Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, has become the personal driver of controversial clergyman, Apostle Johnson Suleman who is in his state for a crusade. Fayose on Wednesday prevented DSS officials from arresting Suleman over his comments on the religious crisis in some parts of the North. Fayose drove Suleman to his crusade ground yesterday night....
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has revealed that the Police High Command dismissed the six policemen attached to him because they refused to allow the security agencies execute their plot of assassinating him.Speaking when he received the Aluu Council of Chiefs at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Tuesday, Governor Wike said there was a detailed plan by the security agencies to assassinate him, but his security details resisted the execution of the evil plot.
He said:
"The policemen were dismissed because they did not allow the security agencies to assassinate me as was planned.
"The security agencies planned to assasainate me, but those attached to me resisted the plot and refused to allow them kill me. That is why they are angry and desperate ".
The governor said that he will continue to defend the interest of the state, noting that he will never plead with the offending security agencies to stop their illegal activities.
He said the fraudulent invasion of Rivers State by the security agencies during the last rerun elections was a wake up call for the people to be prepared for the rigging of elections in 2016 by the same security agencies.
"The security agencies by their actions on December 10, 2016 Re-run elections alerted us on how they plan to rig the 2019 elections. We are now prepared for them", Governor Wike said.
He commended the Aluu Community for cooperating with the State Government to tackle cultism in the area. He said the peaceful nature of the area has led to improved execution of projects for the people.
The governor said that his administration will continue to develop different communities in line with the pledge to the people.
He said it is unfortunate that the immediate past APC administration in the State failed to develop communities adjoining Port Harcourt, despite the funds available to it.
Earlier, Chairman of the Aluu Council of Chiefs, Chief Kenneth Wobunwo lauded Governor Wike for the state burial accorded their son, Capt Elechi Amadi.
They also commended him for renaming the Former Port Harcourt Polytechnic as Elechi Amadi Polytechnic. The Aluu leaders further thanked the governor for constructing the major road to the area.
As shared by Timi Dakolo and Busola Dakolo on their respective Instagram accounts. Pretty woman!
Ahead of 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has agreed on a harmonized timetable with other examination bodies in the country to have a hitch free examination.
The Board at a brainstorming meeting with National Examination Council (NECO), West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Business and Technical Examination (NABTEB) held at the national headquarters of the Board in Abuja unanimously agreed to harmonize the examination timetable because of the candidates desire for qualitative tertiary education.
The harmonised examination timetable has put to rest problems arising from overlapping of examination dates, which would have disenfranchised a sizeable number of candidates.
At the end of the brainstorming session, the bodies resolved that WAEC would speak to all its authorities that from 2018, between March and April, for a window of two (2) weeks be created where all other examinations that have nothing to do with Nigeria will be held so as to allow a window for JAMB to conduct its examination.
The bodies agreed that for the purpose of the 2017 UTME, JAMB will shift its examinations to allow students face WAEC, NECO and NABTEB.
However, a ten-day window for JAMB'S UTME has been created by all examination bodies for JAMB to conduct it's examination. In view of this, JAMB will soon announce the commencement of sale of the 2017/2018 admission forms for UTME and Direct Entry (DE).
JAMB emphasises the fact that whoever is presently collecting any money in the name of JAMB form should be reported to the Police or any other security agency as fraudster.
NECO and NABTEB have also adjusted their examination timetables to avoid overlap in subjects that are common to the two (2) examination bodies.
A Committee was set up to critically appraise the mandates of WAEC, NECO and NABTEB, the three (3) examination bodies to make sure that each body sticks to their original mandate and with the possibility of working together in a synergy that they lead to collaborative examination for the purpose of students having results at one (1) sitting rather than separate sittings.
The essence of the meeting is to continually find solutions to challenges faced by candidates in the cause of their desire for tertiary education.
Again, the Board is using this opportunity to inform Nigerians that it has not commenced the sales of its application documents. The forms will be out as soon as all critical planning are concluded to ensure a smooth examination in 2017.
Fabian Benjamin, PhD
Head Information
JAMB
The Nigeria Customs Service through Joseph Attah, the AG. Public Relations Officer for Comptroller-General of Customs has denied the repoted dismissal of 59 officers. In the press statement released the NCS reads:
The attention of Nigeria Customs Service has been drawn to a misleading publication by a section of the media, concerning a supposed dismissal of 59 officers by the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd). This misleading report quotes a circular dated 19th January 2017, signed by the Ag. Comptroller (Discipline).
Obviously, the originator of this story came across an otherwise internal communication and without verification, went to press with a story that is capable of causing panic, fear with negative consequences on the morale of the workforce.
The Service wishes to state as follows:
That sometimes last year, these officers were served with various disciplinary actions ranging from warning, retirement to dismissal for different offences.
That the Public Relations unit then issued a press statement on the development which was widely reported by the print, electronic and online media.
That as a routine practice of keeping officers and men of the Service informed, the Ag. Comptroller (Discipline) compiled the names of all officers affected by the disciplinary action for circulation to all customs formations across the country.
The notification to serving officers and men is in keeping with the Service pre-emptive measures to deter any affected officer who may choose to hang around to engage in illegalities.
It is therefore, unfortunate for a reporter to stumble on an internal communication of an organisation and rush to press without seeking for clarification.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Service has not dismissed any officer since the one duly reported last year. The story is false and represents a repetition of same story delivered as new.
While the NCS will not hesitate to discipline erring officers, such action is usually painstakingly driven through all well established disciplinary procedures.
Accordingly, all service personnel and the general public are advised to discountenance the misleading report.
US President Donald Trump plans to build the Mexican border wall today. He makes a typo, a non-fan corrects him.
So far in Chicago, Illinois, there have been 228 shootings with 42 dead this year alone. US president Donald Trump who has always complained about the frequent shootings and deaths of people in the city took to his Twitter account to warn the city, targeting its Mayor, Rahm Emanuel who is democrat, to do something about it or he will send the feds. Then he congratulated Fox News and mocked CNN. Read what he tweeted
"In January, we're seeing a substantial increase from the prior year. I'm very concerned that that trend might continue. We're seeing a significant increase in our penetrating trauma, mostly GSWs," said Dr. Leslie Zun, system chair for Emergency Medicine, Sinai Health System.
That increase has yet to be calculated, since the month is not over yet. Dr. Zun hopes the violent trend to the new year will slow down.
"We need to do more. We need to look at other ways to reduce the violence in our community, the gun access," Dr. Zun said.
Note: Chicago is a gun free city.
Rapper Ruggedman gave his take on the ban of Christian religious group(s) at the Umaru Yaradua University. A ban the school has since denied. read here. Ruggedman wrote:
"UPRIGHT CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS SHOULD FIGHT AGAINST THIS ORDER BY YAR'ADUAR UNIVERSITY.
Imagine if universities in the East and South ban muslim activities. ARE THEY TRYING TO BREAK UP THIS COUNTRY?"
NIGERIANS WISE UP AND RISE UP.
WE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN HELP US
Comedian Chelsea Handler, took a swipe at the US First Lady Melania Trump, saying that she couldn't speak English, in an interview with Variety, after she led the women's march on Saturday.
During the Saturday, January 21, video interview with Variety’s Elizabeth Wagmeister, Chelsea ridiculed the idea of sitting down with either the POTUS, Dnald Trump or his Slovenian-born wife, Melania for her Netflix talk show.She said:
“No, I would not interview Trump” she told Elizabeth.
“No. Melania? Elizabeth asked Chelsea.
"Talk about what? She can barely speak English!”
This isn’t the first time Handler has insulted the US First Lady Melania Trump who speaks 5 languages, including English, French, Italian, German, and Slovene.
Toke Makinwa shared a photo of her dog and a pair of N480k shoe that he destroyed and jokingly offered her for sale.
Daar Communicaions released a press statement in regards to a fake AIT Facebook account which announced the supposed death of President Buhari who is currently on vacation in London. Read statement after the cut..
The attention of the Management of DAAR Communications Plc has been drawn to a FACEBOOK Account purportedly being operated by our Organization.
A report was published on the FACEBOOK that the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President ;Muhammadu Buhari ;who is currently on vacation in London has passed on.
We wish to state the following facts:
• It is falsehood dressed up as truth that we opened such FACEBOOK Account
•We did not publish nor know anything about the report.
•None of our Correspondents in London filed such report.
The Editorial Policy of our Organization is that any of our Correspondents is mandated to file all their reports for vetting and approval before publication which can only originate from our headquarters No Correspondent could individually on his or her own decision publish or cause to be published any story.
• The FACEBOOK Account is the brain child of a faceless and mischievous group whose despicable activities must be investigated by security agencies because of the unpleasant consequences.
• We wish to state that AIT runs an official on-line site for News which is not available for use by outsiders.
• We dissociate ourselves completely from anything contained in the said report which is a figment of the imagination of the authors.
• We also disown the so-called FACEBOOK Account, and have officially reported to FACEBOOK Managers.
A man from San Francisco spent $100k to alter his p*nis with the hopes of giving women maximum pleasure. He claims his new p*nis is guaranteed to please women and shared a photo of the outcome of the modification on Reddit. See it for yourself after the cut. Warning: Open carefully if at work.
Senator Shehu Sani has described the content of President Buhari's letter on the Secretary to the Government (SGF) Babachir Lawal as a 'lie'. The letter from the presidency to the Senate, read by the Senate President Bukola Saraki, at plenary on Tuesday, states that the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East which indicted Babachir Lawal "lacked the principle of fair hearing" and therefore he can't remove Lawal.
"I am of the view that by other considerations that may arise as a result of subsequent investigation of Babachir by the interim Ad Hoc Committee, the current report does not meet the principles of fair hearing," the letter reads.
"You are invited to note that none application of principles of fair hearing by the Senate Ad Hoc Committee is a clear contravention of Section 36 Sub-section (1) of the 1999 Constitution. It is also against all principles of rule of law as enunciated in the Nigerian Legal System as well as the rules of the National Assembly Committees on handling of public petitions.
In the light of the foregoing, I am not able to approve the recommendation to remove and prosecute Babachir on the basis of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee Report dated 15th December 2016. I had also conducted further investigation based on Babachir’s response to the allegations and issues raised in the Senate’s resolution,"
In his submission, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, Shehu Sani, said that he stands by the report of that committee.
"As far as I am concerned, on behalf of myself and the committee, what we did was a thorough job, we invited all the companies concerned, we invited the SGF and he sent us the Secretary of the Presidential Initiative on the North East.
"The secretary testified under oath that he is competent enough, he came with tons and tons of documents which we went through and then we came out with our report.
"We must in every respect fight corruption within the kitchen as we do in the veranda; if we don’t do that then we are being hypocritical",
Former Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, Friday night proceeded on exile to Guinea. He left the country in company of his wife and Guinean president, Alpha Conde. This brings to an end his 22 years in power. Adama Barrow who is his successor would return to the country to properly assume office after he was sworn in at the Gambian Embassy in Senegal on Thursday.
Makonnen, who did a collabo with rapper Drake, on the hit song, "Tuesday," came out being gay. He is the first mainstream rapper to openly come out as gay.
The Secret Service has reportedly said they will open an investigation into Madonna due to the inciting message she made at the Women's March in Washington on Saturday. Madonna took the stage and cursed out a lot of people including Donald Trump then she said she had thought about 'blowing up the White House' but knew that it 'wouldn't change anything'. Madonna dropped the f-bomb several times causing a slew of apologies from broadcasters airing the protest live. She went on to speak of her rage at the election result and cursing up some more.
This is a statement by Tony Eluemunor, James Ibori’s media Assistant. Please read..
The former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, has travelled the world just to dress himself in borrowed and sanctimonious plumes; that he rejected a $15m bribe from Chief James Onanefe Ibori. Yet, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has demolished Ribadu’s allegation by offering a new vista of looking at Ribadu’s claims. Obasanjo said in his own book, “My Watch” (volume two) that he harassed Ibori to refund some money to Delta State and that even before the money came, he would open an account at the CBN to warehouse the funds.
Then, when the money was allegedly given to Ribadu, he asked Ribadu to treat it either as bribe or restitution – “any way” he liked. So, Obasanjo even claimed to have been aware of the money before it went to Ribadu.Who would have bribed Ribadu by first telling Obasanjo about it? And which Governor would have incriminated himself by making restitution to his state by returning stolen funds to Obasanjo? When did Obasanjo become a restitution agent for Nigeria?
Which law backed the actions he claimed to have taken? All these questions scream that Aso Rock cooked up the story and Ribadu played along; and the funds came from the Third Term slush fund - to blackmail Ibori!
What is obvious here is that the $15m bribe allegation is a result of high stakes treachery if Obasanjo’s story is interposed against statements from EFCC operatives. It was a plot from hell. Or why should there be several versions of one single event? That would only happen if some or all the parties involved are lying. Now, may we look at some of the statements from Ribadu himself, Ibrahim Lamorde, James Garba, a central Bank of Nigeria staff seconded to EFCC, Senator Andy Uba and EFCC’s lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN). Everyone contradicted every other person’s claims.
Ribadu said:
“Before the end of (Ibori’s) term, we met at one of his friend’s house in Abuja (notice that Uba was now more of a friend to Ibori than Ribadu!). I had brought several of my colleagues from the EFCC. They witnessed Ibori handing over to me a bag containing $15m in cash, as a pay-off which I pretended to treat as restitution for the monies he stole from his state. (Ribadu’s book: “My Story”, page 124)”
Yes, restitution and NOT BRIBE; this vindicates Obasanjo’s claim and points to his role in the allegation which looks like a scam) But from Wale Adebanwi's “A Paradise of Maggots” comes this: “Ribadu claimed that Ibori brought along a bribe of $15m in cash, ‘in two bags’.
“Ribadu then called Lamorde, Ibrahim Magu and five other officers through the mobile phone to come to Uba’s house to pick up the bribe. Lamorde and his team took the two bags containing the money and drove straight to the CBN.”
Two books, two versions of the EFCC operatives present when the alleged bribery was given, and two versions of the number of bags, and as we shall see when we consider other police statements, two versions of the date the alleged bribe (or restitution) was given and when it left Uba’s house for the CBN.
Ribadu’s Abuja statement of 12th December 2007:
“Sometime within the month of April 2007 Mr. James Ibori informed me that he had $15m for us (the EFCC) to collect. He said that it can be collected at Dr. Andy Uba’s residence , Aso Villa, Abuja. I therefore requested the Director of Operations of EFCC Mr. Lamorde to first arrange in the CBN for safe keeping of the money and proceed inform (sic) his officer to receive the money.
The money was collected in my presence at Dr. Andy Uba’s house on the 26/4/07 by Lamorde and his officers and deposited in the CBN Abuja branch on the same day”.
Yet, in the London statement of August 26, 2009, Ribadu claimed: “On that day...my staff on that occasion would have included EFCC Head of Operations, Ibrahim Lamorde and EFCC Officer James Garba, (now it is no longer the seven officers mentioned in the book as quoted above but just two operatives) James (Ibori) was there and his servant or driver brought out the money from the house, in two (2) massive sacks containing U.S. $100 dollar bills. The bribe was made on 26th April 2007”. In his first statement, he had said that the money was for EFCC and not himself.
First on date, Ribadu’s 2007 Police statement claimed the date was 25/4/07 but this changed by a day in the London version.
Yet on who handed out the alleged bribe money to the EFCC, and those present at the occasion, it was contradictions galore as Lamorde further contradicted Ribadu saying that on “25th April” Ribadu told him that “there was the sum of $15 million (USD) in cash given to him and the Commission by James Ibori” (so the money was for EFCC and not Ribadu). Garba supported this version, saying that the money was there in Uba’s house on the 25th April 2007, and he was directed by Lamorde to collect the sum and deposit at the CBN, so he wrote an authorising letter which Lamorde signed - for Garba to deposit the money that same 25th April 2007. Garba said: “but I could not make the deposit that day because it was already late to do so”.
Ibrahim Lamorde also contradicting Ribadu, maintained that the money was already in Uba’s residence on 25/4/07 and Ribadu “directed that I should make arrangement to collect it. So on 26 -04-07, myself and Mr. James Garba, (just two operatives, not seven as Ribadu claimed, and obviously excluding Ibrahim Magu) accompanied by Police escort proceeded to Mr. Uba’s residence. We collected the money”.
So, from Lamorde’s statement, Ribadu and Ibori were not there. They just collected the money from Andy Uba!
About Ibori’s presence in Uba’s house when EFCC collected the alleged bribery, Garba contradicted Ribadu;
“In the compound, I saw Mr. Andy Uba and he directed some men, to carry a brownish long bag, very heavy, into the booth of the Director’s (Lamorde) car. This happened after the Director and Uba had exchanged greetings on our arrival to Uba’s house”. So Andy Uba directed the operations, said Garba!
According to Garba, the Ibori who was allegedly present in Ribadu’s London statement was absent, and Ibori’s driver or servant who allegedly brought out the money from Ibori’s car curiously turned into “some men (not one) to carry the long heavy bag” into Lamorde’s car. Lamorde and Garba agreed that neither Ibori nor Ribadu was there.
Ribadu claimed in his London statement that he never questioned Ibori over the alleged bribery, because he enjoyed immunity until he left office on May 29, 2007. If so, why didn’t EFCC raise that question when an investigation team questioned Ibori on 4th July 2007 or even at Ibori’s arrest? Till this very moment, EFCC never questioned Ibori about any alleged bribe.
EFCC’s lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) even contradicted himself: years after he had charged Ibori in Federal High Court, Kaduna, that EFCC collected the alleged bribe from Andy Uba’s house, he changed the story in the Abuja suit in an Abuja High Court that determined that the money should be permanently deposited at the CBN; he said the money came from unknown agents of Ibori. And if the EFCC was so sure that it collected the money from Ibori, why did it institute the suit to determine who should keep the money? So, EFCC’s deviousness started all the controversy.
If EFCC had said that the money came from Delta state’s former Governor, should there be any controversy before the money should rightly revert to the state?
Who can explain why a Ribadu would have been given an advanced notice of a bribe and he would not use any devise, even if ordinary mobile phone, to record it. Yet, on page 103 of his “My Story; My Vision”, Ribadu claimed a woman attempted to bribe him “during a meeting in a private house and the conversation was recorded without her knowledge”.
That was in 2003, so why did he not repeat the procedure in 2007? Why is Ribadu now claiming that Ibori was present at Uba’s house that day? It is because he not only failed to obtain Uba’s statement on the bribe allegation but any right-thinking person knows that in law it is mere hear-say for a Ribadu to claim that an Uba gave him (Ribadu) an alleged bribe which he told him came from an Ibori and he would rush to court- where hear-say is never a credible testimony. So he was now struggling to drag Ibori into the scene.
Lastly, at Protea Hotel, Ikeja Lagos, Ribadu, as Action Congress of Nigeria’s presidential candidate for the 2011 election, was asked about the bribe allegation. Mr. Ikechukwu Amaechi reported in a national newspaper that Ribadu said there was no bribery, and challenged Ribadu to react if he had been lied against. The challenge still stands. For once, the loquacious Ribadu and his army of defenders lost their voices. Several other journalists, including Steve Nwosu of the SUN and Tunde Abdulrahman then of THISDAY were there.
The mantra that the money was deposited at the CBN is fallacious if it was intended as proof of bribery! It is “irrelevant appeal”. My dictionary says that “Irrelevant appeals attempt to sway the listener with information that, though persuasive, is irrelevant to the matter at hand”. The money involved could be deposited at the CBN twenty times over but such would not advance our knowledge about the fund’s sources.
Luckily, a lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo could not stomach the imponderables contained in Ribadu’s tall devilish tales and he went to court to make certain demands; one of which was that the man who was mentioned in several statements as the actual person who handed out the alleged bribe (Uba) must be asked to state on record (police statement) who gave him the money and what the money was meant for. That, simply put, is called “investigation”. Uba himself would later issue a press statement saying Ibori handed out the money in his presence and house but he remains ignorant of the reason for that transaction. Another contradiction please, if we remember that Lamorde and Garba had said Ibori was not there.
Specifically on the bribe allegation at the Asaba Court, comes this from Justice Awokulehin’s ruling: “Count 66 Charges the 1st Accused/Applicant with making a cash payment of S15,000,000 (Fifteen million Dollars) to the officials of the EFCC in order to influence their investigations and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 15(2)(b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004.
The evidence in respect of this charge are the witness statements of NUHU RIBADU, IBRAHIM LAMORDE and JAMES GARUBA. Their statements are to the effect that the money was collected from one DR. ANDY UBA in his residence and not from the Accused/Applicant. It is shocking that there is no witness statement from the said DR. ANDY UBA who can say whether or not the 1st Accused gave him money and the purpose for which the money was given and to whom he delivered the money.
Section 15 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2004 under which the charge is brought provides as follows:
“15(1) without prejudice to the penalties provided for illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, the laundering of drug money or the proceeds of a crime or an illicit act, a person who;
(d) makes or accepts cash payments exceeding the amount authorized under this Act,
(e) fails to report an intentional transfer of funds or securities required to be reported under
this Act, or
(f) being a director or employee of a financial institution contravenes the provision of
Sections 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 10 of this Act, Commits an offence under this Act. (So, sections d, e and f concerns the banks only and not bribery).
2. A person who commits an offence under paragraph (d)-(f) where the offender
(1) is an individual, a fine of not less than N250, 000.00 or more than one million Naira or a term of imprisonment of not less than 2 years or more than three years or to both imprisonment and fine.
(ii) is a financial institution or anybody corporate to a fine of not less that N250,000,00. (The two paragraphs above also concern the banks and banks alone, not bribery)
So, in Kaduna and Asaba courts, section 15 of the EFCC Act that Ibori was said to have contravened did not deal with an accused attempting to bribe an EFCC official. Please read that section 15 again. Ignorant journalist, who never read the ruling or could not understand it, did not know this. From the Asaba court came this ruling:
“There is no correlation between the evidence in the proof in respect of this Count and the essential ingredient of the offence charged (because the section of the EFCC Act applied to the banks and not bribery) that the Proof of Evidence has failed to disclose any prima facie case against the 1st Accused/Applicant to justify his being put on trial in respect of this charge. Accordingly, I hereby quash Count 66 of the Further Amended Charges”.
Nobody has faulted that judgment on points of law. Nobody has even discussed it!
On where the money could have come from, Nasir-el Rufai wrote in “Accidental Public Servant” (page 335 “President (Obasanjo’s) third term team spent a lot of time raising huge amounts of money – more than $300m by Nuhu Ribadu’s informed estimate. And on page339, El-Rufai, Ribadu’s close friend added:
“Nuhu directed the financial intelligence of EFCC to track cash movements, mostly from the state’s into Abuja, which accounts, most of the money ended up in and so forth. Most of the money was allegedly going to companies and bank accounts controlled by Andy Uba”. El-Rufai continued on the next page:
“Most of the money came from Governors friendly to Obasanjo but some also came from Lagos-based businessmen”.
On page 349 El-Rufai hit the nail on the head:
“it was from Andy Uba’s house that payments emanated from” when the bribery proper started. A well-known Abuja Minister once said he personally ferried N75 million apiece to national legislators representing Abuja. Was there really such a slush fund so vast that money from it could have bribed most members of the national legislature? Former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara said in November 2014 “The Congress Watch”, page 13: I know that on Thursday the 16th May 2006, by 1.30am the sum of N250m was brought and I refused the money. So mine was not even N50m. In fact, it was N250m with a promise, if everything worked out, they would bring more to me”.
So it is no surprise that the money came from Uba’s house, the Third Term purser, according to El-Rufai’s book. This same Uba’s house was where the $15m that went to EFCC emanated from. Obasanjo said he had already opened a CBN account for the money that would be claimed to have come from Ibori. Now, it should be obvious that this allegation was a cooked up story from the very top; a dirty top and Ribadu himself told Lagos journalists that Ibori did not bribe him.
The Central Intelligence Agency has published nearly 13 million pages of declassified documents online. These documents were previously physically accessible only from four computer terminals at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
The published documents shed light on the agency's activities throughout the Vietnam, Korean and Cold War conflicts.
It also includes documents pertaining to purported UFO sightings and the organization's "Star Gate" program investigating possible psychic abilities and what could be done with them.
The archive touches on the CIA extensive history as an organization, from its inception up through the 1990s. "None of this is cherry-picked, It's the full history. It's good and bads" said CIA spokesperson Heather Fritz Horniak. Although the documents are declassified, redactions do exist throughout the millions of pages.
The redactions -- which Horniak describes as light -- were done to protect sources and methods that could potentially harm national security, she explained.
A Nigerian woman who was trafficked into Ireland and forced into prostitution narrated to the court how she was made to was have sex with up to ten men a day for no payment.
She disclosed this in Dublin court on Tuesday, January 17th, during the trial of Joy Imasogie, 40, (pictured above) an alleged trafficker.
The woman told a jury she underwent a "voodoo process" in Nigeria before coming to Ireland, during which she swore she would not report Imasogie.
The woman also alleged that while she was working as a prostitute, Imasogie’s husband, Kingsley, began “taking advantage” of her and having sex with her.
Imasogie of Chapleswood Crescent, Hollystown, Dublin 15, has pleaded not guilty to organising for the woman to enter the country illegally, to compelling or coercing the woman to be a prostitute and to controlling or directing the activities of prostitution for gain on dates between March 2006 and April 2008.
On her second day of evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court the alleged victim said she lived in a flat in Phibsborough where she was visited by up to ten men a day. She said the visits usually came at night or at lunchtime.
She told Kerida Naidoo SC, prosecuting, that Imasogie and another woman made the arrangements and that she would receive a phone call when a man was on the way. She said the prostitution service was advertised on a website run by a woman in England.
Imasogie allegedly told her the price was €150 for half an hour and €250 for an hour. The complainant said the accused told her men might want anal sex as an “additional service” but she refused to do this.
She said that she might receive €2,000 a day from the men. Of that Imasogie would allegedly take half for arranging the men to come and half to pay off a €50,000 “debt” she said the woman owed her for bringing her to Ireland.
The alleged victim said she was left with no money at the end of the day and that she received no allowance. She said she had to demand money from the accused for personal items and that Imasogie would sometimes bring her food.
The woman said Imasogie gave her a false passport to show to gardaí if they called at the door. One day gardaí called but didn’t believe the passport was genuine. The alleged victim said she went upstairs and jumped out the window to escape, breaking her leg in the process.
She said she was in a cast for two months and during that time she was told by the accused to “answer the phones and direct people”.
She returned to prostitution after the leg healed, she said. Sometimes the work involved travelling down the country for “overnight” visits. She said the accused or her husband Kingsley would drive her to there.
She alleged that after she had been in Ireland for about a year, Kingsley started to take advantage of her and have sex with her.
The woman said that after some time she thought she had worked off about €40,000 of the €50,000 debt. When she asked Imasogie about this, the accused replied that she had lost the book she used to keep track of this and that she believed the woman had paid off only €15,000 or €20,000.
The alleged victim said in 2008 she left Imasogie and refused to return. She said she didn’t want to be a prostitute anymore and refused to have any further contact with the accused.
The trial continues before Judge Patricia Ryan and a jury. Will keep you updated...
Source : IrishExaminer.com
RnB superstar Seyi Shay recently sat with the good folks of the BRT Television and gave an insightful interview with discussing about her life, Childhood, Career and 'next level' plans.
You can catch the entire interview on your next ride of any Blue air conditioned BRT Buses or the Valuemedia youtube page.
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Amazu said this while being cross-examined by Paul Usoro, counsel to Senate President Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Earlier, he had testified that Saraki transferred funds to his accounts in the United States (US) and London at the time he was Kwara state governor.
“The customer, Dr Saraki, with the address Government House, Ilorin, gave an instruction to transfer $73, 223.28 to the beneficiary, American Express Services Europe Limited through their bank, American Express Bank of New York, for the funding of the amount utilised on Amex card issued to the customer (dollar credit card) ending in 6009,” he had said.
He had also said that “from his (Saraki’s) pound sterling account at GTB to his Fortis Bank account in London, 761, 904.76 pounds was transferred on the 15th February, 2010″.
It is against Nigerian laws for a public officer to operate foreign bank accounts.
He had given his testimony while being led in evidence by Rotimi Jacobs, counsel to the federal government and prosecution.
But under cross-examination, Usoro asked him when he made his statement to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and he said it was on 10 September, 2015 , five days after Saraki was summoned by the tribunal.
He also admitted that there was no evidence to show that the defendant operated those accounts.
He said the transfer of funds to American Express Bank of New York was for accounts operated by American Card Services, and not by the defendant.
Contrary to his earlier testimony that an operator of a credit card must have a bank account, Amazu said the issuer of Saraki’s credit card was not a bank.
Here is a rundown of the dialogue in parts.
Usoro: Who issued the documents you testified on?
Witness: It was issued by the bank.
Usoro: But in the documents, it says public sector group of Ilorin, is that correct?
Witness: Yes.
Usoro: So, you have nothing to do with it?
Witness: Yes.
Witness: My lord, I want to say something… I don’t know what the issues in the documents are. The prosecution was only asking me questions and I was responding.
Usoro: You were not in the funds transfer unit when these funds were transferred on 15 February, 2010, is that correct?
Witness: Yes.
Usoro: The first time you saw these documents was in regard to this matter?
Witness: Yes
Usoro: You have nothing to do with the documentation of these fund transfers, is that correct?
Witness: Yes.
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