Court Sets 20 September For Ruling On Ownership Of Ibori’s $15 Million Bribe

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The Federal High Court, Abuja, has set 20 September for judgment in a suit filed by the Delta State Government against the Federal Government over ownership of $15 million (N2.4 billion).

The money is alleged to be bribe offered former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, by convicted former Delta governor, James Ibori. Justice Gabriel Kolawole gave the date on Wednesday after counsel to the parties adopted their addresses.  The respondents in the suit are the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Central Bank of Nigeria.  Justice Kolawole said the parties had 21 days within which to file the addresses while the plaintiff (Delta State Government) had another 14 days to respond to issues bordering on point of law.  “In the circumstance, therefore, the judgment is reserved for September 20,’’ he said.  The Delta State government had approached the court to claim ownership of the $15 million.

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Man Beats 85yr Old Observing Ramadan Night Prayer To Death In Ibadan

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Residents of Abiola Central Community, Moniya, Akinyele Local Government area of Oyo State were thrown into mourning as a young man, Mutiu Tiamiyu, beat to death an 85-year-old man, Nasir Adigun, on Ramadan eve.

The octogenarian, who was physically impaired, was said to be observing Tarawhi (Ramadan night prayer) on Tuesday when Tiamiyu pounced on him.

It was learnt that the old man was persuaded by his family members to observe the prayer at home, while other members of the household went to the mosque.  The attention of residents and worshippers in a nearby mosque were drawn to the old man’s plight by an unnamed teenager, who raised the alarm.

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CAN Re-elects Oritsejafor As President

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The National Assembly of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Wednesday in Abuja re-elected Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as President of the association for another three years.

Oritsejafor was re-elected at the 9th session of the CAN National Assembly held at the National Christian Centre, Abuja.

The assembly also elected Mr Olasupo Ayokunle as the new Deputy National President to replace the Most Rev. Daniel Okoh.The major blocs that make up CAN were represented at the 9th session of the assembly that re-elected Oritsejafor.He was first elected into the position in May 2010.

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FULL UPDATE: Egypt's new leadership struggles to form cabinet after Badie arrest ordered

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Egypt's new leadership was seeking to push forward with forming a new government on Thursday as police sought to arrest the leader of the Islamist movement defiantly backing ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has spurned an offer from interim premier Hazem al-Beblawi to join the new government, and called for a mass rally on Friday against what it called "a bloody military coup.

"After a year in power through Morsi, the Brotherhood is now in tatters, with much of its leadership detained, on the run or keeping a low profile following the Islamist president's overthrow last week in a popular military coup.

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Rivers Crisis: House Of Reps take over functions of Rivers Assembly ( Video)

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The House of Representatives, Wednesday, passed a motion to take over the legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly following the crisis that took place on Tuesday, July 8.

In approving the motion, the House said it was empowered by section 11(4) of the 1999 Constitution to take such actions and consequently asked the Inspector General of Police to redeploy the Commissioner of Police from the state to avoid the current misunderstanding between him and the governor, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi.


The resolution was taken following the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance moved by the Chairman of Rules and Business Committee, Hon. Albert Sam-Tsokwa, titled “Threat to democracy and inability of the House of Assembly of Rivers State to sit and transact legislative business.”

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Nursing mother commits suicide after baby dedication

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A 35-year-old woman, identified as Ejobosele Okoruwa. has committed suicide in Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government, Edo State, few hours after dedicating her three months old baby in a church.

Ejobosele dedicated her baby on Sunday, while she killed herself in the early hours of Monday. Her lifeless body was found dangling from the ceiling with the wrapper she allegedly used to hang herself.

Husband of the deceased, Okoruwa told journalists that he slept in the sitting room with two of his children, while his wife slept in the bedroom with their eldest daughter and the baby.

Okoruwa said it was shouts from his daughter around 2am that woke him up, adding that he rushed inside the room only to see his wife dangling from the ceiling.

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Hyundai Motors staff, Chinyere Nwajei, kidnapped

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Chinyere Nwajei, a staff of Hyundai Motors Nig Ltd, Ajose Adeogun, Victoria Island branch was abducted on Tuesday night by unknown persons as she was returning back from work around the  Festac Bridge, Festac Extension. She and her car, a 2012 Hyundai Accent are yet to be found. She is a married mother of two kids.  According to her colleagues, when one of them tried to reach her on her mobile number, an  unknown person answered and said she had been taken to the shrine.  The kidnappers later made contact demanding for 150,000 dollars.

Father and daughter arrested after conceiving a baby together [SEE PHOTO]

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A father and his daughter from Connecticut, were arrested after DNA confirmed they had a baby together.

At first, George Sayers, 46, and his daughter Tiffany Hartford, 23, denied being related but a DNA tests confirmed the pair is indeed related. They are in fact a father and daughter and they have a child together.

According to Bethel Police, Hartford’s former girlfriend called police to report that Sayers and Hartford were selling pô-rnographic photos and videos of her and Hartford. The videos had been recorded by Sayers when she was 16-years-old.

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VIDEO: Rivers Assembly Crisis: Protesters March To Governor’s House

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The controversy in the Rivers state House of Assembly is still intense as the police are said to be currently battling a crowd of protesters in front of the Government House. in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Our correspondent, Grace Ekang, reports that there might still be trouble underway as some youths from different local government areas of the state went to the Governors residence in Port Harcourt to show solidarity with the state Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, over the crisis rocking Rivers tateHouse of Assembly.

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Tuesday’s violence was sparked off following an attempt to impeach the Speaker of the House of assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amachree.  Five members of the House opposed to the Governor had engaged about 13 of their colleagues in a fight shortly after the pro-governor lawmakers resisted the move to remove Mr Amachree.

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Photo News: Chaos In Rivers State, Day Two

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Documentary Evidence: Rebels used the chemical weapons in Syria - Russia

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On July 9 Russia handed over to the General Secretary of the UN documentary evidence of the fact that it was the opposition rebels who used chemical weapons in Syria and not the government troops. The accusations of Bashar al-Assad's regime of its barbarian methods of conducting war have served for the USA and some EU countries as a pretext to lift the embargo on weapons supplies to the Syrian rebels.

Russian experts have determined that it was the Syrian rebels who on March 19 fired a missile filled with sarin at the suburbs of the town of Aleppo. The Russian documents differ from the US data on the same problem by a very important factor. The USA received its samples via intermediaries. The Russian tests were made right on the site where the ammunition exploded. The samples were tested in Russian laboratories, which are certified by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

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Nollywood Actor Markets Nigeria To The World

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Deji Adenuga, remember him? He’s the suave A-list actor and husband of delectable broadcaster, Yemi Adenuga. For many years, he straddled both the stage and the screen, bringing immense delight to many homes through his acting.

Then, with neither a warning nor a farewell, Adenuga disappeared, simply vanishing from the cinemas and the home videos. His fans were left with nothing but the old films he had been involved in before his sudden departure, even as they wondered what actually happened to their beloved entertainer.

“Well, I relocated, like people would say, to join my family in Ireland. That was in 2006,” the actor told the reporter recently at a chance meeting in Lagos on his way back to Dublin.

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RIVERS VIOLENCE: Jonathan Must Be Impeached - ACN

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The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has heaped the blame for the ongoing crisis in Rivers State on President Goodluck Jonathan and asked the National Assembly to immediately commence impeachment proceedings against him, for failing to live up to his oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said by Jonathan’s abhorrence of the rule of law and majority rule, the latest indication of which is his unmistakable support for a group of renegade lawmakers who are fomenting trouble in Rivers State, the President has become a clear and present danger to the country’s democracy, and must be shown the way out in accordance with the Constitution.

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30 people lot their lives in traditional circumcision schools in South Africa

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Death related to the traditional circumcision in South Africa keeps increasing with another thirty people losing their lives at the weekend, a Cape Town health official has said.  Mr Mizwe Kupelo, Eastern Cape health department spokesman old journalists at a news conference on Sunday that nearly 300 have been taken to various hospitals in the area.

“In the most recent case of botched circumcisions during the traditional initiation season, ten initiates were rescued from a forest in Mbizana on Sunday.
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Photos: Nigerian Students Paralyze Lagos Traffic Over ASUU /ASUP Strike

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Students under the aegis of Nigerian Education Rights Coalition and Coalition Against Commercialization of Education in Nigeria today embarked on street protests in Lagos that has brought traffic to a standstill on on Lagos main road, Ikorodu road.

The protest which started with a handful of students protesting against Nigerian government insensitivity to ongoing strike by university and polytechnic teachers has steadily grown in the last hour.   Policemen are seen trying to break up the protest but the students have so far stood their ground and proceeded peacefully in defiance of the police. 

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Photos: Nigerian Students Paralyze Lagos Traffic

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Rivers State House Of Assembly Update: Free-for-All Fight in Rivers State House - Witness

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♦ Majority leader, Speaker beaten

♦ Bipi made himself Speaker for a few minutes

♦ Bipi asked his cops, thugs to shoot Governor Amaechi

♦ Bipi resisted arrest

♦ Order later restored, with Speaker Amachree taking charge

The Rivers state House of Assembly in south-south Nigeria, for some minutes Tuesday, witnessed a very rowdy session after two months of adjournment as pro Governor Rotimi Amaechi legislators battled five renegade lawmakers rooting for the political opponents of the governor.

The minority lawmakers, whose agenda was to impeach the governor made the impeachment of Speaker Otelemaba Amachree and other principal officers the first priority. They thus sneaked into the House Chambers at about 8.30 am much earlier than the normal sitting of the House and smuggled in a mace.

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SERIOUS GOBE ROCKS RIVERS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - VIDEO

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I know Tinubu, I know Buhari, they cannot mix – Bode George

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Chief Olabode George, former military governor of Ondo State and former Deputy National Chairman, People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in this interview, responds to topical issues in the polity and his party. Excerpts: President Goodluck Jonathan, the leader of your party is in the eye of the storm over 2015. How do you feel?

Nigeria has come this far because the concept of the PDP constitution has sustained democracy up till now.  Never in the history of our nation have we been able to sustain democracy from 1999 and we are now in 2013: that is talking about 14 years.  Never!

So, there is no need to pull anybody down because the man you pull down will also pull you down and so, where have you gone?  And it is there in Romans Chapter 14 that whosoever that God has given an authority, he did not get there by his own effort.  Let us support him.  He is our leader and it is our nation.

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4 Suleja Bombers To Spend The Rest Of Their Lives In Jail.

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Four persons out of the six suspected terrorists standing trial before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja and resided by Justice Bilkisu Aliyu, were on Tuesday jailed for life.

One of the suspects however bagged a ten year jail term while the other was discharged and acquitted.

The six were arraigned on a five-count charge in 2011 charged with the April 8, 2011 bombing of the Independent National Electoral Commission. INEC, office in Suleja, Niger State, where 16 died and others injured.

They were also charged with the July 10, 2011 explosions at the All Christians Fellowship church in Suleja, killing three and injuring others; the March 3, 2011 explosion at a political rally in Suleja, where three people died; and the May 23, 2011 explosion in Dakwa Village, Bwari, Abuja, killing three policemen.
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