tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8851611556464680682024-03-08T10:25:32.769-08:00Current Awarenessfrom Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies LibraryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-885161155646468068.post-34989990077067735112012-10-30T05:54:00.000-07:002012-10-30T05:54:45.702-07:00Kidnapping<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigeria: Mystery Behind the Kidnap of 80-Year-Old Woman</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">At 80, nothing excites Madam Roselyn Ughanze, more than her firm belief in God. A devout Christian, she diligently attends morning mass every day. Her faith in God and His ability to protect her from the machinations of her enemies is incontestable.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Indeed, when her second son, Uche, a Lagos-based business man bought a Honda CRV car for her, she insisted that the car should carry a customized registration number of the Biblical - 'Psalm 37' which in its first two verses read thus: "I do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong, for they are like the grass...They will soon wither away like green plant; they will soon die. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210300260.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Representative's Mother Kidnapped</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The mother of the deputy chairman of the House's Committee on security was kidnapped last night </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">The mother of Deputy Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internal Security, Abiodun Abudu Balogun, Mrs Obedatu Abudu-Balogun, has been kidnapped. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">Mrs Balogun was abducted by six gunmen around 9.30pm yesterday from her residence at Ita-Otu,ijebu area of Ogun State. <a href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/representatives-mother-kidnapped" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Abuducted Rivers Commissioner Freed by Captors</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Port Harcourt - The Rivers Commissioner for Power, Mr Augustine Nwokocha, has been freed by his captors.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the commissioner was abducted by gunmen on October 12 at Omoku in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, Mr Ben Ugwuegbulam, told NAN on Sunday in Port Harcourt that Nwokocha was release on Oct.19 at 9:30 p.m <a href="http://nigeria.news24.com/National/News/Abuducted-Rivers-Commissioner-freed-by-captors-20121022" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Rivers Commissioner Kidnapped While Inspecting Flooded Communities</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Rivers State government has confirmed the abduction of the Commissioner for Power, Augustine Nwokocha.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">According to a statement from Ibim Semenitari, the Commissioner of Information and Communications, the Commissioner was kidnapped while assessing some areas affected by flood disaster in the state.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">“The Rivers State government wishes to confirm that on October 13, 2012 the Commissioner for Power, Mr. Augustine Nwokocha was seized by unidentified men who are suspected to be hoodlums and career criminals. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/10/16/rivers-commissioner-kidnapped-while-inspecting-flooded-communities/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Suspected Kidnappers of ESUT VC Arrested</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Enugu state police command has arrested suspected abductors of the Vice-Chancellor, Enugu state university of science and technology (ESUT), Prof Cyprian Onyeji.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ebere Amarizu says that members of the syndicate were arrested after a gun battle with security operatives.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">The suspects, nine in all, allegedly confessed to having carried out series of kidnappings in the Southeast region, including the recent kidnap of Prof Onyeji, who regained freedom 20 days ago. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/09/13/suspected-kidnappers-of-esut-vc-arrested/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Obi Launches Battle Against Kidnapping</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="story_author" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">The Southeast has launched a massive crackdown on kidnapping, a menace that is rampant in the region. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">Following Monday’s arrest of a main kidnapping suspect – Osita Olisagbo Ifedike alias Ofe Akwu – Anambra state Governor Peter Obi yesterday supervised the demolition of buildings belonging to Ifedike at Umunakwa Ifite Village in Oraifite, Ekwusigo local government area of the state. <a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/60492-obi-launches-battle-against-kidnapping.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Kidnapped Bayelsa Traditional Ruler Regains Freedom</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">AFTER spending nine days in captivity, the traditional ruler of Okordia Kingdom in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, King Richard Seiba, who was abducted by unknown gunmen, breathed the air of freedom on Tuesday after he was rescued from his kidnappers. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Confirming his release in a text message to the Nigerian Tribune, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Bayelsa State police command, Mr Fidelis Odunna, said “the kidnapped monarch has been rescued by the police.” <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/47082-kidnapped-bayelsa-traditional-ruler-regains-freedom" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">N30m ransom: Police arrest wife of abducted ruler in Bayelsa</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Investigation into the abduction of a traditional ruler at Okordia, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, King Richard Seiba, took another dimension at the weekend, as police authorities arrested the wife of the traditional ruler, Evelyn, for engaging in telephone conversations with the kidnappers of his husband.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Nigerian Tribune was authoritatively informed that the detectives from the Bayelsa State police command swooped on the wife on Saturday, at her residence, over alleged discussions and negotiation with the abductors of her husband on the phone<a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/46927-n30m-ransom-police-arrest-wife-of-abducted-ruler-in-bayelsa" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">THE end suddenly came on Thursday, for four suspected kidnappers in Eku, Ethiope East Council of the Delta State when they fell to the superior fire power of officers of the Delta State Police Command .</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Charles Muka, the kidnappers had seized one Mr. Amadi Chinedu, a staff of Chevron Nigeria Limited along Refinery Road, Effurun but were trailed to Eku by the police who shot them dead in a fierce gun battle.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">He said the suspected hoodlums who sustained serious injuries from gunshots died on the way to the hospital while the victim was rescued .<a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94602:delta-police-kill-four-suspected-kidnappers--warn-motorists&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigeria: Kidnappings - NUJ Wants More Protection For Monarch</span>s</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Awka — THE Anambra State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has condemned the increasing kidnap cases especially affecting traditional rulers in the state and called on security operatives to provide adequate security for the royal fathers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Four traditional rulers in the state had, in the last three years, become victims of kidnappers, the latest being the kidnap of the traditional ruler of Ukpo in Dunukofia Local Government Area, Igwe Robert Eze last week.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208070345.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Police Arrest Man who Defiled 10-year-old Stepdaughter •Man Remanded for Raping 9-year-Old Girl</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">THE Ogun State police command has arrested the 62-year-old man, Alabi Ibraheem, who was accussed of defiling his 10-year-old stepdaughter in Abeokuta.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The accused, who was reported to have evaded arrest, was eventually arrested by policemen attached to the Oluwo police station, Abeokuta.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">He was immediately transferred to Ilupeju police station on Ayetoro road and was subsequently transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour for further interrogation. <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/50017-police-arrest-man-who-defiled-10-year-old-stepdaughter-man-remanded-for-raping-9-year-old-girl" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Danfo Driver Sued For Raping Food Vendor</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;">$15m Ibori’s Bribe: EFCC Raises Alarm over Clark’s Call for Lamorde’s Removal</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Man Caught with $7m Forfeits 25% of Undeclared Money to FG</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">THE 25-year-old Abubakar Sheriff Tijanni, who was caught at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos with $7 million has forfeited 25 per cent of the $2 million he did not declare at the airprot to the Federal Government.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Justice C. J. Anieke of a Federal High Court in Lagos gave the ruling when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Tijjani on Tuesday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Upon his arraignment, the accused pleaded guilty to the charge of not disclosing the entire sum to the Nigerian Customs Service.<a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/lead-stories/49731-man-caught-with-7m-forfeits-25-of-undeclared-money-to-fg" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">By Emmanuel Ugwu</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">The Abia State Government has said that the planned probe of the former governor of the state, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, would go ahead and would cover his eight years in office.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">The government's resolve to proceed with the probe was made known in a press statement issued Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Ugochukwu Emezue, saying that one major area of focus in the probe is the management of the state Infrastructural Fund.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">He said there were strong indications that the fund was grossly mismanaged and money diverted and misappropriated by the Kalu administration. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210220411.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Source:</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://allafrica.com</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Posted by Amaka, 22 October 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">THE Minister of Sports/Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has charged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to investigate the allegations of financial impropriety levelled against principal officers of the Nigeria Premier League by an independent audit report.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A national newspapers (not The Guardian) last week published excerpts of the independent audit panel, which indicted both past and current officers of the league body for mismanaging the resources of the NPL. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102404:minister-tasks-nff-on-npls-financial-scandal&catid=59:home&Itemid=620" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a FAAN official, Akinyele Adetule at the Murtala Muhammed Airport. At the time of his arrest, he was in possession of $1.4 million dollars (N218 million naira). The arrest took place less than a month after the arrest of a 24 year old, Mr. Abubakar Sheriff, at the same airport with $7 million (N1.1 billion). The arrest of Mr. Akinyele confirmed the suspicion that even the airport officials are in on the money laundering syndicate. <a href="http://nigerianbulletin.com/nigerian-news/faan-security-official-arrested-by-efcc-with-1-4m-at-airport/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">$15m Ibori Bribe: Clark Calls For Lamorde’s Removal</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The former minister of information, Chief Edwin Clark has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to remove the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde on the grounds that he has been very economical with facts on the origin of the $15 million bribe money ex-governor James Ibori allegedly gave to former EFCC boss, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Clark who stated this in a press conference he held in his Asokoro, Abuja residence to demand for the return of the bribe money to Delta State government added that the present EFCC manned by Lamorde is highly incompetent and morally corrupt to fight corruption in the country. <a href="http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/35702/2012/09/26/15m_ibori_bribe_clark_calls_lamordes_removal.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">THE three principal anti-corruption agencies in the country will soon commence joint operations in the fight against economic and financial crimes, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, made this in Abuja on Tuesday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">According to a statement issued by the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, the planned joint operations would be conducted by the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/47837-efcc-icpc-ccb-plan-joint-operations-meet-with-justice-advocacy-body" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">LAGOS-BASED lawyer, Mr Festus Keyamo, has called on the Federal Government to order the arrest of Messrs Andy Uba and Chibuike Achigbu, for laying claim to the $15 million bribe offered by the convicted former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">He also called for the arrest of former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to whom the money was allegedly offered as bribe, to pervert the course of justice in Ibori’s case.<a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/46851-claim-to-iboris-15m-keyamo-calls-for-arrest-of-ribadu-uba" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterday said that the prosecution of the Senior Assistant to the President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe over the report made by the Benue State government to the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).</span><span style="line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The party in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Engr Rotimi Fashakin, said that the party insist that Okupe be relieved of his appointment as a result of his corrupt track record, and should be prosecuted accordingly.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I am often amazed by how most Nigerians do not get issue at stake in any political situations or current events. Nigerians, the educated and enlighten ones tend to think many privilege Nigerians care about them. They believed too many stories in newspapers without much ado. Realistically, many things are super linked together in one way or the other. In an example of international politics, while Gadaffi was not a good ruler but the West support of the revolt against him had nothing to do with their desire for freedom and democracy of Libyans but the desire for lucrative oil contracts. Similar scenario is being played out in Syria now. There is a link in US between right wing politicians, banks and arms manufacturers. <a href="http://www.ngex.com/news/public/article.php?ArticleID=2266" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;">The Itori Unit Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday said an errant driver, who attempted to bribe one of its officials with N200 would be fined N10, 000.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">By Yemi Akinsuyi</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The police are finalising plans to arraign the suspended Chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on the Monitoring of the Fuel Subsidy regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan, for allegedly taking a bribe, THISDAY has learnt. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The planned arraignment, which could take place next week, follows the conclusion of investigation into the bribe-for-clearance scandal in which Lawan was purported to have collected $500,000 from the Chairman, Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd, Mr. Femi Otedola, to doctor the report of the ad hoc committee. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208030257.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">An Abuja High Court on Thursday reserved October 17 for the adoption of addresses on alleged N10.4 million fraud leveled against two former officials of the National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NICON).</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had in 2007 charged Okechukwu Chukwulozie, Angela Chukwulozie, a wife of the first accused and Adedolapo Ogungbe with the crime. <a href="http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/284-breaking-news/41864-nicon-fraud-court-reserves-october-for-adoption-of-addresses" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Joseph had gone to Glory Yusuf's place, abducted the baby, and thrown her into the lagoon </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">A naval rating, Joseph Moses, who threw his three-week-old daughter into the Lagos Lagoon, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for kidnap and manslaughter.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">Moses was found guilty of kidnapping and killing his child, Happiness, on February 2, 2012.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">He and some others had gone to his girlfriend, Glory Yusuf's house at Ajegunle, kidnapped the baby and beat the mother up. <a href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/naval-rating-given-ten-years-drowning-daughter" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">Abuja - A Nigerian actor has been sentenced to three months in prison after allegedly admitting to having sex with a man, deemed an "unnatural offence" under Nigerian law, a prosecutor said on Thursday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4em;">Bestwood Chukwuemeka, who is not well known but has reportedly acted in movies produced by Nigeria's prolific Nollywood film industry, was sentenced this week in a magistrates court in the capital Abuja. <a href="http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Nigeria-actor-jailed-for-gay-sex-20120920" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Critics of the conventional prison system have adduced a number of reasons why there should be another method of punishing law breakers. Chief among these are congestion of the nation’s prisons and failure of the system to reform offenders. Barrister Aderonke Ige, who is the Programme Officer for community service as an alternative to imprisonment for minor offences of the Justice, Peace and Development Commission (JDPC), Ibadan, spoke with </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">EMMANUEL ADENIYI</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"> on the concept and the country’s ailing criminal justice system. Excerpts: <a href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/interview/7652-nigerias-criminal-justice-system-is-sick-barrister-ige" target="_blank">Full story</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Admiral Ola Sa’ad Ibrahim, has said that the insecurity confronting the country would soon become a thing of the past as the government is set to tackle the menace. The CDS spoke at the weekend in Ilorin, his country home, where a special prayer was organised for him by the Emir, Alhaji Sulu Gambari. He said the development of any countrydepends on peace which he said the government would not compromise.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">Admiral Ibrahim said with peace in the country, the armed forces would devote their energies and expertise to other challenges. <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=46363" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">PAN-Igbo group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has asked the Federal Government to abolish the Kano State Hisbah Board, which it claimed is already assuming the status of state police in disguise.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Ohanaeze Ndigbo contends that despite the position of the Northern governors over the establishment of state police, non-indigenes are no longer safe in the hands of the government agent in Kano.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">In a statement issued at the weekend, President Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Kano State Chapter, Chief Tobias Michael Idika lamented the pains and devastation suffered by many Igbo business moguls whose goods and property worth billions of naira have been confiscated by the Hisbah guards.<a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97599:ohanaeze-urges-fg-to-disband-kano-hisbah&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Sir: The call for the creation of state police is not about North or South. It is in response to security challenges our country is facing. The report of the panel headed by Parry Osayande, the chairman of the police reform panel is suspicious and questionable because for the first time in Nigeria’s history, a man (Mallam Nuhu Ribadu) who refused to accept a whooping $15million cash bribe was recommended for dismissal from EFCC on frivolous charges. The same $15million dollars bribe the fifth columnists claimed only existed in our imagination is now a subject of litigation between federal and Delta State Government. Either way the judgment goes, someone within the ranks will hold this cash in trust for the real looter- Ibori. This is Nigeria! </span><a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96701:state-police-and-security-challenges&catid=77:letters&Itemid=613" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">Full story...</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="story_author" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">The State Security Service (SSS) yesterday explained why suspects in various cases wear similar shirts.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">SSS spokesperson Ms. Maryln Ogar said the SSS bought the shirts from a vendor who supplies them in dozens at regular intervals. Neither of the parties took the pain to know whether the materials are similar either in colours or design.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">The SSS displayed some of the clothes in stock, apparently waiting for the next set of suspects. Ms. Ogar explained that it is the tradition of the SSS not to parade suspects in dirty or soiled clothes in which they are arrested during operations, hence the need to clean and kit them up. </span></span></div>
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A DRAFT national security policy that will guide the implementation of all security issues has been drafted by the National Defence College (NDC), Abuja. Commandant of NDC, Rear Admiral Thomas Lokoson, told journalists in Abuja that the policy has been sent to all security stakeholders for their input before onward transmission to the National Security Adviser. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93504:draft-security-policy-out&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After the controversy that greeted the N6 billion SIM Card registration last year, the Senate Committee on Communications says it is closely monitoring the exercise apparently to ensure judicious use of the fund. In an online interview with <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Francis Ugwoke</span>, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Communications, Senator <span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gilbert Nnaji</span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong>speaks on poor quality telecoms service, review of communication laws, harmonisation of NCC and NESREA laws and plans to domesticate international laws in the country. Excerpts: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">An article published in a national daily on March 29, 2012 concerning the unveiling of the new identity and logo of Urban Development Bank plc (renamed Infrastructure Bank plc) once more reiterated Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit. It further heightened my unceasing concern about the decrepit infrastructure and the high rate of unemployment nationwide.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Despite Nigeria’s vast natural and human resources, there is still very little progress on the development scene. The referenced article indicated that Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit requires an annual investment of approximately $20 billion over the next decade. <a href="http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/analysis/commentary/43870-nigerian-economy-freeing-funds-for-development" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">It all started four months ago as a rumour. When the rumour was making the rounds, the Central Bank of Nigeria blatantly denied it as mere speculation, saying it has no intention of introducing the N5000 note.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">But on August 23, the governor of CBN Sanusi Lamido Sanusi announced what he called a comprehensive restructuring of the currency, and the introduction of N5000 was proposed.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Under the "Project Cure", the central bank also announced the introduction of 50k, N5, N1, N2, N5 and N10 coins into circulation early next year.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209030576.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">IT is often asserted that Nigeria produces the best fiscal policy in the sub-Saharan Africa. An assertion that seeks facts. However, activities within the economy in the last few weeks has brought to the fore a critical issue that affects the heartbeat of the economy—welfare of the people and yardstick for measuring good governance.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Indeed, the continued imbroglio between the Senate and the Ministry of Finance over the 2012 budget performance, as regards the contradictory figures emanating from the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the office of the Accountant General of the Federation has called for a need to address the essence of the fiscal policy<a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95540:budget-implementation-the-thin-line-between-acontrasting-data-and-reality&catid=30:money-watch&Ite" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftain Lanre Odubote represents Epe Constituency in the House of Representatives. He spoke with Deputy Political Editor EMMANUEL OLADESU on the threat by the House to impeach the President for poor implementation of the 2012 budget.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">What has been your experience in the House in the last one year?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">By Turaki A. Hassan</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Minister of Finance Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is misleading Nigerians over the level of implementation of the 2012 budget, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Publicity, Zakari Mohammed, has said. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Speaking to reporters yesterday in Abuja over comments credited to the finance minister where she was quoted as saying the Federal Government has implemented 56 percent of this year's budget, the spokesman said she misrepresented the facts as only 34 per cent has so far been implemented. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201207300099.html" target="_blank">Full story</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">TO address the huge infrastructure deficit in the country, the World Bank has initiated plans to provide $200 million as a seed fund to set up a Financial Intermediary Loan (FIL) scheme under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative. </span><span style="background-color: white;">According to Head, Legal and Governance, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Mr. Joe Ohiani, at the one-week inaugural ESQ Project Finance summit at Lagos billed to end tomorrow, some other development finance organisations have also agreed to contribute to the scheme. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93494:nigeria-to-get-200m-world-bank-loan&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), on Monday called on the National Assembly to urgently enact a legislation granting total autonomy to anti-corruption agencies in the country.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Falana made the call in Lagos while speaking at a media-round table on "Promoting Ethics and Integrity within the Courts System - The Role of Lawyers".</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the forum was organised by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in collaboration with The Royal Netherlands Embassy, Abuja. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210300297.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Source:</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">http://allafrica.com/stories/201210300297.html</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Posted by Amaka, 30 October 2012</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="createdate" style="background-color: #f7f7f7; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">HE hardly speaks but when he does, everybody listens. This is because Olayiwola Moronmubo Babatunde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), speaks only when it is extremely important and in his own area of legal expertise.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">As a legal authority who combines law practice with publishing, he still would not like to comment on issues outside his scope of practice, thereby entrenching himself as an archetype of professional integrity. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103168:babatunde-a-man-law-breeds-&catid=42:law&Itemid=600" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Source:</span>http://www.ngrguardiannews.com<br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Posted by Amaka, 30 October 2012</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">IN one of his highly celebrated works, the fourteenth century French writer, Michel de Montaigne said: “ The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.”</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">This luscious quote from the man termed the father of Modern Skepticism seems to describe the life of Barrister Odiadi Anthony Nyemike. At 49, he has indeed lived to purpose and is still continuing in rendering service to his fatherland in his area of calling – law. Effervescent, unassuming and industrious, Odiadi has proved that nothing is impossible with focus and determination. Due to his legal dexterity, especially in the area of commercial law, he has caught the attention of the authorities at the federal level who are always eager to appoint him into important national assignments. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98997:odiadi-in-pursuit-for-national-legal-assignments&catid=42:law&Itemid=600" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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A former minister of information, Chief Edwin Clark has called on the Nigerian judicial system to put its house in order, claiming that both the bar and bench have thrown away ethics of the profession. The Ijaw leader made this known on Wednesday in Abuja, where he was the guest lecturer of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies’ (NIALS) annual lecture on the State of the Federation. According to Chief Clark, “The Bench and The Bar have some questions to answer.” “Both the bench and the bar are not doing anything to address corruption and if nothing is done about it, Nigeria will remain in the bottom list of corrupt countries in the world” he affirmed. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/08/01/nigerian-lawyers-are-corrupt-former-minister/" target="_blank">Full story...</a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">‘4,746 of 5,707 Lagos Prisons’ Inmates Awaiting Trials’</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="story_author" style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">No fewer than 4,746 or about 80 per cent of the 5,707 inmates in prisons in Lagos State are awaiting trials, an investigation has shown.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">Figures obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), showed that the inmates are in Kirikiri Maximum, Kirikiri (Female) Medium, Kirikiri Minimum, Ikoyi and Badagry prisons. The facilities exceeded their total installed capacity of 2, 692 by 52 percent.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">About 233 of them, who had been held for 12 years in Kirikiri were freed on Tuesday by the Chief Judge, Justice Ayotunde Phillips.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Phillips, on Tuesday during her visit to the Kirikiri Maximum and Medium Prisons, freed 233 inmates, who were on awaiting trial list and some of who had spent up to 12 years in prison.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">This visit was the first since the chief judge assumed office in June and is one of the activities lined up for the commemoration of the 2012/2013 new legal year of the state judiciary.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">One hundred and thirty inmates were released from prison custody at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons while the remaining 103, were from the Kirikiri Medium Security Prisons. <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/47835-lagos-cj-frees-233-prisoners" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, said on Monday that the absence of state police was responsible for prison congestion in different parts of the country.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; text-align: justify;">Ipaye, who said this in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, maintained that the existence of state police would help eliminate unnecessary delays in the dispensation of justice. <a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news-update/61805-%E2%80%98absence-of-state-police-responsible-for-prison-congestion%E2%80%99.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;">More than 50,000 suspects are in Nigerian prisons, 36,000 of whom are awaiting trial, Mr. Zakari Ibrahim, the Controller-General, Nigerian Prisons Service, has said.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;">According to the</span><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;"> News Agency of Nigeria</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;">, Ibrahim said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a workshop on the ‘Human Rights Integration Project’, organised by Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action for prison officials.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;">He said, “We have our own challenges; first we have an awaiting trial population that has refused to go down. As I speak to you today, over 50,000 people are in custody.</span></span></div>
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Mr. Ewa Udu, Head, Legal Unit of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) has said the commission will henceforth monitor the plight of inmates in Nigerian prisons. <a href="http://pmnewsnigeria.com/?s=Commission+to+Monitor+Nigerian+Prisons&x=9&y=5" target="_blank">Full story</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.21666717529297px;">A SUICIDE bomber in a car detonated his explosives on Sunday at a Catholic church holding mass in northern Nigeria, killing five and wounding nearly 100 worshippers, officials said.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.21666717529297px;">The attack triggered reprisals during which two more people were killed, reports said.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.21666717529297px;">The bomber drove a jeep right inside the packed St Rita’s church, in the Malali area of Kaduna, a volatile ethnically and religiously mixed city, in the morning.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.21666717529297px;">A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) in Kaduna said five people had been confirmed killed, while 98 people were receiving treatment for wounds at two local hospitals. <a href="http://www.bdlive.co.za/world/africa/2012/10/29/blast-kills-five-in-nigerian-church" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Twenty people are feared dead after multiple bomb explosions rocked Mubi town, Adamawa State, Wednesday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Mubi was the scene of a massacre of 46 students of tertiary institutions by unknown gunmen a fortnight ago.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The explosions, according to police sources, caused extensive damage to lives and property.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">According to an eyewitness, the explosion, which targeted a patrol vehicle of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) maintaining peace in the town, occurred at a popular market, ‘Kasuwan Kuturu’, some meters to the general hospital. <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/20-feared-dead-as-multiple-explosions-rock-mubi/128052/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Blasts and shootings shook residents of Potiskum, previously hit hard by violence blamed on Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, residents said.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">The police commissioner for Yobe state, where Potiskum is located, said there had been a bomb explosion and security forces afterward cordoned off the area and began house-to-house searches.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">He did not say whether there had been any casualties.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">"There was a bomb explosion this morning and the Joint Task Force has already cordoned off the area for the safety of residents," Patrick Egbuniwe said, referring to a military and police task force. <a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2012/10/17/gunfire-and-bomb-blasts-rock-northeast-nigerian-town" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">KANO State police command has uncovered another bomb factory at Hawan-Hotoro, on the outskirts of Kano, just as the command arrested two suspects in connection with the factory.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Disclosing this in Kano, on Thursday, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, said the command equally impounded three vehicles used by the suspects.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">He said various bomb manufacturing materials were also intercepted during the operation, adding that the building, which had been cordoned off by mobile policemen, would be demolished. <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/48366-another-bomb-factory-uncovered-in-kano" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The military Joint Task Force in Adamawa State said it has uncovered bomb factories in Mubi area of the state just as members of the dreaded sect, Boko Haram are reportedly making efforts to annex the town as one of their operational base in the north east region of the country due to its closeness to Borno state.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kano — In what appeared to be a major victory against the Boko Haram sect, the Joint Military Task Force confirmed, yesterday, that the sect's spokesman, Abu Qaqa, has been killed, while two other members were arrested after a shootout between the sect and security operatives. There were, however, different accounts on how the encounter took place. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209180171.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The charity responds to allegations in The Observer that it gave financial support to the group.<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">The development charity the </span>Al Muntada Al Islami Trust<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"> has strongly denied any connection to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">The </span>Charity Commission<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"> </span>said earlier this week<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"> that it was looking into claims in </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Observer</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"> newspaper that a charity called the Al-Muntada Trust had given financial support to Boko Haram, which has links to the terrorist group Al Qaeda and is connected with attacks against churches and Christians in Nigeria. <a href="http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1149776/al-muntada-al-islami-trust-denies-links-boko-haram-militant-group/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">We are Thinking Beyond Boko Haram - Ihejirika</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The Nigerian Army has said it is looking beyond the security challenges engendered by the Boko Haram sect members in its preparedness to stamp out terrorism and insurgency in the country.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">This was disclosed on Monday by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika, in Kontagora, Niger State, at the passing out parade of 1,952 soldiers trained in basic counterterrorism course and counter-insurgency, as well as the commissioning of the Nigerian Army Training Centre (NATRAC) named after him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">The Nigerian army says it has killed seven suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in a gun battle in the north of the country.</span><span class="source" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">BBC News</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> reports that Boko Haram wants to impose Sharia law across Nigeria. A further 13 people were arrested after an attack on an army checkpoint in Maiduguri. <a href="http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20120910152453398" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Killings in The North: Why Igbo Won’t Retaliate - MASSOB Leader</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, at the weekend in Abuja, said that the group had not supported reprisals against killings of Igbo in the North because of the consequences the action would have on Igbo population in the region.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Chief Uwazuruike spoke at a meeting of traditional rulers of Igbo extraction from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT.) The meeting had as part of its agenda discussions on important national issues, including how to promote national unity and development.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">More Attacks on GSM Firms</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">GUNMEN suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect have stepped up their attacks on telecommunications equipment.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">They attacked more masts in Damaturu, Potiskum – both in Yobe State – and Kano on Wednesday night and early yesterday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">The Ministry of Religious Affairs, which houses the Hajj Commission in Damaturu, was burnt down overnight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">According to reports, Islamic group Boko Haram has destroyed over 25 mast stations belonging to mobile telecommunication operators in the Northern part of Nigeria. Aside from the attacks, four MTN Nigeria staff were reportedly killed by the group in Maiduguri while trying to bomb the company's base station.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">MTN is South Africa's pan-African mobile network operator with 22 operations across Africa, but Nigeria boasts the largest number of MTN Group's subscribers exceeding more than 62 million. <a href="http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/78/81295.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 6 September 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Palpable tension yesterday enveloped workers at the Head of Service Unit, Asaba, Delta State following the discovery of a bomb left in a carton and wrapped in different colours of tread at the premises.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The workers, many of whom wearing long faces were seen in groups discussing the incident in hushed tone, especially with the current insecurity in the country.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The workers were said to have stumbled on the bomb at the entrance of the Head of Service office and raised the alarm that attracted security agents who immediately swung into action to defuse it. <a href="http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/34225/2012/09/05/police_defuse_bomb_delta.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Gunmen suspected to be members of the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram on Monday killed two people including a university lecturer and a serving secretary of Bama local government area in the restive Nigeria north east city of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">The don was a lecturer at the university of Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti state south west Nigeria.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Abdullahi Yuguda confirmed the incident to journalists in Maduguri. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/09/04/university-of-ado-ekitis-lecturer-killed-in-maiduguri/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Elder statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday, declared that some highly placed individuals from the Northern part of the country were behind the increasing spate of violence in Nigeria to actualize their vow of "making the nation ungovernable for President Jonathan." <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208020683.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The police in Kaduna on Tuesday arrested two people suspected to be part of the three -man gang behind Monday’s raid on the family residence of the Vice President, Namadi Sambo in the Tudun Wada area of Zaria metropolis. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The gang riding on a motor bike had attacked the family residence of the vice president on Monday morning, killing a cobbler who was polishing the shoes of the policemen guarding the house. <a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/55804-police-arrest-two-over-attack-on-sambo%E2%80%99s-home.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">An Associated Press journalist in Sokoto, the major city of Nigeria's northwest, says he saw smoke rising over the stations after the blast Monday morning. Police and security agents have blocked off roads to the sites. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">The cause of the blasts was not immediately known. A Sokoto state police spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">A gun battle near a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano and two other shootings left at least eight people dead on Sunday in the latest violence to hit the area, authorities said.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">It was not clear who was behind the attacks in the city of Kano, the largest in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, but they resembled similar incidents in the past blamed on Islamist militant group Boko Haram. <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/gun-battle-leaves-8-dead-in-nigeria-s-kano-1.1351795#.UBZTgZFWLMA" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">Heads of state, General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida leaders issued a rare joint statement on Sunday calling for talks to end a deadly insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram, warning the violence could put the nation’s unity at risk. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">Former president Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-military ruler Ibrahim Babangida, who have been rivals in the past, said in a joint statement that the killings had become “unbearable” and had led to a nation “gripped by a regime of fear”. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/30/insecurity-babangida-obasanjo-call-for-urgent-actions/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The 19 governors of the Northern states of Nigeria are currently locked inside a crucial meeting over the increasing spate of insecurity in their areas. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The threat of Boko Haram and other forms of insecurity is believed to be taking their tolls on the economy of the areas as businesses are said to be closing down due to fears of attacks. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The meeting which is holding at the Niger Lodge is led by the chairman of the forum of northern governors, Dr. Babangida Muazu Aliyu. <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=35340" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">By Emmanuel Okubenji</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Nigerian Army, on Thursday in Abuja, donated vehicle-stoppers to churches and mosques, as part of measures to protect places of worship against terrorist attacks. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Handing over the equipment to some leaders of churches and mosques, Maj-Gen.Bitus Kwaji, Army Chief of Civil Military Affairs, explained that the measure was part of the Army’s corporate social responsibility. <a href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/army-beefs-security-worship-centres" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">NEW DELHI: India on Thursday asked Nigeria to swiftly bring to book the perpetrators behind the brutal murder of two Indian traders, Shanker Saha (35) and Bokul Chander Mondal (35),in an ``unprovoked armed attack'' on their business premises at Maiduguri in Borno state of the country on July 25.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">``The Indian High Commission has also sought a thorough investigation by the Nigerian authorities concerned to establish the precise motive behind this heinous crime (which also left another Indian Biresh Yadav, 43, grievously wounded ), and the perpetrators brought to book,'' said an official. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nigeria-asked-to-punish-killers-of-two-Indian-traders/articleshow/15179128.cms" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Suspected member of the Islamic sect Boko Haram shot dead two Indians after storming their factory in Maiduguri. According to Sagir Musa spokesman for the military Joint Task Force, the suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked a gum Arabic factory operated by Indians located at Bayan Quarters in Maiduguri. “The incident led to the death of two Indians with one wounded, who is receiving treatment at the hospital.” The attackers stole 90,000 naira ($560), he said. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/26/gunmen-kill-two-indians-in-maiduguri/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">Jos — Commander of the Special Task Force, STF, maintaining security in Plateau State, Major General Henry Ayoola, has explained that the recent order to people in the troubled villages of Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas to relocate within 48 hours was in line with international convention guiding military operations and not targeted at any group.</span><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201207160577.html" style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Full story</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For five days, law students across Nigeria gathered at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) for the annual seminar of the Nigeria Association of Muslim Law Students (NAMLAS).</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The seminar draws Muslim law students out of their classrooms and creates a forum for them to exchange ideas and relate with one another. The theme for this year was "Contemporary legal issues in the light of Common and Islamic Law".</span><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201206140609.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">Full story</a><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">Abuja — An event or ganised in honour of the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, in Abuja, Tuesday, took a different dimension, after a member of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and publisher of Champions Newspaper Ltd, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, urged the Federal Government to hold northern leaders responsible for the increasing spate of violence by the Boko Haram Islamist sect.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201206200225.html" target="_blank">Full story</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">The Senate on Wednesday passed proposed amendments to the Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2011.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">Under the now amended Act, the National Security Adviser or the Inspector- General of Police has powers to seal up a property or vehicle without a warrant.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">This, however, is subject to existence of sufficient ground to believe that doing so before obtaining a warrant was best for public order or safety.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">The amended proposal also retains life imprisonment as punishment for convicted terrorists while those convicted for financing and acts preparatory to or in furtherance of an act of terrorism, will also be liable to sentences ranging from five years to life imprisonment. <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=44311" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">President Goodluck Jonathan would not be presenting the 2013 budget on October 4 as earlier scheduled before the joint session of the National Assembly, it emerged yesterday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal had on Tuesday read a letter from President Jonathan conveying his intention to present the 2013 budget at a joint session on October 4.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">The lawmakers maintained that it was impossible for them to consider the acceptance of the presentation of the 2013 budget while the 2012 budget is having issues as the President was yet to convince Nigerians on the implementation of the current budget. <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=38356" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila (ACN, Lagos), yesterday admitted that he was sanctioned by the State of Georgia, United States of America, for "professional misconduct and negligence" over the sum of $25,000 (equivalent N3.9million) belonging to a client.<br />
Gbajabiamila said this in a statement yesterday in Abuja in response to a publication by Saharareporters.com suggesting that the lawmaker fraudulently converted a client's $25,000 personal injury claims to private use while practicing as a lawyer in the US in 2002. <span style="background-color: white;">The report claimed that the Minority Leader had shown remorse and returned the money as a result of which the State of Georgia disbarred him in addition to suspending his law practice license for 36 months. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201207260266.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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Posted by Ufuoma, 26 July 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-885161155646468068.post-18134714645697473202012-10-29T02:57:00.000-07:002012-10-29T02:57:09.532-07:00Enviromental Law<h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Delta State government, on Sunday, refuted a report that corpses were washed away from the mortuary of the General Hospital, Patani, by a flood and described the report as false and mischievous.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">The government said in a statement that although Patani was one of the communities affected by the flood in the state, only the entrance of the hospital was flooded.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">The statement, signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Chike Ogeah, described the report on the flooding of hospital morgue as false. <a href="http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201210/96274.php" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 29 October 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Govt Laments Flooding, Moves to Rescue Abuja-Lokoja Road</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By Lawrence Njoku, Ralph Omololu Agbana, Alemma-Ozioruva Aliu, Tunji Omofoye, John Ogiji</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigerian Floods Drive Thousands From Homes</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="story_dl">ABUJA, Nigeria, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- </span><span style="background-color: white;">Some 12,000 people have been forced from their homes by flooding in the northern Nigerian states of Kano and Jigawa, officials say.</span>
<span style="background-color: white;">In separate flooding in the southeastern state of Cross Rivers, about 49 coastal communities are threatened, the Nigerian newspaper Leadership reported.</span>
<span style="background-color: white;">In Jigawa, more than 2,000 flood victims were being housed at a secondary school in Ringim, said Musa Illalah, a zone coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency. <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/09/17/Nigerian-floods-drive-thousands-from-homes/UPI-38001347885910/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka,17 September 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">LAGOS — Flooding across Nigeria has killed 137 people and displaced more the 35,000 since July, the Red Cross said Monday, warning that latest forecasts suggest the damage could still worsen.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The states affected range from Lagos in the southwest to Adamawa in the northeast, where at least 30 people died following the release of water from a dam in Cameroon that caused Nigeria's River Benue to overflow.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The disaster management coordinator with the Nigeria Red Cross, Umar Mairiga, who provided the death toll, said 36,331 people had been displaced across 15 affected states. <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7RDHGhLOSymTTfXGGuFBTE2DBjg?docId=CNG.08f561b450f91bbe17fc678d12a45e18.431" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 10 September 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Flood Claims 2, Destroys Property Worth N27m in Katsina</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">TWO people lost their lives while properties worth over N27 million were destroyed as a result of flood that ravaged Daura Local Government Area of Katsina State.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The committee chairman, Alhaji Tukur Gurjiya, who disclosed this while presenting the committee’s report to Daura council chairman, on Thursday, said that over 500 houses was destroyed by the flood.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Gurjiya said investigations conducted by the committee revealed that the affected houses were built on water ways. <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/47245-flood-claims-2-destroys-property-worth-n27m-in-katsina" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Yobe has seen much of conflicts and pestilence in the face of breakdown of peace and security. Even nature appears not to spare the state as a flood disaster, which has killed many, with a huge number rendered homeless, continues to compound the woes of the people. The governor, Ibrahim Geidam, lamenting the situation recently, appealed to the citizens for understanding. James Bwala writes on the mind-boggling situation in the state.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Yobe State, in the past few months, has been battling with pestilence, occasioned by sustained attacks on innocent people by terrorists and lately with flood disaster. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">The PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, on Sunday, joined other Nigerians to commiserate with the government and victims of recent flooding in Adamawa state.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">The ruling party's chairman conveyed the party's sympathy to the government and people of Adamawa over the disaster, reassuring them of government's efforts to ensure the safety and well being of the people. <a href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/tukur-consoles-adamawa-flood-victims" target="_blank">Full story...</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 3 September 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Floods Leave 8 Dead, 100 Houses Destroyed In Katsina, Niger</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="submitted" style="color: #919191; line-height: 21.450000762939453px; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 7px;"><span class="authors" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;">Four persons have been confirmed dead and hundreds of houses destroyed in the devastating floods that swept through four local government areas of Katsina State </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">LEADERSHIP gathered yesterday that three persons died in the flood disaster that occurred in three villages of Safana local government area while a middle -aged lady died in the flood at Kurfi local government area.<a href="http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/33520/2012/08/27/floods_leave_8_dead_100_houses_destroyed_katsina_niger.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The recent devastating Atlantic Ocean surge at the coastline of Lagos State was natural disaster while the human casualties were man-made, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEAM) has said.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">NEMA spokesman Yusha'u Shuaibu said the agency has confirmed the recovery of 9 bodies and blamed residents for carelessness which caused the human casualties.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208270272.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigeria: Flood Sacks 10 Villages, Kills Two in Jigawa</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Dutse — A heavy downpour yesterday sacked ten villages and killed two people with many farmlands and houses destroyed in Kiyawa local government area of Jigawa State.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Alhaji Ibrahim Musa of Dankoli village told Daily Trust that it was the collapse of the bride along the Kafingana river as a result of bad drainage that worsened the flood in their village, saying his family was stranded becuase their farmland and houses were affected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has warned against a “above-normal” rainfall in strategic parts of the country which could lead to flooding in 12 States of the federation. The information, which is contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja and was signed by Eleazar Obende, NIMET Public Relations Unit, says that the states likely to be affected are: Lagos, Ogun, Delta, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Gombe, Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">In order to reduce the impact the imminent flood, NIMET has urged the affected state governments and the people in these states to clear their drainages and waterways as there was prospect of high intensity or long lasting rains occurring between August and October 2012.<a href="http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/284-breaking-news/42363--nigerians-brace-for-upcoming-floods-" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Environment - The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has told Nigerians to clear drains because of imminent heavy rainstorms that may lead to serious flooding between August and October. NIMET gave the advice in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, signed by Mr Eleazar Obende of the agency's public relations unit.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">"NIMET has observed wetter-than-normal soil surface moisture and groundwater conditions in some parts of the country over the past 12 months. "The northern sector of the country will experience peak rainfall during August to October season, the effect of the wetter-than-normal conditions observed is the prospect of the occurrence of above-normal rainfall, which may lead to surface run-off.<a href="http://www.afriquejet.com/climate-nimet-says-serious-flooding-coming-aug-to-oct-2012080642825.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">CONTRARY to claims that policemen were not present at the execution scene of the four University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) students in Umuokiri-Aluu community about one and a half weeks ago, one of the arrested suspects has placed a policeman among the executioners.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">One of the 13 suspects paraded to journalists in Port Harcourt, on Tuesday, David Ugbaje, while answering questions from journalists, said he saw two policemen, one of who joined in beating the victims.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">According to him, he was told the victims were robbers and that they were going to rob at 9, Coca Cola Street, Umuo-kiri-Aluu, which happened to be his compound.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Finding Justice for Ugo: Inspector General of Police Deploys ‘High-Tech Team’ to Take Over Investigations</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Investigation into the sad and cruel murder of </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Ugo Ozuah</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> in Lagos just five days after his wedding has taken another dimension, hopefully for the better.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Family and friends of Ugo say he was allegedly murdered by the Police along Gbagada Expressway. He was shot in his chest when he was escorting a friend who had come to greet him just a day after he returned from his honeymoon.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The Police has however denied the allegation claiming the victim was shot by armed robbers who were passing along the expressway. <a href="http://www.bellanaija.com/2012/09/28/finding-justice-for-ugo-inspector-general-of-police-deploys-high-tech-team-to-take-over-investigations/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">UNIDENTIFIED gunmen yesterday killed two policemen who were on foot patrol along Afikpo Street in Mile One Diobu, Port Harcourt.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">It was learnt that the armed men suddenly opened fire on the policemen who never anticipated any attack, killing them on the spot.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The incident which occurred at about 6 a.m. on Wednesday caused pandemonium in the area as residents scampered for safety. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99242:gunmen-kill-two-policemen&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Bauchi and Maiduguri — Rampaging gunmen within 30 minutes on Monday night killed a state Attorney-General and commissioner for Justice, a former Comptroller General of the Nigerian Prison Service and a local government chairman in three separate attacks.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">In Borno state Barrister Zanna Malam Gana, the Attorney General and commissioner of Justice was killed at about 8.30 pm in Bama.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Alhaji Ibrahim Jarma 65, a former prison boss was shot severally at about 8.33 pm as he was walking home after the late evening prayers in Azare, Bauchi state. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209190395.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">KANO, Nigeria (AFP) — Gunmen have killed the justice commissioner for a Nigerian state at the heart of an Islamist insurgency and an ex-prisons chief in another area, government and police sources said yesterday.</span>It was not immediately clear who was behind the killings, but they occurred after security forces on Monday shot dead two suspected high-ranking members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.In Borno state, gunmen stormed the justice commissioner's home late Monday in the town of Bama in the country's northeast, the region where Boko Haram is based and which has been hard hit by gun and bomb attacks. <a href="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Gunmen-kill-Nigeria-justice-commissioner_12562254" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 19 September 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">CITING indiscipline, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as a national embarrassment the bickering and power tussle between the police and the State Security Services (SSS) over investigations into the killing of Olaitan Oyerinde, the Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ACN decried a situation in which one week after the police had paraded some suspects in relation to the murder, the SSS brought yet another group of suspects for the same crime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">GUNMEN at the weekend killed a retired senior official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He was shot in front of the New Market, Douglas Road, Owerri. He was later confirmed dead at the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, where he had been taken to for treatment.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The hoodlums also abducted his wife from the Peugeot 407 saloon car they were riding in and was dumped somewhere. The car was abandoned at the scene and nothing was said to have been removed from it. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96882:gunmen-kill-cbn-ex-official-in-owerri&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">CERTAINLY, most news conscious Nigerians must have remained attached, one way or the other, to their favourite sources of information ever since the news broke of how Cynthia Osokogu was murdered.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Murders occur everyday all over the world, but a bewildering dimension to the unfortunate incident is that the merchants of death chose to pick their victims from the social media.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208240167.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">THE House of Representatives is giving Nigerians an opportunity to participate in amending the 1999 Constitution. It is a novel idea billed to hold from 10am on Monday November 5 in all 360 federal constituencies of the country.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">It may be a response to calls for a sovereign national conference or an attempt to correct the lie that prefaces the 1999 Constitution which states that Nigerians gave themselves the document.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The House calls the move a fulfillment of its pledge, in 2011, to make governance more inclusive. It is an opportunity for Nigerians - of various levels of understanding - to participate in the making of the Constitution. The only amendment, in 2010, was on electoral reforms. Nigerians want more. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210220135.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">President Goodluck Jonathan got civil rights labour activists and professional organisations together in the State House recently to sound them out on the way to achieve a constitution that would actually be regarded as a people-oriented document. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Leon Usigbe</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> reports the event, which also attracted the leadership of the National Assembly.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan was, for several hours last week, locked in deliberations with civil society organisations (CSOs) and professional groups in a presidential retreat at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja, brainstorming on how to actualise a people-oriented constitution for the country in the ongoing constitution amendment process.</span></span></div>
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States’ Anthem, Flag: Signs Of A Nation Under Frustration – ACF</h4>
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<span style="background-color: white;">FORMER National Chairman of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Mike Ahamba spoke with BERTRAM NWANNEKANMA on the on-going efforts by the National Assembly to amend the constitution.</span><br />
Do you support the calls for the removal of immunity clause?<br />
The removal of immunity clause is an area, where I know I hold a minority opinion. I am one of those who say it should not be removed, because that is not our problem. Our problem is institutional collapse-failure of institutions to carry out their respective responsibilities. When you talk about checks and balances, it is anticipated that some of things will happen. So if people in the executive are ‘looting’ the state treasury, it is for the House of Assembly to declare that a gross misconduct. If a sitting governor is found to have taken two million dollars out of Nigeria, he has disobeyed the law of the country. You don’t have to wait for Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) because the commission cannot do anything because of immunity. The responsibility lies with the House of Assembly to now commence an impeachment proceeding. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93556:immunity-clause-is-not-our-problem-says-ahamba-&catid=73:policy-a-politics&Itemid=607" target="_blank">Full story...</a><br />
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Nigeria has to develop a people’s constitution to rise above its present challenges, the Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, New York, Prof. Ali Mazrui, has said. <span style="background-color: white;">Speaking at the eighth Aelex Annual Lecture in Lagos on the theme: “This house must not fall: Constitutional reform and the people’s will”, the scholar said Nigeria must allow the people to participate in the development of a constitution. <a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/55249-%E2%80%98nigeria-needs-a-people%E2%80%99s-constitution%E2%80%99.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Being presentation of Delta Government position by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan at the retreat of the Senate Committee on the review of 1999 Constitution on Friday, July 20. </span><a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/politics/55205-constitution-review-delta-canvasses-true-fiscal-federalism.html" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Full story...</a><br />
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Today, discussing the constitution issue of the country, Nigerians of all walks of life will definitely hold different opinion on this one issue. <span style="background-color: white;">But whatever our views and opinions may be, a review of the constitution is in view after the recent Senate retreat which the oil state Delta state hosted. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Idaye Opi, a Legal Practitioner on this issue said the country; Nigeria does not have a constitution. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/25/nigeria-does-not-have-a-constitution-idaye-opi/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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Posted by Ufuoma, 27 July 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-885161155646468068.post-25466543673099930872012-10-24T06:49:00.000-07:002012-10-24T06:49:11.895-07:00Nigerian Police<h4>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">The Lagos State Police Command has recovered some weapons including over 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the state.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">Parading three armed robbery suspects in connection with the discovery on Tuesday, Umar Manko, State Police Commissioner, described it as the biggest cache recovered from criminals in the history of the state.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">The items recovered include nine AK 47 rifles, two GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun), one RPG launcher, also known as rocket propel grenade launcher, 225 AK 47 live ammunition, 260 rounds of GPMG live ammunition and five dynamites with detonators. <a href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/lagos-police-massive-arms-haul" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Ozuah: Police Maintain Innocence as Principal Witness Flees</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">In the face of mounting public outcry against the alleged murder of 36-year-old Ugochukwu Ozuah, the Lagos State Police Command has maintained its stance that the deceased was shot by suspected armed robbers in police uniform and not police officers as alleged.</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">This came as the principal witness in the entire saga, Omene Irikefe, the deceased’s friend who was also with him on that fateful night was alleged to have fled to safety following purported attempts to arrest him.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">It would be recalled that the deceased was killed last Thursday by gunshots allegedly fired by some police officers at Gbagada barely five days after his wedding ceremony with his heartthrob, Joan. <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ozuah-police-maintain-innocence-as-principal-witness-flees/125943/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Police Record Major Breakthrough in Fight Against Crime •Smash 3-Man Syndicate, Recover 19 Stolen Vehicles</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The Nigeria Police said on Sunday, that they had, in the renewed determination to rid the society of crimes, recorded a major break-through between August 22 and 28, saying operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)’s special task force on heinous crimes successfully raided some notorious criminal hide-outs in Kaduna.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">A statement from the Force Headquarters on Sunday said, “the special task force, working on a tip-off and in reaction to the upsurge in incidents of car theft in some parts of the country, proceeded to Kaduna State on August 22, 2012, where it smashed and arrested a three-man syndicate that specialised in car theft. <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/47312-police-record-major-breakthrough-in-fight-against-crime-smash-3-man-syndicate-recover-19-stolen-vehicles" target="_blank">Full story...</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 10 September 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigeria Police Launches Gender Policy</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The Nigeria Police Force has launched a gender policy for its rank and file as part of efforts to stop the discrimination against female police officers and enhance the capacity of its officers in handling gender-based violence matters.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Speaking at the launch of the document in Abuja Thursday, Inspector General of Police (IG), Mohammed Abubakar, said the policy aligns with relevant regional and international protocol and instruments on gender equality and women empowerment principles. <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-police-launches-gender-policy/124295/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most people would rank the operatives of the Nigerian Police Force as some of the most brutal and notorious human rights violators in the world given the fact that several internationally acclaimed reports of assessment conducted by independent body of panelists have turned up with extensively damaging scorecard of the involvement of the operatives of the Nigerian police in several cases of forced disappearances of suspects in custody and extra-legal executions of suspects. <a href="http://leadership.ng/nga/columns/34178/2012/09/04/nigeriasouth_africa_our_police_their_police.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 5 September 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, at the weekend said there was a huge gap in previous and present funding system for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to enable it discharge its duties effectively.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Ahmed said there was need for more funding for the Force in order to put a stop for the ongoing agitation for the creation of state police in the country.<a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ahmed-worried-over-police-funding/123303/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The clamour for State Police now a central issue in the counrty have continued to draw interest from all segements of the society.The amber first fired by the Northern Governors had since earned the agitation of the Southern Governors. The heavy onus on everyone who care is, should Nigeria go for state police or not?</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Mr. T.C. Ezeiro, a legal practitioner in Ikeja says agitation for state police was informed by Governors who want more powers for political needs. He says state police are prone to abuse as the police personnel</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr <strong style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike Okiro </strong>has seen it all in the Nigerian Police Force. He retired after occupying the exalted office of Inspector-General of Police in 2007. Under his tenure as the nation's police boss, he piloted the affairs of Nigeria's top-most law enforcement agency through several storms.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he bared his mind on the raging controversy over decentralization of the police force.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208250338.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">While 27 states were represented at the NGF’s meeting last Tuesday, only 17 states showed up for yesterday’s parley.<a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96569:crisis-among-govs-meeting-on-state-police-constitution-stalls&catid=1:national&Itemi" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">The clamour for the establishment of State Police reached fever pitch last week when unclear conclusions emerged from several meetings of the Nigerian Governors' Forum. While some of them pronounced a resolution seeking legal backing for the establishment of State police, others among them, mostly those whose tenures were coming to an end, counselled against it. Former Inspectors General of Police it was, who made the most emphatic case against the establishment of state police.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208220622.html" target="_blank">Fullstory...</a></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Posted by Amaka, 22 August 2012</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">INDICATIONS have emerged in Abuja, yesterday, that the National Judicial Council has released the flash drive containing the call logs of alleged conversations between suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami and Action Congress of Nigeria chieftains and party's legal representatives, among others. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Vanguard learnt that the release followed demand made to the Chairman of the National Judicial Council and Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208220072.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Kano — Kano Police Command, yesterday, said it uncovered and defused no fewer than 963 Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, picked randomly from various parts of Kano from January till date.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Similarly, 86 suspects, known as Yandaba, were apprehended by police authorities from several black spots across the state.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Anyone canvassing for the establishment of state police was an anarchist, Rep Gerald Irona, who is the Vice Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Gas, said on Sunday. <a href="http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/111-politics/41919-advocates-of-state-police-are-anarchists-rep-irona" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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About 650,000 police officers would be needed to adequately confront the security challenges facing Nigeria, a university lecturer, Prof. Kunle Ajayi, said in Ado Ekiti on Thursday. <span style="background-color: white;">Ajayi, a Professor of Political Science, Ekiti State University, (EKSU) gave the figure in a paper he delivered at the annual Michael Opeyemi Bamidele Lecture Series, held at Christ School, Ado-Ekiti. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The paper is entitled: ``Legislating in a Troubled Times: National Assembly and the Challenges of Legislating for Good Governance in Nigeria''. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">THE Lagos State government of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) is lucky its fate does not lie in the hands of commercial motorcycle operators in the state, popularly called Okada.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">If it did, then, give the Okada riders a few days and Fashola would not be sitting in the Round House as, according to one of them, Kola “this Fashola is not the one we voted for last year”, a commercial motorcyclist, Chidi Anah told The Guardian at Ikotun yesterday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">“If we had the power, we will remove him immediately and bring in a kind, understanding governor who will realize that, we, Okada riders are hardworking Nigerians.<a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102435:new-traffic-law-lagos-okada-riders-cry-foul&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has urged the Nigerian Army to obey the state Road Traffic Law, saying since roads are shared assets, everyone is expected play their roles in managing them.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">Fashola said the army should be part of a concerted effort to promote a culture of safety and healthy commuting on roads in the state.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">The governor spoke at an interactive session with senior army officers and heads of army formations in Lagos on the law at the 81 Division auditorium, Onikan. <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=46407" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">In its bid to ensure that prosecution of violators of traffic law become less controversial,there is plan by Lagos State government to equip those saddled with the responsibility of enforcing the law with camera to get pictorial evidences.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Deputy Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Mr Tunde Sobulo, had at a seminar organised for stakeholders, hinted that there was need for traffic law enforcement officers to have camera to make prosecution less cumbersome, as there may be need to use photographs to buttress points while prosecuting an offender. <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/community-news/48165-lagos-traffic-law-enforcement-officers-to-use-camera" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 26 September 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, on Monday, took the State Traffic law campaign to the special religious services marking the commencement of the 2012/2013 Legal Year.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">The governor told the gathering of serving and retired judges, magistrates, senior lawyers and other legal practitioners to dispense justice when handling cases related to the traffic law.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">He urged them to ensure that no innocent person is unjustly punished. </span><a href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/fashola-takes-traffic-law-religious-houses" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigeria: New Lagos Traffic Law - Bringing Sanity to a Chaotic City</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Amid avoidable killings occasioned by reckless Lagos drivers, especially the commercial drivers, the Lagos State Government has recently introduced a new trafic law to see that the "madness" on Lagos roads comes to an end. George Okojie writes.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Having been gazetted, it is no longer a question of if it would be enforced, but when full enforcement on the safety-motivated Lagos Traffic Law would commence in the state. The state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola said in Lagos that the law had become operational since he signed it on August 2, 2012.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">FRSC Prosecutes 101 Traffic Offenders</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kaduna Sector Command, has arrested and prosecuted 101 road traffic offenders as part of measures to reduce road crashes and inject sanity on the highways.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The Head of Public Education of the command, Martins Dajangla, disclosed this in a press release issued to newsmen in Kaduna yesterday.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">He said that the mobile court which carried out the trials was situated along Kaduna-Abuja road and explained that the measure became necessary in view of the increasing rate of road traffic crashes being witnessed along the route recently, and to further caution motorists on the need to obey road traffic rules and regulations, especially during the ember months which normally experience an upsurge in human and vehicle traffic across the nation’s highways. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Fashola Tells Okada Riders to Take up Farming</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos has told commercial motorcyclists in the state to turn to farming should the new Traffic Law prove too stiff for them.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.46666717529297px;">At a meeting with the state leadership of commercial motorcycle operators, popularly called okada riders, on Tuesday, the governor said their members were free to leave the job. <a href="http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/fashola-tells-okada-riders-take-farming" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We are ready to begin implementation of new Lagos Traffic Law-Lagos CP</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">The new Lagos Road Traffic Law Monday garnered more support from stakeholders in the transport sector as the National Union of Road Transport Workers pledged to cooperate with the government to ensure full implementation of the law.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.78333282470703px;">President of the Union, Alhaji Najeen Usman Yasin, who made the pledge at Lagos House, Ikeja, while on a courtesy visit to the State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), pledged that members of the Union would remain law abiding in the exercise of their lawful functions in the State.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">THE Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, has advised operators, riders and passengers of commercial motorcycles commonly referred to as Okada to comply voluntarily with the provisions in the recently signed Road Traffic Law.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Speaking during another stakeholders meeting with the transport unions and operators of the informal public transport in the state, Opeifa said that despite signing of the new law by the state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, and the enlightenment campaign embarked upon, it was disturbing that motorcycles below 200cc still ply the restricted routes, including bridges and highways with impunity.<a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96480:lagos-tasks-commercial-motorcyclists-on-road-traffic-law-&catid=100:auto-wheels&Itemid=605" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Ikeja — Pending the enforcement of the new Lagos Road Traffic Law, the state government, yesterday, met with representatives of the transport unions in the state to explain the provisions of the law as well as the need to ensure compliance by their members.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has signed a new traffic law in a move to ensure the safety of lives and properties on Lagos roads, establish order and improve the efficiency of the state’s transport network. The traffic law prohibits trailer trucks, except fuel tankers and passenger trucks, from entering, or travelling within Lagos metropolis from 6am to 9pm. Truck drivers are also to be tested for drunkenness. <a href="http://www.ventures-africa.com/2012/08/lagos-signs-new-traffic-law-to-improve-transport-system/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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Governor Babatunde Fashola is set to sign Lagos State’s new traffic bill into law on Thursday. The bill, which was sponsored by Bisis Yusufu, Chairman, House Committee on Transport, was passed on July 12, 2012 by the State House of Assembly. The bill seeks to criminalise traffic offences and sanction offenders as part of strategy to bring under control the chaotic traffic situation within the metropolis. <a href="http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/111-politics/42088--fashola-to-endorse-new-lagos-traffic-law-" target="_blank">Full story...</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Hugo Odiogor</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nigeria became the first country in history to cede its territory and willingly agreed to displace its own citizens, in their home land in peace time, to honour its war time obligations and in the spirit of African brotherhood.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The United Nations recognised this extraordinary accomplishment and duly sent a message of congratulations to Aso Rock. To us, when the full history of Bakassi is finally written, there will be chapters for some individuals, institutions and agencies whose role would appear in bold gold prints as heroes while others would end up in the foot notes. This perspective is just a guide. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210210605.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Source:</span>http://allafrica.com<br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Posted by Amaka, 22 0ctober 2012</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Contrary to the claims by the Federal Government that there were no new facts on which it could base its request for a review of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that ceded the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun, it has emerged that there was indeed new evidence that could have strengthened Nigeria's bid to reclaim the peninsula, but it was ignored.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">In announcing Nigeria's position on the matter, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Bello Adoke, had said that Nigeria had not discovered a decisive fact that was unknown to it before the ICJ judgment, which could have helped its review. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210160509.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigeria - Cameroon: Bakassi self-determination mirrors Biafra war</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">After the Nigerian government's failure to appeal an October 9, 2002 ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that ceded the disputed oil-rich Bakassi Peninsular to neighboring Cameroon, the people of Bakassi who do not wish to be under that country's government could seek self determination.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The people of Bakassi who have often protested the alleged ill-treatment they receive from Cameroonian security forces, and feeling of rejection by Nigeria, after The Green Tree Agreement ceded the area to Cameroon, have threatened to form a country of their own. <a href="http://www.theafricareport.com/society-and-culture/nigeria-cameroon-bakassi-self-determination-mirrors-biafra-war.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Abuja - Nigeria — The 2012/2013 Legal Year of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice opens on Thursday 27th September, 2012 at the seat of the Court in Abuja. The opening ceremony affords the Court the opportunity to brief stakeholders on its activities in the past year and to highlight its programme for the new legal year.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The theme of this legal year is "The Community Court of Justice and the effectiveness of the implementation of ECOWAS Community Law." The Community Court of Justice plays a vital role in the implementation of the Community law by ensuring the observance of law and justice in the interpretation and application of ECOWAS Community texts. It is also saddled with the responsibility of settling disputes such as may be referred to it in accordance with the Revised Treaty and other Community texts. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209280394.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nigeria: Bakassi Peninsula - Legal Dimensions of Self Determination Threat</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Femi Falana, San, in This Piece Examines the Legal Dimensions of Bakassi Peninsula Residents Self Determination Threat</span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">THE contemporary boundary problems that exist between Nigeria and Cameroon particularly over the ownership and control of Bakassi Peninsula can be traced primarily to colonialism, the scramble for African territories and the creation of artificial boundaries in Africa.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">In the scramble for Africa which started with the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 and was completed by the turn of the 20th century, the colonial masters arbitrarily created several latitudinal and longitudinal boundaries using physical borders such as rivers, </span><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209200738.html" style="line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PROFESSOR Anya Oko Anya</span>, 75, pioneer chairman of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) and 1992 National Merit Award winner is sad over Nigeria's handling of the Bakassi Peninsula and insists that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) would reverse its 2002 judgement ceding the territory to Cameroon if the Nigeria appeals the verdict with prevailing facts and documents.</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">e wants former heads of state, retired Generals Yakubu Gowon and Olusegun Obasanjo, who signed off and ceded the territory respectively to Cameroon to take part in the recovery efforts because they might be charged with treason in future. Excerpts: <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209180330.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The legal fight facing a Newfoundland oil worker who was shot and taken hostage in Nigeria is a cautionary tale about the big risks that come with big money on overseas rigs, says his lawyer.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Bob Croke of Torbay is suing along with his former American co-worker James (Butch) Johnson for compensation after both were shot when militants boarded their rig in Nigeria on Nov. 8, 2010.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">NOW that the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula has again re-surfaced and is in the international domain, a lot of people have started to ask questions. They want to know why the various agreements entered into by Nigeria and Cameroun as well as the 2005 judgment of the International Court of Justice, (ICJ) at The Hague have failed to resolve the problem, stop the restiveness and the increasing agitation by the people of Bakassi. This renewed agitation is indeed posing a serious threat to the bilateral relations between Nigeria and Cameroon, as well as international peace and security.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A negotiated settlement is the best solution to the looted artefacts imbroglio, a Lagos-based collector tells Okechukwu Uwaezuoke. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A veil of mystery shrouds a recent incident in the US. Dutiful American officials, who had apprehended a cache of Nok sculptures, returned them to the Nigerian Consul-General in New York on July 27. With all certainty, the consul-general declared that these artefacts were stolen from the National Museum in Lagos. But a denial from the National Museum and Monuments contradicted his assertion. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209090265.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="articleLocation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">PARIS, Sept 5</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;"> (Reuters) - French aeronautics and defence group Safran was fined 500,000 euros ($630,000) on Wednesday by a Paris court for bribing public officials in Nigeria to win a contract in 2000/03.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15px;">Investigating magistrates found that the bribes had helped Safran win a 170 million euro contract to make more than 70 million identity cards. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The political leader of Bakassi indigenes and former Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, in this interview with Assistant Editor, </span><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Soji Ajibola</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">, bares her mind on the travails of the Bakassi indigenes and other related matters.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">WHEN did Bakassi Peninsula become an international issue?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Posted by Amaka, 6 September 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The House of Representatives recently adopted a resolution asking the Federal Government to initiate the process of reviewing the judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ceding the Bakassi Peninsular to the Republic of Cameroun. More than four weeks later, the government is yet to take action on the issue. Onwuka Nzeshi revisits the demand of the Bakassi people<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201208270409.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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BY LOUIS OKECHUKWU, 10 JULY 2012<br />
DOES the Green Tree agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon which ceded the Bakassi Peninsula to the to the latter have the force of law if it has not been ratified by the National Assembly as stipulated by the Nigerian Constitution?If this question is answered in the negative, it implies that Bakassi legally remains a part of Nigeria despite the treaty that was signed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. This is because Section 12 of the amended 1999 Constitution stipulates that: "No treaty between the Federation and any other country shall have the force of law to the extent to which any such treaty has been enacted into law by the National Assembly.<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201207110106.html" target="_blank">Full story</a><br />
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Posted by Amaka, 11 July 2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-885161155646468068.post-17276906323493059702012-10-22T02:57:00.004-07:002012-10-22T02:57:54.971-07:00Human Rights<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has threatened a legal action against the Dangote Group of Companies, owned by the billionaire business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, over alleged infringement on peoples' rights.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">While Falana disclosed that Dangote's companies would be sued for the alleged killings of innocent Nigerians in various accidents across the country, he added that oil companies would be sued for not paying compensations to some communities where they operate. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210220300.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">While Nigerians are still reacting to the dust raised in the memoirs of renowned author, Prof Chinua Achebe in which he alleged that Late Chief Awolowo recommended that starvation should be used to subdue the Igbo during the Nigerian Civil War, a group, under the name “Bilie Human Rights Initiative” has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria to court.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">The case, with suit No. FHC/OW/CS/102/2012 was filed in the Federal High Court of Nigeria in the Owerri Judicial Division against the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Attorney-General of the Federation seeking to enforce the rights of indigenous people of Biafra to self-determination and independence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Hundreds of youths from Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, yesterday, barricaded the East-West Road in protest over alleged take-over of their lands by the people of Okrika, the home-town of Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The youths barricaded the ever-busy road as early as 7.00 am from the Eleme Junction in Port Harcourt to Onne axis of the road at a time when President Goodluck Jonathan was expected to pass through the road on his way to Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The purported impeachment of the speaker is nothing but an exhibition of rascality. Out of 25 members of the House, 12 people sat illegally because we were on oversight function. We were supposed to return on Thursday but because of their intention, they went to the chamber two days to our resumption, 12 of them sat and took that action. The 12 later claimed they were 17. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201210190827.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Reps to Intervene in Impeachment of Kogi’s Speaker</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">This followed a motion moved by a lawmaker, Honorable Ossai ossai, who said the incident was a reminder of similar actions in Ogun and Oyo states in the last dispensation, where a minority number sat and impeached the leadership of the assemblies with the support of the state executives.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">He stated the impeachment in Kogi state clearly violated the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which required a two-third majority of members to effect such impeachment processes.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Members of the Kogi state House of Assembly on Tuesday,</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> </span>impeached the Speaker <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">of the Assembly, Abdullahi Bello and ten other principal officers. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/10/17/reps-to-intervene-in-impeachment-of-kogis-speaker/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">In a controversial and dramatic manner, the Kogi State House of Assembly yesterday removed the principal officers from office.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Twelve out of the 25- member assembly attended the session where the speaker and other principal officers were impeached. 17 of the lawmakers allegedly signed the impeachment document.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">During the emergency session,Hon. Paul Gowon representing Dekina/Biraidu constituency said the house could not afford to perpetually be on recess when the state was being confonted with challenges. <a href="http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/37785/2012/10/17/kogi_assembly_removes_speaker_leadership.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Posted by Amaka, 16 October 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A battle line may have been drawn between the senate and the executive over the non-implementation of its resolutions.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">The lawmakers expressed displeasure over the unwillingness of President Goodluck Jonathan to implement resolutions reached by the Senate particularly the recommendations on the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE). </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">At Thursday’s proceedings of the Senate, Uche Chukwumerijie (PDP Abia North), during debate on a bill for an act to amend the public enterprises act, threatened to move a motion to impeach the president if he continues to ignore the Resolutions of the Senate. <a href="http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/09/20/senate-threatens-to-impeach-jonathan/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">No Motion To Impeach Jonathan – Reps Spokesman</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Cracks may have begun to appear in the House of Representatives, as it declared yesterday that there is no motion before it to commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan over dismal implementation of the 2012 budget.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">House Deputy Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Victor Ogene, told LEADERSHIP that no motion regarding the impeachment threat was presently before the Lower House.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Also, the lawmaker denied reports of an extension of the September 18 resumption date from scheduled two-month long annual recess. <a href="http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/34766/2012/09/13/no_motion_impeach_jonathan_reps_spokesman.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">MEMBERS of the Taraba State House of Assembly have begun a move to impeach the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi, over alleged gross misconduct.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The allegations against Danladi were yesterday deliberated upon on the floor of the House. The notice, which was signed by 19 out of the 23 members, accused the deputy governor of using his position to corner projects meant for the people as his personal projects.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Parts of the notice read: “That by virtue of your being the deputy governor of Taraba State, you had easy access to the office of the Federal Government/World Bank’s Millennium Development Goals projects in the state and other state agencies.</span></span></div>
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<span class="story_author" style="background-color: white; color: #777777;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">Since the threat by the House of Representatives to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan, if he fails to ensure 100 per cent implementation of the budget by September, the political landscape has not been the same. To lawyers, there is nothing wrong with the threat, but they advised the lawmakers to only insist that the President obeys extant laws<b>. </b><a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/law/55729-%E2%80%98impeachment-threat-not-strange%E2%80%99.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">National Judicial Council (NJC) may have thrown Osun State Judiciary into confusion following its decision to step down the consideration of the state’s nominees for appointment as the substantive chief judge (CJ) for the state.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.149999618530273px;">The state Judicial Service Commission had forwarded three nominees to the NJC for consideration, following the pending retirement of the outgoing CJ of the state, Justice Olaniyi Ojo. The three nominees are Justices Bola Ojo, Gloria Olagoke and Joseph Oyewole. <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=44896" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">NJC Rejects Lagos Judge as Osun CJ •Asks Aregbesola to Follow Seniority List</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">STRONG indications emerged on Wednesday in Abuja that the National Judicial Council (NJC) shot down the nomination of Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of the Lagos State Judiciary as the next Chief Judge of Osun State.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">Oyewole, a native of Ila-Orangun, in Osun State, reportedly topped the list of three sent to the council by the appointing authority, Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The council, which is the recommending authority, at its meeting on Wednesday, reportedly refused to consider the list which had Oyewole as the favoured of the appointing authority, having been placed above the other two most senior judges in the state. <a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/49405-njc-rejects-lagos-judge-as-osun-cj-asks-aregbesola-to-follow-seniority-list" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The trial of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, for alleged fraud was Monday stalled because the trial judge, Justice Donatus Okorowo, was transferred to the Taraba Division of the Federal High Court.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Bankole was arraigned in June 2011 on a 16-count charge of contract inflation and embezzlement of public funds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">THE Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, has promised that the Judiciary under her stewardship would not let the nation down or shirk in its responsibility of dispensing justice to all citizens irrespective of their status.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">At a special court session to mark the beginning of the 2012/2013 legal year which kicked off with the swearing-in of 25 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) in Abuja yesterday, Mukhtar said she and other judicial officers were conscious of the challenges of restoring public confidence in the Judiciary and expressed their determination to overcome them. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98583:judiciary-wont-fail-nigeria-says-cjn&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">THE pioneer chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Justice Mustapha Akanbi, yesterday insisted on the reinstatement of Justice Isa Ayo Salami, the suspended President of the Court of Appeal.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">He said his insistence had pitched him against the government.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">Justice Akanbi spoke with reporters in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. <a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/60629-akanbi-insists-on-salami%E2%80%99s-reinstatement.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">EFFORTS at reforming Nigeria’s judiciary, many stakeholders in the legal community believe may be a waste of time, if there is no cordial relationship between the Bar and Bench. The administration of justice in Nigeria, after all stands on a tripod, made up of the Bar, the Bench and the Public.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The Bar and the Bench as the conveyor belt of justice, must, therefore, maintain a cordial relationship, especially when the code of the profession enjoins them to maintain the dignity, appropriated to the judicial office.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Abuja — The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has expressed its readiness to publicly disgrace any judge found to have compromised standard in the dispensation of justice.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">This was even as the legal body has accused the National Judicial Council, NJC, of paying lip-service to the fight against corruption in the judiciary, noting that the council, "in that regard is part of the problem."</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Consequently, NBA while imploring the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Muktar to quickly address the issue of institutional decay in the judiciary, said it has also resolved that from now on, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209040087.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">THE call by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) seeking for the intervention of the National Assembly (NASS) in the issue involving the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, has been described as tantamount to contempt of court and a rape of the Nigerian Constitution.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">A former secretary of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Honourable Gboyega Akinola, who made this known, said the judiciary must be given a free hand to handle all criminal and civil cases within its jurisdiction without bias.<a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/46576-salami-acns-call-for-nass-intervention-rape-of-constitution-ex-pdp-scribe" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></span></div>
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THE inauguration of Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar yesterday by President Goodluck Jonathan as the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) is a continuation of her trail blazing trend both at the bar and on the bench. Called to the Nigerian Bar on June 26, 1967, after being called to the English Bar earlier in November, 1966, she became the first female lawyer from the northern part of the country. She is also the first female judge to be elevated to the Court of Appeal when she joined the appellate court in 1987. On May 10, 2005, she became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.<a href="http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/features/44261-aloma-mariam-mukhtara-tradition-of-firsts" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Full story</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.633333206176758px;">An Abuja High Court has again adjourned to Nov. 6, for ruling on an application to quash criminal charges in the N32.8 billion Police Pension Fund scam against three of the six accused persons.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.633333206176758px;">It will be recalled that Justice Abubakar Talba had on July 17, fixed Oct. 9, for ruling on the motion filed by Atiku Kigo (a former Permanent Secretary), Mrs Veronica Onyegbula (Cashier) and Sani Zira (ICT Officer).</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.633333206176758px;">The three, who are charged along with Esai Dangabar (Director), Ahmed Wada (Director) and John Yusufu (Assistant Director), are members of staff of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, currently on suspension. <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/n32-8bn-pension-scam-again-court-adjourns-for-ruling/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The trial of former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank PLC (now Access Bank), Dr Erastus Akingbola, was stalled before Justice Habeeb Abiru of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday, the court adjourning further hearing till Ocober 10 for Dr Akingbola to conclude his defense.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">The matter could not go on as scheduled due to the absence of a witness subpoenaed to tender some documents on behalf of the accused.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">During yesterday’s proceedings, Akingbola’s counsel, Chief Felix Fagbohungbe (SAN), informed the court that a court-subpoenaed witness, Ebobo Gloria Alero, who was supposed to tender some documents in court, could not make it. <a href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/48371-akingbolas-trial-stalled-to-conclude-defence-oct-10" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A LAGOS High Court sitting in Ikeja has summoned an investigating Police Officer, Sergeant Cletus Bayern, and threatened to arrest him if he once again fails to appear before the court on Friday to conclude his testimony.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Sergeant Bayern formerly with the Aswani Police station was the officer who investigated the case of Akolade Arowolo who was accused of killing his banker wife, Titilayo Omozoje Arowolo, at their home in Isolo last year. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">When the matter came up for hearing before Justice Lateefa Okunnu yesterday, a Director in the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Olayide Eboda, told the court that when they called Sergeant Bayern on Friday, he told them that he was in his village attending to the burial of his father and won’t be back until weekend. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99703:court-summons-police-officer-over-bankers-murder&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Fake Admission in UI: Suspect Arraigned in Court for Threatening Don’s Life</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">Supporters of the embattled factional National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, literally shed tears yesterday following the refusal of an Enugu High Court to vacate an interim order restraining him from taking steps to convoke a national, state, or local government executive committee meeting of the party.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.450000762939453px;">The court presided over by the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Innocent Umezulike, had slammed the interim order against Umeh following a suit filed by one Ichie Jude Okoli, a member of the party in Enugu, <a href="http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/35097/2012/09/18/tears_court_refuses_vacate_order_against_umeh.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">Two Nigerians on death row, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">Michael Ifunanya and Stanley </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">Agbaeze, have sued the Gambian government before an ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, praying it to stop their impending execution.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.383333206176758px;">The suit was filed on their behalf by a human rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). <a href="http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/law/61815-group-takes-gambia-to-ecowas-court-over-two-nigerians-on-death-row.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">A FEDERAL High Court, Lagos has fixed September 28, for ruling on whether or not it will stop the ongoing coroner’s inquest into the Dana plane crash of June 3 in which 153 lost their lives.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Justice Okon Abang chose the date after counsel on the matter adopted their applications.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The application was filed on September 3 by Joseph Nwobike (SAN) on behalf of a group, the Civil Aviation Round Table Initiative, seeking to stall further proceedings in the inquest set up on June 18 by a Lagos Coroner, Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe, to ascertain the cause of the crash. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98657:court-rules-on-dana-crash-inquest-sept-28-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Few months ago, precisely July, I wrote a piece titled “Thoughts on Edo Polls”. In it, I gave my view on the keenly contested July 14 gubernatorial election in Edo state. It was published a week before the date.Three months later, I am doing same but this time taking a closer look at the major contenders.I am not an indigene of the “sunshine state” but I enjoy the politics playing out. Over the past few weeks, the major contending parties have been at their best, doing outlandish propaganda quite nicely. It is not unexpected; same is trending even in the US elections build-up.The Ondo election to a certain degree is similar to Edo’s. One, both Mimiko and Oshiomole got to office thanks to rule of law. <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=42902" target="_blank">Full story...</a>Source:http://www.osundefender.org/?p=42902<br />Posted by Amaka, 16 October 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The ruling Labour Party (LP) in Ondo State has alleged that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was planning to procure N200million worth of arms and ammunition to use in order to cause violence during the October 20 gubernatorial election. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">LP’s Director of Publicity, Koye Odogiyan, narrated that the opposition party had allegedly purchased 100 sophisticated guns and the accompanied ammunition as well as bullet proofs. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The ruling Labour Party (LP) in Ondo State has alleged that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was planning to procure N200million worth of arms and ammunition to use in order to cause violence during the October 20 gubernatorial election.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Kogi Guber: Supreme Court Dismisses Application Against Wada</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ABUJA - The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the appeal filed against the victory of Idris Wada of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Kogi State.Candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2011 governorship election, Prince Audu Abubakar, had on August 2, challenged the July 14 confirmation of Wada’s election by the Court of Appeal.Delivering the ruling, Justice Mahmud Mohammed held that the Constitution and the practise direction of the election barred the Court from granting the application. <a href="http://nigerianobservernews.com/11092012/news/news8.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The Ondo State governorship election, scheduled for October 20, 2012, would not only be interesting but also redefine the political fortune of the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and the Labour Party,LP.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The three gladiators fielded by the leading political parties in the state are from the South, North and Central senatorial zones. Each of the candidates is holding tenaciously to his political base.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The Comrade-Governor was, several weeks ago, returned for a second term by the good, united people of Edo State.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Broom-wielding Adams Oshiomhole, posting a sweeping performance, inflicted a crushing defeat on ethnic politics and electoral gangsterism, tearing apart the stranglehold of a most intimidating combination of fearsome political god-fathers. And the 'Heartbeat of the Nation' erupted in spontaneous state-wide jubilation, unhindered by the inclemency of weather. <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201209080263.html" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Governor Olusegun Mimiko yesterday in Owo kicked off his re-election campaign with a pledge to work with renewed vigour towards a better Ondo State.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The event was marked by violence that led to accusation and counter-accusation by the Mimiko’s Labour Party [LP} and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The event was marked by violence that led to accusation and counter-accusation by the Mimiko’s Labour Party [LP} and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">BARELY 48 hours after the Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) filed its petition at the election tribunal challenging Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s re-election, the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP) has said it would not go to court but would support the governor to move the state forward.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Meanwhile, Edo State House of Assembly Majority Leader, Philip Shaibu, has faulted the PDP over its moves to challenge Oshiomhole’s academic qualifications at the tribunal.<a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94641:sdmp-rules-out-suit-to-challenge-edo-polls&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><br />
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AFTER a prolonged legal battle, the Adamawa State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal yesterday in Yola upheld Governor Murtala Nyako’s victory in the February 4, 2012 election. <span style="background-color: white;">In his ruling, the chairman of the tribunal Justice Bitrus Sanga, said that the petitioner, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), failed to prove that the </span><span style="background-color: white;">conduct of the governorship election in the state violated the provisions of the Constitution and the Electoral Act as amended 2010. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Sanga pointed out that among the 66 petitioner’s witnesses, none of them was a polling agent in any of the units, which disqualified them to give evidence on the conduct of the election. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93496:tribunal-upholds-nyakos-election-dismisses-acns-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">GEORGE TOWN: Police have arrested three Nigerian college students for possessing 2kg worth of Syabu, valued at RM400,000, in an apartment in Butterworth on Wednesday.</span><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;">The drug was kept in a bag in the apartment in Lorong Widuri.</span><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also seized was a Proton Saga car and some money. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Penang police chief Datuk Abd Rahim Hanafi said the three men, aged 24 to 32, were studying in a private college in Penang. <a href="http://www.nst.com.my/latest/nigerians-arrested-on-drug-charges-1.149594#" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source:</span></span></span>http://www.nst.com.my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Lagos, Nigeria – A man was arrested for toting a bundle of roasted chickens through an international airport in Lagos. Sure, traveling with stuffed chickens is a bit odd to begin with, but this wasn’t your mother’s Thanksgiving stuffing. According to </span>NY Daily News<span style="background-color: white;">, these chickens were stuffed with $150,000 worth of cocaine. <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/321323/cocaine-stuffed-roasted-chickens-smuggled-into-nigeria/" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Source:</span>http://www.inquisitr.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #061826; line-height: 21px;">LAGOS, Nigeria - (AP) -- The roasted chickens had an unusual stuffing -- $150,000 worth of cocaine, according to Nigerian police.</span><span style="color: #061826; line-height: 21px;">A Nigerian mechanic who struggled in Brazil for more than six years had hoped the drugs would buy him a life of luxury in his native land, Nigerian authorities said Monday.</span><span style="color: #061826; line-height: 21px;">"This was like a retirement plan for him," said Mitchell Ofoyeju, spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.<a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/world/nigeria-uncovers-cocaine-stuffed-roasted-chicken-1.3947371" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">MINISTER of Communications, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, has stressed the need for Nigeria to create a robust broadband network to enable more Nigerians have access to internet.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">She also insisted that government, private sector and the civil society had responsibilities in ensuring that the beneficial uses of the internet outweighed its manipulation to cause harm.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Stressing that internet governance should not be equated with bans and restrictions, the minister opined that the international management of the internet should be multilateral, transparent and democratic with the full involvement of government, the private sector, civil society and international organisations. <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99792:how-to-reduce-cyber-crime-by-minister-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559" target="_blank">Full story...</a></span></span></div>
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