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- It Is The Turn Of North-Central To Produce President Of Nigeria - Bukola Saraki
- Breaking: PDP Offers Femi Otedola Lagos Governorship Ticket, As He Accepts Offer
- Dele Momodu Reacts On Tinubu's Joker, As Jide Sanwoolu Joins Lagos Governorship Race
- Aregbesola Opens Up On ‘Resignation’ Of Accountant General
- Former IG, Suleiman Abba Picks Senatorial Forms At APC Secretariat
- Biography, Net Worth, Wife, Children, Governorship Aspirant Rivers, Tonye Cole
- Nigeria Government Sentence Man For Forging ICAN Certificate, But Silent On Minister Of Fianace NYSC Certificate Forgery
| It Is The Turn Of North-Central To Produce President Of Nigeria - Bukola Saraki Posted: 11 Sep 2018 05:13 PM PDT
Dr. Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's President of Senate, has stated that his presidential aspiration is driven by an obsession for justice, fairness and respect for the rule of law."I want to be President so that I can ensure justice and fairness for everyone; I want a country where the rule of law will be respected by all," Mr Saraki said on Monday in Makurdi, where he met with Benue State PDP Working Committee.Dr. Saraki's visit was to solicit support for his presidential aspiration ahead of the 2019 general elections."We need leaders who are capable of representing all interest groups, and not a section of the country."My presidential ambition is a collective decision borne out of a desire to salvage the disunity that we are witnessing," he said. Mr Saraki said it was the turn of the North-Central geopolitical zone to produce the nation's president, declaring that he was ready to provide quality leadership. "As a zone, we have paid our dues. It is the turn of our zone to lead Nigeria to stability. "We have gone through bad times. The nation has become crises-ridden; the killings are uncalled for and the Benue valley is the worst hit. "There should be justice to every citizen, regardless of geographical location. "Democracy entails freedom or rights of the people. Our rights should not be imprisoned," he said. Saraki vowed to restore peace in the country if elected as president, and called on Benue delegates to vote for him during the party's convention in October. Senator Dino Melaye, on his part, appealed to the people of Benue to vote and guard their votes during elections, saying that they must promote and protect their rights to decide who led them. In the same vein, Mr. John Mgbede, chairman of PDP in the state, thanked Saraki and his entourage for the visit and promised that Benue would always vote for justice. (NAN) Related Topics: #Saraki #BenueState #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Breaking: PDP Offers Femi Otedola Lagos Governorship Ticket, As He Accepts Offer Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:28 PM PDT
Mr. Femi Otedola, Nigerian billionaire, Philanthropist and Chairman/CEO of Forte Oil, has been offered the Governorship ticket for Lagos State by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and it had been confirmed that the billionaire has accepted offer and would be flying the PDP flag in Lagos. The news was shared by Chief Dele Momodu via his Twitter handle:Breaking news: Lagos 2019 promises to be interesting. PDP offers Femi Otedola governorship ticket. He's accepted and personally confirmed to The Boss newspaper..Related Topics: #FemiOtedola #PDP #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Dele Momodu Reacts On Tinubu's Joker, As Jide Sanwoolu Joins Lagos Governorship Race Posted: 11 Sep 2018 03:28 PM PDT
Bola Tinubu's former Special Adviser, Jide Sanwoolu has been anointed as the next Lagos State Governor as he Joins Lagos Gubernatorial Race.Dele Momodu reacted to the development with a tweet and described information as one of the biggest News in Lagos State, that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu joker. Read his tweet below... Lagos State politics on fire as ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU's secret joker JIDE SANWOOLU joins gubernatorial race... He was Special Adviser to Mr Femi Pedro as Dep Governor & Special Adviser to Gov Bola Tinubu before becoming a full Commissioner for Establishment in 2007... Stay tuned...
Related Topics: #DeleMomodu #Ambode #Tinubu #JideSanwoolu #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Aregbesola Opens Up On ‘Resignation’ Of Accountant General Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:20 AM PDT
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Governor of Osun State, has reacted to media report that the Accountant General of the state, Mr Alaba Kolawole, has resigned his position.Aregbesola, in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr Sola Fasure, said the accountant general attained the age of 60 on August 11 and retired from the service voluntarily on the account of age.The Governor according to Daily Post, urged the public to disregard the news of the resignation of the AG, while explaining that the letter written to banks by Kolawole was necessary because he could no longer sign cheques on behalf of the state having retired from the service.He said:"For the avoidance of doubt, Mr Kolawole retired voluntarily from service, having attained the statutory age of 60 on August 11, 2018. "He duly notified the state government, through the Head of Service on May 11, 2018. The Head of Service also notified the governor on June 11, 2018. Governor Aregbesola then approved the retirement on June 16, 2018. "As statutorily required of him, Mr Kolawole wrote to the banks and financial institutions doing business with the government, to notify them of the invalidity of his signature since he will be stepping out of service and will no longer be competent to act as a signatory to the government's accounts or transact business on behalf of the government. "Having served the state meritoriously for 31 years, Mr Kolawole deserves a happy and peaceful retirement, not wild and unfounded allegations that maligned his person and portrayed him as a disloyal and troublesome civil servant." "It is regrettable that Mr Kolawole's retirement has been twisted and complete falsehood built around this due process. We are not in doubt that this falsehood was concocted at the PDP secretariat and this tiny section of the media is the willing tools. Mr Kolawole has since set the records straight and debunked the lies." Related Topics: #RaufAregbesola #OsunState #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Former IG, Suleiman Abba Picks Senatorial Forms At APC Secretariat Posted: 11 Sep 2018 06:49 AM PDT
Suleiman Abba, former Inspector General of Police, has joined the race for the All Progressives Congress ticket for the Jigawa State Central Senatorial District.The former IG picked his nomination and expression of interest forms at the National Secretariat of the APC in Abuja, on Monday.
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| Biography, Net Worth, Wife, Children, Governorship Aspirant Rivers, Tonye Cole Posted: 11 Sep 2018 05:41 AM PDT
Mr. Tonye Cole is the Governorship Aspirant under the APC Rivers State, who recently resigned From the board of Sahara Group.Tonye Patrick Cole was born in 1967, is a Nigerian billionaire, entrepreneur and a philantropist. He had experienced financial bankruptcy, before, co-founding Sahara Group.Below is his brief biography as reported by Wealth-X. Chris Whiteoak / The National10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TONYE PATRICK COLE The Managing Director and Co-Founder of Sahara Group, Tonye Cole was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria and his is the offspring of Patrick Cole. He was involved in the design and implementation of the urban planning and city development of Palmas. There is no doubt that he has been a source of encouragement and inspiration to the youth of Nigeria and Africa.
1. Tonye Cole was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria and his is the offspring of Patrick Cole. 2. He attended the Corona School, Victoria Island and later King's College in Lagos before proceeding to King's School in the UK. 3. He is also an alumnus of the University of Lagos and Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil. 4. He worked as an architect in a Brazilian architectural firm, Grupo Quartro SA in Goiania Brazil from 1990 to 1992. 5. He was involved in the design and implementation of the urban planning and city development of Palmas. 6. When he returned to Nigeria in 1993, he was employed as the Director of Operations at a Brazilian Civil Engineering company, EMSA S.A. 7. In 2011, he launched the "Nehemiah Project", a project patterned after Nehemiah's reputation as the re-builder of Jerusalem. 8. He is known as a frequent speaker at forums, meets and conferences. 9. He is also known to empower and inspire Nigerian youths to discover, explore and realize their full potential. 10. He is married to Sylvia Cole and they are blessed with beautiful children. Billionaire Tonye Cole: 'Bankruptcy taught me to value money less' The Nigerian businessman and philanthropist reveals how losing everything changed his perspective on money. Tonye Cole, the chief executive of the Sahara Group, has an estimated worth of $1.4 billion, according to Wealth-X. Chris Whiteoak / The National, November 16, 2017 Tonye Cole is a very wealthy man today - but he has not always been so fortunate. The Nigerian billionaire, who is co-founder and group executive director of one of the country's largest energy conglomerates, Sahara Group, lost everything in the late 1990s before going on to amass the enormous wealth he has today. Mr Cole went bankrupt in 1998 after he and his business partners invested money into an oil transaction that was cancelled by the incoming administration in Nigeria after the military rule Sani Abacha died. However, today Mr Cole's estimated worth sits at $1.4 billion, according to Wealth-X. The businessman is also a philanthropist, supporting numerous charities, such as the Down Syndrome Society, Slum2School Foundation and Bethesda School for the Blind through his foundation, Nehemiah Youth Empowerment Initiative. Mr Cole was recently in Dubai to speak at the 19th Naseba Global Women in Leadership Economic Forum. How did your upbringing affect your attitude to money? My father was away for university on scholarships and left when I was very little. I grew up in a home with multiple children, so you had to fight for everything. Nothing was given to you, so to speak, so I learned to be independent very early. My family came back home and I started living with my parents again when I was 16. By then it was pretty much formed in my mind, independently, how to fend for myself. And all of that instilled in me the discipline to know that you do not get anything for free. You have to practically fight for everything that you can get. And whatever you have you need to be prudent with it. That shaped me financially. How much did you earn in your first job? As a junior architect in Brazil in 1990, it would be somewhere in the region of $8,000 per annum. Are you a spender or a saver? In my personal life I save for things I feel are important. I save for my family; I save for fees, for my children, wife and holidays. But then I spend a lot more helping people. I quietly do a lot of spending but then my wife has to be aware of that so we do help a lot of people. What fuels your philanthropy? In life I have found two things: you can make a lot of money, but you can also lose it very quickly. We have been through that scenario where I made a lot of money but also lost it. When you lose money, you look back and reflect on when you had it and what you did with it. It is very important when you have money that you make sure to impact lives. You do things where you are impacting people because the day might come when you don't have it. And when you look back, you should feel that you made a difference with what you had, when you had it. We also realised that the lives you touch along the way is a 'pay it forward' kind of thing. Down the line you find that those people, in one way or another, play an important role in getting you back up again. How did you pick yourself up after going bankrupt? Failure teaches you a lot. You find out one thing very quickly: that relationships don't end if you build on them and keep them. And depending on how you build those relationships, you can always build on them. Relationships create opportunities and opportunities will give you the chance to get up and work again. So that's what helped. The fact that you have done it again. If you have done it before you will do it again. How did the experience change your financial outlook? Did it make money more important, or less? Less, because you find out that it can grow wings, so do not get attached to it. What financial advice would you offer your younger self? That money has more value when you use it to impact lives than when you use it for anything material. And so it is good to acquire, but it is much better to impact. And so I would have started much earlier impacting others' lives. What do you invest in? Primarily I invest in Sahara. That is where the bulk of my time and money is rotated back into and has been so for many years. There are minor investments in property, stocks and bonds but far more important is the investment in Sahara. READ ALSO: Rivers State Governorship Nominee, Tonye Cole Meets Buhari What is your most cherished possession? I'm not sure I have anything I hold on to. Loss does something to you. You find that if you hold on to anything material that much, the impact it has on you as a person and how you live is too devastating. I see things as transient, an access or a gateway to something else - so you need a home, somewhere to sleep. I collect artwork, not for the value of it, but because I think it beautifies the space. Once you come into that space it either relaxes you or makes you feel a lot better about the environment that you sit in. But I wouldn't hold on to the value of that artwork so much, saying that if that artwork is destroyed then my whole life is destroyed. My relationship with material things is more about the ambience it creates rather than the do or die hold of it. Related Topics: #TonyeCole #APC #RiversState #2019Election Sharing is caring. Share this story  | ||||
| Posted: 11 Sep 2018 09:03 AM PDT
The Nigerian Government has jailed the man, James Lebi-Ayodele, who was arraigned for ICAN certificate forgery and the issue of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun's NYSC exemption certificate forgery has not been treated over 66 days when the Premium Times first carried the story.Read below the full story as published by PREMIUM Times....While the Nigerian government has continued to be silent over the certificate forgery scandal of its finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, it has successfully prosecuted a civil servant for falsifying his ICAN certificate.James Lebi-Ayodele, who worked at the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, was convicted by an FCT High Court in Jabi in July and sentenced to two years in prison without an option of fine for forging the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria certificate.READ ALSO: Police Quiet On Adeosun, But Speed-Up Probe Of Adeleke's Certificate ScandalAccording to a report in Vanguard, the judge, Yusuf Halilu, said the convict would have risen to the position of the Auditor General of the Federation with a forged certificate in the future if the forgery had not been detected. The judge also ordered Mr Lebi-Ayodele to pay ₦100, 000 in restitution. The conviction came days after PREMIUM TIMES exposed how Ms Adeosun skipped the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps scheme and forged a certificate that fraudulently indicated she was exempted from participating. The revelation trigerred widespread outrage from Nigerians, with the Human and Environmental Development Agenda, a nongovernmental organisation, petitioning the police inspector general demanding an investigation into the claims against the minister. Last month, another nongovernmental organisation, the Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), sued the NYSC for its failure to disclose details of the certificate paraded by the minister. The group had earlier made a freedom of information request to the NYSC which the agency ignored. In August, Lai Mohammed, the information minister, said the appropriate agency was still investigating the allegations against Ms Adeosun and that the president would only act at the end of the probe. READ ALSO: Adeosun's Forged NYSC Certificate And Ayodele James' Fake ICAN Certificate - The Untouchables? So far, the corps' only comment on the scandal was a short statement on July 9 saying it would investigate the claims. But the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) acted swiftly in the case of Mr Lebi-Ayodele, arraigning him on three counts of forgery, being in possession of a forged document, and giving false information. In sentencing the convict, the judge said it would serve as lesson to those who procure fake certificates and those who intend to engage in such act in the future. "The convict knew full well that he never had ICAN certificate," the judge said. "He forged the certificate and eventually got elevated from executive officer to a senior auditor in a country where securing government employment is a huge challenge, and with the army of graduates who have truly earned better certificate but (have) remained unemployed. "Government should scrutinise all employees in her payroll to ensure only those who deserve to be gainfully employed are employed. The convict shall serve his term in Keffi Prison." It is now over 60 days since Minister Adeosun was exposed for forgery but authorities are yet to open investigation into her case. Many Nigerians believe Ms Adeosun's offences might be higher than Mr Lebi-Ayodele's, having used her forged NYSC certificate to clinch high level jobs, including those of commissioner in Ogun State, and minister in the federal cabinet. There are suggestions that she could be prosecuted for perjury as well for presenting the fake certificate to the Ogun House of Assembly and the Senate as genuine. Lying on oath is a criminal offence in Nigeria, which attracts jail terms. For instance, a year ago, the Federal High Court in Lagos jailed one Ibikunle Olusakin, to seven years imprisonment for presenting forged documents to the court when he acted as surety for a suspect. According to a report by The Nation, Mr. Olusakin stood as surety for Emmanuel Nweke, charged with unlawful importation and possession of prohibited firearms. After Mr. Nweke jumped bail, the police found that he lied on oath and that all the documents he presented were fake. The forged document presented ny the surety included a University of Lagos (UNILAG) degree certificate dated March 3,1982, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate with no. A815994, dated September 4, 1983 and a Lagos State Government Confirmation of Appointment letter dated October 16, 1989. He also presented a Lagos State Government offer of appointment as Primary Class Teacher dated August 12, 1985; Lagos State Government Educational District II letter dated April 4, 2011 and Lagos State Government Staff Identify Card. Justice Mohammed Idris promptly sentenced him to seven, three and seven years respectively in count one, two and three. The sentence is running concurrently. Related Topics: #ICANCertificateForgery #KemiAdeosun #NYSCCertificate Sharing is caring. Share this story  |
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