Impeachment plot against Jonathan uncovered

MAJOR opposition parties in the country are said to be hatching an impeachment plot against President Goodluck Jonathan if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) insists on removing the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aminu Tambuwal, from office over the zoning controversy.

Sources at a meeting of leaders of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Abuja that was held on June 14, told the Nigerian Tribune that the opposition parties had resolved to back Tambuwal as Speaker, notwithstanding the thinking within the PDP.

The meeting, which was attended by seven top members of the party, was said to have been briefed by a close ally of the party’s presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), who stated that the leadership of the CPC, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) had agreed to defend Tambuwal and use opposition to him as a launch pad of an impeachment plot against the president.

The CPC leaders said at the June 14 meeting that they had directed members of the party in the National Assembly to team up with other opposition parties to seek the impeachment of President Jonathan if the PDP insists on removing Tambuwal.

A source close to the meeting said: “The CPC resolved that should the PDP and the Presidency insist on removing Tambuwal from Office as Speaker using the instrumentality of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), opposition political parties, including the Action Congress of Nigeria, (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the CPC, have all agreed that their elected National Assembly members should threaten to impeach Mr President, in order to keep him off-balance. It is when there is stability, that his mind would be on removing Tambuwal.”

One of the leaders of the CPC also told the meeting that some groups and individuals had promised to provide “hard, irrefutable evidences of impeachment,” to be used against President Jonathan and that such evidence could actually lead to his eventual impeachment.

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Arik aircraft in near mishap

WHAT would have been a tragic air disaster was averted, Monday, when an Arik aircraft scheduled to fly Enugu to Abuja by 8.50am almost crashed four minutes after take-off from Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu.

The over 100 passengers on board would have perished if the pilot had not turned round and made an emergency landing.

Captain of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft with registration number F-MJK, whose name could not be ascertained, was quoted to have said he turned back to the airport when he noticed that the right engine had failed.

Meanwhile, speaking to aviation correspondents in Lagos on the incident, Dr. Harold Demuren, Director-General of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, said the air return was necessitated by the indicator in the cockpit, adding that it was the best option the pilot took to avoid a fatal accident.

He said: “The pilot took a precautionary measure to ensure safety of the passengers.”

Spokesman of Arik Air, Mr. Ola Banji, said: “What happened was that the captain noticed an indication light on and had to make an air return as a precautionary measure.

“At no time was the lives of the passengers put in danger.”

However, NCAA has already grounded the aircraft until it is certified to fly again.

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Customary court president kidnapped in Delta

A female Customary Court President was, on Sunday, kidnapped by five gunmen. The woman, identified as Ufuoma Lordson Egebule was abducted at Ohwrode –Orhuwhorun road in Udu Local Government Area of the state.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that the incident occurred at about 2:00p.m. while the victim was on her way to Warri from Ughelli in company of her two children and a sister-in-law.

The widow, who was driving her Peugeot 504 official car marked DTSJ was overtaken and blocked by the kidnappers.

Security sources disclosed that the kidnappers singled her out of the car, took her car key and drove her away to an unknown destination, leaving the children and sister-in-law stranded.

The kidnappers were said to have operated in an ox-blood Jetta car with one of them resembling a half cast.

The abductors were yet to contact the relations of their victim as of the time this report was being filed.

Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Charles Muka, could not be reached on his mobile phone for comments on the matter.

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Indian company to boost rice production in Nigeria

AN Indian-owned company, Popular Farms and Mills, has expressed its determination to support rice production in Nigeria, to make the country independent in rice production in the next five years.

The Managing Director of the company, Dr A. Balamurugan, made the disclosure while speaking at an interactive session organised by the company for rice farmers in Hadejia, Jigawa State, adding that his company had secured licence to engage in agricultural activities in Nigeria.

Mr Balamurugan said in a plan to complement the effort of the government in the development of rice production in the country, the company would offer technical support, as well as train farmers in modern rice production.

He, however, noted that the company would also help farmers in Nigeria to access qualitative seeds, fertiliser, chemicals and other modern farms implements that would make their farming more profitable.

Balamurugan said before the end of the year, the company would inaugurate a rice milling plant, with a capacity of processing 350 bags per hour in Kano State.

According to him, the plant, when inaugurated, would provide a good market for rice farmers in Nigeria, as rice to be processed in the company would be sourced from local farmers.

He said to achieve the goals, the company had commenced trainings for rice farmers in Kano, Katsina, Kaduna and Jigawa states, adding that “as we are about to inaugurate our rice plant, we will keep up and continue expanding our activities aiming at making Nigeria self reliant in rice production in the next five years.”

Balamarugan solicited the support of governments at all levels to make policies and programmes that would provide conducive atmosphere for the development of rice production in the country.

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Ex-envoy to Nigeria faces raps over $95,000 fund

MANILA, Philippines—A former ambassador is being haled to court over allegations that he misused more than $95,000 (roughly P4.1 million today) in funds meant for the safe release and repatriation of Filipino seamen abducted in Nigeria several years ago.

Acting Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro has ordered the filing of malversation charges against former Ambassador to Nigeria Masaranga Umpa for allegedly paying for nonexistent transactions related to the repatriation of Filipino overseas workers (OFWs).

The Office of the Ombudsman based its charges on a complaint filed by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

According to the Office of the Ombudsman, the DFA accused Umpa of using fabricated documents to support questionable transactions amounting to $95,856.

The DFA had sent Umpa $174,000 in 2007 to be used for the safe release and repatriation of 24 seamen and crew members of the Baco Liner II and one other OFW.

The DFA said that in one transaction, it was made to appear that Wellington Hotel Ltd. in Warri Delta State, Nigeria, was paid for the cost of six hotel rooms and meals for 11 police escorts.

But the transaction was found to be supported by fake documents. The hotel’s accountant, Adeleke Osinuga, told the DFA the documents presented to him for certification did not come from the hotel.

The hotel bills showed that breakfast and lunch charges amounted to $1,565, an amount the DFA found unbelievable.

It was further noted that the bills were not stamped “paid” and the charges were billed on the alleged date of departure. The cash vouchers were also not signed by the regular administrative officer. The hiring of 11 escorts was also excessive since only six were allowed.

Another questionable transaction was the supposed booking of a room at Hotel Presidential in February 2007 for police escorts. It was discovered that the escorts stayed at another hotel. Expenses amounting to $20,994 were supported by bogus documents, it was alleged.

Another supposed stay in March 2007 at the Hotel Presidential was also found to have never taken place, and the supporting documents were allegedly fabricated.

Umpa also allegedly presented documents to show that a helicopter and van were chartered to ferry OFWs. Again, the DFA found that no such vehicles were used.

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Court orders inventory of MKO’s assets

A Lagos High Court has appointed a judiciary valuation officer with the administrators of the late politician, Chief MKO Abiola, to take inventory of his assets across the country and abroad.

Justice Joseph Oyewole, in an enrolment of order ordered that “everybody who has information regarding any and every asset belonging to the late Chief Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola is hereby compelled to release all such information relating to such assets to the applicant, (an Administrator of the Estate).”

The order of the court is expected to give effect to the last Testament of the late Abiola, dated October 25, 1998, where he willed money in his accounts in the United Kingdom to some of his immediate and extended family members and some other beneficiaries.

Justice Oyewole also ordered that the approval on his Will granted by a High Court of Justice of England and Wales, the District Probate Registry at Winchester on July 22, 2010, be 'resealed', to enable the Administrator of the Will to act on it in Nigeria.

Since the order made on the Will was granted outside Nigeria by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, the District Probate Registry at Winchester, while some of the assets are situated within the country, the applicant, Boma Ozobia, a lawyer, said “it is necessary to have the English Grant, resealed in this state, (Lagos) in order to enable Administrators to deal with those assets.”

This, according to the applicant, will enable them to take proper stock/ inventory of all the assets of Abiola situated in Nigeria as required by law in order to administer them in line with his (Abiola’s) Will.

The order of the court was as a result of a motion filed by Ozobia, on behalf of the Administrators of the the Estate of Chief Abiola, asking the court, among others, to determine

“whether the applicant, (Administrator) is entitled to take inventory of the assets of the deceased and administer them in accordance with the duly proven Will of the late business mogul and “administer them in accordance with the duly proven Will of the deceased by the provision of Order 55 rule 11 of the High Court of Lagos State (Civil Procedure) Rules.”

She also asked the court to determine whether by the provision of the Order 55 rule 3 of the High Court of Lagos State (Civil Procedure) Rule, only the named executors or administrators or an officer of the court are permitted to administer or otherwise deal with the property and other assets of the deceased in accordance with the Will and whether all person in possession or in custody of such assets belonging to the deceased had a duty or obligation to render account of such assets to the administrator.

The trial judge ordered the “resealing of the grant and giving effect to the orders of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, the District Probate Registry at Winchester, dated October 6, 2004 and the High Court of Justice Chancery Division in London, made by Master Moncaster, dated July 22, 2010, giving validity to the said Will of the deceased dated October 25, 1980 and appoint the persons named therein as administrator, until such time as the said administrators are able to conclude the task of identifying and gathering in all assets of the deceased.”
In an affidavit in support of the summons filed by Ozobia, she said an order, dated October 6, 2004, by the High Court of England and Wales in the District Probate Registry at

Winchester gave force and validity to the last Will made by Abiola, dated October 25, 1998, appointing one Timothy Hugh Daniel of 43, Fetter Lane, London and Kolawole Abiola, son of the deceased, as administrators of the estate.

Ozobia, a lawyer, averred that another order of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division in London, dated July 22, 2010, appointed her as administrator of the estate of the deceased in place of Adam Broke.

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Oyo police place N1m ransom on Tokyo, Auxiliary

The Oyo State Police Command has placed N500,000 as ransom for each on the wanted leaders of the proscribed National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Oyo State, Alhaji Abdul Lateef Akinsola popularly known as Tokyo and Mr Lamidi Mukaila as known as Auxiliary

The state Commissioner of Police, Baba Adisa Bolanta, told the Nigerian Tribune in Ibadan on Sunday that the command would give N500,000 to anybody who could provide information that would lead to the arrest of the union leaders.

He also disclosed that the command had pasted photographs of the union leaders in strategic places in the state capital to ensure their arrest.

The photographs of Tokyo and Auxiliary were seen pasted around Dugbe, Mokola and Eleyele areas of the state capital.

The police boss had, while addressing newsmen in Ibadan last week, promised to ensure that the union leaders were arrested.

He said that the union leaders had been declared wanted for their alleged roles in the recent mayhem in Ibadan during which about 20 people were killed and many others were injured while property worth millions of naira were destroyed.

He declared that the command would do everything possible to ensure that the two people were brought to justice.

According to him, apart from ensuring the confidentiality of anybody that brings information that can lead to their arrest, he/she would also be paid the money promised.

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4 ex-corps members, 24 others die in Enugu–Nsukka road accident

About 28 persons including four corps members discharged last week are feared dead in a ghastly motor accident along Enugu - Nsukka road.

The accident, which occurred at Amoka in Udi Local Government area of Enugu State, involved two commercial vehicles belonging to Peace Mass Transit.

The corps members were returning to their various states in the South East and South-South after their discharge from the one-year-long compulsory service. Only two of the passengers survived, though they are in critical condition at Our Savior’s Hospital where they were rushed to.

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Death toll in Boko Haram attack rises to five

The death toll in Sunday's Boko Haram militants attack at a relaxation centre in Gomari, Maiduguri has risen to five.

Two unidentified victims had died on Sunday after the attack, while five others who suffered gunshot injuries were rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).

A senior officer at the hospital told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that three of the injured victims died in the early hours of Monday.

He said two other victims were still lying critically ill at the emergency unit of the hospital.

The death toll in Sunday's Boko Haram militatants attack at a relaxation centre in Gomari, Maiduguri has risen to five.

Two unidentified victims had died on Sunday after the attack, while five others who suffered gunshot injuries were rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).

A senior officer at the hospital told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that three of the injured victims died in the early hours of Monday.

Lawal Abdullahi, the Police Public Relations Officer, who declined comment on the issue, referred NAN to the military authorities.

Abubakar Abdullahi, the Spokesman of the 21 Armoured Brigade, also refused to comment, saying that the issue was purely civil.

Suspected Boko Haram militants had attacked the relaxation centre at about 8 p.m on motorbikes.

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