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The London metropolitan police have spoken on the incident involving Raymond Dokpesi , founder of Daar Communications.

According to a report by PUNCH , an email from the London police confirmed a “71-year-old man” was arrested on an allegation of rape at Heathrow Airport on Sunday.

The police added that the rape allegation happened in August 2019, and the date for further probe into the case has been fixed for early April.

However, Dokpesi’s identity was not confirmed in the correspondence.


“On Sunday, 8 January, a 71-year-old man was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of rape. The arrest relates to an allegation of rape in August 2019. The man has been bailed, pending further enquiries, to a date in early April. Enquiries into the circumstances continue,” the mail reads.

“Please, note that we don’t confirm the identity of any person who has been arrested but not charged.”

On Sunday, Dokpesi, who clocked 71 last year, was delayed by Immigration after a trip from Frankfurt on a Lufthansa airlines flight that arrived in the UK .

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain was on a London trip following the invitation of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the party, by the British government to share perspectives on issues around the next month’s presidential election in the country.

According to the management of AIT, Dokpesi’s media establishment, he was released after a couple of hours and his passport was stamped and he was cleared by British Immigration officials for entry into the country.

Dokpesi is the deputy director-general(technical and systems) of the PDP presidential campaign council.

"When I wasn't too serious with religion I was prospering I owned my own property I lack nothing as everything always turn out successful for me , but since I became so close to God few years back never missing prayer and trying hard to avoid Haram," she wrote.

"It has always been failure pains and keeps getting worse over the years to extent am scammed and even the poorest of creature is better than me!!

"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH I WILL HENCEFORTH CEASED PRAYING TO A GOD THAT CAUSE MISFORTUNES PAINS AND SORROWS TO HIS LOYAL WORSHIPPERS DONE WITH THIS SCAM CALLED RELIGION!!! KALAS"

"I am an extrovert but wallahi when it comes to keeping secrets am a pro in it cox wallahi A don't know about B and is what many love about me cox no way I will disclose their secrets!! I don't want to publish names but when things was going on for me my residence hosted many of your well known public figures that are enjoying power and millions!!

My home was always open and welcoming to them cox they couldn't afford hotel and accomodation and I even helped some financially!! NOT ONE OF THEM EVEN LOOKED MY SIDE WHEN THEY MADE IT INFACT AM NOW LIKE TRASH TO THEM!!.

"These are guys that couldn't afford a plate of food but always eat to their satisfaction in my home and some were doing well but I was still nice to them!! If I publish names all of you here will be shock that i even know them talk more of accommodating them!! They now consider me too low for their social status since they are now in my past position!! .. I am f**king done being good I want to be wicked and heartless!"

Pat Utomi, professor of political economy, says the 2023 budget will lead to massive inflation and loss of jobs in the country.

Utomi said this on Wednesday while speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme.

The Labour Party (LP) chieftain said if care is not taken, the exchange rate may go above N1000/$ and the inflation rate may hit 50 percent.

Utomi’s remark comes hours after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2023 appropriation bill of N21.83 trillion into law. It is the eighth and final annual budget of the incumbent administration.

“What is the goal of the Buhari administration? It says it wants to create 10 million jobs in 10 years or something.

This budget — will it create one job? No. It will lead to loss of jobs, it will lead to massive inflation, it will lead to a collapse in the exchange rate,” Utomi said.

“Let me explain why, it’s very simple. This is a budget of debt service. You are going to have revenues of what — nine trillion?

You are projecting expenditure of what — 21 trillion. You are already in an unsustainable debt situation.

“Tell anybody who understands economics what this means. This is going to mean serious inflation.

“If you were in a situation where people are rushing to invest in Nigeria, you would say revenues that flow in would accelerate production and when you ask people who manage the economy, they say to you — you see the problem is not that our debt situation is not unsustainable, the problem is that of collecting revenue.

“God forbid, if we don’t do something dramatic, the effect of this budget is that the exchange rate will go past N1000, that is a direct effect of this budget. You are going to see inflation probably go up to 50 percent.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Peter Obi were filmed exchanging greetings in the traditional Igbo way.

Chimamanda, who was conferred with the title of Odeluwa Abba, used her chieftaincy hand fan, which had her title on it, to shake Peter Obi.

Also present at the ceremony was Anambra state governor,bCharles Soludo.

He later took to Facebook to share a photo he took with Chimamanda while congratulating her on her conferment.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced.

His death on Saturday came days after Pope Francis had asked for prayers for his predecessor, saying he was “very sick”.

The Holy See Press Office said Benedict, the first German pope in 1,000 years, died in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, which he had chosen as his residence after resigning in 2013.

The Vatican has been vague about what ailed Benedict, saying only that his worsening health was due to his advanced age.

For nearly 25 years, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict was the powerful head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, then known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
(CDF).

Conservatives in the Church have looked to the former pope as their standard bearer and some ultra-traditionalists even refused to acknowledge Francis as a legitimate pontiff.

They have criticised Francis for his more
welcoming approach to members of the LGBTQ
+ community and to Catholics who divorced
and remarried outside the Church, saying both
were undermining traditional values.

Like his predecessor John Paul, Benedict made
reaching out to Jews a hallmark of his papacy.

His first official act as pope was a letter to
Rome’s Jewish community and he became the
second pope in history, after John Paul, to enter
a synagogue.

In his 2011 book, “Jesus of Nazareth,” Benedict
made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish
people for the death of Christ, explaining
biblically and theologically why there was no
basis in Scripture for the argument that the
Jewish people as a whole were responsible for
Jesus’ death.

Controversies

However, as pope he also came under fire for a
string of public relation controversies, and a
perceived lack of charisma.

Most importantly, as an ever-growing number
of victims spoke out of their abuse, mostly as
children, at the hands of priests, he was
criticised for his failure to act decisively to end
Church cover-ups.

Before his election as pope, Benedict led the
Vatican’s doctrinal congregation, once known
as the Holy Office of the Inquisition, giving him
ultimate responsibility to investigate abuse
cases.

He became the first pontiff to apologise for the
scandals that emerged around the world,
expressing “deep remorse” and meeting with
victims in person.

In 2010, he admitted that the Church “did not
act quickly or firmly enough to take the
necessary action” on an issue that severely
tarnished its image.

Zonefree:
Isn't that what the Holy Books demand?

Zonefree:
Over educated Nigerian girl will find it difficult to be submissive. This only bruises the ego of most men.

Zonefree:
An over educated Nigerian girl is a recipe for disaster!