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Indians Beat Up Kenyan Student, Thinking She is a Nigerian The racist mob in India is far from being cured of its insanity, as it attacked yet another African from Kenya. The 24-year-old Kenyan woman was dragged out of a taxi on Wednesday and bashed by the mob, which mistook her for a Nigerian. Coming just two days after a mob thrashed six Nigerians and a Congolese inside Greater Noida’s Ansal Plaza in Uttar Pradesh on Monday evening, the fresh attack has left most Africans in the area too afraid to step out of their houses, according to Times of India. Maria Burendi, the Kenyan, said she left her home in Alistonia society at 6.15am to collect an African wig and some food from a friend at DPS Society. On the way, she said the cab was stopped at 6.30am near the Omicorn roundabout by 10-12 men who then beat her up. “They stopped the car and asked me to get out,” Maria told TOI over the phone. “When the cabbie and I stepped out, they started slapping me saying that Nig

 Buhari, Kwankwaso Launch Coordinated Attack On Yorubas: VP Osibanjo Cowed, Tinubu  Silent *** It is an insult to the Yoruba traditional institution, that a Monarch was hurriedly taken from his palace and paraded alongside the suspects,- OPC *** “Calls for restructuring and true Federalism in Nigeria could not have been better amplified by this one-sided injustice displayed by the Federal Government and its security agents”, the group lamented.- OPC The Yoruba Socio-Cultural group, Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, has fingered the former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwanso, for the spate of arrests of suspects in the probe into the clash between Hausa and indigenes of Ile-Ife, Osun State, recently. Recall, that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, had not uttered a word to condemn the Hausa/Ile Ife clash, that claimed many lives. The organisation came down hard on Kwankwanso, whom it accused of racing down to Osun State,

Edo APC chieftain remanded in prison for treason, civil disturbance A major leader of the APC in Egor Local Government Area and Edo State leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Chief Odion Olaye, has been remanded in prison custody in Benin City. Chief Olaye was remanded Friday by a Benin City magistrate court after he was charged by the police for Treason, Civil disturbances and promoting inter tribal war using a group known as the Benin Solidarity Movement. Last week two APC leaders in Benin City, Chief Odion Olaye and Mr Curtis Ugbo, led a protest in Benin City, alleging that the Itsekiri were annexing their land in Gelegele, where the state government intends to build an Export Processing Zone. The Itsekiri leaders in Edo state refuted the alegation, claiming that they are “not territorially ambitious”. The other APC youth leader and former Senior Special Assistant to Adams Oshiomhole, who was attested by the Police, is Mr Curtis Egh

 Cynthia Osokogu’s Killers To Die By Hanging - Court Justice Olabisi Akinlade of an Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday sentenced to death, two of the four persons accused of killing Cynthia Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student. The accused Okwumo Nwabufo, and Olisaeloka Ezike, the judge ruled, will die by hanging. Osokogu was murdered on 22 July 2012 at Cosmilla Hotel, Lakeview Estate, Festac Town, Lagos, after she was lured to Lagos by her Facebook lover. The other accused were Orji Osita, 33, who is a pharmacist and Ezike Nonso, 25,. the younger brother of Olisaeloka Ezike. They were discharged and acquitted by Justice Akinlade. All the accused faced a six-count charge of conspiracy, murder, stealing, recklessness, negligence and possession of stolen goods. Justice Akinlade found Nwabufo and Olisaeloka guilty of four counts of stealing, murder, conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to murder preferred against them. Befo

Nominee for Judge in Court of Appeal was Indicted for Fraud in the UK  On February 22, the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, published the names of 12 lawyers it said had been shortlisted for appointment as Court of Appeal judges after an intensive two-day screening exercise that involved 187 lawyers. In a statement announcing the shortlist, the NBA explained that the exercise was in response to the call by the President of the Court of Appeal for it to nominate “suitably qualified candidates” to be considered for appointment as judges into the second highest court in the country. Investigations has revealed that one of the finalists, Rita Chris-Garuba, formerly Rita Kuku, in 2000, was indicted for a series of professional misconduct, including putting clients’ funds to her own use, and a £250,000.00 mortgage fraud in the United Kingdom where she worked as a solicitor. After an indictment, the Law Society of England and Wales described Mrs. Chris-Garuba as lack

Governor Al-Makura’s Son to Face Manslaughter Charge Mr. Khaleel Umar Al-Makura, son of the Nasarawa State Governor, Umar Al-Makura, is to be prosecuted for alleged manslaughter. He was arrested on Tuesday for the killing of a student of Government Secondary School, Lafia. Confirming this, the police said Khaleed would be charged soon, reported the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The killing of Ovye Amos in a road accident on Monday night sparked a protest in the school. The students took to the streets on Tuesday carrying placards with various inscriptions demanding justice for the killing of Amos, a Junior Secondary School, Class Two student. The police, officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), teachers and government officials had intervened to calm the angry students. The governor’s son was reported to have hit the deceased with a car, Channels TV reported. Addressing the students at the school parade ground, the Nasarawa St

Edo Police invade a party in Ekpoma, brutalise 60 students, demand 20,000 Naira bail from each . Over 50 males and females were arrested yesterday at His Banner Hotel in Ekpoma by the anti-cultist unit of the Edo State police command. A party was organized by a student simply identified as Chima, the daughter of a popular pastor who also has a machine spare parts store along Dova road in Ekpoma It was gathered that the men of the anti-cultist division stormed the party, brutalized the invitees, arrested the DJ and tied them all together before throwing them into their van. They were taken to the police station where as at the time of filing this report, many are yet to be freed until they bailed themselves with N20,000-N25,000 per person. According to the information gathered from the DJ who lamented the ill treatment himself and his boy received, the policemen ordered them to take off their clothes and used cutlass to beat them up as they were led t

  APC ENTERS GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS WITH WORST GOVERNORSHIP TRIBUNAL CASE IN HISTORY: APC State Chairman Testifies Against Himself EDO GOVERNORSHIP PETITION TRIBUNAL UPDATE  There was a mild drama Wednesday in the Edo State Governorship Election Tribunal holden in Benin City as the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Barr Anselm Ojezua, testified against his own sworn testimony, under pressure. In his oral deposition, the APC state Party chairman said that he didn’t rely on INEC’S manual for electoral officials 2016. But his sworn deposition was read out to him by counsel to the petitioner, E, Ukala, SAN where he mentioned that the election was conducted in a free and fair manner in line with INEC’S manual for electoral officials 2016‎ and guideline. Barr Ojezua, who was formerly Commissioner for nearly 8 years in Lucky Igbinedion PDP administration, was dazed when he was shown the obvious contradiction which he was making and he be

Court of Appeal Kicks Out Edo APC, Says the  APC Appeal Lacks Merit The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City on Tuesday struck out the application by counsel to the third respondent, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), for the consolidation of the appeals by the petitioners and respondents describing it as a mere academic exercise. Ruling on the application, Justice Olukayode Bada presiding, said, “by consent of all counsel, hearing of the two appeals will now come up for hearing on Thursday, 16 March, 2017. The present application has become academic and is hereby struck out”. This came as the court adjourned till Thursday, 16 March, 2017 the hearing of the appeal filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Pastor OsagIe Ize-Iyamu over the tribunal’s stoppage last month, of the recounting of ballot papers used in the 2016 governorship election. The three respondents namely Independent National Electoral Commis

Court Orders NAFDAC To Compel Nigerian Bottling Company To Warn Consumers Of Dangers Of Drinking Fanta, Sprite With Vitamin C A Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere has ordered the National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to order the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Plc to put a written warning on Fanta and Sprite bottles stating that both soft drinks are poisonous when consumed along with Vitamin C. The court also held that NAFDAC failed Nigerians by declaring, as fit for human consumption, products discovered by tests in the United Kingdom as turning poisonous when mixed with ascorbic acid (popularly known as Vitamin C).       In the judgment given by Justice Adedayo Oyebanji, the court awarded a cost of N2 million against NAFDAC. The judgment was the outcome of a suit filed by a Lagos-based businessman, Dr. Emmanuel Fijabi Adebo, and his company, Fijabi Adebo Holdings Limited, against NBC Plc and NAFDAC.                           

A Complete Recount of Ballot Papers at Edo Elections Tribunal & at Court of Appeal is Our Prayer - PDP The appeal filed at the Court of Appeal by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against a ruling of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which aborted the complete counting of the ballot papers has been scheduled for hearing. Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City will on Tuesday next week hear the prayer of the PDP and its candidate, Pastor OsagIe Ize-Iyamu, for completion of the recounting of ballot papers used in the 2016 governorship election which was aborted by the  tribunal last month. The recounting of the ballot papers  for 3  out of 4 requested out of the 18 local government areas in the state was stopped midstream, when the Chairman of the three member panel Justice Ahmed Badamasi said the tribunal lacked the powers for its continuation. The Tribunal had earlier ordered for the recount of the ballot papers following an oral application

I ZE-IYAMU TO COURT- DECLARE ME WINNER AS APC’S LAWFULL VALID VOTE IS 130,696 WHILE PDP POLLED150,672. PASTOR OSAGIE ANDREW IZE-IYAMU, THE GOVERNOR-IN-WAITING. Some members and supporters of APC have gone viral with the rumour that according to the ELECTORAL ACT 2010 (AS AMENDED 2015), Pastor Osagie Andrew Ize-Iyamu cannot be declared winner of the 2016 Edo Governorship Election even when he is able to successfully prove his allegations of non-compliance with provisions of the Electoral Act and the 2016 INEC Manual. They are of the erroneous belief that the worst that can happen is for the election to be nullified and a rerun ordered. How far they are from the truth. The 2010 Electoral Act as amended 2015 is very explicit on the issue. Read this: NULLIFICATION OF ELECTION BY TRIBUNAL OR COURT SECTION 140 (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, if the Tribunal or the Court as the case may be, determines that a candidate who was returned as elected