Aluko is Judas Iscariot - Ekiti government

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The Ekiti State Government has accused the poll fraud whistleblower, Dr. Tope Aluko, of making millions from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a bid to remove Governor Ayo Fayose.

It accused Aluko of feeding the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) with lies that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stockpiled arms during the June 21, 2014 election.

Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media Lere Olayinka, in a statement yesterday labelled Aluko as a “Judas”, who he said would soon be dumped by his “principals”.

He said it was laughable that someone who was expelled from the PDP is still claiming to be a member.

“Can Aluko be a member of PDP by force even when PDP has said he is not wanted?”

The statement reads: “Aluko and his likes can continue to run from pillar to post. All their efforts will come to naught. Like the Biblical Judas, we will all live to see how those treating him like their man Friday will dump him.

Describing Aluko’s claims as “ talks from a demented mind”, Olayinka said Nigerians must ask him why he was unable to deliver his polling unit in Iyin-Ekiti to the PDP, if indeed he was the arrowhead of the rigging.

“Aluko can continue with his journey of political perfidy. He can keep running while enjoying the proceeds of his political 419. But like the Biblical Judas, he can only run; he will be caught by his deeds one day.”

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CBN recruitment scandal: Job titles for Buhari, Ministers’ relatives ‘released’

Sahara Reporters, has published the positions and job titles of 91 children and relatives of politically exposed person secretly recruited by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Top government officials and party members whose children or relatives were hired in secretly hired by the bank include President Muhammadu Buhari, whose niece was employed; former Vice President Abubakar Atiku; Mamman Daura, a close ally of the president; Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, whose sons were hired, and the Minister of Interior, Abdurahman Danbazzau.

The recruitments have drawn widespread condemnations from Nigerians.

The CBN revealed it conducted a “targeted recruitment” to pick “specialists”, although it refused to directly confirm the names first published by Sahara Reporters over a week ago.

The presidency has not commented on the report, neither has any of the named ministers.

Quoting a top official of the CBN, Sahara Reporters said the governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, had arranged the hiring as way of endearing himself to the presidency and in return for saving his job.

According to the website, the CBN, in order to hide the scandal, often adjusted names of some of the beneficiaries. A common method used by the bank was using candidates’ first names and their fathers’ middle name instead of surnames.

For instance, the daughter of Mr Abubakar, Maryam, was listed as Maryam Atiku, instead of “Maryam Abubakar,” while the son of Mr. Dambazau became “Nagodi Abdulrahman, instead of Nagodi Dambazau.

The website on Wednesday published the positions and job titles of 91 beneficiaries of the clandestine recruitment.

1. Fatima Baba Shehu – Assistant Manager Step 01

2. Carpenter Barka Muhammad – Assistant Manager Step 02

3. Abiola Ologburo Adeniran – Assistant Manager Step 01

4. Akinwunmi Ayodeji Akintola – Assistant Manager Step 01

5. Abubakar Mohammed Yahaya – Assistant Manager Step 01

6. Usman Buba Jalo – Assistant Manager Step 01

7. Aduwak Laraba – Deputy Manager Step 01

8. Aina Michael O – Deputy Manager Step 01

9. Taslim Ganiyu Olalekan – Deputy Manager Step 01

10. Ethel Isioma Ojije – Deputy Manager Step 01

11. Abdulnasir Haruna – Deputy Manager Step 02

12. Iheomamere Chikezie Chikwendu – Deputy Manager Step 02

13. Solomon Ezra Monde – Deputy Manager Step 02

14. Aminu Ahmadu Dauda- Manager Step 01

15. Sunday John Momoh – Manager Step 02

16. Mustapha Mariam Bukola – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

17. Ayoola Oluwabukola – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

18. Adefela H. Adejuwon – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

19. Owoade Adedamola Kazeem – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

20. Omitokun Omolola Temitope – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

21. Ibrahim Ahmed Lawan – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

22. Maryam Adamu Bahamas – Senior Supervisor 1 step 0

23. Olajide Tolani Kudirat – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

24. Temitope Adeola Odunowo – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

25. Mohammed Ameer Ibrahim Bunu – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

26. Hajara Sani – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

27. Abdulmalik Atta – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

28. Nagode Abdulrahman – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

29. Ahmed Aminu-Kano – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

30. John Irimiya Balewa – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

31. Na’abba Fatima Ghali -Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

32. Abdullahi Mohammed Nuradeen – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

33. Sadiq Inuwa Baba – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

34. Sadik Uba Sule – Senior supervisor i step 01

35. Olawunmi Adedoyin Kayode – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

36. Ibironke Ifeoluwa Adetunbi – Senior supervisor 1 Step 01

37. Ikyembe Terseel Ikyembe – Senior supervisor 1 Step 01

38. Princewill Eva – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

39. Abdul-hakeem Mohammed Ali – Senior Supervisor 1 step 01

40. Mbwiduffu Ibrahim Auta – Senior supervisor 1 step 01

41. Essien Innocent Joshua – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

42. Titilayo Tola Olowoniyi – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

43. Aminu Halimat Sadia Abdullahi – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

44. Abba Mustapha Shettima – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

45. Farida Zuhair – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 02

46. Ekayi Nyofo Shitta – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

47. Omoile Kingsley Ucheka – Senior supervisor 2 Step 01

48. Muhammed Hassan – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

49. Ukute Patrick Ewere – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

50. Ibrahim Kabir Tijjani – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

51. Maryam Abubakar – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

52. Odelola Oyekunle Isimenme – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

53. Yinusa Bilikis Orekuleyin – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

54. Muhammad Muhammad Magasa – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

55. Ayoola B Oyebanjo – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

56. Mohammad Ahmad Adamu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

57. Alexandar Chukwuka Okakwu – Senior Supervisor 1 Step 01

58. Okocha Uzoma Meshwork – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

59. Hassan Usman – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

60. Dahiru Isa Abba – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

61. Joel Ugochukwu Jones – Senior Supervisor 2 step 01

62. Ibrahim usman – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

63. Fatima Imam – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

64. Yisa Daniel Nma – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

65. Yamani Sanusi – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

66. Ejike Emmanuel Ibe – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

67. Jibril Abdullahi Ibrahim – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

68. Shima Kuma – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

69. Loretta Laye – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

70. Hanafi Abubakar Mujeli – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

71. Ahmed Zainab Shehu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

72. Musa Ibrahim – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

73. Oruche Chukwudubem Godwin – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

74. Yakub Umar Yakub – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

75. Idigo Ifeanyi Charles – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

76. Asuzu Obioma C – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

77. James Elizabeth Edidiong – Senior supervisor 2 Step 01

78. Salami Bashirat Omolola – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

79. Ibrahim Muhammed Kabir – Senior supervisor ii step 01

80. Kamaludden Tukur Tafida – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

81. Ibeh Nnadozie Nathaniel – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

82. Samaila Shehu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

83. Mohammed Ali – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

84. Rabiu Musa Mbulo – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

85. Aliyu Aisha Yakubu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

86. Yahaya Sani – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

87. Muhammad Isah Rumu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

88. Onoja Uwane Jessica – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

89. Ahmad Aminu – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

90. Nasreen Mamman-Daura – Senior Supervisor 2 step 02

91. Babayo Abdulhakeem Abdullahi – Senior Supervisor 2 Step 01

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BIAFRA: Nnamdi Kanu to UK - 'I’m a British citizen, ask Buhari to release me'

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the British Government to intervene in his case by asking President Muhammadu Buhari to release him from prison. 

Kanu who is facing treason charge alongside two other pro-Biafra agitators, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, approached the British government through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor.


Kanu, in a letter dated March 24 and addressed to the British High Commissioner in Abuja, described himself as a victim of travesty of justice and gross human rights violation.

He insisted that the President Buhari-led administration has violently abused his fundamental human rights through his prolonged detention in prison custody.

 Even though Kanu said he was ready to answer to the charge against him, he however expressed doubt in the ability of the Nigerian government to accord him fair trial, saying he has so far been subjected to immense persecution.

Stressing that he is a British citizen, Kanu told the UK government that he was wrongly arrested and put in detention.

“It is repeating the obvious to state that our client is a full British citizen, by virtue of which position he is entitled to all Rights, Privileges and Protection, guaranteed under the British Laws and conventions.

“We are therefore constrained in the circumstance, to formally notify the British Government via this medium, of our well informed reservations, and apprehension, that our client is undergoing persecution in the charge above referred, and deliberate design by the persecutors to frustrate every effort of the Defense team aimed at giving our client a fair trial”. Kanu, through his lawyer, contended that his detention from October 14, 2015 till January 20, 2016, without any lawful order of court, was not only unlawful, but was in flagrant disobedience of orders of courts of competent jurisdiction which he said directed his unconditional release and discharge.

“It is the position of our Law, that dual citizenship is a constitutional right of the citizens of Nigeria, clearly provided for under section 28 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended in 2011. Dual citizenship is not a crime under our Law.

Reservations on President’s comment

“Our reservations on the President’s comment was underpinned by the findings made in the ruling delivered on February 29, 2016, by Hon. Justice John Tsoho, wherein our client and the two other defendants were denied bail.

“Recalled that on December 29, 2015, during the Presidential Media Chat, the President told the whole world that Nnamdi Kanu cannot be granted bail, alleging that he came into the country without a valid travelling passport.

 “This pronouncement was roundly condemned by both local and international commentators. His pronouncement was viewed as a clear usurpation of the functions and powers of the judiciary.

“Though very regrettable and extremely unfortunate, Nnamdi Kanu was refused bail on January 29, 2016. In refusing him and other defendants bail, the court also cited the facts of his possession of dual passports as a flight risk, and as such held that he cannot be granted bail.”

Kanu maintained that Justice Tsoho denied him bail “in line with the pronouncement of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in his media chat telecasted live on December 29, 2015.”

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Archbishop of Kaduna Warns Gov. El-Rufai

The Archbishop of Kaduna, Most Rev. Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso, has issued a warning to Governor Nasir El-Rufai.


According to reports, the Archbishop gave the warning while briefing journalists shortly after celebrating the Easter Monday with students of the Borstal Training institution in Kaduna.

“The bill will create confusion and disharmony, therefore, our stand is that our existing laws are enough to deal with people who uses religion, tribe or sentiments to create confusion, discord and make people to commit violence against each other."

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10,000 North East hunters prepare to fight Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest

An estimated 10,000 local hunters from the North-East of Nigeria gathered recently in Adamawa State for their annual oath-taking festival, known as Salala in the local parlance.4isa-forest

The hunters, dressed in their warfare attires, and with their dane guns dangling over their shoulders, vowed to rid the society of criminals.



They appealed to the government to make use of their members in the fight against terrorism and other social vices. The leader of the hunters in Adamawa, Muhammad Tola, who claimed the hunters had so far played significant roles in the fight against Boko Haram, said hunters were familiar with the terrain in dreaded forests, like the Sambisa Forest.

“We are ready to pursue the terrorists because we know the terrain very well. We are appealing to the military authorities to allow us join the fight against Boko Haram at the Sambisa Forest,” Tola said.

Mr. Tola said the hunters needed the government to assist them with ammunition, transportation and logistics. He said the government could also enlist young hunters who were willing to join the army, police, and other security agencies.

“We remain one big family devoid of religious or tribal sentiments, that is why you can see over 10,000 hunters from Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi, Borno, Yoba and Adamawa converged for this epoch-making event,” Mr. Tola said. Female hunters also participated in the Salala festival.

 The leader of the female hunters, Aisha Bakari Gombi, said securing the society was a fight for everyone, irrespective of gender.

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Tunji Braithwaite dies at 82

Tunji Braithwaite, former presidential candidate of the oldest surviving political party in the country, Nigeria Advance Party (NAP) is dead.

The 82-year-old elder statesman and  lawyer died yesterday morning at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos.

His son, Olumide, who confirmed his demise, told newsmen that Sir Tunji Braithwaite died after a brief illness.

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