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Billionaire Femi Otedola Swims In Messy N54 Million Fraud….

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Billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, is enmeshed in a N54 MIllion scandal which has already landed him at Lagos High Court. Court papers at our disposal suggests that Oteldola, chairman of Zenon Oil and Forte Oil rented out a property belonging to another billionaire mogul, Chief Bode Akindele to Dr. Anthony Solomon, MD of Pharmacare Ltd, without following due process. The property in question is situated at 268C, Kofo Aboyomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Solomon, according to court papers, is alleging that Otedola got him to part with N54 Million to sublet the property to him under the pretense that he was the actual owner of the house and also under the guise that Akindele was in the know of the arrangement. The story , however , changed sometime in July 2011 when he uncovered that Akindele was not aware of the sublease :”Sometime in July ,2011, the claimant (Dr. Solomon ) discovered that the 1st defendant (Madandola) nineteen (19) months after the bank drafts were issued to the 1st defendant . The claimant subsequently discovered that the 1st defendant remitted only the sum of N8,000,000.00 (Eight Million naira) to the 2nd defendant and fraudulently withheld the remaining sums without remitting same to the 2nd defendant as rent for the property having collected the sum of N45, 000,000.00 from the claimant. Solomon disclosed all that and more in his statement of claim filed before the court by his Lawyer, Anthony Onwaeze of Doyin Rhodes-Vivour and Co Chambers. Consequently, he is asking for, among other things, that the High Court of Lagos mandates Otedola to restitue him for “General Damages against the 1st defendant (Zenon Oil) in the sum of N50, 000,000.00 for breach of contract ; interest on the sum of N24, 000, 000.00 paid to the 1st Defendant which funds withheld by the 1st Defendant foe 19 months at the rate of 21% per annum being loss of interest that would have accrued on the funds. Backing up his claims with a litany of receipts used for the payment as well as photographs of renovation work done on the property, the case , with suit No. LD/491/2009, will sure take a better shape in days ahead.

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House Of Representatives Issues Warrant Of Arrest On Central Bank Governor, Cardoso, Accountant-General, 17 Others

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The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Petitions has asked for a warrant of arrest to be issued on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Oluwatoyin Madein, and 17 others over refusal to appear before it to answer questions on their operations.

It was gathered that the issuance of the arrest warrant was sequel to the adoption of a motion moved by Fred Agbedi, representing Ekeremo/Sagbama Federal Constituency of Bayelsa State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the committee’s hearing on Tuesday.

Agbedi, while moving the motion, said that the arrest warrant had become imperative following the attitude of the invitees, adding that the parliament worked with time and the CEOs had been invited four times but failed to respond to the invitations.

Agbedi said that the CBN Governor, the AGF and the rest of the invitees should be brought to appear before the committee by the Inspector General of Police through a warrant of arrest after due diligence by the House Speaker, Rep Tajudeen Abbas.

The Chairman of the Committee, Micheal Irom (APC-Cross River), in his ruling said that the Inspector-General of Police should ensure the invitees were brought before the committee on December 14.
It was gathered that the petitioner, Fidelis Uzowanem, had earlier said that the petition was anchored on the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) 2021 report.

Irom said, “We took up the challenge to examine the report and discovered that what NEITI put together as a report is only consolidation of fraud that has been going on in the oil and gas industry.

“It dates back to 2016 because we have been following and we put up a petition to this committee to examine what has happened.

“The 2024 budget of 27.5 trillion that has been proposed can be confidently funded from the recoverable amount that we identified in the NEITI report.

“It is basically a concealment of illegal transactions that took place in NNPCL; they have been in a sink with some oil companies where some companies that did not produce crude were paid cash core, an amount paid for crude oil production.”

 

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FCTA uncovers illegal oil refining warehouse in Abuja

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In continuation of the city cleaning exercise, Authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) with operatives of security personnel have uncovered an illegal oil refining warehouse in Mabushi, opposite Mobile filling station on Ahmadu Bello way in Abuja.

 

The Director, Department of Development Control, FCTA, Mukhtar Galadima after the operation on Thursday, said the illegal refining site was discovered during the continuation of the city cleaning exercise.

 

According to him, about three to four plot of lands designated for commercial purposes have been converted to an area where oil and diesel are being adulterated and circulated to other parts of the city.

 

Galadima explained that the city sanitation task force will look into the provision of the law and make necessary recommendations to the FCT Administration for further actions on the plots used for the activity.

 

He said there was no arrest but the items used in carrying out the illegal refining have been impounded.

 

Galadima said, “During the continuation of our city sanitation exercise in Mabushi opposite Mobile filling station on Ahmadu way, we discovered an illegal refining site where oil and diesel are being adulterated, we have done the needful by moving the items to Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.

 

“From what we have seen so far, about three or four pilot of lands designated for commercial purposes have been converted to unapproved activities, which we believe the owners are fully aware, there will be consequences.

 

“We are going to look at the provision of the law and make necessary recommendations to the FCT Administration”

 

He said the administration will continue to go tough on activities being carried out without government approval,  especially revocation of the titles.

 

Collaborating, Head, operations FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Service (DRTS), Deborah Osho said the city management team during the exercise also discovered that most of the areas in the Nation’s capital have been converted to illegal car mart and motor parks.

 

She disclosed that fifteen vehicles have so far been impounded since the operation commenced about two days.

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Central Bank To Freeze Accounts Without BVN, NIN From April 2024

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said on Friday that it will freeze accounts without a Bank Verification Number (BVN) or National Identification Number (NIN) from April 2024.

This is according to a Friday circular by the apex bank which said a BVN or NIN verification will be “conducted shortly”.

It also said all BVN or NIN attached to accounts/wallets must be electronically revalidated by January 31, 2024, according to the circular by the CBN Director of Payments System Management Department Chibuzo Efobi, and the Director of Financial Policy and Regulation Department Haruna Mustapha.

More details later….

 

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