Diezani Allison forfeits $4.760M penthouses in banana Island and Ikoyi

The Federal High Court in Lagos  ordered the final forfeiture of two penthouses valued at $4.760m belonging to former Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.

They are: Penthouse 21, Building 5, Block C, 11th floor (Bella Vista Estate) Banana Island, Ikoyi; and Penthouse 22, Block B (Admiralty Estate), also in Ikoyi, Lagos.

Ruling on an application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), JJustice Mojisola Olatoregun ordered that they be forfeited to the Federal Government.

The commission’s lawyer, Mr ABC Ozioko, told the court that he had a motion on notice for a final forfeiture order in respect of the properties.

He added that the interim forfeiture order made last December 5 was advertised in The Nation as ordered by the court.

He also prayed for an order prohibiting the disposal of any mortgage or sale of the properties, and for an order authorising the EFCC to appoint a competent person or firm to manage the properties.

Respondents’ counsel Mr Emmanuel Bassey did not object to the prayers.

Justice Olatoregun granted the orders as prayed.

She said: “I have observed the facts and exhibits attached and I am also mindful that the second, third and fourth respondents have no objections to the application.

“I, therefore, have no hesitation in ordering a final forfeiture of the properties to the Federal Government.”

Mrs Alison-Madueke, Donald Amangbo, Schillenburg LLC and Sequoyah Property Limited are the respondents.

The commission said the companies in whose names the properties were acquired belong to the former minister.

An EFCC investigator, Abdulrasheed Bawa, in an affidavit, said sometime in 2016, a search warrant was executed at Amangbo’s premises.

He said Amangbo was “an acquaintance of former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs Alison Madueke”.

The investigator said one of the documents recovered from Amamgbo led the operatives to the Deputy Managing Director, YF Construction Development and Real Estate Limited, Mr. Fadi Basbous.

The deponent said Basbous made a statement where he stated that the two properties were sold at $3.570million and $1.194million and are owned by Sequoyah Properties Limited and Schillenburg LLC.

Bawa said the properties were paid for by Mrs Angela Jide-Jones and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited.

According to him, Mrs Jide-Jone was married to Mrs Alison-Madueke’s associate, Jide Omokore, who registered and promoted Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept.

The Nation reports that the EFCC investigator said Omokore paid for the properties through his wife, Angela.

According to the operative, Omokore allegedly directed the developer (seller) to sign the agreements with Schillenburg LLC and Sequoyah Properties.

The deponent said Schillenburg LLC was registered in Hong Kong and was transferred on March 30, 2012, to Amamgbo as sole owner.

Amamgbo, according to EFCC, incorporated Schillenburg LLC and handed it over to Mrs. Alison-Madueke “for a transaction”.

The deponent added that Sequoyah Properties “is among 18 companies registered by Donald Chid Amangbo for holding the properties of Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke”.

Checkout these stunning photos of South African OAP Bonang Matheba

The South African beauty collaborated with George Okoro to create these gorgeous photos.

  The shoot was done at Usama Dam and sees Bonang standing on a boat decorated with flowers in one set of photos, and rowing a boat in another set.

For the shoot, the fashion It girl opted for pieces by Nigerian designer, DZYN.

President Buhari wishes Daddy Adeboye a happy Birthday as he turns 76

President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a statement congratulating Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye on his 76th birthday.

The General Overseer (worldwide) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is turning a new age tomorrow, March 2, 2018.

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina, the President praised the cleric for his leadership and thanked for his visits, including the historic one while he was on medical vacation in London.

According to Daily Post, the statement read: ”President Buhari believes Pastor Adeboye has planted seeds of the gospel that posterity will always remember, especially his divinely inspired dream of ensuring that there will be a church within every walking distance in the country.

”The President extols Pastor Adeboye for his humility, focus, discipline and sacrificial spirit of giving up his personal comfort, career, and dreams, to take up the higher call of leading the Lord’s flock.

”President Buhari prays that the Almighty God will grant the church leader longer life, good health and more strength to propagate the word of God.”

Happy Birthday to an exceptional Man of God.

Florida shooter's riffle reportedly jammed during the shooting and he had 180 rounds left

Authorities believe the Florida high-school shooter's weapon jammed when he was changing magazine clips during the massacre, likely prompting him to flee the scene before he finished his killing spree, CBS Miami reported on Tuesday.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, firing nearly 150 shots in just seven minutes.

Investigators believe Cruz had tried to gun down down fleeing students from a makeshift sniper's nest on the third floor of the building, but that hurricane-proof glass in the stairwell window stopped his bullets.

A law enforcement source told CNN that Cruz still had roughly 180 rounds of ammunition left when he grew frustrated with the reload attempt and fled.

Authorities said Cruz then ditched his weapon and escaped by blending into a crowd of students. 

Khloe Kardashian plans to eat her placenta just like her sisters Kim and Kourtney

I know it sounds disgusting and weird but oddly enough some people actually eat their placenta, some put it in smoothies, cook in in food or convert it into pills. damn! Am trying hard not to vomit.

Kim Kardashian ingested hers through placenta pills after birthing her son Saint West and her sister Kourtney Kardashian who also ate hers the same way after the birth of her son Reign Aston Disick described it as life-changing.

Kourtney had announced this unique detail of her son’s birth with a picture of two large gray pills on Instagram, captioning it, “Yummy…PLACENTA pills! No joke…I will be sad when my placenta pills run out. They are life changing! #benefits #lookitup.”

During Sunday’s episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashian, Kim made reference to ingesting hers saying, ‘My placenta was like double the size, it was really oddly big, so she gave me two jars,’

She said she opted for grape flavor in her picked placenta.

The mother of three said this after her sister Khloe Kardashian who is pregnant for her boyfriend Tristan Thompson, said she would also eat her placenta.

She told Kim, ‘I’m going to eat it in pills,’

I believe my father says Ivanka Trump pertaining the sexual misconduct charges against Trump

The President of United States, Donald Trump has denied accusations by more than a dozen women of sexual misconduct and his daughter Ivanka Trump is rooting for him.

When asked in an NBC interview if she believes the accusations against her father, the first daughter said, “I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated that there’s no truth to it. I don’t think that’s a question you would ask many other daughters.”

“I believe my father, I know my father,” she said. “I think I have that right as a daughter, to believe my father.”

Hello March! We have big plans for you

May we be like the tree planted by the river side in this month of March, a tree that will flourish and be well nourished. May we bring forth our fruit in due season.

Thank God we made it to March and we will make it to the end of 2018 and beyond.