Okoi Obono-Obla, the special assistant to the president on prosecution, has written to the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police seeking the probe of an alleged peddler
of false claim of the death of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Acknowledgment copies of the separate letters addressed to the Director General of the DSS, Mr. Yusuf Bichi, and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, were obtained by
The PUNCH on Tuesday, November 20, 2018.
Copies of the letters dated November 14, 2018, were received at both the DSS and Police Force Headquarters in Abuja on November 6, 2018.
Obono-Obla, whose office is domiciled in the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, specifically informed the heads of the security agencies in his petitions that one Bishop
Eze Orieke made the false claim with purported documents from the London Bridge Hospital (Regional Medical Laboratory) to back it on the wall of a Facebook group called Ohafia
Political Forum.
The said documents are attached herewith for your attention and consideration,” the letter reads in part.
“It is a notorious fact and incontrovertible proof that his excellency, Muhammadu Buhari is not dead but very much alive and kicking.”
He added that the post on Facebook and the documents attached to it by the said Orieke “are fake and calculated to cause panic, disaffection and undermine national security.”
Copies of the documents, which were allegedly attached to the Facebook post and which Obono-Obla forwarded with his petitions to the security agencies, included a purported death certificate issued by the National Population Commission indicating that Buhari died of cardiac arrest in Abuja on September 19, 2017.
“It is ill-motivated, distasteful and made in extreme bad faith,” Obono-Obla said of the documents in his petitions.
According to him, the act violated the provisions of section 24(1)(a),(b) and (2)(a),(b),(c)(i),(ii) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition & Prevention etc) Act, 2015.
Offences under the said provision carry between three to 10 years imprisonment with or without fines ranging between N7 million and N15 million.
“In the light of the above, I respectfully urge you to investigate this matter,” Obono-Obla stated.
Our correspondent’s search of the Facebook accounts of both Bishop Eze Orieke and the Ohafia Political Forum did not yield a positive result.
Also, repeated attempts to contact the said Orieke through a phone number supplied in the petitions as his were also futile.
The repeated calls made to the telephone line indicated that the contact could not be reached.
The legal provisions which the suspect allegedly flouted according to Obono-Obla include, “(1) 24. (1) Any person who knowingly or intentionally sends a message or other matter by means of computer systems or network that-
“(a) is grossly offensive, pornographic or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character or causes any such message or matter to be so sent; or
(b) he knows to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to
another or causes such a message to be sent: commits an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not more than N7 million or imprisonment for a term of not more than three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.”
“(2) Any person who knowingly or intentionally transmits or causes the transmission of any communication through a computer system or network –
“(a) to bully, threaten or harass another person, where such communication places another person in fear of death, violence or bodily harm or to another person.”
“(b) containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to harm the person of another, any demand or request for a ransom for the release of any kidnapped person, to extort from
any person, firm, association or corporation, any money or other thing of value; or
“(c) containing any threat to harm the property or reputation of the addressee or of another or the reputation of a deceased person or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other
person of a crime, to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value: commits an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction-
“(i) in the case of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection to imprisonment for a term of 10 years and/or a minimum fine of N25,000,000.00;
“(d) of this subsection, to imprisonment for a term of five years and/or a minimum fine of N15 million.”
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Last Friday, November 19th, OAP Tosyn Bucknor's french hubby, Boyer
Aurelien, found her dead in their apartment when he returned from work.
Her demise came as a rude shock to many who took to social media to
express their grief at her sudden demise. 37-year-old Tosyn died due to
complications from sickle cell.In a post shared on his IG page this
morning, Boyer who marrier Tosyn in 2015, expressed how much he misses
her already. He wrote''That night, I felt I had gone. With you.Next day,
I could not stand all of them there. For you.And then, I realized it
was all love. Like you.From then, they say I've been strong. It is
true.Every day, I stand together with all of us. To go through.Last
night, I realized how much. I miss you.Irawo mi, through the window, I
look at you.Days and nights cannot get dark.A star illuminates the sky
with its eternal spark.May God comfort him, Amen.
SPAR,
the first brick and mortar retail brand to introduce Black Friday in
the Nigeria market, has declared Black Friday Sale for 8 Days. Black
Friday sales will commence on the 22nd till 29th November 2018. This was
revealed in Lagos by the Marketing Head, SPAR Nigeria, John
Goldsmith.SPAR will be running the Black Friday promotion across all its
14 stores spreading across Lagos; Abuja; Port Harcourt; Enugu and
Calabar.According to Mr. Goldsmith, the brand is excited about the
upcoming Black Friday Sales which was introduced five years ago into the
Nigerian market. This year, there are offering a wider range of
products which include Food, Grocery, Meats, Wine & Spirits,
Electronics, Home Appliances, Laptops, Mobile Phones, Watches, Clothes,
Perfume and many other products essential for individual and family
use.In his words, “From our experience over the years, we are prepared
to accommodate all our teeming customers who are gearing up to visit any
of the outlets during this annual event. All our customers will have
the opportunity to make their preferred choice from over 5,000 products
across all categories in any of our outlets nationwide.”“Nigerians have
always expressed preference for shopping in a store because we give them
the opportunity to have a look and feel of the products before buying
and they can also take immediate possession of what they have
purchased,” he added.“With our current brand maxim “My Nigeria My SPAR”,
we have continually been involved in growing the retail economy by
expanding our outlets to delight customers with quality products, we
have employed thousands of Nigerians and we will continue to support
laudable initiatives to better the lot of the citizenry,” he
concluded.The hypermarket brand has always translated the shopping
experience of Nigerians and every shopper based on their Choice,
Quality, Impeccable Service and Valuation addition to her teeming
customers. SPAR recently opened two new outlets in Lagos with location
at Leisure Mall, Surulere and Adebola House, Opebi. 
Senior Pastor of the Household of God Church and presidential candidate
of Fresh Party, has asked President Buhari, Atiku Akububakr, Oby
Ezekwesili, Donald Duke and other presidential candidates, to step down
for him so he can set up an Interim National Government come May
2019. In an interview with DailyTrust, Okotie who declared his interest
to run for president in 2019 on October 1st, says an interim government
is the only way out for Nigeria to develop. Read excepts from the
interview below Daily Trust: In recent times, you have been speaking on
what you believe is the need for Nigeria to have an Interim National
Government (ING). What exactly is the proposition all about?Reverend
Okotie: What I am saying is that the current arrangement in the
political hemisphere is not workable because the political class has
refused to recognise the seriousness of the existential adversary that
confronts us at this time. We are at a juncture in our national
evolution where we must come to a halt temporarily and have an ad hoc
measure, which is the Interim National Government, to deal with the
fundamental issues that beset our nation, and to restructure and change
the Constitution. No extant government can do these things. That’s what
I’m saying.DT: Doesn’t your idea render the Fresh Party’s presidential
ticket, which you have been given, useless?Okotie: Yes, I already have
the Fresh Party’s presidential ticket, and that means we shall be
participating in the presidential election slated for February 2019. But
what I am saying is that all other parties should not field candidates
against me in the 2019 presidential election so that it would be easy
for me to set up the Interim National Government. If they don’t field
candidates, it means I have won and what I’d do immediately is set up an
ING instead of the normal or ordinary government that is put in place,
where we have the legislature, judiciary and all of that that is not
workable. An interim government will not need a legislature and it is at
this time that we can redesign the political landscape.DT: Would you be
executing this idea on the platform of the Fresh Party?Okotie: I have
to run for election on the platform of a political party. After the
election has been held, the creation of the Interim National Government
is another step.DT: How do you think this would work out during the
election?Okotie: Since it would be based on consensus, it would be based
on the reality of the time. By the time the 2019 election holds, I am
sure we shall be coming to a point to realise that the only way forward
is to have a paradigm shift, and that has to be the ING.DT: But many
have argued that the ING idea is not recognized by the Nigerian
Constitution. How do you hope to navigate the legal challenge?Okotie:
That is totally irrelevant. The Constitution was created by men. It can
be suspended and we can put an ad hoc mechanism in place to legalise the
machinery of an interim government. It can be done. It is not
impossible.DT: In the proposed ING, you offer yourself as the person to
lead the arrangement. How acceptable do you think your offer would be to
other political stakeholders?Okotie: That would be predicated on the
reality of that day. When this whole sequence had played itself out, it
would become obvious that there was no other way forward. There is no
partisan political equilibrium that can salvage Nigeria at this juncture
of our national evolution because the problems that confront us are
gargantuan.DT: So how prepared are you to deal with these gargantuan
problems?Okotie: I am very prepared. If you notice, all these years, I
have not engaged in any political participation at any level because my
political philosophy is quite different. The ideology that I believe in
is diametrically opposed to that of the status quo. And that is why I
have not been part of APC, PDP or any other national party.DT: You are a
pastor, so how do you hope to drive your message to
non-Christians?Okotie: We will drive the message when there is a
national platform in place, which is the ING. Yes, we must rise above
the issues of religion and ethnicity. I have assumed an altitude where
these cleavages diminish to mere superficial laceration in the terrain
of national integration. But it can only be advocated on a national
platform that is recognizable.DT: If your idea works out, what would be
your area of focus when you lead the ING?Okotie: First and foremost, we
must redesign our Constitution. That is clear. This Federalism that we
run is what I call terminological inexactitude. It is a lie. It’s a
deceit. This is not federalism; it’s more like a unitary government.
When you look at its centrifigure, you will discover that there is
disequilibrium. We need to address the problem of ethnicity and how that
plays out in our polity, and then work on reconciliation. There is a
need to restructure our nation.
The 61st-anniversary edition of the Miss Nigeria pageant will hold on
Sunday, November 25, 2018 at Eko Hotels & Suites in Lagos, and these
are the 18 lovely women contesting for the prestigious title.Who do you
think should win? See full photo below.
The
All Progressives Congress, APC, has sued the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking an order to allow its candidates to
participate in the forthcoming general elections in Zamfara State. In
the suit filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, the party further
applied for an order of perpetual injunction to restrain INEC from
giving effect to the content of a letter with Reg. No.
lNEC/SEC/654/1/330 and dated October 9, which foreclosed it from
presenting candidates in Zamfara for failing to conduct its primaries
within the stipulated time. The court has fixed December 11 to
commence hearing on the matter. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu okayed the case
for hearing on Friday after she joined the governorship aspirant of APC
in the state, Senator Garba Marafa and a senatorial aspirant, Alhaji
Siraju, as well as seven other chieftains of the party, as defendants in
the suit. APC, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1279/2018, prayed the
court to declare that INEC’s letter purporting to exclude the party from
presenting and submitting the list of its candidates for the
forthcoming election in Zamfara state scheduled for 2019, is null, void,
ultra vires and of no effect having regards to the provisions of
sections 31(1) and 86(2), (3) and (4) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as
amended). “A declaration that by virtue of section 36(1) of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and section
31(1) of the Electoral Act (as amended), the defendant lacks the power
to refuse to collect the name of the plaintiff’s candidates for Zamfara
state presented and to be submitted to it not later than 60 days before
the election scheduled for February 2019″.
Singer,
Mr Eazi was reportedly thrown out and banned from art center,
TerraKulture, in Lagos yesterday November 23rd after he was rude to the
owner. The Ghanaian-Nigerian singer had booked TerraKulture for his show
billed for yesterday which has since been canceled. In a series of
tweets, Eazi said he got to the event center and did not like the stage
he saw there which was different from what he had asked for. Looks like
he and the owner of the place, Bolanle Austen-Peters had a one on one
and Mr Eazi disrespected her obviously not knowing who she was. That
disrespect earned him a permanent ban from the establishment. Read his
tweets below 
Former
President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged Borno State Governor, Kashim
Shettima to offer plausible explanations “for the ignoble roles he
played in worsening the Boko Haram tragedy in his home state.” This is
coming as some concerned Borno State stakeholders are calling on
Shettima to account for how he has been managing the state’s finances
and the expenditure on Internally Displaced Persons for almost eight
years. In statement issued yesterday by his Media Adviser, Ikechukwu
Eze, in response to criticism of his book (My Transition Hours) by
Shettima, the former president said in the past four years, the Borno
governor had been living in denial, “towing an evasive path he has
cleverly beaten for himself. What he may not know is that he is only
walking the path of a villain.” In another statement issued by Reno
Omokri on his behalf, Jonathan told the Buhari administration to leave
him alone and face Transparency International, that reported that
Nigeria was more corrupt today than under the last Peoples Democratic
Party’s government. On the Borno governor, Jonathan was quoted as
saying:“On Wednesday Nigerians were treated to a noisy but feeble
defence by Borno Governor Kashim Shettima who, only ended up showcasing a
jaded ritual of chest-thumbing, rather than offer plausible
explanations for the ignoble roles he played in worsening the Boko Haram
tragedy in his home state.In the past four years, he has been living in
denial, towing an evasive path he has cleverly beaten for himself. What
he may not know is that he is only walking the path of a villain. Once
demand is made on him to explain why he deliberately ignored both the
directive of both the Federal Ministry of Education and the West African
Examinations Council (WAEC) for Governors to keep candidates in the
affected locations out of harm’s way by relocating them to safer areas
for their exams, he goes asking for the release of the report of Gen.
Ibrahim Sabo-led facts-finding committee set up by President Jonathan.”
Blessing
Odama, a 21-year-old sex worker and a 200 Level student of Philosophy,
Federal University Nasarawa State, has been arrested for blackmailing
her clients using their nude pictures. According to the suspect who was
arrested with her boyfriend, Ibrahim Danladi, who is also a student of
the university, she took nude snapshots of her clients in order to
blackmail them because they were wicked and gave insignificant money
after sex. Her arrest came almost a year after her sister, Joy, also a
200 Level Mass Communication student of the Cross River State
University, CRUTEC, was alleged to have been killed by an Abuja-based
businessman, Alhaji Usman Adamu, who invited her to his house. Her
words: “I was forced to blackmail men because they are wicked. They
promised to give good money before sex, but after, they give
peanuts.” The lovers ran into stormy water after one of their victims,
Danti, paid the sum of N150k. The lovers later returned, asking for
additional N300k. They further threatened to abduct Danti’s wife and
children if he didn’t give them the N300k. Sick to his stomach with
fear, Danti wrote a petition to IGP, Ibrahim Idris, detailing his
predicament. Idris quickly acted on the petition by instructing IRT
operatives to investigate the case and arrest the blackmailers. The
phone used in the blackmail was recovered and over 30 pictures of naked
men were found on it.
Spanish giants, Real Madrid have denied claims that their captain,
Sergio Ramos, failed drugs test in the aftermath of his team's 2017
Champions League final.This comes after Football Leaks claimed that the
defender failed drugs test after his team's 2017 Champions League final
against Juventus, which they won 4-1. German newspaper Der Spiegel
reported that Ramos' urine sample contained traces of dexamethasone, and
that the results were covered up by UEFA. Read previous report
here. Now both Real Madrid and UEFA have issued statements denying the
claims.A statement from Real Madrid said: 'The club wishes to express
the following: '1. Sergio Ramos has never breached anti-doping
regulations.2. UEFA requested specific information and immediately
closed the case referred to, as is customary in such instances,
following tests carried out by experts from the World Anti-Doping
Association (WADA) and UEFA itself.3. In terms of the rest of the
content published by the aforementioned publication, the club will not
be making any comment, given the clearly insubstantial nature of the
reports.'UEFA issued a denial, saying in a statement it 'strongly and
categorically refutes unfounded allegations it has covered up positive
doping results.'All UEFA doping control cases are conducted in full
compliance with the World Anti-Doping Agency code. UEFA has informed
both WADA and FIFA of all such cases as required by the WADA code and
UEFA has provided all detailed information, expert reports and evidence
during the handling of such cases.'It must be underlined that both WADA
and FIFA have the right to appeal any decision taken by UEFA on doping
control matters to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).'However,
neither WADA nor FIFA did lodge any such appeal to CAS and WADA itself
has officially confirmed that everything was dealt with appropriately by
UEFA and in accordance with the code. 
President
Muhammadu Buhari did not mince words in extolling the “statesmanship
and sportsmanship” of his immediate predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan,
at the launch of the
A man bought a second-hand storage unit at an auction and was shocked to
find £5.8million cash inside it after it was opened.This shocking
discovery was made public by auctioneer Dan Dotson who hosts US
television show Storage Wars. It was Dan who auctioned off the storage
unit to the lucky buyer.According to Dan, last weekend, at a charity
event in California, a woman came to him and told him that one of this
buyers had found a fortune inside a storage unit he bought from him for
only £390. 
Sharing
the news via a video on Twitter, Dan said:An older Asian woman at the
table next to me kept looking at me like she wanted to tell me
something.Eventually she walked up and told me her husband works with a
guy who bought a unit from me for $500 and found a safe inside.And the
first person they called to open it I guess couldn't or didn't.They
called a second person and when that person opened it up - inside the
safe they're normally empty, but this time it wasn't empty.It had
$7.5million (£5.8m) cash inside. Dan told The Blast that a lawyer
claiming he represents the original owners of the storage unit and the
huge sum in it contacted the lucky buyer. The lawyer offered £465,000
($600,000) reward for the money but the buyer turned it down. 
Later,
a second offer of £930,000 ($1.2million) was made and the anonymous
buyer accepted it. The buyer will have to give back the rest of the
money. The identities of the original owners of the storage unit have
not been made public.
A young Nigerian man allegedly committed suicide this week, according to
his friends. His friends said Tolulope Abodunrin suffered from
depression and had tried committing suicide before but he survived.
Sadly, he went through with it this week.Tolu's Twitter bio
reads:Nigerian. Retail and SME Banking. Finance, Economics, Sports and
Politics. Goal-Getter. Depression and Suicide Survivor! Arsenal FC
Fan. People who knew him described him as an ambitious and helpful man
and also a giver. 
As written by legendary Nigerian comedian, Ali Baba
The police in Adamawa state have arrested 23 year old Abubakar Yahaya,
pictured above, for chopping off the wrist of one Mohammed Jafar,
following their dispute over a girl named Mariam Boni. According to the
state police command spokesperson, Othman Abubakar, the suspect and
Mariam were lovers and when their relationship crashed, Mariam started
seeing Jafar.Abubakar became jealous and made several attempts to
persuade Mohammed from seeing Mariam. For failling to heed his several
warnings, Abuabakr arranged with his friends and they ambushed Mohammed
on November 21st. They beat him up and during the attack, Abubakar used a
matchete to chop off Mohammed's hands.The case was immediately reported
to the police and Abubakar was arrested.The police spokesperson said
the suspect will soon be arraigned in court.
Veteran Nollywood actor, Richard Mofe-Damijo has joined the
revolutionary real estate company, Landlagos as Brand Ambassador in the
company's quest to reverse the unfair and unrealistic pricing of
property in Lagos. Making the announcement on Wednesday afternoon at the
company’s office in Victoria Island, Lagos, RMD decried the way
property inflates in Lagos, saying that it was a pleasure to be teaming
up with a company that is genuinely committed to reversing the trend,
thereby making it possible for the average Nigerian worker to own
property. 
Led
by CEO, Glory Osei, Landlagos has a mission to control and reverse the
unfair and unrealistic inflation of property, and by so doing, make it
possible for everyone that works to own property. In changing the face
of real estate in Nigeria and building the new Lagos, Landlagos offers
buyers an opportunity to own property as an investment that yields as
high as 60% compounded interest in two years, or own property for
development, with the company undertaking the development of
pre-fabricated buildings at no initial cost to the owner. 
The
company also boasts the most affordable pricing, flexible payment
plans, and has created an opportunity for employed and unemployed
individuals to earn from every successful referral made and enjoy the
benefits such as health insurance and other perks.
(visit https://ift.tt/2S7tJ9F the company, the CEO, Glory Osei said that
the company was confident that with a partner like RMD, the company’s
efforts at reducing the pricing of property in Lagos would become trendy
with many other real estate companies seeing the effort as something
they should also aspire toward. 
The
event ended with RMD calling on everyone to visit www.landlagos.com,
take advantage of the amazing offers to own their own property and be
part of the emerging new Lagos. 
Singer Orezi is currently in his homestate Delta state to visit his
people where he paid a visit to his village, Owhelogbor, yesterday
November 22nd. The video you are about to watch shows how little
children in the area were running after his car and begging him for
money. They thought he was a politicain who came to campaign and so they
asked him to give them money so they can vote for him during the 2019
election.Watch the video below and tell us what you think View this
post on Instagram Children in Delta state think singer Orezi is
another politician. They are asking him to drop something, that is
money, so they can vote for him in 2019.A post shared by EMIB - EMIRATCO Blog (@Eiratco blog) on Nov 23, 2018 at 8:13am PST.
Nigerian actress, Shaffy Bello-Akinrimisi took to Instagram to celebrate
her stunning daughter, Ashley, who turned 22 today. celebrating her
birthday today. The actress has been married for 25 years. She and her
husband also have a son, Ashton. "Gift. My Daughter" she wrote. "The
Girl Child I bore on this day 22yrs ago. I am so proud of the woman you
are becoming. All of your achievements and goals will surely come to
pass IJN. I am however most proud of the kind of Human Being you are.
Compassionate, kind, giving, God fearing, and of course Beautiful. (You
got that from your mamaSHINE ON MY “ASH” CAUSE NOTHING CAN STOP YOU
CHILD OF GRACE MUMMY LOVES YOU. @___aaashley" 
