Photos: Buhari”s running mate, Osibajo storms Palms Lekki, takes selfies with shoppers

APC Vice Presidential candidate, Professor Yemi Osibajo showed up at the Lekki Palms on Christmas Eve in the company of carolers and choreographers. He made a short speech, wished everyone a Merry Christmas and went around the mall, shaking hands with people, signing autographs and taking selfies.

Prof Osibajo also gave out his contact details as well.

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Jonathan’s declaration on 11-11-2014 has occultic significance – Chris Okotie

According to Okotie, President Jonathan’s Presidential declaration on November 11 2014 at the Eagle squares has occultic significance. He says the number, 11, is a sacred number in the occultic world and that it demonstrates an appeasement of the powers of darkness to favour the supplicant. He said this and many more in a piece titled “2015 and our crony democracy” posted on his facebook wall. Find the piece below.

Season’s greetings to my teeming readers. Let me still serve you a morsel of politics even as we celebrate the joyous Yuletide season. The mood isn’t cheery because of the horror of senseless bloodletting by the Boko Haram insurgents, but life must go on, in the hope that things will get better in the New Year; even if they seem otherwise at the moment.Our politicians are self-serving and uncaring, but we are a resilient people who always ride out of every storm.

The noisy campaigns of the Presidential nominations of the two major parties- the ruling PDP and the APC, appear to have eclipsed the nation’s top headliners of 2014, such as the Chibok girls abduction, and the random seizure of territories by the rampaging Boko Haram terrorists. Also submerged in the nomination hoopla are the impeachment of Governor Murtala Nyako and the defection of the five PDP governors that triggered it; Ayo Fayose’s upstaging of APC’s Kayode Fayemi in the Ekiti Governorship elections, the dramatic fall of crude oil price and its implications for our oil-dependent economy, and the recruitment exercise that left scores of young graduate job-seekers dead from stampedes.

All of these and other major headline news of 2014 may soon be a distant memory, but we can’t easily forget the failure of the national soccer team and defending champions, the Super Eagles, to qualify for the African Cup of Nations, the Air Force plane that was shot down by the Boko Haram insurgents and one of the pilots reportedly beheaded. Indeed, with its gruesome operations getting to new levels of cruelty, Boko Haram stretched our military to the limit, and exposed the decay and dismal state of our armed services. That was what came to light in 2014, but must never be allowed to continue in 2015.

The Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, came and was defeated, but not until after claiming the lives of some victims including Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh and other patriots; rather than plan how to prevent future resurgence, the APC and the ruling PDP were bickering over whom to credit with the arrest of the disease. Of course, 2014 produced its fair share of scandals and corruption in high places too numerous to mention.

Sad to recall, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s private jet which was involved in the cash for arms scandal, was a major headline news about which I wrote a commentary, which provoked CAN’s response in pedestrian vulgarity, which I declined to nobilitate with a retort. The pain for Nigerians is the impunity with which perpetrators loot the treasury under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan.
President Jonathan and his strategists should be having a big laugh after a ‘hard-won’ battle that finally handed His Excellency an unprecedented sole candidacy of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 presidential elections, with a loud declaration at a rally on November 11, 2014. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (Rtd) is flying the flag of the APC, having clinched the party’s ticket in closely fought primaries.

The implication of Dr. Jonathan’s declaration on that day (11-11-2014)has occultic significance. When the number is repeated, it takes a greater ritualistic intensity. In this case, we have 11-11-11, because when you add the date 11-11-2014 as a year together, you arrive at 11 also. This is in consonance with occultic numerology.

In the pre-natural world, the number 11 is a powerful occultic number: it represents judgment, destruction and death of man. Each digit in the 11-11-2014 date, when added together, viz: 1+1+1+1+2+0+1+4, you get 11. That’s why the declaration was done on 11/11/2014, which is the highest level of occultic numerology. This sacred number in the occultic world demonstrates an appeasement of the powers of darkness to favour the supplicant. The name of satan in Latin is LVX. L is 50, V is 5 and X is 10. When you add that together, you get 65. When you add 6 + 5, you get 11. Satan’s number is 11.

The question is; was this declaration orchestrated by occultic considerations, or is it a mere coincidence? Since 11 represents; judgment, destruction and death of man, can we extrapolate from the experiences of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration so far that number 11 has been prevalent in our nation? Has there been spiritual judgment, has there been destruction and death on a large scale? You, be the judge.

If the Church of Jesus Christ appreciates this understanding, they’ll be more reluctant to gravitate in the direction of President Jonathan, even though the leaderships of CAN and PFN have made a subtle endorsement of his candidacy. President Jonathan does not belong to the Davidic genealogy; he belongs to the house of Saul and invokes the spirit of Jeroboam. He swears by the Lord and Malcham. He that hath an ear let him hear.

Fixing all the fault lines of 2014 must begin with the management of the usual post-election crisis which is the hallmark of every transition in Nigeria. Whatever the outcome of the Presidential elections, the polity would likely quake as the vanquished beat the drums of war against the backdrop of grandstanding by the victors. If we have embraced a paradigm shift as I have suggested, Nigeria would have gone a different way.

Despite all of that, and the likely unpleasant fall-out of the forthcoming general elections, Nigeria will survive as usual. Expect threats of war, but surely, the Nigerian political class is too timid to roll out the tanks for battle, because, nobody would like to put his life on the line over a lost election.

Unfortunately, our gullible youths do not know this. They are usually the canon fodders who bear the brunt of the violence. The political elites use them to unleash on any post-election conflict, while the politicians and their cronies escape to safe havens where they enjoy their loot. Be that as it may, the voters have the final choice to make in these crucial elections.

Rev. Chris Okotie, a Pastor-politician wrote from Lagos

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16 Years Old Boy To Face 4 Years Imprisonment For Insulting The President

The Turkish Police Command have arrested a 16-year-old high school student for “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by accusing him and his ruling party of corruption, sparking angry criticism on Christmas day from the opposition.

The boy, identified by his initials M.E.A., was believed to be a member of a leftist organisation, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.

He delivered a speech on Wednesday in the central Anatolian city of Konya, a bastion of Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), in memory of a young secular teacher killed by Islamists in 1930, according to the newspaper.

The boy, who was arrested by police at school, is now facing up to four years in prison if convicted on the charge.

It was the latest controversial arrest in Turkey in recent weeks. Recent police raids on media outlets affiliated with Erdogan’s top foe, the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, sparked an angry exchange with the European Union, which said the arrests undermined media freedom.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu supported the court’s decision on the juvenile’s arrest.

“Everyone must respect the office of president whoever he is,” Davutoglu said, quoted in Turkish media.

In his testimony to prosecutors, the boy denied links with any political party and said that the local governor’s office granted permission for the commemoration ceremony organised through social media.

“I’ve made the statement in question. I have no intent to insult,” he reportedly said.

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The Many Lies against Buhari: Setting The Records Straight

“Anytime Buhari contests, they dredge up false accusations of sectionalism in PTF”

– Publisher and columnist, Waziri Adio sets the records straight
Respected publisher and ThisDay columnist, Waziri Adio on 26 December felt compelled to speak up and clear the air on false accusations that Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the APC was ‘sectional’ in the widely-acclaimed impact of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF).

It is yet another fact-based counter to the erroneous caricature of the detribalised Buhari by prominent Nigerians from across the country.
In a series of 35 tweets, he made it clear that “the South got 70% in terms of amount located, and the North got 30%”.

The tweets are very enlightening. See them below:

1. I will start tweeting about the Petroleum Special Trust Fund (PTF) headed @ThisIsBuhari between May ’95 and May ’99.

2. There have been allegations that the PTF projects were lopsided in favour of the north, aimed at portraying @ThisIsBuhari as sectional.

3. There have also been allegations of fraud in PTF, meant to show that @ThisIsBuhari not as clean as portrayed.

4. I will provide some background on PTF and present some facts based on public documents and leave you to draw your conclusions.

5. PTF was set up by Gen Abacha in May ’95, headed by @ThisIsBuhari, with Chief Tayo Akpata as Secretary.

Other members representing different zones were Y. Gusau, A Talib, Rufus Giwa, Prof. Chimere Ikoku, Prof. JP Clark, D.B Zang.

7. PTF was charged with using portion of increase in fuel price to rehabilitate roads, schools, hospitals, water schemes n provide supplies

8. Despite charges of being a parallel govt, at no point was PTF budget more than 10% of total budget of the federation.

9. Widely circulated allegation of lopsided siting of PTF projects by Afenifere a bit exaggerated.

10. It is true that out of the 13,090km roads rehabilitated, 32% in the south and 68% in the north. But that’s half the story.

11. In terms of km, 7.3% of d rehabilitated roads were in SE; 8.5% in SW;16.25 in SS; 21.1% in NW; 23.4% in NE; and 23.5% in NC.

12. But it is also true that the landmass varies among zones and same with degree of difficulty and cost.

13. A look at the cost of roads in different zones and the overall allocation to zones in all PTF projects show a different picture.

14. N77. 2b was committed to roads out of the total of N187b allocated to PTF till May 99.

15. Of the N77.2b to roads, SW got N 9.7 b; SE, N14.5b; SS, N30.5b. This means SW got 12.6% of road budget; SE, 18.8%; SS, 39.5%.

16. Of d N77.2b committed to roads, NE got N7.1b; NC, N7. 4b; NW, N7.9b, meaning NE got 9.2%, NC got 9.6% and NW 10.3%.

17. This shows that in terms of cost, the variation btw north and south reversed in favour of d south.

18. Under roads, the south got 70% in terms of amount allocated and the north got 30%.

19. It may sound counter intuitive, but it is also an established fact that road construction costs more in the south than in the north.

20. Those circulating facts about kilometers of roads possibly also have information about cost of the roads and total allocation.

21. Possibly, they selectively chose the data set that will help their argument that @ThisIsBuhari is sectional.

22. Also, of the total N187b allocated to PTF, the south got more than the north.

23. In the 6 areas under PTF, SE got N26.9b; SW, N28.8b; SS, N49b. Representing 15% for SE, 15.4% for SW, and 26.2% for SS.

24. That is a total of 56.7% for the south out of the entire budget of PTF.

25. Of d total PTF allocation, NC got N20bn; NE, N26b; and NW N34. 9b. Meaning 10.7% for NC; 13.9% for NE; and 18.7% for NW.

26. That’s 43.3% for the North out of the total N187b allocation to PTF.

27. On allegations of fraud in PTF under @ThisIsBuhari, it is important to bear a few things in mind.

28. OBJ set up two interim mgt committees on PTF, before eventually asking PTF to be wounded up.

29. First committee was under Dr. Haroun Adamu. 2nd under Alh. Garba Mubi. Dr Adamu Maina – Waziri was asked to wind up PTF.

30. For two years, police and SSS interogated officials of Afri-Project Consortium, project consultant to PTF.

31. Up till today, no one charged or prosecuted. In fact two of d founders of Afri-Project Consortium later served in OBJ’s govt.

32. Murtala Aliyu was minister of state for works, and Amina Mohammed served as SSA on the MDGs and is now an adviser to the UN Sec-Gen.
33. However, anytime @ThisIsBuhari is planning to contest some people dredge up allegations of sectionalism and fraud in PTF.

34. Sometimes it is claimed that no one prosecuted so as not to embarrass @ThisIsBuhari. But what does that say about those making d claims?

35/35. This is it for now on PTF and @ThisIsBuhari.

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Jennifer Obayuwana wants you to see her N7m wrist watch

Looks like Jennifer Obayuwana’s dad will do everything possible to make sure his daughter doesn’t miss the Kokomaster one bit. It’s Christmas and she’s got a lot of cash to get herself all she wanted and even more. The babe, whose dad is a billionaire, just bought a N7m piece and she’s showing off. #money

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Shocking Confessions Of A 23 Years Old Prostitute, Using Men For Rituals

A 23 Years Old Prostitute make a shocking confession with Sun Newspaper interviewed  by Uche.She explained how she was caught when she tried to cut a 38 year old man’s manhood.

Read her story below…….

“I am a prostitute and I smoke. I have a gang and we specialise in sleeping with men and cut­ting their manhood during sex. We use the manhood for money rituals. I have killed seven men in the hotel in Owerri. They had sex with me after they have paid me N3, 000 or N5, 000. I would be on top of the man and in the process I would bring out blade and cut off his manhood.

“I do hand over the manhood to our gang leader. They always promise to pay us N150, 000 for each manhood we could sup­ply, and which they used for money ritual.

“I dropped out at JSS 3. I stopped going to school when I lost my fa­ther, but my mother is still alive. I joined a gang where some ladies initiated me into a cult. Our main concern is going after male organ for ritual.

“I have given birth to three children. I sold the first and second children for N200, 000 each. The third child is a boy and he is staying with my mother.

“On November 2014, the man met me at Oyima Street, Owerri. He gave me N2,000 to have sex with me. It was around 3.00pm. The victim took me to the hotel in Owerri and he was having sex with me.

“I was on top of him and when he was enjoying it, I brought out my blade and I started cutting his manhood. But it hadn’t cut off when he started to shout for help. Then they came to arrest me and he was rushed to the hospital. I was arrested and I have confessed to the police.”

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Man Cries Out For Help As Customs Auctions Off His N33m Cargo For Just N250k

Having lived in Europe for 25 years, Siaku Elvis in September 2013, loaded a container with refrigerators, a car, a bus, jewelry and hospital

equipment worth over N33m and shipped it to Lagos.

That was all his years in Europe – his life savings could buy. It was meant to be part of his retirement plan.He lost his goods after they were auctioned off by the Nigeria Customs Service in a process he described as shoddy and questionable.Angry and frustrated, he now regrets his decision to relocate to Nigeria.He said,

“My shipment got to Lagos on October 14 2013 and a clearing agent was contractedto clear the container. At the time, my wife and I had some financial problems and could not raise the required funds to clear the container promptly. In desperation, through the advice of a friend, we sought theservices of another clearing agent, Tony, who assured us that he would clear the consignment with his money after which he would be reimbursed when we must have sold some of the consignment.

“Though I was still in Europe, I maintained contact with Tony concerning the container. Each time I called him, there was always seemed to be some delay in the clearing procedure. This continued until I got an email from the shipping company that my container had gone into overtime and had been shipped to the Ikorodu Lighter Terminal.”

Tony was said to have told Elvis that though this consignment had already been allocated to another person for auction, he could still take possession of the consignment if it was de-listed from the gazette where it had been put up for auction.

Documents made available to The PUNCH showed that the Area Controller of the ILT, Nasir A., had written to the Comptroller General of the NCS, Inde Abdullah, forwarding an application by Siaku’s wife Patience, in whose name the consignment was shipped.It read in part,

“I hereby forward an application in respect of (1X40FT) container No. MSCU 934259/3. The container was transferred from Tincan Island Port to my command. All documentations have been completed at Tincan Island Command; payments receipts, import duty waiver and other necessarydocuments are attached. I hereby recommend for the consignee to be granted overtime cargo clearance.” The document was stamped and received on April 14, 2014.

A letter dated May 28, 2014 and signed by Deputy Comptroller Abutu acknowledged the receipt of the application and gave approval for overtime clearance.But to Elvis surprise, when he presented the said document at the ILT, he was told that his container was no longer there.

While Elvis had been processing the delisting of his consignment, unknown to him, it was already allocated on March 31 2014, to one Isaac John of Ademola Street Lagos. A copy of the allocation document also showed that it was received at the Tincan Island Port on April 30, 2014, about three weeks before the consignment was delisted from the auction gazette in Abuja.

Another letter from the Tincan Island Port to the Area Controller, ILT dated May 7 2014, directed that Isaac John be allowed to take delivery of Elvis’s consignment which was described as an auction container. The consignment whose contents were valued at over N33m was sold at N250,000.

It read, “The above mentioned container was allocated to Isaac John. It has been processed and released in this command. You may wish to allow allottee to take delivery of the said container.”

Elvis said,

“After I was told that the container had been taken, I made a report at the Bode Thomas police station. Not much came out of it because I was told that only the Inspector General of Police could authorise the arrest of the ILT area controller.
“Although Tony was arrested, not much came out of it. He got a bail and I did not have the funds to keep following the case so I gave up. I have written a petition to President Goodluck Jonathan because the way the auction was carried out was wrong. I already paid all the necessary duties yet I lost my life savings and the little I had left, trying to get the consignment back. I am just living on charity.”

Elvis is not alone in this situation. Many importers are said to lose their consignments amounting to millions of naira annually once unclaimed cargo declared overtime is moved to the ILT. Chuks Okorie, an importer, who has been in the business for over two decades, is still grappling with the loss of three 20 feet containers whose contents include a sport utility vehicle and some tractor tyres valued at over N21m.

His consignment which was shipped from China in 2012 arrived Nigeria early 2013. Due to some delay in procuring the required documents used to process the PAAR which at the time was the Clean Report of Inspection, the containers could not be cleared immediately.

Okorie said,

“By the time the documents arrived, the goods had stayed at the port for over a month. Being that there were three 20 feet containers, the demurrage which had accrued over time, was enormous.
“When a consignment has spent a month at the ports, it goes into the fourth period of storage. By then, it attracts almost N10,000 per day for storage and for demurrage. That means we are contending with about N60,000 per day for the three containers; it would take a lot to offset the demurrage.

“I tried to get a waiver from the shipping line for the demurrage but they turned down my request. Hoping they would grant waivers for other charges, I made payments for the first invoice I collected. Unfortunately, they insisted on full payment. While trying to raise the funds, three months went by and my containers were classified as overtime cargo.”

In an effort to reclaim his consignment, Okorie went to Tincan Customs Command in June 2013, to verify if it had been listed as overtime in order to seek its clearance. He was informed that not only had his consignment been listed as overtime, it was in the government’s gazette for auction.

This meant that Okorie could no longer obtain the clearance from Tincan. He had to get it from Abuja and quickly too as any consignment in the gazette would also already have eager buyers bidding for it.

He said,

“Before taking custody of overtime consignments, you would go to Tincan customs to verify if it has been listed as overtime. If you are given the clearance, you can still go and clear the goods.
“I was shocked when I was told my cargo was in the gazette because the duty for the goods had been paid; the NCS, or the Ministry of Finance had no reason to gazette the three containers. All I needed was to get the overtime clearance, settle other matters with the shipping company and take the containers.”

After several applications to the Ministry of Finance, urging it to de-classify the cargo, Okorie’s application was accepted and on September 27, 2013, the Home Finance Department under the Ministry of Finance wrote a letter to the CG NCS. A copy of Okorie’s letter was also forwarded to the CG for his consideration and comments.

A month later, another letter was forwarded by the same ministry to the CG on the same matter.
Okorie said,

 “I wrote to the Finance ministry; they are the ones who would write to the NCS to delist the cargo once they are satisfied that the requirements (duty) have been paid; the Federal Government having collected its revenue.

“In my case, they wrote to the NCS about the consignment and I expected that the customs would contact me having received the letter from the Ministry of Finance. They never did in addition to several letters that I wrote to the NCS Abuja and Lagos Zonal office.”

While Okorie waited for a response from NCS Abuja, he went periodically to the Kirikiri terminal where his cargo was, to reassure himself that it had not been moved. After the usual check on April 2014, Okorie returned in June 2014 only to be told that his cargo had been moved to the ILT. By the time he got to the ILT in November 2014, the cargo had been auctioned.

He said,

“There is a collection centre at the ILT where customs officials can verify from their computer system the dates they receive containers and when they exit them. Custom officials at the ILT confirmed that they had received my cargo on May 2014 but that it had also been exited. They did not say when it left the ILT or who collected it.In fact, it was just two containers that were taken to the ILT; the empty container for the third consignment had already been returned to the Kirikiri terminal. That meant someone had taken it from Kirikiri either through auction or whatever means and sold the contents.”

In addition to losing his cargo, Okorie had spent well over N3m to pay the duties on them.

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