AMCON Takes Over AfriJet Airlines Over Unpaid Debt

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on Friday continued its debt recovery drive by taking over the assets of some big debtors.

Pursuant to the order of Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Lagos Division, AMCON took over the assets of Afrijet Airlines Limited owned by Vitalis Ibe, over a debt of almost N10billion.
AMCON had purchased the bank assets sometime in 2011 from the defunct FinBank and Bank PHB.

The court order also affected Mr. Ibe’s Continental Aviation Services Limited for which Gbolahan Elias, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has since been appointed Receiver/Manager.

On Friday, the Receiver/Manager took possession of Afrijet Plaza, the corporate head office of the airlines located on Sheraton-Opebi Link Road Ikeja, Opebi, Lagos, along with another asset located at Plot 22, Jimoh Odutola Street, off Eric Moore Road, Surulere, Lagos, as well as Mr. Ibe’s office at the Airport.
The court had ordered the takeover of other offices, branches, stores, warehouses, factories belonging to Mr. Ibe, wherever they may be to help recover the debt.


While granting the order on the application by counsel to AMCON, Justice Obiozor restrained Mr. Ibe and his companies, directors, agents, servants and/or privies from operating, withdrawing from or otherwise tampering with the funds belonging to and/or deposited in any of his bank accounts in Nigeria.
Negotiations on the debt have gone on with AMCON for a long time.

To enforce the order, the court also ordered the police authorities in Lagos State to assist the Receiver/Manager and the bailiffs of the Federal High Court in doing their job.

Afrijet Airlines formally operated from the NAHCO Building in the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, was also a cargo operator  in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Afrijet Airlines still maintains an aviation maintenance shop with its sister company, Elite Aviation.

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Notorious Awawa Gang Arrested By Operatives Of Lagos State Task Force

A suspected member of the notorious Awawa gang, 30 year old Jimoh Sanni, alias Last Born, who specialises in harassing and raping young girls, has been arrested by operatives of Lagos State Task Force alongside 14 others after they received intelligence report on the activities of the notorious gang. The operation that got the gang apprehended took place at midnight and was led by SP Olayinka Egbeyemi.Sanni, after his arrest confessed that he has raped over five girls within the Dopemu area of Agege, Lagos State.
Sanni said:
“I live at 4, Akinlabi Street, Agbotikuyo, in Agege. “I am from Okene in Kogi State. I am a sectional head of Awawa Boys and have raped more than five girls around Dopemu area. My gang has burgled many shops at Aluminium Village and sold Indian hemp at beer parlours and night clubs at N100 per wrap before we go for our usual night robbery operations.
“We collect N2,000 to N3,000 everyday from individual aluminium shop owner at Dopemu area and that they buy Indian hemp from another Awawa Boys kingpin named Olata, at Oloosha area at Mushin.”
The other suspects arrested alongside Sanni are 29 year old Ajayi Babatunde Lukumon; 24 year old Ajose Anthony; 32 year old Adebayo Nurudeen; 38 year old Olayemi Lasege; 23 year old Sanusi Afeez; 30 year old Popoola Fatai; 27 year old Popoola Yakubu; 20 year old Ajibade Oluwafemi; 33 year old Opeye-mi Oluwasola; 21 year old Adewunmi Oluwatobi; 25 year old Akerele Sunday; 32 year old Timothy Ogar; 21 year old Actor Amechi; 30 year old Jimoh Sanni and 27 year old Owolabi Adediran.

Alhaji Musibaudeen Popoola, 66, who is the father of two of the suspects, Popoola Fatai and Popoola Yakubu said:
“I found it extremely difficult to believe when I was told that two of my sons were among those arrested members of Awawa Boys.
“I only came, as a disciplined father, to tell them that the end has come. It is going to be a big lesson to other children that they must obey their parents.”


Source: Vanguard

Siblings Attacked By Suspected Cultists In Makurdi, Benue State

Three children of a pastor were on Thursday, June 23 attacked by suspected cultists near Benue State University second campus in Makurdi.

The victims, who are children of NKST Church pastor, Reverend Akpen Leva reportedly confronted a group of suspected cult boys who had earlier snatched the phone of the youngest sibling and the cultists attacked them with machetes.

The siblings sustained various degrees of injury and were rushed to the Benue State University Teaching Hospital were they are currently receiving treatment.

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, who paid a visit at the hospital condemned the attacks and assured that the culprits will be immediately arrested and charged.


Source: Benue News

Legendary Street Fashion Photographer, Bill Cunningham Dies At 87

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 15: Photographer Bill Cunningham attends Rodarte Spring 2016 during New York Fashion Week at Center 548 on September 15, 2015 in New York City.

Bill Cunningham, the street-style photographer whose photo essays for The New York Times memorialized trends ranging from fanny packs to Birkin bags, gingham shirts and fluorescent biker shorts, died in New York on Saturday (26th June 2016). He was 87.

He had been hospitalized recently after having a stroke. His death was confirmed by The New York Times.

One of the pioneers of street style photos, known for his blue jacket, capturing well-heeled philanthropists at play and ardent fashionistas dressed for work or shopping. “We all dress for Bill,” Vogue’s Anna Wintour once said in a documentary film made about the iconic street style photographer titled ‘Bill Cunningham New York‘.

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According to The New York Times, where he worked for nearly 40 years,

“He didn’t go to the movies. He didn’t own a television. He ate breakfast nearly every day at the Stage Star Deli on West 55th Street, where a cup of coffee and a sausage, egg and cheese could be had until very recently for under $3. He lived until 2010 in a studio above Carnegie Hall amid rows and rows of file cabinets, where he kept all of his negatives. He slept on a single-size cot, showered in a shared bathroom and, when he was asked why he spent years ripping up checks from magazines, he said: “Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.”

Photo Credit: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images
Sources: The New York Times, Vogue

Actress Iyabo Ojo Says Her EX Married Her Because She Was Pregnant..

Divorced Yoruba star actress, Iyabo Ojo, has given her opinion on broken marriages even as she stressed that her failed marriage had nothing to do with her acting profession.

She added that there are various reasons people get married.

In a chat with Hip TV, the actress majorly said, “If I had problems with my marriage, it had nothing to do with my acting profession.
“I wasn’t even a star when I got married. And when I got out of my marriage, I still wasn’t a star. Up until I got married, I’d only featured in one film, Satanic, and I pulled out of the industry the moment I got married.


“So I wasn’t acting in those years that I was married. I was a full-time housewife and businesswoman. I actually chose to come back into acting because I had started having issues with my marriage and knew it wasn’t making me happy.
“And I knew that wasn’t the way I wanted to live my life. Yes, there are lots of problems in celebrity marriages; and the reason is that as celebrities, we live in our own world.

“We work hard a lot, moving from one location to the other; and usually when a female in the industry meets a male guy who just comes from the blues, he usually comes with a lot of loaded lies and sweeps some of these colleagues of mine off their feet.

“And they in turn are not patient enough to study these guys well enough, because ‘society expects them to be married. So people tend to marry for specific reasons, and as far as I am concerned, you mustn’t be able to define the reason you love someone to the extent of marriage.

“Once you get married for a reason, then there is a problem. I got married because I was pregnant. That was a reason. My husband married me because I was pregnant for him; that was also a reason. Most men get married to ladies in the industry because of the celebrity aura around them, only to realise that there is a lot to marriage than that.

“They also discover that in reality, these ladies aren’t as perfect as the screens project them and then the men cannot get used to the ego that comes with the profession and typically want to be the man and break those wings. And if the woman is such that wouldn’t be tamed, then there is a crisis and a collision,” the  actress added.


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