Pres. Buhari sacks official who approved the new law that led to Adeboye resigning as RCCG GO

President Buhari has sacked the head of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN, Jim Obazee pictured above, after the council enforced a law that led to the exit of Pastor E.A Adeboye as the General Overseer of RCCG in Nigeria on Saturday January 7th.

Pastor Adeboye during the church's Ministers thanksgiving, announced his retirement as the General Overseer of the church only in Nigeria following a new law that disallows leaders of a non-profit organization, churches inclusive, to remain in office for more than 20 years.


Although the law was enacted in 2011, it had not been implemented by any administration. Obazee is said to have had a clash with the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelemah, after he went ahead with the enforcement of the law despite the minister's position that the law should not be enforced.

The sack of the council boss is contained in a statement signed by Shehu Garba..

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate removal and the replacement of the Executive Secretary and the reconstitution of the board of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRN). He has appointed a Chairman and a new Executive Secretary for the council. The new Council as approved by the President has Mr Adedotun Sulaiman, MFR as Chairman. Mr. Sulaiman was a former Managing Partner/Director of Arthur Anderson and later, Accenture. He is a Chartered Accountant and a product of the University of Lagos and Harvard Business School. The President has also approved the appointment of Mr. Daniel Asapokhai as the Executive Secretary of the Council. Mr. Asopokhai is a partner and a Financial Reporting Specialist at the PricewaterHouseCoopers (PWC), Nigeria. He is a product of the University of Lagos and the University of Pretoria. President Muhammadu Buhari has also instructed the Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment to invite the nineteen ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government and private sector organizations specified in the FRC Act to nominate members of the board of the council.

Asia's richest man, Jack Ma meets with Donald Trump on plans to create 1million jobs in US

 

Asia's richest man, Jack Ma, the billionaire founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group met with Donald Trump on Monday to discuss plans for creating "one million" jobs in the U.S. through the company's e-commerce platform. 

 "Jack plans to share how Alibaba will create 1 million U.S. jobs by enabling 1 million small businesses to sell American goods to China and Asian consumers on the Alibaba platform," Brion Tingler, head of external affairs at Alibaba, said in a statement after the meeting.

Trump praised Ma after the meeting as a "great, great entrepreneur and one of the best in the world."
"We had a great meeting," Trump told the press pool at Trump Tower. "It's jobs. You just saw what happened with Fiat where they're going to build a massive plant in Michigan. And we're very happy. And Jack and I are going to do some great things."

We Are Working To Legislate Against Early Marriages – Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II

Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II has said that the Kano Emirate Council and the government of Kano state are working towards enacting a law that will stop early marriage in Northern Nigeria. The monarch who is an ardent advocate against the practice of early marriage, said this at his investiture ceremony as the Grand Patron for Women and Children Healthcare by the United Nation’s Population Fund in Kano yesterday January 9th.

According to the Emir, the practice of early marriage has made many girls lose their lives as most of them die while giving birth at such young age.

“Women are married in Northern Nigeria at a tender age thereby leading her to lose her life, the child and the indices are there for each state. Some people attribute the death and challenges to God but we know that God does not dislike us. Why is it that the indices are worst in the north? I call on our imams to address this. It is a shame that the UN had to come and tell us how to look after our children. We are the ones to do it and we should not wait for the UN’’ he said

APC Chairman In South Africa, Festus Ogbeide, Dies In Fatal Car Accident In SA

Chairman of APC in South Africa, Festus Ogbeide, has died. He died yesterday January 9th, in a fatal car accident at Pretoria East along Delmas road in South Africa where he lives. He is survived by his wife and four children. Until his death, he also served as the President of the National Youth Orientation Association of Nigeria. May his soul rest in peace, Amen.

Over 300 People Have Signed A Petition To Name A Street In Russia After Donald Trump

US President elect, Donald Trump may soon have a street in Russia named after him. 34-year-old Sergey Bizyukin has launched a petition to rename a little alley into "Donald Trump Street" in honor of the US President-elect, saying almost 300 people had already signed.

"Some saw it as a joke and signed because it was fun, some stood for normalization of US-Russia ties, and some signed because they don't like the name of Godless Street," Bizyukin said.

The town Ryazan is about 125 miles southeast of Moscow on the Oka River and has a population of 500,000. Its major industries are electronics and oil refining.

Bizyukin says he feels the US is often unfairly portrayed as a threat to Russia but that the people in Ryazan and elsewhere have a much more positive attitude.

Ex-President Jonathan, Denies Receiving Kickbacks In $1.3bn Malabu Oil Deal

Previous President Goodluck Jonathan, has denied media reports that he got kickbacks in the $1.3bn OPL 245 oil square arrangement including oil goliaths ENI and Royal Dutch Shell. Jonathan denied the cases in an announcement marked and discharged by his media consultant, Ikechukwu Eze. The announcement peruses;

Our consideration has been attracted to news reports distributed generally by online media which proposed through allusion, instead of accurate confirm, that previous President Goodluck Jonathan got kickbacks in the $1.3bn OPL 245 oil square arrangement including oil goliaths ENI and Illustrious Dutch Shell. With respect to the production, we wish to make it clear that previous President Jonathan was not blamed, arraigned or charged for corruptly gathering any monies as kickbacks or influences from ENI by the Italian powers or whatever other law requirement body the world over. In any case, we need to completely express that the arrangements and exchanges for the oil square arrangement originate before the Administration of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan which started on sixth May 2010 also, finished on 29th May 2015.

It might intrigue those elevating this false story to realize that all the records identifying with the exchanges, issues and choices of the Federal Government on the Malabo issue, amid the Jonathan organization, are in the workplace of the Attorney General of the Alliance/Minister of Justice. As President of Nigeria, there is probably Dr. Goodluck Jonathan met with officials of all the oil majors working in Nigeria and asked them to, in addition to other things, bolster the development of the Nigerian oil industry by inclining up their ventures and consent to the Local Content Act that he advanced and marked into law. We however wish to state, for accentuation, that at no time did the previous President hold private gatherings with agents of ENI to talk about financial issues.

Every one of the gatherings and dialogs previous President Jonathan had with ENI, different IOCs and some indigenous administrators were led formally, and within the sight of important Nigerian Government authorities, and were done to the greatest advantage of the nation. We make striking to call attention to that the previous President never sent any Abubakar Aliyu, as the innuendoes in the false report recommend, to ENI, the IOCs or any indigenous administrator to look for support or gather any satisfaction for his benefit. We will get a kick out of the chance to call attention to for the umpteenth time that whether in office or out of office, previous President Jonathan does not possess any financial balance, air ship or land outside Nigeria. Anybody with opposite data is tested to freely distribute same.

As the President who marked the Freedom of Information Act into law, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan lifted the cover on administration and supported straightforwardness realizing that detestable breeds in mystery. It is the conclusion of the previous President that columnists and media houses ought to take favorable position of this law in their investigative news coverage, as opposed to depend on prattle. We trust that these illuminations will control future reports which ought to be true.

Ikechukwu Eze

Media Adviser to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan

(President 2010-2015)

How We Picked Beneficiaries For The N5000 Stipend – Presidency

Senior Special Assistant to VP Yemi Osinbajo on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, has clarified how the Presidency picked recipients of the N5000 stipend for defenseless Nigerians.

Akande in the announcement discharged yesterday, said the Community-Based Targeting (CBT) model of the World Bank was utilized as a part of 2015 to recognize a large portion of the recipients.

As per Akande, the defenseless Nigerians had been picked by the last organization amid a practice did by World bank which was unquestionably without any controls or misrepresentation. Akande said in eight of the nine pilot expresses, the procedure had occurred no less than two years prior through the World Bank-bolstered program under an understanding went into with the state governments.

"This is an altogether reasonable and straightforward process and shy of wickedness, its absolutely impossible you can depict this procedure as divided. The president will be president of the whole nation and the SIPs are for all Nigerians all things considered. In the first place, the authorities at elected level, working with the state authorities, distinguish the poorest neighborhood government zones, utilizing a current neediness delineate the state, then the nearby authorities recognize the poorest groups in the LGAs and we send our groups there. The main thing our group does after determination of the LGAs is to choose individuals from the NOA, the LGA and group authorities to frame the CBT group. At that point we prepare the chose authorities on the most proficient method to lead center gathering examinations at group level. These concentration bunches include ladies, men, adolescents as the group decides. In the wake of preparing them, the CBT groups go to each of their groups to sharpen the pioneers, including conventional rulers, on the CBT procedure and the need for objectivity and openness simultaneously. At that meeting, they solidify a date to assemble a group meeting at an assigned area inside the group. On the set date, discourses are held in the nearby dialects, utilizing phrasings that resound in that group. The CBT group will disclose to the group the motivation behind the social event; that is, to decide the parameters of neediness whereupon people can be depicted as poor and helpless inside the setting of that group. The CBT groups will then connect with every gathering (men, ladies and adolescents) in the discussion around the criteria and parameters for deciding the poorest individuals. The gatherings would then be urged to recognize those family units that fall inside the criteria that the group itself decides, and told that the data is required for government's arranging purposes. Different destitution criteria have been hurled in this way. At times, individuals have said it's the quantity of times they eat, it's the quantity of times the exhaust of kindling go up from the house, the extent of farmland or sort of harvests developed. At that point, the gatherings continue in entire and report back the criteria and parameters talked about. The CBT group would then incorporate the criteria and parameters and request that every gathering come back to their break-out sessions and now start to distinguish the family units in the group that have been recognized as fitting the criteria and parameters. Once that is done at the gatherings, everyone meets up again with names incorporated by every gathering. Presently, when a similar name is highlighted in no less than two of the three gatherings, it is esteemed met all requirements to be recorded on the social enroll. At this stage, we now identify the individuals from the family unit and open a financial balance for each of the parental figures by catching the biometric information of families distinguished as among the poorest and helpless."

VP Yemi Osinbajo Meets With Daughter Of One Of Nigeria's Fallen Heroes

Vice President, Professor Yemi Oshinbajo, yesterday had a brief chat with Olatayo Lola Emmanuel, daughter of one of Nigeria's Fallen Hero at the 2017 Armed Forces Remembrance Celebration, Inter-Denominational Church Service held at The National Christian Centre Abuja.

It is frenzy If At This Age, Despite Everything I Consider Taking A Spouse – Jide Kosoko

In June 2016, veteran Nollywood performing artist Jide Kosoko lost his third spouse, Henrietta Kosoko after a brief fight with diabetes. In a late meeting with The Point, he described what really prompted to her passing saying,

'Disregard each one of those things you listened. She was sick. She kicked the bucket of intricacies that emerged from diabetes. Truly, my family, companions and partners remained by me and I welcome that.

Obviously, you will dependably have maybe a couple people, who might state maybe a couple adverse things. Be that as it may in my life, I have battled such a variety of fights and I have won all. It is just individuals who need to be pulverized that would go up against me in war, in light of the fact that the Almighty God has His arrangements for me. It is recently very awful that these things are transpiring, however I would even now thank the Almighty God for everything. There are purposes behind everything and I need to trust that it is regular'.

Whenever inquired as to whether he'll be taking another spouse, he said,

'In the event that at this age, despite everything I consider taking a spouse, when I have over twelve kids, it is frenzy. On January 12, I will be 63. I am dealing with a portion of the kids, while others are presently grown-ups. She cleared out and left me with two adolescents'.

Sokoto State Government Denies Disbanding Sokoto Sharia Police Over Seizure Of Musical Instruments Used At State Governor's Daughter's Wedding

A week ago, the Sokoto Hisbah Commission which is the unique police drive that authorizes Sharia hone in the North, grabbed the melodic instruments utilized amid the pre-wedding supper of the little girl of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal last December, for supposedly abusing Shari'ah law being worked in the state(Read here).

There were reports online yesterday that the state government, in striking back, has disbanded the Commission. The Secretary to the state government, Bashir Garba, has discharged an announcement, denying the report. Perused the announcement underneath.

The consideration of Sokoto State Government has been attracted to stories the media such that the State Hisbah Commission has been disbanded.

The Government wishes to illuminate that the operations of the State Hisbah Commission, which is a formation of the law, has not been suspended. Correspondingly, it ought to be noticed that the initiative of the Commission is still set up and have not been suspended from obligation.

By the arrangements of the law building up the Hisbah Commission, just the State Governor has the privilege to expel any individual from the Commission from his/her obligation, which for this situation, nothing of such has happened.

For the records, the Ministry of Religious Affairs held a meeting with the initiative of the three groups guaranteeing power over Hisbah Commission in the State. An assention was come to fit their operations for the advantage of the citizenry.

That procedure is still on, and encourage correspondence will be made after due interviews with significant partners.

We entreat columnists to constantly cross-check all issues with assigned powers before continuing to press.

5 Players To Look Out For At The AFCON 2017 (Photos)

With the 2017 Africa Cup of Nation set to kick off in Gabon from January 14 to February 5, 2017, LIB brings you the top 5 football stars to watch out for:

1.    Riyad Mahrez, Algeria (Leicester City, England)

He is currently the Africa’s best player. The Algerian played a greater part in securing his club first league title last season, scored 17 league goals and was voted  BBC player of the year. 

He was also awarded ‘Player of the Year’ by the Professional Footballers Association, making him the first African to win the award.

 

 

2. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabon (Borussia Dortmund, Germany)

He was the 2015 African player of the year but failed to retain it by coming as the runner-up in 2016. All eyes will be on the top shot striker who scored 25 goals for his club side last season.

 

 

3.  Saido Mane, Senegal (Liverpool FC, England)

He is currently the third African best player. The Senegalese soccer star became the most expensive African player in history when he joined Liverpool in a £34M deal.

 

4. Eric Bailly, Ivory Coast (Manchester United, England)

After joining Manchester United for a reported fee of £30 million, the top defender has been an outstanding star on the football pitch.

He is a key man to watch and will be guiding the defense line for the defending champions Ivory Coast during the tournament.

 

 

5.  Andre Ayew, Ghana (West Ham (England)

Despite a bit of injury frustration playing for his Premier league team, the Ghanaian is another top striker to look out for. 

He was the top scorer at the 2015 AFCON, and will sure be playing a key part for Ghana who have not won the continental trophy since 1982

 

Man Hacks His Senior Sibling To Death While He Dozed For Neglecting To Give Him Stash Cash.

Dominic Ogbaji, a 22-year-old indigene of Cross River State, executed his senior sibling, 32-year-old John Ogbaji, while he was snoozing, for professedly neglecting to give him stash cash.

The episode happened on the second of November 2016 at Ajegunle in Mpape Village, FCT Abuja.

Dominic who filled in as a hair stylist in his town, because of the way that he was not sufficiently winning moved to Abuja looking for a superior life. He professedly went to Abuja to live with his sister yet she alluded him to his sibling. As indicated by Dominic's declaration, he educated his sibling, John, that he needed a vocation, however he was not ready to get him one. He guaranteed that life got to be distinctly troublesome for him as he said that asides bolstering him, John was not giving him take cash.

On the night of November second, John gave Dominic N60 to purchase bread and unadulterated water which they had for supper. A short time later, Dominic requested N4,000 from his sibling to come back to the town however was not given. During the evening, while John dozed, Dominic recovered the cutlass underneath their quaint little inn his sibling's throat with it then took the N10,000 and telephone in the perished's pocket before getting away for Cross River State.

The damaged group of John was found by a neighbor who went to charge her telephone in his room. She raised the caution that got the police included, prompting to a manhunt for Dominic. The mother of Dominic and John was educated of the wrongdoing and when the speculate returned home, she bound him and gave him over to the police from where he was exchanged to Abuja.

Dominic in the long run admitted to the wrongdoing saying;

"I lament executing my sibling since I was eager and required pocket cash, so the fiend pushed me to the insidious thing I did."

The Commissioner of Police, FCT Police Command, Mohammed Mustapha, affirmed the episode to Sunday Sun and educated that the young fellow will be charged to court to stand trial for claimed kill.

Source Sunnewsonline

FG Plans To Establish Aviation University- Minister Says

Minister of state for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, over the weekend, disclosed that the Federal government is planning to establish an Aviation University in Nigeria.

Addressing newsmen after a familiarization tour of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) in Zaria, Kaduna State, Sirika said the university when completed, will be into research and training of aviation personnel that will manufacture aircraft components.

“The aviation university will be different from NCAT. The university will be fully into research and development and production of higher level management manpower need of the industry. The university will go into deep research, with the hope that in the near future, we will be able to manufacture aircraft components, until when we are able to produce the aircraft itself. Since the technology is available around the world, is no longer a hindrance, it is our own ability and capability to pursue it. The technology is known, we are not reinventing it, we just put our act together in doing it. So, the university will cater for that, while NCAT will continue to provide the services in the institute” he said

Spanish La liga: Real Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Battle Out Another Football Season

Barca's position on the Spanish La Liga table dropped after last night's 1-1 draw with Villareal. Real Madrid is on top with 40 points, followed by Sevilla with 36 points.

MMM Adopts Bitcoin As New Currency For Payment

Ahead of January 14 when the pop­ular ponzi conspire, MMM is relied upon to lift suspension on installment of members, the administrators of the plan have intro­duced Bitcoin as its cur­rency for installment.

Bitcoin rose the world's best performing method for installment in 2016 and is tipped to wind up distinctly the most secure resource all around.

The Bitcoin money had been sought after however had not increased much pop­ularity among Nigerians contrasted with the MMM ponzi conspire which mil­lions of Nigerians patron­ised in 2016 preceding it was suspended in December a year ago.

In spite of the fact that trusts among the members of the ponzi plan are still high in Nigeria, many have kept on swinging to Bit­coin which had been there yet had little support like it was with the ponzi plot.

As per the new course of action, partici­pants to get installment in bitcoin, and watch their monies develop in bitcoin which the MMM were permitted to furnish help with before the records were solidified in December 2016.

An announcement to partic­ipants yesterday by the MMM administrators on Fa­cebook read: "Because of the late sharp value fluctua­tions of Bitcoin, MAVRO-BTC is being presented in the framework".

"In this way, we have just had Mavro-Naira in the System. Despite the fact that you gave assistance by means of Bitcoin, your Bitcoins, in any case, were recalculated into the Nigerian Naira at the ex­change rate right now of giving help, and you were credited with Mavro-Naira in your PO.

Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Army Base, Five Soldiers Killed

Five Nigerian Army and more than 15 Boko Haram contenders were killed when the jihadists assaulted an armed force base in the remote upper east where the gathering has been battling for an Islamic express, a military source said on Sunday.

Boko Haram assaulted an armed force detachment in Buni Yadi in Yobe state late on Saturday, an armed force representative said by instant message, without giving a setback figure.

"Five warriors lost their life in the assault however more than 15 Boko Haram were murdered by troops," the military source said.

A few blasts could be heard on Sunday in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state where Boko Haram began its seven-year rebellion that has killed around 15 000 individuals and uprooted more than 2 million. Authorities or doctors were not promptly accessible to give a setback figure. In mid 2015, Boko Haram controlled a region about the span of Belgium.

It has been pushed out of the greater part of that domain over the previous year by Nigeria's armed force and troops from neighboring nations, moving to a base in the Sambisa timberland. A month ago, the armed force said it had taken Boko Haram's key camp in the backwoods, in spite of the fact that the gathering has arranged suicide bombings from that point forward. Security examiners say the gathering's capacity to complete assaults in neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad recommends it has various bases.

'The Redeemed Church's New Pioneer Not GO, But Rather National Regulator'

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (center), his better half, Bolanle (third left), Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola (left), his significant other, Temitope (second left), Spiritual Leader and Global Missioner of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye (second right) and his better half, Pastor Folu Adeboye (ideal) at the 2017 yearly thanksgiving administration at the Lagos House, Ikeja… yesterday

• Atiku compliments Adeboye for 'venturing aside'

• Thread delicately, Fayose cautions Federal Government

The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has made further elucidations on the new arrangements in its crease.

The congregation at the end of the week declared the new arrangements at its yearly Ministers Thanksgiving held at the Redemption Camp in Ogun State.

In an announcement yesterday, the Assistant General Overseer (Admin and Personnel) Pastor J. F. Odesola, said the General Overseer has named a National Overseer for Nigeria face to face of Pastor Joseph Osuolale Obayemi, who is the present Assistant General Overseer, Finance in the mission, to be helped by the National

Secretary in the individual of Pastor Johnson Funso Odesola and the National Treasurer, Pastor Joseph Adelanke Adeyokunnu.

"This arrangement of Obayemi does not at all influence the regulatory structure and positions as officially constituted at all levels in the Mission (home and abroad)," the announcement said.

Odesola additionally clarified: "The status and task of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye as the Spiritual Leader and Global Missioner of The Redeemed Christian Church of God stays unaltered."

Responding to the advancement in the congregation, previous Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has portrayed Pastor Enoch Adeboye as a one of a kind case of persuasive authority, saying Nigeria needs more religious pioneers in the shape of the minister.

In an announcement discharged at the declaration of Pastor Adeboye's venturing aside as the General Overseer (G.O.) of the RCCG, Nigeria, Atiku said:

"The absolute most noticeable identities Nigeria has been honored with have been the individuals who learnt from the podium of Pastor Adeboye. A latest case is our present Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo."

In the interim, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose yesterday forewarned the Federal Government to be cautious in the execution of the law, which constrained the RCCG into authority changes.

Fayose, who talked yesterday amid the 53rd birthday thanksgiving administration of his significant other, Feyisetan, at the Governor's Office sanctuary, Ado-Ekiti State, said government must string delicately.

As indicated by him, "There is one thing each administration must not do, the minute you meddle with the congregation of God, you will come up short. The God of Adeboye, Kumuyi will cut down every one of the foes in this administration."

Mrs. Fayose said she quit going to God to expel her significant other's heart from governmental issues when God uncovered to her in 2006 that He required him (Fayose) in Nigeria.

She said to her significant other: "The Lord will remunerate, He will remain by you. You are going higher and I'll be close to. Despite everything i'll continue as before individual. God has said it and it will never come up short.

Photographs: Emir Of Kano's Young Little Girl And His Second Wife Moves On From Quranic School

Maryam, Emir of Kano's little girl with his second spouse moved on from Quranic school Saturday, January seventh, 2017.

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Photographs: Gov. Fayose Helps With Putting Out Flame From A Smoldering Petrol Tanker In Ekiti

Ekiti state senator, Ayo Fayose, moved up his sleeves and helped individuals from the state Fire administration to put out flame from a smoldering petrol tanker at the Strive Energy Petrol Station, Ijigbo circuitous in Ado Ekiti, the state capital Sunday.

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Suspected Fulani Herders Execute Three Police Officer, Others In Adamawa state

Three police officers and numerous others were killed amid an assault completed by speculated Fulani herders in three groups in Adamawa state in the early hours of Sunday January eighth. As per inhabitants of Kwayine town, which is one of the towns assaulted, around 10 people were executed while one individual was snatched. Two police officers have been proclaimed missing after the assault. Security specialists have been drafted to the influenced groups to reestablish peace.