Finally President Buhari Rescues States With N713.7B Workers Salaries From Intervention Funds

Worried by accumulated salaries nationwide, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved the release of N713.7billion intervention funds for states.

The bail-out was part of a three-pronged relief package that will end the workers plight.

While N413.7billion represents special intervention funds, the balance of about N250billion to N300billion is a soft loan to states.

Also, N413.7billion ($2.1billion) is sourced from the recent Liquefied Natural Gas proceeds and the remaining N300billion is a Central Bank-packaged special intervention fund.

The Debt Management Office (DMO) is expected to assist states to restructure over N660billion commercial loans crippling their economy.

With the development, President Buhari has stopped deduction of monthly allocations to states at source.

Instead, the Federal Government will “use its influence to guarantee the elongation of the loans for the benefit of the states.”

How Nigerian students detained in Malaysia For Internet Scam Worth N125.2m

Five Nigerian students have been arrested and detained in Malaysia over their alleged involvement in an internet fraud amounting to N125.2million (RM2.4 million) in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. The five students, aged between 20 and 30, and pursuing Information Technology courses in a leading private college in Kuala Lumpur, were arrested on June 30, 2015 at different areas in that country including Petaling Jaya, Cyberjaya, Damansara and Kuala Lumpur.

Following the arrest of the five students, police also detained the two local women, aged 40 and 55, who are the owners of the accounts used by the syndicate said Penang Commercial Crimes chief ACP Azmi Adam.

ACP Azmi said police also seized five laptops, 20 hand phones, ATM cards, SIM cards and documents believed to have been used to con their victims.

Seeming Trouble Days Await Innoson Group Where Consumers Are Expected To Assuage

News Making round now indicates that Dr. Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Co. Ltd, the first indigenous vehicle manufacturing plant in Nigeria is in allegedly for a serious trouble in his vehicle manufacturing business if Governor Willie Obiano did not intervene and start buying vehicles from him.

The document in our possession showed that unless Governor Willie Obiano rescinds his decision to continue to buy TATA buses as all the Federal ministries and Agencies as well as various state governments have told the Innoson company that they would not continue to patronize him since his state government did not deem his vehicles fit to buy but buys TATA , a non indigenous buses. Innoson is proudly Nigeria.

ILL ADVISED RELOCATION OF TERRORISM SUSPECTS TO ANAMBRA

By Ifeanyi Afuba

Is President Muhammadu Buhari in firm grip of governance yet after thirty days in  office? Despite efforts by the President’s media office to tone down the impact of a voluntary confession, the President’s age limitations statement in South Africa is certain to be a factor in analysis of its leadership performance. Unsettled by the emergence of a national assembly leadership it did not reckon with, the new regime’s faltering start has further echoed with yet to be refuted reports that ministerial appointments are to be delayed till September.

Nigerians are finding the continued bemoaning of an empty treasury tiresome and a weak defense for policy freeze. In the wake of growing concern over the direction and dynamism of the new government, the transfer, against public outcry, of 4 7 suspected Boko Haram militants to Ekwulobia Prison in Anambra State is confounding.

South East Governors Unit Against Alleged Boko Haram Inmates Transfer To Anambra Prison

Governors of the South-East states under the aegis of the South-East Governors’ Forum yesterday charged the presidency to relocate the 43 Boko Haram suspects in Anambra State to Abuja. At a joint news briefing in Owerri, the Imo State capital, the governors stated that Abuja has adequate security to contain such high profile criminals. Governor Rochas Okorocha, who spoke on behalf of the governors, called on the presidency to take a second look at the relocation of the 43 Boko Haram suspects to Anambra State, saying the development has only created fear and anxiety in the region. Okorocha noted that the apprehension of the people was genuine and, as such, was an issue of concern to the governors of the region.

Keshi Out, Amodu In As Super Eagle Head Coach

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has sacked Stephen Keshi as Super Eagles coach.

The NFF announced the sacking on their website late on Saturday night, following intense speculations on social media.

Former Eagles coach Shaibu Amodu will take temporary charge of the team, along with Salisu Yusuf, a former Keshi assistant.

The NFF website wrote: “A statement by the NFF Executive Committee on Saturday said this decision was made, “having thoroughly reviewed the reports/findings of the NFF Disciplinary Committee and NFF Technical and Development Committee, as well as having reviewed the actions and inactions of Mr. Stephen Keshi, in the performance of his duties as Super Eagles’ Head Coach, which we found to lack the required commitment to achieve the Federation’s objectives as set out in the Coach’s employment contract.”

Anambra State Government Charges Online Publishers To Refrain From Gossips & Yellow Journalism

 In a bid to ensure freedom of information law passed by the 7^th National Assembly is respected to ensure public office holders are accountable to the people and access to information of government is respected, the Anambra state government has expounded his administration resolve to work with the media to deliver open door policy of governance devoid of selfless leadership prowess to the people.

He assured that his government has remained one of the administrations that has also taken into consideration of including media practitioners in the programme of government to provide open access to information about Anambra state added that his administration is willing to strengthened the already established relationship with the media if adequate reporting and respect for institution of government are observed.

Speaking to members of the Anambra State Online Publishers in Awka, the Anambra state commissioner for health Doctor Jeosapath Akabuike, assured the readiness of the state government to strengthen the already existing relationship with journalists and however express hope that it would be extended to the men of the Online Publishers, being the nascent and fastest way of information disseminations network.

President Buhari's Family Disowns Fake TWITTER, FACEBOOOK & Other Social Media Link To Them

Following enquiries by a few foreign missions on the raging online controversy about unsavory comments against some foreign leaders purportedly made by her, we wish to state categorically that Zahra is indeed on Twitter but the offending handle @Zahra_Buhari has stopped being her own for a long time since it was compromised by hackers.

Tweets by this handle are therefore not her own and should be disregarded and considered as the work of hackers seeking to cause mischief between this country and other friendly states.

Zahra's authentic handle is @ZmBuhari and any handle other than this on Twitter should be considered as fake and therefore fraudulent.

APC In Disarray: Way forward Truncated But Party Supremacy Stands

Ashiwaju.org was reliably informed by Presidency sources, yesterday, that part of the reasons for the seeming prolonged process of resolving the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, may be the slightly differing positions of President Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, regarded as a leader and financier of the party.

Specifically, the sources disclosed that the Friday NEC meeting of the party “brought to the open the seeming centrifugal positions of Mr. President and Asiwaju.”

One of the sources added: “At the meeting between the governors and the warring parties that followed the APC NEC parley, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, was mandated to chair a committee of three that would come up with possible resolutions to the crisis.

Transfer of B/Haram prisoners to Anambra: Obiano lied — Peter Obi

Former Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi , has refuted claims by the state governor Willie Obiano that the transfer of Boko Haram prisoners was concluded in 2012 during the reign of former Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and Obi as governor of the state.

He expressed shock about Obiano’s claims, describing it as a blatant lie.

Reacting to the claim that Jonathan and Obi were behind the relocation of Boko Haram terrorists to Anambra State, the media aide to Peter Obi, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, said he was shocked that Governor Willie Obiano would personally sign such a release laying claims to what appeared nauseating and childish.

Obienyem said that such a claim would only end up proving to the people that there were more to the relocation than they already knew.

Describing the claim as a blatant lie, Obienyem wondered how an action or a plan concluded by a man who left office almost 16 months ago was being implemented now.