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EFCC seizes N872m houses from ex-minister, son

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized four houses worth N872 million from a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Sen. Bala Mohammed, and his son, Shamsudeen Bala.

The ex-minister is also under investigation on alleged fictitious contracts of about N1billion, allocation of 12 choice plots worth billions of naira and 37 other commercial plots of land worth about N8 billion to his suspected front named Tariq Hammoud as well as the controversial N1 trillion Abuja land swap.

More than 16 companies linked with fictitious contracts awarded by Bala had been under surveillance and their owners grilled by EFCC.

The anti-graft agency  quizzed Shamsudeen, Hammoud and top directors of the Federal Capital Territory administration, including that of Treasury, Ibrahim Bomoi; Land, Babayo Mainasara, and Abuja Geographical Information Service (AGIS), Ms Jamila Tangaza.

Tangaza, who had been in detention in the past one week, was battling for bail as at press time.

She has, however, been linked to N800 million questionable contracts to her personal firm apart from benefiting from plots of land from the ex-minister.

According to investigations, the ongoing probe of the ex-minister followed petitions against him, including complaints  pending since 2013.

It was gathered that following preliminary findings, EFCC obtained an interim forfeiture order to confiscate a N650 million house at 1 and 3, Mariam Mukhtar Street, Asokoro.

The same forfeiture order was secured to seize the ex-minister’s son three duplexes costing about N222 million in the Apo Area of Abuja.

A top source in EFCC, who spoke in confidence, said: “We are probing the immediate past Minister of FCT on many allegations against him, including award of N1 billion fictitious contracts; abuse of office by allocating 12 choice plots to his son and 37 other commercial plots worth about N8 billion to Hammoud, who is suspected to be his front; land swap, among others.

“Some of the petitions against Bala Mohammed had been pending since 2013. Initial findings showed that the ex-minister used fictitious companies to award contracts worth N1 billion in FCT. In one instance, a man with three companies was allowed to bid for one slot.

“About 16 companies used for fictitious contracts are under investigation because they did not supply items credited to them.

“We have also uncovered how Bala allocated plots of land to his friends, business partners. For examples, he allocated 12 plots of land to his son, Shamsudeen, and 37 commercial plots of land to his business front called Tariq Hammoud.

“Some of those quizzed so far confessed that Bala used unconventional methods in raking illicit funds and laundering same. Each time the ex-minister allocated a plot of land, he would find out the market value and ask you to pay half of the amount to him in cash.

“For instance if a plot of land was N2 billion, Bala would ask for N1 billion cash from the prospective buyer. He was smart in collecting cash.

“But the EFCC has traced allocation of 37 commercial plots to Hammoud and how N8billion was made from it. In fact, we saw a proposal by Tariq Hammoud to sell some of the plots.

“So far, our operatives have arrested, detained and quizzed Shamsudeen. He is presently on administrative bail. We have also interrogated Hammoud.”

Responding to a question, the source said: “Based on substantial findings, we approached the court to obtain an interim forfeiture order to seize a N650million from the ex-FCT Minister.

“What happened was that the former minister allocated some plots of land to Aso Savings and they bought the N650 million house for him at Nos. 1 and 3, Mariam Mukhtar Street, Asokoro District.

“The EFCC has confiscated three duplexes totalling N222million which were acquired by the ex-minister’s son.

“We invoked sections 28 and 34 of the EFCC (Establishment Act) 2004 and Section 13(1) of the Federal High Court Act, 2004 which empower the anti-graft agency to invoke Interim Assets Forfeiture Clause.

“Section 28 of the EFCC Act reads: ‘Where a person is arrested for an offence under this Act, the Commission shall immediately trace and attach all the assets and properties of the person acquired as a result of such economic or financial crime and shall thereafter cause to be obtained an interim attachment order from the Court.’”

On the fate of the ex-minister, the source said: “We are investigating him, we are yet to invite him for questioning. Certainly, we are closing in on him.”

The source added that  EFCC had grilled top directors of the FCT administration. “As for Ms Jamila Tangaza, we arrested and detained her because she was connected with the land scam and abuse of office.

“The ex-minister asked her to resign her appointment with BBC and appointed her as a Senior Special Assistant on Media and Information. But Bala allocated some plots of land to her to sell in order to acquire a mansion in Asokoro District too. Her house was allegedly worth N158million.

“Also, Jamila allegedly abused her office by awarding N800million contracts to her company which is called Songbird Multimedia.

“Her case was interesting. When she registered the company with the Corporate Affairs Commission, she used a fictitious name as the CEO of the company but she is the sole signatory to the company’s account and her phone number is the point of contact with the firm.

“We have sent her signature on CAC document and other specimen signatures collected from her to a forensic laboratory. Following a court order, we detained her in the past few days but as at Friday, she was pleading that we should grant her bail. We are looking into her request.”

The top source denied insinuations that the ex-BBC correspondent was handcuffed when she was taken to her office for a search.

The source added: “You can verify from her what transpired. From custody in EFCC, we went with her to her office to recover some documents. We used the EFCC bus but along the way, she begged us to park the bus away from the vicinity of AGIS where she is a director. She did not want her staff and others to notice that she was brought to the office by EFCC team.

“We obliged her request by parking outside AGIS. We also didn’t allow policemen in uniform to follow her to the office. We assigned plain-clothe operatives and even asked her if she wanted the only lady in our team to follow her so that Jamila can blend with the crowd in AGIS without anyone suspecting anything.

“She said all plain clothe operatives can follow her. We did not put her in handcuffs. This is the extent we went based on her request to protect her reputation and integrity. The story of Jamila being handcuffed was rubbish.”

The media Writer-Book Review

INTRODUCTION

The media writer welcomes students of journalism and mass communication to some of the major issues in mass media writing. This book serves as prescriptive hand-writing courses and also aims at getting acquainted with the basic textual torturous journalism, advertising and public relations. A perspective of mass media writing, writing including the art and scope of writing for the different media and their professions.

CONTENT

The content of this book ranges from perspective of mass media writing, writing for writing for advertisers, writing for public media language and glossary. These are organized in distinct but related chapters.

ORGANISATION OF CONTENT

The book has seven {7} chapters with chapter one dealing with the perspective of mass media writing, chapter two deals with writing for the print, media, chapter three focuses on writing for the broadcast, chapter four deals with writing for advertisers, chapter five deals with writing for the public relations, chapter six deals with writing for the web and lastly chapter seven focuses on writing in media language.

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INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE - Book Review

INTRODUCTION

       

Introduction to political science is authored by Professor Okon Eminue. A Ph.D holder of university of Ibadan and consultant to the international labour organisation. He is a seasoned politician who had been a military assistant to the chief of general staff and commissioner in the Akwa Ibom state Executive council.

Introduction to political science is a text with engineering capacity to ensure intellectual development of the reader. The greatest advantage given by the book is that it advances the analysis of the concepts, far beyond what the existing sources have done, and thus reflect today’s realities more elaborately. Though not designed to be a compendium, Okon Eminue condense in one source several ideas which are scattered about disparately over a number of sources.

The book especially in the reviewed chapters(1,2,4,5) provides a careful and detailed examination of origin, nature and scope of political science; methodology of political science; theories of the state and political obligation; and basic concept in political science for foundation students of political science.

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CONTENTS / ORGANISATION

 

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CHAPTER ONE

(ORIGIN, NATURE AND SCOPE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE)

CHAPTER TWO

(METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE)

CHAPTER FOUR

(THEORIES OF THE STATE AND POLITICAL OBLIGATION)

CHAPTER FIVE

(BASIC CONCEPTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE)

CONCLUSION

EVALUATION

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Book Review - Detection

TITLE: Detection

AUTHOR: Imo Okon

PLACE OF PUBLICATION: II Enwe Street, Uyo.

PUBLISHERS: Robert Minder International Publishers

YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2005

NUMBER OF PAGES: V1 + 56

PRICE: Not Stated

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ISBN: 978-37217-7-1

         

INTRODUCTION

          Detection is collection of poems into a pamphlets technically arranged into six semantic  sections authored by 1mo Okon comprising of various poetic works some of which are rhymic in style arranged in lines and stanzas.

The whole of the first section are dedicated to not thiongo which contains four poems.

Section one, two, and three are titled;

Echoes of wa thiongo’, Echoes of the masses; Retrert Rhymes”.

          Section four is tagged, “Echoes from the Tryst” Comprising of six poems.

Section five is titled, “Insight” comprising of four poems.

The last section is titled “voices of virtue” and the book ends with enthralling Epilogue and Epitaph. So, Detection has a total of 36 poems in it.

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TERM PAPER WRITTING

TIPS ON WRITING AN EXCLUSIVE TERM PAPER
*understand the topic to research on
*Research. It's pointless to launch into writing before you've done the research. You need to understand the background to the topic and the current thinking, as well as finding out what future research is considered necessary in the area. While it may be tempting to rehash information you already know really well, avoid doing this or you learn nothing from the research and writing process. Go into research with a sense of adventure and an openness to learning things you've yet to grasp, as well as being ready to discover new ways of looking at old problems. When researching, use both primary (original text, document, legal case, interviews, experiment, etc.).
* Refine the statement. After you've done the research, reflect back over the chosen topic. At this point, it's essential to pinpoint the single, strong idea you'll be discussing, your assertion that you believe you can defend throughout the paper and that makes it clear to a reader what they're about to learn about and be given a sound conclusion on. Your thesis statement is the spine of your essay, the idea that you'll go on to defend in the paragraphs that follow. Serve it up half-baked and the remainder of the paper is bound to be flavorless. Construct a thesis that your research has proven is interesting to you – that way, backing it up won't be such a bore. Once you're satisfied that your topic is sound and clarified, proceed to writing your first draft.
*Create an outline for the paper. Some people can work on a term paper skipping this step; they're a rare and often time-pressed breed. It is far better to have an outline sketched out so that you know where you're headed, just as a road map helps you to know where you're going from A to B. Like the entire paper, the outline is not set in stone but subject to changes. However, it does give you a sense of structure and a framework to fall back on when you lose your way mid paper and it also serves as the skeleton of your paper, and the rest is just filling in the details. There are different approaches to developing an outline and you may even have your own personal, preferred method. As a general guidance, some of the basic elements of an outline should include:

• Introduction, discussion paragraphs/sections and conclusion or summary.
• Descriptive or explanatory paragraphs following the introduction, setting the background or theme.
• Analysis and argument paragraphs/sections. Using your research, write out the main idea for each body paragraph.
• Any outstanding questions or points you're not yet sure about.
• See How to write an outline for more detail. 

*Provide relevant points in your introduction. The introductory paragraph is challenging but avoid turning it into a hurdle. Of all the paper, this is the part often most likely to be rewritten as you continue working through the paper and experience changes of direction, flow and outcome. As such, see it as simply a means of getting started and remind yourself that it's always revisable. This approach allows you the freedom to mess it up but rectify it as needed. Also use this as an opportunity to help yourself come to grips with the general organization of the term paper by explaining the breakdown, something the reader will also need to be aware of from the start. Try using HIT as the means for getting your introduction underway:

• Hook the reader using a question or a quote. Or perhaps relate a curious anecdote that will eventually make absolute sense to the reader in the context of the thesis.
• Introduce your topic. Be succinct, clear and straightforward.
• Thesis statement. This should have been clarified already in the previous step.
  • Don't forget to define the words contained in the question! Words like "globalization" have many differing meanings and it's important to state which ones you'll be using as part of your introductory section.
  *Convince your Readers: Make sure each paragraph supports your argument in a new way. Not sure your body's up to task? Try isolating the first sentence of each paragraph; together, they should read like a list of evidence that proves your thesis.
• Try to relate the actual subject of the essay (say, Plato's Symposium) to a tangentially related issue you happen to know something about (say, the growing trend of free-wheeling hookups in frat parties). Slowly bring the paragraph around to your actual subject, and make a few generalizations about why this aspect of the book/subject is so fascinating and worthy of study (such as, how different the expectations for physical intimacy were then compared with now).

*  Conclude with strength. Try using the ROCC method:

• Restate your thesis statement.
• One important detail which is usually found in your last paragraph.
• Conclude – wrap it up.
• Clincher – where you give the reader something left to think about.

*Provide appropriate reference: Using outside sources? Find out which citation style your instructor prefers, MLA or APA (or other style if you're not in the USA). Each has a precise notation system, so if you're unsure of the rules, check the manual (online versions are available at owl.English.Purdue.EU). Peppering quotes throughout your text is certainly a good way to help make your point, but don't overdo it and take care not to use so many quotes as the embodiment of your points that you're basically allowing other authors to make the point and write the paper for you.

• Avoid cutting and pasting from other people's arguments. By all means use eminent thinkers in the field's thoughts to back up your own thinking but avoid saying nothing other than "A says... B says...". The reader wants to know what you say ultimately.
• It's helpful to sort out your bibliography from the beginning, to avoid having a last minute scramble: How to write a bibliography, How to write an APA style bibliography and How to write a bibliography in MLA format.

ANALYTICALLY ANALYZE NIGERIA AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION

The struggle among social classes for the control of state power has been the propelling force in the development of many societies. Development here is taken to mean qualitative change in the productive forces and production relations that give rise to the production of more goods, creation of needs and ways of meeting such needs. In the process of production, consumption and distribution of material values in the society, such as food, shelter, clothes etc, and people get polarized into major two contending classes over the ownership and control of the means of production. On the one hand are those who own and control the means of production are member of the bourgeois class, while on the other are those have no means of production are member of the oppressed/proletarian class.

The basis of the struggle between the two classes is the control of the state so as to determine social policies especially, the authoritative allocation of values and scarce resources. While the oppressed class agitates for a new social order that ensure fairly equitable distribution of resources, the bourgeois class preoccupies itself with maintaining their class advantage, by extension the structural inequality............

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