paid about N700 for a plate of semovita, or eba with a choice of cat fish or chicken. On the roadside, I found to my surprise that with just N1000, I bought over 50 oranges, two giant water melon and 10 pieces of sweet potato. I had experienced a similar thing in the market at Abuja, where I found that with N1,400, I could make a big vegetable soup, with tomato, pepper and roasted Titus fish.
Are the media and bloggers really painting a correct image of our country. It’s time for the media to objectively conduct a reality check about our reports, whether we are not over sensationalising so-called hardship that we talked about.

Source: Facebook

Wife & Mistress Fight Dirty In Hospital Over Their Man (photos)

A man’s wife and mistress somehow turned up at the hospital to visit him at the same time with very predictable results. Video shared online shows the man, wife and mistress in an undignified heap on the floor as he tries to separate the two fighters.

The women don’t seem to mind that the ailing man they came to visit is still in his hospital gown as they try to takedown each other. The video is believed to have been filmed by a nurse but it is not known where the incident unfolded. More photos below.


Source: News Every Hour

Robbers Invade Cross River Garment Factory, Machines Worth Millions Stolen

The electrical component that regulates light supply to the equipment that are to be used in the garment factory has been stolen.

This is the major equipment which controls light and controls the functionality of every other equipment in the factory.
According to information made available to brainnewsng.com from the governor’s office, the equipment was moved out of the garment factory two days ago.
The source said that the equipment can only be moved by more than ten persons. “The said equipment is the most heaviest equipment installed at the garment factory., and it was carried by a forklift and suspended by a belt throughout the installation process.”
“Therefore, I can only conclude that only those who installed it can remove it”. It is also important that as at the time the supposed equipment was moved, a well scolombo operation officers were stationed there the guard the factory. How can people go to the factory to remove the said equipment without meeting resistance from the guards stationed there?”
“I am suspecting the fact that government is responsible for removing that most important component because, according to sources，the EFCC are still looking for ways to confiscate the factory. And or the government, knowing they cannot deliver on the employment of the screened candidates, connived to remove that equipment as an excuse for their incompetence”…the source concluded.
Sad as the incidence is, I will encourage the government to make a public statement on this issues no matter how insulting it may seem. If the government doesn’t issue a statement, critics and the general public may draw conjectures.
However, speaking with the Head of Operation Scolombo, Mr Sikiru, he said that he does not know what I was talking about. He went on ro say that “his duties are to post his men to the factory, and he is not responsible to give accounts of what happens at the factory”.
The Police Public Relation Officer, Mrs Irene, was not aware of the issue as it is not the police that are posted to guard the garment factory.
However, Mr Sikiru called back and other than responding to the issue on hand, he started talking angrily at me and demanding for my location.

Hoodlums attack Anambra police station, steal AK-47 rifle

Hoodlums have reportedly attacked a police station in Ukpo, Dunukofia Local Government of Area of Anambra State and stole one AK-47 rifle belonging to the command.

The report of the attack is contained in a petition by the elders of Ukpo community to the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris.
The petition dated 5th of September, 2016 and signed by the community’s lawyer, Mr. I.M. Anah, alleged that the hoodlums were hired by their neigbouring Abagana community, who were having a land dispute with Ukpo.
The petition reads, “Some mischievous or disgruntled indigenes of Abagana town, who are identifiable with their mercenaries, are the people that conspired, masterminded and carried out the murder, terrorist and arsonist attacks.
“The attacks were unleashed on Ukpo community on the 19th August, 2016 in which an Ukpo indigene by name Emmanuel Chiagozie Okafor was gunned down and murdered in cold blood.”
The petitioners maintained that four policemen were heavily wounded by the hoodlums, saying, “They are still struggling in the hospital to survive.”
They noted that the community had a judgment of an Anambra High Court, stating that the land in question belonged to Ukpo.
“Abagana people filed an appeal against the said judgment but the appeal as filed was struck out for want of prosecution on 4th of February, 2013”, the petitioners stated.
The traditional ruler of the town, Igwe Robert Eze, and the President General of the community, Group Captain Benson Okoye (retd), implored the police to bring the culprits to book to serve as a deterrent to others.
It was gathered that 23 persons had been arrested in connection with the matter.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Sam Okaula, confirmed the incident, saying more arrests would be made.
He said some of the hoodlums from Abagana community had been charged to court.
The lawyer for the Abagana community, Emma Ifeadike, had accused Okaula and some other police officers, handling the matter of compromise.
Ifeadike accused an oil magnate in Ukpo of paying the police to do his bidding.

Herbalist arrested in Ogun State for killing 16-year-old

A herbalist, Tunde Banjo, and an alfa, Nurudeen Adeniyi, have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing a 16-year-old-girl, identified only as Olayinka.

They were reportedly arrested in Ijebu Igbo, Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state.
Our correspondent gathered that the police also arrested 19-year-old Tobi Ogunkoya, who was suspected to have lured Olayinka into the hands of Banjo and Adeniyi.
The trio were said to have been arrested by policemen from the Ago Iwoye and Ijebu Igbo divisions on Tuesday.
A source said Olayinka’s br**sts were severed by her killers.
The state acting Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said at about 2.30pm, one Serifat Adebanjo reported Olayinka’s abduction to the police in Ago Iwoye station, alleging that Ogunkoya was a suspect in the abduction.
Oyeyemi added that acting on the information, the police stormed a house in Imosan community and apprehended Ogunkoya, who confessed that Olayinka was in the custody of Banjo in Ijebu Igbo.
Oyeyemi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, added that upon his arrest, Tobi took policemen to the home of Banjo in Ijebu Igbo, where they met him with the Alfa, and they were arrested.
He said two fresh human hearts and a live tortoise were allegedly found in their possession.
Oyeyemi said Banjo onfessed to the police that the girl had been killed, her br**sts and other vital organs severed, while her remains were thrown into the Ogbere River, in the Ijebu East Local Government area of the state.
He said, “The Police have arrested Banjo, a herbalist, and Adeniyi, an alfa in Ijebu Igbo. Banjo said they have killed the girl and body dumped inside the Ogbere River. The police are working to retrieve the corpse. Two human hearts and one live tortoise were a recovered from the suspects.”
Oyeyemi said the suspects would be soon be transferred to the homicide section of the command’s headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Senator Seeks Urgent Measures To Tackle Economic Recession

The senator representing Lagos-West Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Solomon Adeola, has called for urgent measures to tackle the current economic recession in the country.
Adeola, who is the Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Communications, also expressed concerns that government at all levels were not treating the issue of recession with the urgency it required “to ensure that its duration is not unduly prolonged with untold suffering and even deaths for the majority of our people”.

The senator, who made this known in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Kayode Odunaro, on Tuesday, however, pointed out that the recession was not peculiar to Nigeria.
He said, “The difference here is that not much is being done to assure the people that government is on top of the situation in terms of marshaling out implementable policies to address the plight of groups that are hardest hit by the continuing recession.
“I must say that one has yet to see any urgency in providing palliatives for the poor and collapsing industries and other corporate bodies leading to serious job losses and a growing sense of despair among the general population. Experience in the past shows that one of the most reliable ways to tackle recession is to spend money on the productive sector as well as welfarist spending to put money in the pockets of the poor”.

What Nigeria Can Do To Come Out Of Recession – Agbakoba

A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olisa Agbakoba, has predicted that Nigeria will continue to wallow in economic recession for the next four years except the Federal Government takes hold of the banking sector and exert more regulatory control, among other measures.
This is just as he advised the Federal Government to return the Treasury Single Account to the commercial banks and create a new supervisory agency to monitor them, while the Central Bank of Nigeria should focus its attention on formulating monetary policies.

Mr. Agbakoba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, expressed these views while speaking to journalists in Lagos on Tuesday on what Nigeria should do to overcome recession.
Nigeria last Wednesday officially entered recession when its Gross Democratic Product (GDP) witnessed negative growth in the second quarter for the second consecutive time.
Giving advice on how the country can come out of the recession, the senior lawyer and rights activist urged the Federal Government to return the TSA back to the commercial banks at single digit rates, he suggested 5 per cent, whilst supervising the banks.
“Limit the CBN to monetary policy and take away banking supervision to new prudential regulatory authority and banking ethics to new financial conduct authority.
“If banks focus on lending and not trading, money will flood the system for productive value”, he added.
Agbakoba, who maintained that Nigeria’s economy had already slid further from recession into depression, noted that the Federal Government did not have what could be called an economic team at the moment.
He suggested that one of the first steps that President Muhammadu Buhari should take to rescue the economy from recession was to set up an economic team comprising of experts or technocrats.
He suggested that government should engage the likes of Prof. Pat Utomi and Mr. Bismarck Rewane.
The former NBA chief stressed that the only way out of recession was for the government to pump money into the system by embarking on developmental projects rather than adopting austerity measures.
“We must spend our way out of recession”, he said. “When you go to the hospital and the doctor says you’re anemic, only one thing is done – transfusion. So, how can the government present an austerity programme?”
Mr. Agbakoba also said government must be clear as to what economic policy it wants to pursue to get the country out of its present economic challenges.
“The government must be clear as to what policy it wants to pursue. There is only one way out of recession and it is massive bouncing. You have to bounce the economy.
“Niger Delta is crying for money, South-East is crying for money, we all know that South-West is crying for money, so, you have public works to spend money on.
“You will be surprised if there’s a situation where Julius Berger and co are given contracts to build roads and you say for every contract, you must have 10 per cent labourers, you will find that the economy will slowly revive. But unfortunately, I am not seeing those things and if it doesn’t happen, we will be looking at a very long term, because a recession cycle is three years, but great economics, like the former Minister of Greece, can make it; we can recover by Q2 2017 but that requires applying the best possible method”, Agbakoba said.
He also argued that the emergency power being proposed by the Presidency was not necessary, saying all that the President needed was will power to do the right thing.

11 Things Which Prove MMM Is A Ponzi Scheme

In the past month, ‘MMM’ has become quite common among Nigerians despite warnings from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The Ponzi scheme is gaining new members daily and a Nigerian chose to explain how and why the scheme should not be invested in

1. Interest is too high and too good to be true
2. You don’t understand what they do with the money#NigerianPonzi

— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

3.There is no face to the owners of the business
4.The company is new and probably doesn’t have a recognized office building#NigerianPonzi
— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

5.They don’t sign any legal binding agreement with you#NigerianPonzi

— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

https://t.co/XZ8cdJF9ai don’t get a collateral or security for your investment#NigerianPonzi
— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

7. It is not regulated or approved by SEC or any other body allowed by law to approve such a scheme#NigerianPonzi

— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

8. They give you incentives/rewards to bring in more subscribers to the scheme.#NigerianPonzi
— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

9. It relies on new incomers to sustain the scheme. When new incomers stop it dies. #NigerianPonzi

— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

10. The owners hate criticisms and defend it till the scheme crumbles.#NigerianPonzi
— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

11. It fetes on people’s greed and thirst for quick money#NigerianPonzi

— Financial Advocacy (@ugodre) September 7, 2016

Alleged N2.3b Diversion: Ex-Minister Orubebe Gets N10m Bail

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja has granted a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe and two others bail at N50million.
The trio were arraigned before the court on Wednesday morning on a six-count charge bordering on corruption, perjury, and diversion of public funds.

The two others are Oludare Lawrence Alaba, an Assistant Director, Ministry of Niger Delta Affiars and Ephraim Tewolde Zeri, Director of Contracts in Gitto Costruzioni Generali Nigeria Limited.
They are, in the charge filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), accused among others, of diverting about N2.3b meant for the compensation of property owners to be affected by the Federal Government’s dualisation project of Section IV of the East West Road.
Orubebe and others pleaded not guilty to the charge, following which Justice Kayode Adeniyi granted the ex-minister bail at N10m and one surety, who must be a responsible Nigerian, resident in Abuja and must show evidence of regular tax payment.
Justice Adeniyi granted Alaba and Zeri bail at N20m and one surety each, who are to be residents in Abuja.
The judge said Alaba’s surety must be an Assistant Director in any Federal Government parastatal, while Zeri’s surety must own property in Abuja and show evidence of ownership.
Justice Adeniyi who adjourned to November 10 for commencement of trial, ordered the defendants to be kept in ICPC’s custody pending when they are able to perfect their bail conditions.
It would be recalled that the case was earlier slated for hearing last week but had to be postponed till today following a domestic accident suffered by the former minister.
Mr. Orubebe, who maintains his innocence, alleged that he was unduly being persecuted, recalling that the ICPC investigated and found nothing incriminating against him about a year ago.
“My hands are clean and I did not do anything wrong throughout my tenure as Minister of Niger Delta. I want Nigerians to know that I am being unjustly persecuted and that what they are doing to me is unfair”, he said.

Why Mohammed Babangida dragged ex-wife Rahma to Sharia Court

Mohammed, son of Former Nigerian Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has initiated a legal battle with his ex wife, Rahma for custody of their two eldest kids.

According to court documents obtained exclusively by LIB and also confirmed from a reliable source, Mohammad initiated the custody battle to finally reunite his children together and cut-off every trace of Rahma from their lives. The source said, their eldest kids Maryam and Ibrahim are reportedly in Rahma’s custody, while the two youngest ones are with him in Minna.

READ: Rahama Indimi Confirms Split From Gen. Ibrahim Babangida’s Son
Mohammed took the custody battle with his ex wife to a Sharia Court in Minna, Niger state and sources close to the case say they suspect foul play, saying not only was judgement allegedly carried out without Rahma and her representatives being present, but allegations are being made that the Babangidas are manipulating the case, especially since they have notable influence in the state.
The Court has now ordered Rahma to hand over the two children to their father, pending the determination of a substantive suit. An insider claims this shouldn’t be so. To learn more about Child custody under sharia law. READ HERE.

There is also an allegation about threats to life being made and a police report being filed to address it. Whether it’s about the custody battle or the controversial audio that was supposedly leaked via Rahma’s Instagram page, LIB can’t confirm yet until they acquire proof.
From the documents acquired, Rahma has since replied and objected to the Sharia’s court judgement via an FCT Area court.
Source: LIB