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Court dismisses all 18 count charges against Justice Ademola, wife, SAN

Apr 6, 2017 topnews

The 18 counts charges, including gratification charges preferred against Justice Adeniyi Ademola, his wife, Olubowale; and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joe Agi, has been dismissed by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday. Justice Jude Okeke discharged the three defendants in a ruling upholding the respective no-case submissions filed by the defendants. The charges were filed last year by the Office of the Attorney General Federation following the raid by the Department of State Services’ operatives on the judge’s house on October…

Ambode promotes made-in-Nigeria products

Apr 6, 2017 topnews

Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos State Governor, has restated his administration’s commitment at promoting made in Nigeria products. Speaking at the Nigeria Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI) MSME Trade Fair, in Lagos, he noted that Nigeria has depended so much on oil to the detriment of other locally made products; and that is why the economic is weak. According to him, “We have realised that the solution is to increase domestic production and output in other sectors of the economy. We also need to showcase the beautiful products that abound among…

Burundi’s ruling party youths threaten to ‘impregnate’ opposition women

Apr 6, 2017 topnews

The Imbonerakure youths of Burundi’s ruling party have threatened to impregnate opposition women in a video that has gone viral. Hundreds of the youths known as Imbonerakure — “those who see from afar” in the local Kirundi language — are shown in military-like formation singing “impregnate the opposition so that they give birth to Imbonerakure”. The ruling CNND-FDD initially said the video which began circulating three days ago had been faked by the opposition, but was on Wednesday forced to admit its authenticity after it sparked outrage on social media…

Meningitis death toll rises to 336 as cases hit 2997

Apr 5, 2017 topnews

Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) epidemic death toll has risen from 328 to 336 as at yesterday even as the number of cases also increased from 2,524 persons to 2,997. This means that the country has recorded eight more deaths and 473 more cases. But the epidemic is still contained within 16 states with Zamfara leading with more than half of the cases and deaths at 1,846 and 216. A situation report on the CSM epidemic jointly published yesterday by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),…

Reps threaten zero allocation to Amaechi’s Ministry

Apr 5, 2017 topnews

The house of Representatives Committees on Aviation; Land Transport; Maritime Safety and Administration; Ports, Harbours and Waterways have jointly expressed dissatisfaction over the implementation of the Federal Ministry of Transportation’s 2016 Budget. The committees, which visited the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja on oversight function, threatened to give zero allocation to the ministry in 2017. Mr Mohammed Bago, the Chairman, Committee on Maritime Safety and Administration, said that the ministry presented different documents to the committees which did not contain facts. He said that the ministry had received N243 billion…

Husband seeks N400, 000 dowry refund from wife before granting her divorce

Apr 4, 2017 topnews

Usman Ahmed, a 30-year-old lawyer, on Tuesday asked his 25-year-old wife, Zainab Abdulkadir, to refund N400,000 dowry paid on her as a condition for divorce. Ahmed made the request when he appeared before a Jos Upper Area Court, where Zainab filed a suit seeking dissolution of the marriage. Zainab had sought dissolution of the marriage for lack of interest by her husband. The petitioner, through her counsel, Mr Bala Bako, told the court that, “my client is no longer interested in the marriage. “She is seeking a divorce from her…

Jay-Z’s new A2 Champagne sells for $850 a bottle

Apr 4, 2017 topnews

Armand de Brignac’s Blanc de Noirs Assemblage Two, aka A2, from the centuries-old house owned by the rapper Jay-Z, is scheduled to hit the market on April 18. The release of its predecessor A1, in its eye-catching gun-metal-coated bottle with a hand-hammered pewter label, generated serious buzz in 2015. People noted its $760 price tag, one of the costliest for a nonvintage Champagne, and wondered how much Jay-Z and his friends and family might hype it. Would it feature in a video the way the brand’s blanc de blancs featured…

UBA marks Financial Literacy Day by educating students on saving for better future

Apr 4, 2017 topnews

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, last week had an interaction with students of the Gateway Secondary School, Abeokuta, Ogun State, to educate them on the need to cultivate the culture of savings as part of activities to mark the Financial Literacy Day . An Executive Director of the bank, Ayoku Liadi, who addressed the students, stressed the need for them to imbibe the habit of savings, and investing, “even from their pocket money and gifts,” insisting that was the only way they could plan for a better future. He…

Match fixing suspicion: Coach arrested following 12-0 defeat to Barcelona B team

Apr 4, 2017 topnews

Filippo Di Pierro, coach of third division Spanish side Eldense was arrested by police investigating suspicions of match-fixing after his side’s 12-0 defeat to Barcelona’s B team on Saturday. Di Pierro was “arrested and questioned” a police source said on Tuesday, adding that the investigation is ongoing. Eldense player Cheikh Saad was the first to point the finger at a number of his teammates and coach. Saad told radio station Cadena Copa that certain players stood to make “huge sums” of money from bets placed on the match. The club’s president…

Court orders defreezing of Ozekhome’s account, describes EFCC action as diabolical, unorthodox

Apr 3, 2017 topnews

Freezing of the Chamber’s account of human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, has been described by a Federal High Court in Lagos as diabolical. The trial judge, Justice Abdulazeeez Hanka, who upheld Ozekhome’s action, said the action of EFCC was illegal, unconstitutional and unorthodox, for freezing the lawyer’s Chambers account into which N75m was paid by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, as part payment of his professional fees for eight cases the lawyer is currently handling for the governor, his…