Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will be buried early next week in his village and not at a national monument for liberation heroes, his family said on Thursday.

The family of Mugabe, who died in Singapore last week, and Zimbabwe’s government have been at odds over whether he would be buried in his homestead in Kutama, northwest of Harare, or at the National Heroes Acre in the capital.

“His body will lie in state at Kutama on Sunday night.., followed by a private burial — either Monday or Tuesday — no National Heroes Acre. That’s the decision of the whole family,” his nephew Leo Mugabe told AFP.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who worked closely with Mugabe for decades before helping to oust him, granted Mugabe the status of national hero within hours of his death.

The memo sent by Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to embassies in Harare and seen by Reuters said the funeral would be in the National Sports Stadium but did not specify where the burial would be.

It said heads of state would be expected to leave the stadium immediately after the funeral ceremony because officials would be busy with preparations for the burial.

The Zimbabwe Independent newspaper reported last month that Mugabe didn’t want to be buried at National Heroes Acre - a site reserved for the country’s heroes - because he felt bitter about the way he was removed from power.

In comments to The Sunday Mail newspaper, Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba denied that the government and Mugabe’s family were at loggerheads over where the former president should be buried and said the provisional plan was for the burial to be at National Heroes Acre.





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An Ibadan-based salesman, Subar Ibrahim, on Wednesday prayed a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his three-year-old marriage with Rukayat, on the grounds of infidelity and threat to life.

Ibrahim narrating his ordeal before Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of the court alleged said that he had explored all other possibilities of changing his wife, but she has not changed, NAN reports.

The complainant, said, ”Before the birth of our child, I caught Rukayat in a compromising position with the man she last dated before me.

“She said that she did what she did because she wanted to find out the reason why she has not been able to get pregnant in a long while.

“I was sad at first but she apologised and I forgave her. I also kept it a secret between us.

“I later realised that Rukayat continued to bring different men to my home each time I travel on business trip to Kano State.

“Rukayat has also exhibited her jealous spirits on many occasions. She has called my boss and female colleagues in the office, cursing and embarrassing them.

In her response, the defendant opposed the suit, but did not react to most of the allegations levelled against her.

But speaking, Rukayat, who resides in Oke-Ado area in Ibadan agreed that she has many male friends on Facebook.

“Please, I have nowhere to go, don’t separate us,” Rukayat pleaded.

However, Odunade dissolved the union, adding that Rukayat could not prove her innocence.

He awarded custody of the one-year-old child to the defendant and directed the plaintiff to pay N5,000 as the child’s monthly feeding allowance.





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The first batch of 84 Nigerians evacuated from South Africa is expected to arrive Nigeria on Wednesday at about 2.pm local time via the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos in company of officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disclosed this in an update made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, stating that although 313 Nigerians were confirmed as those to form the first batch of evacuees, only 84 of them would arrive on Wednesday because they were the ones cleared to embark on the flight to Nigeria.

According to the ministry, 640 Nigerians have indicated the desire to return from South Africa and have registered to do so.

The ministry added that the second batch of evacuees would depart Johannesburg for Nigeria on Friday.

“The Air peace aircraft which was scheduled to take off at 9. a.m local time was delayed due to the fact that checking in and clearance procedures by immigration are very very slow.

“There are complaints of system failure and out of the 313 confirmed for the first batch of evacuation today, only 84 are cleared so far.

“The more the Aircraft waits for the passengers, the higher the amount the Aircraft will pay for Parking,” the ministry stated.

Following the xenophobic attack on Nigerians in South Africa, Mr Allen Onyeama, Proprietor of Air Peace. Airline volunteered to send an aircraft to evacuate Nigerians willing to return free of charge

The process which was earlier scheduled to commence on Sept. 6 had stalled as it was reported that most Nigerians willing to return did not have valid passports or travel documents to complete immigration formalities.




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In its second ruling on Wednesday, the PEPC upheld argument by INEC that it was wrong by the petitioners to raised criminal allegations of intimidation, harassment, corruption, etc against security personnel and some named persons, but who are not parties to the petition.

The PEPC, in the second ruling on a motion by INEC, said the court lacked the vires (powers) to entertain any criminal allegations against any person, who is not before it.

It proceeded to strike out portions of the petition by Atiku and the PDP, where such allegations are contained.

Earlier in the ruling, the court upheld the petitioners’ contention that, issues of qualification and whether or not a candidate supplied false personal information to INEC before the election, could be heard before or after an election.

The court said questions about a candidate’s qualification could be pre and post elections issues that could be heard being either a High Court or an election tribunal.

It held that it has jurisdiction to determine thi issue of whether or not Buhari was qualified to contest the election and whether or not held lied in the personal information contained in the affidavit he submitted to INEC as alleged by the petitioners.




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Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday struck out an application filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking to strike out the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for not joining the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo.

The Tribunal said the appeal by INEC was incompetent, as not including the Vice President cannot make Atiku’s petition incompetent.

Consequent upon this ruling, judgment on the main issue will, therefore continue.

Tension is already high in the air ahead of the presidential tribunal’s which is now set to rule on the petition by Atiku and PDP seeking to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the last presidential election.

A presidential delegation led by Buhari’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari is already seated in the courtroom.

Some of them are Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the federation, Abubakar Malami, National chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, Ministers of Works and Housing, Raji Fashola, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, Minister of State, Niger Delta, Festus Kayamo among others.



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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Shadrach Haruna as the new Secretary of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

This was contained in a statement by the NDLEA Head of public affairs, Mr Jonah Achema, and made available to News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday.

He said that Haruna replaced Mrs Roli George whose tenure expired in June 2018.

Achema said that the secretary is the head of Secretariat of the charged with the responsibility of administrative duties, keeping the books, setting agenda and implementing decisions.

“The appointments take immediate effect,” he said.

Achema said that Haruna was an accomplished national and international legal practitioner, adding that he was the former Federal Counsel and a prosecutor with the Federal Ministry of Justice.

He said that until his appointment, Haruna was a criminal justice expert and legal adviser in the Commonwealth Secretariat, London.



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The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital, has upheld the elections of Senators Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Peoples Party and Uche Ekwunife of the Peoples Democratic Party for the Anambra South Senatorial District and Anambra Central Senatorial District respectively.

While the oil mogul defeated Chris Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party and Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress at the tribunal, Senator Ekwunife defeated Victor Umeh of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.

Umeh had challenged the declaration of Ekwunife by the Independent National Electoral Commission, stating that she was not properly nominated by her party, while the Uba brothers alleged that the election of Ifeanyi Ubah was characterised by violence.

Umeh in his reaction asked his supporters to remain calm.

He said, “Thank you very much for your faith and indomitable spirit! We shall prayerfully approach the Court Of Appeal after reviewing the judgment! It was like this on 9th October 2015. Today is another 9th! Let us not despair. God bless.”




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A housewife, Talatu, on Monday, dragged her husband, Nasiru Sulaiman, before a Sharia Court ll, sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, seeking legal divorce, saying she has been sexually starved for five years.

NAN reports that Talatu, 35, who resides in Makera, Kaduna, told the court that Sulaiman denied her sex for five years.

“We have six children but he has refused to enrol them in school. I enroled them but he pulled them out, saying that I want to change their belief from his school of thoughts.

“For nine months now they have not been to school.

“The house we live in is dilapidated. It is infested by rats, He gives me only N300 to feed his seven children.

“Sometimes I go out to do menial jobs to assist the family but he accuses me prostitution. I can’t continue living with him. I want a divorce,” she said.

The defendant, Sulaiman, denied the allegations made by his wife.

”When I left my wife was pregnant. When I came back, she told me that he had an abortion because she does not want to bear any child,” he said.

Sulaiman admitted that he gives his wife N300 daily because he has all the foodstuffs in the house.

Ruling, the Judge, Murtala Nasir, ordered both parties to settle their problems amicable.

Nasir adjourned the case until Sept. 23 for report on settlement or continuation of hearing.





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A criminal complaint has been lodged against the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, at the International Criminal Court, ICC, in Hague.
In the complaint, the ICC was also asked to order for the arrest and prosecution of Kanu.
Thomas Carroll of GAYLORD POPP, LLC, acting on behalf of the Incorporated Trustees of Make Nigeria Better Initiative, MNBI, in the criminal complaint, said that IPOB issued a threat to attack President Muhammadu Buhari, during his visit to Japan, to attend the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development, holding in the city of Yokohama, from August 28 to 30, 2019.

According to the MNBI, apart from the recent physical attack carried out by the group against the former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, by IPOB, in Nuremberg, Germany, acting on the orders of the accused, similar threats have also been issued against the five South-East Governors, including Governors David Umahi of Ebonyi, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Willie Obiano of Anambra State.
The suit also said that the IPOB put on notice, Ndigbo Leaders, such as the President-General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Nnia Nwodo, whom it accused of supporting “Operation Python Dance”, which was launched by the Nigerian Army in the South-East, in 2016.

In the criminal complaint, the MNBI prayed the court for the following requests: “That the ICC Prosecutor opens an investigation of the accused on her own accord, under Article 15 (1) of the Rome Statute;
“That the ICC Prosecutor also formally “submits to the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC, a request for authorisation of an investigation” of the Accused under Article 15 (3) of the Rome Statute;

“That the ICC Prosecutor obtain International arrest warrant for the accused from the ICC, in accordance with Articles 58 (1) (a), 58 (1) (b) (i), 58 (1) (b) (ii) and 58 (1) (b) (iii), and proceed to arrest the accused from wherever he is hiding, so he can face their trial”, the complaint said.
The complaint also prayed the ICC Prosecutor to compel the accused upon conviction under the Rome Statute, to pay the sum of $1,000,000,000 (one billion US dollars) as punitive damages for causing death, injury and maiming of several Nigerians, through his acts of terrorism.
“That the ICC Prosecutor compels the British Government to expeditiously begin the process of cancelling the citizenship of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, entering an Exclusion Decision, and or Order barring him from all territories of the United Kingdom, so he can return to Nigeria and face his treasonable felony trial pending before Honourable Justice (Mrs.) Binta Nyako, sitting at the Federal High Court, Abuja”, the complaint said.




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The Yobe State Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Abuja has upheld the election of Ibrahim Bomoi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Senator for Yobe South Senatorial district.

A three-man panel of the tribunal, held in a judgment on Wednesday, that the petitioners, Senator Mohammed Hassan and is party, the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) failed to prove their claims that Bomoi did not win with majority of lawful votes and that the election was held without substantial compliance with the Electoral Act.

Tribunal’s Chairman, Justice Susan Oji, who read the lead judgment, agreed with Bomoi’s lawyer, Akinlolu Kehinde (SAN) that the preponderance of testimony by the petitioners’ witnesses are laced with hearsay evidence, to which the tribunal could not attach any probative value.
“In the final analysis, I hold that the petitioners failed to prove their case. The petition is hereby dismissed,” Justice Oji said.



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Kano State Government, on Wednesday, said, it spent N2.4 billion, for the maintenance of 1, 180 Public Primary and Secondary Schools in the State.

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, made the disclosure in Kano, yesterday, at the opening of a two-day stakeholders’ summit on Free and Compulsory Basic and Secondary Education in the State.

According to Ganduje, the funding will cover a total number of 834,366 pupils. He added that the State Government spent N318 million to procure free school uniforms for 779,522 newly enrolled pupils.

Also, Governor Ganduje disclosed that his administration will engage 3,000 voluntary teachers in order to reduce teaching deficiency.

”The actualization of free and compulsory education at both Primary and Secondary school level in Kano State, is in fulfilment of my declaration, during my second term inauguration, to provide free and compulsory education in the State.”



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The Police Command in Enugu State has beefed up security in the state over possible reprisal attacks by residents of Enugu and its environs on South African businesses.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Enugu that the command had increased patrol in the state especially within Enugu metropolis.

Amaraizu said that the command had also deployed more policemen to locations where South African owned businesses exist in the state.

“The increased patrols and deployment to strategic locations of some businesses is to ensure that nothing untoward happen.

“The command is also appealing to residents not to take the law into their hands.

“But we expect that all will be law abiding even as the Federal Government is currently doing something on the development,’’ he said.

The spokesman reminded residents that those working at these South African business concerns within the state were their brothers and sisters.

NAN reports that there had been increased police personnel and other covert security personnel deployed to Shoprite Mall along Enugu-Abakaliki Road; MTN office in Zik Avenue and Multi-Choice office along Ogui Road among others.

NAN reports that the anticipated attacks followed xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African nationals and their businesses by South Africans.




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Reno Omokri, a public social media strategist, has made a shocking remark on his Twitter handle about men who are glorified as ‘Everything’ by their woman.

An aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno said men should think very well before tying the knot of marriage with any woman who described them as their everything.

Speaking through his Twitter handle, he emphasized that any woman who describes you as her everything is knowingly or unknowingly setting up such a man for failure simply because the only person who can be your everything is God and not your husband.

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Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has met with aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirants who participated in the party’s 2019 primary election.
Addressing the aspirants at the government house in Benin, the governor said that the meeting was in line with the recommendation of the Theophilus Okoh Committee set up to reconcile the aggrieved members of the party.
Obaseki, alongside party leaders in the state, apologised to the aggrieved party members, thanking them for remaining with the party.
“After reading the Okoh Committee report and watching videos, I really appreciate you all and say we are truly sorry for what you may have gone through during the 2019 primarily election.
“Out of the primaries arose almost 20 court cases of those that claimed they were deprived of the opportunities to contest.
“To build trust, confidence and demonstrate that we truly want to reconcile the aggrieved members of our party, within a week of receiving the Okoh Committee report, we have to call a meeting to talk to our aggrieved members,” he said.
Some of the party members present during the meeting
Some of the party members present during the meeting
He called on the party members to join hands together with his administration to build the party.
“We are proud of our achievements as a government and people are appreciating our administration for moving the state forward”, the governor said
One of the aggrieved aspirants, Evbu Igbinedion, called on the governor and members of the party in the state to ensure that females aspirants were given support to win elections.
Another aspirant, Mr Anavberokhai Isah, called on leaders of the party to adopt a zoning system to prevent future reoccurrence in the state.
Mr Charles Idahosa, who is one of the leaders of the party in the state, called on the aggrieved members to forget the past and join hands with the governor in developing the state.
Idahosa noted that as the state approached the 2020 governorship election in Edo, the party members needed to support the governor.




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