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Lauretta Onochie

  • Why Onochie is not fit to be INEC Commissioner – Falana

    Why Onochie is not fit to be INEC Commissioner – Falana

    Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana has said Lauretta Onochie, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari is not qualified to be a Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Falana made this known in a statement on Tuesday following the nomination of the known staunch supporter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by President Buhari.

    According to Falana, one of the criteria provided in the Constitution to determine who is fit for the position is that members of the INEC must not be partisan, a rule which he said Onochie is not compliant with.

    Describing the presidential aide as an “unrepentant member” of the ruling party and one who has “consistently attacked members of other political parties, Falana said, “To that extent, she is partisan and therefore, not qualified to be a member of the Independent National Electoral Commission”.

    President Buhari is seeking confirmation of Mrs Lauretta’s appointment as a National Commissioner for INEC, representing Delta State.

    He made this known in a letter written to the Senate on Tuesday, which was later read by Senator Ahmed Lawan at plenary.

    The President is also seeking confirmation of the appointment of three other; Professor Mohammed Sani (Katsina); Professor Kunle Ajayi (Ekiti), and Seidu Ahmed (Jigawa).

  • BREAKING: Buhari appoints aide INEC Commissioner for Delta

    BREAKING: Buhari appoints aide INEC Commissioner for Delta

    President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed his aide on social media, Lauretta Onochie as a Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for Delta State.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports this was contained in a letter seeking the confirmation of her appointment addressed to the National Assembly and read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday by Senate President Ahmad Lawan.

    Other INEC Commissioners that President Buhari sought confirmation from the Senate for are Prof Muhaamad Sani for Katsina State, Kunle Cornelius Ajayi for Ekiti State and Seidu Ahmad for Jigawa State.

  • #ENDSARS comments: Twitter boils as Buhari’s aide, Wizkid confront each other

    #ENDSARS comments: Twitter boils as Buhari’s aide, Wizkid confront each other

    Lauretta Onochie, a media aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, today called out singer Wizkid over his recent comment on the president’s COVID-19 recovery message to President Trump and his wife amid an ongoing outcry by Nigerian youths to end the SARS menace.

    In her remarks, Onochie called Wizkid’s attack on the president “crass ignorance, insensitivity and childishness”.

    Onochie who in a post shared on her official Twitter page noted that there is nothing disrespectful about the way Wizkid called President Buhari an old man, but his way and manner of approach wasn’t right.

    She added that when the father of three grows up, he might learn respect.

  • CAMA law: Buhari’s aide drops bombshell allegation against Oyedepo’s church

    CAMA law: Buhari’s aide drops bombshell allegation against Oyedepo’s church

    Lauretta Onochie, a media aide of President Muhammadu Buhari has again called out the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo over the Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA).

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Onochie on Monday via her official Twitter handle dropped a bombshell allegation against Bishop Oyedepo’s church and Nicholas Mutu, House Committee Chair on Oil and Gas.

    The Buhari’s aide, while stressing that “there is a difference between control and regulation” and that “CAMA aims at regulation”, alleged in her tweet that the House Committee Chair on Oil and Gas paid N20 million in a day to Oyedepo’s church.

    “Theres a difference between CONTROL & REGULATION

    CAMA aims at REGULATION. Where Nicholas Mutu, House Committee Chair on Oil & Gas, regularly received money from @NDDCOnline & also paid ₦20m in a day to Mr Oyedepo’s church, Nigerians want the regulation in place,” Onochie tweeted.

    Recall that Onochie had earlier openly criticized Oyedepo for rejecting the CAMA law, saying it is irrational to subject churches to the same laws as companies.

    Under CAMA, signed into law on August 7, religious bodies and charity organisations will be strictly regulated by the registrar-general of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister.

    But Oyedepo said the law was borne out of the government’s jealousy about the prosperity recorded by the church.

    Reacting in a tweet, Ononchie said Oyedepo would have to abide by the government’s law as long as he dwells in the country.

    “I hope this is not true. If it is, Oyedepo will have to manufacture his own country and live by his own laws.

    “As long as he lives and operates within the entity called Nigeria, he will live by Nigerian rules and laws. He will do as he’s told by the law. Enough of lawlessness,” she stated.

  • COVID-19: ‘When you get it… please die alone’ – Buhari’s aide

    COVID-19: ‘When you get it… please die alone’ – Buhari’s aide

    Social Media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie has said anyone with Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) should not spread it, but die alone.

    The presidential aide stated this on Sunday via Twitter when she commented on the defiance being shown by some Nigerians against the stay at home order, and she was asked if Nigerians should stay at home and die.

    “It’s your choice. We all stay home for a short while, manage what we have now. Or keep spreading d virus & die. The earlier we obey the rules, the earlier we will all come out and carry on with our lives. Just like China. When you get it, dont infect your family. Please die alone,” she tweeted.

    Stay at home and die of hunger, right?

    "When you get it, dont infect your family. Please die alone," - Lauretta Onochie
    “When you get it, dont infect your family. Please die alone,” – Lauretta Onochie
  • K-Solo slams Lauretta Onochie for posting fake  photo about Atiku

    K-Solo slams Lauretta Onochie for posting fake photo about Atiku

    Outspoken Nigerian music producer and singer, K-Solo has slammed media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ms Lauretta Onochie, for posting a fake photograph, allegedly of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Sokoto rally, which held on Monday.

     

    The exposure was made possible by the collaborative verification of journalists under the aegis of Cross Check Nigeria initiative.

     

    Onochie claimed that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, had distributed cash and food at his Sokoto rally held on Monday.

    Using her verified Twitter handle, @Laurestar, Onochie tweeted an image supposedly from the Sokoto campaign rally.

    While the tweet has triggered multiple retweets, TheNewsGuru gathered that the image was recycled and manipulated

    After intense investigations, it was revealed that the same first appeared online in February 2017 when a Lagos-based Charity foundation released photos from an outreach. In the same vein, the same image was also used to publicize a Nollywood actor’s orphanage visit, two days later also in February 2017.

     

    A certain twitter user Bhadmus Hakeem also discovered the error.

     

    Reacting over Onochie’s error, K-Solo wrote on Twitter

     

  • Buhari’s aide lambasts CAN, demeans Nigerian journalists

    Buhari’s aide lambasts CAN, demeans Nigerian journalists

    Social Media Aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, on Monday referred to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) as Cankerworm Association of Nigeria.

    She alludes that the association that embodies the totality of Christians in Nigeria is not in talking terms with their God.

    Read full statement:

    This piece has nothing to do with the millions of Christians in Nigeria who Love the Lord with their whole hearts and their neighbours as themselves, as commanded by our Lord, Jesus Christ.

    On June 16, 2018, lost in the euphoria of Nigeria versus Croatia match at the on-going FIFA World cup tournament in faraway Russia was the cheering news that the Nigeria Police had nabbed the five suspected killers of two Rev Fathers in Benue.

    Their names were given as follows: Manga Husseini, David Akenawe, Agada Tsesaa, Tarza Orvanya and Ngyohov Shin.

    The mostly sleeping Nigerian media, for reason explained to the nation by one of our veteran journalists, did not consider it “Breaking News”. They did not even do their usual “Cut and paste”.

    This is a bid to demarket President Muhammadu Buhari, a man elected to salvage a nation that it’s ruination was backed by unrighteous men parading themselves as Christians. The CAN of worms that reap from the bloody trade that is going on in our nation, did not deem it fit to pat the security operatives on the back.

    Why would they? The Cankerworm Association of Nigeria, previously known as “Christian” Association of Nigeria, had achieved its aim, using the blood of two innocent Catholic Priests, to bring back the Catholic Church to their unrighteous fold. The lives of those two innocent Priests, were pawns in the desperate game by certain evil former Landlords of our nation, who are in bed with the demonic Cankerworms and purveyor of hate messages and fake news.

    It was in the hey days of the Jonathan administration. Sin was in vogue. Corruption was the currency of trade for the association of partakers of stolen funds otherwise and regretably known as Christian Association of Nigeria. It was very fashionable to commit atrocities and be honoured with a front seat in church and a title.

    But the Catholic Church in Nigeria would have none of it. The Catholic Bishops decided to quit the unholy organisation CAN, as there was no more christianty in the Christian Association of Nigeria. They cited poor leadership and POLITICISATION of the association.

    The Catholics further went on to add that some attitudes, utterances and actions of the national leadership of CAN which in their opinion negate the concept of the foundation of the association and the desire of Our Lord Jesus Christ, made it imposible for them to continue in the same organisation as unrighteous people.

    And then, as if in answered prayer for the Catholics, Nigerians rallied round Muhammadu Buhari, a man of honour and integrity, sacking the government that fed the greed of the CAN of worms who constantly received stolen funds meant to make the lives of Nigerians better and easier.

    This made the Tape worms very unhappy. Tgey began to plot to bring vack the Catholic Church to their fold. Their silence was deafening when IPOB tried to destabilise the country. So when IPOB suddenly dumped Christianity for Judaism, watchers alleged that the Worms had not been able to meet their financial obligations to IPOB.

    I am a bible Student and EVERYTHING I do, is guided by my belief in ONE God as supported by the Christian Holy book, the Bible. Any Association that attaches “Christian” to its name, must be built on what Jesus Christ taught us. But the criminal merchants are in bed with criminal elements in our today’s opposition, as they were with the Looting government of PDP that ran our nation aground under you know who. They have now managed to drag the Catholic Church into their pig sty to wallow in their mud. But it won’t last because the Catholics would see through the unrighteous smokescreen and flee from CAN. Again.

    I have not seen where Jesus preached hatred the way the Nigerian worms do. He taught us to LOVE even those that do not love us. Preaching hate in their coven is a direct insult and disobedience to the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    But such criminals, existed in His days and Jesus did not mince words in labelling them appropriately. He called them BROOD OF VIPERS. He also called them WHITE-WASHED GRAVEYARDS harbouring dead men’s bones. What is the difference between then and now? Oh I know. The Temple keepers of those days, trekked or rode on donkeys. Today, it’s Private jets bought with funds stolen from Government coffers and donated in form of Tithes and offerings to the Worms. Abomination unto the Lord!

    He also chased them from the temple saying they had turned His Father’s house into a den of THIEVES and TRADERS. It’s very true today. The report was made of a woman who retired from the Civil Service and a Tithe of N60m was received from her. Stolen funds. We got our money back. Many of them are now finding it difficult to maintain their high profile life styles since President Buhari turned off the taps.

    I think I was being diplomatic by calling them CAN of worms. We need to define what sort of worms They are. They are CAN of Tapeworms. Parasites! Sucking for free, the blood of their ignorant followers in addition to scamming corrupt political leaders.

    With all the stolen resources available to them, they can afford to find out the truth. But their aim is not to find the truth. Evidence abound that Aides of the political friends of the Tapeworms are the ones on a killing spree, in the name of herdsmen and some of them are already in custody. They have conveniently looked away when the police, in response to the petition of the Benue state Governor, invited his predecessor for questioning. They have said nothing regarding the arrest by the Police of the killers of the two Catholic Priests in Benue State.

    EVERY LIFE MATTERS. So what sort of a Christian would be silent when over 1000 Fulanis were massacred but amplifies the killing of 70 people massacred in Benue? Thankfully, we have many Christian preachers, real Christians, across the nation who do not preach the same hate sermons churned out by the “Christian” Association of Nigeria.

    Profiles of those arrested show that they are MOSTLY from the warring ethnic groups. So why are the Tapeworms speading lies and instigating hate across the nation? The answer is not farfetched. They want to have another access to federal government funds, meant for the development of our nation thereby shortchanging the people of Nigeria. So they reckon that demarketing the anti corruption champion of Africa, Pres. Muhammadu Okechukwu Buhari, will again, throw the National treasury at their feet.

    We have had governments in this nation – the good, the bad and the ugly. At no time have we had one that shamelessly peddled religion as a weapon of governance as the government under Pres. Jonathan. We had never seen one that had openly pitched its peace-loving citizens against each other on religious basis using the now frustrated CAN of Tapeworms. It is being alleged openly that many members of the leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria CAN, are some of the most corrupt and rotten leaders in Nigeria. That’s to the credit of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that elevated them above the law and stuffed their mouths full of stolen funds. Have we forgotten a private jet, $15m and South Africa? No we haven’t.

    These worms, Tapeworms, need to borrow a leaf from many Christian preachers of righteousness across the nation. These are men and women of goodwill, ordained in righteousness and are preachers of nothing but peace, love and understanding. Now let me educate the rest who have been belligerent towards others in our nation who worshìp OUR God in a different way.

    It is God who chooses what family everyone is born into. Consequently, and by implication, He chooses the religion we all inherit. He wanted me to be a Christian so He caused me to be born into a Christian family. He wanted Gov. Nasir Elrufai to be a Muslim, so he was born into a Muslim family. We both relate as brother and sister. So do most Christians and Muslims across the nation. Religion nor ethnicity does not come into play because we are children of the same God and citizens of the same nation, NIGERIA.

    The attitude of many pretenders to Christianity is de-marketing Christianity to the point that Islam is now the fastest growing religion on earth. (Ntor! Ask Google). This is in spite of the fact that ISIS and Boko Haram, are doing to Islam what CAN is doing to Christianity.

    It was perfectly fine for a so called Christian President to attend Organisation Of Islamic Conference (OIC), and bring it’s benefits to Nigeria. (I suspect they may have looted those benefits). But totally an Islamisation agenda of the Buhari Administration for Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to take advantage of the SUKUK interest -free loans for the development of his native Enugu State.

    In Germany, there’s a Christian political party. This morbid hatred for a righteous man, is enough to propel these religious merchants and bigots to register a political Party. Religious and tribal bigotry are not going to hand them political power. It’s not going to give them what they crave, which is, unfettered access to our national treasury for the purpose of looting.

    Until they become a registered political party, until they cease to be demonic and irresponsible in their utterances, until they repent and become Christians, their words are nothing but noise and hate speech. Until then, they do not represent Christians nor speak for us. Until then, they are a brood of vipers and a CAN of Tapeworms.

    God bless Nigeria.

    Lauretta Onochie.

    @Laurestar.

     

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Center denies leadership award presented to Buhari

    The official memorial body of Martin Luther King Jr., The King Center, established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, wife of the renowned American activist, has distanced itself from the award presented to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Personal assistant to President Buhari’s on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, had announced on social media that Buhari received the First Black History Month National Black Excellence and Exceptional African Leadership Award 2018 from the family of Late Martin Luther King Jr.

    “Dr. Mrs. Naomi Barbara King led other members of the African-American body to the conferment,” she said.

    Lauretta Onochie

    Reacting to the development, The King Center posted on its official Twitter handle that neither the Center, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, nor the children of Martin Luther King Jr. presented the award to Buhari.

    “The award given to President Buhari of Nigeria was not given by The King Center, at the request of The King Center or by the children of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King,” the tweet read.

    Dr. Mrs. Naomi Barbara King, as quoted by the Buhari’s aide, is actually Mrs. Naomi Ruth Barber King (Dr.), wife of Alfred Daniel Williams “A. D.” King, who is the youngest son of Martin Luther King, Sr.

    TheNewsGuru reports Mrs. Naomi Ruth Barber King (Dr.) is the founder of A. D. King Foundation that was established in 2008.

     

  • “Tell us your beef with Buhari”- President’s media aide queries 2face

    “Tell us your beef with Buhari”- President’s media aide queries 2face

    Myriad reactions emanated after pop star, 2face announced that he will be spearheading a protest geared towards demanding accountability from leaders at all levels of government in Nigeria.

    However, judging from the body language of the presidency, it appears they aren’t in support of the protest as they see it as being politically motivated .

    President Buhari’s personal assistant on social media Lauretta Onochie, quizzed 2face on Tuesday night asking him to take up the challenge of explaining the president’s policies he is not happy with on National TV.

    According to her: “Nigerians would like 2Baba to explain the policies that he’s not happy with on National LIVE TV, as well as proffer alternative economic policies that would better serve all Nigerians. Not on newspapers that could have been written by anyone.”

    “That way, Nigerians will know it’s entirely his idea, that he understands what he’s doing, and acting in the interest of all Nigerians. Otherwise, we might assume that the protest is for those who miss the heist that happened under You know who. Nigerians are waiting. Thank you Sir”.

    Recall that the African Queen crooner released a video yesterday where he stated reasons for the planned protest