Bianca Ojukwu elected APGA national leader

The leadership crisis bedevilling the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has taken an intriguing dimension as the rival group led by Mr. Maxi Okwu has appointed the wife of the former leader of the party, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu as APGA’s new national leader.

Rising from it’s national executive committee meeting (NEC), the faction said it has reconstituted the Board of Trustees of APGA and that the new BoT with 24 members will be inaugurated at its maiden meeting in two weeks time in line with provisions of the party’s constitution.

While reading out the communique of the NEC meeting, the Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Stanley Chira, said the party resolved during the one year anniversary of its late leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu that his wife being the next of kin should replace him

Singer Sefiya releases new promo photos

Stunningly pretty model, video vixen and singer Sefiya, whose last single Love Me Jeje is currently rocking the dancefloor across the country, releases new promo photos, ahead of her next single titled Lollipop dropping soon. See more photos after the cut...

N1.3billion fraud: Fred Ajudua sent to Kirikiri Prison

Fred Ajudua has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison
for allegedly defrauding former Chief of Army
Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd.), of about
$8.395m (about N1.3 billion).

Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye ordered on Wednesday
that he should be remanded in prisons custody
following a fresh 13-count charge of fraud
brought against him by EFCC.

The EFCC in the fresh charges dated 14 October,
2013, alleged that Ajudua, along with others still
at large, defrauded Gen. Bamaiyi of $8.387m
between November 2004 and June 2005 while in
prison.

Ajudua is the only defendant in the fresh charges
as others who allegedly committed the offences
along with him are said to be at large. Continue...

Other suspects said to be on the run, are Alumile
Adedeji (a.k.a Ade Bendel), Mr. Kenneth and
Princess Hamabon William.
Ajudua, along with other suspects, were said to
have defrauded Bamaiyi at the Kirikiri Maximum
Prisons, where he and the other fraud suspects
were on remand for various crimes.

EFCC claimed that the suspects had fraudulently
collected the money from Bamaiyi instalmentally,
falsely claiming that the payments represented
the professional fees charged by Chief Afe
Babalola (SAN) to handle Bamaiyi’s case in court
and to facilitate his release from prison.

The anti-graft agency also alleged that Ajudua
and others fraudulently claimed that $1m out of
the total money collected from Bamaiyi was for
financial assistance for the treatment of Justice
Olubunmi Oyewole’s father. Justice Oyewole was
then presiding over Bamaiyi’s case in court.

The suspects were said to have told Bamaiyi that
Oyewole’s father was admitted at Saint Nicholas
Hospital in Lagos and the $1m was meant to
assist the judge in treating his father.

When the charges were read to him today, he
pleaded not guilty to the allegations.
His bail application was however not heard as the
presiding judge adjourned the matter till 20
February, 2014.

Ajudua is also standing trial in another court for
allegedly defrauding two Dutch businessmen,
Remy Cina and Pierre Vijgen, of $1.69m (about
N270m). The matter has been on since 2003.

Source: PM News

AfroCandy Releases A Photo of Herself and Mike Ezuruonye

Nigerian porn star AfroCandy recently released a photo of herself and Mike Ezuruonye, she said the picture is from a scene in a movie titled Dwelling in Darkness and Sorrows in 2004. I wonder why she chose this time to remind us she ever acted Nollywood and with one of its finest.

Fake lawyer apprehended in Lagos

30 year old Daniel Ikhidenor Ikhuoria (pictured
above) from Ekpoma Edo State, who has been
practicing law illegally since 2011 has been
apprehended by the police attached to the
Igbosere High Court Lagos Island, PM News
reports

The suspected fake lawyer was arrested when he
came in as a lawyer for a court hearing. His
moves were suspected by an orderly attached to
the Appeal Court, DCR Office, who got him
arrested.

Upon his arrest, he was interrogated and is
alleged to have confessed to the fact that he had
never trained as a lawyer but didn't know it was
an offense to pose as a lawyer and represent
clients in court without training or authority.
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According to PM News, following his arrest, the
state branch chairman of Nigerian Bar
Association, NBA, Mr. Alex Morka, was contacted
about the development and he instructed the
police orderly to take the suspect to the nearest
police station.

In his alleged confessional statement to the
police, the suspect allegedly said: “I have been
practicing as a lawyer since 2011 and I have
represented clients at the magistrate, high court
and Federal high courts without any problem. But
I have never attended law school or any
institution to read law in my life but I was called
to the bar through a source at a high court in
2011. I bought the gown and wig in the open
market and wore it and started practicing as a
lawyer. I did not know that it is an offence to
practice as a lawyer without authority. I promise
to change if I am set free.”

An act punishable under section 378(1), 78(b)
and 327 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State,
2011, the police charged him before a Tinubu
Magistrate court where he pleaded not guilty to
the charges leveled against him and was placed
on a 500,000 bail which he could not meet up
with.
He is currently been remanded at the Ikoyi Prison
until the case would be heard again on the 3rd of
March 2014.