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No FG directive to return applicants’ money — Immigration Mr Dino Melaye The Federal Government may not refund the N1,000 application fee that was paid by each of the 693,000 applicants that participated in the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment on March 15. The  FG had on Wednesday cancelled the recruitment exercise, which claimed 18 applicants’ lives. The Public Relations Officer of the NIS, Mr. Emeka Obua, told  SUNDAY PUNCH  on Saturday that the service had not received any directive on the refund of the money. He said such a directive would come from the Federal Government to the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro. Also, the Ministry of Interior said no directive had been given to it from any quarters to refund the money to applicants. The Special Assistant to the Minister on Media, Mr. George Ubong, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, said no such directive had been received in the ministry. “We have not received any directive

I’ll donate N12m confab allowance to charity — Falana Mr. Femi Falana Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has said he would donate his Federal Government allowance for the ongoing National Conference, totalling N12m, to charity. He said he would not reject the allowances like some of his colleagues but would give it to the needy. He said this was to prevent a possible diversion of the money. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria is the third out of the 492 delegates at the conference to decline spending the money. Others are Pastor Tunde Bakare, and a former President, Nigeria Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba, also a SAN. The confab, which began on March 17, 2014, will last for three months. Each delegate will be paid N4m per month. In an exclusive interview with our correspondent on Friday, Falana said, “I once rejected rams and rice sent to me for Christmas by a state government but I found out that they were not returned to the sender; they were diverted by those who

Gunmen attack David Mark’s convoy credit punch   Senate President, David Mark More facts emerged on Saturday about the attack on the official vehicle of the President of the Senate, David Mark, around the 0rlu area of Imo State. The incident took place on Friday. The Special Adviser  (Media) to the Senate President, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, told Sunday PUNCH , on Saturday that a team of Mark’s aides, who were going ahead of their principal, ran into a robbery scene. He explained that as members of the team (who were mostly security officials), probably tried to disperse the robbers, the gunmen shot several times at the side of the vehicle where Mark usually sat. According to him, neither Mark nor the Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Paul Mumeh, was in the convoy at the time of the incident. He said, “The Senate President was not in the vehicle at the time of the incident. He flew to the event. We are grateful to God that nobody was injured and nobody died.” The Senate P

Jonathan meets Pope, justifies anti-gay law President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, during their visit to Pope Francis at the Vatican City… on Saturday | credits: State House President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday met with Pope Francis and the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Monsignor Pietro Parolin, in Rome. Christian pilgrims from Anambra, Kaduna and the Federal Capital Territory, were part of the President’s  delegation to the Vatican City but they remained at the courtyard while the papal audience lasted. The Executive Secretary of Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission, Mr. John Kennedy-Opara, who was part of the President’s delegation, told journalists that Jonathan used the opportunity of the papal audience to explain Nigeria’s position on same-sex marriage to the Pope. Jonathan had on January 7, signed the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2013 into law despite opposition from some Western countries. Kennedy-Opara also said the Pope commended

Pastor Tunde Bakare is convener of Save Nigeria Group The Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Tunde Bakare, has accused the President Goodluck Jonathan-led federal government of selective justice in the suspension of Lamido Sanusi, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. In his sermon on Sunday in Lagos, Mr. Bakare said the suspended CBN governor was a victim of delayed whistle blowing, adding that he ought to have spoken out during the 2012 fuel subsidy fraud crisis. “Make no mistake about it, few men have the courage of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi,” said Mr. Bakare, the head pastor of The Latter Rain Assembly. “Few men have the aristocratic dignity of a man who time and again, while in public office, raised his voice against profligacy and monetary imprudence especially among the legislators and sometimes among the executive; perhaps, no serving government official has been as outspoken against misgovernance as the suspended CBN Governor,” said Mr. Bakare. “

E-X-P-O-S-E-D!!! SANUSI WAS HELD IN JAIL FOR TWO YEARS FOR BEHEADING AN IBO BOY WHO HE AND HIS GANG ACCUSED OF DESECRATED THE QORAN. GEN ABACHA, HATED THE TYPE OF ISLAM OF SANUSI * The regime identified the masterminds, so mandated its hit squad to eliminate the nine, including Sanusi. Fresh facts have emerged as to why the government of late Sani Abacha did not kill Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), governor, Lamido Sanusi, in 1995, after he and eight other jihadists mobilized crazed extremists to behead Gideon Akaluka in jail. Akaluka, a young Igbo trader, allegedly desecrated the Koran. He was arrested after his wife allegedly used pages of the Koran as toilet paper for her baby. After he was locked up by the police, a group of Muslim fundamentalistsbreak into the jail, beheaded Akaluka, and paraded his bodiless head around the streets of Kano. Pointblanknews.com investigation has revealed the role Sanusi, an alleged Boko Haram sympathizer, and proponent of the controve

Sanusi's Whistle Blowing and President Jonathan's Queries. The Time and Dates Of Events. By Aliyu Bello Oxford, UK On 02/05/2013: President Jonathan send a Query to Sanusi over his fraudulent misappropriation of over N248b as contained in the 2012 CBN Account. Sanusi was told to respond on or before 18/05/2013. Some of the contents of the query includes: 1] Donating N1b to BUK, Kano and he wrote that he donated N4b. 2] Writing off N40b debt of a bank without documentation and authority. 3] Invested $Billions in Malaysia Islamic Bank, with no return on Investment to Nigeria. 4] Awarded 63 contract valued over N1b each, without approval or going through Govt requisition Process. 5] Spend N1.257b for Lunch for his Police and Private Guards in a year. 6] N1billion donation to a political party to build offices Nationwide. 7] N4.5b to renovates his personal home without approval. 8] N4b on a CBN PH branch building that was already co