A Diamond Bank employee, identified as Obioha Okengwu, was on Thursday remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons for allegedly conspiring with his family to defraud the bank of N111.2 million.
He unlawfully credited huge sums of money into his family’s account instead of the bank’s accounts. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the accused committed the offences between April and August 2014 in Lagos.
Obioha committed the offences while working in the e-Business unit of the handling daily settlement entries of transactions done on Point of Sales (POS) and Automated Teller Machine (ATM).
“At different times, N37million and N41. 4 million was lodged into two accounts owned by one Uchenna Okengwu.
“The accused also credited the sum of N10 million into the account of one Rosamund Okengwu and N9.5 million paid into one Chukwuemeka Okengwu’s account.’’
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges. The case has been adjourned to Sept. 22.
In line with reports of the warrant of arrest issued against Senate President Bukola Saraki, he has replied the motive by the officials with a statement.
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Following the development in the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) today, Friday, September 18, 2015 when the Tribunal chose to ignore the subsisting order of a Federal High Court by sitting, we hereby state our position as follows:
1. While the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had stated and maintains that he is ready to submit himself to due process of the law on any issue concerning him, he also believes he has an inalienable right to resort to the same judiciary for protection when he feels his fundamental rights are about to be infringed upon.
2. It is for this reason that Dr. Saraki, having satisfied himself that the case filed by the CCB and the manner in which the case was filed show that he will not be given justice, resorted to the Federal High Court for the determination of the issues of competence of the prosecutor as well as compliance with the procedure stipulated in the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act.
3. The Federal High Court on Thursday, September 17, 2015, therefore ordered that the all parties in the case should appear before it on Monday, September 21, 2015. The implication of this ruling by a Court of competent jurisdiction is that the sitting today has been overtaken by event. It is for this reason that Dr. Saraki chose to go about with his normal official schedule.
4. Today at the Tribunal, Counsel to the Senate President, Mr. M. A. Mahmud (SAN), raised a motion stating that there is a pending constitutional matter before the Federal High Court to be decided on Monday and that the Tribunal should hold the trial until the constitutional matter is disposed of.
5. We are however dismayed that the Tribunal chose to disregard the order of the Federal High Court and the motion to suspend hearing till Monday when all parties are expected to argue their positions on the constitutional matter.
6. It is also a surprise to us that despite the application by the lead counsel to the Senate President that he will produce Dr. Saraki on Monday and the personality of the person involved as the Number three man in the country, the Tribunal insisted on issuing a warrant of arrest as if its intention is simply to embarrass Dr. Saraki. We are not unmindful of the fact that the Tribunal is acting under political influence and external pressure. This is dangerous to our democracy.
7. The conduct of the Tribunal today left nobody in doubt that it cannot do justice on the matter before it. It is also clear that today’s decision is an abuse of the rule of law which portends danger to our judicial system. The Tribunal has equally set a bad precedent in the way and manner it conducted itself during the proceedings.
8. We want to emphasise the fact that this is not part of any war against corruption but using state institutions to fight political opponents and seeking to achieve through the back door what some people cannot get through democratic process.
9. We need to caution here that in a desperate bid to settle political scores and nail imaginary enemies, we should not destroy our democratic institutions and heat the polity for selfish reasons. Let us all learn from history.
9. The Senate President is a law abiding citizen who will not do anything to undermine the judicial process and authority. However, Dr. Saraki will always act to protect his fundamental human rights.
End
Signed
Yusuph Olaniyonu
Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to the Senate President.
Popular Fuji star, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma has reportedly reacted to the suspension of a Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor, Toyin Ogundipe who was alleged to have paid him to perform at a crusade slated to hold in one of the parishes in Lagos Island.
The Fuji star declared that, in spite of the church’s management paying for the show, it is never done to expect him to pay back the “artiste fee” saying, “the fault is not ours, we were ready to perform for them until we learnt of the cancelation of the crusade”.
City People reports that, the Pastor in charge of Province 20 of the Redeemed Church had invited Pasuma to perform at the Church’s forthcoming crusade titled, “Lagos Island Family Areas Forum” between Friday, October 23rd – Sunday 25th, 2015.
Pasuma’s picture appeared on the handbill advert and posters alongside gospel singer, Tope Alabi and a former band leader of the late Fela Anikulapo’s Egypt 80 band, Kereke Jike.
The decision to stop the programme was because the church headquarters felt the Pastor had gone too far by inviting a secular artiste such as Pasuma to its church programme.
A source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the organisers did not do a detailed consultation before going ahead with the programme.
He also said that it was as a result of it that the programme was cancelled and the Pastor in charge of the church along with the organising committee suspended as they now await further sanction from the provisional headquarters for dragging the name of the church in the mud.
investigations by City People reveal that The Redeemed Christian Church of God clearly frowns at the use of secular musicians, a development which has been clearly stated in its handbook to Pastors.
Popular On Air Personality, Nedu of the 95.1 Wazobia Fm, a radio station that is loved by so many Nigerians, has hinted that most of his accounts have been manipulated by hackers.
He says his e-mail, whatsapp, Facebook accounts have reportedly been compromised, so his fans should ignore any message coming from those accounts while he sort things out.
Following the report of the court granting a warrant for the Senate President’s arrest, the Inspector General of Police has vowed that without delay, he’d arrest Bukola Saraki.
According to the Police Force Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Olabisi Kolawole.
“We are going to promptly arrest the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and produce him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday.“Since it is a bench warrant issued by a competent court, the order will be carried out without delay. We don’t want to pre-empt anything.”
This actually, is the worst you could ever do a blind person and it really isn’t fair at all. Classic foreign singer, Stevie Wonder’s late attorney, ho also happens to be his right-hand man for decades allegedly duped him into penning his signature to a contract he never saw.
The contract makes the singer pay the lawyer’s family forever as long as he lives.
TMZ reports, Stevie just filed legal docs, in which he says his longtime lawyer, Johanan Vigoda, put a contract in front of Stevie’s face when he was 21 years old. The deal was, Stevie would pay Johanan 6% of all music royalties. But there’s a clause that says payments to the lawyer’s family go on “forever.”
Johanan died in 2011, but Stevie’s record company continued to pay Johanan’s widow. Stevie says he didn’t realize payments were being made for nearly 2 years, and when he caught wind, he ordered payments to be stopped. He claims he trusted Johanan and the lawyer never said the 6% would survive his death.
Stevie says in his docs he was betrayed by a man he trusted and wants a judge to declare he no longer has a duty to pay royalties, because the attorney took advantage of a blind man. Johanan’s widow has filed her own lawsuit, demanding Stevie pay from the time he stopped and forever in the future. She wants $7 mil minimum.
Hypertek Music Star, 2face Idibia is Definitely having the Best 40th Birthday Ever!
The Father of 7 today on his birthday went for a visit to Red Cross with M.I Abaga, Sound Sultan and More and Now, He has received the best cake from his loving actress wife, Annie Idibia.
The cake was created by Yomi Black and Annie Idibia. The cake was made by Cakes by Tosan for 2Face.
In conjunction with the Senate President’s refusal to appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar of the Code of Conduct Tribunal has ordered that a bench warrant should be issued on Dr. Bukola Saraki.
The Senator is expected to reportedly answer charges bordering on assets declaration. Security agencies have been ordered to effect his arrest by Monday!
Meanwhile, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have in light of this, declared wanted the man managing Senate President Bukola Saraki’s property company, Mr. Kennedy Izuagbe, for alleged N3.6bn money laundering.
The man in person is reportedly on the run for his life. Some allegations contained in the suit filed at the CCT against Saraki includes:
alleged failure to declare property on Plot 2A, Glover Road, Ikoyi, Lagos; failure to declare property on No. 1, Tagus Street, Maitama, Abuja (Plot 2482, Cadastral Zone A06, Abuja) and failure to declare property No.3, Tagus Street, Maitama, Abuja (Plot 2481, Cadastral Properties Limited).
Claiming to own property on No 42 Gerard Road, Ikoyi and earning N110, 000,000.00 per annum at a time the said property was under construction
failure to declare N375m GTB loan converted to 1.5m Pound Sterling and used to purchase property in London
operating a foreign bank account; transfer of $3.4m from GTB to foreign bank account during his tenure as governor and failure to declare leasehold interest in No. 42, Remi Fani-Kayode Street, Ikeja.
It all seems Chelsea Footballer, John Obi Mikel has just announced that he has welcomed a set of twins.
The 28 year old Football star today shared a Picture of newly born twins on his Instagram today and congratulatory messages have been pouring in from his followers.
He captioned the photo: ‘My whole world in my arms Welcome to the world my angels #pooh3 #pooh4 #twins’ and he tagged his girlfriend in the photo.
Although Details like the gender of the twins or the mother have not been revealed, but tt is expected that his Russian girlfriend, Olga Diyachenko is the mother of the kids as he tagged her in the photo.
Lol. Some of the things cheaters go through when they are almost caught, i can almost relate to this, not that I’m a cheater but I’ve seen real life stories. Lol.
A man was left with no choice than to spend his night on the ledge of a seven storeys building after his lover’s husband came home unannounced.
People’s Daily Online tells the story; they reveal that the married woman’s lover was stuck between two air-conditioning units all night, during the bizarre incident in China.
It wasn’t until the unnamed woman’s husband went out to work the next day that she called firemen and asked for them to rescue him.
A local fire brigade spokesman said:
“Fortunately he had already dressed himself and was about to leave when the woman’s husband came home, and she had managed to persuade him to scramble out the window.”
At first, the man claimed he could not remember how he got out onto the narrow ledge, but police eventually got the story from the woman.
She admitted she had brought the man home with her, not expecting that the husband would return early from a business trip.
“He had apparently been drinking a fair amount, and that probably gave him the courage to jump onto the ledge, but by the morning he realised it would be extremely foolish to attempt to climb back [into the flat].”
Sister to the father of the daughter of Whitney Houston, who passed on recently, Bobbi Kristina, Leolah Brown (Lol. I hope you caught my drift there, thought i should spice up your Friday night a bit) has told Inside Edition that she believes that both Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina were murdered and that it was no accident or coincidence.
She said:
“This was no accident. I will never believe this was an accident… I believe that somebody killed my niece, just like they killed her mother.” “I believe that Whitney was murdered. At some point we have to wake up and realize this is too close, too similar – mother, daughter, both in bathtubs… Something is very, very wrong with that picture.”
Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has explained why she has been reluctant to relocate abroad despite opportunities to do so.
According to the superstar actress, she is scared such move might destroy her family, which she does not want.
Omotola told Olisa Adibua on his ‘The Truth’ programme that relocating abroad might render her husband jobless because there are very good pilots in the US.
She said:
“I have gotten a few calls and it’s been a very difficult decision to make in my career. I keep hearing this all the time and it’s almost like the elephant in room. So twice I have had the opportunity to relocate, I would say the reason why I haven’t relocated is because it would break my family.
“My husband doesn’t want to relocate, he doesn’t want to live abroad, he doesn’t like to live abroad, it will be very difficult for him to get a very good job abroad because there are so many pilots in America most of them don’t even have work. So it will mean me moving and him staying here so that will be issue for the family.”
“No matter the struggle , No matter the hustle , No matter the Matters Arising, there is always one unchangeable fact – God is the Ultimate Boss. ”
Olamide drops another ear banging tune for the streets, to keep them motivated and renew their hope. Produced by the ever consistent prolific producer Pheelz mr Producer.
Nigerian Dancehall Act, Timaya was involved in a Ghastly Car Accident yesterday September 17th, 2015.
The ‘Hallelujah‘ singer bashed his White Bentley but thankfully he was unhurt. Timaya who has two children shared a photo of his bashed Bentley on Instagram today, September 18, ’15.
“Had an accident yesterday but I thank GOD nobody got hurt… blessssssss” he wrote in the caption of the picture.
He recently featured on KCee’s latest single ‘Alkayida‘ which came out this month.
A woman in Kenya in on the run for allegedly burning her 14 year old daughter for wasting maize Flour, News24 Reports.
The woman, simply identified as Pelesia Saoke from Furfal village is said to have tied the victim’s hands, flogged her and then poured about a litre of kerosene on her before setting her on fire.
Likuyani OCPD Meshack Kiptum (Pictured above) confirmed the incident and said the victim was rescued by neighbors who responded in time and saved her before informing the police who took her to Kitale Hospital.
“The-14-year old girl is undergoing treatment as her private parts were burnt and she needs counselling. The mother has gone into hiding but police are surveying the area and she will be arrested soon with cooperation from the public,” Kiptum said.
The officer urged parents to avoid imposing such inhumane punishment on their children but look for other means of punishment.
The victim’s brother, Bonventure Okoth said her mother came back home around 6 pm in the evening and found her elder sister frying the maize flour when she burnt her.
“My mother tied my elder sister’s hands, beat her before she soaked her with paraffin and burnt her before she went into hiding. She said she was punishing my sister for misusing flour,” Okoth said.
Neighbours say this is not the first incidence as the woman is fond of beating up her children and threaten to set them ablaze.
“Multi-talented Nigerian new school rapper, Ink Edwards has unleashed the upgraded version of his previously collaborated single, ‘Baddest’ with Chocolate City’s president, M.I Abaga.
‘Baddest 2.0’ re-features one of the finest rappers in Africa, M.I Abaga who innovatively dazzled on the song alongside Fuji musician cum relevant and highly sort-after hip-hop artiste, Pasuma Wonder and the ‘Ello Bae’ crooner, Falz.
Pasuma comes out productively on ‘Baddest 2.0’; he sustained the song by infusing the fuji rhythm, hip-hop barz to his melodious voice to make ‘Baddest 2.0’ more pleasing to the ear. ‘Baddest’ was fully upgraded to 2.0 when comic rapper, Falz took over with his enthusiastic raps, touching the song from the proper angles, shaping his voice and raps to fit with the melodious beat produced by Galactic Beats. Falz did justice to ‘Baddest 2.0’ when he expressed his state of surprise towards the end of this potential hit single.
Ink Edwards had earlier established himself as a consistent rapper with the release of ‘The Chairman Medley’ and ‘Our Little Song’ which were released at an interval of two weeks, Ink Edwards successfully came through with ‘Baddest 2.0’ three weeks after the release of the aforementioned tracks.
Without doubt, Ink Edwards is consistent, intelligent and obviously a new school rapper to be taken seriously. Here is ‘Baddest 2.0’, mixed and mastered by arguably the best sound engineer in Nigeria, Suka Sounds.”
Truth be told, Celebrities get tons of hate mails/message and comments on a daily basis.
Apparently, it take one hurtful comment to touch a nerve that elicits a response from a celebrity.
It’s no different for Nollywood Actress, Ini Edo, as she yesterday on instagram posted a picture of herself in a lounge which is rumored to be hers.
She captioned the photo:
Yesterday……#mimzcountdown
A fan or probably an enemy of the actress left a rather harsh comment on the picture, she said:
Lounge Owner! Only irresponsible female run such business. Go trace ur steps or you will continue failing in all marriages u get into.. Menopause is now 40… Just saying
The comment of Sarah got to Ini Edo as she was ready for her and left a response:
@sarahofulayi one can’t help but feel sorry for you. Untill your opinion can pay bills, stuff it. Sad woman….
Awwn. The ace comedian actually stayed up late to wish his beau a happy birthday.
Veteran comedian, Bovi Ugboma, few minutes ago took to his Instagram to wish his stunning wife, Kris Ugboma a happy birthday. He shared gorgeous photos of his baby mama with beautiful captions:
He wrote:
Happy birthday to my girlfriend and lover. @krisasimonye . ??♥️♥️♥️♥️??????????
More happy birthday to the hairess, the wigress and the braidress!!!! ????. @krisasimonye my Queen
The stunning birthday woman has two kids for Bovi.
“You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul”
This is to me, is the best quote ever made by this absolutely stunning actress, Lupita Nyong’O.
The gorgeous ebony who made a breakthrough in her movie career after her role in the movie, “12 years a slave”, is on the cover of Vogue magazine for the 2nd time.
Her beauty is undeniable, i guess that’s why one of our authors can’t and won’t stop drooling over her! She’s a stunner.
A alleged cheating wife reportedly dumped her new born baby on a doorstep after keeping her entire pregnancy secret from her husband.
36 Year old Leigh-Anne Varley, told unsuspecting hubby Simon, 39, and their two children – aged 16 and six – she had ovarian cysts which caused ‘swelling’.
In reality, she was pregnant by a lover and hid his baby boy, named ‘Jack’, right up to the birth. For nine months, she meticulously planned a home delivery, got scissors and towels ready, and worked out where to abandon the baby near her home in Horden, County Durham.
As she went into labour, she did some housework, put her six-year-old to bed then delivered in the bathroom, with her teenage daughter on a night out with friends, and Simon working night-shift.
Sneaking out of the neat modern terrace at the dead of night, she returned within minutes, later booking a ‘dream’ trip to Disney World in Florida for her family, then going to work.
Wrapping the tiny newborn in a dressing gown, she placed him on the doorstep of a flat close to a medical centre, with a note saying:
“Please take care of my baby boy. Please don’t go public as my husband is violent and will kill me.”
She also knocked on a door in a bid to alert a nearby neighbour.The child was found cold, but otherwise unharmed between four and five hours later by a man walking his dog.
The mum-of-three admitted abandoning a child. She said she had an affair and she believed the baby was the result of that affair.
“She was unable to tell her husband because she was fearful of breaking up the family unit.
“This is a very sad case, she is of previous good character and was in a desperate situation which led to the offence occurring.”
Some major throwback though… These dudes back in the day made the P-Square group have a run for their money as they were one of the hottest duos running the game back then.
Five Star music singer, Kcee shared this major throwback photo of himself with his former music partner trying to inspire his followers.
So here’s my tiny little secret; of all the Kardashian/Jenner clan, my favorite is Kendall Jenner. She’s hardly been affiliated with any scandal or questionable acts rather she’s been acknowledged and recognized as an achiever in her field.
She once said though, that she doesn’t want her success to be based on the fact that she is from a very popular family and all. I like her humility and her body of course! Lol.
The super model has been listed among the Forbes Highest Paid models in 2015. Though she’s placed at No 8 on the list, it’s quite an achievement for her cause she’s still at a very young age and is just starting her model career, not like the top on the list, Gisele Bundchen who has been in the business for decades.
These photos of foreign Hip-Hop couple, Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj has got their fans laughing hard as they captioned the photo hilariously.
They said that Meek Mill looks like a child whose mum (Nicki Minaj) just took shopping and he is all excited about what he has just gotten. Lol. It’s actually true though, he’s so excited in all of the photos.
Wonder what’s amusing him though.
The photos were taken when the couple went shopping in Beverly Hills.
You don’t get to see this too often with the super model though. Kim Kardashian, her husband, Kanye West and their adorable daughter who is referred to as the current most fashionable baby, North West were spotted at the New York City Airport as they were set to leave the city after Kanye had his Yeezy Season 2 Fashion Week.
What’s stunning in the images is Kim Kardashian is pictured without make-up… which is something we all know to be unusual. While she went make-up free, her daughter, North West is seen rocking an adorable curly hair.
They look like a normal family though. Oh! And the lady by Kim helping with North’s stuffs, that’s North’s nanny.
Mr. Badejo Adeyinka, a 35-year-old father of two, allegedly hung himself on Tuesday, at his residence in Kubwa, a satellite town in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
It was gathered that until he committed suicide, the deceased was a shop owner at the Kubwa Village Market that deals in Okirika, second-hand clothes.
City News learnt that Badejo borrowed the sum of N150,000 from a microfinance bank in Kubwa, but his younger brother, Emmanuel Adeyinka had assisted in paying part of the borrowed money, leaving him with just N25,000 to complete the payment.
Emmanuel said things were not going well for his elder brother and was certain the debt was responsible for the brother committing suicide.
“We were very close siblings. He once jokingly told me that he would hang himself because of the pressure he was getting from the bank to return the borrowed money.
“But I always told him everything would be okay. I never knew he meant his words. Maybe if I had known, I would have tried to stop him. I pray his soul rests in peace,”
he added.
The deceased wife, Mrs. Grace Adeyinka said she noticed her husband’s body dangling inside their sitting room when she went to use the toilet in the morning and quickly brought him down and quickly rushed him to the emergency unit of the Kubwa General Hospital where he was declared dead.
“I woke up around 5a.m. to use the toilet and found out that the cloth I used to cover our five- year-old child was missing, and my husband too was not by my side. When I went to the living room, I discovered that it was the cloth he used to hang himself,”
she said amidst tears.
When contacted, the head of accident and emergency unit of the hospital, Paul Olise, confirmed the incident adding that his remains have since been taken to the morgue.
Janet Jackson, American music icon and sister to legendary Pop artiste, Michael Jackson in July was reported to be quitting the entertainment industry because of her new religion, ‘Islam.’
The American singer, who is married to Quatari Muslim Billionaire Wissam Al Mana, disclosed that she almost committed suicide because of the restrictions and burden her new life and religion brought upon her, saying it was not an easy transformation.
According to MTV News, she revealed that she has been deprived of almost everything in life, as she cannot listen to music, drive a car, wear designer clothes only the “Black Abaya” and cannot even move outside her residential home, in Doha as she is always surrounded by heavily armed security men.
Janet further added that, her new song feat J.Cole “No Sleep” says it all from her marriage, to the difficulties involved in adapting to her new life, the stress involved in being a Muslim wife and the regrets she had due to the choices she made.
