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Buhari Outline Reasons Diezani Is Not Already Being Prosecuted Because…

President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken about the inability of his government to prosecute Diezani and others accused of stealing the nation’s wealth, especially in the petroleum sector. The reasons for this which was outlined by President Buhari are:

1. Buhari said there was no way he could go ahead to prosecute them successfully without having genuine evidence to support the prosecution of their cases.

2. The President said that gathering such evidence takes time

3. He said some of those accused of tampering with state funds have carefully concealed their assets, making it difficult for detectives.

4. Buhari said government’s agencies are currently digging for such evidence and documents which they consider very vital for successful prosecution.

Amaechi, Ben Bruce and Japhet Omojuwa in Twitter War

The minister for transportation and former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, Senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray-Bruce and a popular blogger, Japhet Omojuwa, today engaged each other in twitter jibes over political and personal differences. INFORMATION NIGERIA has put together the step by step of how the fight played out…

1. It all started when Omojuwa tweeted ”The reason I will NEVER take people like Ben Bruce serious is because when they saw a leader (GEJ) do wrong, they kept quiet. Don’t be Bruce”. 

2. Bruce replied by tweeting ‘You’ve left Trump to face me? Wake me up the day people start dying because you refused to take them seriously.” 

3. Senator Ben Bruce then fired another tweet, this time targeting Amaechi, who was alleged to have spent about N82 million on a dinner. The tweet was reference to a statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians were not welcome in the United Kingdom because of the criminal activities some Nigerians engaged in over there. He tweeted. ”Your own minister spent ₦80 million on a one day dinner, yet it is your citizens you accuse of being criminal” 

4. Amaechi blasted the senator for not being bold enough to mention the name of the minister in his tweet. ”“A coward who is not bold enough to name the minister that he alleged criminally spent N80M on dinner is unfit to sit in our senate chambers,” he tweeted. 

5. Bruce came back with another tweet to mock the minister. He referred to the recent Supreme Court judgment that upheld the election of Nyesom Wike as governor. He tweeted ”When you have been Wike’d, you become wicked! But you will always be my beloved brother, no matter how much you transfer the anger on me”. 

6. Amaechi responded with a tweet of his own, accusing the minister of being active only on Twitter and not on the floor of the Senate. He tweeted ”I will not respond to innuendos. Be courageous, name the minister. We know you talk here & do ‘siddon’ look where you are elected to talk” 

Best Remedy For Swollen Legs "Green Tea"

You must know how painful and frustrating it can be if you have swollen legs, hands or feet.

Swelling known as edema, or the retention of fluids in you body, can be caused by many different reasons such as:

• A sedentary lifestyle—sitting or staying in one position for too long
• Eating too much processed foods and foods high in salt
• Poor circulation
• PMS
• Side effects of some medications
• Pregnancy

Let’s make it clear. Swelling can be quite normal for people who stand or sit for a longer periods of time, or for women during pregnancy, but chronic leg or ankle swelling is a serious issue. This peripheral edema, as its name says, must be taken into consideration as the most serious diseases such as kidney disease, heart failure or liver disease, so if you happen to have this problem, consult a physician.

For people who have occasional swelling problems, there are a lot of herbal remedies that can be helpful in order to reduce the swelling and to help your body eliminate the excess fluids. One of these is the parsley.

It Used To Be Recommended by Hippocrates

The word parsley derives from two Greek words: “petrose” – rock, and “selenium” – celery. So if we put the two words together, it literally means “rock celery”.

There are two types of parsley: curly parsley and Italian parsley (flat leaves).

So, next time when you go to a restaurant and have a garnish in your food, don’t just pick it off the dish and leave it to the side, but eat it because it has a lot of positive effects on your body.

Moreover, recent studies have shown that eating parsley can help you protect yourself from a variety of diseases including: digestive disorders, urinary tract problems, allergies, to lower your blood pressure, improve your bone health, menstrual pain, it can even help in cases of bronchitis.

According to “The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook” parsley helps the kidneys to remove excess fluids from the body, as it was used in ancient times like a tonic for kidney stones and rheumatism as well as an antidote for poison.

Parsley Is a Natural Diuretic

“Parsley acts as a diuretic by inhibiting the sodium and potassium ion pumps, influencing the process of osmosis and increasing the flow of urine.” shows in a study published in 2002 in the journal of Ethnopharmacology.

Parsley can help you not to experience the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs because it is rich in potassium contrary of the chemically produced diuretics that lower the potassium levels in your body.

Another Brazilian study published in 2009 showed similar results and suggested that parsley can decrease blood pressure as well and increase urinary flow.

Parsley Tea Recipe for Edema

According to Dr. John R. Christopher, renowned author and America’s foremost herbalist,you should drink at least two quarts (64 oz.) of strong parsley tea per day in order to achieve maximum results.

If you feel the need, you can increase the amount of parsley tea to a cup every half hour. If you make your own tea, he suggests that you should use fresh green leaves, together with the roots and seeds.

Instructions:

1. Chop the leaves and roots into small pieces (you can also pre-chop the parsley and store them in an airtight glass container in the fridge for up to a week.)
2. Place approximately ¼ cup of parsley into an infusion basket.
3. Pour over a cup of boiled water or submerge into a tea pot.
4. Let the mixture steep for 5 to 7 minutes.
5. Remove the basket or strain the tea.
6. Add honey, lemon or ginger for flavor if desired.
7. Always drink parsley tea warm for the best effects.

Don’t forget to do other techniques that will help you reduce swelling such as putting your legs up on a wall or pillows to raise them above your heart when lying down.

Jonathan, Emefiele Invited For Questioning "Dasuki" Arms Missing Money

The former National Secu­rity Adviser (NSA) in the Jonathan administration, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd.), is currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for misappropriating the fund

Bishop of the Diocese of Enugu Anglican Communion, Archbishop Emmanuel Chukwuma, has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to bring in former President Goodluck Jonathan, to explain what he knows about the alleged diversion of over $2.1 billion meant for arms purchase.

Speaking yesterday in Enugu with The AUTHORITY newspaper, the fiery cleric equally demanded the arrest and prosecution of incumbent Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, and his predeces­sor, now Emir of Kano, Al­haji Muhammadu Sanusi II, over the arms deal scandal also known as Dasukigate.

According to him: “the is­sue of Dasukigate is what Mr. President should look prop­erly into. It is a shame, abso­lutely condemnable and dis­graceful to the leaders of this nation that money meant for arms to salvage this country from Boko Haram insur­gents were diverted and that was why Boko Haram could not be tamed for a long time.

“It is a very disturbing situ­ation and I insist that the federal government should invite former president Goodluck Jonathan who, I think, has a case to answer in that regard, because the money was alleged to be used for his campaign.

“Jonathan and the current CBN Governor should be able to tell Nigerians where the money was gotten from and why the money was di­verted, if the allegations are true.

“Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sa­nusi, who was CBN Gover­nor at the time the govern­ment was in power, should also be made to speak”.

Nigerian Navy Rescued The Hijacked Cargo To Nigeria

The Nigerian Navy has foiled an attempt by suspected sea pirates to hijack and abduct 25 foreign nationals aboard a Maersk merchant ship carrying general cargo to Nigeria.

Briefing journalists on Sunday at Onne Sea Port, Rivers, Capt. Olusegun Soyemi, the Executive Officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, said that the vessel berth safely with the rescued crew members unharmed.

Soyemi said the crew members, including the ship’s captain, were of mixed nationalities consisting of eight Philippines, eight South Africans, five Indians, two Britons and two from Thailand.

According to him, Safmarine Kuramo, a Maersk merchant ship registered in Singapore, was transporting general cargo from Port-Noire, Congo, to Onne Sea Port in Rivers.

“On Jan. 5 at about 08:00 hours; Sufmarine Kuramo was attacked by sea pirates about 60 nautical miles off the coast of Bonny Island (in Rivers) Fairway Bouy.

“We got may-day distress call that the ship was boarded by unconfirmed number of sea pirates after entering the nation’s territorial waters.

“We immediately dispatched a warship (NNS Centenary) and attack gunboats led by Navy Capt. Chiedozie Okehie of the Eastern Naval Command to rescue the situation.

“The sea pirates apparently on sighting advancing naval troops fled the scene for fear of being arrested by our operatives.

“The operation was largely successful as all 25 foreign crew members, including the captain, are safe and unhurt, while cargo onboard the ship is intact”, he said.

Soyemi said the pirates had fired several gunshots at the ships control room apparently to scare and subdue any resistance from the captain and crew members.

Also, the Commanding Officer of NNS Centenary, Capt. Chiedozie Okehie, who led the operation, said the crew members locked and hid themselves in the ship’s citadel (engine room).

He said the rescue was successful partly due to the courage and bravery exhibited by the ship’s captain – a woman.

According to him, in spite all odds, she covertly gave navy operatives briefs while pirates on board the ship made several attempt to break into the citadel.

“Immediately we got to the ship, we carried out thorough searches of the compartments and cabins to check if any pirate had remained onboard.

“Investigations are ongoing to ascertain what happened and who carried out the attack”, he assured.

Okehie said the navy under the command of Vice Adm. Ibok-Ete Ibas remained fully committed to safety of the nation’s waterways and maritime environment.

Speaking, the Captain of Safamarine Kuramo, Ms Zetta Gous-Conradie, a South African, described the experience as horrific.

Gous-Conradie hailed the Nigerian Navy for its prompt response to her distress call.

“We are very grateful when the navy came onboard because at some point we had thought the pirates would take us hostage.

“The heat was stifling because the temperature was very hot at the citadel, and at some point my crew members and I had thought we would suffocate and die”, she said.

Husband Who Had Paid To Have His Wife Killed Horrifies when she appears on Funeral Day.

A woman named Noela Rukundo, gave her ex-husband, Balenga Kalala, (both pictured above) the shock of his life by turning up to her own funeral, after he had contacted hitmen to have her killed while they were still married.

Rukundo had met her husband 11 years earlier, right after she arrived in Australia from Burundi. He was a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and they had the same social worker at the resettlement agency that helped them get on their feet.

Since Kalala already knew English, their social worker often recruited him to translate for Rukundo, who spoke Swahili. They fell in love, moved in together in the Melbourne suburb of Kings Park, and had three children (Rukundo also had five kids from a previous relationship).

She learned more about her husband’s past — he had fled a rebel army that had ransacked his village, killing his wife and young son. She also learned more about his character. Noela’s ordeal began five days earlier, and 7,500 miles away in her native Burundi.

She had returned to Burundi, her birth country, from her home in Melbourne, Australia, to attend her stepmother’s funeral. She lodged in a hotel. “I had lost the last person who I call ‘mother. It was very painful. I was so stressed.”she told BBC

By early evening, Noela had retreated to her hotel room. As she lay dozing in the stifling city heat of Bujumbura, her phone rang. It was a call from her husband in Australia

“He says he’d been trying to get me for the whole day,” Noela says. “I said I was going to bed. He told me, ‘To bed? Why are you sleeping so early? I say, ‘I’m not feeling happy’. And he asks me, ‘How’s the weather? Is it very, very hot?’ He told me to go outside for fresh air.” Noela took his advice. “I didn’t think anything. I just thought that he cared about me, that he was worried about me.” But moments after stepping outside the hotel compound, Noela found herself in danger.

“I opened the gate and I saw a man coming towards me. Then he pointed the gun on me. He just told me, ‘Don’t scream. If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They’re going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead. So, I did exactly what he told me.”

The gunman motioned her towards a waiting car. “I was sitting between two men. One had a small gun, one had a long gun. And the men said to the driver, ‘Pass us a scarf.’ Then they cover my face. After that, I didn’t say anything. They just said to the driver, Let’s go. I was taken somewhere, 30 to 40 minutes, then I hear the car stop.” Noela was pushed inside a building and tied to a chair.

“One of the kidnappers told his friend, ‘Go call the boss.’ I can hear doors open but I didn’t know if their boss was in a room or if he came from outside. “They ask me, ‘What did you do to this man? Why has this man asked us to kill you?’ And then I told them, ‘Which man? Because I don’t have any problem with anybody.’ They say, ‘Your husband!’ I say, ‘My husband can’t kill me, you are lying!’ And then they slap me. “After that the boss says, ‘You are very stupid, you are fool. Let me call who has paid us to kill you.'”

The gang’s leader made the call. “We already have her,” he triumphantly told his paymaster. The phone was put on loudspeaker for Noela to hear the reply. Her husband’s voice said: “Kill her.” Just hours earlier, the same voice had consoled her over the death of her stepmother and urged her to take fresh air outside the hotel. Now her husband Balenga Kalala had condemned her to death.

“I heard his voice. I heard him. I felt like my head was going to blow up. Then they described for him where they were going to chuck the body.” At that, Noela says she passed out. As the gang’s leader ended the call to Kalala, Noela was coming round. “I said to myself, I was already dead. Nothing I can do can save me. But he looks at me and then he says, ‘We’re not going to kill you. We don’t kill women and children. He told me I’d been stupid because my husband paid them the deposit in November. And when I went to Africa it was January.

He asked me, ‘How stupid can you be, from November, you can’t see that something is wrong?'” He might have been a hit-man with principles, but the gang’s leader still took the opportunity to extort more money from Kalala. He called him back and informed him that the fee for the murder had increased. He wanted a further 3,400 Australian dollars (£1,700) to finish the job.

Back at the hotel, Noela’s brother was getting worried about her disappearance. He called Kalala in Australia to ask for $545 to pay the police to open an investigation. Kalala feigned concern and duly wired the money. After two days in captivity, Noela was freed. “‘We give you 80 hours to leave this country. Your husband is serious. Maybe we can spare your life, but other people, they’re not going to do the same thing. If God helps you, you’ll get to Australia.'”they told her

Before leaving Noela by the side of a road, the gang handed her the evidence they hoped would incriminate Kalala – a memory card containing recorded phone conversations of him discussing the murder and receipts for the Western Union money transfers. “We just want you to go back, to tell other stupid women like you what happened,” the gang told Noela as they parted.

“You must learn something: you people get a chance to go overseas for a better life. But the money you are earning, the money the government gives to you, you use it for killing each other!”

Noela immediately began planning her return to Australia. She called the pastor of her church in Melbourne, Dassano Harruno Nantogmah, and requested his help. “‘It was in the middle of the night. I said ‘It’s me, I’m still alive, don’t tell anybody.’ He says, ‘Noela, I don’t believe it. Balenga can’t kill someone!’ And I said, ‘Pastor, believe me!'” Three days later, on the evening of 22 February 2015, Noela was back in Melbourne.

By now, Kalala had informed the community that his wife had died in a tragic accident. It was the day he held a memorial service for her that she walked in on him “It was around 7.30pm,” Noela says. “He was in front of the house. People had been inside mourning with him and he was escorting a group of them into a car.” It was as they drove away that Noela sprang her surprise. “I stood just looking at him. He was scared, he didn’t believe it.

Then he starts walking towards me, slowly, like he was walking on broken glass. “He kept talking to himself and when he reached me, he touched me on the shoulder. He jumped. “He did it again. He jumped. Then he said, ‘Noela, is it you?’… Then he start screaming, ‘I’m sorry for everything.'” Noela called the police who ordered Kalala off the premises and later obtained a court order against him.

Days later, the police instructed Noela to call Kalala. Kalala made a full confession to his wife, captured on tape, begging for her forgiveness and revealing why he had ordered the murder. “He say he wanted to kill me because he was jealous,” says Noela. “He think that I wanted to leave him for another man.” In a police interview, Kalala denied any involvement in the plot. “The pretence,” wrote the judge at his trial in December, “lasted for hours.” But when confronted with the recording of his telephone conversation with Noela and the evidence she brought back from Burundi he started to cry.

Kalala was still unable to offer any explanation for his actions, suggesting only that “sometimes [the] devil can come into someone to do something but after they do it, they start thinking, ‘Why I did that thing?'”

On 11 December last year, in court in Melbourne, after pleading guilty to incitement to murder, Kalala was sentenced to nine years in prison. “His voice always comes in the night – ‘Kill her, kill her,'” says Noela of the nightmares that now plague her. “Every night, I see what was happening in those two days with the kidnappers.” Ostracised by many in Melbourne’s African community, some of whom blame her for Kalala’s conviction, Noela sees a difficult future for her and her eight children.