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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Babangida said this on Thursday in Lagos at the presentation of two books in honour of Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, a former External Affairs Minister.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
The 37-year-old, who had been without a club ever since leaving LA Galaxy back in December 2012, travelled to Paris on Thursday to complete the deal, and has signed a contract until the end of the season after passing his medical.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
China's foulest fortnight for air
pollution in memory has rekindled a tongue-in-cheek campaign by a
multimillionaire with a streak of showmanship who is selling canned
fresh air.
Chen Guangbiao, who made his fortune in the recycling business and is a high-profile philanthropist, on Wednesday handed out soda pop-sized cans of air, purportedly from far-flung, pristine regions of China such as Xinjiang in the northwest to Taiwan, the southeast coast.
Chen Guangbiao, who made his fortune in the recycling business and is a high-profile philanthropist, on Wednesday handed out soda pop-sized cans of air, purportedly from far-flung, pristine regions of China such as Xinjiang in the northwest to Taiwan, the southeast coast.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Lagos-based oil magnate and the Chairman of Zenon Oil and Gas, Femi Otedola has floored the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal and former Chairman House Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe Farouk Lawan in the N250 billion harassment, intimidation and business losses suit he instituted against the two lawmakers.
An Abuja High Court on Thursday upheld Mr Otedola’s case against Messrs Tambuwal and Lawan ordering both men to file their defence immediately while dismissing their two separate objections to the legal action.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
A provisions trader, Chukuma Ameh, has
been arraigned before the Senior Magistrates’ Court, Mararaba for
biting off the left ear of one Abdulaziz Saidu in a fight over N200.
The pair were found fighting on the street by the police patrol team attached to Sani Abacha Road, Mararaba B, led by Inspector Mayibe Tube and were arrested.
The pair were found fighting on the street by the police patrol team attached to Sani Abacha Road, Mararaba B, led by Inspector Mayibe Tube and were arrested.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
The Kano State Police Command has
arrested an undergraduate student of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) in
connection with an abandoned polythene bag containing wheat flour mixed
with guinea corn with a remote controlled bomb inside.
A statement signed by the force spokesman, ASP Magaji Musa Majia, said the bag was seen abandoned on January 23 at bout 220hrs at a popular GSM market junction at Farm Centre by some men riding tricycle.
A statement signed by the force spokesman, ASP Magaji Musa Majia, said the bag was seen abandoned on January 23 at bout 220hrs at a popular GSM market junction at Farm Centre by some men riding tricycle.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
After touring in the UK, US and staging (along with his EME crew) one of the most successful music concerts of 2012, it’s back to the books for rapper Skales.
The 20-year-old who is studying Office Management at Lead City University in Ibadan put up a photo of himself on campus, looking bright and happy.
An earlier photo however shows the contrast – ‘Schooling in Nigeria means Alota frustration’, he wrote.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Controversial Nollywood star, turned musician, Tonto Dikeh is back again with a video for her new single 'Itz Ova'
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Two-goal hero in the Super Eagles
victory over Ethiopia, Victor Moses, and Villarreal striker Ike Uche say
the quarterfinal match against Ivory Coast on Sunday will not be
one-sided. They warned that having crossed the group stage, Nigeria will
be hard to dismiss.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
A man was sentenced to three years in jail for stealing a telephone handset worth N17, 000 even as pension thief who stole N2billion is freed
Less than 24 hours after an Abuja High Court sentenced Pension Thief John Yakubu Yusuf to two years in prison for admitting to stealing around N2 billion, an Ikare Magistrate Court in Ondo State has sentenced another man to three years in prison for stealing a telephone handset worth N17, 000.
The Abuja court had on Monday sentenced the former director of the Police Pension Board , John Yakubu Yusuf, to two-year imprisonment.
Mr. Yusuf pleaded guilty to two-count charges of embezzling about N2 billion of the total N33 billion stolen from police pensions. He was, however, given an option of fine of N250, 000 instead of going to jail.
Adepoju Jamiu, 23, living in Ondo was not so lucky. On Tuesday, the Ikare Magistrate Court sentenced him to three years imprisonment for stealing a China Blackberry phone worth N17, 000. Like pension thief Yusuf, Mr. Jamiu also pleaded guilty to the charge.
If the ratio of years of sentence was relative to the amount stolen and the same law was used to try both men, should Mr. Jamiu be jailed 3 years, Mr., Yusuf would have been sentenced to at least 110,000 years in jail.
Not only was Mr. Jamiu given a seemingly incomparable jail sentence, he was not given an option of fine by Chief Magistrate Sunday Adeniyan.
Mr. Jamiu’s crime, the police prosecutor, Aigbojie Amileomen, told the court that the stolen phone belonged to one Suleiman Asimiyi.
While briefing the court on the case, the prosecutor said the accused committed the offence in November 2012 at about 5.30 a.m. at Olukare Central Mosque, Inu Odi, Okela, Ikare.
When the case was read, the accused pleaded guilty as charged.
Mr. Adeniyan convicted Mr. Jamiu having found him guilty.
He said Mr. Jamiu’s action violated Section 383(1) and punished him under Section 390(9)of the Criminal Code Cap 37, volume one, laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.
He therefore ordered that Mr. Jamiu should remain in prison for three years without an option of fine.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Wednesday, described recent statement linked to former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Jesus Christ, as not only reckless but also indicative of deep-seated moral bankcruptcy.
El-Rufai had tweeted on January 28, that “if Jesus criticises Jonathan’s government, Maku, Abati or Okupe will say that he slept with Mary Magdalene”.
Addressing newsmen on the issue, CAN warned El-Rufai that “if he persists in such matters and making such divisive commentaries, he must prepare himself for a very forceful and vigorous reaction from the Church and the Christian community in Nigeria”.
Speaking through its General Secretary, Rev. Musa Asake, CAN warned that the “maturity and dignified restraint of the Christian populace, in the face of inflammatory and provocative statements, should not be taken as licence for unbridled assault.
“We urge his religious leaders and political associates to advise him to be far more sobre and circumspect and put a padlock on his mouth before he lights the candle that sets our country on fire.
“We must not allow him to turn Nigeria into a cauldron of fire by his reckless, bigoted and twisted commentaries about our Lord or our faith and we must view him for exactly what he is, a failed, desperate, hate-filled and drowning politician, who is now stoking embers of religious division to create a political base for himself amongst his people.
“Nigeria has no place for a religious bigots who delight in insulting the Christian faith.
“We urged the Federal Government to call Nasir El-Rufai to order and not to overlook the possibility that his joke was not only contrived but was actually calculated to create an even greater wedge between Christians and Muslims with the attendant consequences.
“Had it not been for the maturity, fortitude, patience, decency, forgiving nature and deep sense of restraint that the majority of Christians have in our country, El-Rufai would not have been safe anywhere in Nigeria today after cracking such an expensive joke.”
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Kelvin Okafor, 27, graduated from Middlesex University in fine art and is now making waves across the country.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
A 27-year-old clerical officer of the Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, one David Wonder Erhirhie has been sentenced to death by an Orerokpe high court in the State, having found him guilty of killing a female student, Princess Chinoso Ijezie who was seeking for admission at the University sometime in 2009.
Prosecution led by Mr. Theophilous Omenuwoma had told the court that “David Wonder, until the ugly incident was a junior staff with DELSU was an admission racketeer who collected the sum of N155,000 from the deceased to assist her to secure admission into the University.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, may have stirred human rights controversy when it said Wednesday that commercial driver’s licences would no longer be issued to applicants below the age of 25 years.
Disclosing
this, the Lagos State Sector Commander, FRSC, Mr Nseobong Akpabio, said
the step was intended to get rid of underage drivers and sanitise the
profession. Commercial drivers licences are given to drivers of trucks
and taxis.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
A 30-year-old Nigerian businessman, Joshua Collins, on Wednesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with raping a 6-year-old girl.
Collins, a resident of Oderemo Street, Somolu, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of indecent assault and rape.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Real Madrid and Barcelona have it all to play for in the second leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final after an entertaining stalemate at the Bernabeu tonight.
Both sides had plenty of chances during an enthralling first half but the opener did not arrive until five minutes into the second period when Cesc Fabregas latched onto Lionel Messi's through ball to fire past Diego Lopez.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Arsenal continue to serve up the sublime and the ridiculous. Their defending
was so poor for an hour, allowing Liverpool to score through Luis Suárez
inevitably and Jordan Henderson surprisingly, before they played some
exhilarating football, claiming a point through Olivier Giroud and Theo
Walcott.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Indications emerged Wednesday that the Masqurade that allegedly shot dead an Islamic Cleric Lateef Amusa in Ijaye in the area of Abeokuta metropolis during Egungun festival has run away.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday in Abuja that his administration would ensure equity and fairness in appointment to political offices and employment into the Federal Civil Service.
The president gave the assurance at the swearing-in ceremony of seven members of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), a member of the Federal Civil Service Commission and two permanent secretaries.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar has called on the Federal Government to dialogue with Boko Haram sect in order to ensure the return of peace and security in the nation.
He made the plea on Wednesday when he received the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika at his palace in Sokoto.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Nigeria Football Federation yesterday gave out US $30,000 to each member of the Super Eagles for qualifying for the quarter final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Kay Switch, the Junior brother of the African Superstar, D'Banj features the real 'Eja Nla' himself in a brand new video for the hit single 'Sister Caro'
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a bid by a group of Nigerian farmers to have Shell’s parent company held responsible for oil damage, saying only subsidiary Shell Nigeria was responsible for one oil leak.
The court “dismissed all claims against the parent companies… since pursuant to Nigerian law a parent company in principle is not obliged to prevent its subsidiaries from harming third parties abroad,” judge Henk Wien told the court.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Kano state Police Command says its men have arrested one Mohammed Kabir, a final year student of Bayero University [BUK] Kano, for allegedly being in possession of an Improvised Explosive Device [IED].
A statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer [PPRO] ASP Magaji Musa Majia, described Kabir as an indigene of Auchi in Edo state.
He explained that the suspect was apprehended recently when he concealed in a bag of flour mixed with guinea corn peels, a remote controlled bomb and dropped it in a junction close to a popular GSM market at Farm center in the city.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Federal Government on Tuesday
reacted to the offer of ceasefire by a faction of the fundamentalist
Islamic group, Boko Haram, by giving a condition to the sect.
The condition: Boko Haram must stop its violence in the North for a period of one month.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
A middle-aged man yesterday slumped and died around First gate, in Ikorodu area of Lagos.
According to eye witnesses account, the deceased a resident of First gate, was said to have started his journey from First gate until he got to Lagos State Polytechnic bus-stop where he slumped and died before help could come his way.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The light sentence handed to a director
in the Police Pensions Office, Mr. John Yusuf, by a Federal High Court
in Abuja is still the subject of what is gradually turning out to be a
nation-wide debate on the moral substance of the ruling.
Yusuf was convicted for defrauding the
Office of the sum of N27.2bn alongside six others, an offence punishable
under Section 309 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Laws of the Federal
Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, 2007. He was subsequently sentenced
to a two-year jail term.
Apparently worried that Yusuf, like a
few other public office holders convicted for graft before him, had
managed to negotiate this light sentence through the doctrine of plea
bargain, many Nigerians have wondered if the judiciary is actually deaf
to outcries against corruption and the present campaign to rid the
country of the evil.
The decision of the presiding judge,
Justice Abubakar Talba, in not responding positively to the plea of the
counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Rotimi
Jacobs, to sentence Yusuf as stipulated by law, has further weakened
public confidence in the ability of the judiciary to uphold the
principles of justice and fairness.
Among other examples, American
businessman, Bernard Madoff, is currently serving a 150-year jail term.
The former stockbroker, investment advisor and financier had pleaded
guilty to 11 federal felonies and admitted to turning his wealth
management business into a massive Ponzi scheme – which defrauded
thousands of investors of billions of dollars.
China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore
and Vietnam are a few examples of countries where brutal measures, as
officially prescribed by law, have helped to drastically reduce the
incidence of corruption.
In April, 2012, a Chinese court in
Beijing sentenced a prominent politician, Song Chenguang, to death with
two years reprieve for bribery.
Song was convicted for bribes worth the
equivalent of $2m (about N300m) between 1998 and 2010. A statement by
the Intermediate People’s Court of Tai’an city said that in exchange for
the money he had helped about 18 companies and individuals to gain
access to government contracts, projects, sales permission and
promotions.
The court had ruled that considering the
amount of money he received, Song must be severely punished. But the
two-year probation of the execution was granted after he confessed to
his crimes and was expelled from the CPC and removed from office.
In China, as with most other Asian
countries, corruption attracts a capital punishment. The reason may be
due to the fact that like Nigeria, China has lost billions of dollars in
public funds to corrupt government officials.
One of the cases of graft involved a
former chief executive of the Bank of China in Hong Kong, Liu Jinbao. He
was given a suspended death sentence for embezzling, solely or in
collaboration with others, more than $1.7m.
Such is the gravity of the offence in
that country that a statement published by the China’s Ministry of
Commerce says more than 4,000 officials have fled the country, taking
with them nearly $50 bn.
In November, 2012 the Chinese leadership
warned of a possible collapse of the state due to endemic corruption
and urged the ruling Communist Party, as well as patriotic Chinese to
rise up to the challenge.
Nigeria faces a similar situation unless
the country’s leaders stop paying lip service to the current fight
against this social cankerworm. The government must lead the way now by
providing an effective solution corruption. The people must be freed
from the cumulative yoke of corruption. The only way to do this, no
doubt, is to ensure that those who steal from the public treasury are
properly and severely dealt with.
Needless to add, endemic corruption
poses a grave danger to the continued existence and progress of the
country. With each passing day, it threatens to severe the fragile cord
that still binds what is left of this nation together. Corruption,
openly abetted by the glaring absence of an effective strategy from the
Federal Government to combat it, has reached a point at which nothing
short of drastic measures must be introduced to put an end to its menace
.
Obviously angered by the impunity with
which public office holders embezzled funds meant for the nation, the
Arewa Consultative Forum recently urged the National Assembly to
introduce the death penalty as punishment for graft. Although the call
had predictably ignited a controversy, the import was not lost on
genuinely concerned Nigerians.
The search for a most appropriate legal
solution to corruption may continue for a long time unless the
government takes a cue from some countries around the world and deal
squarely with it.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
…Says govt ‘ll not engage her in any public debate
ABUJA—THE Presidency has again taken a swipe at former Vice President, World Bank, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, accusing her of inciting Nigerians against the Federal Government, just as it stressed that her allegations were almost stupid and senseless.
Addressing newsmen yesterday, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, noted that the former Minister of Education lied shamelessly by raising false alarm on what she would have buttressed with figures, especially against the backdrop of where she was coming from as an officer of the World Bank.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
There were indications on Tuesday that public outcry against the light sentence handed an Assistant Director in the Police Pension Office, Mr. John Yakubu Yusuf, by a Federal Capital Territory High Court, forced the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to rearrest him.
The high court presided over by Justice
Mohammed Talba had on Monday sentenced Yusuf to only two years’
imprisonment with an option of N750,000 fine for conniving with others
to defraud the PPO and pensioners of N27.2bn.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
For years, rumor had it that Bobby Brown had introduced Whitney Houston to drugs — but Michael Houston, one of the singer's two older brothers, has revealed to Oprah Winfrey that the real story was quite different.
It's a story that has Michael Houston "living, but not alive" since his younger sister's death almost a year ago.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Super Eagles of Nigeria this evening at the Royal Mafikeng
Stadium in Rustenberg, South Africa, defeated Ethiopian national team
2-0 to qualify for the quarter finals stage in the ongoing Africa Cup of
Nation.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Apparently worried by the high cost of marriages in Sokoto State, the Binji Local Government Area in the state has now pegged bride prices to between N40,000 and N15,000 for eligible spinsters and divorcees.
According to the Chairman of the Local Government, Alhaji Umar Tudun-Kosai, those interested in marrying spinsters would pay N40,000 only while divorced women would attract N15,000, pointing out that decision was in line with Islamic injunction which encourages modesty in everything that any Muslim does.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Lagos State Government has called on residents of the state to be prepared for heavier rainfall this year.
Already, the rains have started in January which is supposed to be dry season, a clear indication of what to expect during the year.
General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu told newsmen that the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, had predicted heavier rainfall for Lagos this year.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
A 20-year old houseboy who allegedly conspired with his friend to steal his master’s Nissan Ultima car has been arrested along with his friend by the police while trying to sell the vehicle.
The suspects are Akan Solomon, 20, and Kingsley Emmanuel, 20.
P.M.NEWS investigations revealed that Solomon was employed by Mr Chinedu Onwujuba, and until his arrest, resided with him in his house in Surulere, Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
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