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The Federal Capital Territory has proposed to spend N5 billion this year to rehabilitate LovePeddlers and destitutes who loiter the streets of Abuja.

In the FCT 2013 budget, the Federal Capital Territory Administration also planned to spend N4 billion for the construction of the First Lady’s Mission Building which senators described not only as scandalous but an endorsement of illegality, while Vice President Namadi Sambo’s Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja will be renovated with N150 million by the administration of Senator Bala Mohammed.

Also, N7.5 billion is budgeted for the construction of two city gates. Out of the N5.7 billion earmarked for procurement of equipment and other essentials, N2.9 billion will be spent to sweep and provide sanitation for the city.

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Reps’ panel threatens Jega, Odimegwu with arrest over audit queries
Reps’ panel threatens Jega, Odimegwu with arrest over audit queries

THE House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Account has resolved to issue a warrant for the arrest of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, for failing to honour invitations of the parliament to defend queries raised on the audited account of the voting body as raised by the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.

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THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that nothing forbids it from re-nominating President Goodluck Jonathan in the next electoral contest.

The party, which stated this on a day it urged the court to join it in a suit seeking to stop President Jonathan from seeking re-election, argued that “by the very tenor of the reliefs sought by the plaintiff, this suit questions the right of the applicant to sponsor one of its members for the 2015 presidential elections. The applicant herein seeks to protect its interest in the present action by this application.” read more http://newsjoint.info/we-can-sponsor-jonathan-in-2015-pdp

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I Will Chase Out The Demons In Power Sector, Ministerial Nominee Tells Senate

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Kabiru Tanimu Turaki and Chinedu Osita Nebo as ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The names of Misters Turaki (Kebbi State) and Nebo (Enugu State) were forwarded to the Senate by President Goodluck Jonathan for confirmation last week.

The lawmakers unanimously approved the appointment of the ministerial candidates after the nominees were adjudged to have satisfactorily answered questions posed to them by Senators.

Mr Nebo, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, practically turned the question and answer session into a lecture.
He thrilled the lawmakers with mastery of contemporary issues in the country and the way forward.

Asked how he intends to deal with the mafia in the power sector if appointed Minister of Power, Mr Nebo said that he
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said that the attractive rewards gotten as ransom for hostage taking and drugs trafficking was responsible for the increasing rate of terrorism in the African continent.

He also justified his decision to send Nigerian troops to Mali, saying it was based on the need to insulate Nigeria from the activities of the insurgents and save the sub region from terrorism.

Speaking on the theme “De-Risking Africa” as one of the panelists at an interactive session of the World Economic Forum taking palce in Davos, Switzerland, President Jonathan said terrorism was also the outcome of the Libyan crises, noting that terrorists will always want to instigate crises because of the money they make out of it.

He, however, appealed that Africa needed the cooperation and support of the International community to deal with terrorism.

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Mad man kills his 5 brothers •24-yr-old kidnaps, murders 7-yr-old boy •Gunmen kill 18 hunters in Borno

IT was a day of mourning for people of Naka, headquarters of Gwer Local Government Area of Benue State, as a man suspected to be insane murdered five brothers at the town’s earth dam on Sunday.

Irked by the development, the people of the area also unleashed jungle justice on him.

According to eyewitnesses, the suspected mad man, one Edwin Jato, popularly known in the area as Torjor, was said to have been treated at the Psychiatric Department of the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi for mental disorder.

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Determined to take a turn in the governorship of Anambra State, no fewer than 10 persons from Anambra North Senatorial Zone have lined up for the November 2013 election in the state.

Top on the list are the Secretary to the Anambra State Government (SSG), Mr. Oseloka Obaze from Ogbaru; an industrialist, Dr. Chike Obidigbo from Umunya; former chairman of the local government service commission continue reading http://newsjoint.info/anambra-2013-guber-10-eyeing-obis-seat

It was a typical case of man's inhumanity to man when one Onyeka Patrick strangled Ayuba, the seven-year-old son of his neighbour to death in Ikotun, a suburb of Lagos city.

Not done, he made the boy’s parents to believe that their son was still alive by demanding N5 million from them as ransom for his kidnappers.

The deceased was said to have playfully strolled into Patrick's compound on January 12, when he was abducted and strangled within minutes. From the suspect's account to THISDAY, it was gathered that the boy, as usual, had answered Patrick’s call as he was a familiar face in the neighbourhood.

For someone the innocent boy called uncle, not even an adult mind would imagine that harm could come from a friendly neighbour. Patrick, with a straight face, narrated how helpless the lad was when he was being strangled, recounting how Ayuba looked into his eyes with a dire quest for his life to be spared.

Having killed him, he was faced with the next task of disposing of the corpse. He put the corpse in a sack and went to an uncompleted building next door where he dumped it in an empty soak-away pit.

For days, the parents of the boy were in anguish, frantically searching for little Ayuba. Patrick joined in the search and sometimes, he even wept to show how deeply touched he was by the ‘disappearance’ of the boy. When asked by his neighbours why he wept that much, he had explained that the boy was so dear to his heart and he could not understand who would have kidnapped such a lovely boy.

The parents then got a hand-written note asking for a N5 million ransom to get the boy released. Accompanying the ransom note was the suspect's phone number through which he demanded that the ‘kidnappers’ should be contacted. Even when that sum was way out of what they could ever raise, it brightened their hope that their son could be alive. It was a false hope.

The bubble burst when Patrick’s elder brother saw the “kidnapper’s” note and recognised the handwriting to be that of his younger brother. Secretly, the elder brother quizzed him about the author of the handwritten note. But he insisted that he was not the one. He discarded the SIM containing the number he dropped in the note. Not convinced and suspicious of Patrick’s moves, the elder brother reported the matter to the police at the Ikotun Police Station. Promptly, Patrick was arrested, and after initial denials, he confessed to the crime. He eventually led the police to where he dumped Ayuba’s body, which had been ravaged by rodents and insects.

Tuesday, Patrick was paraded before journalists at the state Police Command in Ikeja. He could not explain the motivation for his actions, preferring to, as usual, blame the devil and greed for his dastardly act.

According to him, “I didn't plan to kill him. The thought came into me all of a sudden when he strolled into my compound. I was just sitting down when he came. As the thought came into me, I didn't pause to think but jumped at him. I took him to the backyard where I used my hands to strangle him to death.

“When I was strangling him, he did not shout or put up a resistance because he thought I was playing with him. By the time he started feeling in pain, he couldn't shout again because I had closed his wind pipes but his eyes spoke to me.”

He added: “It was the devil. I used to be a glass fabricator and a footballer. I don't know what got into me that fateful day. I also don't know what made me demand a ransom. But I had intended to use the money to start life all over again. I was arrested because my brother recognised my handwriting and called in the police.”

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the suspect confessed to his crime only when he was transferred to the State Anti-robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja.

Braide added that upon confession, the suspect led SARS operatives to recover the decomposed body of the victim from the pit. The body has since been deposited at the Isolo General Hospital mortuary for autopsy. Braide said the suspect would soon be charged to court for murder since all aspects of the investigation had been covered.

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A South African court yesterday convicted Henry Okah of 13 terrorism charges, including twin bombings that killed 12 people in the Abuja on Nigeria’s Independence Day in 2010. “I have come to the conclusion that the state proved beyond reasonable doubt the guilt of the accused,” said Judge Neels Claassen, handing down the verdict in the South Gauteng High Court.

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Nigeria begins troops deployment

. Dangiwa: Mali crisis threat to North.
Some of the terrorists operating in Nigeria were trained in Mali, Chief of Army Staff Lt-General Azubuike Ihejirika revealed in Kaduna yesterday.

Some of the terrorists operating in Nigeria were trained in Mali, Chief of Army Staff Lt-General Azubuike Ihejirika revealed in Kaduna yesterday.

He spoke in an interview with reporters after he addressed Nigerian soldiers headed for Mali at the Jaji military base near Kaduna.

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CHAIRMAN, Governors Forum, NGF and Rivers State Governor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, Monday, said the Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, had failed the region and should honourably resign.

peaking with journalists in Houston, Texas, US, during a town hall meeting with Rivers State community, he said the reason for the creation of the Ministry of Niger Delta was to develop the region, adding: “Under Orubebe, what development have we witnessed? None.

It is a strategy to distract the Niger Delta people by trying to hide all his failures. I had gone through the region and no presence of his ministry was felt anywhere in the area of meaningful or read more in http://newsjoint.info/resign-now-amaechi-tells-orubebe

THE senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains intact despite recent developments.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin at the weekend, Saraki dismissed the speculation in some quarters that the recent face-off between the party’s chairman, Bamanga Tukur and state governors, was capable of disintegrating the party.

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Former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu said last Saturday that he returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after an agreement with other founding members of the party, urging him to return. Speaking with newsmen at his Igbere country home, near Umuahia, Kalu said there was no going back on his decision as the PDP executive in Igbere Ward ‘A’ had already issued him a membership card. He said he returned to the PDP to re-jig the party and realise the dreams of its founding fathers.

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Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kanu, has described those behind the attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, as mindless. Kalu, in a statement on Sunday in reaction to Saturday’s attack on Alhaji Bayero’s convoy, which left no fewer than four persons dead, said the read more http://newsjoint.info/it-was-mindless-kalu

Residents of Amansea in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State woke up yesterday morning to a horrifying discovery of over 30 dead bodies floating in Ezu River in the community. The river is at the boundary between Enugu and Anambra states and the dead bodies were found at read more source http://newsjoint.info/30-bodies-found-in-anambra-river%E2%80%A2obi-cuts-short-overseas-trip

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, described Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, as a “failure.”

Obasanjo said this just as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, likened the current crisis rocking the ruling party as a “surgery” which must bring some pain to members.

Obasanjo who was responding to guests who spoke during the grand finale of a civic reception organised in his honour by the South West Zone of the PDP said there was no way he could associate with Okorocha read more http://newsjoint.info/obasanjo-tells-okorocha-youre-a-failure

Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr. Eugene Odo, on Friday said Governor Sullivan Chime was on the verge of returning to the state after four months of absence.

Odo made this known when our correspondent visited his office at the House of Assembly complex, where he also stated that he (Odo) had been in constant communication with Chime.

He said, “Some of my colleagues and I have actually gone to see him and I can assure you that he will be back soon.”

When asked why the members of the state House of Assembly could not invoke the..... read more http://newsjoint.info/chimell-be-back-soon-enugu-speaker

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