PISTORIUS TO BE RELEASED IN AUGUST AFTER JUST 10 MONTHS IN JAIL FOR KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND.

Oscar Pistorius is likely to be freed in August as he faces an appeal over his sentence for killing his girlfriend, a family member has said.

The Paralympic and Olympic athlete, who fatally shot Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door with expanding hollow-point bullets, was handed a five-year jail sentence in October.

But a relative, who did not want to be named, said: "Oscar will be released on parole by the end of August."

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20 THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT LATE GEN SANI ABACHA 17 YEARS AFTER HIS MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

General Sani Abacha, born on September 20, 1943, was Nigeria’s military head of state from November 17, 1993 to June 8, 1998 when he died suddenly. It is exactly 17 years since he died, but how much of his history do you still remember?

1. A Kanuri originally from Borno State, General Sani Abacha was born and brought up in Kano state, which he made his home.

2. He married a Shuwa Arab, Maryam, also from Borno state, in 1965 and they had six boys and three girls. The first child, Ibrahim, died in a plane crash in 1996.

WHAT PRESIDENT BUHARI WANTS FROM G7.

President Muhammadu Buhari is presenting a 9-point demands to The Group of Seven (G7), an informal bloc of industrialized countries of the world. He arrived Munich, Germany, yesterday, to honour the invitation of the G7.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in a statement from Germany, said President Buhari was armed with the “wish list” of Nigeria in line with the demand of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized countries.

It will be recalled that immediately after Buhari’s victory at the presidential elections, the G7 requested the then President-elect to prepare a shopping list and come with it for their consideration in what is seen as an excellent goodwill gesture towards the new leader and the country.

TUSSLE FOR POST OF SPEAKER AND SENATE PRESIDENCY TEARS APC APART.

The crisis within the All Progressives Congress over the choice of candidates for the speakership and the Senate presidency of the 8th National Assembly deepened on Sunday as candidates not endorsed by the party’s leadership vowed to contest the elections on Tuesday.

Findings in Abuja on Sunday showed that the candidates – Yakubu Dogara (House of Representatives) and Bukola Saraki (Senate) had intensified   lobbying   the Peoples Democratic Party incoming lawmakers.

Senators-elect and their counterparts for the House began accreditation for the Tuesday election at the National Assembly in Abuja on Sunday.

THE NIGERIAN POLICE FORCE IS THE LEAST CORRUPT INSTITUTION IN NIGERIA SAYS IGP SOLOMON ARASE.

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has declared that the Nigerian Police, has the least corrupt officers of all the institutions in the country, even as the Police is determined to follow up any corrupt cases before it in accordance with constitutional provisions.

Speaking at the annual symposium during a Feast of Barracuda organised by the National Association of Seadogs, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase noted that the Police had made frantic efforts in tackling corruption even among the officers and had set in motion machinery to fish out corrupt officers in the force.

The IGP, who was represented by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu said that the practical step to deal with corruption was to dismantle road blocks by Police and the establishment of Monitoring Teams to ensure compliance across the country.

IN SEARCH OF PATIENCE - DELE MOMODU.

Fellow Nigerians, you must be wondering from the title of my Column this week if I am missing Madam Patience Faka Jonathan, our erstwhile indefatigable First Lady, less than two weeks after she left office alongside her husband. Your guess would definitely be wrong, if you think so. This article is not about any human being called Patience. It is on that inner attribute which makes it possible for people to calm down and look deep before hurrying to nowhere.

I’ve been visibly disturbed by the spate of unnecessary and unwarranted attacks on the leadership style of our dear President Muhammadu Buhari who was sworn in barely a week ago. What is his offence?  He’s said to have been slow in announcing his cabinet, Special Advisers and personal aides as well as formulating policies that his government intends to follow. I read this firstly on social media, as early as last Sunday, just 48 hours after the President received the baton of power from former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

PDP AND THE HANGOVER OF DEFEAT - OLUSEGUN ADENIYI.

The first salvo was fired by the immediate past Akwa Ibom State Governor and now senator-elect, Chief Godswill Akpabio. In trying to help out a House of Representatives member-elect from Akwa Ibom who was being heckled for his long-winding comment, Akpabio said it was important for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to take appropriate lessons from its recent defeat at the polls. Using himself as an example, Akpabio added that despite his achievements in Akwa Ibom, the party refused to showcase him and others to the Nigerian electorate because of envy; and perhaps for that reason also, PDP Governors were deliberately left out of the presidential campaign. “I practically had to go to the villa where, as Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, I spent about three hours begging the president (Dr. Goodluck Jonathan) to accommodate the governors in the presidential campaign.”

31 YEAR OLD MAN WHO RAPED & IMPREGNATED 11 YEAR OLD GIRL SENTENCED TO 17YRS IN JAIL - #SAYNOTORAPE.

31-year-old New York man Jeffry Rosales, has admitted he had sex with an 11-year-old girl and got her pregnant and pleaded guilty to first-degree rape Wednesday as part of a plea deal.

A judge sentenced Rosales to 17 years in prison as part of a plea agreement.

One Tuesday Rosales faced up to two life sentences. He was charged with predatory sexual assault, which carries a maximum weight of 25 years to life in prison and also faced another 25-to-life sentence for second-degree murder in the June 2013 fatal shooting of Keenan Russell.

OIL SPILLAGE: SUPREME COURT ORDERS SHELL TO PAY 4 N30M TO 4 COMMUNITIES IN DELTA STATE.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, ordered Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited to pay the sum of N30,288,681 to four communities in Delta State.

The apex court found the company culpable for the oil spillage that adversely affected the communities about 32 years ago.

The communities to benefit from the judgment of the court yesterday are Obotobo, Sokebolo, Ofogbene (Ezon Burutu) and Ekeremor Zion (Ezon Asa).

FUEL TANKER FIRE RAZES 36 HOUSES IN IDIMU, LAGOS.

No fewer than 36 houses have been consumed by an raging inferno after a diesel-laden truck crashed and burst into flame in the Idimu, Egbe Idimu Local Council Development Area of Lagos shortly around 12.10am on Saturday.

Details of the crash are still sketchy but emergency agencies said on Saturday that it was too early to know if any one died in the inferno, which was said to have been fueled by the contents of the tanker, which spilled and spread along the road and its environs after it crashed.

The South-West Public Relations Officer of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, told our correspondent on the telephone that the response of the residents when the fire started, helped to avert a loss of lives in the crash.

120 PEOPLE ESCAPE DEATH BY WHISKERS AS AERO CONTRACTOR AIRLINE DEVELOPED FAULT MID-AIR.

Over 120 passengers, including the Director, Muslim Rights Concern, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Friday evening escaped death as an Aero Contractors Airline Flight 180 from Lagos to Kaduna developed technical fault mid-air.

The aircraft was said to have suddenly lost altitude, 20 minutes after it departed the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, forcing the aircraft to wobble in the air for over one hour before it was eventually diverted to Abuja.

Akintola, who broke the news to New Mail, said the flight took off from Lagos at exactly 6.30pm.

PRESIDENT BUHARI MOVES TO SLASH HIS SALARY AND ALLOWANCES.

There are strong indications that in fulfilment of his campaign promise to reduce the cost of governance, President Muhammadu Buhari may have concluded plans to slash his salary and reduce his personal emoluments.

It was learnt that the President expected the Vice-President and other political appointees to take a similar decision.

Punch newspaper gathered in Abuja on Friday that the President would have made his decision public but chose to consult with his close associates on how best to approach the issue without being seen as dictatorial.

CHOIRMASTER CHARGED FOR RAPING FEMALE CHORISTER IN LAGOS. #SAYNOTORAPE.

A bricklayer and choirmaster, Adewale Babalola, who allegedly had unlawful carnal knowledge of a 16-year-old chorister in his church, was on Thursday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

The accused, 36, who lives at No. 11, Maxwell Ijeh St., Aguda in Surulere area of Lagos, is facing a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.

According to the prosecutor, ASP Godwin Anyanwu, the accused committed the offence on Dec. 2, 2014 at his apartment.

(GRAPHIC PICTURES) 96 KILLED IN GHANA PETROL STATION EXPLOSION. #PRAYFORGHANA.

 

At least 96 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra, the fire service says.

The fire started as people in the city are trying to cope with two days of heavy rain, which has left many homeless and without power.

The flooding hampered rescue efforts and may have led to the fire, the BBC's Sammy Darko reports from Accra.

There are fears that the number of dead could rise as the search of the site continues.

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS CAPABLE OF LEADING NIGERIA - EDWIN CLARK.

A former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has once again canvassed support for President Muhamadu Buhari.

He described the President as being capable of leading the country; therefore, he should be supported by all Nigerians.

Clark, who was one of the staunch supporters of former President Goodluck Jonathan, spoke in Abuja on Wednesday at his residence when he received a group, known as Probity Ambassadors Organisation of Nigeria.

CHALLENGES BEFORE PRESIDENT BUHARI.

The momentous 2015 political transition successfully closed with the swearing into office of the various elected executive officers, particularly President Muhammadu Buhari and the various state governors on May 29.

It was a process that rendered Nigeria an enigma of sorts before the world. The elections were supposed to produce massive violence and bloodletting. Some even predicted possible disintegration of Nigeria. Nothing close to these predictions happened. Former President Goodluck Jonathan, by conceding the election to Buhari, gave Nigeria an opportunity to make seamless transfer of power from the ruling party to the opposition, the first time in Nigeria and a great departure from the norm in most African elections.

(VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS) NIGERIA 4 KOREA DPR 0. #U20WC

NIG 4 KDPR 0

Nigeria put behind its defeat in the opening match of the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup when it mauled Korea DPR 4-0 today at the Stadium Taranaki, New Plymount, New Zealand.

After weathering a tight first-half, An Ye Gun’s side went to pieces after the break as a quick-fire brace from Saviour Godwin undid all that good work. A fine final two goals secured al three points for Nigeria and put them back in the mix for qualification from Group E.

Captain Musa Muhammed looked to lead by example as the struck a thunderbolt of a shot onto the inside of the post from 25 yards, for which keeper Cha Jong Hun was only an airborne spectator.

CASH ASSISTANT HAD "N134 MILLION" IN HIS ACCOUNT #EIGHTBILLIONNAIRACBNSCAM.

Hearing in the Central Bank of Nigeria N8bn mutilated currency fraud suit continued at the Federal High Court, Ibadan on Wednesday as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told the court that one of the accused persons, Mr. Ayodeji Alase, had N134m in one of his bank accounts.

Top officials of the Nigeria Central Bank, CBN, colluded with officials of private banks which included Alase, to defraud the country of about N8 billion.The scam involved the “theft and recirculation of defaced and mutilated currencies,”

Punch reports that,the EFCC told the trial judge, Justice A.O. Faaji, that Alase, a primary six certificate holder, started work at First Bank as a guard before he was promoted to the position of a cash assistant.

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