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ADO –EKITI the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Ekiti chapter has demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of a member of the House of Assembly, Mr. Dare Pelemo, over alleged sexual harassment and physical assault of one Mrs. Mercy Ilesanmi. Pelemo, who represents Ekiti East Constituency 2, was said to have fondled the breasts…
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President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki NATIONAL ASSEMBLY – President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday announced a reshuffling of the chairmanship of Senate committees. The Senate Committee on Trade and Investments now has Senator Sabo Mohammed as the Chairman, while Senator Andy Uba (Anambra-South), who was Chairman of Committee on Public Accounts, was…
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PHOTO: crosswalk.com CHRISTIAN – The Christian Association of Nigeria has directed all churches in the country to dedicate Sunday, October 1, 2017 as ‘a day of prayers for the salvation of the nation.’ It asked the churches to intercede for the country “against needless bloodletting, violence and civil war.” The CAN President, Rev. Samson Ayokunle,…
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THE Sokoto state Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s commissioner for lands, Mohammed Bello Abubakar’s bid to frustrate his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, reached a dead end today, as the Appeal Court threw out his case. The Court of Appeal Sokoto Division dismissed two appeals filed by Abubakar against the EFCC in respect of…
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The Hanoi People’s Court on Tuesday passed a death sentence on a 30-year-old man from Vietnam’s Hanoi capital for trafficking over 230.5 kg of heroin and illegally possessing military weapons. The court handed down the death sentence on Bui Van Bien, who was arrested in May after months of fleeing. In April, the court passed…
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Hafsat Mohammed, a housewife, has pleaded with a Sharia Court in Minna to dissolve her marriage because her husband does not provide food in the house. Mohammed told the court that her husband, Isah Gimba, spends his money on intoxicants rather than take care of the home. “My husband doesn’t provide food in our house,…
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LAGOS – A 51-year-old car hire operator, Samuel Tom, on Monday was arraigned before a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court in Igbosere for stealing a car valued at N6m. Tom, who lives on Alhaji Abass Street, Ogudu, Lagos, was arraigned before Mr. B. A. Sonuga on two counts bordering on conspiracy and stealing, which he pleaded…
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Senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki NIGERIA-The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said the upper chamber of the National Assembly is working to ensure the completion of the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill in the fourth quarter of this year. Saraki stated this in Lagos on Monday at the Nigeria Oil and…
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DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE–A 73-year-old septuagenarian Femi Ojomo, pleaded with an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 15-year-old marriage to his third wife to enable him marry another woman. Love-gone-sour Ojomo, a businessman, who resides at Billy Way, Ojomo Avenue, Irawo, Ikorodu in Lagos, also accused his wife of infidelity and being troublesome. He…
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MARRIAGE–A Customary Court sitting in Ikole-Ekiti on Monday adjourned hearing in a divorce case to March 28, 2018, after a house wife, Mrs Adenike Ogunsakin, prayed it to place her husband, Olamide Olabode on a six-month probation that he would be of good behaviour to her. Adenike had filed for the divorce of her nine-year…