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Fake Counsel For Suspected Thief Arrested In Court

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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Luck has run out on one <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Olayomi Adegbite">Olayomi Adegbite</a>, who allegedly paraded himself as a lawyer at a Lagos magistrate’s court in <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Ogba">Ogba</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">It was learnt that the 34-year-old had appeared as a counsel, applying for the bail of a defendant arraigned in court for stealing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">Punch Metro gathered that as Adegbite made the bail application, a presiding magistrate of Court 5 where the defendant was arraigned observed flaws in his presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The magistrate, Mrs. Temitope Oladele, who is on induction under Chief Magistrate O.J. Awope, was said to have invited him to her office for questioning upon which it was discovered that he was never called to the bar.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">A lawyer at the court, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he had warned Adegbite on several occasions of the consequences of his action, but he refused.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">“He started coming to the court in December. He would dress as a lawyer and walk around to assist defendants to perfect their bails. He was working with a lawyer. I approached him to stop parading himself as a lawyer, but he was furious with me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">“On February 24, 2017, he appeared at Court 5 to hold brief for the lawyer in a case of stealing. When the magistrate noticed that he could not apply for the defendant’s bail, she summoned him to her chambers,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">He was subsequently arrested by policemen from the Ikeja division and brought to Court 4 on Thursday by a police prosecutor, Sergeant Raphael Donny, on one count of impersonation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The charge read, “That you, <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Olayomi Adegbite">Olayomi Adegbite</a>, on February 24, 2017, at about 12pm, at Court 5, <a href="http://www.ent-redefined.org/tag/ogba/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Ogba">Ogba</a>, in the Ikeja Magisterial District, did impersonate a member of the Nigerian Bar Association without having a certificate to prove yourself, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 78 (b) of the Criminal Law, No 11, Vol. 44, Law of Lagos State, 2011.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The presiding magistrate, Mrs. Davies Abegunde, consequently sentenced him to 100 hours of community service across magistrates’ courts in Lagos, except Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry magistrates’ courts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">The magistrate added that he should place placards with inscriptions, ‘I am a fake lawyer,’ on his front and back while cleaning the courts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">As Adegbite was serving the punishment on Friday at <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Ogba">Ogba</a> Court, Punch Metro heard him telling some court officials that he knew those behind his “ordeal.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;">When Punch correspondent approached him for comment on the incident, he said, “I have nothing to say now.”</span><br />
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Fake Counsel For Suspected Thief Arrested In Court

Luck has run out on one Olayomi Adegbite , who allegedly paraded himself as a lawyer at a Lagos magistrate’s court in Ogba . It was...

Timi Dakolo, DNA, Waje, Lira set to thrill, as AMVCAs holds Saturday

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crew of October 1 at AMVCA 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nigerian singer, <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Timi Dakolo">Timi Dakolo</a> , and two of Africa’s leading vocalists <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Waje">Waje</a> and <a href="http://www.ent-redefined.org/tag/lira/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Lira">Lira</a>, are billed to perform at the fifth edition of Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (<a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="AMVCAs">AMVCAs</a>) holding at the Eko Hotel on <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Saturday">Saturday</a>, March 4, 2017.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Organisers say viewers can tune in to watch the show live on all Africa Magic channels on DStv and GOtv from 4:00 pm Nigerian time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The AMVCA which started in 2013 will, according to promoters, get bigger with top contenders across Africa competing for honours in a number of voting, non-voting and online polling categories including the newly introduced recognition award for M-Net’s original productions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Director, M-Net West Africa, Wangi Mba-Uzoukwu, said: “We are excited to once again celebrate the finest hands in African film and television. This is the fifth edition of the awards, and we urge viewers from all across Africa and the rest of the world to tune in on <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="Saturday">Saturday</a>, the 4th of March as we find out who wins top honours this year. The show promises to be a great experience for our esteemed guests on the ground and the many viewers at home, as some of Africa’s biggest names in music will be performing.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Managing Director of MultiChoice Nigeria, John Ugbe said: “We are delighted to once again bring the <a href="http://reporterlog.blogspot.com.ng/" style="border: 0px; color: #cc3300; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;" title="AMVCAs">AMVCAs</a> to our viewers across Africa. MultiChoice is a firm believer in recognising established and budding talent in the film and television industry, even as we remain committed to endeavours that recognise the hard work these talents put in every day, behind and in front of the cameras. We urge our viewers from across the country to catch the show as it promises to be truly exciting.”</span></span></div>
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BREAKING: Trump’s national security adviser resigns

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser <strong style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Michael Flynn </strong>resigned late Monday night, following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Flynn’s departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the US President’s senior team of advisers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his resignation letter, Mr Flynn said he held numerous calls with the Russian ambassador during<br style="zoom: 1;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a>the transition and gave “incomplete information” about those discussions to Vice-President Mike Pence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“In the course of my duties as the incomingnational security adviser, I held numerous phone calls with foreign counterparts, ministers and ambassadors,” Mr Flynn said in his resignation letter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“These calls were to facilitate a smooth transition and begin to build the necessary relationships between the President, his advisers and foreign leaders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Unfortunately, because of the fast pace of events, I inadvertently briefed the Vice-President elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador. I have sincerely apologised to the President and the Vice-President, and they have accepted my apology.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr Pence, apparently relying on information from Mr Flynn, initially said the national security adviser had not discussed sanctions with the Russian envoy, though Mr Flynn later conceded the issue may have come up.</span></span></div>
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2 Die, 29 Vehicles Burnt As Tanker Catches Fire In Apapa

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two persons are feared dead after a tanker loaded with petrol skidded off the road and spilled its content at Coconut under bridge along Apapa Road, Lagos State, and later caught fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">No fewer than 29 vehicles parked in a mechanic workshop under the bridge were also burnt, while two cars inside a garage in the area were razed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Punch Metro learnt that trouble started after some miscreants besieged the tanker, which fell at about 8pm on Sunday, to scoop fuel into jerrycans</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">They were reportedly running away from the scene when a jerrycan fell from one of them and subsequently caught fire.<br style="zoom: 1;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was gathered that two persons were trapped in the fire, which spread back to the scene of the accident and caused the tanker to explode.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Punch correspondent, who visited the scene on Monday, counted 25 burnt vehicles apart from the tanker as mechanics lamented their losses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the victims, Friday Asuquo, said five vehicles brought by his customers for repairs were destroyed by the inferno, which raged for about two hours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">He said, “I came to park a Toyota Matrix around 7pm yesterday (Sunday). As I got home, I was called on the telephone that a tanker fell and it resulted in a fire incident. The fire didn’t break out immediately. Some area boys were scooping fuel from the tanker and it led to a fire incident.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Apart from the Toyota Matrix, three Jeeps of different brands, and a Big Daddy Toyota brought by my customers were burnt. One of my customers has come, I am still expecting others to come for us to discuss. About 30 vehicles were burnt in this workshop. Some have been removed.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another mechanic, Shola Adebayo, told Punch Metro that he was relaxing at home when his apprentice called him. He said four of his customers’ vehicles – Toyota Sienna, Toyota Camry, a pick-up and ML – were razed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It was a great loss to me and I don’t know what to tell the owners of the vehicles. My income is not enough to cater to my family; but I believe God is in control.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Two of those scooping fuel suffered serious burns, but I don’t know whether they are alive or dead,” he added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">A member of a union at the garage, Sulyman Olanrewaju, said the fire started about an hour after the tanker fell.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Olanrewaju said, “Speeding caused the accident. Then hoodlums began to scoop fuel from the tanker. Some people tried to chase them away. In the process, one of them fell while running away with the fuel in a jerrycan and it resulted in the fire. The boy was caught in the fire and was rushed to a hospital. I am not sure that he will survive.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The two cars that got burnt here were brought for repainting. It was unfortunate that the hoodlums engaged in this kind of act to wreak havoc on the property of innocent people.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">A sympathiser, who did not disclose his name, lamented the losses caused by the accident, saying that the tanker driver fled the scene.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Punch Metro learnt that it took the joint effort of officials of the Lagos State Fire Service and the state emergency management agency to put out the fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fire service director, Rasaq Fadipe, said the driver had wanted to negotiate a sharp bend under the bridge, adding that firefighters from four stations were deployed to put out the fire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">He said, “The vehicle might have just left a depot and was going towards Mile 2. The driver lost control of the vehicle and the tanker fell, resulting in an explosion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The fire trailed the spilled content to a mechanic yard, where over 50 vehicles were parked. Twenty one caught fire, but we were able to prevent over 30 vehicles from being burnt. Fire stations from Alausa, Sari Iganmu, Ilupeju and Isolo responded. There was no casualty.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fadipe also advised motorists against speeding and urged them to always have functioning fire extinguishers in their vehicles.</span></span></div>
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Hmm… Have you read this message from President Buhari’s doctors?

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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a letter sent to the Nigerian senate by President Buhari, it has been revealed that the Nigerian President will be back to the country, only when his doctors certify him medically fit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The February 5 letter exclusively obtained by Premium Times, also informed the senate that the President will be extending his medical vacation in the U.K.</span></span></div>
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Customer steals two-month-old baby in Lagos market

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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Kudu’s mother, Mrs. Alimat Adebowale, sells biscuits in the market, while the suspected abductor was identified simply as T-girl.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">According to Punch, T-girl was well known to most of the traders in the market and had lived in the community for over four years until a few months ago when she travelled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">T-girl was said to have returned to the neighbourhood last week and went to the market, where she<br style="zoom: 1;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></a>was treated to a warm reception around 9am on Thursday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It was gathered that she approached Alimat, who was breastfeeding the baby, Kudus, and took the child under the guise of playing with him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">She reportedly strapped Kudus to her back afterwards and sat on a chair behind his mother, who was busy attending to customers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“Nobody knew when she (T-girl) disappeared from the market with the baby. The mother had looked back to check on Kudus, when she discovered that she had left the market with her child. We called her number, but she didn’t pick our calls. That was when it occurred to us that she had stolen the baby.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“I don’t really blame Iya Kudus. She thought the child was in a safe hand because almost everybody here knows T-girl. She would come to buy things here and play with us. She is from Ibadan (Oyo State) and had lived here for more than four years before she travelled some months ago. She came back last week,” a woman, Kemi Agboola, who sells bread and drinks in the market, said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">A resident, Kayode Paul, told PUNCH Metro that the incident was reported at the <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Badagry Police Station</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">He said the police arrested T-girl in Ibadan after some passengers with whom she boarded a bus en route to the  Oyo State capital raised the alarm.<br style="zoom: 1;" />He said,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“It was said the bus had a minor accident on the way to Ibadan and the driver had to wait for some moments. As they were waiting, Kudus started crying and the passengers urged her to breastfeed him. She refused.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“As the baby’s cries increased, they compelled her to breastfeed him and she reluctantly agreed. But the baby did not suck her breasts, which made the passengers to be suspicious. After threatening to beat her up, she said she was taking the baby to her mother in Ibadan.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The passengers took her to the Yemetu Police Station in Ibadan, and she eventually confessed to have stolen the baby in Badagry.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“The police in Ibadan contacted the Badagry division and the mother and her husband travelled there to recover their child. He is two months old,” Paul added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Alimat, who spoke with Punch on the telephone on Saturday, said she had been reunited with her baby. She stated that she had initially declined to give Kudus to T-girl.<br style="zoom: 1;" />She said,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> “People were playing with my baby that day when she said I should also allow her to take him, but I refused. She asked if she had offended me and pleaded that I should let her carry him. I suddenly discovered that I didn’t see her again and people joined me to search for her to no avail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“My child was two months  old that day. The woman used to come here to buy drinks and play with us. I am now with my baby. We will return to Lagos on Monday (today).”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The police in Ibadan said the suspect gave her real name as Yetunde Awosanya, and identified herself as Alimat’s friend.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">“She said she travelled with the baby with the consent of his mother. But after interrogation, it turned out that she was lying. The case will be transferred to Lagos,” the police source said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, SP Dolapo Badmos, who confirmed the recovery of the child, said the suspect would be transferred to the command for further investigations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 26.18px;">President Muhammadu Buhari has written to  the National Assembly today, February 5, 2017, informing of his desire to extend his leave  in order to complete and receive the results of a series of tests recommended by his doctors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">The President had planned to return to Abuja this evening, but was advised to complete the test cycle before returning. The notice has since  been dispatched to the Senate  President, and Speaker, House of Representatives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has tested President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">NLC, in response to a remark by presidential guide on media, Femi Adesina, that nobody can drive Buhari to talk, noticed that open appearance by the nation's pioneer would put to rest bits of gossip about his death.‎ </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Subside Ozo-Eson, told Punch that "In the online networking, stories course without affirmation; I believe that the least demanding route is to talk freely to the country in light of the fact that the subjects are worried about their pioneers' whereabouts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">"On the off chance that there are the individuals who organized bits of gossip and they are not valid, the most straightforward route is for him to contact Nigerians through an open appearance and an announcement. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Nigerians have a privilege to be sure about the wellbeing circumstance of their President and the general population who arrange bits of gossip and unconfirmed reports, one would wish for him to challenge their false front by openly tending to the subjects." </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his response, Executive Secretary, Anti-defilement Network, Ebenezer Oyetakin, blamed the call for Buhari to address the country. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">He stated, "I don't subscribe to that. It likens to insidiousness from such individuals. We are Africans. We have social train on a few issues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">"He has done the proper thing by giving over to the VP as Acting President. Give us a chance to be quiet and keep up a feeling of respectability and regard to the foundation of administration.''</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Super Eagles chief, Mikel Obi as of late declared his huge move to Chinese club, Tianjin TEDA, where he will apparently procure £140,000 seven days. He had his first inviting match today and shared photographs. Curiously, it would appear that he's the main dark player on the team.</span><br />
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[PHOTOGRAPH] See Buhari's Cap at the Ondo APC rally that has got people talking

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<span style="font-size: large;">President Muhammadu Buhari was envisioned on November 19 shaking a snapback at the APC governorship battle rally in Ondo State.</span><br />
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[PHOTOGRAPH] See Buhari's Cap at the Ondo APC rally that has got people talking

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<span style="font-size: large;">The welcome by President Muhammadu Buhari to each Nigerian to introspect and participate in esteem re-introduction can't be rejected the same number of pundits have endeavored to do. This is on the grounds that whatever agonies the country is experiencing today can't be separated from the contributory carelessness of the general population. As it was at the sunrise autonomy, so regardless it is currently that Nigerians are trying to dismiss our convoluted vote based system. President Buhari in Daura. We can't keep on blaming our pioneers who in the main case couldn't have gotten into political workplaces in the event that we had all demonstrated enthusiasm for choosing our exceptionally the best. For the greater part a century, our discretionary procedure has not changed. Short of what 33% of voters really vote at decisions making it simple for lawmakers to keep on manipulating the framework. Once more, every race records a substantial number of invalid votes in light of the fact that our kin still don't know how to vote. Provided that this is true, how might we distinguish visionary men and ladies who can plan and execute arrangements that can enhance our living conditions? Hence, the call by the President that we ought to all change our ways bodes well. My exclusive issue with the re-introduction crusade is that, of course, it is restorative. To begin with, the dispatch occurred at the Presidential manor to which just a modest bunch of individuals have entry. However, it is a message for all Nigerians yet which may never get to a few people even toward the end of the residency of the present government. Here, I review a recording by one of my correspondents in 1986. He was sent to feel the beat of the general population a couple days to the visit of then President Babangida to Benin City. The columnist met a gathering of individuals playing table tennis and chose to meeting them. Stunned that none of them knew about the looming visit he chose to solicit them the name from the meeting President to which nearly everybody replied "it is Shagari" who was not even the quick past leader of our country at the time. Vigorously, there has dependably been a wide hole amongst government and the general population since government projects are dependably elitist and urban one-sided. Indeed, even at that, what number of town tenants typically get the chance to find out about the projects? Open power supply has stayed flawed making it hard for the few that have radio and TV to hear or watch the projects including this new 'change starts with me'. In which case, the message may never get into the disregarded provincial territories. Likewise, individuals can't grasp an approach they neither heard nor caught on. In the event that the pattern in the most recent couple of months in which the Information Minister composes town lobbies in some chose state capitals is again taken after, government is still not conversing with the masses. Rather, she is occupied with the correspondence of the hard of hearing with city pessimists. It is not by any stretch of the imagination awful to contact the few individuals which our Information Minister seems to represent considerable authority in, what is exceedingly terrible is to trust that through it, the sum total of what Nigerians have been come to without building up an input component for appraisal. Open edification is not a "touch and go" issue. It must be broad and trained. What is the intended interest group? What number of individuals were come to? Did they comprehend the message? Considering the varieties in human gifts, it is guileless to envision that every one of the general population in a lobby can comprehend a message in the meantime and similarly. Reality as a matter of fact is that in such a corridor numerous people who had not eaten for quite a long time came into check whether some sustenance will be shared; they don't endeavor to hear the speaker. To build up a program like "change starts with me" without a well thoroughly considered plan on its spread and sustenance is to fundamentally underestimate viable correspondence. Shockingly, the institutional system for it in Nigeria, which is the National Orientation Agency, (NOA) has ended up unviable as all it gets nowadays is subvention for staff compensations. Its establishing fathers had thought its grassroots nature would be capably used by government yet the last has persistently misconstrued its quality. Against this background, we question if any message by government gets to the general population. In addition, notwithstanding for those that get the opportunity to hear anything, there is the need to screen the beat of the general population every now and then. It is vital for government to understand that as snappy as its "change starts with me" sounds, it is close to a New Year determination which many are never ready to execute on the grounds that old propensities resolute. Consistently in the most recent 5 years, for instance, my celebrated Uncle Ajay lets me know of his firm take steps to stop cigarette smoking. By one means or another, he winds up devouring a bigger number of sticks than that of the earlier year. Many elements around us, excessively various, making it impossible to say in this piece, appear to represent his powerlessness to keep his words. Will a large portion of our kin because of certain ecological issues not resemble him concerning our "change starts with me" motto? The motto is snappy and could be helpful in the event that we as a whole grasp it, however we should not overlook that there are dependably freaks in all social orders. This appears to clarify why we have law authorization organizations. What this infers is that the program would not simply be about individuals as it would require certain foundations to organize what people accomplish for the advantage of society. At the end of the day the "me" segment in the change program would allude to people, gatherings, and government particularly that of the present decision party which has a more noteworthy stake since it came to control by virtue of its guarantee to bring change. In like manner, similar to Caesar's significant other, the Buhari government must be above on board in each circle of life-arrangements, contracts, confirmation in schools, and allotment of activities and so forth. Something else, the change program would be broken if the administration gets included in any of the liberalities of its forerunners. Somebody needs to state this to our legislature as it assembles individuals for attitudinal change.</span></div>

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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ayorinde said a case within reach is the affirmed brutalization and murdering of a 7-year-old pilferer that supposedly happened at a specific area in Lagos being circled via web-based networking media. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">As indicated by the Commissioner, the Lagos State Police order has properly issued an announcement scrutinizing the genuineness of the story while requesting onlookers or anybody with evident data to offer clues as the Police proceed with their examination. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"While we censure completely every type of wrongdoing and wilderness equity, it is essential to argue alert at whatever point a human life is included. In this way, there is no sign that the devious demonstration being hawked via web-based networking media happened anyplace in Lagos State or that it is a late case. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"The Police have guaranteed to complete further checks and will welcome each valuable data, however accessible data right now does not recommend that such killing happened last Saturday at either Orile-Iganmu or Badagry. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">There is no any carcass that fits the depiction in any range being touted; similarly as the area of anybody with helpful data to certify the miserable story being sold can't be built up," he said.</span></b></div>

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<span style="font-size: large;">Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory, it is better to lead from behind and to put other in front especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur,you take the front line when there is danger, then people will appreciate your leadership the ultimate victory in competitions is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your beat and that you u have gotten the most out of what you had to give .victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NB: to my fans ,friends, families well wishers,am so sorry this is coming late, I just have to take out time and accept my fate and let go of it,like I promise in our last meeting at (umuosu) general meeting if all aspirate under isialangwa north that it never a do or die affairs, 24th September 2015,any person that won this primary is our candidate,cause we all are brothers and sister's from same community and same political party(PDP).that I will accept my fate,this delegate election has been done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Abia state with Godfatherlism :2015 the new elected governor okezie ikepzu said all chairmanship will all go into election no more appointment, Hon ginger onwseibe has been a local government chairman appointed since adminstration, he also contest now telling people he want to win the seat by election, cause it has always been on appointment .I have accept my fate and other</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Congratulations to hon  ginger onwseibe the chairman of isialangwa north local government & hon Jude .N. Adibe  the councillor representing ward 3 ngwa north local government. I am very delight to know and accept that you have won the post of chairmanship & councillorship candidate of isialangwa north local government. Your victory with a large majority has filled me with immense joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your well deserved and overlong success.you must be highly content with this post as you have undoubtedly worked very hard to achieve this position, your commitment and dedication has helped you attain this post.,you will be able to put many things back on track now which have long been haywire in isialangwa north local government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PDP primary election conducted at Okpuala Isialangwa North Local Government council headquarters abia state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No of accredited delegate =200.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hon ginger-114,hon uzoma-86, Hon Chibuna-nill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PDP Councillor Ama-Ano Ikputu  120 accredited</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hon Jude=70, Hon Denis=40, Hon Prince=10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks goes to God Almighty,parents, Hon Uzoma, attorney general, Onwuchekwa's, youths, Aba newspaper review, Abia state PDP.</span></div>
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Human Trafficking: 139 Victims, suspects rescued In 3 Months

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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">No less than 139 casualties of human trafficking and suspected traffickers, including those gave over by Nigerienne security staff, have been safeguarded in the most recent three months by the Nigerian Immigration Service, Katsina State Command, the State Comptroller of Service, Mr. Mohammed Rabiu Yaro, has said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Yaro, who affirmed this yesterday at a squeeze preparation in Katsina, uncovered that the summon had propelled examinations concerning the thwarted offer of a Kano-based driver to utilize APC publications with the photos of President Muhammad Buhari and Kano State Governor to trick security agents along Kano – Kano parkway to move five associated casualties with human trafficking, matured somewhere around three and 28 years, the country over outskirt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He said the driver, Mohammed Rabiu Auwal, 41, came up short on fortunes during the time spent stop and hunt operation mounted by movement work force in Daura. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As per him, the mission of the presumed casualties – a housewife, her two youngsters matured three and four years of age, with two others – was to cross the Nigerian outskirt through unpredictable course to Agadez in Niger Republic for forward voyage to Libya lastly to Europe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The specialist guaranteed that the dedication of the charge to adequately man the country's far reaching fringe in the state taking after the arrangement of essential coordinations and enhanced welfare to persuade the officers and men of the administration.</span>

Human Trafficking: 139 Victims, suspects rescued In 3 Months

… SIX still under test over utilization of APC blurbs to perpetrate the wrongdoing No less than 139 casualties of human trafficking and s...

PDP ‘ll probe corrupt APC leaders in 2019 – Sen "Achonu"

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Until December 21, 2015, when the Appeal Court sitting in Owerri, Imo
 State capital upturned his election at the instance of candidate of the
 Accord Party that the party’s logo was not included in the ballot 
papers used for the 2015 National Assembly election, Senator Athan 
Achonu represented Imo North Senatorial District at the National 
Assembly, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. His bid 
to return to the Senate through the court-ordered rerun poll was 
thwarted following the declaration of his opponent and candidate of the 
All Progressives Congress, APC, Benjamin Uwajumogu as winner. He is now 
at the Appeal Court to reclaim his mandate. In this interview, he speaks
 on the election and other burning national issues.<strong><br />
</strong><br />
By Joseph Erunke<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>P</strong><strong>enultimate</strong><strong>
 week,  you addressed a press conference where you demanded explanation 
for the disbandment of  the election petition tribunal handling your 
case with Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu. Have you been briefed on 
developments that led to that decision? </strong><br />
The President of the Court of Appeal replied my lawyer and said that
 the tribunal has been set up and that they will soon start sitting. But
 that is not my concern, my concern is that I would want to know what 
the other two members of that tribunal did that made them to disband the
 tribunal.<br />
If they are corrupt, we will like to know and we will like the whole
 world to know if the All Progressives Congress, APC bribed that 
tribunal because the impunity of APC is making me really very 
uncomfortable.<br />

Sen. Athan Achonu
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<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Have you been informed of the composition of the new  panel?</strong><br />
We have not been informed but there have been clandestine movements.
 There was one person who flew in from Port Harcourt because he didn’t 
want to fly in from Owerri Airport so that he would not be identified 
but very soon, we will identify him  and expose him. He will tell us 
what a man of his calibre is doing in my opponent’s house.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Do you have faith in the new panel?</strong><br />
I have faith in the judiciary. Even though they ruled against me in 
the last election, when there was no exclusion and they said they was 
exclusion.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Candidate’s  party logo</strong><br />
But I have left it for the National Judicial Council, NJC to sort 
out because they know the judgements that are wrong and the judgements 
that are correct. Luckily, the Chairman of the Appeal Panel was removed 
for corruption, thus vindicating me. That shows everybody that contrary 
to his ruling that a candidate’s party logo was removed, nothing of such
 happened.<br />
That thing only took place in Mbano and INEC knew before they 
distributed those ballot papers and for this, they replaced it with that
 of Owerri zone and said that it’s administrative in nature, that it has
 the right to do that. But suddenly, they said there was exclusion in an
 election that I won free and fair.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Some few days again, INEC election materials for Rivers 
National Assembly rerun election were discovered in Port Harcourt, would
 you say such strategy was deployed in the Imo rerun election you are 
challenging?</strong><br />
Yes, that is what they have been doing and they are not ready for 
any election. And President Muhammadu Buhari is distancing himself from 
the bribe allegation against his party. What about this one happening 
now, what action has he taken? Is he going to take any action? We are 
waiting for Buhari’s action on the huge discovery of the election papers
 in Rivers State. Everybody says that Buhari is good but surrounded by 
criminal elements. Let us use this Rivers case now to known whether 
Buhari is involved or not.<br />
I believe so much in the judiciary and I can tell you that there are
 many judges who are men and women of integrity. That is why when I was 
in the Senate, I was championing financial autonomy for the judiciary, 
local governments and the legislature before the court nullified my 
election. I have been championing it for years because I believe that 
when there is true financial autonomy for all these arms of government, 
the Chief Justice of  Nigeria can wield influence, the President of the 
Court of Appeal can wield influence and the state Chief Judge can wield 
influence and control the judiciary and make sure that there is 
discipline among the rank and file.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>On President Buhari’s anti-graft war style</strong><br />
Everybody is not corrupt in Nigeria but I can tell you that there is
 corruption in the legislature, executive and the judiciary. So, we need
 to identify those who are corrupt. Even businessmen are corrupt. So,  
of Nigerians are corrupt, so we need to identify those who are corrupt 
and weed them out gradually. I is a gradual process but like I said 
also, the APC government is particularising this corruption. They are 
after only corrupt PDP members. But it is also good, let them weed out 
all the PDP men who are corrupt and when the PDP returns in 2019,they 
will face all APC men who are corrupt. So in a way, I support how the 
corruption war is going.<br />
<strong>What is your relationship with your state governor, Rochas Okorocha like?</strong><br />
I don’t have any relationship with my state governor, Rochas 
Okorocha. I can tell you that as soon as he came into office, he clamped
 down on all my businesses. I was building an 158 -room hotel that was 
almost completed and I acquired Imo Hotel and was trying to build a mega
 mall and another hotel but he clamped down on them for  no cause. He 
disobeyed the court order that said that I owned 60 percent of Imo Hotel
 and he can’t do anything there without my consent.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>But the state governor said he did not demolish anybody’s structure except shanties…</strong><br />
He gave the stop-work order and built a road in the middle of Imo 
Hotel that I co-owned with the state government. I owned 60 percent and 
government owns 40 percent. So, he went in there and built a road in the
 middle and completed some buildings that were erected there and gave 
them out.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Do you intend to take this matter to court?</strong><br />
We are in court already. We are asking for justice.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>On his achievements in the National Assembly during the over six months he was there</strong><br />
I introduced four bills that went through first reading. The first bill was on the need for diaspora votes.<br />
I introduced another one called competition bill which one other 
senator has taken up now and I think itis into second reading. I 
introduced another one which was aimed  at stopping subsidy and make 
sure that petroleum is available at the same price everywhere. I also 
introduced bill that sought to stop exportation of solid minerals 
without processing them to create employment and wealth.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Looking at the National Assembly from outside here, do you think it is living up to expectation?</strong><br />
Yes, the leadership of the National Assembly is challenged. This APC
 government doesn’t want a vibrant National Assembly that would 
oversight them. Almost everyday, Saraki is in court and Ekweremadu too. 
So, the leadership is not concentrating. But in spite of that, they are 
doing a wonderful job.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>Influence of national affairs</strong><br />
Honestly, I hail my colleagues in the National Assembly, that in 
spite of distractions from the executive, they are doing a wonderful job
 there.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>The 2019 general election is fast approaching and there are 
rumours out there that your party, the PDP has begun moves aimed at 
merging into a different party platform, do you think PDP is on the 
right path with this?</strong><br />
I have always said it that I foresaw the implosion of APC long ago. I
 have always said that the APC is not a political party. See what is 
happening to Tinubu in APC today. You can’t disregard Tinubu in 
Nigeria’s politics, especially the South West politics. The problem with
 Tinubu is that he tried to leave the South West and influence national 
affairs. That was a very big mistake for him. I think that he should 
have first of all consolidated in the South West. And he was wielding so
 much power, you distribute power, you allow people to wield power as 
well, those under you. You can’t be a dictator. You can’t put someone in
 power and not allow him to wield the power.<br />
When you give somebody power, allow him to wield the power, that is 
how you control power. That is the biggest mistake Tinubu is making. But
 he’s a seasoned politician and you can’t wish him away. So, the APC is 
making the biggest mistake of their life. And most of the people the 
party is depending on don’t have any political value. Look at Imo State 
for example, look at Rochas Okorocha, Senator Ifeanyi Chukwu Ararume, 
these people can’t win you any vote. They don’t have any followers. Go 
to Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi states and see the calibre of men they 
have there, these men can’t win a single votes. Look at South South too 
and then the strong man which they have in the South West, look at how 
they are treating him! That shows that if you work for the APC, you will
 not be rewarded. So, it would not make APC to break up and all the PDP 
members who left for APC will come come back and the good people in PDP 
Will move for a realignment of forces. We have known those who are 
corrupt.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>There are reports that fee Makarfi led faction of the PDP has set up a committee towards actualising the merger talk…. [cuts in)</strong><br />
I read it the same way you did, I was not part of that movement<br />
<strong>How do you see it</strong><br />
Well, it’s politics. The crisis is getting out of hand. So, since 
they cannot agree, the best thing is to go their separate ways. I don’t 
have anything against it and don’t have anything against realignment in 
Nigerian politics. In fact, that is the only thing that can save our 
democracy a-realignment in Nigerian politics.<br />
Those good men in APC should come out and good men in PDP should 
come out, good men in APGA should come and form a formidable political 
party to wrestle power from these people because they don’t know what to
 do. Buhari is not the problem, this problem was created by the 
military. It’s the military cartel that has finished this country. The 
moment they came in right from Gowon till now, true federalism 
disappeared. That was when Nigeria got into trouble, that’s where our 
problem started, when they started the unitary system of government. 
This was when development died, groundnut pyramid disappeared, Palm oil 
disappeared and agriculture died. Instead, they started drinking oil and
 got drunk with the oil.<br />
There was no investment are they were just burning money. The 
soldiers ended up building ranches and became billionaires. Tell me, why
 should a serving soldier become a billionaire, he’s not a businessman, 
how much is his salary supposed to be? So, we should go back to the 
basis. So, Buhari is innocent of what the country is going through 
now,his only problem is that his government doesn’t have the right 
economic team. His economic team doesn’t know what it’s doing.<br />
This is the opportunity for Nigeria to go back to the drawing board,
 to go back to the basis and come out with a master-plan that will 
relaunch this country. Nigeria is a virgin market place, the country has
 over 100 million people and there is no solid minerals that we don’t 
have, so why should we be poor? It’s just because there’s no leadership 
to put us in a right direction. So, a new party would emerge, a party of
 men who know what they are doing, to take this country to where it’s 
supposed to be. I will support that.<br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong>How do you see the economic policy of the federal administration?</strong><br />

<br />
First, let’s look at it from here. The Presidency sent a proposal to
 the National Assembly asking for billions of dollars without any 
details, without any explanation, so do you think that Buhari has 
competent hands who are working for him? Again, look at what happened to
 the 2016 Budget, look at the story around the budget and look at the 
story around this coming one, do you think Buhari has competent people 
working for him? So, if I were in Buhari’s shoes and I believe that I 
have the best interest of this country and Nigeria is in recession, I 
would select a very powerful economic team, no matter which party they 
come from. I believe that once you are elected, you are serving Nigeria 
and not a political party.

PDP ‘ll probe corrupt APC leaders in 2019 – Sen "Achonu"

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