Sick Nation !!! Passengers stranded as power outage hits Lagos international airport

Passengers were stranded on Tuesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos state following a power outage.

The passengers were said to have been kept in the dark for hours as immigration officials did not not address the anxious crowd.

According to Yemisi Adegoke, a BBC reporter, the airport did not switch to another alternative power while the power outage lasted.

Officials were said to have taken foreigners among the passengers to another section of the airport where there was power.

Passengers were said to have been frustrated as they could not proceed with the boarding processes.

“At Lagos International Airport and there is currently no power…and by the look of it NO GEN,” Adegoke tweeted.

“Passengers going MAD because officials started allowing foreigners to go to the other side or the airport, where there is electricity.

One woman was yelling “would they do this for us if we were in their country?”

The light was later restored while passengers were attended to by immigration officials.

This is not the first time that such would happen at the busiest airport in the country.

- TheCable

Land of fraudsters !!! N37bn fraud: Trial of Ex-Air Force Chiefs to start afresh

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday re-arraigned the three former Air force chiefs, Air Marshal Amosu Nunayon, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun and Air Commodore Gbadebo Olugbenga on 13 counts amended Criminal charges.

Before the arraignment, the presiding judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke in a ruling dismiss an application filed before the court by the defendants to discharge and acquit other defendants that have been removed from the former charge.

After reading the charges, the accused pleaded not guilty to all the charges, thereafter their counsel, Chief Bolaji Ayorinde leading two other Senior Advocate of Nigeria and nine other lawyers urged the court to allow the defendants to continue on their former bail when they were first arraigned before the court.

Justice Aneke, while acceding to the request of the counsel to the defendants adjourned till Tuesday for trial to commence.

The commencement of the case afresh was as a result of the elevation of the former presiding Judge, Justice Mohammed Idris to the Court of appeal.

- PM News

MTN to acquire banking licence in Nigeria, says CEO

Rob Shuter, the chief executive officer at MTN Group, says the group will acquire an independent banking licence in Nigeria by 2019.

Speaking at a telecoms conference in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday, the MTN CEO said it will put in an application in December and should lunch the bank in second quarter 2019.

“We will be applying for a payment service banking licence in Nigeria in the next month or so,” Shuter said.

“And if all goes according to plan, we will also be launching mobile money in Nigeria probably around Q2 of 2019.”

The banking licence is for a Payment Service Bank (PSB), which is an offshoot of the initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to drive financial inclusion in the country.

Last week, while speaking at the 10th-anniversary conference of Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA), Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, said the new banking licences were to ensure 80 percent financial inclusion by 2020.

In October, the CBN released guidelines for the payment service banks, which included a N2 million non-refundable licence fee and N5 billion capital base.

The CBN guideline was addressed to telcos, mobile money operators, banking agents, and the NCC.

It is expected that Globacom, 9mobile, Airtel, and other telecommunications companies in the country would acquire the same licence to operate payment service banks (PSB).

- TheCable

Village head in Police net over N15.5m fraud

The Baale of Ferowa village in Ifo local government area of Ogun State, Chief Muyideen Folorunso has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command over a dubious land deal worth N15.5 million.

His arrest followed a petition written by the management of JAXMAT HOMES AND PROPERTIES that the company approached the Baale for the purchase of about 23 acres of land in his domain which was negotiated for N15.5 million and the company paid the money to the suspect after showing the land to them.

But surprisingly some months after the payment has been made, the Baale started selling the same portion of land to another set of people.

Before the company knew what was going on, the Baale has sold seventeen acres out of the 23 acres.

On the strength of the petition, the Ogun Commissioner of Police Ahmed Iliyasu directed the officer in charge of Public Complaints Bureau to look into the case and bring the suspect to book.

The Baale was subsequently arrested, and on interrogation, he admitted collecting the said amount of money from the complainant after showing them the land.

He stated further that it was when he needed some money for his coronation that he was tempted to sell parts of the land he had already sold to the company.

Meanwhile, Iliyasu has ordered a thorough investigation into the case and the suspect will soon be arraigned in court in accordance with the anti-land grabbing laws of Ogun State.

- PM News

EFCC Intercepts N211m Gold at Lagos airport

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have intercepted gold worth about N211 million being illegally transported through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.

EFCC Acting Head, Media and Publicity, Mr Tony Orilade, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday.

Orilade said that the consignment was en route Dubai.

He said “following intelligence reports, the operatives on Nov. 9, 2018 uncovered the gold weighing about 35kg just at the point of departure of a suspect currently in the EFCC’s custody.”

He said that investigations were currently ongoing to unravel the accomplice behind the illegal movement of the item.

“Meanwhile, the suspect is cooperating with operatives.

“It will be recalled that the EFCC also in March 2017, intercepted bags containing a total of N49 million cash being illegally transported out of the country through the Kaduna International Airport,” Orilade said. - PM News

Jay Jay Okocha better than Cristano Ronaldo, Messi – Samuel Allardyce

Samuel Allardyce, former Bolton Wanderers manager has rated ex-Super Eagles of Nigeria’s captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha above Portuguese and Juventus star, Cristano Ronaldo.

Allardyce said in the current generation of footballers, there has never been a player like Okocha.

Okocha joined Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer after leaving PSG in the summer of 2002 after the FIFA World Cup while Allardyce was in charge of the English side.

He steered the team away from relegation with seven goals, including the team Goal of the Season in the vital league win against West Ham United same year.

Allardyce in his new book entitled Big Sam’s Autobiography said he could watch the ex-Super Eagles star play all day.

He wrote, “I love Jay-Jay’s tricks on the ball, I could watch him all day… He could do drag-backs, flick-overs, double step-overs, there’s been no else like him, not even Cristiano Ronaldo.”

- Daily Post

Two killed, beheaded near Uni-Port

At least, two people have been killed and beheaded by unknown men in Choba, one of the host communities of the University of Port Harcourt in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

This is happening barely two days after residents of the area raised the alarm in protest over increased killings and other criminal activities and called for regular presence of security operatives.

DAILY POST gathered that the body of the men who are yet to be identified were found around Ogor street along Igbogo road while the severed heads were discovered around SDA junction along Choba-NTA road.

The Youth Chairman of Choba community, Francis Ihunda said Choba people woke up to the discovery of two heads at the popular SDA junction.

Ihunda disclosed that police officers were at the scene to evacuate the corpses.

According to Ihunda, “We woke up to the sight of two bodies without heads in our community only to discover that the heads were dumped at SDA junction.

“From their faces, one could see that they are young boys probably in secondary schools and that is what makes it more disturbing.

“Remember that we had called on the Police to carry out more patrols in Choba because we have been seeing signs that some of these bad boys are around.”

In the meantime, a Senior Police officer attached to Choba division has confirmed the incident and assured immediate commencement of investigation into the killing.

- Daily Post