Juliana Francis Blog

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Intercontinental Bank shareholders drag Sanusi to court •Court orders suspended CBN gov to enter appearance

Aggrieved shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc have dragged Mallam before an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court.
Plaintiffs/applicants in the suit are Abdullahi Sani, Adaeze Onwuegbusi and Chijioke Ezeikpe, all shareholders of the bank, which has been taken over by Access Bank Plc.
The defendants are Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (1st), Central Bank of Nigeria, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Okadaman drops bomb in Kaduna •Police quiz late Yakowa’s aide over S/Kaduna attacks

But for the prompt intervention of the Nigeria Police, an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) neatly concealed in a pack would have exploded at the Unguwan Rimi high brow area of Kaduna metropolis on Tuesday.

A man riding a motorcycle, according to eyewitnesses, had dropped a pack containing the IED along Sir Kashim Ibrahim road by Sultan Road junction.

Lagos CBN office on fire

THERE was a stampede late on Tuesday as fire razed the Broad Street , Marina Lagos office of Central Bank of Nigeria.
A yet to be identified firefighter from the Lagos State Fire and Emergency service suffocated and became unconscious and was rushed to the hospital.
The fire which started around 6 o’ clock in the evening destroyed many valuables on the first floor of the building, where it was first noticed on the ground floor.

Again, gunmen kill 35 in Benue, Nasarawa

IT was another sad story in Benue State as gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, yesterday invaded Agena in Gwer Local Government Area of the state, killing about 20 persons.
The attack is coming barely three days after a bloody fight between Tiv youths and suspected Fulani marauders in Gbajimba, Guma Local Government Area reportedly claimed over 50 lives on both sides.

Madmen become targets in Ibadan, 4 mobbed

•One caught with suspected human tongues

AS the uproar over the discovery of a kidnappers’ den at Soka area, Ibadan, Oyo State, is yet to die down, 25 pieces of items suspected to be human tongues were found in the possession of a ‘madman’ at Oluyole area of the capital city.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that one of two other ‘madman’ suspected to be working with the one arrested was mobbed to death while the other one was seriously injured and was rushed to the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, for medical treatment.

'None of those on board survived': Malaysia Airlines tells families by TEXT that their loved ones are dead and the missing jet DID come down in the Indian Ocean minutes before press conference

Relatives of missing flight MH370's passengers and crew have been told there were no survivors and they had hoped in vain.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak revealed new analysis of satellite data by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch and tracking firm Inmarsat indicated the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after take-off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board on March 8.
No confirmed sighting of the plane has been made since, but much debris has been found in remote waters off Australia which might be part of the missing plane.
But bad weather will delay the search for wreckage at least another day, as the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) suspended today's air and sea search operations due to adverse conditions.

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The message which ended the hopes of the missing passenger's relatives and a map where debris has been located

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The moment relatives found out their loved ones aboard flight MH370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean

Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd)

A former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday described the ongoing national conference as a waste of public funds.

He said at the opening of the inaugural edition of the PGF Progressive Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable in Abuja, that the huge amount being spent on the entire process, should have been put to better use.

Buhari, an All Progressives Congress national leader, argued that what the conference was trying to achieve was what the National Assembly was in a better position to do.

He said, “What I say about the conference is a personal view. What the conference is doing is the duty of the National Assembly.

“The elite should have call themselves together and ask the National Assembly to sponsor a bill for some amendments to the constitution.

“I do not think that at this time when government is finding it difficult to pay salaries of workers, it can afford about N7bn to waste on a conference.”

Also at the event, Senator Bukola Saraki said the current administration needed to be more transparent in the management of the nation’s funds.