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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA–The Federal Government is set to re-arraign the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on an amended six-count treasonable felony charge. The amendment came on a day trial Justice Binta Nyako fixed to hear an application Kanu filed to be released on bail, pending the determination of the charge against him. A member of Kanu’s legal team, who craved anonymity, told Vanguard on Wednesday that FG had in the amended charge, listed some lawyers representing the embattled IPOB leader, including Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor and Mr. Maxwell Opara, as accomplices of the defendant. FG, it was gathered, alleged that the said lawyers, were constantly in contact with Kanu, after he jumped bail and fled the country. It will be recalled that Kanu was subsequently re-arrested and returned back to the country from Kenya, in controversial circumstance. Trial Justice Binta Nyako had on April 8, struck out eight out of the 15-count treasonable felony charge FG preferred against Kanu. Justice Nyako held that the charges were mere repetitions that did not disclose any offence that could be sustained by the proof of evidence before the court. FG had in the counts that were struck out, alleged that Kanu had through his broadcasts, incited members of the public to not only stage a violent revolution, but to attack police officers and also destroy public facilities in Lagos State. While the court threw out counts 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12,13 and 14 of the charge, it okayed Kanu’s trial on counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 15. The ruling followed an application Kanu filed to quash the entire charge against him, which he insisted was manifestly incompetent and legally defective. The IPOB leader, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), argued that the court lacked the jurisdiction to try him on the strenght of an incompetent charge. Ozekhome (SAN), further told the court that his client was “unlawfully, brutally and extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya without his consent”. He argued that since some of the allegations FG levelled against Kanu, were purportedly committed outside the country, the high court, therefore, lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the charge. “The charges appears to give this court a global jurisdiction over offences that were allegedly committed by the Defendant, without specifying the location or date the said offences were committed”. He argued that under the Federal High Court Act, such charge must disclose specific location where the offence was committed. More so, Ozekhome contended that Kanu could not be charged with belonging to an unlawful organization since the action of FG, in proscribing the IPOB, is still subject of legal dispute at the Court of Appeal and therefore subjudice. Consequently, he urged the court to dismiss the charge, as well as to discharge and acquit the defendant. However, FG’s lawyer, Mr. Shuaibu Labaran, opposed the application and urged the court to allow the prosecution to open its case. He argued that Kanu’s application would touch the substance of the case that is yet to be heard. “The position as at now is that the IPOB is a proscribed organization which was duly proscribed through the due process of law”. He argued that Section 32 of the Terrorism Prevention Act imbued the court with the requisite jurisdiction to handle the trial. On Kanu’s bail request, Ozekhome, maintained that the amended charge contained bailable offences, while FG’s lawyer, Labaran, argued that the defendant betrayed the previous discretion the court exercised in his favour when he jumped bail and escaped from the country. He argued that it was owing to Kanu’s conduct that the court revoked his bail and issued a bench warrant for his arrest. FG had in some of the charges that were sustained by the court, alleged that Kanu had in his broadcast that was received and heard in Nigeria, issued a deadly threat that anyone who flouted his sit-at home order, should write his/her Will. It told the court that as a result of the threat, Banks, Schools, Markets, Shopping Malls, Fuel Stations domiciled in the Eastern States of Nigeria, were not opened for businesses, citizens and vehicular movements in the Eastern States of Nigeria were grounded. It alleged that Kau had on diverse dates between 2018 and 2021, made a broadcast received and heard in Nigeria, inciting members of the public to hunt and kill Nigerian security personnel and their family members, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 1 (2) (h) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013. While FG, in count-8, alleged that Kanu, directed members of the IPOB “to manufacture Bombs”, it told the court in count-15 that the defendant had between the month of March and April 2015, “Imported into Nigeria and kept in Ubulisiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, a Radio Transmitter known as Tram 50L concealed in a container of used household items which you declared as used household items, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 47 (2) (a) of Criminal Code Act Cap, C45 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004”. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/breaking-fg-amends-charge-against-kanu-lists-his-lawyers-as-accomplices/
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a valedictory session with ten ministers that tendered their resignation letters to pursue their political ambition in the 2023 elections. President Buhari also promised to fill as soon as possible the vacuum created by the departure of the ministers. Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the validatory session at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to Alhaji Mihamned, the outgoing Ministers that attended the session were, Rotimi Amaechi (Transportation), Chris Ngige (Labour and Employment), Godswill Akpabio (Niger Delta Affairs), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Science and Technological Innovation), Timipre Sylva State for Petroleum Resources), Tayo Alasoadura (State for Niger Delta Affairs), Dame Tallen Paulen (Women Affairs), Uche Ogar (State for Mines and Steel Development), Abubakar Malami (Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice) and Emeka Nwajuba (State for Education), who was absent but with a permission. Details later…
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All members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) contesting elective positions have been asked to resign on or before Monday, May 16, 2023.... President Muhammadu Buhari has asked all members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) contesting elective positions in 2023 to resign. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced this while briefing State House reporters on the outcome of the federal cabinet meeting presided over by Buhari at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. He said the ministers have been given up till May 16, 2023, to quit the cabinet. Among the ministers eyeing elective seats are Rotimi Amaechi (Transportation), Chris Ngige (Labour), Abubakar Malami (Justice), Godswill Akpabio (Niger Delta). Details later… https://dailytrust.com/breaking-buhari-asks-amaechi-malami-others-eyeing-elective-seats-to-resign |
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… anybody seen with AK 47 should be treated as a criminal ..as gunmen strike in Ebonyi Community President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday called on the South-East leaders to allow the ongoing court process, bordering on charges against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the country.https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/breaking-nnamdi-kanu-allow-court-handle-matter-buhari-tells-south-east-leaders/
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…Mbazulike Amechi appeals for calm By Chimaobi Nwaiwu & David Royal The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, through its Media and Publicity Secretary Emma Powerful, has denied the allegation that IPOB issued a sit-at-home order against the visit of President Buhari to Ebonyi State and Enugu. Vanguard reports that foremost nationalist and First Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amechi had on Wednesday made a passionate appeal to IPOB to withdraw its alleged order for the people of South East to sit at home in protest against Buhari’s visit. Chief Amechi said that President Buhari’s visit to Ebonyi State will afford him and other Igbo leaders to discuss the release of IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other Igbo questions including the insecurity that is currently being witnessed in Igbo land. He said “I’m appealing to IPOB or any group behind the alleged statement to please withdraw it, because it amounts to working against the release of our son, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. You cannot be working for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu when you cannot allow us to discuss his release from detention.” However, when Vanguard sought IPOB, reaction, its Media and Publicity Secretary Emma Powerful said that IPOB did not issue any statement ordering anybody to sit at home. “The sit-at-home order is not from us, it is one of those lies the Police, Army, and DSS, use to tarnish our image. We have been saying that all the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Army, DSS, and other Nigerian security agencies know how to do best is to tell lies against us. We have been saying it and people are beginning to understand what we have been complaining about Nigerian security agencies and their lies and fabricated statements against IPOB. “We are not interested in what Dave Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State is doing with Buhari in his state, we know he is using their President to play his politics. We are aware that he wants to use the opportunity to declare his presidential ambition and therefore we are not interested in what they are doing there. If we are interested, we know what to do. “IPOB did not issue any sit-at-home order, if there is such an order, you must be in the know, so whatever order anybody is issuing against Buhari’s visit to Ebonyi State is not coming from IPOB which I am the spokesman, it is the handiwork of Police, Army and DSS and their agents they use to work against us, shame on them.” https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/ipob-denies-issuing-sit-at-home-order-against-buharis-visit-to-ebonyi/ |
The Minister of Transportation and a presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2023 general polls on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, Rotimi Amaechi has said that the National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, is eminently qualified to be the Nigeria next president in 2023.https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/2023-presidency-tinubu-eminently-qualified-to-rule-nigeria-%e2%80%95-amaechi/
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GOVERNOR Benedict Ayade of Cross River State has pledged to support former President Goodluck Jonathan if the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, presents him as the party’s flagbearer for the 2023 election.https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/2023-ill-support-jonathan-if-apc-presents-him-as-flagbearer-ayade/
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PRESIDENT BUHARI’S 2022 EASTER MESSAGE I join our Christian brothers and sisters to celebrate this year’s Easter, which is the most significant event/festival in the Christian calendar. This year’s celebration is very unique for adherents of the two great faiths in Nigeria. It culminates the 40-day season of Lent for Christians, where the faithful is expected to fast, pray, assist the poor, abhor injustice and strife, give alms, penitently engage in self-examination and repentance of sins. Similar values apply to the Muslim faithful, currently about half-way into the holy month of Ramadan. For us as a nation, the message of Easter, which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ after crucifixion and burial, reminds us of the power of divine love, faith and redemption. Easter also evokes in us the resilience of the human spirit not to give up in the face of seemingly daunting challenges of life. This period emboldens us to believe that the current spate of uncertainty and insecurity will soon unfold a season of triumph of good over evil; hope over despair, and light over darkness. I urge us to increase our love for one another rather than hate, and show more patriotism, as this is the only country we have. I enjoin us therefore, to live out the eternal words of Jesus Christ on the cross: ‘‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing.’’ Let us remember that the scriptural emphasis of love has so much relevance for us today as a nation more than ever before, and thus contribute towards its peace and development. As we approach another season of electioneering, let the security and unity of the nation guide our actions and utterances. I wish all Nigerians a joyful and blessed Easter. Muhammadu Buhari https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/buharis-2022-easter-message/ |
President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed Engr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz as the substantive Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). A statement by General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah Wednesday said the confirmation took effect from the 4th of April, 2022. Engr. Abdulaziz was first appointed acting Managing Director of the Federal Government owned TCN on the 19th May 2020 following the sacking of Usman Gur Mohammed. Mbah in the statement explained that the TCN boss has been responsible for the overall supervision of the affairs of TCN, including transmission projects, transmission network operations and maintenance, system operations, market administration, human resources management and as the Chief Accounting Officer. “Under his watch as the Ag. MD/CEO, TCN made milestone achievements in project executions and delivery, stable grid management, and human resources management that optimized personnel performance and productivity. “Working with an Executive Management consisting of four Executive Directors, Engr Abdulaziz embarked on projects initiatives and execution that significantly transformed TCN from a faltering successor company in the post-privatization era to a viable national and sub-regional transmission company. This is hardly surprising as Engr. Abdulaziz brought to bear his over 25-years of engineering experience and responsibility as a tested project manager”, she added. He was previously the General Manager (Projects) at TCN Corporate Headquarters, before he was appointed the Regional Transmission Manager of Shiroro and Abuja Regions of TCN with responsibility for various operational and managerial functions including the wheeling of bulk power to the Distribution Companies (DisCos); coordination and supervision of equipment maintenance and repairs, transmission network reliability, security and expansion; inventory and stock management, maintaining fiscal responsibility and accountability of the regional offices. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/buhari-confirms-abdulaziz-as-tcn-md/ Cc: Mynd44 |
THE Anambra State House of Assembly has confirmed the 20 Commissioner nominees presented to them by the state governor Professor Chukwuma Soludo penultimate week. The confirmation followed the adoption of the report of the committee on screening at the plenary. Presenting the report, the chairman of the committee and deputy speaker of the house, Dr. Pascal Agbodike (APGA-Ihiala 11) said all the nominees met the requirements needed to be members of the state executive council of the new administration in the state. According to him, all the nominees attained the mandatory age required for appointment as Commissioner in the state and also showed ability to serve. The lawmakers, thereafter, confirmed the nominees through voice vote. The speaker of the assembly, Hon Uchenna Okafor, urged the nominees to see themselves as agents of positive change in the state and enjoined them to support the governor in implementing his policies and programmes to uplift the living condition of the people. The speaker also announced that the governor sent another letter requesting the screening of a new Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr. Silvester Ezeakanwa, for confirmation. The confirmed Commissioners are Mr Ifeatu Chinedu (Finance), Prof. Ofonze Amucheazi (Lands) Mr Ifeanyi Okoma (Works), Ms Chiamaka Nnake (Budget) Dr Afam Obidike (Health), Mr Patrick Agha-mba (Youth Development), Mrs Ifeyinwa Obinabo (Women/Children Afairs), Dr Obinna Ugonnadi, Mr Julius Chukwuemeka (Power/Water Resources), and Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh (Education). Others are Mr Paul Nwosu (Information), Dr Foster Ihejiofor (Agriculture), Mrs Patricia Igwebuike (Transport), Mr Felix Odimegwu (Environment), Mr. Chikodi Anara (Home Land Afairs), Prof. Chika Ifemeje (Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice), Mr Collins Nwabunwanne (Local Government Affairs), Mr Donatus Onyeji (Culture/Entertainment), Mr. Anthony Ifeanya (Petroleum) and Mr Paulinus Onyeaka (Housing) Meanwhile, the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor has urged media practitioners to give maximum support to the new governor of Anambra State to enable him succeed. The Bishop, who addressed journalists in Awka through the director of the diocesan newspaper,the Fides, Rev Father Martin Anusi said the governor has started well and therefore needs the support of the entire segments of the state. According to him, the media is in a position to correctly inform the people on what the government is doing and urged the practitioners to be up and doing in serving the state. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/anambra-legislature-confirms-soludos-20-commissioners-nominees/
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received the newly elected National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/buhari-receives-apc-chair-adamu-in-aso-rock/
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The National Union of Road Transport Workers has dissolved its Lagos State council under Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo.https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/nurtw-national-dissolves-lagos-council-sack-mc-oluomo/
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Detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has filled a fresh suit at a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, seeking the enforcement of his fundamental human rights violated by the Federal Government following his extra ordinary rendition from Kenya in June 2021. Kanu in the suit filed by his Special Counsel, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, “seeks an order of the court to declare that the arrest of the Applicant in Kenya by the Respondents’ agents without due process of law is arbitrary, and the Respondents’ enforced disappearance of the Applicant for eight days and their refusal to produce the Applicant before a Kenyan Court for the purpose of Applicant’s extradition is illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and amount to infringement of the Applicant’s fundamental right against arbitrary arrest, to his personal liberty and to fair hearing as enshrined and guaranteed under the pertinent provisions of CFRN and the Charter.” The suit marked: FHC/UM/CS/30/2022/, also seeks ” a declaration that the detention of the Applicant in a non-official secret facility in Kenya and the torture of the Applicant in Kenya by the Respondents’ agents is illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and amount to infringement of the Applicant’s fundamental right against unlawful detention, torture and to fair hearing, as enshrined and guaranteed under the pertinent provisions of CFRN and the Charter”. Respondents to the suit include the Federal Government, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Attorney General of the Federation. Other prayers by Kanu include: “a that, pursuant to Article 12(4) of the Charter, the expulsion (or extraordinary rendition) of the Applicant from Kenya to Nigeria by the Respondents without a decision taken in accordance with the law of Kenya is illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and amounts to infringement of the Applicant’s fundamental right to fair hearing and not to be expelled from a State Party to the Charter except by virtue of a decision taken in accordance with the law, as enshrined and guaranteed under the pertinent provisions of CFRN and the Charter. “A declaration that any criminal prosecution of the Applicant the purpose of which the Respondents unlawfully expelled the Applicant from Kenya to Nigeria is illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional and amounts to infringement of the Applicant’s fundamental right to fair hearing, as enshrined and guaranteed under the pertinent provisions of CFRN and the Charter. “An order of injunction restraining and prohibiting the Respondents from taking any further step in any criminal prosecution of the Applicant enabled by the said unlawful expulsion of the Applicant from Kenya to Nigeria. “An order mandating and compelling the the Respondents to forthwith restitute or otherwise restore the Applicant to his liberty, same being his state of being as of 19th June, 2021; and to thereupon repatriate the Applicant to his country of lawful domicile (to wit: the United Kingdom) to await the outcome of any formal request the Respondents may file before the competent authorities in Britain for the lawful extradition of the Applicant to Nigeria. “An order mandating and compelling the Respondents to issue an official Letter of Apology to the Applicant for the infringement of his fundamental rights; and publication of said Letter of Apology in three (3) national dailies. “An order mandating and compelling the Respondents to pay the sum of N25,000,000,000.00 (Twenty-Five Billion Naira) to the Applicant, being monetary damages claimed by the Applicant against the Respondents jointly and severally for the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, property and other damages suffered by the Applicant as a result of the infringements of Applicant’s fundamental rights by the Respondents.” The presiding judge, Justice Evelyn Anyadike, however requested Kanu’s lawyers to furnish the Court with more information on why the Court should have territorial jurisdiction to abdicate on the matter. The matter was adjourned till April 27. None of the respondents appeared in court. They were also not represented by any counsel. Speaking with newsmen later, Kanu’s Special Counsel, Ejimakor said the suit was aimed at redressing “the infamous unlawful expulsion or extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu, which is a clear violation of his fundamental rights under Article 12(4) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights”. Continuing he said:”In addition to the rendition, I am asking the Court to redress the myriad violations that came with the rendition, such as the torture, the unlawful detention and the denial of his right to the fair hearing required by law before anybody is expelled from one country to the other.. “You will recall that that on 19th January, 2022, the High Court of Abia State determined that portion of violation of Kanu’s fundamental rights that occurred in 2017. Even as I had made claims that bordered on rendition, the Court declined jurisdiction on grounds that rendition, being related to extradition, lies within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal High Court. “So, this instant suit is as a result of my considered decision that a fresh action before the Federal High will be the best route towards addressing this matter of rendition or unlawful expulsion and its legal impacts on the prosecutorial powers of the Nigerian State. “To be sure, the extraordinary rendition of Nnamdi Kanu triggered legal injuries that cut across multiple jurisdictions both inside Nigeria and abroad. There are now new legal and even diplomatic issues that must be addressed in the United Kingdom, Kenya, the United Nations and the African Union. And within Nigeria, the rendition has expanded the matter far beyond the realms of the trial that lies in Abuja.” Ejimakor was accompanied by other lawyers including Patrick Agazie, Ohaeto Uwazie and Mandela Umegborogu. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/breaking-nnamdi-kanu-files-n25bn-suit-against-fg-over-rendition-from-kenya/ |
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