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Sunday, 4 September 2016

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MONDAY (29/09) – GOV. AYO FAYOSE SIGNS ANTI-GRAZING BILL INTO LAW

The governor of Ekiti state Mr. Ayodele Fayose on Monday signed a bill into law which henceforth prohibits an open grazing in Ekiti state. This means herdsmen won’t be able to wander around anyhow again in order to feed their cattle. The law prescribes six months imprisonment without an option of fine for any herdsman who violates the grazing prohibition while any herdsman found with arms will be charged with terrorism. The bill also stipulates that grazing activities must be between 7am to 6pm daily and only on marked out land for grazing by the local government authority.

It would be recalled that earlier this year, a bill in support of a National Grazing Reserves was presented to the floor of the Senate which will provide for the establishment of at least one cattle reserve in each state of the federation. Ever since this bill was presented by Senator Zainab Kure of Niger state, most Nigerians have condemned the move as most people see it has a way of exploiting and granting a particular tribe access to major properties of other tribes while also stating that cattle rearing is a private business by individuals, therefore the government needs to be considerate many things involved.

TUESDAY (30/09) - MARK ZUCKERBERG AND JIDENNA VISITED NIGERIA

It’s no news that the 6^th richest man in the world with a net worth $44.6Bn (according to Forbes.com) arrived Nigeria unannounced on Tuesday. His first stop was at Co-Creation Hub (also called Naija Silicon Valley) in Yaba, Lagos state where he met with developers and partners and also talked to kids at a Summer Coding Camp.

Thereafter, the Facebook founder has been spotted in various places which includes; Eko Hotel and Suites where he interacted with tech professionals on Wednesday, visitation to AfriNolly where he met Nigerian celebrities such as; Chidinma, Rita Dominic, Kunle Afolayan, Ehiz DadaBoy, RMD, Yemi Alade, DJ Cuppy, Adebola Williams amongst others, he was also spotted jogging through Lekki-Ikoyi bridge.

Then the 32 years old atheist left Nigeria on Thursday September 1^st for Kenya where he met with entrepreneurs, developers and government officials as he was pictured eating with his bare hands with Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Information, Joe Muhcheru in Nairobi.

Zuckerberg then made a return back to Nigeria on Friday and this time around, he went to the FCT where he met President Buhari, Vice President Osibanjo and other government officials for the Aso Villa Demo Day Finale.

This is Zuckerberg first ever visit to Africa.

MUSIC STAR JIDENNA ALSO LANDED IN NIGERIA

Jidenna Theodore Mobisson is a Nigerian –American singer who became famous because for his song “Classic Man” also arrived in the country on Tuesday. Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, Jidenna’s visit was known as he had already announced that he would be in Nigeria for the promotion of his debut album titled “Long Live The Chief”.

During his 4 days visit, an initiative called “Enjoy Lagos” was launched and invited people had the opportunity of meeting Jidenna. He granted interviews left, right and centre some of which includes a visit to Cool FM where he was interviewed by Dotun and Temi, he also visited to Beat FM, interviewed by Maria, Olisa and Osi.

Jidenna had his only performance on Thursday September 1^st at the Hard Rock Café in Lagos and in attendance included; Osi Suave, Nedu, DJ Spinall, Cobhams Asuquo, Tosyn Bucknor and host of others.

The 31years old singer then on Friday visited his state of origin, Enugu and went to his alma mater Justine-Thomas Kindergaten and Primary School.

The singer will be leaving the country by weekend and his next destination is South Africa, as part of his album promotional tour where he is billed to perform on Monday (he confirmed this on his twitter handle @Jidenna)

WEDNESDAY (31/08) - DILMA ROUSEFF OF BRAZIL WAS IMPEACHED

Dilma Vana Rousseff was the 36^th president and the first ever female president of Brazil having assumed power on the 1^st of January 2011, and sadly her reign as the president of the “land of Brazilwood” ended on Wednesday 31^st of August 2016 due to removal by the senate. Out of the 81 senate members, 61 voted in support of her removal, while 20 voted against her removal.

Her ordeal started late 2015 when she was accused of re-assigning funds between budget items (not stealing or padding, or figure inflation ooooo, just re-allocation of money from one sector to another, lobatan).

Her critics said she was trying to plug deficit holes in popular social programmes to boast her chances of being re-elected for a second term in October 2014, BBC reports.

She was suspended on May 12 while her impeachment sittings and processes started afterwards and the then Vice President, 75 years old Michel Temer was made the Acting President.

Following the impeachment of Dilma’s, Michel Temer has now been sworn in as the 37^th Brazilian president and he will complete Dilma’s tenure until 2018.

THURSDAY (1/9) - ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN: THE RING OF FIRE

According to word web dictionary, solar eclipse means “interruption of the light from the sun by the moon”. The blockage of the light then result into blackout (total or partial) in that part of the earth that the light from the sun was blocked from radiating to.

The “ring of fire” was over Africa on September 1^st as the world experienced annular solar eclipse. This kind of eclipse is one in which the moon from a far distance covers the sun while in Virgo, thereby covering only the center and leaving the round edges of the sun to radiate to the earth, thus the name “ring of fire”

The eclipse lasted for 3 hours and few minutes and was visible across most Eastern and Southern African countries with best viewing points in Tanzania, Madagascar, South Africa as well as Reunion Island. This is the second and last solar eclipse for this year, the first (a total solar eclipse) occurred on March 8 through 9 which was visible in Indonesia and the Pacific Ocean region.

Another annular solar eclipse will occur in February 2017 visible in Southern Chile, Argentina and Africa while on August 21 2017, there would be a total solar eclipse with the USA to experience the darkest part.

FRIDAY (2/9) – SERGIO AGUERO BANNED FOT THREE GAMES.

Let’s talk sports!!!! Manchester City striker, Sergio Aguero has been suspended by the FA. He was found guilty of violent conduct after he elbowed West Ham united player Winston Reid during their third week EPL match on Sunday 28^th August which Manchester City won 3-1.

The 28 years argentine will now miss the Manchester derby against rivals Manchester United on September 10, a league match against Bournemouth on 17^th September and the EFL cup third round match against Swansea city on 21^st September.

Aguero has scored 6 goals for City this season including a hat-trick against Steaua Bucharest in the Champions League qualifier.

Feel free to drop your views, comments and suggestions.

Thanks for reading and enjoy your weekend.

Oladapo Siyanbola

Twitter and I.G handle- @dapo_dmart

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Facebook founder and tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is currently in Lagos

We’ve just confirmed that Mark Zuckerberg is at the CoCreation Hub, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria at this very moment. Apparently, he arrived this afternoon and is meeting witha few key players in the Nigerian tech ecosystem.

Mark was in Rome with his wife, Priscilla, until a few hours ago (according to his Facebook page). He held a Q&A session, visited the Pope and did a few “touristy” things. This visit to Nigeria wasn’t announced so you’ll permit if I go off into speculation.

There’s been a lot of Facebook-related development in Nigeria so there’s a ton of reasons why Mark may be visiting. First, Free Basics launched in Nigeria and Markshowed his support for the Jobberman team. Then the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiativeinvested $24 million in Andela. Facebook’s developer workshop is happening tomorrow, and yesterday, we reported that Facebook is partnering with Cool Link to launch Express Wifi in Lagos some time this week.

I reckon Mark is in Nigeria to kill all these birds – visit Jobberman, the Andela team he’s invested in, attend the developer workshop, launch Express Wifi AND have policy-centred conversations with the Nigerian government to further Facebook’s cause.

You’ll know more when we know more.

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How To Register For Your National Identification Number (NIN) And Card

First it is important to know the location(s) of the NIMC setup centers for your present location.
The National Identity Management Commission has a made an easy procedure that enables you start your NIN enrollment even at home with less stress.

Below are some steps on how to register for your national identification number (nin) and card just follow the steps carefully

Step 1
From NIMC’s homesite http://www.nimc.gov.ng/ click on the “register from home picture”.

Or visit

www.ninenrol.gov.ng you will be welcomed to the National Identification Number (NIN) pre-registration portal.

Step 2
Then Create your National Identification Number (NIN) enrollment profile on the pre-registration portal

www.ninenrol.gov.ng.

Step 3
Sign into the National Identification Number (NIN) pre-registration portal www.ninenrol.gov.ng and fill in biodata and make sure it is in capital letter.

Step 4
Now Print out the pre-registration slip gotten from www.ninenrol.gov.ng,

Next is for you to take your completed pre-registration print out (barcode) together with any of the following original form of identification; just one will be OK, a driver’s license or your old national identity card or your voter’s card or a current school, NYSC, work ID card or your LGA identification or your birth certificate or a tax clearance document or insurance cover document.

Note: Use only one of this document above

Step 5
At the enrollment Centre, the enrollment officer scans barcode to pull up the applicant data.

Step 6
Now a Staff will verifie your data and your photograph, finger print captured.

Step 7
Now finally supporting documents scanned e.g birth certificate or state of origin

Step 8
Enrollment is acknowledged and a slip is generated and given indicating completion of enrollment.

You will be asked to wait and collect your 2 temporal national identity slips. Normally when you are issued with the 2 slips, your original national identity card should be due for collection in the next 2 months.

But as situations might have it, you might not receive it within that 2 months period but have to wait further for more months for your card to be due for collection.

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Aisha Buhari Donates Cows To Bauchi Youths (Photos)

In the spirit of festivity for the completion of another month of rahmadan, the Wife of the President of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhar gave Bauchi Youths Cows to mark the celebration.

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This is wishing all muslims happy Eid-el-Fitri celebrations.

The holy month of Ramadan has come and gone, may Allah accept all our acts of ibadah, no matter how small it might be.

This sure won’t be our last Sallah, May we witness many more Ramadan on this earth. Amin!!

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has released details of how funds from the Office of the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), were spent by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose.
The money released through a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, was traced to Fayose’s accounts.

The details were contained in an affidavit filed by the EFCC at a Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State in response to a suit Fayose filed over the freezing of his accounts by the anti-graft agency.

Tosin Owobo, an operative of the EFCC, who authored the affidavit, said Obanikoro conveyed the money himself to Fayose via Akure in Ondo State.

It reads: “Prior to Obanikoro’s arrival in Akure, Alade Oluseye, a staff of Zenith Bank, had informed his colleague, Lawrence Akande, that the money was being brought through the Akure Airport for lodgement and since the volume of the cash was huge, he would be needing a bullion van to convey the money,” he said.

“On June 17, 2014, Oluseye, accompanied by Biodun Agbele, who was fronting for Fayose, arrived the Akure airport and took delivery of N724,500,000.00 from Obanikoro who was with his ADC, Lieutenant Colonel A.O. Adewale.

“The next day, N494, 990,000.00 was delivered by Obanikoro in the same manner at the airport. In all, Obanikoro conveyed N1, 219,490,000.00 through a chartered aircraft belonging to GYRO AIR Limited with registration number: HS125-800 5N-BMT.

“After Oluseye took delivery of the money from Obanikoro, on June 19, 2014, Agbele was instructed by the governor to deposit N219 million in cash to De-privateer Limited’s Zenith Bank account number: 1013835889.

“On the same day the said Biodun Agbele made another cash deposit in the sum of N300 million being part of the proceeds of crimes to the said De- privateer Ltd’s with the 2nd Respondent.

“On the 23rd June, 2014 the sum of N200,000,000.00 (Two Hundred Million Naira) being part of these proceeds of crime, was also deposited to the said De-Privateer Ltd’s account domiciled with the Respondent by Biodun Agbele whilst acting in concert with the Applicant.

“On the 26th day of June,2014 the said Biodun Agbele on the instruction of Applicant further dissipated the proceeds of crime by depositing the sum of N137,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Thirty Seven Million Naira) to account No. 1003126654 domiciled with the 2nd Respondent in the name of the Applicant.

“On the 22nd and 27th day of August, 2014 Biodun Agbele also deposited the sum of N50, 000,000.00 (Fifty Million Naira) and N118, 760,000.00 (One Hundred and Eighteen Million, Seven Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira) respectively to the said account which sum formed part of the proceeds of crime.

“In further dissipating the proceeds of crime deposited and retained in the account referred to in paragraphs (d) and (g) above, the sum of N300,000,000.00 (Three Hundred Million Naira) was put in a fixed deposit account No. 9013074033 in the name of the Applicant on the 7th day of April,2015.

“On June 17, 2014, Agbele deposited N100 million to the account of Spotless Investment Limited, owned by Fayose, with Zenith Bank (number: 1010170969). On June 23, 2014, he also deposited N49 million to the account of Spotless Investment.”

Owobo also revealed that contrary to the claim by Fayose that the EFCC arbitrarily blocked his account without a valid court order, the agency got an interim order from Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos to “prevent further dissipation of proceed of crimes.

“The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the exercise of his statutory mandate contained in section 34 of the EFCC Act having satisfied himself that the various sums of money in the account No. 1003126654, 9013074033, 1010170969 and 1013835888 domiciled with the 2nd Respondent were made through the commission of the Economic and Financial Crimes to wit: stealing and receiving gratification approached the Federal High Court Lagos Judicial Division, for an order directing the Manager of the 2nd Respondent to freeze the said accounts.

“In his wisdom, Hon. Justice M.B Idris granted the 1st Respondent’s application wherein an order of interim attachment was made on the aforementioned accounts. Attached and marked exhibit EFCC 09 is a certified true copy of the said order.

“The said order was a preservative order to prevent further dissipation of proceeds of crimes.”

Owobo said having obtained an interim order from a court of law, Fayose can no longer use the court as a shield against criminal investigation, adding that while the governor has immunity against civil and criminal proceeding, the proceeds of economic and financial crimes allegedly committed by him do not enjoy such privilege.

Source: DailyPost

Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud. His dad, Jorge Messi, was also given a jail term for defrauding Spain of €4.1m (£3.5m; $4.5m) between 2007 and 2009.

According to Spanish media, he and his dad also face millions of Euros in fines for using tax havens in Belize and Uruguay used to conceal earnings from image rights.

But they will likely avoid jail. In Spanish law, prison terms under 2 years can be served under probation.

The football star and his father were found guilty of three counts of tax fraud in Wednesday’s ruling by the court in Barcelona.

During the trial, Lionel Messi claimed he “knew nothing” about the management of his financial affairs, he claimed he was just busy “playing football” hence it was his father who managed his money.

The Jama’atu Izatil Bid’a Wa’ikamatis Sunnha (JIBWIS) has reiterated that Nigerians should not blame President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration, for the current economic hardship in the country, saying the economy of the country had been destroyed even prior to his emergence as the president.
Sheik Sani Yahya Jingir who is the chairman Ulama’u Council of the group said this yesterday during the closing ceremony of this year Ramadan Tafsir held at the Yantaya Mosque, in Jos, the Plateau state capital.
While shifting the country’s economic challenge to the previous administration, he however called on both christians and Muslims across the country to support Buhari’s government to building Nigeria, adding that criticism towards government has to be constructive rather than political.
Jingir during the closing of the Tafsir also called on Muslims with laudable voice to put into practice the lesson they have learnt during the Holy month of Ramadan and never returned to activities that are forbidden in Islam.
On the fight against the menace of Boko Haram, Jingir commended the Federal Government’s commitment to fighting the insurgents, reiterating his usual position on the opposition of the Boko Haram Activities, saying there is no Islam in their teachings.
He called on the police on the Plateau to strengthen effort to curbing the recent activities of hoodlums in the state.
The cleric further urged Nigerians particularly the youths to engage in farming and other legal businesses so as to be self reliant and never depend on others.

Seyi Akinwumi says Lesbianism Kills Women’s Soccer Teams In Nigeria

First vice president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Barrister Seyi Akinwumi, disclosed that lesbianism is one of the problems affecting the growth of women’s soccer team in Nigeria.

He made the shocking revelation yesterday, June 11, when he featured on a sport personality programme “Hot Seat” organised by the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Oyo State chapter, in Ibadan.

“Lesbianism kills women’s soccer teams. People are afraid to talk about it. The coaches take advantage of the girls, so there is much more to build in female football. I took a historical look at countries and teams which have had success in this category, they started the way we also started, and it was difficult for them in the beginning as well. No sponsor, lack of interest and others,” Akinwumi said.

“But I discovered here that what will fund female football is male football, and male football itself is gasping for breath. That is really the major problem- funding. And at the same time, equal funding is not possible,”

Akinwunmi however, suggested a total overhaul of the league system for proper monitoring and development of the game.

“My passion for female football, honestly is as great as it is for grassroots football. But in reality, there are lots of problems affecting the growth of women’s football in this country. It costs more and returns less. There is fewer players, less interests, in female football than male football. But we have no excuse. Last year, I think the most problematic person to the chairman of female league was Seyi Akinwumi, myself, I launched several attacks just to ensure things work accordingly. So, I decided that look, if it’s so difficult for you, let us show you how it’s done.

“In Lagos now, we have cleared the second half of the year for female football, it’s not going to be a tournament but a mentorship programme and many things that goes on. I said we’re going to have a female team, but when I dabble into it, talk to them and see it’s problem. I discovered that there is a lot of things going on underground that people don’t talk about.

“At the clubs, It’s not about somebody owing a club, no, there are guidelines. We have companies who mainly operate in female and children stuff but are they showing interest in funding, not all. How many of them fund football?

“Our budget here is not near it because the gravitas are not yet there. So for now, it is the male football that has to fund female football, for it to grow to a level where there would be interest.”

Source: Nigerian Tribune

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar joined many Nigerians to commemorate the annulled June 12 1993 elections. In a statement released today, Atiku described June 12 as “a shining light, a reminder of what is possible- a united Nigeria.

“On ‪#‎June12‬, 1993, Nigeria was united in one cause, to defeat tyranny through democracy. We all believed. After 23 years, #June12 still remains a shining light, a reminder of what is possible – a united Nigeria.

The integrity of the #June12 elector*l process also shows that we Nigerians can achieve great things, if we are united.
For many of us who worked with Chief M.K.O. Abiola, his death was painful, but it paved the way for enduring democracy. Our democracy today, is MKO Abiola’s legacy. But we must grow beyond just democracy – our country must work.
We must reform our country – restructure our federation for peace, growth and prosperity. We must also fix our political system. We must embrace reforms, and base our democracy on equity and good governance, which helps every Nigerian feel safe and secure.
#June12 was a victory for Nigeria. It was because we knew we could be better. We can actually achieve that dream if we all work together.”