FG Warns Troublemakers to Stay Clear of Anambra Polls

<div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowRaPxyt9C0LjP0Vn3-fUTMTEIId4zi8nP66NGl7pj-es512cQ7mOycLceyFY0juWb6WQ1tG6s75fA6GwSnkx6asN2ek17NN7sMn5H6ymL1jX8FOnHtNUEkzUakk6tMCpmS_FJ3EeUp7D/s1600/1635311261880017-0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjowRaPxyt9C0LjP0Vn3-fUTMTEIId4zi8nP66NGl7pj-es512cQ7mOycLceyFY0juWb6WQ1tG6s75fA6GwSnkx6asN2ek17NN7sMn5H6ymL1jX8FOnHtNUEkzUakk6tMCpmS_FJ3EeUp7D/s1600/1635311261880017-0.png" width="400"> </a> </div><br></b></div><div><b>LAGOS, NIGERIA - Two days after the National Peace Committee met with President Muhammadu Buhari and cautioned him on the probe of the immediate past administration, the president’s party has risen in his support.</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>The ruling All Progressives Congress, in seeming reference to the committee members, asked opinion leaders to ensure that their actions and utterances do not give comfort to those who looted the commonwealth of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>Some members of the peace committee, headed by former military ruler, Abdulsalam Abubakar, include the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar; the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Ayo Oritsejafor; and prominent Catholic cleric, Matthew Kukah.</div><div><br></div><div>Speaking after the committee met Mr. Buhari, Mr. Kukah said although the leaders were not in support of corruption, they were worried about the process.</div><div><br></div><div>“I think what we are concerned about is process,” he said. “It is no longer a military regime and, under our existing laws, everybody is innocent until proven guilty.</div><div><br></div><div>“Again, our own commitment is not to intimidate or fight anybody. The former President’s commitment and what he did still remains spectacular and I think that President Buhari himself appreciates that.”</div><div><br></div><div>However, on Thursday, the APC, in a statement issued in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, warned against any attempt to truncate the ongoing fight against corruption in the country. It expressed total support for President Buhari’s determination to end the scourge in the country.</div><div><br></div><div>It appealed to all Nigerians, especially opinion leaders, to ensure that their actions and utterances do not give comfort to those who looted the commonwealth of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>“Our party promised Nigerians change, but the change that we promised and which Nigerians desire so much cannot be achieved if we allow the resources that belong to all Nigerians to be appropriated by a few.</div><div><br></div><div>“How do we upgrade our decayed infrastructure and provide jobs for our people when the money meant for that has been embezzled by a few?</div><div><br></div><div>“President Buhari has promised to break the vicious cycle of corruption that has held Nigeria down.</div><div><br></div><div>“How can he do that if he allows those who have looted the treasury to escape justice, and then use their ill-gotten wealth to fight the government?</div><div><br></div><div>“How can he do that if he turns a blind eye to the monumental cases of corruption in all sectors?</div><div><br></div><div>“We know that fighting corruption in a society where the cankerworm has eaten deep into its fabric will not be easy. We know that corruption will always fight back.</div><div><br></div><div>“But there is no other choice than to confront and destroy this monster once and for all, lest it destroys Nigeria,” it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The party said the President’s sincerity of purpose could be seen from his statement that any of his party members who was found to be corrupt would not escape justice.</div><div><br></div><div>“Therefore, those who are shouting themselves hoarse by saying the Buhari Administration’s fight against corruption is selective or is a distraction, are only seeking to sabotage the epic battle.</div><div><br></div><div>“If they have any case of corruption against any member of the APC, they should forward their evidence to the appropriate anti-corruption agency,’’ it said.</div><div><br></div><div>The party said that the danger in truncating the fight against corruption was that it would consign Nigeria to poverty, insecurity and unemployment in perpetuity.</div><div><br></div><div>“That is why we are restating our unalloyed support for the President, and urging him not to be deterred or distracted by those hiding under sophistry to weaken the fight.</div><div><br></div><div>“We are glad that most Nigerians have lent their support to the government’s fight against corruption, going by their interventions on the Social Media, which has now become a people’s parliament of sorts.</div><div><br></div><div>“We urge them not to relent in their support, irrespective of the antics of the naysayers,” it said.</div><div><br></div>

FG Warns Troublemakers to Stay Clear of Anambra Polls

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#EndSARS: Tales of Pains, Sorrows as Victims Recount Ordeals at Panel Sittings

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmZhPUToTD8TaHdVjxIHRfbAfvhUvKdToikY5ouNgQdwEpj39VZD0D3aEc6yxFG0_zs98N1DHkey1qFijIfbRAJLI6e3PVRuCKITST-iLWokWuBOooR7R0nWtLqnpx4d_0VtGkB3fh83w/s1600/170182-c7a79b989efd44010602ad1f3f5ed452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="437" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmZhPUToTD8TaHdVjxIHRfbAfvhUvKdToikY5ouNgQdwEpj39VZD0D3aEc6yxFG0_zs98N1DHkey1qFijIfbRAJLI6e3PVRuCKITST-iLWokWuBOooR7R0nWtLqnpx4d_0VtGkB3fh83w/s320/170182-c7a79b989efd44010602ad1f3f5ed452.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #222222; text-align: left;">Lagos, Nigeria</b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #222222; text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Since the establishment of the Judicial Panels of Inquiry across states, it has been an endless story of agony and pain as victims and families recount experience of police brutality and extrajudicial killings.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">At the panel in  Rivers State, one man, Nyordeh Sylvanus has narrated how his 3-day old daughter was allegedly killed by stray bullets from operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), on the eve of August 14, 2014.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlY-HEvfXLBQUZ225U-IRTODAJzPHF40R_I0puQnOFvAw7auOrv8zU5l4fhn7wkmzxhi_VtO5ErH5h8DmNZpknfV3NWEil_BWtj3WVbmbLiDVaSD2NorVwl35EQV9a3lygB84_z03FbLy/s650/images+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlY-HEvfXLBQUZ225U-IRTODAJzPHF40R_I0puQnOFvAw7auOrv8zU5l4fhn7wkmzxhi_VtO5ErH5h8DmNZpknfV3NWEil_BWtj3WVbmbLiDVaSD2NorVwl35EQV9a3lygB84_z03FbLy/s320/images+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222;">The Anambra State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Thursday issued a summons on an alleged killer cop with the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), James Nwafor, and two others to answer questions bordering on police brutality and illegal killing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; clear: both;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Delta panel</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>TNN.ng</b> had earlier reported stories from hearings at some of the panel,  last week, there were more gory tales than before as petitioners recounted their grief-stricken ordeal before the panels.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Lamentations at Lagos panel</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">One of the petitioners that spoke before the panel this week was Hannah Olugbodi, a middle-age hairstylist, who was crippled by the police stray bullet.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Olugbodi, who appeared before the panel on crutches on Saturday, said the awful incident happened on June 6, 2018, when she was going to buy spices for her family dinner at the Ijesha market.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">She alleged that the SARS officers were after the boys, who were watching football at the Ogun City hotel, adding that she got hit by the bullet when the officers started shooting sporadically as the boys refused to settle them.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">“On one of those days, some boys were watching a football game when SARS arrived and accosted one of the boys who had tattoos.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">“When the SARS men couldn’t extort the boys, they started shooting at them as they ran into the Ijesha market and that’s how I was hit,” she narrated.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">She later spent six months at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), without any of the police officers coming to visit her.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Olugbodi, who appeared before the panel with a large pack of files full of hospital bills said she wants justice, noting that she had spent all she had to pay for surgery, ye she still can’t walk.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>TNN.ng</b> had earlier reported the case of one Alhaji Olatunji Usman who suffered police brutality in Kwara State to the extent that he is now partially blind as he cannot see clearly after being brutalised by the police over his alleged participation in the violence that occurred in Ojoku. As at the time of filing this report no one knows the whereabouts of his wife and children who were said to have run for their dear lives due to intimidation from the police after the alleged escape of Usman from police custody. </span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Another petitioner, who spoke at the Lagos panel, Adeyemo Rotimi, completely broke down in tears before the panel, as she narrated how her husband lost his life in the hands of police officers.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Rotimi said her husband was a LASTMA official who was shot on November 28, 2018, exactly two years ago.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">She said she received a call at exactly 10pm on that day, that her husband had been shot dead by a SARS officer, Olonode Olukunle.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">The panel admitted as evidence the photograph the husband soaked in his own blood.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">On Tuesday, the panel hearing continues.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>SARS bullet killed my 3-day old daughter, man tells Rivers panel</b></span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">“We woke up in the morning of August 15, 2014, to observe that one of the bullets from SARS operatives who were shooting from the night of August 14, 2014, penetrated my roof and killed my only daughter, a three-day-old baby.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">“I picked the bullet on August 15 morning and went to SARS office and but was stopped at the entrance of the office by operatives who ordered me to turn back or join my dead daughter,” Sylvanus narrated.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Another petitioner, Lucky Eze, demanded  a compensation of N20million and footing of his medical bills from the Nigeria Police for causing damages to his right ear.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">Eze, who was a supervisor in a Filling Station in Ahoada Town, said he started having hearing problem with a hole in his inner ear after he was slapped by policemen who invaded his place of work on January 28, 2018.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">He said: “I came here to seek for justice for brutality and wickedness did to me by the Police on January 28, 2018. I have been having hearing problem since then. I have five medical reports from five medical doctors of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) confirming that the slap created a hole in my right ear.</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">“I am here to seek justice for two reasons; one is to be able to continue with my treatment which I abandoned due to lack of funds. I didn’t deliberately abandon my treatment; I did so because there was no money. Secondly, I am seeking justice for the brutality they meted on me. I ask this panel that I be compensated with the sum of N20milliion.”</span></p><p style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="color: #222222;">The panel headed by Hon. 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#EndSARS: Tales of Pains, Sorrows as Victims Recount Ordeals at Panel Sittings

Lagos, NigeriaSince the establishment of the Judicial Panels of Inquiry across states, it has been an endless story of agony and pain as victims and families recount experience of police brutality and…

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Violence in Ojoku over Escape of Murder Suspect from Police

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rfPLdiCeXj5Cvpka_wSy93ymwmoQEKkw9NJC56lzX7TRccfi8lCHUWy7o22xPoFbjUTS0EHjVbuKn8fazr_z-CsTG12Kp3-PapNLqQ-6l51krC2g4YDI6Scjm1rJtmhYr5HBxvFRFgXi/s1600/Screenshot_20181022-073228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="715" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rfPLdiCeXj5Cvpka_wSy93ymwmoQEKkw9NJC56lzX7TRccfi8lCHUWy7o22xPoFbjUTS0EHjVbuKn8fazr_z-CsTG12Kp3-PapNLqQ-6l51krC2g4YDI6Scjm1rJtmhYr5HBxvFRFgXi/s320/Screenshot_20181022-073228.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <i><b>Ilorin</b></i><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Violence has again broken out in Ojoku in the Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State over an alleged "escape" of a murder suspect from police custody.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to information reaching <b><i>tnn</i></b>, a youth leader and politician in the community who was among suspects arrested by the police in February over the political violence in which two people were killed was said to have escaped from police custody and was nowhere to be found. A reliable source informed <b><i>tnn</i></b> that they learned that Olatunji Usman has escaped from police custody and his whereabouts could not be known.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Recall that Usman was among suspects arrested by the police after the political violence of February 20 in which two people said to be members of the APC were killed, many others injured and properties worth millions of naira were destroyed. </div> <br /> <b>(Read: <a href="https://nigerianewsroom.blogspot.com/2019/02/kwara-politics-2-killed-scores-injured.html" target="_blank">Kwara Politics: 2 Killed, Scores Injured, Arrests Made</a>)</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Youths in the community, mostly suspected to be members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), embarked on what started like a peaceful protest to the palace of the traditional ruler of the community to register their displeasure over the unconfirmed reports that Usman had escaped from the police. Trouble, however, started when another group said to be mostly of members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Part (PDP) staged a counter protest to denounce the allege escape of Usman from the police.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As the violent raged, Usman's wife, Shakirat was said to have taken to her heels when it became obvious that the anti-Usman group was heading to her house. As at the time of filing this report, the whereabouts of Shakirat were unknown.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Meanwhile, efforts of our correspondent to confirm the development have not yielded any results as calls to the mobile number of the Force PRO in Kwara indicated the phone was switched off.</div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="color: blue;">Have you got a news tip, article or press release for us? 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Violence in Ojoku over Escape of Murder Suspect from Police

Ilorin Violence has again broken out in Ojoku in the Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State over an alleged "escape" of a murder suspect from police custody. According to information reaching tnn,…

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Kwara Politics: 2 Killed, Scores Injured, Arrests Made

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmZhPUToTD8TaHdVjxIHRfbAfvhUvKdToikY5ouNgQdwEpj39VZD0D3aEc6yxFG0_zs98N1DHkey1qFijIfbRAJLI6e3PVRuCKITST-iLWokWuBOooR7R0nWtLqnpx4d_0VtGkB3fh83w/s1600/170182-c7a79b989efd44010602ad1f3f5ed452.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="437" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmZhPUToTD8TaHdVjxIHRfbAfvhUvKdToikY5ouNgQdwEpj39VZD0D3aEc6yxFG0_zs98N1DHkey1qFijIfbRAJLI6e3PVRuCKITST-iLWokWuBOooR7R0nWtLqnpx4d_0VtGkB3fh83w/s320/170182-c7a79b989efd44010602ad1f3f5ed452.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Ilorin</b><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Trouble makers and political thugs will henceforth have no hiding place in Kwara State. This was disclosed by the Commissioner of Police in charge of Kwara State Command, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun during an on-the-spot assessment after the political crisis in Ojoku on Wednesday.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It will be recalled that violent broke out in Ojoku on Wednesday during a political campaign rally during which two people were killed and dozens others injured with properties worth millions of naira destroyed. Trouble started when an armed group of youths attacked the campaign train of the APC senatorial candidate for Kwara South, Architect Lola Ashiru who was leading his campaign train to the palace of the traditional ruler of the community. During the attack by persons suspected to be supporters of the PDP senatorial candidate who is from Ojoku, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, two people were killed and many others injured including Ashiru who escaped death by the whiskers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Egbetokun said arrests have been made and a manhunt has been launched for other suspects who are on the run. Among those arrested, according to the police, was Kasim Omole who was said to be the arrow head of the attack. Others are Segun Ologunebi, Semiu Lawal, Olatunji Usman, Racheal Ogunde and Seun Kolapo. He said all suspects arrested would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaiU5TyrwKKbLKIfr84_yISQ2nCAE8szCh9yjJpsRcSxz2z4wbS88JHMliZe9p9fTGgjnt0aYqcGr1TdNYsFfv2lmIG0ThCf3S_JtT32beubf21m-SXR4xftXEwbzmg2Ot0rsT_Zq3t4Uh/s1600/IMG-20190113-WA0033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaiU5TyrwKKbLKIfr84_yISQ2nCAE8szCh9yjJpsRcSxz2z4wbS88JHMliZe9p9fTGgjnt0aYqcGr1TdNYsFfv2lmIG0ThCf3S_JtT32beubf21m-SXR4xftXEwbzmg2Ot0rsT_Zq3t4Uh/s320/IMG-20190113-WA0033.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> The police commissioner, however, assured residents of the community to go about with their normal legal businesses without fear as his men are on top of the situation.<br /> <br /> <b>Stop intimidating our members - PDP</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Meanwhile, the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has asked the police to stop intimidating its members by the spurious arrests being made. The party stated this in a release made available to newsmen in Ilorin following the arrest of some political thugs and troublemakers by the police over recent political violence in Ojoku in the Oyun Local Government Area of the State.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the Kwara State publicity secretary of  the PDP, Mr. Tunde Ashaolu, the police are intimidating their members with the arrest as he said there have been a reduction in the turnout of the party members and supporters since the police began what he called "spurious arrests". Ashaolu said the arrest was spurious because most of his party members arrested had no hands in the violence at Ojoku. He specifically mentioned the name of Olatunji Usman who he said was not in Kwara State on the day of the incident as a case study.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He appealed to the police to investigate those so far arrested and release those who are "innocent like Usman".</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Ashaolu called on the members and supporters of the PDP to maintain peace and avoid provocation by those he said "cannot win a single vote without violence".</div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="color: blue;">Have you got a news tip, article or press release for us? 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Kwara Politics: 2 Killed, Scores Injured, Arrests Made

Ilorin Trouble makers and political thugs will henceforth have no hiding place in Kwara State. This was disclosed by the Commissioner of Police in charge of Kwara State Command, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun …

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Anambra PDP Suspends Metuh

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVzejZNjciDPFqb60pAnFt5-Fe_wfPpEqxjw7NjVArPLoOFCkgzKKFXX4i_2G1DsRW1dstS-Rncsi0k5-MYucWXSJXcI5Ampg5vakybWqyI76b_jVSpCQIN68bYgFFWvD8PctdOUSslaV5/s1600/Metuh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVzejZNjciDPFqb60pAnFt5-Fe_wfPpEqxjw7NjVArPLoOFCkgzKKFXX4i_2G1DsRW1dstS-Rncsi0k5-MYucWXSJXcI5Ampg5vakybWqyI76b_jVSpCQIN68bYgFFWvD8PctdOUSslaV5/s640/Metuh.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>AWKA, NIGERIA - The Anambra State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisah Metuh.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His suspension followed one allegedly handed to him by his Otolo Nnewi Ward I, ratified by his local government – Nnewi North.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A statement signed by the Publicity Secretary Kenneth Arinze and Victor Osy Ezenwa, Basil Ejidike (Secretary), Dr. Maduka Nwankwo (Chairman, South), Kelue Molokwu (Vice Chairman, Central) and Chief Osy Chinwuba (Chairman, North), alleged that Metuh embezzled party funds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The statement reads: </div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">Following the suspension of Chief Olisa Metuh by the Otolo Ward 1 Nnewi of the PDP (where Olisa hails from) and the ratification of same by the Nnewi North Local Government chapter, the State Executive Committee, after assessing the weighty allegations against Olisa Metuh and finding them heinous, in compliance with the PDP Constitution, hereby, ratifies the suspension and forward same to the National Working Committee (NWC).</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Have you got a news tip, article or press release for us? E-mail: <a href="mailto:TNN.ng1@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b>TNN.ng1@gmail.com</b></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><i><span style="color: blue;">Follow us on <b><a href="https://twitter.com/TNN_ng">Twitter</a></b> , <b><a href="http://facebook.com/TheBluebloodGroup">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109876989019615433095/posts">Google+</a></b></span></i></i></div><i></i><br /><div style="font-family: ""; text-align: center;"><b>=============================================================</b><br /><div><b style="font-family: "";"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">PLACE YOUR TEXT ADVERTS HERE  </span>=============================================================</b></div></div><div style="font-family: ""; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u>DUBAI VISAS IN 7-DAYS</u></span></b><br /><b>Do you need Single-Entry or Multiple-Entry Visas to the UAE (Dubai Visas) for 14-Days (Single-Entry Only), 30-Days or 90-Days? Processing within 7-working days! We guarantee you affordable prices. Contact <span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Rukky Travels and Tours</span> at <span style="color: red;">rukkytravels@gmail.com</span></b><br /><b>*********************************************************************</b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: ""; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue;">YOU TOO CAN HAVE YOUR TEXT ADVERTS PLACED HERE. CONTACT US AT </span><span style="color: red;">tnn.ng1@gmail.com</span><span style="color: blue;"> FOR AD PLACEMENT DETAILS</span></b></div>

Anambra PDP Suspends Metuh

AWKA, NIGERIA - The Anambra State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisah Metuh.His suspension followed one allegedly handed to him by his O…

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Woman stripped, beaten for porn acts

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7wJ4NPUvyMiiGoSkFpwjTiVsSaoWBKCqm1dZi8EW-Rwy6X0Vb9zYCy2CvTA2ssoz5yQNnVDVyRtn4r3SLsqwTwNSLhHKdg4ziJ0aP79v6xroJQ1b58dJ1KqWSIV_Qi5wto29pUddiWCv/s1600/Stripped+Woman.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7wJ4NPUvyMiiGoSkFpwjTiVsSaoWBKCqm1dZi8EW-Rwy6X0Vb9zYCy2CvTA2ssoz5yQNnVDVyRtn4r3SLsqwTwNSLhHKdg4ziJ0aP79v6xroJQ1b58dJ1KqWSIV_Qi5wto29pUddiWCv/s1600/Stripped+Woman.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MERU, KENYA - A woman was Wednesday afternoon flogged and stripped naked by angry residents of Kooje village in Meru, Kenya for allegedly stealing underwears from a cloth line in Maune Estate.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Betty Kanario was reported by a pre-school boy who saw her unhung the innerwears belonging to their neighbor and started crying hence attracting his mother's attention who thought the boy had fallen from the balcony only to realize he had seen a stranger in the apartment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She tried to escape with the paper bag she had stuffed the pants after the boy's mother started shouting 'mwizi mwizi'.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Unfortunately, she tripped and fell," added the boy's mom.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Residents who responded to the distress call captured her, beating and tearing her clothes "to teach her a lesson".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Luckily, she was rescued by a woman roasting yams outside the apartment who gave her a big yellow polythene bag to cover her nudity, <b><a href="http://www.kenyacentral.com/latest-addition/88916-woman-stripped-for-stealing-underwear.html">Kenya Central</a> </b>reports.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Have you got a news tip, article or press release for us? E-mail: <a href="mailto:TNN.ng1@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b>TNN.ng1@gmail.com</b></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><i><span style="color: blue;">Follow us on <b><a href="https://twitter.com/TNN_ng">Twitter</a></b> , <b><a href="http://facebook.com/TheBluebloodGroup">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109876989019615433095/posts">Google+</a></b></span></i></i></div><i></i><br /><div style="font-family: ""; text-align: center;"><b>=============================================================</b><br /><div><b style="font-family: "";"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">PLACE YOUR TEXT ADVERTS HERE  </span>=============================================================</b></div></div><div style="font-family: ""; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u>DUBAI VISAS IN 7-DAYS</u></span></b><br /><b>Do you need Single-Entry or Multiple-Entry Visas to the UAE (Dubai Visas) for 14-Days (Single-Entry Only), 30-Days or 90-Days? Processing within 7-working days! We guarantee you affordable prices. Contact <span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Rukky Travels and Tours</span> at <span style="color: red;">rukkytravels@gmail.com</span></b><br /><b>*********************************************************************</b><br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: ""; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue;">YOU TOO CAN HAVE YOUR TEXT ADVERTS PLACED HERE. CONTACT US AT </span><span style="color: red;">tnn.ng1@gmail.com</span><span style="color: blue;"> FOR AD PLACEMENT DETAILS</span></b></div>

Woman stripped, beaten for porn acts

MERU, KENYA - A woman was Wednesday afternoon flogged and stripped naked by angry residents of Kooje village in Meru, Kenya for allegedly stealing underwears from a cloth line in Maune Estate.Betty Ka…

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