DR.OBA OTUDEKO RESTRICTED FROM ACCESSING ITS FOUND IN 20 BANK

A Federal court in metropolis has fastened midsummer, twenty16 to rule on associate application by Ecobank African nation restricted seeking to bar Anchorage Leisures restricted from accessing its funds in 20 banks over alleged N5.5bn debt.

Anchorage Leisures restricted is closely-held by have bourgeois, Dr. Oba Otudeko.

The bank claimed that Anchorage and its sister corporations – Honeywell cluster African nation restricted and Honeywell Four Mills Plc – were indebted to that.

It had on October twenty seven, last year secured associate order of interim injunction restraining  Anchorage from accessing its funds unfinished the determination of a petition seeking a finishing up order against the corporate.

The interim order was, however, discharged on March eighteen, 2016 by Justice Jude Dagat following associate application by the corporate.

Displeased with the choice, Ecobank, through its professional person, Mr. Kunle Ogunba (SAN), after headed for the Court of charm seeking to overturn the ruling.

It after filed associate application before Justice Dagat, seeking a keep of execution of the ruling unfinished the determination of the charm.

Arguing the applying on Friday, Ecobank’s professional person, Ogunba, aforementioned permitting Anchorage access to its fund can foist a accomplishment on the Court of charm or render its call worthless, within the event that the Court of charm eventually finds benefit within the bank’s charm.

“The interim order created on October twenty seven, 2015, was made specifically to stop the respondent from dissipating its funds within the custody of all the banks listed.

“There is imperative have to be compelled to preserve the res of the charm to avoid foisting a state of affairs of helplessness on the Court of charm, a judicature of record,” Ogunba argued.

The professional person claimed that Anchorage and its sister corporations were doing everything to avoid paying the debt he claimed they owed his consumer.

Ogunba aforementioned, “They need to bury the very fact of their liability to USA by partaking in blind. they're throwing all spanners within the work to avoid paying the debt. As I speak, the liability is over N4bn.”

But counsel for Anchorage, augur Olanipekun, urged the court to reject the applying, speech that his consumer would be prejudiced if the applying was granted.

Olanipekun claimed that the bank had did not prove that the alleged liability.

He said, “They haven't declared what quantity we tend to owe. They didn't exhibit our financial statement to point out that we tend to square measure indebted. it's the law that wherever there's no statement of account, a celebration isn't entitled to any indulgence,” Olanipekun aforementioned.

Justice Dagat adjourned until midsummer to rule on the applying.

In its petition, Ecobank claimed that Honeywell cluster is indebted to that to the tune of N5.5bn.

The bank claimed that once the “huge obligations” of the 3 sister corporations hit N5.5billion, Otudeko had pleaded with the bank to grant them “huge concession to modify them liquidate their chronic liability.”

The bank aforementioned following any negotiation, it absolutely was in agreement that Otudeko’s corporations would create a “bullet payment” of N3.5bilion, however they allegedly did not do thus.

“The soul (Anchorage) and also the 2 different member-companies of Honeywell cluster Ltd, in sheer disregard of the sacred concessionary terms, didn't create a right away bullet payment whereas the whole total ofN3.5billion in many installments wasn't paid in bullet kind,” the bank aforementioned.

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co <WFC.N> admitted to deceiving the U.S. government into insuring thousands of risky mortgages, as it formally reached a record $1.2 billion settlement of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit.

The settlement with Wells Fargo, the largest U.S. mortgage lender and third-largest U.S. bank by assets, was filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court. It also resolves claims against Kurt Lofrano, a former Wells Fargo vice president.

According to the settlement, Wells Fargo "admits, acknowledges, and accepts responsibility" for having from 2001 to 2008 falsely certified that many of its home loans qualified for Federal Housing Administration insurance.

The San Francisco-based lender also admitted to having from 2002 to 2010 failed to file timely reports on several thousand loans that had material defects or were badly underwritten, a process that Lofrano was responsible for supervising.

According to the Justice Department, the shortfalls led to substantial losses for taxpayers when the FHA was forced to pay insurance claims as defective loans soured.

Several lenders, including Bank of America Corp <BAC.N>, Citigroup Inc <C.N>, Deutsche Bank AG <DBKGn.DE> and JPMorgan Chase & Co <JPM.N>, previously settled similar federal lawsuits.

But Wells Fargo held out, and its payment is the largest in FHA history over loan origination violations.

Friday's settlement is a reproach for "years of reckless underwriting" at Wells Fargo, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said in a statement.

"While Wells Fargo enjoyed huge profits from its FHA loan business, the government was left holding the bag when the bad loans went bust," Bharara added.

The accord also resolved a probe by federal prosecutors in California of alleged false loan certifications by American Mortgage Network LLC, which Wells Fargo bought in 2009.

No one has been criminally charged in the probes, and the Justice Department reserved the right to pursue criminal charges if it wishes, according to the settlement.

Franklin Codel, president of Wells Fargo Home Lending, in a statement said the settlement "allows us to put the legal process behind us, and to focus our resources and energy on what we do best -- serving the needs of the nation's homeowners."

Lewis Liman, a lawyer for Lofrano, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Wells Fargo on Feb. 3 said the settlement would reduce its previously reported 2015 profit by $134 million, to account for extra legal expenses.

The case is U.S. v. Wells Fargo Bank NA, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-07527.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel and Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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Electric Vichicle With Automated Transport Environment

• Let The Electric Passenger Shuttles Currently In Use At Heathrow Airport.

It has yet to unveil the exact design but confirmed that the adapted vehicles will not run on dedicated tracks.
Greenwich is one of four places in the UK where driverless pods and public reaction to them are being tested.
Trials will also take place in Bristol, Coventry and Milton Keynes. The £8m project is jointly funded by government agency Innovate UK and industry.
The Greenwich Automated Transport Environment project - or Gateway - will see seven driverless pods tested on the pavements around the Greenwich Peninsula, where the O2 Arena is based, from July.
Routes are still being worked out but are likely to include residential areas, the North Greenwich underground station and businesses around the arena.
The so-called UltraPods currently in service at Heathrow carry passengers between the car park and Terminal 5. In the five years they have been in use, they have carried 1.5 million passengers and travelled 1.8 million miles (three million kilometres).Westfield Sportscars, a British car maker, will be responsible for manufacturing and testing of the pods. Heathrow Enterprise will design the software while a third British firm, Oxbotica, will provide mapping and other sensors to ensure the vehicles are safe.https://www.igilarity.blogsport.com
The pods will have three months of testing, first with invited users and then with the general public. Each pod can carry six passengers but will require a steward to be present at all times to press the emergency button in the case of a problem.
The trial of the pods will reveal a wealth of data, Prof Nick Reed, academy director at Transport Research Laboratory which is leading the project, told the BBC.
"It will tell us whether people trust and accept these vehicles and how they would work as part of the urban landscape," he said.
"This vehicle has millions of miles under its belt and now we have to take it outside of the track and modify it for use on pavements."

Keji Ishaq Lost But Foud

: How She Was Abducted
Kunle Falayi..
If going to a market has always been a simple and short trip that would not likely bring any eventuality, the family of Keji Ishaq, a final year student of the Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, now think otherwise.

For them, in the years to come, a simple trip to the market would likely send jitters down their spine when they remember what Keji went through between March 20 and March 22.

The young woman, who got married recently, had left home on Sunday, March 20 to cash money at the ATM to buy some foodstuffs in a market around Ota, Ogun State, only to disappear for the next three days.

The family had sent out alerts online, pleading for help in locating the young woman.

By Tuesday night, Keji was back home. But the report of what transpired that night has only reinforced the belief that safety in the society has become a mirage.

Then, as apprehension and frustration enveloped their home on Monday evening, the family got a call.

Even though the family partly expected it to be from kidnappers asking for ransom for her release, the caller, who hid his number simply told them to come to Ilorin, Kwara State the following day to pick up the young woman.

Keji’s brother, Mayowa, told our correspondent that early the following morning, they headed for Ilorin.

He said, “When we got to Ibadan, the caller contacted us again, he asked where we were and we told him we were at Ibadan. He said we should divert to Ijebu Ode instead.

“Truly, when we got to the motor park at Ijebu Ode, Keji was there. She recognised us immediately we got there. She burst out sobbing. We then learnt that even her phone was still with her. She was unharmed. Only the money she withdrew from the bank was gone.

“Someone probably touched her with a fetish object and made her enter a vehicle. The last memory she had was that after she withdrew the cash, she went straight into a vehicle parked nearby.”
When our correspondent spoke with Keji on Wednesday, it was obvious she couldn’t recollect the details of what actually happened to her.

She promptly requested that her husband, Damilola, would be in the best position to tell the story of her disappearance.

Damilola said, “About midday on Sunday, she left home to go and get some foodstuffs that she would take to school the following day. She decided to go to the ATM at a Guarantee Trust Bank branch in Sango Ota.

After receiving the cash, all she remembered was cashing N4,000,” he said.
But Damilola said the person, who made the call that she was in Ijebu Ode was a Good Samaritan who recognised her.

He said, “The man had spotted her walking along the road as if in a trance. The person took her phone and checked it to find someone that could be contacted. But when he realised that her battery was dead, the person changed the battery. That was how he was able to contact Keji’s brother.

“Since they brought her back from Ijebu Ode yesterday, she has not been able to remember anything. She has no memory of where she was sleeping, what she ate or who took her.

“I am so thankful to God. I cannot really express how happy I am. We are talking about the love of my life here. We got married in January.”

Sudent Union President Suspended

The President of the Students' Union Fedral University of Agriculture (funnab) Dennis Olusegun 'Denco' was yesterday suspended at the sitting of the Students Representative Assembly held at the Students' Union Congress Hall.

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The Students Union President was suspended after Hon. Y Kay later raised a motion to suspend on the following allegations:
1. The Refusal to defend the Union at all times.
2. Inappropriate management of fund.
3. Failure to bring documented state of the union after several appeals..

A vote was conducted, out of the 49 Honourables present at the sitting, 38 voted to support the motion raised, while no Honourable voted against the motion raised. At exactly 3:58pm, the speaker of the house Rt. Hon Afolabi Luqman approved the motion to suspend the Student's union president Com. Denco.

After the Sitting we had a seperate interview with the Deputy Speaker of the house Hon. Phylipeens and Hon. Heptha who explained in full the reason he was suspended:
The Student Union President Com. Nwenonye Dennis Oluwasegun has been suspended till further notice for the following reasons:
i. Absence from the sitting without prior notice to the house.
ii. Failure to defend the interest of FUNAABITES in accordance to Article two, Section 16 ii, which states ‘SHALL DEFEND THE UNION AT ALL TIMES’. Referring to his statement on the 30th of March after ABG 301 class saying FUNAABITES are the ones robbing Co-FUNAABITES. And also not responding to the FPY students when they called for his assistance which was brought to the notice of the house.
iii. Refusal to submit documented and detailed State of the Union including the financial state of the Union, he hasn't been able to provide the house with details of how much the Union have in the account, how much they've spent so far and the money the revenue they may have made.
Iv. Refusal to submit the detailed report of the Fresher’s night which should have included the total income and expenses, since the Social Director said The President was in charge of the sales of the tickets.

They further stated that an Ethics and Disciplinary committee had been setup to investigate and look on the issues stated and they were given a timeline of two weeks to submit their report to the Students Representative Assembly. They added that the Ethics and Disciplinary Committee would now send in their recommendations as to whether the suspension be lifted or in the worse case scenario impeached, in which the House would deliberate and vote on.

Denco was asked to release all the student union properties ( Student union ID Card, Key to his office, Key of the student union bus) with him on or before 12:00pm March 8th 2016.

As at the time of filling this report, all efforts to reach Denco on phone has been futile as he has refused to pick his call.

The Vice President Com. Balogun Olamide " Lammy" was made the Acting President of the union..

Hon. Heptha raised the motion that the Acting president should write to all security bodies, the PPRO , the Ogun state governor about the insecurity state in the school......

#FunaabJuice

Importing poverty into our country and exporting jobs abroad

Mr Idowu Ibrahim started the day early, having set his alarm clock (MADE IN INDIA) for 6am. While his teapot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his clipper (MADE IN HONG KONG). He put on his shirt (MADE IN THE UK), and designer jeans (MADE IN ITALY) and shoes (MADE IN THE USA).

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric cooker (MADE IN FINLAND) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today. After setting his wristwatch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to his radio (MADE IN VIETNAM) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled with petrol imported from (SAUDI ARABIA) and continued his search for a good paying NIGERIAN job...

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his computer (MADE IN MALAYSIA), Mr David Ahmed Okoro decided to relax for a while. He put on his slippers (MADE IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN SOUTH AFRICA), while fiddling with his mobile phone (MADE IN SOUTH KOREA), and then wondered why he cant find a good paying job in... NIGERIA.
He felt achy and sore in his left kneel, he decided to take one tablet of his TRAMADOL TABLETS (MADE IN BANGLADESH) to relieve the pain. Lying down on his bed and wondering why NIGERIAN External Foreign Reserve has depleted to under $ 28billion which has translated to free fall depreciation of Nigerian NAIRA to US DOLLAR at PARALLEL MARKET.......
Fellow Nigerians, let's us start producing, let us start buying made in NIGERIA goods If our economy is to grow and create better jobs.
How can a country like Nigeria be importing toothpick, cutting bud, cotton wool, matches, rubber band e.t.c? And we complain at d same time that there is no jobs for our teeming youths?
The situation is even pathetic now when you see Nigerians ( in Lagos) prefer Cotonou garri to that of Ijebu, buy cotonou pineapple and they say it is better than that of Nigeria. That is why frozen foods will be exported to Cotonou from farms like that of obasanjo repacked and imported back to Nigeria bcos they know Nigerians always prefer made in outside Nigeria goods .
That is why you will see an expatriate renumeration will be juicy than that of his Nigeria counterpart even if that Nigerian is more certificated than d expatriate ( This also happen in government parastatals).
Any nation that import majorly foreign made goods/ services rather than producing their own are hurting its people....
When we keep importing foreign made products into Nigeria, we keep importing poverty into our country and exporting jobs abroad...
Let's go back to the land to grow and patronise MADE IN NIGERIA products...
PLEASE SHARE FREELY TO ENLIGHTEN ALL NIGERIANS.

Any nation that import majorly foreign made goods/ services rather than producing their own are hurting its people....
When we keep importing foreign made products into Nigeria, we keep importing poverty into our country and exporting jobs abroad...
Let's go back to the land to grow and patronise MADE IN NIGERIA products...
PLEASE SHARE FREELY TO ENLIGHTEN ALL NIGERIANS.

NOUN Appoints New Vice Chancellor - 2016.

NOUN Appoints New Vice Chancellor - 2016.
Prof. Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu - NOUN VC 2016
Prof. Dr. Abd

alla Uba Adamu, holds double professorships in
Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication
(2012) from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. The Professorial
Inaugural Lectures he delivered in each discipline are available
on this site.
His main research focus is on transnational media flows and their
impact on the transformation of Muslim Hausa popular culture
especially in literature, film, music and performing arts. He is the
creator of the Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts (Kano,
Nigeria, www.fohapa.com) whose main focus is archiving
traditional performing arts heritage of the Muslim Hausa.
In 2012 he was appointed European Union Visiting Professor for
the project 'The Modern University' at the Department of African
Langauges and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland from 1st
March to 31st May 2012. At Warsaw, he taught two highly
popular courses: Transnationalism and African Popular Culture,
and Oral Traditions in Local and Global Contexts. His recent
publications are listed in this website.
He is currently working in the area of Cultural Anthropology,
with a specific focus on the identity formation among Hausa-
Arabs in northern Nigeria.
Specialties: Media and Cultural Communications, Science
Education, Ethnoscience, Research Methdologies, Management
Information Systems, Translations
Interests
Ethnomusicology cultural anthropology digital archiving of
literary texts
research methodologies media anthropology performances
Experience
Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University Kano,
Nigeria
October 2012 ? Present (3 years 5 months)
Teach courses in media and cultural communication, especially as
both relate to the Muslim Hausa of northern Nigeria, and
specifically in areas of popular culture such as music (both
traditional acoustic and electronic), literature (mainly
contemporary Hausa literature) and Hausa video films, film
theory and criticism, film techniques, film production, literary
criticism, social media and online identities, online
communication, media research methodologies
Bayero University, Kano
October 1997 ? Present (18 years 5 months)
Teaching and research in Science Education, Ethnoscience,
Ethnomathematics, science education curriculum development,
indigenious knowledge in science and environment, indiginization
of Arabic script (as ajami) by the Hausa in literacy campaigns,
History and Philosophy of Science
Bayero University Kano
July 1980 ? Present (35 years 8 months)
Visually Ethnographic Networks
March 2003 ? Present (13 years)
Visually Ethnographic, established in 2006 in Kano city, northern
Nigeria, is a research company with a focus on field recordings of
ethnographic data, especially in northern parts of Nigeria. It
mainly produces non-commercial, educational documentary films
for libraries, schools and NGOs on various aspects of cultural
anthropology of mainly Muslim Hausa as part of its contributions
towards digitalization of the cultural experiences and
transformations in the region. Its main focus is on media and
cultural communication.
Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts
January 2008 ? Present (8 years 2 months)
Ethnomusicological research, digitization and archiving of n
Hausa traditional folk music in northern Nigeria
Center for Hausa Cultural Studies
January 2003 ? December 2007 (5 years)
NGO with a focus on research on Hausa media technologies
especially film, music and literature
Skills
Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaker Film and Music Director
Film Producer
Traditional Hausa Music Production and Direction
Translations (from Hausa to English, or vice-versa) Research
Qualitative Research Teaching Ethnography Film Creative
Direction
Intercultural Communication NGOs Creative Writing English See
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Education
D.Phil, Education and Human Resource Dvt
1985 ? 1988
M.A., Science Education
1982 ? 1983
Chelsea College, Bridges Place, University of London
Dip Sci Education, Science Education
1981 ? 1982
B.Sc. (Ed), Science Education/Biology
1976 ? 1979
Publications
In Isma'ila A. Tsiga & M. O. Bhadmus (Eds.), Literature, history,
and identity in northern Nigeria (pp. 101-128). Ibadan: Safari
Books Ltd. Safari Books Ltd, Ibadan, Nigeria
January 2016
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Music in the World of Islam Conference, Assilah, Morocco
August 2007
This paper is a study of how transnational musical genres and
forms, specifically from Hindi film music, became appropriated
and domesticated by Muslim Hausa of northern Nigeria and
integrated as part of their youth popular culture, as well as
religious musical performances. It specifically analyses how the
Muslim Hausa music of northern Nigeria became transformed
first as a result of Islamic encounters, and subsequently as a
result of global media flows which appraises the musical
relationships that have been formed and continue to be formed
between different regions of the world of Islam. It looks at how
Hindi film music became appropriated by the Muslim Hausa and
recast as a new form of secular and religious performance in an
Islamicate society, and the consequences of such circulation on
the structural character of Hausa traditional music.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Bayero Journal of Political Science (Maiden Edition), pp. 65-89.
Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
June 2014
The political climate of the Kano State, Nigeria, partisan political
administration from 2003-2011 reveal a state of constant clash
between the Kano State government regulatory agencies and the
indigenous entertainment industries. This resulted in banning, for
instance, the Hausa video film industry for sometime, and the
jailing of many entertainers on the pretext of contravention of one
censorship law or other. The result of these government activities
created an atmosphere of angst in the entertainment industry,
leading to the virtual collapse of the entertainment industry as a
result of the exodus of many entertainers from Kano. When the
2011 elections came up, the biggest group of youth mobilizers
were those from the entertainment industry who through music
and lyrics created a message tunnel to youth to vote against the
then current government in power. Situated within the theoretical
frame of voter mobilization, this paper therefore analyses the
feelings of angst and expression of anger towards the political
class in 2011 Nigerian elections and politics by non-partisan
Hausa urban electronic musicians in the northern Nigerian city of
Kano.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
In 9/11 and its Remediations in Popular Culture and Arts in
Africa, Edited by Heike Behrend, Tobias Wendl (2015), pp. 39-57.
Berlin, Lit.Verlag.
June 2015
This chapter analyzes the remediation of 9/11 event in two Hausa
video film comedies that parodied both Osama bin Laden and the
American President George Bush. The two video films, Ibro Osama,
and Ibro Saddam, provide a light-hearted look at an extremely
serious event, re-mediating the event through re-interpretation of
the event based on news reels as reported by international news
media. In this way, the Hausa filmmakers re-tell the story from a
different point of view to an audience largely sympathetic to
Osama bin Laden.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. 6 Bde. Oxford 2009.
Bd. III, S. 459-462
2009
Encyclopedia entry on Maitsine religious cult in the 1980s in
northern Nigeria, updated from the original by Allan Christelow
to include Qur'anniyun (The Submitters) in Kano.
Authors:
Abdalla Uba Adamu, Allan Christelow
The Journal of African History, 55(1): 129-130
March 2014
This is a review of Role of the Press and Communication
Technology in Democratization: The Nigerian Story. By Aje-Ori
Agbese, and published in The Journal of African History
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Visually Ethnographic Networks
July 2014
This is the video segment of my se

cond professorial inaugural
lecture which I delivered on Wednesday 9th July 2014 in Bayero
University Kano, Nigeria. The text of the lecture is available on
this site. I cringe whenever I hear my voice -- so I understand if
you also cringe :-)
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
July 2014
Full text of my second Professorial Inaugural Lecture, delivered on
Wednesday 9th July 2014.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
April 2004
Full text of my first Professorial Inaugural Lecture, delivered on
Saturday 24th April 2004.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Saturday, February 13, 2016