Big Brother Naija, BBNaija, housemate, Tacha again on Sunday boasted to fellow housemates about her stay in the reality show.
Tacha, who is one of the most talked-about and criticized housemates in the ‘Pepper Dem’ edition said this after her conversation with Ebuka about her reaction to Diane following the missing box.
DAILY POST recalls that Tacha rained insults at Diane and accused her of getting drunk after she forgot the red box at the Arena.
But, Cindy speaking to Ebuka on the incident described Tacha’s reaction as ‘senseless and uncalled for.’
However, Tacha after the eviction show told housemates that she would remain in the show till the 99th day no matter the hate and dislike from them.
“I would remain in this house till 99th day whether you like it or not. When you talk about me, you clout.
“I am bigger than the owner of this show, I was blown before big brother.
“If you have a problem with me, tell me and stop gossiping, you all are trending because of me,” Tacha said.
Acase of another contract scandal has been uncovered within the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The bid for the contract of the construction of independent power development of Abuja (1,350MW) and Kaduna (900MW), a project under the Gas and Power Investment Company Department in the NNPC, SaharaReporters gathered, was marred by “an egregious display of corrupt practices at all stages”.
The evaluation of bidders by the committee set up by the NNPC was fingered in cases of corruption from accepting late bidders to favouristism.
The Egalitarian Mission, in a petition written to the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, explained what went down during the contract bid of NNPC while also highlighting corruption cases that took place during the evaluation of bidders.
The group highlighted the Evaluation Committee for the Abuja and Kaduna Power Plant Development headed by the Managing Director of Gas and Power Investment Company Limited (GPIC); NNPC Supply Chain Department; and all NNPC officials overseeing the projects as major players in the corrupt scheme.
The petition alleged, “Our observers learnt that in the not too distant past, the entire process had been tampered and tinkered with such that the perpetrators of this unwholesome act are changing the template for competitive bidding evaluation as well as substituting bids that had been adjudged to be more responsive for the ones that didn’t meet the standards and criteria.
“We, to our utmost chagrin noticed that one of the bidders (SIEMENS) submitted late technical/financial evaluation tender documents to the supply chain venue and rather than enforce the rules against late submission, NNPC accepted the tender while the bid opening was already ongoing.”
The group said it wanted the NNPC to create a level playing ground for all companies including local and foreign companies.
It noted that the government’s invitation to foreign investors to invest in any sector of the economy “should not be seen and treated as a leeway to undercut the set standards or lower the benchmark with a view to perpetuating all sorts of corrupt practices capable of denting and defeating” the ultimate purpose and good intentions of the government.
“International companies are expected to abide by the measures and timeline to ensure that they perform up to the required maximum,” the Egalitarian Mission in the petition to the AGF said.
Calling for an investigation into the matter, the Egalitarian mission stated Section 5, 15 (5), 16 (1) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (amended) as well as Section 4 (a-d), 30, 58 (4f, 5a-b) of the Public Procurement Act and Section 6, 27 (3) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act No. 5 LFN 200 all frowns against corruption while issuing contracts stating that the laws provide protocols to combat it.
It also demanded that the AGF investigate the process of the contract bid and fish out all perpetrators of the corrupt act, using his “good office to quickly intervene in these projects” by requesting all the documents concerning these projects so as to propel NNPC to leave open their evaluation criteria for the award of contracts under these projects in line with international standards.
The group also requested a full-scale investigation to be launched into the circumstances surrounding these projects and that the NNPC makes open the entire evaluation process from the submission of tendering documents to the end, inclusive of the actual award of the contracts.
The mission also asked the NNPC to reject the late submission of tender and documents made in order to instill and enforce transparency in the implementation of the project while asking that a panel of inquiry be constituted to launch a full-scale investigation.
In response to the allegations, the NNPC in a letter to the Bureau of Public Procurement claimed that the contract issuance was only for evaluation process, noting that the contract is not for contract or procurement purposes.
The NNPC also noted that due diligence was carried out throughout the stages of the contract on each of the proposed partners.
A letter to the BPP said: “The 1350MW Abuja 900MW Kaduna Independent Power Plants (IPP) projects are tended to be funded by financiers (70% debt) and the participating Shareholders (30% equity). The development model shall be a Build, Own and Operate (BOO) through Public/Private Partnership (PPP) framework.
“To achieve the foregoing, NNPC invited proposals from reputable Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)/Companies to develop the power plants with NNPC. It is worthy to mention at this point that the proposals requested were strictly for the purpose of evaluating the technical and financial capacities of the potential strategic partners and NOT for contract or procurement purposes.
“After successful evaluation of the technical and commercial proposals, due diligence was also carried out on each of the proposed partners. At the end of the process, GE/CMEC and Siemens/BUA Consortia emerged as NNPC’s preferred strategic partners for the development of Abuja and Kaduna IPPs respectively.
“Sequel to the above, discussions on the structure of the JV have already commenced. NNPC; leveraging on its strength as a gas producer, will subscribe as Minority Shareholder in order to promote the development of the IPPs and provide comfort to the financiers of the projects.”
NNPC, however, said it was reviewing the allegation in line with its corporate procedures and would avail the BPP the outcome of its investigation and possible action.
Dr. Chris Ngige, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said the country is on the verge of being consumed by social unrest due to increasing rate of employment in the country.
Ngige, who spoke in Enugu at the weekend, stated that Nigeria would become like Venezuela if the country does not begin to tackle unemployment immediately.
The minister highlighted insecurity and unemployment as major symptoms of a failing country noting that the two plagues Nigeria.
He said, “So, unemployment is growing into a big cankerworm. It is growing into a very vicious disease condition that has given rise to a lot of anti-social behaviours.
“The symptoms are there. Boko Haram is a symptom of unemployment in Nigeria. IPOB is a symptom of unemployment and desperation and people getting frustrated. Same goes for banditry in the North-West. Same goes for kidnapping all over the country. Avengers – the destruction of oil pipelines, OPC – all these are symptoms of very serious underlying disease condition called unemployment.
“All arsenals, everything will be put into place, so that we can fight unemployment. Otherwise, it will consume everybody. It will consume me and you.
“It is already showing when you are in traffic and people are knocking on your car window to ask you to give them your phone. If you don’t give them, they will attack you. “That is the big malaise.”
Ngige, however, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is tackling the two issues and would fashion a way out, DailyTrust reports.
A plot to remove Vice President Yemi Osinbajo gathered momentum at the weekend, with some allegations against him dating back to when he was acting president in May 2017, when President Muhammadu Buhari was in the United Kingdom on medical leave, consequent upon Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
Some of the allegations against him were that, as acting president, Osinbajo “authorised payment of N5.9 billion to NEMA (National Emergency Management Agency) without approval from the National Assembly.
“Although he is chairman of the governing board of NEMA, he still needed parliamentary approval before money could be taken from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. He didn’t pass through the normal channel.
“Again, he signed for N25 billion for NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation), as ‘funding contract.’ He had no such powers,” said a security.
There are also allegations that disbursement of funds by the Federal Government-backed Social Investment Programme (SIP) domicilled in Osinbajo’s office were not transparent, with allegations of “traces of money exchanging hands between him and the FIRS boss.”
However, a Presidency source who declined to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter dismissed the allegations as “recycled.”
He said: “The issues have not changed from the position that the House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness report never indicted Osinbajo of corruption,” and insisted that attempts to resuscitate the allegations are “mere political contrivances intended to distract him.”
In November 2018, also on the same issue, a presidential political adviser, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, said the opposition was merely “in search of company for their acts of grand corruption, which brought Nigeria to its knees as of May 2015.
“Even the House Committee chairman has said there was no allegation of corruption against him.” Another Presidency source simply dismissed the allegations as “part of the smear campaign. Absolute falsehood.”
Also, last Friday, in Ekiti State, during the burial of Mrs. Moroluke Fakoyede, mother of the secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Ikere-Ekiti, Osinbajo said there were saboteurs and fifth columnists working against government’s plan to develop the country.
Regardless, possible replacements for Osinbajo are being assessed and top on the list are two candidates from the South West.
The vice president is from the South West (Ogun State) and is also a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. In shopping for his replacement, two Christians are being considered, with a serving governor in the region topping the list, as at last Wednesday.
A former governor from the South West was also considered but was knocked off the list because of the need to ensure “religion balancing.”
Meanwhile, another source in the Federal Capital Territory said the allegations against Osinbajo were all about political permutations ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
He said despite being the highest ranking South West politically-exposed person in the ruling government now, and since “he does not control any political bloc in the region, there is need for realignment of forces hitherto deployed in the region,” in previous elections for the All Progressives Congress (APC), as an ally of the North.
“Osinbajo has no political base in Yorubaland. The recent ministerial, board appointments from the region went through another ally who is now a big player in Abuja. The young Turks from the South West are ready to go into a new alliance with the North,” he said.
To gain foothold, if and when Osinbajo is removed, the new political realignment would see the new leaders paving the way for a northern presidential candidate in the APC and the People’s Democratic Party.
A source who was privy to the plan explained: “The North will present candidates for the presidency in APC and PDP. The South West is automatically ruled out because Osinbajo has been elected twice now, with Buhari. The South East and the South South are now the beautiful brides for Vice President.”
A former governor further explained why the North will present candidates in APC and PDP.
“In arriving as to why the North should be allowed to contest for the Presidency in 2023, let us go back to 1999.
“The South West had its constitutional eight years with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. In the spirit of balance and rotation, the presidency moved to the North.
“Now, in 2007, it was the turn of the North, with late President Umaru Musa’Yar’Adua, who did not complete his four-year tenure before he died in May 2010.
“If he had lived, he would have had the right of first refusal in 2011. His first four-year tenure was completed by his deputy then (Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.), who went on to contest in 2011 and left in 2015.
“The eight years of the North was not completed because the South South took it, having jettisoned an earlier agreement.
“Now, it would only be fair if you allow the North have another shot at the presidency.
“Besides, the 2019 general election has shown the underbelly of the South West.
“Lagos, which had the highest number of voters, going into the general election, could not even muster 1 million votes for Mr. President; yet, Borno that was even bombed on the day of election, saw people trooping out to vote for APC overwhelmingly. Kano lived up to its billing by giving APC more votes than Lagos.
“So, in terms of comparative advantage, if APC is to continue at the centre, it’s best to have a presidential candidate from the North and balance it with a vice president from the South East since South South has ruled before. The rotation principle can be applied after 2027 and not before,” he argued.
Mourinho, a popular book seller in the Cross River University of Technology, (CRUTECH) in Calabar campus in Cross River State was found dead in Hall 2 Hostel on Saturday morning.
Though, the cause of the death was not immediately known at the time of this report, but some students and other people were seen discussing the incident.
An eyewitness said the deceased also sells pens, visual art materials and snacks in front of Hall 3 Hostel and he is most popular due to his philanthropic gesture.
One of the students, who gave his name as Ekanem, said, “I saw him last on Tuesday. Why so soon? I can’t believe it is true! May his Soul Rest in Peace”.
Another student, Francis Asuquo, said Mourinho has been of help to him since he was admitted into the University. “If I don’t have money to buy material for my exams, I always remember his place first, and he had never disappointed me. Why him? May his soul rest in peace”, Asuquo lamented.
Meanwhile, a student who gave his name as Mayor said he has not used the papers he bought from the late Book seller on Friday. He said “Oga Mourinho, I have not used the A3 and A4 papers you sold to me on Friday evening. Now it is a different story they are saying about you. I don’t believe it”.
Speaking with DAILY POST on Sunday evening, the CRUTECH Chief Security Officer, Iwarra Ibiang said the corpse had been evacuated by the family.
“The deceased was found dead in the morning of Saturday, our people (Security) saw the body in the morning and then we called in the Police.
“The Police came and the family also came in and picked the corpse. To say what killed him, there was no injury to say so but the autopsy will reveal what was responsible his death, but for now, that has not been done,” he stated, adding “I was not even around but my deputy was around, he went there with other men on ground.”
A driver, Abiodun Makinde, who the police said is “a member of ‘one chance’ robbery syndicate, terrorising commuters along Sango/Owode/Idiroko road”, has been arrested.
The Ogun State Police Command said the suspect was arrested on September 13, following a distress call made by two of his victims, Gloria Edoh and Saidat Akinola, who complained that they both boarded a cab from Owode to Sango in Ogun.
But on getting to Olokopupo area of Atan Ota, two men they met in the car suddenly brought out knives and other dangerous weapons with which they forced them to surrender their belongings.
The sum of N37,000 and N480,000 was collected from each of them, as well as their Tecno phones, after which they were pushed out of the moving vehicle, consequent upon which they sustained various degrees of injuries, DAILY POST learnt from the police.
The Spokesperson of Ogun Police, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the victims “subsequently found their way to a nearby hospital for treatment. But while coming from the hospital, they sighted and identified Abiodun Makinde as one of the hoodlums who robbed them, hence they raised alarm.
“The alarm they raised attracted the DPO Atan Ota, SP Abiodun Salau, who was on routine patrol of the area with his men and they raced to the scene where the suspect was arrested with the help of members of the public.”
Oyeyemi said, “On getting to the station, one woman (name withheld), who had earlier complained of similar incident also identified the suspect as one of the hoodlums who robbed and raped her on the 12th of September and made away with her pants.”
The suspect, it was gathered, had confessed to participating in the two robbery incidents.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, had ordered the transfer of the suspect to the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) for discreet investigation.
The Nigerian Army on Sunday says it has dismissed three soldiers arrested among a kidnapping gang in the outskirts of Maiduguri.
Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this while handing over the dismissed soldiers to the police in Maiduguri.
Adeniyi disclosed that the soldiers were arrested with 22 other suspects by a joint patrol team in the early hours of Sunday at a building in the outskirts of Maiduguri.
He said that the soldiers were initially deployed to the Operation Lafiya Dole, but engaged in nefarious activities such as kidnapping, armed robbery, killings and cultism.
Adeniyi added that the erring soldiers were dismissed in accordance with the military procedures, warning that the army would not condone criminals in its fold.
“The three soldiers were caught among the evil group, there was further resistance and attempt to escape, so we tied them up with ropes because handcuffs were not available.
“In addition; we could not put violent men that do this kind of crimes into a police van to take to the station, there will be breakout on the road and we know what would happen.
“We have to restrain them thoroughly with ropes before we take them and handover to the police.
“The Acting GOC, 7 Division, Brig.-Gen. AK Ibrahim, has conducted military procedures. We do not keep armed robbers, kidnappers and cultists in the army, they had been dismissed.
“We gathered here to witness their handover to the Nigeria Police Force for civil action, they are dismissed, and they are no longer soldiers of the Nigerian Army.
“Our code of conduct is strict and high, no evil soldier will be allowed to serve in the army,” Adeniyi said.
The commander called on the people to be vigilante and report suspicious persons, movement and activities to security agencies
Meanwhile, the Borno Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohhamed Aliyu, said the command had arrested 25 suspects at Bagani Hotel in Abuja Sheraton Area of the metropolis.
Aliyu said the suspects belong to a cult group called Neo Black Movement, adding that they were arrested wearing black dresses at about 2:00 a.m. while conducting their imitation activities.
He disclosed that preliminary investigations indicated that most of the suspects were students of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, a medical doctor, a banker and three dismissed soldiers.
Aliyu added that one of the suspects fired shot in the air and run when the patrol team stormed the hideout.
He said the suspects had been terrorizing residents of Maiduguri and its environs, and were involved in robbing filling stations.
The founder of Sahara Reporters and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress Omoyele Sowore has been charged to court by the Federal Government for treasonable felony, cyberstalking President Muhammadu Buhari among other offences.
This was contained in a suit dated September 19, filed at the federal high court in Abuja. The government also accused Sowore of granting an interview with the purpose of insulting the person of the president of the country.
Omoyele Sowore was arrested on August 3, 2019, in Lagos for planning a series of protests tagged #RevolutionNow against bad governance in Nigeria.
On the eve of the expiration of the 45 days, the Federal Government Friday filed seven counts of treasonable felony, cyberstalking Buhari and money laundering against Sowore, along with Olawale Bakare, also known as Mandate.
The charge was signed on behalf of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), by Aminu Alilu, a Chief State Counsel in the Department of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Yesterday couldn’t have been more fun. The good boy in me feels I need spiritual cleansing while the street-me thinks I’m just ‘enjoying’ my youth; whatever the case, I feel good with myself.
Getting heartbroken isn’t something easy to deal. I knew visiting Kay at Abuja would be helpful; so I did. He would have no part hearing me suck over a lady after such a long time and adviced we hangout. I am not the club-type; I suggested we just get a bar close-by that evening, drink with his friends, stay real late into the night and return home at whatever time ‘vision is a little blurred’. Kay concurred.
Right from the very minute I spotted her, I knew she had a thing for me; either she passionately hated me or she liked me. She came with a guy for a drink. She was sitted directly before me on the other table. The guy she came with had his back to me. The way they were dressed showed they had worked late and decided to catch-a-drink together. They must be colleagues, I said to myself.
I don’t do beer; I prefer vodka, against whatever the doctors think might be wrong with that. Intermittently, we locked gazes and she smiles at me. After drenching myself, I was up for ‘the talk’ with a little extra dose of evil-confidence that accompanies drinking, praying that for whatever reason, I should be alone with the lady, even if it’s for a minute. I needed to know what the smile meant.
The guy stood up. Spontaneously, I walked towards her table. As if she read my mind, she stretched her hands forward and I gave her my unlocked phone. She typed her number. I took the phone, nodded and walked away. Not a word was said.
Settling in my seat, I saved her number and straight-up texted her. Instincts right, they were colleagues. Texting got flirty and she perspicaciously led me on.
We were at it for close to 2hours. By now, it was almost 10pm. She texted she had to leave. I replied, asking if I could briefly see her. ‘Come to the car park 7minutes after I step out’ was her exact reply. I guess she needed to ‘free’ her colleague.
All the while, I was barely contributing to whatever discussion was up at our table. I was more into reading and replying her text than joining their discussion. I tapped Kay on the shoulder and whispered I had to go out. I stood up and had barely walked five steps when I got a text directing me to the almost dark end of the car park. I guessed she must have seen me stand through the exquisitely lit, transparent glass structure that housed the bar.
As in the text, I saw her car’s rear lights flash. I found her sitting on her car bonnet, more in the dark part of the car park. Without letting me say a word, she walked towards me, pulled me closer to herself and kissed me. Boom! That was all I needed.
Kissing graduated into pulling her real close to me, working and walking my hands to her back, through her out-of-tuck shirt. My hands are soft and I made them work-and-walk more delicately. I couldn’t unbutton her shirt in that nobody’s car park; I had to ‘manage’ walking my hands to the front and sifting them under the not too tight bra to ‘work on’ her smart boobs.
Before long, she gently pushed me to sit on the bonnet, unzipped my jean and loosely pulled it down, leaving it hanging from my thigh. She ‘sang with my mike’. After a while, I couldn’t have it anymore, and I lifted her up. I gently pulled her close to me, raised her not-too-tight skirt up, shifted her undies and had her ‘sit on the nail’ with her feet on the car bonnet. ‘Ride’ was fun with lots of kisses. Her highly sensitive moaning made it even more romantic.
We were at it when she sighted a man approaching the car park. Damn! We hadn’t even stayed 30minutes at the car park alone! Couldn’t this man had waited a little longer? Why ruin this mad fun for me? I knew we had come to end of our ‘session’.
We hurriedly dressed up. As much as I tried to get her talking, she only smiled with looks that passed messages; even when I asked for her name. I kissed her and watched her drive off. I sent Kay a text and he brought the car keys outside. I took his car perfume, applied a few shots, and returned to the bar.
“I’m home. I enjoyed myself. I had fun, thank you. And I wanted to tell you my name, but I’m dumb” was the text I got few minutes after she left. I couldn’t believe what I read, but almost immediately, I remembered she didn’t say a word to me in person; she only moaned. She may be truly deaf, but she was fun. Mad fun.
