…As Chief of Staff urges Obio-Akpor people to support Amaechi
PORT HARCOURT – Deputy Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Leyii Kwanee, has faulted the Police Force Headquarters’, Abuja summons of the Leader of the House, Mr. Chidi Lloyd over recent fracas at the Assembly.

Lloyd who had turned himself in, is being investigated for attack on Mr. Michael Chinda, member representing Obio/Akpor constituency in the House, which left the lawmaker in critical condition in a London hospital.

Meanwhile, Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Mr. Tony Okocha, has charged the people of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state to continue to support the administration of Governor Chibuike Amaechi, adding that the government would always deliver on its promises.

Okocha, when the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the council, Mr. Chikordi Dike and members of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, embarked on a meet-the-people tour to Ward 16 in the council also lashed at the five anti-Amaechi lawmakers over their failed bid to impeach the Speaker of the state House of Assembly.

However, the Deputy Speaker, representing Khana II constituency, said that the summon of the House Leader was discriminatory as legislators involved in the brawl were walking freely in Port Harcourt.

He said: “What would have been appropriate was for the Police to invite all involved in the fracas for questioning. If they want to do a thorough work, they should carry out an unbiased investigation.”

He added that the people of Rivers State see the state’s Police Commissioner, Mr. Mbu as being partial and that the invitation of Lloyd being selective, confirms that the Police were acting out a script.

Okocha, on his part charged Obio Akpor caretaker executive members to put in their best, said: “Let them come and tell us why they think, Amaechi’s government should be overthrown by civilian coup, which they failed. What is the punishment for a coup that was aborted?”

Okocha who, presented a bus donated by the Caretaker Committee to students of Obio Akpor, said the essence of the tour was to interact with the people of the council to know how best government could affect their area.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/rivers-crisis-deputy-speaker-accuses-police-of-bias-over-summon/#sthash.pfLdMGrN.dpuf

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Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the High Court of Kano State today July 22, 2013 convicted and sentenced Usman Salifu to two years imprisonment for stealing.

The convict was alleged to have stolen the sum of N65, 000, 000 from one Yusuf Sale Dunari’s fixeddeposit account domiciled at Oceanic Bank ( now Ecobank) where he was a Branch Manager.

A statement by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, said the convict who had pleaded not guilty upon arraignment, dramatically changed his plea by admitting his guilt to all of the 4-count charge.

The defence counsel pleaded with the court to tamper justice with mercy, saying that the convict is a first offender, and has aged parents and many dependants.

But the prosecuting counsel M.M Gambo urged the court to make orders regarding restitution in sentencing the convict.

Justice Aboki accordingly convicted the accused and sentenced him to six months imprisonment with option of N2m fine on the first count, six months with option of N500, 000 fine on counts 2 and 3 and four months imprisonment with option of N500, 000 fine on count 4. All sentences are to run concurrently.

http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/07/25/n65m-scam-former-bank-manager-bags-two-year-jail-term/

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Something looks very unnatural about this photo, spot it:

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A Nigerian movie-maker, Ifeanyi Johnpaul Aguonu, has been sentenced to 15-years jail term in Malaysia for drug possession.

Aguonu, was arrested and caught with 2.4 kg of methamphetamines in his possession

According to source saying, the jailed filmmaker was also slapped with receiving 10 strokes of the cane for a crime he committed in March 2011.

High Court Justice Abdul Alim Abdullah expressed concern that many Nigerians had entered Malaysia with drugs without any fear of the law.

“Our country has a strict rule when it comes to drugs, that the law provides a death penalty for drug trafficking. If you are convicted of a capital offence here, you could have been hung from the neck until you die,” the judge said before sentencing Aguonu.

“But you’ve been saved from the gallows because your counsel sent a representation and the Attorney-General Chambers agreed to give you an alternative charge,” he said.

http://www.emmanuelbabatunde.com/2013/07/nollywood-movie-director-jailed-15.html

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CEO Chocolate City Group, Audu Maikori, said he would never make distasteful statements about Jesse Jagz and Brymo but declined to say anything on the artistes’ contract with his label. Maikori, who was reacting to a news item published on several blogs, websites and online newspapers, explained that the matter would be settled legally..He said his company would not hesitate to take legal actions against any media outlet that post such offending stories about them without verification.In a press release issued on Wednesday, he said, “It is indeed sad that the tenets of true journalism were disregarded as several media outlets in typical manner just re-posted the false thread without bothering to verify the authenticity or otherwise of the publications.”

http://www.emmanuelbabatunde.com/2013/07/i-will-never-speak-bad-of-jesse-jagz.html

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Al-Mustapha was released yesterday Friday July 12th after many years in prison, and his first port of call after his release was T.B Joshua's place.

T.B Joshua explains why Al-Mustapha visited him first:

I got to know him many years ago when a petition was addressed to General Bamaiyi who was the then Chairman of the NDLEA. As you know, several efforts had been made by my detractors to bring me and my ministry down. One of those efforts was that petition. I was arrested for investigation and it was later discovered that it was a tissue of lies. I spent nine days with them for investigation and they found the whole thing to be a fabrication. From there, I was taken to Aso Rock (City of Power) to see the president. It was there that I met Mustapha.


I was able to reveal to them who I am by telling them what was to come as a prophet. One of those things I mentioned to them and to Mustapha in particular, was what he went through, though he did not believe me then. That was why when it came to pass, I was the first person he remembered. I told him that he would spend several years in prison and would be finally released which no one else had ever told him.

That is why you see him coming here as his first port of call. Where there is no vision, people perish.

I am surprised you are asking me why he is coming here first. When you look into your archives as journalists, you will find many stories in the past about my visit to Aso Rock, (City of Power) while Bamaiyi was Chairman of NDLEA. Many magazines and newspapers published my visions and prophecies on the government and the presidency.

When you know your picture of tomorrow, it will impart a strength to endure your present difficulty. When you know what you are passing through now will not last long, you will endure it. This is vision; this is prophecy. This can only come by revelation. This is what the Bible means by, “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). I will leave you here.

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Following the release of Hamza Al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan, accused of masterminding the killing of Kudirat Abiola, her son, Lekan Abiola, has expressed disappointment over Friday’s Appeal Court judgment, which upturned the death sentence

According to reports, the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos had earlier on Friday discharged and acquitted the former Chief Security Officer to the late Gen. Sani Abacha (Al-Mustapha) and Shofolahan, an ex-aide to the late Kudirat.

“I pray that God will forgive my mother and I know that my mum and dad will definitely get justice; maybe not in Nigeria, but I’m sure that Allah will give them justice where they are,” Lekan said.

“The Appeal Court only completed the work of other courts before it that have played roles in scuttling the family’s quest for justice in this matter. They finished the job, but they weren’t the ones who started it.”

“We had seven or so defendants before now with confessions of the roles they played in the death of my mother; there was Mohammed Abacha, Banabas Jabila aka Sgt. Rogers, James Danbaba, Lateef Shofolahan, Rabo Lawal and others. Everybody said the role they played; the one who did the shooting; the one who drove; the one who arranged for the car that was used when they got to Lagos from Abuja; the people in the room when the order to kill my mother was given. All the seven started the case, but the Supreme Court started the whole thing when it said that Mohammed Abacha had no case to answer.”

[READ: Just In: Hamza Al-Mustapha ‘discharged and acquitted’ of murder by Appeal Court ]

The Punch reports:

The appellate court had dismissed the judgment of Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos High Court, which sentenced both men to death by hanging, after accusing the judge of being “stroked to secure a conviction by all means.”

But the younger Abiola told Saturday PUNCH on Friday that he was “disappointed, but not particularly surprised by the judgement.”

According to him, the Abiola family would still have been disappointed even if the death sentence had been upheld by the Appeal Court.

He said, “One after the other, the cases were dropped and it was down to the remaining two. Where are the others? The fact that only two of them were convicted shows the rot in the judicial system. Even if the court had upheld the death sentence, we still wouldn’t have got the justice we sought. Already, most of those involved had been freed.”

Reacting to the assertion that military officers cannot be liable for crimes committed while carrying out orders from a superior officer, Abiola said military law also recognised illegality and had made provisions for such scenarios.

He argued that junior military officers get punished abroad for criminal offences carried out under direct order from a superior boss.

He said, “It has been proven that even in the military, you are not bound by law to obey an illegal order. If a human being asks you to do something, you have to ask yourself if it’s a legal order.

“After the World War II, German officials involved in war crimes, who claimed to be following orders before an international tribunal in Nuremberg, were found guilty and hanged.”

Abiola also expressed concern about the general situation in the country, saying that many Nigerians would be silently facing a fate similar to that being faced by his family.

He said, “Only God knows how many Nigerian family members have been killed by the police or the army and could not get justice. If something like that can happen to my family, what about other families that people don’t know anything about?

He, however, said that the Abiola family had accepted the judgment in good fate as Muslims, adding that some credits should go the “high court judge that passed the initial (death) sentence on Al-Mustapha and Shofolahan.”

Also, a younger brother to the late MKO Abiola, Alhaji Mubashiru Abiola, told one of our correspondents that the judgement came to the Abiola family as a “big surprise.”

Although he declined further comment on the judgment, Mubashiru said the family would issue a statement on the issue after a meeting of all members.

Similarly, Kudirat’s daughter, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, in a text message to one of our correspondents on Friday, said the family would not want to make any hasty comment on the appellate court’s decision.

Her text message read, “Hello, the family will release a statement in the next few days. Thanks.”

The judgment of the appellate court came about 14 years after the appellants were first arraigned in 1999, with two others, for the murder of Kudurat, wife of the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola.

In the two separate but unanimous judgments delivered on Friday, the Justice Amina Augie-led appeal panel discharged and acquitted al-Mustapha and Shofolahan of the murder charges for lack of evidence.

Lack of evidence was the same reason the Supreme Court discharged and acquitted son of the late Head of State, Mohammed Abacha, from the same case on July 11, 2002.

The fourth person, Rabo Lawal, who was, during Abacha’s regime, the head of Mobile Police Force Unit in Aso Rock, was also discharged and acquitted from the case on July 14, 2011, by Justice Dada in her ruling on a no-case submission, which he (Lawal) filed after the prosecution closed its case.

The all-female appeal panel held that both the charges of murder and conspiracy to murder preferred against the two men by the Lagos State Government were unsubstantiated.

The two other justices on the panel were Rita Pemu, who read the lead judgment, and Fatima Augie.

Pemu described the lower court’s judgment as “worrisome,” adding that it was based on principles strange to the nation’s criminal justice system.

“The evidence of the prosecution was so unreliable that no responsible court will base the conviction of an accused person on,” she said.

She held that the two star witnesses of the prosecution (PW2 -Barnabas Jabila aka Sgt. Rogers and PW3, Mohammed Abdul aka Katako), having recanted their incriminating testimonies, the evidence given by them could no longer be relied upon.

“I wonder why the learned trial judge did not expunge the testimonies of PW2 and PW3,” Pemu said.

She said despite the evidence given by Jabila and Abdul, testifying that they were instructed to tell lies against the appellants, “the learned trial judge refused to concern her mind with the politics of the case. She allowed herself to be caught in the web of the conflict.”

Augie said in her supporting judgment, “The 326 pages cannot provide judgment where there is none.”

She said the judgment ought not to be too long “if the case of the prosecution was strong.”

According to Augie, the judgment being too long, the learned trial judge “strayed” into emotion and left the content of the matter while dwelling on the “shallow issues.”

She also wondered why the authorities “refused to prosecute Barnabas Jabila, who made a confession to have killed a person.”

On the testimony of the first prosecution witness, Dr. Ore Falomo, who was MKO Abiola’s personal physician, Pemu said the evidence given by him was immaterial, having only alleged that the bullet extracted from the head of the deceased was “uncommon one,” without any further proof.

Pemu said the bullet was never brought to court and that no ballistician report was tendered to corroborate Falomo’s claim that the bullet must have come from the Presidency and that Kudirat must have been killed by “a fifth columnist in government.”

“These questions are left unanswered by the prosecution,” Pemu said.

She said the incomplete testimony of the fourth prosecution witness (PW4), Ahmed Fari Yusuf, a retired Commissioner of Police, “goes to no issue” and as such, all the statements credited to the appellants, which were tendered through him, were all immaterial.

She said failure of the prosecution to present Yusuf for the defence to cross-examine after two trials-within-trial for 13 months to test the voluntariness of the statements “was an infraction to the rights of the appellants to fair hearing.”

As such, the court held that the three statements tendered as Exhibits A5, B1 and A6 had no “evidential value.”

The appellate court held that even if the appellants had actually committed the alleged crimes, nothing in the testimonies of all the four prosecution witnesses suggested so.

The court castigated the police for a “wishy-washy” investigation of the case, adding that the investigation of the Special Investigative Panel, set up on the case in 1999, was strange to the nation’s criminal justice system.

Pemu said, “PW2 and PW3 said that they were coerced to testify against the appellants and the incompleteness of the evidence of PW4 – all these leave so much to be desired.”

According to Pemu, the investigation conducted by the SIP on the case was a usurpation of the power of the police under sections 214 of the constitution as well as under the provisions of the Police Act.

She said, “The prosecution having failed to prove its case against the appellants, the appellants are entitled to being discharged and acquitted.

“Therefore the judgment of Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos High Court on January 30, 2012 is hereby set aside.

“The conviction and the sentence to death by hanging passed on Maj. Hamza Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan for the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola on June 4, 1996, is hereby set aside, and they are hereby discharged and acquitted.”

Shofolahan’s counsel, Mr. Olalekan Ojo, who led the defence team for both appellants at the lower court, said al-Mustapha and Shofolahan were victims of “a perverse judgment; luckless victims of politics of the South-West and luckless victims of politics at the top.”

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THE Edo State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has warned that any attempt by five members of the River State House of Assembly to impeach the Speaker of the House or Governor Rotimi Amaechi may mark the end of democracy in Nigeria.
Amaechi

Amaechi

The state chairman of the party, Thomas Okosun who also was former Speaker of the Edo state House of Assembly, described the Tuesday mayhem at the Assembly complex as unacceptable and a test to our democracy, just as he urged both the presidency and the National Assembly not to allow the political situation in Rivers State lead to the end of this democracy.

His words: “ What happened in River State at the House of assembly where five members of the House attempted to impeach the Speaker in a House made up of 32 members, where only five members who claimed to be loyal to a serving Minister attempts to impeach the Speaker is a rape on democracy. We urge those behind it to desist from that.
“What is happening in Rivers state if allowed can have a rebinding effect in others states of the Federation. Therefore we want to say that what happened deserved all condemnation, it is an attempted coup, it is a rape on democracy and should not be allowed to continue.

Instead those five members should be properly sanctioned and those backing them should be asked to desist from it including the police because it is unheard of that five members in the house want to claim that they can constitute a quorum in a House of 32 members, five members cannot constitute a quorum.

“The worst still is that five members do not constitute 2/3 of 32 members to attempt to impeach the Speaker or anybody. Therefore I want to say that the governor of Rivers State as the chief security officer of the state did well yesterday (Tuesday) and deserved to be supported by all true democrats in this country irrespective of political affiliation.

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nah wah o

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Corruption is so systemic in Zimbabwe, one of Africa’s poorest countries, that a local hospital charges mothers-to-be $5 every time they scream while giving birth. That’s according to an extensive new report from Transparency International on corruption around the world, which also notes that a staggering 62 percent of Zimbabweans say they’ve paid a bribe in the past year.

The $5 hospital screaming fee, purportedly a charge for “raising false alarm” but clearly aimed at separating mothers from their money, is no joke. Gross domestic product per capita is only $500 in Zimbabwe; average annual income per person is about $150. Zimbabwean hospitals also charge a $50 delivery fee. This means that, in a country where underemployment is 95 percent and poverty is rife, a mother who screams a few times during delivery might owe half her annual income after giving birth.

According to a follow-up by Transparency International, women who can’t afford the high fees are sometimes detained at the hospital and charged interest until their family can pay up. As a result, many Zimbabwean mothers give birth at home because they can’t afford the charges. The United Nations reports that, on average, eight mothers die during childbirth every single day in Zimbabwe.

Transparency International says its Zimbabwe office contacted the national health ministry about the issue by sending, as such offices often require, a formal letter. The health ministry said it had received the letter, then apparently did nothing, and when the NGO followed up an official told the organization that they had lost the letter. Finally, a member of Transparency International was able to meet with Zimbabwe’s deputy prime minister, who promised to look into. Since then, the NGO says, it’s heard no more complaints about screaming charges – although the $50 delivery charge, impossibly expensive for many in Zimbabwe, remains.

http://www.emmanuelbabatunde.com/2013/07/a-hospital-in-zimbabwe-charged-women-5.html

Mother Stabbed Her 8-Month-Old Baby 90 Times With Scissors, Because He Bit Her While She Was Breastfeeding Him

https://www.nairaland.com/1355943/mother-stabbed-8-month-old-baby-90

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Mother Stabbed Her 8-Month-Old Baby 90 Times With Scissors, Because He Bit Her While She Was Breastfeeding Him
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An 8-month-baby was stabbed by his mother 90 times, mostly on his face, for biting her while she was breastfeeding him.
The Chinese baby, Xiao Bao needed over 100 stitches after the attack for him to survive.
According to reports, the young child lives with his mother and two uncles. It was one of the uncles who first discovered Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital.
The child’s mother later confessed that she stabbed the baby after he bit her during breastfeeding.

Neighbours have pleaded with the local government to take the baby away, but they have said that they will not.
Apparently, they said that there was no confirmation the mother was suffering from a mental illness and said, regardless, the baby still has two guardians in the form of his two uncles.

http://www.emmanuelbabatunde.com/2013/07/photos-mother-stabbed-her-8-month-old.html

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They are sure having all the fun! The photo was taken while on set of a new Ghanian flick - that is yet to be titled

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The kukere master who has touring the world (kukere concer) shared a photo of him in suit some minutes ago on his instagram page - he was looking all "bossed up".

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https://www.nairaland.com/1352148/amber-rose-wiz-khalifa-get

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Mods I suggest the posts above for FP, Thanks

Police in a restive Tibetan part of south-western China opened fire on a group of monks and others who had gathered to mark the birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, seriously injuring at least two of them, a rights group said.

The incident, in Ganzi in Sichuan province, happened on Saturday at the gathering on a sacred mountain to make offerings and burn incense to celebrate the Dalai Lama's 78th birthday, the US-based International Campaign for Tibet said.

"Large numbers of armed police and soldiers were deployed, with one source reporting at least seven army trucks and police vehicles at the scene," the group said in an email on Tuesday.

"The security forces attempted to prevent Tibetans from making their offerings and gatherings, but according to two Tibetan sources in exile, some Tibetans present argued that burning incense was not a crime.

"Without warning, according to several Tibetan sources, police opened fire on the unarmed crowd and used teargas."

Two monks were shot in the head and several others seriously injured, the group said.

Chinese security forces often use forceful tactics to stop protests in Tibetan regions but rarely use guns.
Officials reached by telephone in Ganzi said they had no knowledge of the incident.
At least 119 Tibetans have set themselves alight in protest against Chinese rule since 2009, mostly in heavily Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces rather than in what China terms the Tibet Autonomous Region. Most have died from their burns.

http://www.emmanuelbabatunde.com/2013/07/chinese-police-shot-tibetan-monks.html

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Amber and Wiz announced the happy news on their Twitter pages

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Cute?

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Sleeping tinz
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Nineteen out of the nation’s 36 governors were absent when Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang-led faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum opened its secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.

The secretariat is located at Nana Close, Maitama.

Signs that things were not going to work well started manifesting when words went round that Vice President Namadi Sambo, who was supposed to be the guest of honour at the event, would not come and did not send any representatives.

The acting Sole Administrator of the faction’s secretariat, Mr. Osaro Onaiwu, had told our correspondent on Tuesday that the vice president would inaugurate the secretariat.

Aside Jang, governors that were at the event, were those of Kogi, Taraba, Kaduna, Cross River, Katisina, Abia, Anambra, Delta and Ebonyi.

Others included Ondo, Benue (deputy), Bauchi, Akwa Ibom, Gombe (deputy) and Bayelsa.

Others stayed away from the event.

While unveiling the secretariat, Jang said two governors sent their apologies.

He, however, did not mention their names.

Flags of political parties that produced governors were hung outside the premises of the secretariat.

These are Peoples Democratic Party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change, the Labour Party and the All Nigeria Peoples Party.

Some aides of the governors were seen discussing the refusal of majority of the governors to be at the event.

They said the number of those who attended might have confirmed the number of votes Jang scored at the Governors’ forum, which was held in Abuja on Friday.

While Jang scored 16 votes, Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, scored 19.

But the Jang faction insisted that since their candidate was endorsed by the majority of the governors before voting, then he should be considered the winner of the election.

Speaking with journalists after a tour of the secretariat in company with other governors, Jang said he was impressed with what he saw.

He also said he would embark on reconciliation, adding that the opening of the secretariat was a new beginning in the Forum.

Jang said, “I want to thank you very sincerely for honouring our invitation to come for the opening of the secretariat of the NGF today.

“We have not had any formal meeting (today), we went round and saw what they have in the secretariat.

“We want to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. President on the 14th year if Nigeria’s democracy and the presentation of his mid-term report, which he presented at the International Conference Centre on Wednesday.

“We wish him good health, we wish him everything and we support his transformation agenda.”

He disagreed with the notion that the opening of the factional secretariat was not a sign that the Forum was already collapsing.

He said, “Who said so? When did we just open the secretariat? You know we have been meeting at individual’s governor’s lodge before and we decided we should be meeting on a new real ground so that we are not under the influence of any governor.

“Every governor would be coming here for meeting and I wish to say that we are working hard to reconcile each other. You heard what I said in Jos and that we will be doing our politics for the nation.

“We are appealing to our colleagues to work together for the glory of the country.”

Also speaking at the occasion, the Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, said it was wrong to use the NGF for personal ambition.

He said the Forum was also not to be used to promote an agenda or an alternative government.

The governor said, “It (the opening of the factional office) is a new dawn in NGF; this is what we ought to have done in the first place.

“This Forum must not be used to promote personal ambition; it should be used to promote somebody’s ego.

“This Forum is there to serve as a non-partisan body for development and responding for critical issues. That is the new spirit here now.

“We are poised to make a new beginning and to serve a message that this Forum should not be used for personal aggrandisement, this Forum does not exist to be used to as a platform or a tool for antagonising the President and people in authority.

“This Forum is not to be used to promote an agenda or promoting an alternative government.”

Asked about the poor attendance of the event by the governors, Dickson said there was nothing new about it, adding that “the meeting in Kwara State where Governor Amaechi was elected was attended by seven governors and six deputies. That makes it 13.”
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The first lady,Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday, said she had no hand in the suspension of the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

In a statement, the Senior Special Assistant to the First Lady on Media and Publicity, Ayo Osinlu said the allegation was “not only dubious, but also diversionary, unfair, unkind, and therefore totally unacceptable”.

According to him, Mrs. Jonathan was not an official of the PDP and as such could not have led ‘the elders of the party by the nose’ to take such a decision.

“It has again come to our notice that a new twist has been introduced to the carefully orchestrated scheme to anchor the political fortunes or survival of certain embattled politicians on a deliberate demonisation of the First Lady, Dame (Dr.) Patience Goodluck Jonathan.

“This new twist came by way of a so-called “investigation” reported on the front page of a national daily, yesterday.

“According to the report, the First Lady, as characteristic these days, is being alleged to have influenced the suspension of Governor Rotimi Amaechi from PDP by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party.

“We consider it laughable that it can be assumed by any sane person that the First Lady could possibly “summon” the members of the NWC of the party for the purported purpose of handing down “stern directives” on crucial party decisions.

“We ask, on what platform? Within what contexts? In what capacity? Is it not an unfortunate insult on all the elders that constitute the NWC to insinuate that they were assembled by the First Lady, or anyone else for that matter, and instructed on positions of the party? And why couldn’t newspaper’s “investigators” name at least a few of those in attendance of this famous meeting?

“We consider it a most unbecoming insolence, to say the least DISRESPECTFUL, of any one to suggest that the whole of PDP was led by the nose and influenced by a private interest, in a matter that so evidently borders on party discipline and administration.

“Only recently, we were compelled to make a statement, warning those who have become specialists in looping their self-induced political travails around the First Lady, to develop another strategy for their survival.

“This was when another vicious lie was circulated that Her Excellency had, again, “summoned” service chiefs in Rivers State, and instructed them to be firmer in handling the Rivers matter.

“Let us state once again, that the First Lady is not an elected official of state, neither is she a party functionary. She therefore recognises very clearly her place in the scheme of things and acts always accordingly within context.

“In safe estimation, the whole of this is a conscious calculation to sustain the issue of Governor Amaechi in full public view, as well as to explore the possibility of keeping public sympathy in his favour.

“While we have no challenges with the Amaechi camp struggling for political survival and relevance, we wish to state categorically our strong objection to the wicked use of the name and profile of the First Lady in the process.

“For us this is not only dubious, but also diversionary, unfair, unkind, and therefore totally unacceptable.

“We wish to warn that if this trend continues in the near and distant future, we may be constrained to take action within legally permissible limits to protect the integrity of the office and person of the First Lady.”

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Jim Iyke on set of a movie in Santa Monica, California with Hollywood actors Garcelle Beauvais and Brian White.

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Cute

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ONE of the world's fattest men has died at the age of 39 – weighing a staggering 64 stone (407 kg).

Ricky Naputi piled on the pounds thanks to a gut-busting diet of 10,000 calories a day.

He grew so fat he was left bedridden in his home on the Pacific island of Guam for FIVE YEARS – being cared for around the clock by his wife Cheryl.

Ricky was offered life-saving surgery and a TV crew from US network TLC who followed him for three years as he battled to lose enough weight to travel to a hospital in the US.

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A 23-year-old Lebanese, who was arrested for kidnapping his 61-year-old aunty, told journalists on Thursday that he committed the crime to punish her.
The suspect, Mohammed Dannawi, said he kidnapped the victim, Alhaja Essa Dannawi, not because of money but because she offended him and his wife.
He said he carried out the evil act with a former employee of his aunt, Obi Kwentua, to whom he gave the spare key to her house.
He said, “My aunty did something very bad to my wife and I and so I decided to punish her. I met with Obi (Kwentua) and told him that I wanted my aunty kidnapped. I gave him the spare key to her house and he in turn hired some boys to do the work.

“On the day of the operation, I left the house and five guys stormed the place and took my aunty away. The plan was not to demand money from her, it was just punishment.”
It was learnt that the kidnappers, however, demanded N100m ransom but later agreed to collect N4m. It was while attempting to collect the ransom that one of the suspects was arrested.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, said after Essa went missing, policemen started by interrogating members of her immediate family.
She said Mohammed confessed and through his cooperation, his aunty was rescued.
She said, “On May 2, 2013, at about 3:15am, a Lebanese woman, Essa Dannawi, who is 61 years old, was kidnapped at her residence at 40, Abule Nla Road, Ebute Meta and the case was transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The officer in charge, Abba Kyari, had an extensive interview with members of her family and her nephew (Mohammed) was arrested on May 9.
“Upon interrogation, he confessed to organising the kidnap because his aunt offended him. SARS operatives used him to arrest his accomplice (Kwentua) at Rita Lori Hotel, Surulere, where he came to collect N4m from the relatives of the victim. She (Essa) was later released at Oyingbo area.”
It was learnt that the other suspects were still at large.

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Former Head of State and Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change, Major-Gen. Mohammed Buhari (retd), and the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Tinubu, will arrive Kagoro town, Kaura Local Government of Kaduna State on Saturday (tomorrow) for a seminar.

A source told our correspondents that the seminar would be in the form of a rally and that “women, youths and groups/associations have been fully mobilised to receive the visitors in our fold.”

Other high profile opposition leaders expected include Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola (SAN); Governor of Nasarawa State, Alh. Tanko Almakura; former Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Ahmed Shekarau; former Governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume; Senator Mohammed Saleh, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial zone; and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Mallam Nasir El-Ruffai.

The seminar with the theme ‘A Decade of Democracy: A Region at Cross Roads’, will be chaired by former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibrahim Iko (retd), a native of Koi in Jabba Local Government Area of Kaduna State,

The opposition party has however alleged that it had uncovered a plot by the Peoples Democratic Party in the state to disrupt the gathering by using the Nigeria Police Force.

Secretary of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties in the state, Mr. Francis Koza, told newsmen in the state capital that the event would mark a significant political turning point in the southern part of the state, saying the opposition parties had already informed the state police command of the event.

He said, “Tomorrow’s rally will mark a significant shift and higher attainment in our search for alternative leadership in Kaduna State.”

Meanwhile, Elder Statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has faulted Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for questioning the competence of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Clark said this while fielding questions from newsmen at a press briefing, in Abuja, on Thursday.

He was responding to comments attributed to the former Head of State, who was reported to have said Jonathan lacked the competence to deal with Nigeria’s challenges.

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Do you see the size of that arm?

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Cute

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‘Father Moses’ is a story about various catholic families, having to do with governor of the state Jide kosoko & his son rascal Yomi Fabiyi.
Desmond Elliot is Father Moses, who falls in love with Ini Edo “a girl from one of the catholic family. The love between them generated lots of conflicts.

The movie which is produced by Yomi Fabiyi, starred Grade ‘A’ Nollywood Stars like: Desmond Elliot, Ini Edo, Jide Kosoko, Bimbo Akintola, Ayo Mogaji, Hafiz Oyetoro, Keji Yusuf,Buki Awoyemi " Kemi Afolabi, Yomi Fabiyi, Hakeem Rahman, Ara, Niyi Johnson, Tola Ayeni ( Agbelebu mi), Segun Adekoya (Chamelion), Remi Oshodi.Directed by Taiwo Oduala.

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