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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange launched Friday an investigation into mobile giant MTN for “possible insider trading” before the South African company announced it had been hit by a $5.2 billion fine in Nigeria.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) fined Africa’s largest telecoms firm for missing a deadline to deactivate 5.1 million unregistered SIM cards.

News of the fine broke Monday morning in Nigeria, sparking a sell-off of MTN shares before the company formally notified shareholders later in the day.

“The market regulation team is looking into trades that took place before the announcement in order to determine if there is any evidence of possible insider trading,” Peter Redman, Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) market regulation advisor, said in a statement.

South African law dictates that companies are to immediately warn shareholders about price-sensitive information.

“The investigation will follow due process to establish whether there have been any breaches of the listings requirements and can be lengthy process,” said Andre Visser, JSE regulation manager.

MTN issued a statement saying “senior management of the company and its advisors are currently engaging with the JSE Limited on the timing of the… announcement.”

The probe could result in South Africa’s bourse operator slapping MTN with another hefty fine or result in criminal charges.

“It just puts the company under additional pressure,” said Amy Cameron, telecoms analyst at BMI Research, a market research firm based in London. “It will be another really big challenge.”

Cameron said that MTN should brace itself for a rocky few months.

“It could look into some sort of international arbitration, because a 5.2 billion dollar fine is absolutely crippling,” she said.

Early in August the NCC issued a directive to mobile telecoms companies operating in Nigeria to deactivate all unregistered SIM cards within seven days or face sanctions.

The penalty saw the company’s shares crash on the JSE and raised questions about the renewal of its licence in Nigeria next year if the fine goes unpaid.

The NCC has set a November 16 deadline for MTN to pay the fine.

MTN had more than 62.8 million subscribers in Nigeria — its biggest market — in the second quarter of this year.

http://news360.info/2015/10/31/s-africa-launches-insider-trading-probe-over-mtns-nigeria-fine/

The government of the United States of America has begun fresh moves to extradite Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu to face drug trafficking charges, which he has been evading for several years now.

This was revealed by his lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, in a petition to the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC.

In the petition, Oluyede also accused former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, of being behind the plot to extradite Kashamu.

According to Oluyede, “Kashamu’s enquiry revealed that indeed there had been moves by US officials within the region to secure the assistance of the head of the INTERPOL division in Nigeria, Mr. Solomon Arase, a Deputy Inspector General of Police, for the arrest and delivery to the US officials of Kashamu for transportation to the US without following the due process required by the Nigeria Extradition Act.

“Mr. Kashamu’s informant revealed that Arase has confirmed that Donna Chabot approached him in January 2015. The said Ms Chabot is an attaché with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the American Embassy route Des Almedies BP, 49, Dakar, Senegal and requested that INTERPOL Nigeria assist in the abduction of Kashamu for the purpose of his forcible transportation to the U.S. to face trial before Judge Norgel.”

According to Saharareporters, the name of the self-acclaimed philanthropist and a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, came up in a Court ruling dated September 25, 2009 by Judge Charles R. Norgle of the United States District Court in Chicago, Illinois in which the Judge upheld Kashamu’s indictment by the U.S government on drug trafficking charges and conspiracy to smuggle heroin into the country. Kashamu was described by the U.S government as the kingpin of the drug cartel.

In his response, Kashamu published several rebuttals in the newspapers and alleged that he was not the one being sought after by the United States Government, but that the alleged crime was committed by one of his brothers who is now dead. Kashamu, in his defence, also claims that he had been cleared by a British Court and produced what purports to be the decision of a Magistrates’ Court in England. Kashamu also referred to his issuance of German visa sequel to his clearance by international security agencies as a further proof that he is not a fugitive and that the U.S. may have been looking for a wrong person.

However, the matter is far from over as the United States government insists that the man the U.S government is looking for is no other person than Buruji Kashamu, not his brother and that the government of the U.S. still regards Buruji Kashamu as a drug kingpin and a fugitive from the United States law. The U.S. further states that it has never withdrawn its warrant of arrest against Kashamu, maintaining further that the charges against Kashamu remain pending and will request for his extradition from Nigeria in due course.

The United States Government has also accused Buruji Kashamu of using fraudulent means to obtain a German Visa in 2009. The U.S government notes in its brief that Kashamu communicated with German officials using the name “Buruji Kashamu Shodipe” instead of Buruji Kashamu. According to the U.S. government, Kashamu was indicted in the United States under the name “Buruji Kashamu” and the warrant of arrest against him was issued in that same name. It is the position of the U.S. that any confusion by German officials that led to the issuance of a Schengen visa to Kashamu may have been caused by Kashamu’s use of the surname “Shodipe” in his application and communications with the German consulate.

Saharareporters investigation has revealed that there is indeed, a pending criminal action against Mr. Buruji before the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois involving fifteen people. The Case 1:94-cr-00172 is before Hon. Judge Charles R. Norgle. While Kashamu’s other coconspirators had been jailed, Kashamu’s case is being held under the fugitive Calendar.

In February, 2009, Kashamu hired a team of lawyers to appear for him in the case for the purpose of filing a Motion requesting the Court to quash the arrest warrant which his lawyers led by Pravin B. Rao did.

In the Motion to quash the arrest warrant, Mr. Pravin Rao made copious reference to the United Kingdom’s extradition proceedings in which Kashamu was freed after spending five years in British jail. His lawyers also pleaded res judicata and argued that the U.K. decisions are final and should therefore, be binding on the U.S.

In its response, the United States government disagreed with Kashamu on all four grounds and argued that Kashamu’s Motion to quash arrest warrant should be denied by the Court. On September, 25, 2009, the District Court Judge upheld the U.S. position and denied Kashamu’s Motion to quash his arrest warrant. The judge also declared Buruji Kashamu a fugitive.

However, Kahamu’s lawyers filed another Motion praying the Court to reconsider its decision of September 25, 2009.

Trouble started for Kashamu when in March 1994, defendant Kary Hayes, a passenger arriving at O’Hare International Airport (“O’Hare”) on a flight from Zurich, Switzerland, was arrested after he tried to smuggle into the United States a suitcase containing approximately 14.16 pounds of heroin. Hayes was one of a long line of couriers in a heroin smuggling operation allegedly led by Kashamu. The government charged Hayes and other couriers after this initial arrest. Many of these couriers cooperated and provided information about their contacts with Kashamu.

On May 21, 1998, a grand jury charged Kashamu and others in a Second Superseding Indictment with conspiracy to import heroin into the United States in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 963. Between July 7, 1998 and January 27, 1999, nine of the fourteen defendants named in the Second Superseding Indictment pleaded guilty. These nine defendants admitted their participation in the heroin smuggling organization and all acknowledged that Kashamu, the man they called “Alaji” or “God,” was the person ultimately in charge of the heroin smuggling organization. Some of these couriers, including defendants Catherine Cleary Wolters and Nicholas Fillmore, Jr., had visited with Kashamu at his residence in Benin in connection with the heroin smuggling organization.

One of the couriers, defendant Ellen Wolters, had a romantic relationship with Kashamu. The smuggling trips and trips to visit Kashamu in Benin were documented by, among other things, money transfer orders from Western Union and American Express, flight records, credit card charges, hotel records, and telephone call detail records. The telephone records, for example, reflected calls from the couriers to Kashamu’s residence in Benin.

Kashamu was ordered detained following his December 1998 arrest and he was incarcerated in London’s Brixton Prison during the pendency of extradition proceedings based on the government’s warrant in the instant case.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/04/u-s-requests-for-buruji-kashamus-extradition/

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Kidnapped-Orekoya-brothers-e1428617762570-1Respite finally comes just as the three missing children of the Orekoyas were found Tuesday evening.

The children Aderomola (11 months old), Adedamola (4 years old), Demola (6 years old) were dumped in a compound somewhere in Egbeda -Akowonjo, an outskirt of Lagos State under Alimosho LGA. It is not clear as at press time who actaully located the children in the compound, but PEARL can confirm that the kids have reunited with their parents at their Surulere residence.

A neighbour to the Orekoyas who preferes to remain anonymous confided in PEARL and said parents of the children and the entire neighbourhood are already in jubilation mood for seeing their three children alive after one week in captivity.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/04/just-in-orekoya-children-have-been-found/

Royal Dutch Shell will pay out 55 million pounds ($83.4 million) in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after agreeing a settlement with the affected community.

The largest ever out-of-court settlement relating to oil spills in Nigeria is a step forward for the oil-rich Niger Delta region that has been hit by regular environmental damage, but it is tiny compared with the billions in compensation and fines BP had to pay after the Macondo rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Though significantly higher than the 30 million pounds Shell had previously said it would be willing to pay, its deal is a fraction of the 300 million pounds-plus originally sought by the Bodo community in the Niger Delta.

The payment will be split, with 35 million pounds shared evenly between 15,600 Bodo individuals and the remaining 20 million pounds set aside in a trust fund for projects such as health clinics and schools, said Martyn Day, senior partner at Leigh Day, the British law firm acting for the community.

The individuals will each receive about 2,200 pounds, equivalent to a little more than 600,000 naira ($3,249), in the first such case to pay compensation directly to individual community members, Day said.

Previous similar claims have tended to go through the Nigerian authorities, resulting in a disbursement to community chiefs, who were then expected to distribute the money.

“It’s very unusual to have thousands benefit,” Day said. “The money will go directly to their bank accounts and this will hopefully be a model for future claims.”

Armed gangs tapping pipelines have often been blamed for leaks in the region, but Shell accepted that the Bodo spills were caused by corrosion.

“From the outset, we’ve accepted responsibility for the two deeply regrettable operational spills in Bodo,” said Mutiu Sunmonu, managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Co, the oil major’s Nigerian joint venture.

“We’ve always wanted to compensate the community fairly and we are pleased to have reached agreement.”

It is estimated by Leigh Day that the locals, mainly fishermen, have lost up to 300 pounds a year each on average since the spills.

Claimants said that the two pipeline spills resulted in the leakage of 500,000 barrels of oil, with Shell initially estimating the volume at about 4,000 barrels. It subsequently accepted that the total may have been higher, though it did not provide a final figure.

Shell said that a major remediation operation would take place in the coming months, following an initial clean-up phase, but it did not disclose how long this would take, nor how much it would cost.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/01/shell-to-pay-0ut-83-mln-to-settle-nigeria-oil-spill-claims/

Royal Dutch Shell will pay out 55 million pounds ($83.4 million) in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after agreeing a settlement with the affected community.

The largest ever out-of-court settlement relating to oil spills in Nigeria is a step forward for the oil-rich Niger Delta region that has been hit by regular environmental damage, but it is tiny compared with the billions in compensation and fines BP had to pay after the Macondo rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Though significantly higher than the 30 million pounds Shell had previously said it would be willing to pay, its deal is a fraction of the 300 million pounds-plus originally sought by the Bodo community in the Niger Delta.

The payment will be split, with 35 million pounds shared evenly between 15,600 Bodo individuals and the remaining 20 million pounds set aside in a trust fund for projects such as health clinics and schools, said Martyn Day, senior partner at Leigh Day, the British law firm acting for the community.

The individuals will each receive about 2,200 pounds, equivalent to a little more than 600,000 naira ($3,249), in the first such case to pay compensation directly to individual community members, Day said.

Previous similar claims have tended to go through the Nigerian authorities, resulting in a disbursement to community chiefs, who were then expected to distribute the money.

“It’s very unusual to have thousands benefit,” Day said. “The money will go directly to their bank accounts and this will hopefully be a model for future claims.”

Armed gangs tapping pipelines have often been blamed for leaks in the region, but Shell accepted that the Bodo spills were caused by corrosion.

“From the outset, we’ve accepted responsibility for the two deeply regrettable operational spills in Bodo,” said Mutiu Sunmonu, managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Co, the oil major’s Nigerian joint venture.

“We’ve always wanted to compensate the community fairly and we are pleased to have reached agreement.”

It is estimated by Leigh Day that the locals, mainly fishermen, have lost up to 300 pounds a year each on average since the spills.

Claimants said that the two pipeline spills resulted in the leakage of 500,000 barrels of oil, with Shell initially estimating the volume at about 4,000 barrels. It subsequently accepted that the total may have been higher, though it did not provide a final figure.

Shell said that a major remediation operation would take place in the coming months, following an initial clean-up phase, but it did not disclose how long this would take, nor how much it would cost.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/01/shell-to-pay-0ut-83-mln-to-settle-nigeria-oil-spill-claims/

Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overpowered a multinational military force and seized its key base on Nigeria’s border with Chad, according to residents who took to canoes to escape.

Scores of soldiers and civilians were killed, while others drowned in Lake Chad, Nigerians taking refuge in a Chadian village said in cell phone calls Sunday night. They said insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic assault rifles and hurled explosives.

“They came in their hundreds driving several Hilux patrol vehicles, trucks and some were on motorcycles and immediately began to throw explosives and bombs,” fisherman Audu Labbo told The Associated Press.

He and others reached by phone Sunday night said the troops from Nigeria and its neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger fought on Saturday until they ran out of ammunition. Details on the attack were slow getting out of the remote area.

Some soldiers removed their uniforms and threw away their rifles, Labbo said.

A senior security officer in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, confirmed that the military base at Baga is under the control of the insurgents. He said the multinational force fled because it received no reinforcements despite holding out for several hours. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters.

There are fears the extremists could use Baga as a base to attack Maiduguri, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the southwest.

Labbo said the insurgents’ bombs and grenades set aflame several buildings that burned to the ground – businesses, government offices, homes and part of the military base.

Boko Haram has been regionalizing the conflict with recent attacks on Chadian villages and a military base.

Thousands of people have died and some 1.6 million have been driven from their homes in the 5-year-old Islamic extremist uprising.
http://pearl.com.ng/2015/01/boko-haram-seize-multinational-base-on-nigeria-chad-border/

A new device, worn like regular spectacles, is helping shift workers and jet-lagged travellers get much-needed shuteye. Called Re-Timer, the glasses improve sleep by helping reset the user’s sleep rhythms.


According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, around one third of Americans aren’t getting enough shuteye. Jet lag, night shifts and seasonal mood disorder can disrupt sleep patterns. But psychologist Leon Lack at Australia’s Flinders University believes he has the answer. It’s called Re-Timer and uses light therapy to regulate our circadian rhythm, which tells the body when to sleep and when to wake. And though light therapy is not new, Lack says the Re-Timer’s innovation is its portability. The breakthrough in the research was the small, light-emitting diode. SOUNDBITE: LEON LACK, CO-DEVELOPER OF RE-TIMER, FLINDERS UNIVERSITY, SAYING (English): “It just occurred to us that light-emitting diodes, that are very small devices, very efficiently convert electricity into light and if they were mounted closer to the eyes, they would get enough light into the eyes and serve the purpose of the light therapy device.” Worn like a regular pair of spectacles, Re-Timer is adjustable and mimics the effects of sunlight using a UV-free, green light. Lack says the color choice was based on decade-long research. SOUNDBITE: LEON LACK, CO-DEVELOPER OF RE-TIMER, FLINDERS UNIVERSITY, SAYING (English): “That’s shown that the blue and blue/green and green area of the spectrum, those colors, are the most effective at changing the body clock timing.” Re-Timer has been a life changer for Michael Sakuma, a professor from Long Island in New York. For years Sakuma typically didn’t fall asleep until around 3 a.m. and would wake around 11 a.m. He says this late-to-bed and late-to-rise cycle severely impacted his choices. SOUNDBITE: MICHAEL SAKUMA, RE-TIMER USER, SAYING (English): “It affected the professions I chose, because I could not choose a profession that would require me to get up at seven, 6 o’clock, the way the rest of the world seems to work. My life has been trying to move around this sleep problem and I think that the Re-Timer has really helped me in that.” Sakuma has been using his Re-Timer for about two years and says it has become part of his life. SOUNDBITE: MICHAEL SAKUMA, RE-TIMER USER, SAYING (English): “I would like to see a day when I didn’t have to use the Re-Timer. I guess it’s because I’ve had this problem now for about 30 years, that it feels like it’s part of me and so I can’t imagine a time when I wouldn’t use it.” The Re-Timer retails for around 300 U.S. dollars and with regular use of his pair, Sakuma gets to bed at a more conventional hour and catches some much-needed slumber.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/01/new-glasses-promise-a-good-nights-sleep/

Few days after the former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, explained in an affidavit submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that all his academic credentials were with the Military Board, the Army have stated that they do not keep the certificates of any serving or retired officer or soldier.

General Buhari is contesting the presidential election for the fourth time under different political parties including the defunct All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, but the issue of his qualifications had never been controversial until the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, recently described him as a ‘’semi- illiterate.’’

However, against the backdrop of Buhari’s affidavit in court, a military source said ‘’that the Army can not keep anybody’s original certificate because it is the personal property of the owner,’’ adding that such original certificates were only needed at the point of entry into the service.

According to the source, the Military only kept photocopies of credentials of officers and soldiers in their personal files that were in the military secretary’s office.

“The original certificate of any officer or soldier is only needed at the point of entry into the service either as a cadet officer entering the Nigerian Defence Academy, or the recruitment officers when interviewing recruits to be sent to the depot for training. That is so, because they are needed to verify what were in the photocopies supplied by them or from the necessary examining bodies.” The source further stated that anybody claiming that his original certificates were with the Military Secretary (Army), had ‘’ulterior motive(s) or something he or she cannot explain.’’ He further added, “Let me tell you now, in the Navy, the Navy Secretary, NAVSEC, keep the documents of all Naval officers and ratings and not their original certificates which are their personal property

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/01/we-are-not-with-buharis-original-copies-of-certificates-army/

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*Says Osun people will decide his guber bid

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was Minister of Aviation during the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He recently paid a visit to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, for consultations  over his ambition to contest the governorship election in Osun State in 2011. He fielded questions from newsmen shortly after a closed door meeting with the monarch. Our correspondent was there.



WHY have you been  keeping silent?
To me, there is a time to speak and there is a time not to speak. I think  this is a time to keep low profile and to be wise in all matters.

Why do you want to go low profile this time?
The point is that my life has always been a type of low profile. I’m not in government anymore, I may have an ambition for the future. So I have to revert to the private sector to achieve what I want to do, so I don’t have to be talking anyhow but I’m focused about what I want to do and I don’t want to make too much noise about it this time.  I will come out in full force and do what I want.

Any ambition in 2011?
Anybody in politics must have an ambition and it is not a crime to have an ambition. It is a good thing to have an ambition.


Chief Femi Fani-kayode

But, subject to the will of God, subject to the support of my king, kabiyesi, the Ooni, and subject to the will of my party and Nigerians in Osun State, of course, I have an ambition to contest for the governorship of Osun State and this is what will be determined by my party members and the voters and not by me or you.

If you have such an ambition, you continue to pray about it and leave the rest to God. In fact, I’m fully prepared for it in every way.

How prepared are you for the job ahead?
I’m fully prepared. Having served in public office between 2003 and 2007 and, having served in executive capacity and seen what I have seen and having gained experience, I think the only thing left for me now is to offer myself in whatever way I can to help my people. I think I’m a Nigerian and I’m entitled to do that.

Don’t you think the case preferred against you by the EFCC will be an impediment to that ambition?
No, it will not. Why will it? The law of the land protects me because it pronounces a person to be innocent until he is found guilty by a court of law. I remember that there is a person from this part of the country who won an election from the prison cell.

He was elected as a senator of this country by the people and he won the election by a wide margin of votes. He is a good friend of mine and he performed exceptionally well in that election.

I’m proud of him and I’m not in detention, I have experienced it and found it very interesting that a person should go through such thing but I’m focused and clear about my political ambition and I believe that we are addressing all relevant issues very well.

There is the issue of unrest   in the Niger Delta and the  president recently granted the militants amnesty. What is your opinion on the amnesty?
Let me not offer any opinion on that issue for now. I think it is very important to allow the Federal Government to take any action without complicating issues or sending a wrong signal.

I have served the government at the federal level, it is very important to allow them to do what they are doing and not for us who are no longer in government to distract them.

Otherwise, you may be misunderstood and be misrepresented that somebody has sent you. What I’m doing right now is to pursue my ambition for the future subject to the will of my party, the support of my kabiyesi and subject to the will of the people of Osun State.

What are you doing to realize the ambition?
What I’m doing is to work with the party because I don’t want to do anything single handedly but the party is doing everything to better the lot of the people.

Able leadership
The PDP has been serving the people of  the state for the past six years through the able leadership of my big brother, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and he is not doing badly.

He has served the people of this state very well. I think we should be very cautious not to make too much noise about this ambition for now. That is why there are not many people here, otherwise, you should have seen crowd who would have come here today.

We are maintaining a low profile until Governor Oyinlola would have finished his tenure. We are praying for him, and we are supporting him so that he may succeed in all things that he’s doing as the PDP governor in Osun State and that is our priority for now. After he might have succeeded, we will come out like fire.

What is your opinion on the reconciliation of Chief Obasanjo with his former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar?
I think that is the best thing to happen to this country. It is the best for the political class, the PDP and for the nation.

I think, it was an unfortunate rift and President Obasanjo had demonstrated his leadership quality by reconciling and stretched his hands of fellowship and Vice president Atiku has received that and has also stretched his own hand of fellowship to our collective leader and I’m happy about that. I have also visited the vice president myself and he gave me a wonderful reception. We are one big family and I’m happy about that.

Have you any regret about your action on the crisis?
What type of regret would I have? When you say on any of my actions, let me tell you, there were two groups within the same government and two groups within the same party.

I was a soldier and a soldier follows orders and I don’t regret anything that I have done. But, in my own view, I do believe that it was an unfortunate series of events which had consequences and control beyond any of us and I think we have learnt some lessons from it. But, as for me, I follow the order of my general anytime and anyday.

What is your opinion on the state of the nation?
I don’t have any comment for now because I don’t want to make anybody to feel nervous or uncomfortable or fearful. As at now, I feel I have enough challenges and I don’t want to compound those challenges. My focus now is on Osun State and the people  and the development of PDP in the state. Let nobody compound those challenges.

What are your contributions to the party in Osun State?
Go and ask the party. I don’t need to tell you, I’m not going to blow my own trumpet before you. I knew what I did for the party when I was in government, the type of support and efforts we gave to the state during the regime of President Obasanjo. Go and ask the party. I think that would answer your question.

Politics in Ile-Ife is  known for violence. Do you have capacity for violence?
Well, I’m not a violent man and I don’t believe in violence. I believe in the power of the supreme being and I also believe in the superiority of logic and I’m also an intellectual.

I’m not a violent man and I will never be a violent man. I have never shed blood before and I have never killed anybody before and I don’t think violence is what any civilized person should do. I believe in using all civilized ways to do whatever I want to do.

I’m also somebody of tremendous courage and I’m the son of my father, I’m not easily intimidated by anything or anybody. I have never turned back whenever things turn sour. I’m exposed to a lot of things in my life and I can hold my own in any corner but violence is out it. All those that are with me are very clear of two things.

The first is that I abhor any form of violence and secondly I believe in the power of the living God and by the power of God you can do anything and you can be anywhere.

What advice do you have for the people of the state?
We should pray that Governor Oyinlola retains his seat and has a great victory at the tribunal, that is the first one. We should also pray for the state and kabiyesi, Ooni of Ife, as well as other traditional rulers in this great state and we should pray for great future in Osun and you know I’m from Ile-Ife.

We should pray for Ile-Ife which has contributed so much to Nigeria and Western Region since the time of independence, we should also pray that the governorship of the state should come to Ile-Ife because Ile-Ife deserves this.

Ambition for governorship
But, of course, my ambition for governorship will be determined by my father, the Ooni, and the entire people of Osun State and definitely by God.

What is the relationship between you and former President Obasanjo?
President Olusegun Obasanjo is my father and would always be my father. He’s the one that gave me the opportunity to serve my nation in 2003. He brought me from nowhere and he told me when he brought me that “I’m not bringing you because I know your father but I’m bringing you because you know how to do the job”.

He gave me that opportunity and for that I will remain eternally grateful to him. As far as I’m concerned, Obasanjo is a father of modern Nigeria, he’s the greatest international figure we have known in this planet. We are very, very close.

Who is your godfather in politics?
You know that I’m a Christian, I don’t believe in this issue of godfather in politics. What I believe is that there are leaders and mentors. Kabiyesi, the Ooni, is my father, President Obasanjo is my father and Governor Oyinlola is my big brother even before he became governor and I support him and everything he is doing.

He has a stake on what happens in this state and he has a stake in determining who succeeds him after he might have completed his tenure as the governor of Osun State.

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A poem by Femi Fani-Kayode ______________Ffk, 2009

I would have done anything for the one I once loved, for she too had her place. She too had, and will always have, a small corner of my heart. After we parted ways I saw her everywhere and in everything and I constantly asked myself "what is she doing now?" It was driving me insane and I then knew that I simply could not live without her.

Anyone that could feel my pain would have freed me and allowed me to follow my heart even if it meant death and destruction for me, for at that brief moment in time my heart belonged to Macdreamie. I was half alive and half dead without her. I wanted to live again and only she could have brought me back to life. I would have done anything just to be with her. I would have followed her to the end of the earth and sought for her at the edges of hell. I would have given up everything just for Macdreamie.

We were indeed two people in one body: tied together by love and fate and bound together in spirit and soul by an irresistible, unbreakable and irrepressible cord. I would have gladly given my life for hers, despite all her eccentricities and complexities, for true love requires sacrifice and it is patient, forgiving, longsuffering and unconditional. I would have protected and provided for her till the day that i died. I would have made her the mother of my children and she would have been my love forever: my reason for living. But this was not to be because Macdreamie suddenly passed on and now she is lost to me forever.

She is no more, yet her smiles, her charm, her joy, her confidence and her strength will remain with me forever. She was selfless and special and all that she ever wanted to do was to make those around her happy. Alas she has gone forever but wherever her precious soul rests today in the heavenlies of our universe, it is my earnest and sincere prayer that the God of all that is forgives her for her sins, that her soul finds perfect peace and that her star continues to shine brightly.

Goodbye Macdreamie, goodbye my love, goodbye forever.

______________Ffk, 2009

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode releases new poem on his website www.femifanikayode.org. The Poem is titled "If I Should Die". The poem according to FFK is uplift the spirit of Nigerians at all time.

If I should die

If I should die, cry not for me for the angels beckon where I go. If I should die, weep not for me for it brings an end to pain afflicted. If I should die, mourn not for me for it ushers in peace eternal. If I should die hurt not for me but remember the good and dwell not on injuries past. If I should die, let tears run not but in their stead rejoice in the knowledge that Christians don't die but only change address. For through Christs promise I have no fear of they that come in demon guise to carry the hapless and the hopeless to the hottest flames of hell. Through Christ's blood lies hope eternal, precious blessing and everlasting peace. If I should die, look to my loved ones and try to encourage them from time to time. If I should die, sweet memories hold, of passion, of love, of beauty and joy: not bitterness, not sadness, not regret nor hurt. Yet long life is my portion and death is far from me and neither can claim my soul or eclipse my rising star. Till my work on earth is done I shall live and live well, knowing and believing that I shall never see the pains of hell. To those that have gone before me, I salute their gallant souls. For to cross that line is not the end but rather the beginning of immortal life and eternity. This is the promise of God and I hold on to it dearly, knowing that He never lies, He never fails, He never sleeps and He never forsakes.

So my friends, conquer your fear of death and as Plato once said "you shall live forever". For if I should die my soul still lives and if you want to see me just wait till midnight and look up at the stars. For I shall shine brightly then even as I do now, knowing and believing that I am not alone. If I should die, remember that we once loved and that love remains, waiting and eternal, till the day we meet again. If I should die, I once again would see my father, my mother, my brother, my loved ones, my ancestors and my long lost friends that all went long ago. What joy that would bring when we all meet again at the feet of our Christ, our risen King and Lord. If I should die, the next generation follows, filled with faith, with strength, with youth, with vigour, with vitality and with power. And die we must for them to grow for we must become lesser and lesser and they larger and larger. For therein lies our hope for a greater and better tomorrow, for if I should die I need only look back once and see and know that my standard, my crest, my colours and my flag still fly high.
For after I am gone, and gone forever, my children and my children's children shall continue the race of life. And so the cycle continues for their time will come too. But fret not, fear not, cry not and mourn not for if I should die, I shall enter that paradise, that glory, that blessing and that promise that Adam, in the garden of Eden, once lost and almost lost forever. And if I should die, for those I leave behind, the word of God is clear: He is your father for He is the "father of the fatherless" and He is your husband for He is the "husband of the widow". He is with you, He will love you, He will guide you, He will protect you and He will provide for you better than I or any mortal could. And if I should die, if nothing else, remember this: it is not in the ephemeral deceit of fleeting fame, or name or treasure or power or wealth that any should stand, for on that day when death comes calling these temporal vanities will surely flee and we stand on our own. So stand on Christ the rock and on Him alone and remember that if I should die and die in Him, then truly I die not, but I live with and reign in Him and through Him forever.
________________ Ffk, 2009


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Chief Femi Fani-Kayode releases new set of Poems for 2009 on his website. The URL to the poems is http://femifanikayode.org/poems.html. The poems are to encourage and lift the spirit of Nigerians at all time. Among the listed poems is " The Warrior " and is stated below.

The Warrior

The warrior is noble and strong. His resolve is firm and his commitment is total. His is to kill, to shed blood and to be killed. His is to die for his king and for a worthy cause. His is to protect and lay down his life for his faith, his nation, his people and his loved ones. What manner of men are these whose spirit speak of such valour and nobility?

Consider the ancient Spartans and the Roman warriors of old. Consider the fearsome Vikings who believed that it was a curse to die a peaceful death and that the only way to heaven was to die violently and heroically in fearsome battle. Consider the greatest of all warriors that ever lived, the noble and gallant Achilles. Consider Alexander the great who conquered the world with his sword. Consider King David, the greatest of all the kings of Israel, who was a man of blood and war and yet whom God so loved and who loved God more than any other. Consider Davids "strongmen" who stood with him through thick and thin and who fought for and protected him to the very end. Consider their gallant captain, the mighty Joab and the others, Abishai, Asahel, Eleazer, the Tachomonite, Shammah, Benaiah, Eliam, Igal and Uriah the Hittite. These were David's men: all great and valient men of war whose courage was legendary and whose loyalty to their God and their king was unflinching and unquestionable.

Consider Shaka the Zulu, Beowulf the Nordic king and William Wallace the liberator of Scotland. Consider King Henry the fifth of England who routed the French at the battle of Agincourt even though he was outnumbered by fifty to one. Consider Julius Caesar who came, who saw and who conquered. Consider the great Herecles who was a descendant of the mighty Hercules himself. Consider Samson, who slew a troop with the jaw bone of an ass and yet who fell at the touch of a woman.

Consider Gideon who slew the Midianites, Jeptha who sacrificed his own daughter, Joshua who brought down the walls of Jericho and Jehu, who drove his chariot like a madman and who slew the witch Jezebel at Jezreel and, in fulfilment of prophecy, ensured that the dogs ate her flesh and licked her blood. Consider those that laid down their lives for our great and noble christian faith: Paul of Tarsus, the greatest of all the apostles, who brought the glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to the gentiles. Peter the disciple, who became the rock on whom the Church of God was built. Matthew, Mark, John, Isaiah, Daniel, Samuel, Abraham, Jacob, Elisha and all the other disciples and prophets of old. For martyrs and heroes that lived and died for God are also gallant warriors who feared not death and who stood firm to the end in defence of their faith.

Consider George Washington who led his troops into battle and whose battle cry was "victory or death". Consider the charge of the light brigade, the sheer courage and discipline of the famouse 600, at the battle of Balaclava. Consider General Custer at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Consider the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo and consider the great Napolean in his fury, in his glory and in his power.

Had these great men all not stood their ground and had they all not played their role in our collective history, where would we all be today? They sacrificed their today so that we may have a better tomorrow. They lived and died for the sake of others and asked for only one thing in return: that their names should live forever and that we should never forget their noble deeds and worthy sacrifices. And we must not forget, nay we dare not forget, for as another great and inspiring soul by the name of Martin Luther King once said "if a man is not ready to die for something then he is not worthy of living for anything". The warrior is prepared to die for his cause. That is what makes him so noble and that is why he will always have a special place in our hearts.

May the spirit of the warrior and selfless courage fill us all and, like the true warriors that we are meant to be, when death comes may the Lord give us the strength and boldness to fearlessly look at it in the face and treat it with the contempt and disdain that it deserves, knowing that it has lost its sting and knowing that, by the power of Christ Jesus, it has been conquered and crushed forever.

And when death comes, as come it must for all, let us be men and let us die a good death, not cringing and crying like women, but like true warriors, fighting to the bitter end. For it is never for the warrior to ask the why: it is only for the warrior to do or die. The warrior does not vanish into the night, the warrior will not go down without a fight.
________________ Ffk, 2009

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This is the story of two Big Girls who are currently in a hot battle over one time Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode. One of them was his top aide /mistress, who is reputed to be very rich. The other is Eka Andrews who is madly in love with Femi. The first one who is fabulously rich made money through the many deals she got involved in over the last few years.

There are those who insist that this lady who got Femi into trouble may have been planted to wreak havoc. The source swore that the lady received a whooping sum of $500,000 US, from three frontline politicians to spy on Fani- kayode. One prominent politician from South west was said to have contributed $300,000 (US DOLLAR) while two other politicians from the north contributed $100,000 each. The money was then wired to the lady’s account in USA through an account of a top private oil company.

Our source further disclosed that the owner of the oil company who happened to be a friend of the former minister allowed his company’s account to be used on the promise that his friend the Ex-Minister did not obliged him to only supplier of Aviation Fuel to all the airlines and in return of the money given to her by the politicos. The lady allegedly gave out the details and working of her boss to her new employer and these she allegedly did for over 6 months. Even after Fani- Kayode left office, the lady who is said to have 6 exotic cars like Hummer jeep, BMW 7 series, Peugeot open roof with special plate number and others in her garage is also said to have houses in choice areas of Lagos and two flats in Dubai and London continue to work for the politicians.

Meanwhile the said affair between the 29 year old lady and an Osun Senator we can reveal authoritatively is nothing, but a ruse. A close friend of the revealed to us that she detest the Osun born senator on the premise that he was one the few friends of Femi Fani- Kayode that blocked her from getting married to the former aviation minister.
We gather that the Senator advised Fani- Kayode to stop his loving relationship with the lady, as it may affect his marriage to Regina (Nee Hanson Amonoo) his Ghanaian wife of many years.

However, the Senator, we learnt allegedly facilitated a relationship between his friend, Fani- Kayode and one Yoruba lady. And the action of the governor was said to have irked the lady who protested profusely the action of Senator, and vow to teach the senator the bitter lesson of his life. This lady’s close friend told us that the former mistress of Fani- Kayode had boasted before her friends, that she will destroy Fani- Kayode and also deal with the Osun Senator so that none of them would be Governor of Osun State.She’s also said to have told her friends that she has enough documentary evidence to get the Senator into trouble and stop him from contesting for Osun State number one seat.

Meanwhile, we learnt that the lady, who is alleged to have gotten her former lover, into trouble with EFCC, is also being haunted by the anti-graft agency. Also, informed sources told us that the love –struck lady, who has her breast tattooed with the inscription FFK (Femi Fani- Kayode) has her right side buttock allegedly, tattoo of mermaid.
Although the refusal of Fani- Kayode to take her in as his second wife is said to have made her vow to destroy the ex- aviation minister. Nonetheless, the heat we gathered is now on her, and informed source claimed, the zoologist may have fled the country.

However, speculations are rife that the embattled former Minister of Aviation has found succor in the arms of another lady, known as Eka Andrews. Our cheeks revealed that the duo have been sighted, musing and chatting together on two occasions. Although, they were said to have been friends for over two years. And as luck would have it, we caught up with this gorgeous and elegant looking lady called, Eka Andrew last week.

The seemingly intelligent lady was so direct and frank in her answers to questions that we raised. When asked if she has taken over her friends role, the pretty damsel said, “I and Chief are just friends and it has been like that for over two years, even when the lady was around……… As for me, I don’t have any pretension of taking over from madam; I don’t have the ambition to topple her. Even there is one thing that people don’t know; maybe they didn’t study this man ( Fani-Kayode) very well. Let me tell you clearly, nothing on earth can make Chief leave his wife for any other person”. On her friend, the amiable Eka Andrew had this to say: She has already created problems for everybody; she is nothing to me.

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Brushing aside his recent travails with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the reported betrayal by his long-time mistress, Chioma Anasoh, embattled former minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode (aka FFK) appears to be moving on with life as he has reportedly kick-started his governorship campaign to succeed Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State.

Triquerta.com can authoritatively reveal that Fani-Kayode’s guber campaign is coming on the heels of a fresh affair with a lady called Onyeka, ostensibly to cushion the damage inflicted by Chioma’s exit.

Triquerta.com had exclusively reported on how Chioma ruined Fani-Kayode by setting him up with the EFCC, as well as aligning with his political foes, to avenge his refusal to take her as a second wife.

Sources close to the former minister hinted that FFK’s decision to start his governorship campaign ahead of 2011, when Oyinlola’s term is expected to expire, was buoyed by his faith that the EFCC case against him would come to naught. “We strongly believe the EFCC probe is nothing short of a political weapon designed to scuttle FFK’s governorship ambition, and that the design is set to run out of steam,” the source said.

“Consequently, we resolved at the wedding of a prominent Nigerian that FFK should take the plunge by pasting his posters. As we speak, FFK’s posters for governorship are being pasted around Osun state. We don’t want to take chances, because we know the forces we are battling. They know FFK is the man to beat, particularly as the 2011 governorship favors FFK’s Ife zone, the reason they are hell-bent on stopping him,” the source added.

Pressed to unmask the identities of the “they,” the source unfurled: “You will recall that the Senate committee on aviation investigated the disbursement of N19 billion aviation intervention fund. Throughout the investigation, nowhere was FFK indicted for spending a dime without authorization. Yet, at the end of day, even before the report was made public, some dailies published that FFK and his predecessor Professor Babalola Borishade had been ordered to refund over N5 billion. We now know why FFK’s name was included in a report which had not been made public.”

“And when the report was finally made public, the whole world saw that while Borishade was asked to refund N5.1 billion, but FFK was virtually given clean bill of health. He wasn’t asked to refund a penny. Apparently upset that nothing was found on FFK, these political opponents, who are well-positioned in the Senate, insisted that he be banned from holding public office for five years because he gave his kinsmen employment in certain parastatals in the aviation ministry,” the source surmised, exclaiming, “what absurdity!”

triquerta.com gathered that Fani-Kayode may also have been encouraged by the recent embarrassing outburst by the technical consultant to the Senate Aviation Committee that investigated FFK and Professor Borishade, Captain Dan Omale, suggesting that the aviation probe may have been teleguided by Senator Omisore to torpedo FFK’s governorship ambition.

In his “Fani-Kayode Deserves a Breather,” Omale, a trained pilot, argued in the Leadership newspaper, where he runs a column that it was immoral for the Senate committee to have allowed itself to be used to harass Fani-Kayode, whom Omale insisted was the “whistle blower” in the aviation scam.

Wrote Omale: “ During the N19.5 billion aviation interventions probe, simply on the orders of a powerful politician in government, Fani-Kayode, despite being the whistle blower and, was virtually exonerated of any misappropriation himself, he was arrested and kept in custody of the EFCC for nearly 13 days along with those blamed for the mismanagement of the funds.”

Omale, whose column was said to have thoroughly embarrassed the aviation committee, further suggested that FFK’s travails may not be unconnected with “an uneducated senator from his constituency, who, like Femi himself, wants to be the next governor of his home state of Osun. “The competition has brought in a bitter rivalry between the two so much that, the senator wants Fani-Kayode implicated in any messy issue that could jeopardize his political future. The senator has invested heavily in diabolical plots, including using Fani-Kayode’s friends against him, all in the name of getting him disqualified for the 2011 gubernatorial contest.”

Omale scoffed, to the chagrin of the senate committee, that, “Now, the senate committee on aviation has come out with its finding and recommendations on the N19.5 billion aviation intervention fund. Fani-Kayode, although has no case in the misappropriation, has been recommended for a ban from holding public office for the next five years for issues unrelated to the N19.5 billion.”

Meanwhile, Fani-Kayode, who recently broke up with his mistress of close to four years, Chioma Anasoh, is said to be seeing a certain Onyeka. A sociologist by training, the new lady in FFK’s life was said to have been an acquaintance, but became intimate with the former minister after Chioma deserted. While scanty information is available on Onyeka, sources close to the new lovebirds told Triquerta.com that, unlike Chioma who was very insolent, assertive and boisterous, the new mistress is reserved and “very respectful to madam (Fani-Kayode’s wife), as well as to friends, relations and aides of the former minister. Close friends of Chioma claimed she has been in hiding in Abuja, and is reportedly upset by reports suggesting she has kick-started an affair with Senator Omisore. According to one of her close friends, “Chioma may have betrayed FFK by turning his secrets to his political foes, including Iyiola Omisore, but I don’t think she has descended to the level of dating that senator, having complained of his bad breath.” The friend disclosed that Chioma was now a nervous wreck, occasionally lamenting how she brought harm to bear on the man who loved her so much. “On the few occasions we met, Chioma expressed regret that she allowed herself be used to destroy FFK. She blamed the situation on a spiritual problem, akin to what the Igbos call ogbanje. She traced the problem to how her mother, Antoinette, also destroyed her dad, who thereafter became distressed and had to retire to the village after they had separated. “Chioma really gave me the creeps with stories of how, in the spirit realm, she is a serpent and a crab. How she thrives in the marine kingdom as Oluchi and Seventeria, and how she wields her seven levels of power to seduce, disarm or enchant her victims. She told me that her favorites remain married men, whom she likes to suck and discard like oranges. She said something like have the Succubus demon that traps men’s souls and leads them to destruction by replacing their goodies with miseries,” the friend disclosed.

Unarguably, this is not the best of the season for the political dynasty of the immediate past President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, as the man whom he literally imposed on the nation, President Umar Musa Yar’ Adua has turned the searchlight on him using the state machinery to deal with him.

Of the three arms of government, only the Judiciary could be said to be neutral on the undeclared war against the Ota farmer whose ‘holier than thou’ records have been shattered. Both the National Assembly and the Presidency have never found anything good in whatever left behind by Obasanjo administration as if most of them were not in the country during the “discredited era”.

To prevent Obasanjo from fighting back, his detractors turned the heat on his boys painting them the worst political office holders that invaded the polity while the eight years of their godfather lasted. Name them, Olabode Goerge, Femi Fani-Kayode, Nasir El-Rufai, Nuhu Ribadu and a host of others who have been uprooted from where their godfather had planted them.
But the celebrated ones are the trio of Fani-Kayode, El-Rufai and Ribadu who are passing from one nightmare to another, ironically, using the institutions they created while in power. A case study is the former Aviation Minister, Fani-Kayode who was investigated both by the Senate Committee on Aviation and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on the N19.5 billion aviation intervention fund but nothing directly links him with any misapplication of fund. However, those who are after him would not let go. While the Senate panel nailed him for allegedly flooding some agencies with his kinsmen and wanted him banned from holding public offices for five years, the EFCC wants him jailed for lodging over N230 million in his account while his era lasted.

His detractors seem to have gotten an upper hand over him and as expected, not a few commentators have taken him to the cleaners “for doing what no one has ever done”. But an article written by Captain Dan Omale, who played prominent roles in the investigation of Fani-Kayode by the Senate, being the Technical Consultant, published in LEADERSHIP last Friday edition raises some unanswered questions. And those who think the son of the former Deputy Premier of the old Western Region, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode deserved his on-going ordeal must read the piece, which was reproduced in the SUNDAY TRIBUNE of February 22, 2009.

According to the Kaduna based aviation expert, the ex-aviation chief’s problem began through an order given by an unnamed powerful man in the Presidency who was not satisfied that the young politician could be free after his brilliant testimony before the Senate panel. His words, ”during the N19.5 billion aviation intervention probe, simply on the order of a powerful politician in government, Fanikayode, despite being the whistle blower and, was virtually exonerated of any misappropriation himself, he was arrested and kept in custody of the EFCC for nearly 13 days along with those blamed for the mismanagement of the funds.
Shortly before Christmas last year, he was again arrested by the EFCC for some alleged lodging of funds of over N230M over a period of his stewardship as a minister in the past administration. He was detained throughout the Christmas period and only got bail shortly before the New-year”.

To those who think the panel indicted him on the intervention fund in its Report, Omale thinks otherwise, hear him; “Now, the senate committee on aviation has come out with its finding and recommendations on the N19.5 billion aviation intervention fund. Fanikayode, although has no case in the misappropriation, has been recommended for a ban from holding public office for the next five years for issues unrelated to the N19.5 billion”.

Omale goes to trace the root cause of the ordeals of Fani-Kayode by stating thus; “There are two schools of thought about Fanikayode’s travails: one school believes that he is loud-mouthed and highly opinionated. Like a pit bull, he would defend his master religiously to the detriment of his own life and public image. He would caste spell on any one, young or old that attempts to undermine his master. This attitude has exposed the former minister to the wrath of a lot of Nigerians and has stigmatized him as a highly disrespectful individual towards his elders.

The second school of thought states that, Fanikayode is being hunted a senator from his constituency, who, like Femi himself, wants to be the next governor of his home state of Osun. The competition has brought in a bitter rivalry between the two so much that, the senator wants Fanikayode implicated in any messy issue that could jeopardize his political future. The senator has invested heavily in diabolical plots, including using Fanikayode’s friends against him, all in the name of getting him disqualified for the 2011 gubernatorial contest”.

The writer seems impressed with the testimony of the former spokesman to President Obasanjo and he did not hide this. He disclosed that the politician” was frank and straight to all the points we raised and elaborated more clearly on those points that did not make sense to us. He owned up to his mistakes and refuted any untrue allegations”. Stating further, he said Femi “also confessed about his missteps in the past and how he had found solace in the lord. Whether he has found the lord or not, every sentence ended with thanking God”.

Hear Omale objective analyses of the three armor bearers of Obasanjo ; “My assessment of the former minister is that, he is very predictable, excessively vocal and aggressive in driving his point home. These attributes may not be wholly acceptable in a deranged society like Nigeria; therefore, he is one of the least favoured by the populace. It is very true that the trio of Ribadu, El-Rufai and Fanikayode over indulged in their respective offices during the Obasanjo administration and earned themselves the most apathetic hostility from the Nigerian public. Unfortunately, Nigerians are the most unforgiving people in the world, especially, now that everyone is scrambling to survive at the expense of the public office holders who have turned government jobs into viable money –making ventures.

For a moment, Ribadu, El-Rufai and Fanikayode forgot the transient and illusive nature of power and as humans, lived in a mirage virtual reality. The outcome of such negligence to the reality that life itself is timed is what they are experiencing today. Ribadu has more sympathy from the majority of Nigerians today than Fanikayode and El-Rufai, although, Ribadu like the two, publicly disrespected his elders, those who brought him to power”.

Omale does not believe the three OBJ boys should be hung for being “attack dogs” of their godfather instead he wants them to be forgiven. Hear how he succinctly put it; “By and large, whatever their sins, they deserve to be forgiven. They are humans and every human being has the erroneous capacity to forget himself when ordained with power and authority. According to the scriptures, when God gave man dominion over other creatures and only forbade him from eating the golden apple in the Garden of Eden, man failed. We must find in our hearts, some rooms to forgive Fanikayode and his fellow Obasanjo boys, for they did not know that time, the ultimate decider was coming some day.

Let us look at their performances and not their utterances while in office because, power intoxicates and everyone who has been at the corridor of power knows this, but fails the test when actually confronted with it. This is part of the nature of man’s susceptibility to fallibility”. He also has a message to those who think the former aviation minister did nothing while in office that aside from the fact that during the Fani-kayode’s tenure as the aviation minister, there was no single aircraft accident in Nigeria, “his tenure ushered in some of the most articulate professionals we have at the helms of affairs in most of the aviation agencies in Nigeria right now. He brought sanity to the system and the industry, and partly instilled fear in the minds of foreign airlines like British airways that was strangulating Nigerians”.

Omale washes his hands off the Senate Report by stating thus; “the recommendation that he should be banned from holding public office for the next five years is not only absurd but definitely senseless since he was not indicted in looting part of the N19.5 billion aviation intervention fund. It is very true that he flooded the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and other aviation agencies with his kinsmen, but every minister of aviation I have known in this country, except Felix Hyat and Isa Yuguda did the same while in office. This is a known political strategy of Nigerians and if we now consider it wrong, then, everyone should pay the price for it and not Femi alone”.

On his trial, the public analyst declared, “arresting him over mere N230M as an Ex minister in Nigeria is not only laughable, but a great sign of ridicule to a country whose popular culture is corruption. Fanikayode may have been careless to show his own money while his colleagues, with ten times that figure, openly display theirs, but at the same time handle and even cuddle their political opponents. He should have learned the game”.

He then commended Fani-Kayode for his loyalty to Obasanjo at the expense of his life and his political career. He reminded his readers that in Nigerian politics, “ there is no permanent loyalty to political godfathers anymore, especially, when the political god son has attained a level of authority and independence. This is visible everywhere in our polity and we should give Fanikayode a thumb up for still sticking to his godfather—the former president. Those who were groomed by the immediate past vice president deserted him shortly after securing lift to freedom. We are witnessing immense disloyalty between governors, who myopically appointed their business partners and political boys to succeed them. Across this nation, intense rivalry exists within the political sphere as personal and ideological differences erupt every day between masters and hitherto servants. His advice to Mr Fanikayode “is to fight back and not let the dreaded system swallow him” and to take a cue from the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar who recently visited Obasanjo in his bid to stage a come-back politically “by reaching out to his victims while in office and at the same time, keeping his mind on his newly found faith in God”.

Shortly after the Report of the Senate Aviation Committee on Aviation was out, I got a message on my phone asking some questions. Although, Omale has unconsciously answered some while the decision of the Senate to reject the five-year ban recommendation also answers at least one, yet Omale column has brought the message to the fore. Hear the sender; “is it true the report (of the panel) was part of a grand plan to scuttle FFK (Femi Fani-Kayode)’s gubernatorial dream by his detractors having failed to nail him on the N19.5 billion? Is it true that Femi left a whopping sum of N7.5 billion in the intervention fund account? Why does the panel recommend 5 years ban for a whistle blower for allegedly interference in the recruitment of staff but failed to do the same for the ex-minister who was asked to cough out N5b? why does the panel nail the ex-minister for the alleged crime committed by the FAAN management? Who originated the story published in two newspapers that Fani-Kayode was asked to refund N5b with Borishade and others (prior to the release of the report)? Is it true a Senator nursing gubernatorial ambition to rule Osun like Fani-Kayode is a member of the aviation panel? To some the indictment of FFK has more to do with politics than the misappropriation of the N19.5b. who among the panelists can come out to say he has never use any public office to assist his people?

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The board of Directors of FAAN and NAMA were sacked via a Presidential Fiat last week, but we can authoritatively reveal that the dissolution and dismissal of the board members of these aviation parastalas emanated through the statement of allegedly made by Ms. Chioma Anasoh, ,

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For real that this Chioma Anasoh statement actually sacked those board.