Why Buhari Has Not Sacked Emefiele, CBN Governor

On the sidelines of a CBN Foreign Exchange (Forex) policy dialogue which held in Lagos recently, resource persons and prominent private sector stake-holders complained to Pulse about]how the monetary policies of the CBN under Emefiele have eroded investor confidence, created uncertainty in the market and left the lot of the citizenry in dire straits. Renowned economists like Bismarck Rewane and Ayo Teriba warned the CBN to stop rigging its own Forex market. The CBN has been at pains to explain whether it's operating a float or a devaluation. A few days after that Forex policy dialogue which had the Adviser to the CBN Governor, Emmanuel Ukeje in attendance however, CBN commissioned DSS (Department of State Services) personnel to raid Bureau De Change outlets in Lagos in a bid to force the value of the Naira to appreciate against the Dollar--proof that old habits die hard. Most financial analysts have described the CBN commissioned DSS raid as primitive and draconian. The exchange rate has only worsened since the raids, with traders now hoarding Forex. But if Emefiele and his CBN staff have learned anything from forcing the exchange rate, they are yet to show it. Bankers spoken to for this story lament that the CBN under Emefiele has driven the economy under. Emefielemustgo.com--a website opened by anonymous Bank executives, has since gone viral. Its main mission: to pile pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to dispense with the services of Emefiele. According to the website, Emefiele stopped influx of much needed Forex into Nigeria through Standard Chartered Bank, but allowed the same Forex into the country through Zenith Bank; Emefiele’s last workplace address; at a cheaper rate. Standard Chartered was immediately sanctioned by the CBN Governor after the bank went ahead with another transaction without first calling to inform Emefiele. Presidency sources have told Pulse that Buhari hasn’t axed Emefiele yet because he doesn’t want to create more panic and crisis in the market. The President is also wary of sending the wrong signals to foreign investors by sacking his CBN Governor. The President is also mindful that he has to go through the Senate to sack the CBN Governor, the source added. Emefiele's term as CBN Governor will be up in 2019--the year Nigeria heads to the ballot to choose a President. He was appointed to head the apex bank in June of 2014 by former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan.

PDP Calls For Postponement Of Ondo Election

Press Statement November 19, 2016. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal Panel led by Justice Ibrahim Salauwa set up to determine the appeals of Senator Ahmed Makarfi and Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) against the scandalous judgment given by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja controversially adjourned all proceedings sine die. In doing so, Justice Ibrahim Salauwa stated that the decision to adjourn was taken in the face of a petition written against the panel to the Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN) and Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC) alleging acts of corruption, bias and breach of oaths of office amongst others. Furthermore, the respondents had filed a motion at the Supreme Court in which the Justices of Court of Appeal Panel were named as co-respondents in their personal capacities. The indefinite adjournment is a consequence of the latest of several mischievous actions taken by Messrs Biyi Poroye, Jimoh Ibrahim and their legal team led by Mr. Ben Nwofor (SAN). These actions, ranging from unsubstantiated allegations of corruption to outright disrespect and disregard for the Justices of the Court of Appeal to disruption of Court proceedings and flagrant abuse of Court processes, are all designed to achieve one aim – stall proceedings and ensure that the legitimate Candidate of the Party is prevented from contesting the November 26th, 2016 Gubernatorial Election in Ondo State. This outright bullying and intimidation of Justices of the Court of Appeal is enabled by the recent invasion of the homes of Justices of the Supreme Court, and the arrests and harassment of several judges by men of the Directorate of State Services. These actions are achieving the desired effect as Judges are now compelled to refrain from furthering the course of justice by unsubstantiated allegations of corruption. We are aware that this is only a part of a much bigger plan to use all available resources of State to prevent the legitimate Candidate of the Party from running for and winning the Ondo State Gubernatorial Election. We are aware that this is part of the plan to use the Judicial process, security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election in favour of the Ruling Party (APC) before the Election Day. We call on all well meaning Nigerians to urge the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government to desist from the use of organs of the Nigerian State as a tool with which to subvert the will of the Nigerian people. At this point, we must urge all Nigerians to hold the Federal Government, INEC, APC and the Jimoh Ibrahim group for any consequences of the dangerous games that they have chosen to play with the Nigerian people. The judiciary is seen as the last hope of the common man. When the freedom and independence of the judiciary to further the course of justice is tampered with, people often resort to self help. The current situation must not be allowed to deteriorate to that point. We call on INEC to postpone the Election pending the determination of the Suit before the Supreme Court. We make this call against the backdrop of the fact that INEC is a party to the suit before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and is well aware of the steps taken by certain parties to the Suit to frustrate the course of justice. We also make this call against the backdrop of the fact that INEC postponed the Edo State Gubernatorial Election and recently postponed the Rivers Rerun elections without any cogent or visible reason. We urge the Justices of the Supreme Court to stand fast in the face of this existential threat to the independence of the Judiciary and democracy itself. We urge the Justices of the Supreme Court to remember the maxim “Justice delayed is justice denied” while determining the issues before it. We use this opportunity to ask our teeming members and supporters in Ondo State and across the Country to remain calm. We believe that there are men and women of integrity in the Judiciary who will ensure that this act of injustice does not stand. May God bless Nigeria. Signed: Prince Dayo Adeyeye National Publicity Secretary

Soldiers Raped Our Members Before Killing Them – Shiite Women

KADUNA—Female members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, yesterday alleged that soldiers raped their members before killing them, in December clash between the Nigeria Army and the movement. Addressing a Press Conference in Kaduna yesterday under the banner of Sisters Forum of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, the forum called on the Federal Government to release their leader, sheik Ibrahim Zakzaky, his wife and other members with immediate effect. The secretary of the forum, Hajiya Aisha Hassan who addressed the press said: “It is now over three weeks since the Nigerian Army launched a brutal attack on members of the, IMN, that killed over one thousand people in Zaria after over 27 hours of indiscriminate shooting and bombing. “This is not talking about those who have been given mass burial by the Army or even corpses burnt, amongst whom are women and children, some of the women have even been raped before they were killed by the soldiers as confirmed by some survivors who were also tortured after their arrest by the Army. “The soldiers molested our women and removed their hijab which is a serious violation of Islamic right.. “Although we are aware that it is a deliberate attempt to intimidate and instigate us into mob actions, we will never resort to anything outside the normal legal process of seeking redress. This is evident in the way we acted last year when the same Nigerian Army attacked our members and killed 34 of them including three biological sons of our leader, Sayyid Zakzaky. “Despite this display of inhumanity and gross violation of fundamental human rights, to which no remorse was shown by the state authorities for what was undoubtedly a war crime against fellow Nigerians, the homes, Islamic centers and graves of the victims have been demolished with graves dug up and desecrated. “These demonic acts perpetrated by Nigerian Army has not only raised the Army’s human rights abuse records but has also turned a lot of women into widows, children into orphans and has also succeeded in wiping out a lot of families. “We call for immediate and unconditional release of our revered leader his Eminence Sheikh El-Zakzaky (H), and his wife. “We call for the release of our husbands and children that are in illegal detention facilities across the northern states. “Corpses of our members killed by the Army should be released to us with immediate effect for burials according to Islamic rites. “We call on the government to summon courage and live up to its morality and accept its crime by paying diyyah to all affected families and relations,” it said.

How We Deceive Security Agents –suspected Vandals

“We forge Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) waybills, invoices of major oil marketers and stickers of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG), to deceive security agents.” Those were the words of suspected vandals arrested by the Inspector General of Police Taskforce on pipeline vandalism. Among the four suspects paraded at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters annex, Lagos, were Ganiyu Oresanya ( 38), Mutiu Bello also known as Omo Oja, and one Damilare, who had fake copies of Oando, Conoil and MRS’ invoices, as well as fabricated NNPC waybill in their possession. They were reportedly arrested in Ikorodu following intelligence report that they were carrying out operations in Shagamu and Ikorodu. The suspects were caught while on their way to Ondo State to sell petroleum products they siphoned from NNPC pipelines in Shagamu and Ikorodu. Oresanya, who acknowledged that he has been in the business of vandalism for sometime, said he was in charge of forging the relevant documents. “We make sure that we do the background work of covering our loading with fake NNPC documents and fake invoice from oil marketing companies so that we would not be caught. “I have been in the business for a long time. I am a printer and I print these documents myself. I did not know we would be caught because we are very careful in our jobs by backing the stolen products with all necessary documents. “I supply all the fake documents, while Mutiu Bello produces the tanker that comes to carry the products from the pipeline. “Damilare is the one who load the products. He is our boss,” he said. For Bello, who claimed he was contracted to load the products into another truck, said he was not aware the products were stolen. He claimed that one Temidayo invited him and he was offered N70, 000 for the job. “This is my first time and I was promised N70,000. It was one Temidayo who called me for the job. They didn’t tell me that it was stolen oil. “They said I was going to trans-load products from jerry cans at that area. They told me they are into black market operation but when I got there, I saw plenty Jerry cans,” he claimed. Addressing reporters, the Taskforce’s Sector Commander, Solomon Ubani, said the Force has recorded major breakthroughs recently following improved intelligence. “We have made breakthrough in the past few days. We have rejiged our intelligence for some time now and it is yielding results. “These hoodlums have continued to break our pipelines and sabotage the efforts of the Federal government,” Ubani stated.

Raymond Dokpesi

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today arrested the Chairman of Africa Independent Television, Raymond Dokpesi, over the spreading arms purchase scandal involving the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the theft of N2.1billion from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Mr. Dokpesi was arrested shortly after noon, Nigerian time, and whisked to the EFCC, where he is now being interrogated. EFCC sources told SaharaRerporters that on the instructions of the Mr. Dasuki, CBN paid N2.1billion to the AIT chairman. http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/01/arms-purchase-scandal-raymond-dokpesi-arrest Re: Raymond Dokpesi Arrested Over N2.1Billion Arms Purchase by iliyande(m): 3:32pm

TOP TEN NIGERIAN ARTISTS

Hello readers, we all know you all have been waiting to see Nigeria’s best artists of year 2015 as you guys have dropped your votes to tell us the people who deserve to be topping the list following their performance this year. Well, we bring to you today what you’ve been waiting for. In case some people don’t know we conducted a poll earlier on this platform so Nigerians could tell us the artists they believe did well this year, we nominated 16 people and we asked Nigerians to vote the artists that should be at the top ten. So T.I.N Magazine used Nigerians votes and our own criteria of judging to bring to you The Top Ten Musicians in Nigeria Year 2015. NOTE: The criteria we used in this rating are as follow: =>The total number of hit songs artists released from November 2014 to November 2015, please be aware we consider a hit song as a song with much downloads, with some quite popularity in the country, YouTube video views and more.. => We also used artists performance when it comes to huge events they performed at, shows, concerts, album release, and international tours, their award nominations and wins. WE GATHERED ALMOST A THOUSAND VOTES IN THE POLL, FIND RESULTS TO THE POLL WE CONDUCTED DOWN BELOW. BUT FIRST SEE: TEN BEST MUSICIANS IN NIGERIA 2015 10] PATORANKING Patoranking was voted to be the number ten on this list in the poll we conducted, following his hit singles like “MY WOMAN” and more, his overall performance this year when it comes to being featured in songs, international shows and more.. T.I.N Magazine rates him no.10 in Nigeria this year. 9] YEMI ALADE Yemi by many media platforms have been rated to be the best female musician of the year, the young lady can be definitely lauded she’s done a good job this year. Yemi released her album and increased her brand locally and internationally, She’s won some huge awards this year too. The Igbo-Yoruba girl is also one of the most controversial artists in Nigeria this year. Yemi alade didn’t make it to the top ten in the poll we conducted but with the criteria T.I.N Magazine used in this rating she managed to be the no.9 on this list. 8] IYANYA The TrippleMG boss did what he’s been doing every year this year too which is being consistent; Iyanya dropped an album this year which carries along a few hit songs. His biggest song of the year is GIFT featuring Don Jazzy. Iyanya did quite some impressive collaboration this year too he was featured in many hit songs this year. Iyanya was voted no.9 in the poll we conducted. 7] REEKADO BANKS The mavin artist was well voted in the poll we conducted, Reekado showed Nigerians his brain is full of music this year after making and releasing multiple hit singles. His biggest songs this year include; Katapot, Sugar Baby and more.. Reekado performed at many huge events this year, the star singer is also among the artsists nominated for Next Rated at the headies 2015. He was featured in a couple hit songs of the year too, the young star showed quite some talent this year and has been appreciated by fans. He was voted no.7 in the poll we conducted 6] KOREDE BELLO Korede bello is obviously one of the most loved musicians in Nigeria right now.. Korede through his banging and crazy hit single GODWIN became one of the most controversial artists in Nigeria this year. GODWIN topped many music countdowns across Nigeria for weeks, not to mention his recent release featuring ASA (Somebody Great). Korede went on many international show bookings this year he also trended so well in the social media. He was voted no.6 in Nigeria in the poll we conducted. 5] LIL KESH The YBNL star, is sure loved by many music lovers in Nigeria, he was the no.4 most voted for artist in the poll T.I.N Magazine conducted, Lil Kesh wowed a lot of music lovers this year with at least 3 big hit singles. Even though Lil Kesh is a new comer in the industry he still managed to be among the most featured artists in Nigeria this year, he was involved in many hit collabos. Report has it Kesh got many show bookings this year. He’s been concluded no.5 in Nigeria. 4] KISS DANIEL It is quite an amazing thing how an industry new comer would make it has high as no.4 four in Nigeria, the young star really showed Nigerians he is not just a cute singer but a dope one as well. Kiss Daniel’s WOJU song is one of the most bought songs on iTunes and mtn musicplus this year, it’s also been revealed the song is one of the most subscribed for caller tunes this year. Kiss after that have made; (Laye,Molue,Good Time) and a few collabos, getting best of positive reviews on his songs this year. In the poll conducted, he was the no.5 most voted artist he was lead by Lil Kesh but judging by the criteria we used in judging this thing T.I.N Magazine decided to put Kiss ahead of Kesh. Kiss is sure a man to watch out for Next year. 3] WIZKID The starboy just won’t relent. He has remained relevant since he came into the industry. The star singer rocked the music industry this year with some hit singles, His song Ojuelegba is one of the most digitally downloaded songs in Nigeria this year. The superstar musician didn’t stop at that he released many more hits after that with his music videos garnering massive views on YouTube. Wizkid has been concluded the no.3 best musician in Nigeria 2015. 2] DAVIDO The OBO was voted by many to be the second best artist in Nigeria year 2015, the star singer did really well this year both locally and internationally, Starting with hit singles like; Owo Ni Koko, The Sound, Fans Mi, Dodo, and more.. Davido pushed his brand a lot harder this year, he is the second most followed musician on social media at the moment, his music video for “Fans Mi” set a record on YouTube as the fastest Nigerian video to hit 1million on YouTube. Davido pulled a lot of crowd in all of his international tours. Davido was the second most voted person in the poll we conducted. He is the no.2 in Nigeria. 1] OLAMIDE Finally, we arrive at no.1 well, it is Badoo himself, and the most consistent rapper in Nigeria of all time. Many have agreed he’s changed from rapping to singing but the new album he released this November said otherwise. Olamide made many hit singles just this year alone. Olamide set a record with headies awards this year after getting 8 nominations a thing that hasn’t happened before. Olamide made a song “BOBO” which is one of the most popular in the country this year with its stylish dance steps which by now is still trending across the country. He is one of the most featured artist this year, He went on tours, released an album this year which is now his 5th studio album making him the first and only artist in Nigeria with 5 albums in 5 years, his concert comes up in December, He is also one of the most controversial people in Nigeria this year. In the poll we conducted in which we asked you Nigerians to vote, Olamide beat everyone on the list. In the poll we conducted here at T.I.N Magazine camp. Olamide lead too. So judging with Olamide’s performance this year he’s been named the no.1 and the best musician in Nigeria year 2015. OLAMIDE IS THE ARTIST OF THE YEAR. 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