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The respondent said that if the marriage was dissolved, she had nowhere to go and desired to remain the mother of her children in her matrimonial home. Jelilat pleaded with the court not to dissolve the union and promised to turn a new leaf.

A 35-year-old man, Aniecheta Okoli, on Tuesday appeared before a Federal High Court in Lagos, charged with heroin trafficking.

The accused is facing a one-count charge preferred against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge, and his counsel, Mrs Lilian Omotunde, requested that he be granted bail.

Justice Saliu Saidu, the trial Judge, in response, granted the accused bail in the sum of N10 million with two sureties in like sum.

The judge ordered that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the accused.
He adjourned the case till Feb. 25, 2016, for substantive trial.

The prosecutor, Mr Fingere Dinneys had told the court that the accused committed the offence on Oct. 5

He said that the accused was arrested at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja.

The prosecutor said that a large wrap of heroin, weighing 45 grammes, was recovered from the accused during the screening of passengers.

He said that Okoli was consequently arrested and handed over to the NDLEA for prosecution.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 11 (b) of the NDLEA Act, Cap N30, Laws of the Federation, 2004.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the offence of drug trafficking can attract as much as life imprisonment.

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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State maintains his false sense of security and invincibility with delusions of grandeur. He avoids looking scared when in fact he's in panic overdrive. He embalms his face with cosmetic joy when he's bleeding from inside. He disregards bad news. Dodges the reality.

But lately, joy has been hard to find for the ex-danfo driver and star of Ekitigate. He's been hounded for his past and for sure his sins would find him out. He hates to embrace humiliations of his ruthless ambition, recklessness, crudeness, and oasis of lies and other despicable atrocities that have become Fayose. It's no surprise that his ardent loyalists have all deserted him. “Let the fool hang himself,” they seem to be saying.

Reputed for shaking things up and accomplishing nothing, a man of architectural character oddity, with his barbaric looney tunes coming out of his unguarded outburst from his stinking mouth are his rage these days. Two Sundays ago or so, Fayose called a press conference in Lagos to announce to the world his impending doom in a prophetic declaration. He said the Federal Government headed by President Muhammadu Buhari was plotting to reverse his election victory at the Supreme Court using phantom military report based on the military inquiry of Ekitigate. He said he was aware that the Buhari administration was after him.

He warned that any attempt by the Buhari administration to remove him from office would be resisted by Ekiti people. In a panic overdrive, Fayose said: “The military panel over last year governorship election in Ekiti State is hatchet job. They have a target, but we are waiting for them. They are after me but I'm prepared for them. I am the governor of Ekiti State, I have history, I have record. Any attempt to invade my state will meet our resistance.”

“The day Buhari singles me out,” boasts Fayose, “his government will crumble. They have attempted to impeach me, they didn't succeed, they disturbed my swearing-in ceremony and they failed. They now set up a military panel to upturn what the Supreme Court had decided in my favour. We are waiting for them. Any attempt to rob the people of Ekiti State of their mandate will lead to chain of events, the end of which no one could accurately predict.”
He described President Buhari's war on corruption as a vengeance. “After flagrantly disobeying court orders,”says Fayose, “whatever that is done or said by the Buhari-led government concerning Sambo Dasuki will appear vindictive...”

How can any inquiry about Ekitigate excludes Fayose the star of the famous election rigging video? How can Fayose deny his star role in the biggest election fraud and cover up? Why is Fayose foaming on both sides of his mouth with epilepsy of lies about Buhari's administration? Who is out to get him? Buhari or Ekitigate?

Fayose no doubt, he's feeling the weight of his guilt. He's carrying a heavy load of guilt and he's been weighed down by guilt. Guilty conscience is causing him nightmare. Fayose is like a bank robber whose guilty conscience stopped him from making a quick getaway after a successful bank robbery operation but instead waits for the police to arrive and arrest him.

Fayose had substituted anger for his guilt in Ekitigate and cannot own up to what he did in rigging himself into office. He's using anger to chastise President Buhari and tries to preempt the looming sword of Damocles on his head. He's using anger to look good to protect his tattered fragile remnants of self-esteem. This is the basis of his macho behavior, bullying, and aggression.

Denial, aggression, projection, and blaming President Buhari are Fayose's defense mechanisms which help him to avoid feeling guilt and shame. Using projection, Fayose blames President Buhari and APC instead of looking at his own part of the problem. As the saying goes, what you resist persist. What Fayose is resisting – arrest, prosecution and punishment – would persist and eventually take place.
Fayose has become the ultimate traitor to both God and the state. He constitutes a counter-kingdom of perversion and disorder. He has become a personification of all forms of deviance and revolt. He demonizes opponents as a tool to promote his political agenda and propaganda in order to remain in office. He operates on behalf of the devil's agency.

The irrefutable fulfillment of Fayose's prophecy of his own doom does not cause Fayose to rethink and reconsider his raw nerve, abrasive, and egotistically driven behavior. Rather, Fayose serves up juicy pieces of brisket of pre-emptive nonsensical gibberish of how President Buhari and APC plan to remove him as governor, the gubernatorial office he won through Ekitigate.

History in the strict sense of the word is personal. The annals of centuries gone by are nothing more than individual days sewn together by those who keep the records using their own needle and thread. Fayose is writing his own history with his own needle and thread. When the history of democracy in my beloved Ekiti State is finally written, we'll have to sift through the charred rubble of our wrecked civilization etch with sticks into the barren dust brought about by ex-danfo driver, Ayodele Fayose.

Meanwhile, Fayose's prophecy to meet with his nemesis – the Ekitigate – is lurking in the shadows. There is no escape route. Tic... Tac... Toc... Fayose, they're coming for you!

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Itse Sagay, a legal scholar, has denied ever granting an interview to the Nigerian Tribune to deride President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption efforts.

Speaking with a correspondent of SaharaReporters by telephone from Lagos, Mr. Sagay, a professor of law, well known constitutional lawyer and head of President Buhari’s advisory committee on anti-corruption, said he was shocked to read a report concocted by the newspaper, crediting him with sharp criticism of the current administration’s anti-corruption strategy. According to him, the newspaper’s report on his purported interview represented a desperate attempt to discredit President Buhari’s anti-corruption war.

Mr. Sagay told our correspondent that he had stopped granting interviews to the Tribune after the paper’s editors had twisted an interview he granted them in August.

According to him, the paper’s account of his August interview was tailored to suit the devious agenda of its editors hence his rejection of all efforts by the newspaper to speak with him on record for an interview.

The Nigerian Tribune is one of the newspapers named as beneficiaries of a payout from funds that were meant for the purchase of weapons to fight Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram. The revelation of a widespread dole-out of cash to media groups, including the Tribune, has emerged as part of a scandal involving former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (ret.), who is accused of diverting more than $2 billion budgeted for weaponry.

Investigators have revealed that several Nigerian newspapers received N10 million each from the slush fund overseen by Mr. Dasuki. At least 12 newspapers were paid from the fund through Nduka Obaigbena, chair of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), according to investigators. Even though the Tribune denied receiving the funds, subsequent disclosures indicated that the newspaper’s editors took part in a meeting where it was agreed that the booty should be accepted.

In dismissing the opinion attributed to him by the Tribune, Mr. Sagay said he had never met or spoken to the journalist who wrote the report, insisting that the interview was made up. He challenged the reporter and paper’s editors to provide the public with a tape recording of the so-called interview.

The late Obafemi Awolowo founded the Tribune, and his family still owns the paper, which is one of Nigeria’s longest surviving daily newspapers.

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In 2013, Prophet Marcus Tibetan, the parish head of Celestial Church of Christ, Elisha parish had prophesied about Jonathan dropping 10 ministers and losing a loved one that year. It came to pass when his younger brother died. The prophet equally warned him to pray against a seven-year jail term. The same prophet predicted the fall of PDP, the disgraceful exit from politics of former Senate president, David Mark, and the fall and exit from politics of the former national chairman of the PDP Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.

He is a pastor yet he is promiscuous and fetish,” said Elizabeth. She added: ‘He befriended the best friend of mine and attempted To Molest one of my nieces

The Federal Government on Friday issued a security alert that Boko Haram terrorists were planning another sensational abduction of pupils/students or foreigners in a desperate effort to raise funds through ransom.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement issued in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Segun Adeyemi.

“Boko Haram terrorists who have been beaten and put on the run by the military, are planning another sensational abduction of pupils/students or foreigners in a desperate effort to raise funds, through ransom, for food, medical and arms supply,’’ he said.

Mohammed said the planned abduction was in line with the terrorists’ new modus operandi of focusing on soft targets, having been routed from their stronghold and their capacity to stage spectacular attacks substantially degraded.

According to him, the largely defeated terrorists have now concentrated their attacks on soft targets, like motor parks, schools and entertainment centres.
He said the terrorists had been decimated to a level that they are now incapable of staging spectacular attacks like they used to do.

“The kidnap of the Chibok girls in 2014 which attracted global attention to the terrorist group is what it is now trying to repeat, hoping it can find vulnerable targets, especially schools, or a group of foreigners outside the frontline states.

“The plan by Boko Haram is also part of an overall strategy by the terrorists to seek to negatively impact on the psyche of the gallant troops who have routed them (terrorists) from their stronghold.

“And also give the impression that they have not been largely defeated by the December 2015 deadline given by this Administration to effectively degrade the insurgency in the North-East.

“This is why we have decided to issue this alert to enable the authorities of both public primary and secondary schools in remote locations, particularly in the Northern states, to upgrade their security arrangements,’’ the minister said.

According to him, the statement is also aimed at alerting the general public, operators of hotels and entertainment centres, motor parks and similar facilities to also upgrade their security arrangements for the holidays.

Mohammed assured that the Federal Government would build on the successes recorded by the military which had largely met the deadline to degrade the capability of the terrorists.

“Smoked out of their hideouts and badly bruised by our gallant military, the Boko Haram terrorists are desperate, especially in the face of the depletion of their food supplies.

“In their desperation, they will not hesitate to embark on actions they feel can still make them relevant or enhance their survival. But the military is ready and able to prevent that,’’ he said

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seromezy:
SINCE u where born have u not in any way commited crime?
If you are good in lying and answer me NO. Have u not sin against God? How many times has God put u behind bar?
If you are pure then recast the stone on her again.

I have notice that people like will spend N1m in burials but can't help the helpless ones. Vanities Opun vanities.

Cyriacus Izuekwe

A man identified as Femi Aluko has died after he reportedly drank four cartons of beer in Shasha, a suburb of Lagos, western Nigeria.

P.M.NEWS gathered that some people donated the cartons of beer to Aluko who boasted that he could consume that quantity.

But after Aluko reportedly drank the four cartons of beer, he became terribly drunk, lost control and fell into a gutter while he attempting to go home.

The incident happened on Thursday evening at a popular restaurant. After he fell into the gutter, non of the residents who saw him tried to rescue him. He was found dead in the gutter the following morning.
According to residents, the late Aluko was known in the area as a drunk.

A resident, Mrs Nike Salawu who spoke to our reporter said the late Aluko had financial and family challenges for several years, which led him into heavy drinking of alcohol.

She said some of the residents had tried in the past to persuade him from drinking but he refused.

She said it was due to his drinking habit that he fell into a gutter, and nobody was willing to assist him till Friday morning when he was found dead there.
On how he got money to buy the drinks, she said it was the residents that usually bought the drinks for him.

The matter was reported to the police at Shasha division who went to the scene of the incident to see the corpse.

However, before the police could take the corpse to the General Hospital for autopsy, members of his family went to the station and asked for the remains for burial.
When our reporter visited Shasha police division, the DPO was not around to comment on the matter.

However, sources at the station who confirmed the incident said the corpse has been released to the family for burial.

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boujaye:
that typo u are quick to see, you will never correct your father Buhari's grammar

boujaye:
I you surprise? It is typical of APC government

FORMER Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, may emerge the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the board holds an emergency meeting today.

The parley, slated to hold at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, is coming four days after the judgment of an Abuja High Court sacking the Acting National Chairman, Uche Secondus.

With the ruling, PDP now exists without a chairmen of the National Working Committee (NWC) and BoT. The former BoT chairman, Tony Anenih, resigned weeks after the defeat of PDP in this year’s presidential election.

A PDP stalwart told Daily Sun that three chieftains of the party have their eyes on the BoT chair, but said Nnamani looks more likely to clinch it.
“We have called a meeting to intervene in some developments in the party in the last few days. We may also use the opportunity to hold an election to fill the vacant BoT chairmanship position.

“Some of our members have indicated interest in the position, but I think we may give it to the former Senate President, Ken Nnamani. The reason is that we want to bring credible Nigerians on board to help restore the confidence of Nigerians in the party”, the source said.

It is the second time Nnamani would be linked to the office. In 2011, he was one of the front runners for the position. Former Senate Leader and current High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr Dalhatu Tafida, served as his campaign director. However, former President Goodluck Jonathan intervened and handed the position to Chief Anenih.

Nnamani recently spoke on steps the embattled party must take to reinvent itself. In a paper he was scheduled to deliver at a recent PDP Rebrand Forum held in Abuja, charged members to stop the blame game over the party’s loss of last election. Instead, Nnamani advised that they should take a bold step towards reinventing itself by avoiding mistakes that eroded the trust the electorate had in the party.

He said: “Many of the people who are very pained that we lost the presidential election have needlessly been blaming ourselves. This blame game should not continue. We lost the election because we deserved to lose. We had run out of policy gas. We worked hard to lose the election.”

Nnamani said: “Now it is time for renewal and renewal requires strategic thinking and bold actions. Many years ago, I worked with some of my colleagues in the PDP and we foresaw this moment. We predicted that the PDP needed to keep faith with its cardinal principles and values to sustain its leadership of Nigerian politics. How I wished our other colleagues listened to us in those days. We would have averted the disaster of the 2015 electoral defeat. Some of those who contributed immensely to the PDP electoral defeat shouted us down and refused to hear our voice of wisdom. This is past now. There is no time for recrimination and self-adulation. It is time for clarity and effective action.

“It is time for genuine embrace of internal democracy. The new PDP should become the symbol of internal democracy. Our rebranding should first start with a real commitment to internal democracy. I suggest that before we go further on this journey let all those who desire to lead PDP in formal or informal positions of authority publicly declare a new code of conduct. The heart of this code of conduct will be an oath to always promote and protect internal democracy.

“Beyond the code, the new PDP must put in its constitution expulsion for any party official at all levels who deliberately subverts the process of internal democracy. Impunity must end now. Impunity does not end with mere words or declarations. It includes clear sanctions for violation of core tenets of party systems.

It is common knowledge that we lost many states to the APC because we deliberately re- fused to conduct primaries that allow our party members to vote for the candidate of their choice. If we have been less reckless in management of party politics we would have gained at least four more states and perhaps won the presidential election. But we shot ourselves on the foot,” he said.

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By Bose Adelaja

Mr. Fajemidagba Foluso is an elder in the Christ Apostolic Church, CAC, Mowe in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. Foluso who recently had a close shave with death in the hands of persons suspected to be ritual killers, narrated his ordeal to Vanguard Metro.
According to him, he boarded an inter-state bus at Mowe on Tuesday November 24, 2015, intending to alight at Redeemed Bus-Stop. After paying the N30 fare demanded by the conductor, the bus which picked seven other passengers, sped off.

Instead of stopping at the Redeemed Camp Bus-Stop as earlier agreed , the driver headed for the Ogere interchange. It was at this point that the passengers became apprehensive and demanded to know where the driver was taking them to.
Their questions were rebuffed by the speeding driver who instead, ensured that the windows were securely closed. The unfortunate passengers were allegedly striped half-naked and dispossessed of cash and personal belongings before being transferred to a waiting van at the Ogere interchange.

Elder Foluso who spoke in an emotion-laden voice, said one of the victims, a boy who was going to write an examination on that fateful day, struggled with their abductors until he was gunned down. Undeterred by the sad end of the boy, the gangsters allegedly carried his corpse along with them until the seven abducted persons were transferred into a fully air-conditioned van which was stationed at the Oghere interchange, ostensibly awaiting the arrival of the “loot”.

Recalling what transpired on that fateful day, Elder Foluso said: ‘’All the seats in the van had been removed and we were forced to sit on the floor for the continuation of the journey to an unknown destination. At a point, the vehicle veered off the expressway into a thick forest. But before we left the expressway, we saw some police check points and cried aloud for help but to our greatest surprise, our abductors started exchanging pleasantries with the uniformed policemen.

At a particular illegal check point, some of the policemen whom we sought assistance from retorted, ‘help ko, help ni, abeg follow them to wherever they are taking you to. That’s your own luck…’ The unfriendly attitude of the policemen heightened our fears. We knew at that point that danger was lurking around the corner hence we resorted to seeking God’s intervention.
The journey inside the forest took almost three hours before we arrived at a building located on the rock. As soon as we alighted from the vehicle, a man came out from the building to exchange pleasantries with one of our abductors. He spoke in Yoruba language, ‘’Melo l’é ko wa l’óte yi’’
? (How many did you bring this time around ?). ‘’Seven plus one dead body’’.

This response sparked off an argument as the man shouted, ‘’Ki ni mo fe fi oke se? Owo meje ni maa san o (what am I doiAng with a corpse, I will pay for seven only). He took a headcount to be sure that seven people were actually brought into their den. The vehicle left immediately the man paid an undisclosed sum of money to our abductors. We were later divided into two groups but three of us were put in a room”.
Continuing, he said; ‘’A lady among us was wounded severally for struggling with them. On my part, I kept shouting the name of Jesus. It came to a point that one of the ritualists shouted from within and ordered me to keep quiet. ‘Ta l’o n pa’riwo ni’beyen,’ (Who is making noise over there?), he barked. I continued shouting the name of Jesus quietly and few minutes later, one of the aides who pitied by condition, offered to assist me to escape.

He asked me to pretend like somebody who was pressed and wanted to answer the call of nature, Luckily, this strategy worked out. The guy asked me to take my clothes and follow him. We trekked for about an hour before he showed me a bush path that led to a village and left. I trekked for another one hour before I got a motorcycle which took me to the expressway where I stood for a while before getting a bus to Lagos.
It was during the journey that I realised we were far away from Elelubo, Ibadan. I was finally reunited with my family and church members. That was how a journey of about three minutes ended up in 24 hours”. The plight of Elder Foluso is synonymous with what hundreds of innocent people go through on daily basis in the hands of “one-chance” abductors and ritualists along the ever-busy Lagos/Ibadan expressway.

VM investigations show that one-chance operators along the expressway, have adopted new tactics to trap and rob innocent commuters. Some of the unlucky commuters are sold at give-away prices to prospective buyers who in turn, sell them off to ritual killers who slaughter them and sell to occultists and other evil persons.
VM learnt that the amount paid is negotiable and is dependent on the age and sex of the victims.

Similarly, delicate parts of the body like the breasts, tongues, private parts and nails allegedly attract higher prices. VM further gathered that since some states in the South-West, especially Lagos, introduced security measures to stem the activities of one-chance operators, they have shifted their base to the Lagos/Ibadan expressway. This allegation has however being denied by the Police.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi insisted that the story of Elder Foluso is a mere rumour. “It as a rumour and was not reported to the Command. The Command has a team on anti- kidnapping/cultism, headed by a Superintendent of Police but people think we are not working. We have about 15 similar cases which were reported to us within a space of one week.

But none of them was able to present facts to buttress their stories. So, such cases can be regarded as either framed or cooked up to curry favour from the public. I expect the victims to intimate the Police with such developments so that we can go and comb the area, but nothing of such was reported.
It is impossible to be kidnapped without informing the Police after your return.

Unfortunately, people only go to church for thanksgiving or report their experiences to the media. We call on those who claim to have experienced such to come up and present their facts,” he said.

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obo389:
warri and ph.

donholy28:
Back from my one week ban...meanwhile picture or idontbelive it