Two police orderlies of the Enugu State Commissioner for Lands, Chidi Aroh, were, Sunday, killed as gunmen attacked the commissioner in Anambra State. “Gunmen ambushed their Hilux van in a community in Anambra, shot and killed them while the commissioner was lucky to have escaped in his SUV,” he sai. The hoodlums, the source added, made away with the rifles of the police officers. Aroh, who confirmed the attack, thanked God for saving his life, adding: “We give God all the glory. I thank God for saving my life,” he said. The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, Toochukwu Ikenga, who said he was in a zoom meeting when contacted, asked our reporter to send a text message if he wanted to confirm anything.He was yet to confirm at the time of filing this report.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to within 48 hours, respond to an application the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, who is currently in its custody, filed to be released on bail on health ground.Justice Inyang Ekwo made the order on a day the NDLEA claimed that it was not served with Kyari’s application.Counsel to the agency, Mr. Mike Kasa, told the court that he had yet to receive a copy of the bail request that was attached to Kyari’s suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22. Consequently, a short ruling, Justice Ekwo, directed both parties to go back and put their house in order, even as he adjourned the matter till Monday to hear the motion for bail.DCP Kyari, who hitherto headed the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, had in the suit he filed against the Federal Government, challenged his continued detention in the custody of the NDLEA.He is among other things, praying the court to order FG to pay him N500million and also tender written apology to him in two national dailies for the unlawful violation of his fundamental human rights. He is further praying the court for, “a declaration that arrest and continued detention of the Applicant by the Agent of the Respondent without bringing him before a court of competent jurisdiction from 12th of February 2022 till date, is Illegal, unlawful and a gross violation of Applicant’s fundamental right to personal liberty and freedom of movement guaranteed by Section 35(1) of the I999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and Article 6 of the African Charter on human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act. “A declaration that announcing the Applicant in the Press without giving him right to fair hearing nor establishing a prima-facie case against him is illegal, unlawful and an infringement on his fundamental right. “A declaration that declaring the Applicant syndicate of the suspect without establishing a prima-facie case against the Applicant is unlawful and an infringement on his fundamental right”. “A declaration that torture, degrading and in human treatment given to the Applicant by the Agent of the Respondent is illegal, unlawful and an infringement on the Applicant’s fundamental human right“A declaration that refusal to grant administrative bail to Applicant on alleged bailable offence is unlawful and infringement on the Apphcant’s fundamental human right.As well as, “an order of this Honourable Court restraining the Respondent’s agents, servants proxies, police or anyone acting on their behalf from further harassing, detaining, intimidating, arresting the Applicant unlawfully”.Besides, he prayed the court to order his release on bail to enable him to take care of his deteriorating health condition. Kyari, told the court that he is suffering from “diabetes; high blood pressure and severe heart disease that may cause death”. “That the Applicant was receiving medical treatment on daily basis due to seriousness of the illness. “That since 12th of February, 2022, the Applicant has not accessed any medical treatment, which is very dangerous to his health.That failure of the Applicant to check his heart, high blood pressure will result in severe health problems or may even lead to heart failure and death. Medical report from National Hospital is hereby attached and marked as Exhibit A. “That due to the Applicant being a diabetic patient and on medical diet, he does not eat outside his home and this is causing a very big hardship on the Applicant that is in NDLEA custody. “That the health of the Applicant cannot be managed while in NDLEA custody due to the seriousness of his illness. That it is in the interest of justice that NJ this Applicant be admitted to bail on health ground.That the Applicant will not jump bail
An elder statesman recently spoke in confidence to a group of younger generation bon the state of the nation recently. He was said to have asked very patriotic rhetorical questions: “Do Nigerians want former President Goodluck Jonathan for nothing? The taste of pudding is it not in the eating?” The worries of Nigerians on the current perilous state of the nation can never be emphasised enough on any platform. As a matter of fact, the level of national disillusionment from the North to South is being captured in the streets, at homes, in the markets, offices, farms, cities and rural areas. Economically, the country has never been this hungry and thirsty since Nigeria’s Civil War. Politically, the country has never been more polarised or divided; in short, the level of regional sessionist agitation has reached a near brwaking point for the fragile peace and unity of the country. In terms of security, the country has never known peace since 2015. Granted that the present administration inherited national security problems, but the government has fallen far short of the promise it made regarding securing the country and it’s over 200 million population. The state of national security has been going from bad to worse and to worst. There is unending insurgency in the North-East, banditry and kidnapping in the North-West, farmers versus herders clashes in the North-Central, kidnapping and highway robberies in the Southern parts of the country.It is a fact that many Nigerians now do not feel safe travelling from state to state, even in intra-city travels. These are indeed not the best of times for the country. The biggest of these is the grave general concern that, how can the country go into a crusial transition with all these excess baggages?That is why the coming 2023 Presidential Election is most crucial for the survival of our country’s democracy. Most importantly, that is why the choice of who becomes the next president to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari comes in.The answer(s) to the above questions, as many ethnic nationalities in the country have rightly noted, is President Jonathan. The country needs to rebuild it’s national confidence and pride which only GEJ has the credentials to deliver. There is however a recent development which indicates thatt the North is not ready to allow the presidency to rotate back to the south after President Muhammadu Buhari completes his second tenure in 2023. This should not be taken as the truest feelings in the North. The truth is that we on the North are tired of the crop of leaders the region has produced in recent times, in fact more than the perception in other parts of the country.It is very obvious that the way an average Northerner feels about the present governance system is that of exclusion. The fact that President Buhari is from the North has not made the region fared better or given the region any socio-economic advantage in any way. All the economic and social development indices are there for all to see.In other words, the North actually benefits more from the president of Southern extraction than from the North and it is a historical fact.It is very obvious that since democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999, the North has been playing wrong politics by default and the most unfortunate thing is that it has made the region look like a public enemy to the rest of Nigeria. Obviously, the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has given the rest of Nigeria and the global audience watching the events going in the country reasons to believe that we the core North are the problems of Nigeria.From economic, political and religious perspectives, we have wrongly projected ourselves, defaced our values because we corrupted it with greed, arrogance and inordinate quest for power at all cost. The value that is currently being advanced by the new leaders of the region is disruptive, haughty and does not encourage any fair
The Zamfara State House of Assembly, yesterday impeached the state’s Deputy Governor, Mahdi Aliyu Gusau.
Immediately Gusau was impeached, Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of the state, nominated Senator Hassan Muhammad Nasiha as the new deputy governor, who has since been sworn in by the chief judge of the state, Justice Kulu Aliyu.
Interestingly, the impeachment is against a subsisting court order from a Federal High Court, Abuja, which ordered all parties in the suit before the court to maintain status quo ante pending the determination of the case
The face off between Mattawella and Gusau, started last year, when the governor defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) but he refused to defect along with him.
Although the deputy governor, son on a former National Security Adviser (NSA), was absent on Tuesday as the seven-man panel investigating alleged gross misconduct and abuse of office against him, the panel went ahead to close hearing.
The impeachment was conducted by 20 out of the 21 members of the assembly, who voted in favour of the motion. This happened three hours after the seven man panel submitted its report.
Seven witnesses appeared at the panel, headed by Justice Halidu Tanko, which began sitting at the State High Court 4, Gusau on Monday, February 21.
The deputy governor was not only absent, he was also not represented by any legal counsel throughout the sitting.
Speaking at the end of the sitting, Tanko lauded members of the public for their support during the two-day sitting.
Also, Justice Abdul Ibrahim (SAN), a member of the panel, assured of free and fair investigation.
“Our work will be strictly on constitutional procedure. We have given the parties opportunity to present their cases. We are going to embark on our deliberations; our timeframe is within three months. We will look at it critically and when the report is ready, we will present it to the state House of Assembly,” he said.
Meanwhile, the nomination of Senator Nasiha,our correspondent gathered, was made within minutes of the impeachment of the deputy governor.
The governor had sent a letter to the assembly, seeking the screening of Nasiha.
Speaker, Honourable Nasiru Muazu Magarya, read the governor’s letter at plenary on Wednesday.
The deputy governor-nominee was first elected a senator in 2007, and currently represents Zamfara Central in the National Assembly.
He lost his seat to Senator Kabiru Marafa in 2011, but returned to the red chamber in 2019,when the Supreme Court voided the elections of the candidates of All Progressives Congress, following their failure to conduct primaries in the state.
He was elected to the Senate the second time on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
However, reacting to the development, the Zamfara State chapter of Peoples Democratic party (PDP), has condemned the impeachment of Gusau .
Speaking to our correspondent in a telephone conversation, secretary of the party in the state, Farouk Ahmed Gusau, said the action of the state House of Assembly, whom he described as a puppet of Matawalle, was unlawful and capable of causing security breach in the state.
Ahmed further asked how a charcoal could call pot black, stressing that if the assembly was to investigate the deputy governor on financial impropriety, they should also investigate the governor, whom he said had collected unaccounted over thirty billion naira for security votes.
“One of the permanent secretary that was posted to the office of deputy governor that came to testify before the panel is a retired federal civil servant, so you can see their illegality,” he said.
Pointing out that the case was already in court, he stressed that the deputy governor would be vindicated and reinstated, and therefore, appealed to the judiciary to expedite action on the matter so that justice would take its course.
Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, has stated that the delay in the release of the result of Bolaji Olaniyi Hope, a former Student Union Government (SUG) President of the institution was not intentional but as a result of anomaly and irregularities in his name.
Speaking with DAILY POST, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Tope Abiola stated that Olaniyi was beginning to take the magnanimity of the school for granted because what he did was arson which by law was a crime.
Abiola revealed that after the former student union leader served out his suspension, the school discovered there was a difference between the names he used for his National Diploma and Higher National Diploma.
For average Nigerian men, they see no big deal about childbirth. They show this by trying to make love with their wives immediately after childbirth. What they do not know is that a woman’s body is still delicate just after giving birth. What a man needs to do for his wife at that time is emotional support. Instead of giving emotional support, the man would want to make love to his woman. Gynaecologist has warned that this is wrong.There are many reasons why gynaecologists are warning against it. If you love your woman and her health then you would support her and wait till she recovers. According to a gynaecologist, she made us realise the period a woman just gave birth is delicate. She should be allowed to rest for at least 42 days before a man would want to make love with his wife. Forcing a woman to make love immediately after birth could be dangerous to her health. There may be complications after giving birth that would need time to heal up. Forcing her to make love could lead to bleeding. Not only bleeding but, infections may set in. At this moment, she would also not enjoy it and would only give her pain. Breaking down of the perineal may also occur. These are reasons why need to give them time before we make love with them.
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to commission projects during his two-day visit to Kaduna State, which begins today and ends tomorrow. The President, who will visit Kaduna, Zaria and Kafanchan – the three major towns – will also be conducted round by government officials on road projects across the state, which were executed by the Governor Nasir el-Rufai administration. Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye, stated that the President would also commission the reconstructed Kawo flyover, which has three grand rotaries and access roads, and the WAFF Road, which has been dualised with junction improvement.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has deprived a lot of ladies from rocking amazing Ankara prints, we have decided to compile the newest fashion styles for the ladies to prepare for a big comeback after it is over.These amazing styles are so irresistible that you can’t help but wish you were able to make and wear them all at once. I know very well that my dear African ladies will not hesitate to rush to their tailors and bombard them with these cute styles.Scroll through. Feel free to screen shot or save to your gallery in preparation for upcoming events like weddings.These Ankara dress styles are what every woman should have in her wardrobe, they make you the centre of attraction any where you go. Thank me later
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