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The police in Lagos have arrested six persons for allegedly disturbing the peace of residents of Olaomibiyi Street, Ogba, during a church service.

The members – Ngozichukwu Onyebuchi (44), Clement Eromosele (26), Chukwudi Akwegbu (26), Chibuzor Chukwu (18), Godspower Enudi (21) and Okorie Livonus (36) – were arraigned in a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogba.

They were accused of converting a residential apartment to a church.

Pavarottii:
PDP lost Lagos,Ogun, Oyo, Kebbi also!

Places like taraba shouldn't be contested, it's APC region like lagos and rest u mentioned

They taraba elections have been ruled in the favour of the PDP candidate instead of the lady

Jaraworldsms:
what is happening here?

Students protest

Wats happening

The Director General of the National Task Force (NATFORCE), Dr Emmanuel Osita has urged former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili to bring back the abducted Chibok girls herself.

Na serious tackling be ds

Inspectahdeck:
Source

But if true I think odetola should be in the box with faruk. Bribery is a crime by both parties.

otedola is a business man not a government office holder

Billionaire businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola, has been scheduled to appear as a prosecution witness before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Lugbe, Abuja, in the ongoing trial of a former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, for alleged bribery.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission is prosecuting Lawan for allegedly “corruptly” collecting $500,000 out of the $3m bribe he requested from Otedola in exchange for the removal of the businessman’s company’s name from the list of firms indicted by the House committee for allegedly abusing the fuel subsidy regime in 2012.

K9Uneet:
Its the language of the gods. Lolz.

Halla

Baawaa:
The news is not interesting at all, the news suppose to be "politicians killed themselves at Atiku's house"

Killed ke, na wa to you

K9Uneet:
There's a whole world of difference between politicians and political thugs. OP, which one you dey refer to abeg?
Anyway, in Nigeria we are not able to make that distinction. Our politicians and thugs are the same. Hancha wu ndi ara.

Meaning of that language

The fight occurred between the Chairman of the APC in Yola North, Alhaji Salihu Ahmed and the Chief of Staff to Governor Muhammadu Jibrilla, Abdulrahman Abba Jimeta over the weekend, Daily Trust reports.

The trouble was said to have started when Jimeta refused to recognize Ahmed as the rightful chairman of Yola North.

The argument led to a verbal fight which eventually deteriorated to a brawl which saw Jimeta taking off a piece of clothing to improve his chance of victory.

The duo were eventually separated by other chieftains of the party who were present at the meeting.

“The President should admit that there were avoidable errors in the budget and since he is human and not immune to errors, he should simply do the needful by presenting a new and credible budget to the National Assembly", he said.

Fayose said the revelation by the Health Minister, Isaac Adewole, that the proposal drawn up by the ministry and submitted to the budget office had been doctored and that “foreign” appropriations, different from what was submitted, had been sneaked in is the height of national embarrassment.

him fore fathers don try, dem fail, him neva try reach

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed an application by leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biaf‎ra, Nnamdi Kanu, for the release of certain items, including his British and Nigeria passports, which are in the custody of the Department of State Service.

Justice James Tsoho dismissed the application made orally by Kanu’s lawyer, Mr. Chuks Muouma (SAN), who had sought the release of the items because they would not be needed by the prosecution since they were not listed as part of exhibits to be tendered.

Apart from the passports, other items which Muouma sought to be released to the IPOB leader who is currently in detention at Kuje prison along with his two co-accuse, are cash sums of $2,200 and N87,000. Justice Tsoho, in dismissing the application for lacking in merit, insisted that the fact that the items were not listed as possible exhibits did not foreclose the possibility of their being later used by the prosecution as exhibits.

‎He then adjourned the case till February 19 for the hearing of an application by the prosecution for protection of its witnesses.

The judge, before adjourning the case, granted the request by the defence lawyer to the effect that relations of the accused persons be allowed in the court room subject to security screening and the capacity of the court room.

Kanu, David Nwawusi and Benjamin Madubugwu are being prosecuted on six counts of treasonable felony, unlawful possession of firearms and other offences bordering on their agitation for secession ‎of the Republic of Biafra from Nigeria.

‎Justice Tsoho had on January 29 denied bail to Kanu and the two other defendants and ordered that they remained on remand pending the period of their trial.

The judge in rejecting the accused persons’ bail application, held that they were not entitled to bail as they failed to challenge the allegation by the prosecution that they would continue to commit the alleged crime for which they were being prosecuted if granted bail.

Kanu was in the custody of the Department of State Service from the time of his arrest in a Lagos hotel on October 14, 2015 till January 20, 2016, when he was transferred to prison by an order of Justice Tsoho , shortly after he was arraigned along with two others.

Na she be ds in the bread business

Bruce get mouth, amaechi na politician

I think I agree with him, wats ur view

in everything you are doing always find pleasure in it and GRACE will meet you dere

Only those that are bold to say their wrongs are arrested, truly our judicial system needs to be purged

ibkgab001:
Blame everything on Nigeria Police

Wetin concern Nigeria police

Demmocrats:
Obj the man that invented modern corruption and made Abacha and co look ordinary

The oba in his name means king, dat is king of anything u call it

Elder statesman, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former maximum ruler, Ibrahim Babangida, made corruption attractive to state governors in the country.

Braithwaite said the former helmsmen’s policies and actions elevated corruption in governance, adding that many state governors were merely emulating them.

The human rights activist said this during a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday.

He was reacting to a statement credited to Obasanjo in which the former president slammed state governors for living like emperors – to the detriment of the masses.

Obasanjo, who spoke at the inaugural conference of the Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Ibadan, on Monday, said, “Nigeria is a country where some governors have become sole administrators, acting like emperors. These governors have rendered public institutions irrelevant and useless.”

But Braithwaite said, “Obasanjo is not saying anything original because when he assumed office in 1999, I warned that the military constitution would make the governors emperors. Governors determine security votes which they do not account for. Since 1999, the military constitution clothes them (governors and president) with immunity against being arrested for criminal misdeeds. Many of them brazenly looted the treasury and got away with it. Obasanjo became rich through this structure.

“Something appears to be driving Obasanjo to be making frivolous statements everywhere. He and Babangida made corruption attractive to governors and they elevated corruption in governance which subsequent presidents and governors are emulating.”

Speaking on the recent terrorist attacks, Braithwaite said the Federal Government’s declaration that Boko Haram had been technically defeated was premature, adding that such an assumption was wrong.

He said the Federal Government could be forgiven for its statement that the sect had been defeated because of its (FG’s) good intentions and wishes of ending terrorism, insisting, however, that the Federal Government’s good intentions were far from reality.

Freelanswer:
Well, as far as I know, the law of the land has never excluded anyone from its provisions. Why are you saying the FG made a pronouncement as if making a new law? Really really, Nigerians will take long to recover from the hang-over of military rule. This report sounds like what you would hear in a military government. The question should be, 'what does the law already stipulate as punishment for indicted judges?', or 'what bill has the legislature signed into law concerning the matter?', and not 'what has the executive proclaimed on the spot?'.



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Using my platform to advertise, no problem, I won't send EFCC to you. If judges are found wanting wats their punishment

krendo:
Buhari should clean up his own cabinet first before loosing sleep over the Judiciary. Amaechi is the biggest thief in the country and funded the Buhari election campaign.

So Buhari has a lot of soul searching to do. He should stop wasting the time of the country!

How do you mean by the biggest thief, wat meter did you use in measuring that

Guy no be threat, we have the chief judge of the nation

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said the allegation by the former Ekiti State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tope Aluko, that the military was used to influence the outcome of the June 21, 2014 governorship election in the state, is another ploy by the All Progressives Congress to rubbish the mandate freely given to him by the people of the state.

He claimed the such a wild allegation could only come from Aluko, who he refused to appoint as his Chief of Staff “because he could not be entrusted with such a sensitive position.”

Fayose, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, wondered when the opposition would stop licking their wounds when the election conducted about 20 months ago had been adjudged as free and fair and applauded by the election observers and the international community.

Fayose said, “All these steps are being taken by the APC to silence me because of my criticism of obnoxious policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, but I cannot be silenced. If I, Ayo Fayose, remains the last man standing to put Buhari administration on its toes, I will not look back. Strong opposition is an ingredient of a virile democracy. I don’t have any skeleton in my cupboard. If the APC has any concrete evidence against me, it should give it to the EFCC.”

Fayose added that he felt sorry for Aluko because he had allowed those who rented him to do the dirty job to destroy him therefore bringing shame upon himself and his family.

The governor said, “ It is very obvious that those who rented him will keep him at an arms length believing that what he did to me, he will do same to them.

“From Aluko’s ranting, one could see that he wants to poison our waters because he did not get the position he expected in our administration. He complained that he was not made the Chief of Staff, how could somebody with great lust for money and insatiable drive to jump from one camp to the other be trusted with such a sensitive post? I was advised by well-meaning Ekiti people not to trust him with sensitive positions because of his greed.”

FOR corrupt judges who have for long desecrated the temple of justice and gone unpunished, the time is up, given a recent pronouncement by the Federal Government. They will now go to jail. This is a good development. Nigerians have been lamenting without end the racketeering in the dispensation of justice, for which the Bench has considerably lost its awe.

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who stated this in Lagos at a public lecture entitled: “Go home and sin no more: Corrupt Judges escaping justice in Nigeria,” emphasised that the practice of just retiring corrupt judges was over under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. They will not only be tried and convicted, but their assets would be forfeited to the government. The AGF said, “I am reiterating that the fight against corruption shall be total and will not exclude judicial officers, who are found wanting. After all, it is beyond doubt that a corrupt judge cannot meaningfully contribute to the fight against corruption.” We cannot agree more.

Indeed, that the judiciary is at cross purposes with the Executive in dealing with this conundrum resonated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday, when the President held a town hall meeting with Nigerians living there. He also said, “On the fight against corruption vis-à-vis the judiciary, Nigerians will be right to say that is my main headache for now.” The President is right.

It is fascinating that the evidence that the Bench is drenched in corruption is widespread. Kayode Eso, a former justice of the Supreme Court, before he died, raised the alarm that “billionaire judges” were rampant; while a former President of the Court of Appeal, Ayo Salami, drew our collective attention to the ignoble role of retired senior justices acting as conduits of bribes to judges, on behalf of litigants seeking to pervert the course of justice. And the weight of it is crushing. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mahmud Mohammed, disclosed through John Fabiyi, a Justice of the Supreme Court, at an event last year that 64 judges “were disciplined as appropriate,” between 2009 and 2014. By this he meant those given a slap on the wrist by easing them out of office. Such action is devoid of any deterrent. And it explains why the Bench has remained the weakest link in the anti-corruption chain.

Before Mariam Aloma-Mukhtar bowed out of office as the CJN in November 2014, she also painted a disturbing picture of this mess. While she inherited 139 petitions against corrupt judges, some fresh 198 cases were filed during her 28-month tenure, out of which 33 were considered worthy of attention. She said, “15 are awaiting responses from judges” as of November 2014. The incumbent may have received fresh petitions.

These damning accounts cohere with the reservations some senior members of the Bar periodically express about the misconduct of judges. For instance, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Joseph Daudu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, once said, “There is a growing perception backed by empirical evidence that justice is purchasable, and it has been purchased on several occasions in Nigeria.”

Some judges were found wanting in the adjudication of election petitions in 2003 and 2007, but were merely dismissed. We have also seen judges abuse interlocutory injunctions, give plaintiffs relief they did not seek, or give judgements totally incongruent with the law. Now, litigants, aided by their counsel, shop for crooked judges to buy justice before filing their cases. These aberrations have lowered the magisterial aura judges once radiated and it questions the integrity of our justice delivery system.

Apparently, Nigeria found itself at the crossroads today simply because of the hypocritical attitude of our judicial authorities, especially the National Judicial Council, the apex disciplinary body chaired by the CJN, which has been remiss in pushing for corrupt judges’ prosecution the way it is done in civilised ju

jeffizy:
[color=#007700] Black face needs to see the light.

He should steal someone else's song too.
Just maybe, it will revive his career . [/color]

Lollll)lllllllllllllllll

Veteran dancehall act and a former member of the defunct Afro-pop singing trio, Plantashun Boyz, Ahmedu Augustine, widely known as Blackface, has called on fellow musician, Wizkid, to “stop stealing” his songs.

Blackface who spoke exclusively to Saturday Beats earlier in the week, said the young hip-hop artiste had been copying many of his songs for a long time but he decided to keep quiet just to let peace reign. The Benue State-born raga performer however said he decided to speak out now because he could no longer sit and watch someone else take the glory for his efforts.

The latest controversy follows the release of a new song by Blackface titled Killa where he was believed to have taken a swipe on Wizkid for allegedly copying many of his songs especially two tracks from his Dancehall Business album released in 2010.

“I never really wanted to talk about it all this while but after people started checking out my new song, Killa, many felt Blackface sounded like Wizkid, which I didn’t like.

“If you check properly, you would realise that Wizkid’s hit, Ojuelegba, sounds exactly the same as the track 13 on my dancehall album released as far back as 2010. You need to listen to that album to know what I am talking about. The song is so similar that I think it shouldn’t be that way.

“Well, in Killa, I sang that “they tried to copy my melody,” and the bloggers got a hint of the gist and put their reports out. What I said is the truth and I am going to get to the root of this matter because I deserve justice.

“The Ojuelegba song has made so much revenue for Wizkid. I am not bothered about that but I want the industry to be in a position whereby people will understand that some of the artistes and the songs they are cheering is someone else’s efforts, especially fellow artistes that they are doing everything to bring down. All they are doing is to bring down Blackface and to say that he is not relevant in the industry. Some people are bent on killing my legacy. I believe there is definitely a gang-up against me in the industry and this has been going on for a long time,” he said.

Asked if he had taken on Wizkid personally on the matter, the dancehall artiste said he did his best in that regard but that the response from the Star Boy act shocked him. To get justice on this issue, Blackface disclosed to Saturday Beats that he could seek legal redress if Wizkid or others do not refrain from stealing his intellectual properties.

“There was a time Wizkid followed me on twitter and I told him that I don’t want him taking my songs and that if he wants to do any of my rhythm, he should let me know. I told him that because I was just being a big brother to him. I told him that our songs can’t be sounding so similar and that if he wants anything, he should let me know. But after some time, he ‘unfollowed’ me and it was shortly after then that the Ojuelegba song was released. I don’t have any problem with Wizkid or any other person, all I am saying is that they shouldn’t be tampering with my songs because those are my properties.

“Wizkid and I do different kinds of music and he doesn’t have my type of skill. I don’t have a problem with that. I am only bothered when somebody takes my song and tries to turn it around into theirs without giving me due credit,” he said.

Efforts to reach Wizkid to react to Blackface’s claims proved abortive as his phone numbers were switched off. His manager, Sunday Are, couldn’t be reached as his line was switched off as well.

Wizkid has been in the news lately for a similar allegation. Hypertek Music artiste, Dammy Krane, also recently accused him of stealing one of his songs. The controversy degenerated into a physical fracas with Wizkid reported to have thrown a glass cup at Krane which injured him during a night out at a club in Lagos. The two are believed to have since mended fence.

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