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Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a. Evans, on Wednesday filed a fundamental rights enforcement action before the Lagos Federal High Court in Lagos, urging the court to order the police to charge him to court or release him immediately. Joined as respondents in the said suit marked FHC/L/CS/1012/2017 are the Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command,      in the suit filed on his behalf by a Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, the suspected kidnapper is seeking a court order directing the respondents to immediately charge him to court if they had any case against him in accordance with sections 35 (1) (c) (3) (4) (5) (a) (b) and 36 of the Constitution. He is on the alternative seeking for an order compelling the respondents to immediately release him unconditionally in the absence of any offence that will warrant his being charged to court. Evans is contendin

Former president Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to a statement credited to Kaduna State governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai where he said ‘”What President Goodluck Jonathan did was to take N2bn each from the Ecological Fund and gave to some PDP states. Any PDP state that was not his friend, like Kano and Kwara, didn’t get.” A statement released by Ikechukwu Eze, Media Adviser to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, titled “ON EL-RUFAI’S LIES AGAINST JONATHAN ON THE SHARING OF THE ECOLOGICAL FUND” reads: “That Malam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State has an incurable knack for lying has been proven by his own boss, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who described El-Rufai in his book-My Watch Volume 2 as follows: “Nasir’s penchant for reputation savaging is almost pathological. Why does he do it? He is brilliant and smart. I grant him that also. Very early in my interaction with him, I appreciated his talent and brilliance. At the same time, I recognised his weaknesses; the worst being his inability

The visit which was a part of the activities marking the second anniversary of the Muhammad Buhari’s administration was essentially to interact with traders to get first hand information on the cost of goods and other food items in the market. Osinbajo arrived the market at about 3:10 pm to the cheers of the traders who shouted “Osibaba, APC” and exited the market after about 40 minutes. While pricing some food items which included fish, onions, rice and beans, the Acting President also received complaints from the traders who said that the cost of renting shops was high. A fish seller who sought government’s intervention to reduce the cost of the shop said it was as high as N250,000 per annum. She also complained that the prices of locally smoked fish had gone high just as the imported ones had also skyrocketed. Similarly, a rice seller, Alhaji Nasiru Maiyaki Kuryfi also complained of inadequate shop space. He said that the management of the market was yet to complete the shops alr

Thirteen years after dropping out of Harvard University to work on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday finally got his degree -- well, sort of. Zuckerberg returned to the university where he launched what would become the world's biggest social network, and basked in the spotlight by receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree and addressing the 2017 commencement. His speech capped a nostalgic visit for the 33-year-old billionaire, which included a visit to his old dorm room. "Mom, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree," read the caption of a picture he posted of him posing with his honorary diploma and his parents. Facebook -- now one of the biggest tech firms, with nearly two billion members worldwide -- grew out of a website he created on campus. He left Harvard in May 2004, according to his Facebook profile. In his address, which he said he'd been working on "for a long time," Zuckerberg urged graduates of his alma mater

Outgoing U.S. President, Barack Obama who broke down in tears has recalled one of his worst days while serving his 8 year tenure which ends January 20. While reflecting on his legacies in a series of exit interviews, he said that the day he met with the parents of victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 the toughest day of his presidency. President Barack Obama cries over shooting of school children “I still consider the day I traveled up to Newtown to meet with parents and address that community as the toughest day of my presidency. “It’s the only time I ever saw Secret Service cry at an event. So it was brutal.” Obama said in an interview which will be aired on January 15. On other occasions while recalling the incidence which climed 20 children and 6 others, Obama himself have been moved to tears Obama cried while delivering a statement the day of the massacre, at an interfaith vigil in Newtown. He also cried at the White House last January while announcing

  The Nigerian Army said on Wednesday that it had recovered more suspected Boko Haram terrorists’ items during a mop-up operation around Camp Zairo in Sambisa forest. Maj. – Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theater Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, stated this while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. Irabor said that the items included a pair of black uniform with camouflage design often used by security guards of Abubakar Shekau in his videos. “On Jan. 5, at about 1000hrs, our troops conducted a mop-up operation around Camp Zairo general area and recovered additional Boko Haram terrorists’ items. “They included a pair of black uniform with camouflage design on the edges, a précis on motar operation written in Arabic, one big size of the Qur’an, and 4 notebooks containing names of terrorists, “he said. ” The items also include a list of the terrorists locs, a list of IED materials and method of preparation and breakdown of quantities of arms and ammunition issued to their members. “There were als

What Ikechukwu must have said to trigger such war of words on himself still remains a mystery as the aggrieved parties made no mention of it in their social media rants. However, in a bid to defend her brother after Ikechukwu aired his opinions about Joy’s brother, the latter took to her Instagram page to hurl unprintable words on the rapper. As if that was not enough, Ikechukwu’s ex girlfriend, Sarah Ofili, also joined forces with Joy on her Instagram page to declare war on the rapper, boasting that she and her friends would wage war on him since he has declared it initially.

fellas a day like any other on the 12 of January, 2012, everyone woke up in Data Kaduna preparing to go about their normal usual business when boom! Bomb went off killing many, maiming many and setting the homes ablaze, pandemonium, chaos everywhere. Little did the family of the Abdullahi’s know that trouble has just began. Abdulrazak Abdullahi and his sister Aishat Abdullahi were the only survivor of in their family. Little did they know that this attack was religiously motivated. They lost their father, mother and two of their siblings during the bomb attack and later discovered that some people hid themselves under the bomb blast to murder their parents. Luckily for them they were not in the scene of the bomb blast. Later, when life began to return to normalcy they came home to start their lives all over, it was then they discovered that it was because of their conversion from Islam to Christianity they were been attacked, as they started getting all kinds of threat and they