Sunday, June 28, 2015

Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan's ex-security aide murdered


LagosgistDeputy Superintendent of Police, Tamuno Jacob Igbomie, who was Principal Security Officer to the wife of the former President, Patience Jonathan, has been shot dead by unknown assailants. Igbomie’s corpse was found in his Honda Accord car last Friday along the Airport Road, Abuja. The former PSO, who was married with two children, was believed to have been killed by assassins who shot him at close range in his car and left the engine running. A source said the body of the DSP was found early in the morning with all his phones, wallet and other personal effects in tact in the car.“We believe Tamuno was killed by hired assassins because they did not take away anything in his car. His phones and wallets were still with him when his body was found in the car with the engine steaming. “He was shot in the night and his body was found early in the morning; we don’t know if he was killed over a business transaction or disagreement with someone,” the source who served with the deceased at the villa stated. It was gathered that the deceased, who hailed from Okrika, Bayelsa State, was serving at the Federal Capital Territory Police Command before he was deployed to the Presidential Villa as Aide-De-Camp to Patience when her husband was the Vice President. He was later appointed as the PSO to Patience when her husband became the President in 2011. Findings indicate that the late policeman had just been redeployed back to his former position at the FCT Police Command, where he was in charge of posting of junior officers. The Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, confirmed the killing of the policeman, noting that investigation had started to unravel the assailants. “Yes, a DSP attached to the villa was killed last week Friday, investigation has started to find out the people behind the murder. No arrest has been made yet,” he said over the phone on Sunday. The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Anjuguri Manzah, said the FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, had ordered an investigation into the incident. Punch

Rihanna, Floyd Mayweather and Riri's duct tape at the BET Awards


LagosgistSo Riri was seen at the beginning of the show with some duct tape and everyonewondered what it was for. Well, she tied up Floyd Mayweather with it and said 'B#tch better have my money', lol. She did the same thing Boris Kodjo and his wife, she tied them up on a chair with a rope iin front of her dressing room. All in good jest though. More photos after the cut. Lagosgist Lagosgist

Presidency orders VC, registrar of the Fed University of Otuoke to refund overpaid salaries


LagosgistThe Presidency, through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, has instructed the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, to refund over payment of salaries running into millions of naira. The Registrar of the university, David Suowari, was also directed to refundthe sum of N130, 692.71 per month in excess of his due salary. The over payments were said to have been discovered during the commission’s visit to the institution on May 12, 2015 to carry out an inspection of FUO’s remuneration practices vis-a-vis the extant government’s pay policy. The VC and the registrar were accused of appropriating certain allowances to themselves which were not approved by the government.These concerns were raised in a letter from the NSIWC to Aluko, signed for the Chairman of the Commission by the Director of Compensation, Chike Ogbechie. The commission said, “The findings of the inspection in respect of your institution (Federal University, Otuoke) were as follow: “The Vice-Chancellor was being paid total emoluments of N1,970,476.76 monthly, whereas he should not earn more than N922,810.23 if he were paid furniture allowance en bloc earlier, or N1,043,176.79 if he were being paid furniture allowance. “Much of the difference was attributed to certain allowances which were not approved by the government.” In the case of the registrar, the commission said he was being paid N130,692.71 in excess of his due salary of N502,580.25. The commission also said the university disaggregated its staff salaries against the government’s policy of pay consolidation. The NSIWC, therefore, directed the university to stop “the wrongful practices” and comply with relevant rules and rates. The commission added, “We hereby direct the vice-chancellor and the registrar to refund the cumulative overpayments made to them. “You are to report to the commission in writing, your compliance with this directive within four weeks of this letter.” Prof. Mobolaji Aluko became the Vice-Chancellor of the university in February 2011 and he said (in a text message to our Punch correspondent) that there was neither disaggregation of salaries nor overpayment of salaries. The vice-chancellor said, “Rather, pension and health insurance allowances were due to three of us, Diaspora Vice-Chancellors who are on Sabbatical from our foreign universities, and co-paid monthly in naira to us for payment to those foreign universities. “Without that concession occurring, our own local salaries would have been wiped out completely, and we could not have accepted the job.” “However, the need for accountability is welcome, and Salaries and Wages Commission will be fully reconciled to the full facts,” the VC stated.

Amber Rose and Blac Chyna attend BET as each other's dates


LagosgistAmber Rose and her BFF Blac Chyna attended BET Awards as each other's dates even though Amber Rose's boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly was there with her. Amber said they had the same outfit on to celebrate the legalization of same sex marriage in the US. More photos after the cut.. Lagosgist Lagosgist Lagosgist

CNN confuses black and white flag covered in sex toy symbols for that of ISIS during London Gay Pride parade


LagosgistCNN has mistaken a flag displaying sex toy symbols for that of the terrorist organisation Islamic State ISIS in a report it aired on London's Gay Pride parade. In an 'exclusive' report which ran on Saturday, a CNN correspondentLucy Pawle,went on air to claim she was the only one to notice an ISIS jihad flag being waved among gay pride crowds. But to the broadcaster's embarrassment, the satirical flag was covered not with Arabic lettering, but symbols of sex toys. Lagosgist 'If you look at the flag closely, it's clearly not Arabic, in fact it looks like it could be goobledegook, but it's very distinctive - the ISIS flag.' Pawle then states that she appears to be 'the only person' to notice the extremist flag being waved on London's Regent St. 'I seem to be the only person who had spotted this, and nobody seems to be raising any questions or pointing it out, so I immediately went to an events organiser who said he didn't know anything about it. 'I also spoke to the police nearby, who weren't aware either.' However, viewers quickly went on Twitter to correct the journalist's error. Lagosgist

Dele Momodu's lamentation memo and the hypocritical character of President Buhari's supporters: PDP Media Watchdog


LagosgistPress statement from PDP Media Watchdog ThePDPMediaWatchdoghas described as hypocritical the recent memo purportedly written by Dele Momodu to President Muhammad Buhari in which he expressed his disappointment over the incompetent policies and programs of the government of APC in the last four weeks. The political pressure group in a statement issued on Saturday, June 27, 2015 after the weekly meetings in Abuja once again reminded Nigerians of the non preparedness of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress to govern Nigeria. The group stated that the submission from Dele Momodu is only a reflection of the general realization and dissatisfaction in the minds and heart of some major stakeholders in the APC of the mistake they made in making Buhari President of Nigeria. "Like the popular saying, had I know always comes last. We read with pity the memo from Dele Momodu to President Buhari and it reminded us of what we have earlier said in one of our statements that the APC's broom stick voodoo did a lot of magic not only to non APC members in Nigeria but to even APC's hard core supporters" the group said. The group said that Nigerians should expect more of such open lamentations from leaders and supporters of the APC and other king makers and advised the APC to quickly surrender the mandate given to them by the people. "When we called on President Buhari to resign due to his honest complain that age will limit his progress as the President of Nigeria, we were called all sorts of names by the APC spokesman, Lai Mohammed. However, events in the last few days at the National Assembly and the content of Dele Momodu's memo is another subtle call by his own party chieftains to President Buhari to immediately surrender the mandate if he cannot deliver as promised. Tunde Lawal For:PDPMediaWatchdog Pdpmefiawatchdog@gmail.com

Janet Jackson makes an appearance at the BET awards


LagosgistWe were teased with little snippets from a lot of Janet Jackson's hit songs, she eventually showed up to take the Ultimate Icon award but didn't perform. She accepted her award, said many thanks to her fans, husband and her parents who were in the crowd. More photos after the cut.. Lagosgist Lagosgist