Labaran Maku Denies N37b Was Found In His Farm

Former President Goodluck Jonathan's erstwhile Information Minister, Labaran Maku is not happy. He is angry over the story making the rounds that N37b was found in his farm in Nasarawa State.

Writing on Twitter, Maku said that someone decided to blackmail him after he challenged the state governors, Tanko Almakura to account for the monies that accrued to the state over the past 4 years, including so-called security votes.

"This evil blackmail on me on the social media is happening because I challenged APC Gov Tanko Almakura
@taalcircle to account for the
estimated Hundreds of millions of Naira he collected in four years as allocations to Nasarawa State yet the state is still in poverty.

"I asked Gov Almakura to account for the the N4.8 Billion he collected from the state treasury as security votes since people are dying .
Instead of accounting for
Nasarawa money and responding to the issues I raised, @taalcircle agents went on social media to slander me. "

But seriously, would anyone be so crazy as to hide that kind of money in a farmland?

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How To Blow Timaya's Brains

See how Timaya's tryst with Sheila b is causing him endless headache,  eh? When he could have kept his zip up.

Let's just hope the Dem Mama crooner learns to zip up when next he's in God's Own Country.

Timaya's defense:

"I have been talking with this girl for about one year and its funny how someone you think you know can act very hungry and low. How can I leave Nigeria and go to America where the law works to rape anyone? Am I crazy?

"This girl who had been promising to blow out my brains with sex when she sees me begged to see me when she knew i was in town but I didn't know that she had a hidden agenda. I agreed to see her and she came to my hotel in Atlanta and we got down for real. When we were done and we were chilling, I got a call from my manager that we needed to start preparing for a show. She asked to go with me to the show as a couple but i said no and told her I was there to work.
I got up and started preparing for the show but I realised her phone wouldn’t leave my face and she kept asking me stupid questions and even as I answered I wondered what she was up to, then it hit me that she was recording and I grabbed her phone and we struggled cos I wanted to delete the videos she had made without my consent. I don’t even know if she still has any but I deleted the ones I could on her phone.

"I called the hotel security and explained what had happened to them. I told them to open her phone so that I could see what she had left but she refused and was making a scene and the hotel told her to get out but I didn’t want her to go cos I was scared of what she might have recorded and I insisted on calling the Police but the hotel told me that if I called the police, I might be arrested for holding her hostage in my room so I let her go.

"After then she kept calling me and she kept changing her story telling me that I raped her. I tried to play it cool by begging her not to to take the route she had taken, I really begged her but she told me I had to pay her 50k dollars for her to forget about it, she obviously didn’t record that part because she had ulterior motives. After her demand for me to pay her, I stopped calling her or taking her calls and i changed my number and she i guess she got frustrated and went on the internet to try and do damage.

"I Timaya cannot be a rapist..NEVER. I have daughters and I have a conscience. I can never be a voice that rapes and if i am so pressed for sex,i know how to get it,I will never take sex when a girl says NO. I am a young man that is doing very well and i guess she had expectations that i didn't meet up to and she decided to use rape because she knows that’s the fastest way to bring anyone down.

"I wonder why she also went to open another Instagram when her real handle is @officialshella_b Since she called me out using my name and pic and if she wasn't lying she could have done same and provided proof of some sort of injuries gotten from any physical altercation. She carefully used the conversation I was begging her not to ruin my career cos I was trying to play it down. "

Timaya however did not disclose whether Sheila b kept her promise to blow his brain out.

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334 Senior Army Officers Redeployed

The Nigerian Army has redeployed 334 of its senior officers. The postings and appointments which affected 37 Majors General,  57 Brigs General and 128 Colonels were approved by the Chief of Army Staff, Gen Tukur Buratai.

This was disclosed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col Sani Usman who said that the postings are to take effect on different dates.

Punch reports that the GOCs affected by the exercise are from the 1,2,3, 81 and 82 Divisions of the Nigerian Army. Also affected are principal and staff officers from the Defense and Army Headquarters, Corps Commanders etc.

See the full text of the release by the Director, Army Public Relations.

"The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai, today approved the postings and appointments of 334 officers of the Nigerian Army with various effective dates. These include some Principal Staff Officers at the Defence and Army Headquarters, Corps Commanders and General Officers Commanding as well as other commanders. They include 37 Major Generals, 57 Brigadier Generals, 128 Colonels, several Lieutenants Colonels and others.

“Some of those affected were the General Officers Commanding 1, 2, 3, 81 and 82 Divisions, Operations Pulo Shield and Safe Haven of Niger Delta and Plateau States.

“Some of those affected include Major General M A Koleoso, who is now Commander TRADOC, Major General S N Mu’azu, who moved from 2 Division to the Headquarters, Infantry Corps and appointed Commander. Major General M T Ibrahim moved from the Department of Army Standard and Evaluation to the Nigerian Defence Academy and appointed Commandant. Major General L K J Ogunewe is now the Chief of Policy and Plans. Major General F O Alli is now Chief of Training and Operations and Major General A ASalihu is now Chief of Logistics. Others include Major General A G Okunola, who is now the Commander of Operation PULO SHIELD (JTF) and Major General TC Ude, Commander, Operation Safe Haven (STF Jos). Others are Major General L W Wiwa, who is now the Deputy Commandant of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre.

“Major General A Oyebade is now the General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Major General L C Ilo is now the General Officer Commanding 2 Division. We also have Major General H Umaru as the General Officer Commanding 3 Division, Major General I H Edet (General Officer Commanding 81 Division) and Brigadier General I Attahiru is now the acting GeneralOfficer, Commanding 82 Division. While Brigadier General A T Hamman is now the acting Provost Marshal. Brigadier General L F Abdullahi is the actingCommander, Nigerian Army Education Corps and Colonel R Abubakar is now the acting Director, Defence Information, among others.”

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I Will Fight NNPC Till It Dies - El Rufai

“NNPC has become a monster that is too powerful. I will continue to fight NNPC till it dies for Nigeria to survive.

“It is either Nigerians kill NNPC or NNPC will kill Nigeria.

"Since, I called for the death of NNPC, the corporation has sponsored articles attacking me, but I am telling them my skin is thicker than an elephant.”

These are the words of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State. He spoke at Government House Kaduna on Tuesday while receiving the Executive Secretary, National Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Hajia Zainab Shamsuna-Ahmed.

The NEITI boss was on a courtesy visit to Governor El-Rufai who is one of the four governors appointed by the National Economic Council to investigate the accounts of the NNPC.

Hajia Shamsuna-Ahmed told the governor that between 2009 and 2012 alone, about 160 million barrels of oil estimated at $13.7b was stolen under NNPC's watch.

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Corruption : Super Rich Civil Servants In Trouble

Civil servants who own choice properties in Abuja and live above their legitimate income are now being watched by anti corruption agencies.

Anti graft agents have been directed to detain and interrogate suspects with a view to recovering ill-gotten wealth.

The agencies are relying on petitions from civil servants and their own operatives for information. So far, focus is said to be on civil servants who own more than three real estate properties in Abuja and fleets of choice cars beyond their income.

The ICPC in particular is said to be working hard and discreetly to recover assets acquired with stolen public funds.

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El-Rufai Submits List Of Commissioners

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has submitted a list of 12 commissioners to the house of assembly for screening.

Among the 12 nominees is Muhammad Sani-Abdullahi, former Adviser to UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon on Designing Sustainable Development Goals.
Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan said that a list of the indicative portfolios was attached to enable a transparent screening.

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Jonathan's CSO Admitted In Hospital

Former President Goodluck Jonathan's CSO, Gordon Obua has been admitted into a hospital in Abuja. This is coming on the heels of his recent release by the DSS following days of interrogation and 3 days of hunger strike.

A source close to the former CSO said that his condition is related to the trauma he suffered during his few days of incarceration.

Gordon Obua, himself a DSS operative was taken in to account for events that took place under his watch as CSO.

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