Governor Muhammad Jibrilla of Adamawa State has
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
‘Boko Haram: How to save Female Suicide Bombers’
A Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO), Girl-Child Rights Awareness Initiative in
Tell EFCC to Stop going After Tompolo – Ex-Niger Delta Militants tell Buhari
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Some ex-members of the
Naira Appreciates to N260/$1 on Parallel Market
The naira edged higher to about N260 to a dollar on the
Anxiety in Prisons Service, as Officers kick over Planned Change of Uniforms
There is a growing wave of discontent among some officers and men of
Ekweremadu’s a Good Example for Nigerian Politicians —Saraki
President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki has
Why Lai Mohammed must be Fired
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was the Minister of Information in the dying days of
Friday, 11 December 2015
Buhari: IsThere still Money Left in the Country, Nigerians Wants to Know - Olisa
Human rights lawyer and former President, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has
Death-sentence: Supreme Court Decides Rev King’s Fate Feb 26
The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday fixed February 26, 2016 for judgment in the appeal filed by the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King challenging the judgement of a Lagos High Court sentencing him to death by hanging.
The apex court presided over by Justice Walter Onoghen adjourned for judgment after entertaining arguments from counsel to prosecution and defence in the matter.
Lagos State Attorney general and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, who appeared before the Supreme Court alongside Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the Director of Public Prosecution and other Senior Counsel in the State, urged the court to dismiss the appeal and uphold the judgment of the lower courts.
Ezeugo was arraigned on September 26, 2006 on a six-count charge of attempted murder and murder.
He pleaded not guilty to the allegation but was sentenced to death by the then Justice Joseph Oyewole of Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on January 11, 2007 for the murder of one of his church members, Ann Uzoh.
Justice Oyewole is now a justice of Appeal Court, Calabar division.
The Lagos State Government had said that the convict poured petrol on the deceased and five other persons and that Uzoh died on August 2, 2006; 11 days after the act was perpetrated on her.
Specifically, Ezeugo was convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the attempted murder and death by hanging for the offence of murder. Dissatisfied, Ezeugo challenged the verdict before the Court of Appeal in Lagos, but the appeal was thrown out.
“I hereby rule that the prosecution effectively discharged the burden of proof on it. This appeal is devoid of any basis and accordingly fails.
“The judgment of the High Court is hereby affirmed, and the conviction imposed on the appellant, (which is death by hanging) is also affirmed,” Justice Fatimo Akinbami who read the judgement held. The two other members of the panel of Justices, Amina Augie and Ibrahim Saulawa concurred with the lead judgement.
Again, Ezeugo not being satisfied with the verdict, approached the Supreme Court, and urged the apex court to upturned the judgment.
The apex court has now reserved judgment till February 26, 2016.
It’ll Be Disaster if APC fails Nigerians –Dogara
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, warned on
Should we Be Missing Jega Now?
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Thursday, 10 December 2015
Okonjo-Iweala Why are You Pretending to Be a Saint ? Oshiomhole
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole yesterday said former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, should be joined in the probe of the $2billion arms procurement scandal.
The governor said the arms deal scam linked to the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, is a tip of the iceberg and one of the leaking points in the past administration.
He alleged that the past administrations engaged in “arrangee stealing”.
Oshiomhole spoke at the State House in Abuja after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said: “The NSA is supposed to be an advisory officer; he is not supposed to be a procurement agent for government. I am happy the figures are coming out and I know that this is a tip of the iceberg and I read some reports, the numbers are in billions, Dasuki is just one bleeding point; there are several bleeding points in the system.
“You look at the total number of expenditure on subsidy which the World Bank has just released figures; about how many trillions of Naira over the past four to five years,” he said
On Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, the governor said: “I am shocked. I have been talking about it, I just said to a couple of persons, the government has to go the whole hog, because I know as a governor that no money gets out of the treasury even after I have approved as the governor without the approval of the Commissioner for Finance; so the probe should go into whether all these monies are appropriated all of it; when the money got out of the treasury, through who? The Minister of Finance under the rules must endorse before money gets out of the treasury, before the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) approves.
“So for the Ministers of Finance, including Okonjo – Iweala, I don’t care what people say because you cannot be coordinating a corruption-ridden economy and you pretend to be an angel, you cannot selectively deal with issues; you must deal with all involved in the conspiracy. In criminal law when two to three people are involved in a act of criminality, all of them are charged with conspiracy.”
“Now if you lay your hands on the various appropriation bills passed by the National Assembly and see how much the National Assembly appropriated for subsidy for all those periods, you will find out they are not even up to half of what was spent.
“This means that money not appropriated for was spent. If people are involved in those acts, they must be brought to justice,” he added.
Onu: Nigeria Cannot Continue to Import Toothpicks, Others
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The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday said Nigeria cannot continue to
Don’t Accept World Bank Advise on Fuel Subsidy Removal, CNPP Tells Buhari
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has
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