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Saturday, 22 October 2016

How Should Government Resolve Dele Giwa’s Murder Case? ~ Punch

Criminal matters do not die. From time to time, the government should be updating the case file (of Dele Giwa’s murder). The government should not close the file.

It should assign investigators to look at it; maybe new angles to the case could come up. In other parts of the world, there had been crimes committed over 50 years back and solutions were found later.

That is why the Nigerian government should not let Dele Giwa’s case die.

A few days after Justice Inyang Okoro accused the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, of seeking to manipulate a court judgement, another judge has made similar allegations.

Justice Sylvester Ungwuta, also of the Supreme Court, accused Mr. Amaechi of attempting to manipulate him to rule in favour of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress in an election dispute.

The two accusers, Messrs. Okoro and Ungwuta, are the most senior among the seven judges arrested a fortnight ago for alleged corruption by the State Security Service, SSS.

Buhari used to be a flawless model to some partisans… Today, he’s falling down the popularity bar, and the speed with which this is happening is the only motivation he needs to sit up. It’s likely he may not have company in the “other room” soon, so what he really needs is a space to reflect—a Reflection Room.

At first, like every sane Nigerian, I took President Muhammadu Buhari’s response to his wife’s criticism of his government as a joke. And even agreed with Mallam Garba Shehu’s description of it as such on Twitter, that “(President Buhari) was obviously throwing a banter.” But the president’s unnecessary restatement of that misogynistic caricaturing of his wife in a subsequent interview, clarifying that indeed “she belongs in my kitchen, my living room and the other”, was devastating. And this was done as guest of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, a woman who manages a country more prosperous than his and ranks higher than him in the global political equation. Yet that wasn’t a clue to keep his patriarchy to himself.

Some nutrition experts have stressed the importance of eating healthy meals, during and after pregnancy, to prevent under-nutrition in mothers and babies.

The experts made the assertion at a Media Workshop organised by Nestle Nigeria plc. in Agbara, Ogun.

The theme of the workshop is: “Good Nutrition, a Way of Life’’.

Dr Bartholomew Brai, the National President, Nutrition Society of Nigeria, said, “under-nutrition during critical periods in development can lead to adverse health outcomes later in life.

A total of 310 youths, including members of the National Youth Service Corps, on Thursday received N930m from the Central Bank of Nigeria to establish profitable ventures in different sectors of the economy.

Each of the youth, who emerged through a rigorous competitive process, received N3m under the Youth Entrepreneurial Development Programme. The first set of the loans was disbursed through Heritage Bank.

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has said that somebody somewhere helped him into office.

Controversy arose over Osinbajo’s position after President Muhammadu Buhari’s biographer,John Paden claimed that All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Bola Tinubu wanted the position for himself.

Wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain a human rights organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, from coercing the Attorney General of the Federation to prosecute her over “unfounded and malicious allegations that she stole $15m.”

Patience claimed that the $15m over which SERAP allegedly asked the AGF to prosecute her was a gift she received over the last 15 years from friends and well-wishers.

The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, a lawyer, in this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Festus Owete and Hassan Adebayo, speaks on how the judiciary has frustrated the corruption war of the Buhari administration and steps being taken to purge it.

PT: Nigerians have expressed different views on the arrest and detention and even the release of some judges. Some persons have said the SSS does not have the powers to effect the arrest. What is your take?

ISIS executed 284 men and boys, who were used as human shields, as coalition forces closed in on Mosul, an Iraqi intelligence source.

CNN reported that those killed on Thursday and Friday had been rounded up near and in the city for use as human shields against attacks that are forcing ISIS out of the southern sections of Mosul, the source explained.

ISIS executed 284 men and boys, who were used as human shields, as coalition forces closed in on Mosul, an Iraqi intelligence source.

Woman granted UK visa to donate bone marrow to sister in U-turn by Home Office.

The government has backtracked on its decision to prevent a Nigerian woman from entering the UK so that she can donate bone marrow to help save the life of her seriously ill sister.

The decision came amid public pressure after a petition calling for May Brown’s sister Martha to be granted a visa was signed by more than 60,000 people.

“I am overjoyed for the U-turn the Home Office has taken,” she said on Friday. “I would like to thank the British public and beyond, and my MP Richard Drax, for their overwhelming support.”

US officials are investigating multiple attacks that caused widespread online disruption on both sides of the Atlantic on Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security has begun an investigation into the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, the Guardian confirmed.

The incident took offline some of the most popular sites on the web, including Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, CNN, PayPal, Pinterest and Fox News – as well as newspapers including the Guardian, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Yoruba wedding ceremonies are usually fun. At least 70% of the time.

However, as we said in the first part of this article, you could be present but miss out on all that fun even if you really want to be part of it all.

FOUR years ago Mitt Romney, then a Republican candidate, said that Russia was America’s “number-one geopolitical foe”. Barack Obama, among others, mocked this hilarious gaffe: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the cold war’s been over for 20 years,” scoffed the president. How times change. With Russia hacking the American election, presiding over mass slaughter in Syria, annexing Crimea and talking casually about using nuclear weapons, Mr Romney’s view has become conventional wisdom. Almost the only American to dissent from it is today’s Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

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Saturday, October 22

Hebrews 7:15-17

POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE

One who has become a priest.., on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. Hebrews 7:16, NIV

In the Old Testament, a man can become the high priest only if he was a Jew and only if he came from the lineage of Levi. The priesthood was surrounded with law that was based on the

The Political Miseducation of Mr. and Mrs. Buhari, By Majeed Dahiru

It is important to properly educate the first couple of Nigeria, on some vital political lessons. First and most importantly, the problems of the Buhari administration are not as a result of his choice of appointments alone, as claimed by Aisha, but in the president’s wrong perception of what leadership entails, at this time and circumstance, such as we find ourselves in Nigeria.

This is not the best of times for President Muhammadu Buhari and the first family. He is facing an internal revolt led by his beautiful wife, Aisha.

I Went To Nigeria To Meet The Man Who Scammed Me | BBC

An internet romance scam took an unexpected turn, writes Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani.

When Maria Grette first discovered that the 58-year-old Danish man with whom she had fallen in love was actually a 24-year-old Nigerian 419 internet scammer, the 62-year-old Swede was distraught. But, soon, her feelings changed.
“The most terrible thing was not that he had cheated me, but that he had lost his innocence,” she said.

She became consumed with what she describes as “a profound need to make a difference to the people of Nigeria”.
Ms Grette’s relationship with Johnny (not his real name) began after an evening of fun and games with her girlfriends, during which they playfully created a profile for her on an online dating website.