Blog by XANTAPLUS: July 2014

Wednesday 23 July 2014

BUHARI ESCAPES DEATH IN KADUNA AS TWIN BLAST KILLS OVER 70 PEOPLE.

Presidential aspirant and former Military Head, General Buhari narrowly escaped death in Kaduna today when a suicide bomber attacked his convoy.

According to punch, there was pandemonium in Kaduna State on Wednesday as twin bomb blasts rocked the city, killing more than 70 persons.

A former Head of State and a chief of the All Progressives Congress, Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), narrowly escaped the second blast.

The blast occurred at two different parts of the state. One at the Alkali/Isa Kaita road in the highbrow area of the state while the second one occurred near the Kawo bridge, close the 1. Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna State.

(PHOTOS) PRESIDENT JONATHAN FINALLY MEETS WITH PARENTS OF THE ABDUCTED CHIBOK GIRLS. #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS.

As earlier reported, President Jonathan finally met with the parents of the abducted Chibok girls and those who managed to escape as well.

The Media was not allowed to cover proceedings once the meeting started as they were sent out of the meeting hall.

See more pictures after the cut.........

THE BATTLE LINE HAVE JUST BEEN DRAWN BETWEEN THE OKOYE BROTHERS, PETER & JUDE!!!!!

All is still not well at the camp of the successful music empire of the Okoye's, Peter, Paul and their elder brother Jude.

Sometimes last year, the eldest of the trio, Jude, refused to attend Peter's wedding to his then Babymama, Lola Omotayo. He acted rather childishly by posting pictures of himself working in the studio while his blood brother was getting married.

Rumours has it that members of the Okoye family did not support the union for reasons best known to them. Lola, who is older than her hubby is a beautiful and independent woman but Oga Jude must definitely have personal reasons why he is not keen about her.

A 19-Yr-Old model, Iheoma Nnadi representing Akwa-Ibom state emerged as the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria in 2014. See more photos after the cut.........

She beat second runner-up Miss Edo to the crown. Miss Kwara finished in third place, while Miss Osun finished fourth.

She walks home with N3 million cash prize and a brand new car. Anna Banner is the outgoing Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria.

GUNMEN INVADE JEREMIAH USENI'S HOUSE.....

Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins, in the early hours of Thursday, stormed the home of Jeremiah Useni, a former Abuja minister.

Mr. Useni was, however, not at his Langtang north Local Government Area, Plateau State home, when the gunmen came. According to witnesses, the suspects shot at the building about 48 times.

Mr. Useni, a member of the on-going National Conference, in a telephone interview with journalists on Thursday evening, confirmed the incident. The retired general said no lives were lost. “I was not there myself, but I was told of the incident. No one was killed, but I will later today (Thursday) visit the scene to see things for myself,” he said.

Parents of some of the abducted girls as well as escaped Chibok girls who earlier turned down an opportunity to meet President Goodluck Jonathan are now ready to meet with the president after they received a formal invitation from the Nigerian presidency.

According to National Chairman of the community, Dr Pogu Bitrus, a letter requesting a meeting with the president next Tuesday was received on Wednesday.

The community meeting is coming several some three months after Islamist militant group Boko Haram kidnapped over 250 girls during their finals at a high school in Chibok, Borno state.

Nigeria have met Fifa’s conditions to lift its ban on the country after a regional high court quashed an order restraining the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) from office.

Troubled Nigeria Football Federation [NFF] president, Aminu Maigari has been reinstated in office after a court order was vacated on Wednesday.

Fifa punished Nigeria for government interference after the NFF board was replaced by a sole administrator.

A 17 July deadline was given to reverse the decision, despite the government’s claim it was a matter for the courts.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved 10 days paternity leave for any male civil servant in the state whose wife delivers a new baby. The measure is to afford them the opportunity of attending to developmental needs of the child.

Fashola also jerked up the maternity leave from three months to six, to allow the nursing mother give their child exclusive breastfeeding for the period.

Head of Service, HOS, Mrs. Oluseyi William, who disclosed this yesterday, at a joint briefing with the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lateef Ibirogba and Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, in Ikeja, said the new approved policy took immediate effect.

Nasarawa State lawmakers on Thursday proceeded with their moves to remove the state governor, Tanko Al-Makura, by levelling against him 16 charges bordering on alleged official gross misconduct.

The charges by the state House of Assembly include missing local government joint account funds between June 2011 and April 2012; and from January to July, 2013.

The impeachment notice said the alleged offences amounted to gross violation of section 162 (7 and 8) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended. The impeachment notice was signed by 20 out of the 24 members of the assembly.

An Egyptian court has given nine men sentences ranging from 20 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting women near Cairo's Tahrir Square, according to state run newspaper al-Ahram.

The sentences handed down Wednesday were the harshest seen since the government criminalized sexual harassment last month, amid criticism over the widespread abuse of women in the country.

The men were found guilty of being involved in four different attacks, three of them taking place during the inauguration celebrations for newly elected President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in June.

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MALAYSIAN AIRLINES PLANE WITH 295 PEOPLE ON BOARD SHOT DOWN IN UKRAINE!!!!

A Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, crashed Thursday in eastern Ukraine.

Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it lost contact with Flight 17 and that the plane's last known position was over Ukrainian airspace, the airline said on Twitter.

The aircraft was "shot down" over Ukraine by "terrorists" operating a Buk surface-to-air missile system, according to the Facebook page of Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. There were 280 passengers killed as well as 15 crew members, Gerashchenko's post reads.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday forwarded a letter to the National Assembly, asking the lawmakers to urgently approve a $1bn external loan for the Federal Government to confront the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

The letter dated July 15, 2014, was read on the floor of the Senate and that of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, by the Senate President David Mark and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal respectively.

In the letter, Jonathan explained that the external loan was urgently needed to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of the Armed Forces and security services in order to enable them to confront the insurgents more forcefully.

The removal of Admiral Murtala Nyako as governor of Adamawa State was a prediction long foretold. But why he walked straight into the booby trap is a wonder

The atmosphere in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, hours after Admiral Murtala Nyako was removed as governor of the state on Tuesday was largely serene. Citizens went about their businesses largely unconcerned with the political asphyxiation of the state’s former number one citizen.

The indifference was largely reflective of the feeling of detachment with which the former governor related with a large section of the citizenry. Nyako in the estimation of some was largely devoted to himself and his family with the appointment of friends and family in strategic positions in government.

DRUNK SECURITY GUARD KILLS BABCOCK STUDENT IN HOTEL.

A security guard, Azeez Ibrahim, has shot dead a female undergraduate of Babcock University, Busayo Ogunkoya, during a birthday party in a hotel in Ikorodu, Lagos State.

Punch Metro learnt that 22-year-old Ogunkoya was celebrating with her friends on Saturday evening, July 5, 2014, at Mambillah Hotel, when the guard fired a shot that killed her.

Our correspondent learnt that immediately the incident happened, there was confusion as the people fled the hotel. A source said Ibrahim was drunk. He said, “The incident happened on Saturday night when Busayo and her friends were having a party. “She did not know the person celebrating, but she was invited to the party by her boyfriend.

THRUST suddenly into national and international spotlight, Nigeria’s Armed Forces are looking rather flat-footed. While struggling to contain the terrorist insurgency in the toxic North-East zone and engaged in operations in most of the states, its personnel are unwisely being deployed for some purely political and civil matters by a short-sighted Presidency. It is a dangerous game that could well imperil the Fourth Republic.

President Goodluck Jonathan and his advisers are too fixated on politics to appreciate the dangers of immersing the military in partisan politics. No wonder that late last month, soldiers claiming to be acting on “orders from above” stopped the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, as he arrived for a function in Kaduna and insisted on searching his car despite protestations by the security aides of the country’s Number 4 citizen. Also in June, soldiers deployed in support of the massive security provided for the Ekiti State governorship election were reported to have stopped two state governors, Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) from attending a rally in Ado-Ekiti, two days before the poll.

In Lagos State, soldiers allegedly acting at the behest of the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, invaded a building site of the state government, chased away the workers and occupied the premises. Ownership of the site is being disputed by the federal and state governments. When did armed soldiers become the arbiters in civil disputes between two tiers of government?

Following the massive onslaught by Security Forces on the activities of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the Balmo Forest Bauchi State, Police detectives attached to Bauchi State Police Command on Saturday, 12/7/2014 about 2pm have arrested one Mohammed Zakari, a male of 30 years old and senior member of the Boko Haram terrorists’ organization along Darazo-Basrika Road while fleeing from the intensive counter insurgency operations going on around the Balmo Forest.

The suspect, who hails from Kaigamari Village, Daptchari in Darazo Local Government Area, Bauchi State is the self-styled “chief butcher” of the insurgent group at the Balmo Forest Camp and is linked with the recent slaughter of seven (7) people, including women and children. Findings as well as disclosures from the suspect will assist the Law enforcement agencies in tracking down some other members of the terror cell.

The new Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ghanashyam Rangaiah, on Tuesday, announced new measures that would enable Nigerians obtain visas to India with ease.

Mr. Rangaiah told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the commission was working hard at making Nigerians to personally visit its website to make their applications for visa.

He, therefore, urged Nigerians to desist from patronising agents and visa racketeers.

“We have decided that Nigerians wishing to visit India for any purpose should personally visit our website to make their applications.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Osun State chapter, yesterday said it had received a red alert that a leading opposition party contracted foreign snipers to assassinate Governor Rauf Aregbesola during his campaign trail.

“The masterminds behind this plot are the party’s chieftains, from a S-West state and the opposition party”s candidate for the August 9 election in Osun.”

According to APC, sources from within the opposition party informed the APC that “there is great consternation within the party that for as long as Aregbesola is present and visible, the election cannot be rigged, so their last option to ‘win’, according to sources, is to take out completely the governor, and they needed the best professional killers in the world, this is why they have contracted the foreign firm.

“It is not clear if Abuja is involved in the plot, but sources say that security infrastructure in the country may not be unconnected,” APC said.

The APC recalled that it had alerted Nigerians and the international community of the party’s plans to militarise the state one week to the election and terrorise APC leadership and assassinate some of them.

Vanguard.

PDP FINALLY WRESTLES ADAMAWA STATE FROM APC.

Tuesday’s removal of the former Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako (retd.), from office by the Ahmadu Fintiri-led state House of Assembly, did not come as a surprise to those familiar with recent happenings in the state.

Nyako’s removal makes it the sixth time a governor has been impeached in the country since 1999. Before now, five governors namely: Joshua Dariye (Plateau), Rashidi Ladoja (Oyo), DSP Alamieyeseigha (Bayelsa), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti) and Peter Obi (Anambra) were shown the door.

However, the Supreme Court overruled the lawmakers in Oyo, Plateau and Anambra for not following due process.

The alleged mastermind of the April 14 blast in Nyanya, Abuja, Aminu Ogwuche, has been extradited by Sudan to Nigeria on Tuesday.

Ogwuche, who was handed over to the Interpol Unit of the Nigeria Police Force by the Sudanese authorities was flown into the country in a special flight from Khartoum, Sudan, which touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 3pm on Tuesday.

On hand to receive him at the Presidential wing of the airport were the spokespersons of the Police, ACP Frank Mba, Department of State Services, Marilyn Ogar, Army, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade and the Coordinator, National Information Centre, Mike Omeri.

LEGISLATORS IMPEACH GOV. MURTALA NYAKO OF ADAMAWA AS HIS DEPUTY ALSO RESIGNS!!!!

As anticipated, Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, has been impeached today, after the state House of Assembly concluded its deliberations on the report of the panel set to probe allegations of financial misconducts leveled against him.

The committee submitted its report to the House yesterday, amidst high security presence at the premises of the state’s assembly.

It will be recalled that the state Deputy Governor, Bala Ngilari, resigned from office to avoid being impeached along with his boss.

Mr. Ngilari’s resignation letter was read at the plenary by the speaker of the Assembly, Umaru Fintiri, after which the lawmakers approved it.

Nyako, Ngilari had failed to appear before the panel constituted to investigate the allegations against them following an earlier noticed served the executives by the assembly members.

ISRAEL ACCEPTS EGYPT'S CEASEFIRE PLAN TO END GAZA FIGHTING WHICH HAS KILLED MORE THAN 180 PALESTINIANS.

Israel has accepted an Egyptian proposal to end the week-long conflict in Gaza, suggesting that an end to the violence, which has killed more than 180 Palestinians, could be in sight.

But, in a sign of the animosity between the Cairo regime and Hamas, the Islamic movement in Gaza rejected the plan, saying it had not been consulted and terms for an end to the conflict had not been reached.

Pressure on Hamas to end rocket attacks on Israeli will mount following Israel's indication of a readiness to bring the fighting to an close. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, is closely involved, along with Middle East envoy Tony Blair.

When a 14-year-old girl was pulled from her home, dragged to a nearby forest and raped, police revealed the assault was ordered by the head of her village in India.

The horrific case, which took place last week, has once again shed light on local councils, called panchayats, which wield significant power in rural villages throughout India and can dole out punishment with impunity.

The incident occurred after the girl's brother was accused of attempting to rape a married woman, according to police. The village council met and directed the aggrieved woman's husband, identified as Nakabandi Passi, to rape the accused assailant's young sister in retaliation, police said.

A former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff on Monday in Maiduguri, the state capital, said he was in the state to initiate the process of defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Mr. Sheriff arrived in Maiduguri alongside several members of the National Assembly and was received at the airport at about 2 p.m. by a mammoth crowd: supporters of both of the PDP and the state’s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

A convoy of hundreds of cars, put at about 500, that snaked into several kilometres accompanied the ex-governor from the Maiduguri airport to his Giwa Barracks Road home.

Chief Justice, Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, pushed her anti-corruption efforts a notch higher, the other day, when she sought to identify forces fostering illicit activities in the judiciary. According to the CJN, lawyers, particularly Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), working in tandem with corrupt judges are equally corrupt.

And her point basically that there are no corrupt judges without corrupt lawyers is incontrovertible. If the Bench stinks of corruption, the Bar may stink even more, a situation that poses grave danger to the entire legal profession and dispensation of justice. Considering the notion that the judiciary is the last hope, the only avenue for the ordinary citizen seeking justice and fairness if all else fails, the CJN’s assertions should be worrisome to all Nigerians.

No fewer than three persons were confirmed dead following a torrential rain on Sunday in Igarra, headquarters of Akoko Edo Local Council of Edo.

Houses and household items were submerged by heavy flooding caused by the rain.

A witness, Akinola Onabiyi, said on Monday at Igarra that the rain, which started about 5 p.m., lasted for about eight hours had rendered hundreds of people homeless.

It appears some Nigerians would only be satisfied if each family gets a State. Even then, husband and wife may not agree on who becomes the governor of their State. Things are that ridiculous.

The recommendation of the National Conference that 18 new States be created is not for the well-being of Nigerians. How did the National Conference arrive at its decision? What contributions would 18 new States make to the development of Nigeria? Did the conference contemplate the implications of 18 new governors, 18 new State Assemblies, 18 new judiciary, with the other attendant bureaucracies?

We have passed the stage where new States would develop Nigeria. For years, new States have added to the national burden by diluting resources that would have been used in more productive areas.

Argentina icon & legend, Diego Maradona feels Lionel Messi did not deserve to win the Golden Ball following his performances at the World Cup, Goal reports.

The Barcelona star beat the likes of Thomas Muller, Arjen Robben and James Rodriguez to the prestigious individual award after scoring four goals in seven appearances at this summer’s tournament and guiding his team to the final, yet Maradona feels the 27-year-old only won it for commercial reasons.

“Messi? I would give him heaven if possible,” Maradona said during his show on Telesur.

Over three weeks after conceding victory to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Ekiti Governorship election of June 21, in the state, the All Progressive Congress, APC, has made a U-turn and decided to challenge the result of the election at the election petition tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti,the state capital.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the candidate of the PDP, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, winner of the election, having polled majority of votes in all the 16 local government areas of the state to defeat the incumbent governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi of APC and the Labour Party, LP, candidate, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele.

Though details of the contents of APC petition at the tribunal were sketchy at the time this report, the interim chairman of the party in the state, Chief Jide Awe said he personally submitted the petition at the secretariat of the tribunal on behalf of the party on Saturday, since according to him, the law allowed the tribunal to operate on weekends.

A Kontagora High Court has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Isah Makeri, to a four-year jail term without an option of fine for raping a nine-year-old girl.

In the case which lasted about six months, Resident Counsel, Abubakar Suleiman, tendered exhibits and were all upheld by the presiding judge, Justice Yusuf Tanko Usman.

Before pronouncing his judgment on the convict, the judge had asked him whether he had a plea to mitigate the sentence but instead he pleaded guilty to the one-count charge of unlawful intercourse with the teenager and asked for pardon.

The business of making babies for commercial purpose is deeply rooted in many parts of Nigeria, his time the NSCDC have done a good job by uncovering another baby factory in Aba.

Read more according to Punch after the cut...

(VIDEO) BOKO HARAM LEADER SHEKAU MOCKS THE #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS CAMPAIGN.

BOKO HARAM

Some are calling it a kind of ‘thumbing of the nose’ to Nigerian leaders and to the Nigerian People. But that seems the motive in the latest ‘non-legal’ attack by a group keeping the Nigerian society on edge.

The leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has vowed not to release more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls in his group's captivity. Shekau is saying the sect will only accede to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign after the release of Boko Haram militants held by the Nigerian government.

Mr. Shekau made the demand in a new video published Sunday, where the Islamist leader restated a position he had maintained since the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram militants April 14.

HOW SENATOR NDUME FUNDS BOKO HARAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

New leads are emerging on the involvement of Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South Senatorial District at the Nigerian Senate with the Islamic terror sect, Boko Haram.

Investigations have also revealed the role allegedly played by Senator Ndume in the death of Major Timothy Fambiya, who led the operation that led to the death of the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau.

Ndume is standing trial at an Abuja High Court over links with terrorists. He is accused of providing phone numbers of some government officials to the members of the Islamic sect.

The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Musa Ahmed on Monday, directed the Clerk of the House to serve Gov. Tanko Al-Makura with notice of impeachment for `gross misconduct’.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the development followed a motion of public interest raised by the Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Mr Yahaya Usman (PDP-Umaisha/Ugya) during plenary in Lafia.

Usman presented a document signed by 20 of the 24 members of the Assembly which contained the allegations of gross misconduct against the governor.

There were indications last night that the panel raised by the Adamawa State House of Assembly to probe the allegations of misappropriation of funds had indicted the state governor, Murtala Nyako. Also, the panel might have cleared his deputy, Bala James Ngilari. The panel is expected to submit its report to the state House of Assembly today.

It was also gathered that the embattled governor was already considering defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as that remained the only option to escape the impeachment noose hanging on his neck. Erstwhile governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, had defected to the PDP and is set to storm Maiduguri, the state capital for a briefing with his supporters today.

A top government official, who is privy to the work of the seven-man panel, confided in Vanguard that the report concluded that Nyako was guilty and should be removed but did not indict Ngilari.

The Nigerian Army has denied the diversion of $43m meant for the settlement of officers and men on peace-keeping missions by some army generals. Read initial report HERE.

According to Vanguard, the army made the clarification in reaction to an online media claim that the amount, which has been set aside for peace-keeping had been pocketed by the unnamed generals in the Nigerian Army.

The Army in the clarification posted in its website on Sunday, made it clear that there had never been any case of embezzlement of funds meant for peace keeping operations.

CHILD EDUCATION ACTIVIST MALALA VISITS NIGERIA , DEMANDS FOR THE RELEASE OF CHIBOK GIRLS!!!!!

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl-child education campaigner, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has called on Boko Haram terrorists to free the abducted Chibok school girls.

Malala, who commenced a three-day visit to Nigeria on Saturday, celebrated her 17th birthday in Abuja at a dinner held in her honour at Transcorp Hilton hotel. She spoke exclusively after the dinner that ended at about 10.40 p.m.

“On my 17th birthday my wish is to see every child go to school and I want to see my Nigerian sisters being released from their abduction and I want them to be free to go to school and continue their education,’’ she said.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for two explosions on June 25 at a fuel depot in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub.

“A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered (the bomber) who went and detonated it,” Shekau said, according to the French news agency, which is usually the first to get hold of Shekau’s videos before they are distributed online.

21-YR-OLD COMMITS SUICIDE IN CALABAR AFTER GIRLFRIEND JILTS HIM.

Friends and family members of a 21-year-old student of Maritime Academy Oron, Effiong Otu are at a loss why he committed suicide by hanging himself on a rope in his room on Thursday morning after he was jilted by his girl friend.

Ann, a family member said that Effiong was found hanging in his room at Diamond Hill, a few minutes after he collected a rope from neighbours who became suspicious soon after he went inside his room with the rope wondering what he wanted to use it for.

According to the source, when his mother Grace Otu, a nurse at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital left the house at about 3pm on that fateful day, the young man borrowed a rope and killed himself.

Seventeen Nigerian lawyers have been elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).

A statement by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee signed by the Chief Registrar/Secretary, Sunday Olorundahunsi, said they were elevated as a mark of excellence.

The Nigerian army is currently enmeshed in a controversy as a petition claims that about $43M was pocketed by top generals according to SaharaReporters.

A powerful but anonymous petition written by concerned Nigerian soldiers claims that the Nigerian Army owes its men and women who have served in various United Nations peacekeeping operations over $43 million.

The document also carpets the United Nations, which it alleges may have collaborated with cheating Nigerian army chiefs to divert the allowances of the peacekeepers into their own pockets.

“It is on record and verifiable that over 3,950 troops who participated in Peace Support Operations in Liberia and Sudan between 2013 to 2014 are still been [owed] various months of allowances amounting to over $43.23m US Dollars which is equivalent to N6,919,168,000:00 Billion Nigerian Naira to date,” the petition said.

The good works the Nigerian Army is doing in the terroe ravaged North-Eastern part of the country deserves accolades as more weapons were recovered from Darazo Forest according to Sahara reporters.

Read more after the cut..........

Beautiful gospel musician, Kefee, who died in the United States of America after falling into coma has been buried in her hometown of Sapele, Delta State.

Her death is very painful as she was just 34 with big dreams. Death is cruel.

Kefee sang KOKOROKO & BRANAMA, popular gospel songs in Nigeria till date. See video here.

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Friday 11 July 2014

16-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHOSE RAPE VIDEO HAS GONE VIRAL SEEKS JUSTICE. #JUSTICEFORJADA

A 16-year-old girl who was raped and then had pictures of her naked body posted to social media has publicly stepped forward as she seeks charges against her attacker

While most news outlets do not publish the identities of sexual assault victims, the Houston teen identified as Jada chose to forgo her privacy by giving a televised interview with news station KHOU.

Jada believes she was drugged at a recent party, and only later found out that she was raped when her attacker started sharing pictures and video of the assault online.

NIGERIAN ARMY CHARGES ELEVEN SOLDIERS FOR MUTINY.

Reports reaching us indicates that Eleven soldiers will face a six-count charge including committing mutiny.

The Nigerian Army has court–martialed 18 soldiers for attempted murder and mutiny in Maimalari cantonment, Maiduguri.

In an internal memo seen by PREMIUM TIMES, the Commander, Army Headquarter Garrison, B.T

Ndiomu, ordered the General Court Martial, GCM, to be presided by C.C Okonkwo, a Brigadier General.

Mr. Ndiomu, who is also a Brigadier General, had ordered that a GCM be assembled at the garrison’s conference hall on June 26.

There were protests on the floor of the National Conference, yesterday, as the Elders’ Committee raised the 13 per cent derivation to 18 per cent according to Vanguard.

In their harmonized position, the committee, which has elder statesmen as members also recommended five per cent of federal revenue for exploration and development of all mineral resources, as against the present 4.5 per cent and that 50% of money allocated to each state on derivation must go directly to the communities from which the mineral resources are extracted.

The committee also recommended that five per cent of federal revenue should go for the rehabilitation, stabilization and reconstruction of areas affected by insurgency in the North-East, North-West and North-Central geo-political zones.

Ekiti State Governor–elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has advised former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former senators in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to either align with the on-going reconciliatory moves in the party or be shown the way out.

Speaking yesterday in Ibadan during the zonal rally of the party, Fayose said the party would not hesitate to sack any of them no matter how highly placed who wanted to further fan embers of disunity.

He said this just as he promised to ensure that the recent victory of the PDP in Ekiti State would be repeated in Osun, Oyo and other South West states.

A banker, Musari Ayodele, was yesterday docked before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, in Lagos, for forgery, and stealing N3.2 million, belonging to customers of Skye Bank Plc, at Ikorodu branch.

Ayodele, 35, was arraigned before Magistrate O. Olanipekun.

The defendant, who resides at 2, Muba Abiru Street in Ebute area of Ikorodu, is facing a two-count charge of stealing and forgery preferred against him by the Police.

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, is dead. A source close to him said the vibrant legal mind died of high blood pressure on Wednesday. He was age 49.

Aturu, who was reportedly rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja in the early hours of Wednesday, was confirmed dead by medical personnel later in the day.

The late Aturu obtained a first degree in Law from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Until his death, he was the Principal of Bamidele Aturu and Company in Lagos.

Twin schoolgirls who followed their jihadi brother to Syria were hard-working students who hoped to train as doctors. Sixteen-year-olds Salma and Zahra Halane, who last summer achieved 28 GCSEs between them, left their parents’ home in the middle of the night and caught a flight to Turkey, before crossing the border.

Police said the pair are thought to have followed their elder brother, who ditched his own ‘excellent’ academic career to join the ISIS terror group around a year ago. Friends said the twins had appeared to be typical teenagers, pouting for selfies and shopping at Primark – but they are now feared to be training for battle.

Last night a rebel fighter boasted that he was teaching girls as young as 16 how to fight. Yilmaz, a Dutch national who has been in Syria for two years, told Sky News: ‘It’s extremely easy to get here. People go on holiday ... they end up in Syria.’ The twins’ parents raised the alarm last month, after finding the girls’ beds empty and their passports and clothes missing.

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