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Sunday 28 September 2014

1st Lady's Pal, Shagaya Launches Private Jet For B-Day Shindig

One of the closest friends of the First Lady of the federal republic of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, Hajia Bola Shagaya has also joined the league of private jet owners. This much National Enquirer can reveal.

Hajia Shagaya, the multi millionaire money bag who's seriously contesting to make the world's female billionaires' club recently launched the expensive Gulfstream G650 for a whopping $65m! And know what? Just to celebrate her birthday.

According to sources close to the woman of substance who has grown to become the strongest PDP stalwart in Kwara State, the super private jet, Gulfstream G650 is her birthday gift and she hopes to cruise the world with few of her close family and friends come October 10, 2014.


Friday 26 September 2014

Desmond Elliot, KSB, Aeroland, Cornel Honoured As Stephanies Clocks 5






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It holds tomorrow, Saturday, September 27th, 2014! The show that'll have the convergence of the movers and shakers of the society where top notchers of the industry will be honoured. It's the 5th anniversary of the upscale Stephanies Bar & Lounge playing host to the much talked about winner's party of Nigeria's fairest pageant, Miss Global Nigeria at its 52 Calcutta Crescent, Apapa base. The show kicks off by 8pm.

The epoch making event will present Miss Global Queen, Faith Eriata on stage with her runners-up and all 2014 contestants strutting it out on the catwalk once again to model Bibi Africana's breath taking bespoke styles.

The Queen and her entourage then leave for the United Arab Emirates on an all expense paid trip sponsored by Aeroland Travels and Tunde Ojo's SpringHills Hotel's on Sunday, Sept, 28th, 2014 in preparation for her international pageant which holds in Spain next October.

The evening of fun and contemporary music from top DJs will have celebrities like Desmond Elliot, Kenny St. Brown, Hon. Segun Adewale (Aeroland) and man about town, Cornel Udofia on the platform as awards recipients for their various contributions to entertainment in Nigeria.

There'll be several freebies, gifts and reasonable corporate souvenirs from notable international cognac companies for the colourful guests in the house. The boss of the high flying Bar & Lounge, Stephanies Geddes and Miss Global Nigeria's Chaperone, Faith Irabor are making sure the nite is tight, all for your weekend delight. It's a classical evening u can't afford to miss bcos life is too short to take a cheap wine.


Thursday 25 September 2014

An Open Letter To Comptroller General Of Customs, Dikko Inde Abdullahi



This is an urgent letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Mr. Dikko Inde Abdullahi on the corrupt activities of his men, especially along Idiroko, Iju, Ota, axis of Ogun State, Nigeria.

It is sad and pertinent to know that there’s no respect for hierarchy in the Nigerian Customs Service as a recent SoS calls to some top notch of the organization yielded nothing but a more criminal actions from the men of the service thereby giving credence to the believe that, the service is filled with birds of same feather flock together.

Few days ago, precisely on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014, there was an SoS call from an innocent trader whose truck load of fish was impounded by the men of the Customs service around Onibukun area shortly before Winners Chapel church, Iju, Ogun State and swiftly we got these numbers: 08023633606, 08033121408 and 08034133478 which we believe belong to the Comptroller at Tin Can Island, Customs’ Public Relations’ Officer and the head of the Idiroko border respectively.

The crush of the matter was that, these Customs men ambushed the woman’s truck carrying just a 100 cartons of Kote and Titus fish and they demanded that she pay N400,000 cash for duty. Our checks revealed that, frozen fish especially Kote and Titus are not part of the prohibition list rolled out by the Federal Government of Nigeria and more so, these items were bought in an open market duly receipted and it is in lieu of this that, we spoke to these top officers to help salvage the situation.

All these supposed top notched officers promised to wade in and call the men at Iju to order but alas, none of them could do anything as the corrupt officers threatened to destroy the perishable goods (the fish) if the woman refused to pay, at this time, the truck had been seized for more than 8 hours and the fish were getting spoilt already leaving the woman frustrated and with the fear of the unknown.

She was left with no option than to part with N100,000, adding more cost and liability to her goods, and this is even with her kneels to the ground before they could release the truck for her at the wee hours of the evening.

I am using this medium to inform the Comptroller of Customs, in person of Mr. Dikko Inde Abdullahi to take charge of this matter and fish-out these men who perpetrated the act on this day, get the illegal bribe off them and brought them to book.

I hope that, this request will be taken up promptly so as to proof your revered office to having zero tolerance for corruption.     

Wednesday 24 September 2014

Earth Shaking Exclusive! Real Reason President Jonathan Exported Our $10m Abroad


While President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is lounging, as usual with his retinue of aides at the on-going United Nations general Assembly in New York, earth shaking revelations and alleged stunning facts have found its way out, from the back door of Aso Rock on how the controversial $10m (Ten Million Dollars) developed wings and flew out of the seat of Nigeria’s power in Abuja to South Africa where the whopping sum that belongs to the whole nation is said to be serving “Jail Term”.


South African authorities have dared the Nigerian government by saying, it won’t release the bogus sum which it classified as “thievery in high places”. According to exclusive information allegedly pushed out by dependable Aso Rock sources and intercepted by Bashir Hussein. Here are some damning revelations!

1. The exact amount is really $10 million
2. The money belongs to President Jonathan himself
3. The plane departed from the Presidential wing of the airport.
4. The office of the NSA using the airport commandant facilitated the entire process
4. The Customs are not present at the Presidential wing of the airport.
5. The aircraft and its passengers could therefore not be cleared by Customs.
6. The money was meant to buy a helicopter and there is a strong suspicion that the aircraft was meant to aid the insurgents.

And these are what they allegedly see as posers for Mr. President to explain for the whole nation?

1. To which arm of the government or security does the $10 million belong?
2. Who appropriated the $10 million and for what purpose.
3. We are aware that each arm of security has an account with the CBN for the purpose of arms purchase and such transactions are properly documented, why was this not the case in this instance?
4. Our checks have confirmed that there is no arm of the security that has requested for a helicopter so who was the helicopter meant for?
5. Is this how arms are purchased over the counter?
6. How come that it took the Federal Government a whole ten days to admit its involvement in this scandal?
7.Does this saga not give credence to the widely held view that you are benefitting from the Boko Haram insurgency and that you have deliberately allowed it to escalate to this level
8. Has this saga not confirmed the suspicion that your 2015 re-election bid had been factored into your handling of the Boko Haram insurgency?
9. Has this saga not given more credence to Dr. Davis revelations that the sponsors of Boko Haram are those closest to the President?
10. Has this saga not finally confirmed that the President knows more than he is telling the nation about the sudden escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency especially in the run up to the 2015 elections?
11. Has this saga not confirmed that powerful sources in the GEJ administration are all working in concert to use the Boko Haram insurgency to secure tenure extension for President Jonathan?
12. Is it not clear now why the Senate President infamously declared few days ago that election is not on the table, we are in a state of war?
13. Has APC not been proven right now when they declared in the panel discussion in the House of Commons on September 8th that the GEJ administration will cash in on the Boko Haram insurgency to postpone elections?
14. Mr. President please, ask your spokespersons to stop ridiculing Nigeria in the committee of nations. How can they say that entering a foreign country with undeclared $10 million dollars is merely procedural error.  Mr. President, South Africa is not Nigeria where stealing is not corruption.
15. If entering a country with undeclared $10 million is mere procedural error, why was Sule Lamido's son convicted for not declaring a mere $50,000 dollars at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport?
16. Mr. President, how can you be promoting a cashless policy at home and be exporting 10 million cash abroad?
17. Mr. President, your spokespersons lied when they said CIA, FBI, Mossad etc also travel abroad with undeclared cash violating the laws of foreign countries to buy arms
18. Mr. President, only gangsters and terrorists conduct their businesses in this manner.
19. Nigerians expect you to come clean to them on this issue
20. National Assembly, your silence on this matter is deafening! There will be a National Youth Protest  at Eagle Square by 1st October if the federal  law enforcement agency did not bring Pastor Oritsejafor to justice on the alleged illegal arms deal in South Africa. Please come out and address the nation on all these.

Friday 19 September 2014

PDP Bigwig, Kashamu Buruji Chides US Authorities, Says “I've Been Vindicated By British Court, So What Yours”


Consequent upon his legal logjam with the US authorities over an alleged drug involvement which requires his extradition into the US, PDP bigwig, Prince Kashamu Buruji has reacted to the recent news making the rounds on the issue. According to a press statement made available to National Enquirer, below are the views of the political stalwart over the matter which is already generating international attention.

INTRODUCTION:
 
I wish to provide an update to Nigerians on my efforts to obtain justice within the U.S. judicial system in regard to the false indictment made against me in the U.S. Courts, which the British courts have cleared me from unequivocally.
As many may recall I had to take the battle to the U.S. authorities in their own country because, despite the British judgment and the defeats they have suffered in their attempts to place a false accusation on me they have neither attempted to extradite me again nor withdrawn the charges.

MY FIRST ATTACK ON THE INDICTMENT:
I had in 2009 attacked the unjustifiable indictment retained made against me on the basis that the English Judiciary, which the U.S. authorities had themselves instigated against me, had exonerated me. In that application to dismiss the indictment I requested that the findings and Conclusions of District Judge Tim Workman of the Bow Street Magistrates Court in London, be given collateral estoppel status by the U.S. court and his findings and conclusions be made conclusive on the issue of whether or not I was a party to the alleged crime.
District Judge Norgle before whom the indictment was pending refused the application after ruling that I was not a fugitive from justice in the U.S.
I appealed against Norgle’s decision refusing to dismiss the indictment to the U.S 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The panel led by Judge Posner a well-respected judge in the U.S. judicial system agreed with the District Judge.
In his judgment then, Judge Posner had made some wide-ranging generalized statements, which were not borne out by the records. However, as the Supreme Court of the U.S. rarely takes an appeal that complains merely about findings of fact, the Supreme Court did not hear my appeal from that judgment.
In that judgment Judge Posner held that the decision of the English Courts were not equivalent to that of the U.S. courts and so could not be regarded as binding on the U.S. courts.
However, as the lawyers noted, U.S. courts expect their judgments to be treated better by foreign courts.
MY SECOND ATTACK ON THE INDICTMENT:
This update is about my second attempt to dismiss this indictment. This second attempt was based on my contention that the indictment pending before Judge Norgle has now expired by effluxion of time by reason of the Speedy trial requirement of U.S. constitutional and criminal law and was consequently statute barred. Many cases in the U.S. in which prosecution had not started after 5 years of the charge have been dismissed for this reason.
Judge Norgle had characteristically rejected the application.
I therefore applied to the U.S. 7th circuit Court of Appeals for an order of mandamus directing the District Judge to dismiss the indictment.
Judgment was delivered on the 15th of September 2014 by the Court of Appeals in respect of that application for mandamus.
Judge Posner delivered the leading judgment of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals again.
 
MY COMMENTS ON THE NEW COURT OF APPEALS JUDGMENT:
I have several complaints against that judgment and my lawyers are exploring the opportunities available for appeal.
However before my political adversaries begin the usual perversion of truth I wish to make the following comments on the judgment for the records.
Again Mr. Posner has ignored the facts on record and the findings of the English Courts in coming to his conclusions that:
I have no rights under the American Constitution because I have never been in the United States and “it would be very odd that someone with so attenuated a connection to the United States would have rights under the US Constitution”.
“but no matter; even if the government is incorrect and Kashamu does have constitutional rights, he still loses, because they haven’t been violated”.
B. In working his way to these conclusions, he had already made, Judge Posner wrongly finds that only two options are available to me:
The first is to “return” to the U.S. and “stand trial and at the trial renew his motion for dismissal on the basis of the speedy trial clause”
The second “is to obtain from us, as he is trying to do, a writ of mandamus ordering the District court to dismiss the indictment”.
C. Judge Posner comes to these wrong conclusions in order to create a scenario of a stalemate between me and the U.S authorities whereby he posits that I will not come to the U.S. to fall into the clutches of the U.S. judiciary and that the U.S. authorities in turn have little hope of ever extraditing me to the U.S in view of my prominence in Nigeria and the findings of the British Courts, thus he then surmises: “as he won’t risk the first path to relief, which would require him to come to the United States and fall into the clutches of the federal judiciary, he must rely entirely on mandamus”
He then proceeds to reject the application for mandamus for the reason that I have not come to the U.S. to “face the judicial music”.
D. Judge Posner in building the stalemate scenario then expresses his disbelief in the U.S. Government’s statement, in response to my application, that it has now found the atmosphere in Nigeria more favourable for my extradition to the U.S. and responds to their vaunted optimism as follows:
“But the government may be whistling in the dark in saying that its optimistic about being able to extradite him from Nigeria (no doubt it was optimistic about being able to extradite him from the United Kingdom). The proof of the pudding is in the eating: the government has not tried to extradite Kashamu from Nigeria and for all we know may be feigning “optimism” in order to undermine Kashamu’s claim that the threat of extradition is a sword of Damocles disrupting his life without our government’s having to undergo the expense and uncertainty of seeking extradition of a foreign big shot exonerated (though only partly) by the judiciary of our British ally. Given Kashamu’s prominence in Nigerian business and government circles, and the English Magistrate’s findings and conclusion, the probability of extradition may actually be low.”
Judge Posner in conclusion, for the above reason, finds in favour of the U.S. government, that it has no duty to attempt any extradition of any suspect charged for an offence in the U.S. since all it need do is to inform that suspect that a charge has been made against him in the U.S. and that suspect thereupon becomes duty bound to take the next plane to the U.S. at his own expense to challenge the charge and prove his innocence.
Mr. Posner feigns ignorance of the statistics that show a serious racial prejudice against blacks and foreigners (especially from developing countries) by the mainly white dominated federal judiciary of the United States.
However, his own prejudice is quite patent in the casual manner has treated this important matter and attempts to “call a dog a bad name in order to hang it”.
The use of the phrase “though only partly” to qualify his own concession that the British judiciary had “exonerated” me again shows that Judge Posner either lacks a thorough grasp of his own record or is being mischievous. The statement of the British court which he refers to as only part exoneration is as follows: “As a result of the evidence that the Defence has placed before me and the evidence which the government has tendered in rebuttal, I find the following facts: that the defendant has a brother who bears a striking resemblance to him; I am satisfied that the defendant’s brother was one of the co-conspirators in the drugs importation which involved Catherine and Ellen Wolters…
“I am however satisfied that the overwhelming evidence here is such that the identification evidence, already tenuous, has now been so undermined as to make it incredible and valueless. In those circumstances, there is then no prima facie case against the defendant and I propose to discharge him.”
If this clear judgment of “the judiciary of their British ally” is only part exoneration one wonders what more the U.S. judges want or what is really behind this persecution.
E. Finally, Mr. Posner apparently intent on changing a fundamental principle of criminal and International Human rights law, then places upon a suspect who has never been in the U.S. before (merely upon being informed of allegations against him before a U.S. Court) the responsibility to buy a cheap ticket from www.priceline.com, come to the U.S. to surrender himself into the arms of the U.S. judiciary (to prove his innocence of the charges against him?) and, as recommended by him, in my case, to face a possible life sentence before a judge whose mind is already made up even without evidence.
CONCLUSION:
I do not believe that justice has been done. And it is not over yet.
Buruji Kashamu
18th September 2014.

Athlone Mofannys Students Host Fashion Show



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The proprietress of a promising Fashion institute, Athlone Mofanny-Modupe Bamgbopa Awoleke  has rolled out plans to organize a fashion show as a way of celebrating the graduation ceremony of her first ever students. 
According to her the outfit, Athlone Mofanny services limited is a corporation dedicated to serving the Corporate and Vocational needs of Nigerians. We strive to promote in our students the desire to learn, the ability to think clearly and express themselves effectively.

Athlone Mofannys has been training unemployed Nigerian Youths in fashion designing skills in the last 2 years. We are also in partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and we take them on skills acquisition scheme, fashion designing and entrepreneurial skills at highly subsidized rate.

Athlone Mofannys is proud to host her 1st Fashion Runway Show in Lagos this Sunday, September, 21st, 2014 with sales/exhibition as the peak of the colourful event.

The organizers revealed that the event is fully charitable aside being an evening of fun and style, ‘we’ll also raise money for the Save a Fish Empowerment Initiative (S.A.F.E) to empower the less privileged by giving out scholarship for some of them with massive potentials and also an all expense training course for beginners to study fashion designing in Athlone Mofannys Fashion School. This initiative is to reduce poverty level, crime and other youthful exuberance in our great nation Nigeria’, she explained.

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