SEVENTEEN LAWYERS ELEVATED TO THE RANK OF SENIOR ADVOCATE.

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.

ARMY GENERALS IN DEEP MESS OVER EMBEZZLEMENT OF $43M MEANT FOR PEACEKEEPERS SAYS PETITION.

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.

ARMY RECOVERS MORE WEAPONS FROM DARAZO FOREST, BAUCHI

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..........

(PICTURES) TEARS AND AGONY AS KEFEE IS BURIED.

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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LORD HAVE MERCY

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While most news outlets do not publish the identities of sexual assault victims, the Houston teen identified as Jada chose to forgo her privacy by giving a televised interview with news station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

PROTEST AT THE ONGOING NATIONAL CONFAB AS COMMITTEE RAISES DERIVATION FUNDS TO 18%.

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.

ALIGN WITH PDP OR GET OUT!!!!!!! FAYOSE SAYS TO OBASANJO!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

LAGOS BANKER DOCKED FOR N3.2M FRAUD

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.

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST "BAMIDELE ATURU" DIES AT 49.

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.

BRILLIANT TWIN GIRLS WHO WERE SET TO BECOME DOCTORS HAVE JOINED ISIS IN SYRIA TO BECOME KILLERS.

               

  

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.

(PHOTOS) 2014 MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN NIGERIA CONTESTANTS.

The 2014 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria Beauty pageant is set to hold on the 18th of July 2014 in Bayelsa state. Organizers of the event have selected 31 beautiful & young contestants.

See photos after the cut.........................

30 MORE WOMEN AND CHILDREN ESCAPE FROM BOKO HARAM'S DEN.

A mere three days after 63 women and children reportedly escaped from Sambisa Forest, the base of the deadly Islamist sect, Boko Haram, another 30 women and children have also escaped. A senior military officer gave a correspondent of SaharaReporters exclusive information about the latest escape. 

The officer revealed that the escapees were mostly from Borno State and were abducted in a series of attacks by the Islamist sect. He stated that he was not in a position to comment on whether the escapees included some of the schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist terrorist group in a daring operation on April 14 that shocked the world and created global protests for the girls’ return or rescue.

The officer said the latest batch of women and children who escaped from their abductors appeared in Madagali local government area of Adamawa State after wandering through forests for days. The location where the escapees showed up is a border area between Adamawa and Borno States.

FIFA SUSPENDS NIGERIA FROM ALL FOOTBALLING ACTIVITIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The inability of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to put its house in order has earned the nation FIFA's wrath as the country has now been suspended from all international footballing activities indefinitely.

Read the official statement from FIFA after the cut..................

POLICE ARREST PASTOR WHO IMPREGNATES MARRIED WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS IN THE NAME OF GOD.

The Police in Nsukka, Enugu State, recently, arrested a 53-year-old man who claims to be the Pastor of Ministry of the Holy Trinity in Umudikwere community whom they alleged specializes in impregnating married women and young girls in his ministry according to Vanguard.

Police sources alleged that the Pastor identified as Timothy Ngwu, the General Overseer of  Ministry, sexually abuse female members of the ministry and claim that the Holy Spirit directs him to do so in the name of God.

STEPHEN KESHI DEMANDS FOR N10M-A-MONTH CONTRACT!!!!!!!!

Stephen Keshi has reportedly demanded a significant salary hike to sign a new contract to remain as Nigeria coach.

According to africanfootball.com on Tuesday, Keshi, who announced last week that his contract with   the Nigeria Football Federation had expired after the Super Eagles crashed out of the World Cup following their 2-0 defeat by France, told President Goodluck Jonathan that he will sign a new deal if the NFF agrees to pay him N10m a month. The former Nigeria captain received N5m a month in his initial contract.

(VIDEO) HOW GERMANY HUMILIATED BRAZIL IN THE FACE OF THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!!!!!!! Germany 7 Brazil 1.

GER 7 BRAZIL 1

Brazil's dreams of making a return to a World Cup final in the Maracana were shattered in the most agonising manner as Germany inflicted on the hosts one of the most remarkable defeats in the 84-year history of this competition.

Tears flowed like water in the Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte as before even half-an-hour had gone, Brazil were 5-0 down, and the final scoreline was 7-1, equalling their worst-ever defeat, 6-0 to Uruguay back in 1920 before the World Cup had even begun.

Two goals for Toni Kroos and Andre Schurrle , plus one each for Thomas Muller, Sami Khedira, and record-breaking 16th World Cup goal for Miroslav Klose saw the visitors delirious, while Brazil begins a period of soul-searching such as never before.

WHY I MURDERED MY FATHER - RUN STUDENT WHO KILLED HIS FATHER (SAN) AT THE REDEMPTION CAMP.

Tolani Ajayi, the 21-year-old undergraduate who killed his father, has declared his readiness to face the consequences of his action. Read initial report HERE.

Speaking to journalists on Tuesday at the Eleweran Police Headquarters, Abeokuta, Tolani stated that he hacked his father, a lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria to death, because he angered him.

Tolani said his father provoked him by beating him with a stick; and that he needed no help from Nigerians.

“There is no way Nigerians can help me. I am going to face my judgement. I am meant to pay for what I have done,” he said. “It is not as if I am ready, it is something that is inevitable – something that is going to happen; I am just waiting for it.”

US CITIZEN WITH SUSPECTED CASE OF EBOLA VIRUS DIES IN GHANA!!!!

The threat posed by the Ebola virus which has been ravaging west africa for some months now is not over yet. 

Latest reports confirm that the American man who was quarantined at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra on suspicion of carrying the Ebola virus has died.

Meanwhile, The Health Ministry could not confirm, or deny, whether he died of the Ebola virus as earlier reports revealed that the tests run on him for the virus by the Nugochi Memorial Research Institute proved negative.