Saturday, 13 August 2016
Did Tyga get hair implant? (photos)
$15bn arms deals: Panel traces N2bn to five children of ex-Army Chief
“The committee reviewed the procurement carried out by Chok Ventures Ltd and Integrated Equipment Services Ltd, two companies that shared the same registered office, had one name as common controlling shareholder and sole or mandatory signatory to the various banks accounts of the companies. The committee further established that between March 2011 and December 2013, the two companies exclusively procured various types of Toyota and Mitsubishi vehicles worth over N2, 000,000,000.00 for the Nigerian Army without any competitive bidding. Most of the contracts awarded to the companies were also split, awarded on the same date or within a short space of time at costs and mobilization higher than the prescribed thresholds. For instance, on February 13 and 15, the two companies were awarded contracts worth N260, 000.000.00 and N315, 000,000.00 respectively for supplies of various vehicles. The Nigerian Army could not justify the exclusive selection of these vendors against other renowned distributors of same brands of vehicles procured. More seriously, the committee found no credible evidence of delivery of the vehicles by the two companies as there were no receipt vouchers, but only unauthenticated delivery notes, invoices and waybills that were purportedly used for the deliveries. Nevertheless, the vendors were fully paid based on job completion certificate authenticated by the then Chief of Logistics, Maj Gen D.D. Kitchener (rtd). The payments were also made without deduction of Withholding Tax (WHT). Furthermore, analyses of the various bank accounts of the two companies showed transfers to individuals , some of who are believed to be children of the army chief. Thus, the committee recommends further investigation to determine delivery of the vehicles and relationship of funds beneficiaries with the former COAS and the two companies. Furthermore, the panel said that Lt Gen O. A. Ihejirika (rtd), Maj Gen D. D. Kitchener (rtd), Col A. M. Inuwa and Mr Chinedu Onyekwere should be held accountable for the issues arising out of the contracts.”
The panel during its findings discovered that contracts in the Nigerian Army were awarded without due process. It said a company was registered on November 17, 2014 and awarded $125,179,299.10 on the same day.
“The Nigerian Army, between April and August 2014, entered into four contract agreements with Societe D’Equipmenteux Internationale (SEI Nig Ltd) for procurement of Cobra Armoured Personnel Carriers, Shilka Self-Propelled Artillery Guns, Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) as well as various ammunition and spares funded by the ONSA. The contracts for the Cobra APCs and Shilka Guns were not executed as they were not funded. However, the costs for procurement of the AFVs; ammunition and spares were $398,550,000.00 and $484,765,000.00 respectively totalling $883,315,000.00. In November 2014, the ONSA awarded contract to Conella Services Limited for procurement of 72 various arms and ammunition that included MRAP vehicles, Mi-17 helicopter at the cost of $125,179,299.10. The committee observed that the company was registered in Nigeria on 17 November, 2014 and awarded the contract on the same date, while the EUC for the procurement was issued a day later on 18 November, 2014. Furthermore, the ONSA paid $36,996,530.00 and N2,209,582,296.00 to the vendor between November 2014 and 15 April, 2015.
However, the Nigerian Army denied receipt of any procurement from Conella Services Ltd.
“Similarly, the committee tried in vain to reach officials of the company to confirm execution of the contract. There is, therefore, the need for further investigation of Conella Services Ltd. The committee observed that SEI and its two associated companies, APC Axial Ltd and HK-Sawki Nig Ltd, were incorporated in May 2014 with two Nigerien brothers, Hima Aboubakar and Ousmane Hima Massy as the only directors. Between May 2014 and March 2015, the ONSA mandated CBN to release various sums totaling $386,954,000.00 to SEI and the two associated companies for ‘procurement of technical equipment’, without tying the money to particular items of procurement. Thus, the allotment of the funds was left at the discretion of the vendor without input or consultation with ONSA or the Nigerian Army. Furthermore, some of the funds transferred preceded the formalization of SEI contracts with the Nigerian Army. There was also no evidence of any contract to justify the payments made by ONSA to the SEI associate companies. Consequently, it had been difficult for the ONSA, the Nigerian Army and SEI to reconcile the accounts vis-a-vis the equipment delivered.”
The panel also uncovered that 42 units of Armoured Personnel Carrier(APC) which were rejected by Iraq were later sold to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram insurgents. It claimed that some of the APCs were either expired or unsuitable leading to loss of lives.
“The committee observed that one of the new equipment SEI procured for the Nigerian Army from Ukraine was BTR-4E APC.”
However, according to the Ukraine’s state enterprise, Lviv Armour Repair Plant, the designers of the equipment, “some of the products sold to Nigeria in 2014 were actually among 42 units designed for Iraq which subsequently rejected them due to poor performance rating”.
“The Nigerian Army did not also undertake the mandatory pre-shipment inspections provided for in the contract agreements. Instead, the NA deployed an infantry officer, who lacked the technical knowledge to assess the capabilities and shortcomings of the equipment, to oversee the shipment of the items for the Nigerian Army from Ukraine. Additionally, the two-week training availed the technicians and operators was inadequate for them to comprehend the technical workings of the newly introduced equipment. The committee’s interactions with the field operators revealed that although the platforms and ammunition procured by SEI were deployed for the NE operations, some of them were aged or expired, lacked spares and prone to breakdown without immediate recovery equipment. Therefore, failure to carry out pre-shipment inspection and inadequate training resulted in procurement of some unreliable equipment that reduced the capacity of the Nigerian Army in the North East operations and resulted in the loss of lives and equipment.”
Photo from fashion designer Kunbi Oyelesi's court wedding
Hausa film actor, Adam Zango, goes on national TV to deny being gay
“I am here to tell the whole world that I am not gay and I do not participate in any gay activities within and outside the Kannywood industry” he said.Many of the actors in Kannywood have been taunted with rumors of being gay.
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Prophet accused of abducting 16-yr-old girl said he wanted to cast out demons from her
A self-acclaimed prophet, David Ifunaya, arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly abducting a 16-year-old Muslim girl, sent the operatives into reels of laughter when he said he wanted to cast out demons from the girl and to liberate her family from evil spirits.
The 26-year-old Ifunaya who said he is a prophet with Immaculate Ministry in Satellite Town, further told the police that he had a vision to set the girl and her family free and was only obeying divine instructions.
While parading the suspect before newsmen, the State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the suspect abducted the victim for three weeks after the the teenager told him that her father is a herbalist.
“Throughout her stay in his place, neither did he nor his victim call her parents, who were searching everywhere for her. She was later traced to the suspect’s home in Satellite area of Lagos, following which her parents reported the case to police.”
While confessing, Ifunaya said:
“I met the girl earlier this year and ministered to her. I had a vision that her family was under a spell and I told her so.
I later gave her a handbill which she rejected, saying that her aunt would be angry with her for collecting a Christian handbill, since they are Muslims.
She, however, requested for my number which I gave to her. Since then, she calls me for prayers and counselling. I even prayed for her and she passed her JAMB exams.
When she called and told me she was coming to my house without the knowledge of her parents, I refused but later agreed because she kept pleading that she needed spiritual help.
She also lamented that nothing was going on well for her and her family and attributed it to the spell in her family.
She said she was convinced I am a man of God because since I prayed for her, things have been going on well with her.”
The teenage girl, on her part, said she was carried away by the accurate prophesy Ifunaya gave concerning her and her family, and that she was on her way to her uncle’s place on July 31, only to find herself at the prophet’s house where she stayed for eight days.
“While in his house, he introduced me to his pastor as his sister. I slept in his bedroom and he never made any advances on me.”
Couple divorce after 83 days of marriage in Ibadan
The marriage between a 70-year-old Surveyor, Pa Owolabi Alowonle and his wife, Idia, will surely go down in history as one of the shortest after a Mapo Customary Court sitting in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, annulled the union owing to irreconcilable differences.
Vanguard reports that the marriage which lasted just 83 days, was nullified by the court presided over by Magistrate Hentic Agbaje, after efforts made by family members and the court to reconcile the couple, could not yield any result.
It was gathered that Pa Alowonle was a widower when he married Idia, equally a widow but they could not sustain the love that led them into deciding to stay as husband and wife.
In delivering his judgement, Agbaje held that both Alowonle and Idia based their rush into marriage on infatuation and the urge to satisfy their selfish ambitions and as such, they failed to find out if they were compatible.
“I don’t exactly understand why two elderly persons who are already widow and widower, should carelessly rush into a marriage without proper knowledge of one another.
Well, I only wish both of you good as you have both accepted dissolution of the union. Therefore, in the interest of peaceful coexistence, the 83-day-old union between Alowonle and Idia has ceased to be henceforth.”
Agbaje, however, directed Alowonle to provide a cash of N12,000 for Idia’s accommodation and another N2,000 for the movement of her belongings within seven days.
In his petition, Alowonle had told the court that his wife was causing disharmony in his house as well as being a threat to his life.
“My lord, ever since Idia got to my home on May 18 this year, she has been doing everything possible to put an end to my life by not giving me rest of mind.
She has been causing serious disharmony among my tenants who were peaceful before she married me. She and her daughter from time to time, fight and gossip around the house, giving unfounded information of one tenant to the other.
As if that is not enough, Idia incited her daughter against me to abuse and break the long existing regulations I imposed on the house for peaceful coexistence of the tenants and my family.
I barred any form of singing of religious songs which I know could cause problems among Muslim and Christian tenants. However, the daughter she brought from her late husband deliberately started singing in the house.
In fact, Idia and her daughter have no respect for me.”
In accepting the divorce, Idia said:
“It will be a big relief for me to exit his house, the house of trouble. My lord, when he met me as a widow, Alowonle promised to take good care of me, assuring that he had no wife since he lost his last wife.
However, just seven days after I moved into his home as a wife, he brought in another wife and started treating me like dustbin. Ever since then, he asked me to leave the shop he established for me with N25,000 and has even asked me to leave his house altogether. It is a thing of joy for me to be free again from his unfaithfulness."
Driver arrested for cloning boss' credit card, stealing N2.9m in 3 days
A private driver identified as Mayowa Adenuga, has been arrested has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly cloning the ATM card of his employer, and stealing the sum of N2.9 million from his accounts within three days.
The 18-year-old Adenuga told the police that he stole the credit card when he was washing the boss' car and ran the ATM through a software, Credit Card Revealer (CCR), from where he cloned it and went on his stealing spree.
After cloning the card, Adenuga reportedly generated a new pin for it before handing it over to his syndicates, Opeyemi Adewale, 18, and Jeremaiah Titoye, 29, who used it to shop at Mega Plaza and Shoprite as well as withdrawing the monies from the accounts.
In his confession during his parade at the State Command headquarters in Ikeja, Adenuga said:
“Before I started driving my Oga, I used to be a fraudster. I went to a computer institute and so, I developed the device which we used to clone credit cards.
Honestly, my boss has been very good to me. It’s not up to a year that I started working for him but he has always treated me kindly. I know I should have returned the card to him when I saw it but I just wanted to test the software whether it will work.
And when I tried it and it worked, I knew that I could not use it myself because of the surveillance cameras at the ATM points.
So, I sent them and asked them to withdraw N200, 000 which they did. The following day, I told them to go to Mega Plaza and buy Apple laptop, phones, wristwatches and I also told them to go to Shoprite on Victoria Island and the one at Ikeja for shopping.
Everything they bought amounted to N2.7 million. I did not work with any telecommunication company to bar my boss’ calls and text messages. I blocked his calls and SMS on his phone when I had access to it."
"That way, he was not able to make calls or send SMS for about three days, until he went to the subscriber to complain.
I feel bad and I regret my actions. I am willing to pay back all that I stole from my boss. I am very sorry about my action,” Adenuga pleaded.
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