Lady jailed one year for bolting away with lover’s N1.3 million

<br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="900" height="295" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5lpekx6vkkg/XJrZ_hzIkdI/AAAAAAADQGY/KQUEof6cn8I8utt2TmwZCiN53djTvW6OQCLcBGAs/s400/law%2Bcrime.jpg" width="400"></div> <br> An Ejigbo chief magistrate court in Lagos on Monday sentenced a 27- year-old lady, Damilola Kasure, to one year imprisonment for allegedly bolting away with her lover’s N1.3 million.<br> <br> The police alleged that Kasure made away with the money, property of Moses Peter, who resides at Bucknor Estate, Ejigbo, a Lagos suburb.<br> <br> The prosecutor, Superintendent Kenneth Asibor, told the court that the incident occurred about three months after Kasure had entered into a relationship with Peter.<br> <br> Asibor said the complainant was hoping to marry the accused in the course of their relationship and, therefore, felt comfortable to lend her the money. Kasure, however, was said to have bolted after collecting the sum.<br>

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Boko Haram fighters on a revenge mission raze Adamawa villages

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kn7zJF4ofmo/XJrWUJ-4FaI/AAAAAAADQGQ/wwpDneBDw5AlCcz620FiNjCpIfpoP8G4ACLcBGAs/s1600/Boko-Haram%2B%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="663" height="175" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kn7zJF4ofmo/XJrWUJ-4FaI/AAAAAAADQGQ/wwpDneBDw5AlCcz620FiNjCpIfpoP8G4ACLcBGAs/s320/Boko-Haram%2B%25283%2529.jpg" width="320"></a></div> <br> <br> The District Head of Duhu and the surrounding communities in Adamawa State, Mohammed Sanusi, said on Tuesday Boko Haram fighters attacked two villages in Michika and Madagali on Monday night, burning houses and looting food stores. The incidents forced many of the villagers to flee their homes.<br> <br> Some of the villagers, who spoke to journalists from their hideouts, said the sick, the elderly and children were threatened at gunpoint by the insurgents.<br> <br> However, we could not confirm if lives were lost during the attacks.<br> <br> According to Sanusi, the insurgents were on a revenge mission after they were repelled by troops when they attacked Michika and Madagali seven days earlier.<br>

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I was very naughty when I just signed for Chelsea - Mikel Obi

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="590" height="236" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xxhVeHdzmvc/XJrUaQIgqkI/AAAAAAADQGA/KlTIjtLo-xIJuyl-bMkboe6brxHomxf4QCLcBGAs/s400/john-obi-mikel-584401.jpg" width="400"></div> <br> Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi has admitted he used to be a naughty chap during his early days at Chelsea under the tutelage of Jose Mourinho.<br> <br> Mikel, now 31, joined Chelsea from Lyn Oslo in 2006 after a long transfer battle with Manchester United following his impressive performance during the 2005 U-20 World Cup in the Netherlands where he was the tournament’s second best player behind Argentina’s Lionel Messi.<br> <br> In an interview with the BBC World Service’s Sportsworld, Mikel recounted the struggles he encountered during his early days because of the demands of Jose Mourinho (Chelsea’s manager at that time), and the pace of the league.<br> <br> The Nigeria midfielder played 372 games for the Blues over 10 seasons, but he admitted that he had a difficult time adjusting to the Premier League when he first arrived in the summer of 2006<br> <br>

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I’ll surpass my first term’s achievements - Delta Governor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="284" height="250" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-24ygCZ9RdxA/XJrS9bYoZZI/AAAAAAADQF4/MxBFfYT1XDEXVFLBS8qIt_-Z62QUJWoIgCLcBGAs/s400/Governor%2BIfeanyi%2BOkowa%2Bof%2BDelta.jpg" width="400"></div> <br> Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has promised that he will surpass his first term’s achievements in the next four years.<br> <br> Okowa stated this on Tuesday when he received members of the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Nigeria Labour Congress at the Government House in Asaba.<br> <br> He said, “In the last four years, we received a lot of accolades for our achievements.<br> <br> “We had no doubt that we would emerge victorious.<br>

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Success’ viral video shows Delta govt has no shame — Pat Utomi

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CGAeTgEpDeI/XJrSY3_WxLI/AAAAAAADQFw/LGwHDp3GOi0kHZidKaofITwlz2Z6jjzUgCLcBGAs/s1600/Pat%2BUtomi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="534" height="223" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CGAeTgEpDeI/XJrSY3_WxLI/AAAAAAADQFw/LGwHDp3GOi0kHZidKaofITwlz2Z6jjzUgCLcBGAs/s400/Pat%2BUtomi.jpg" width="400"></a></div> <br> Political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, on Wednesday said the viral video of a schoolgirl, Success Adegor, who was sent home because of her parents’ inability to pay her examination levy, had exposed the Delta State Government as one that “has no shame.”<br> <br> Utomi, who is the 2019 governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State, said the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration had lost every sense of shame in the governance of the state.<br> <br> He said the state had more than enough revenues to give qualitative education, health and infrastructure to the people and to power agriculture endowment value chains and alleviate poverty.<br> <br> In a statement titled, “The Battle Line Issues,” Utomi said Success’ viral video exposed the level of decay in the educational system in the state, calling on the government to prioritise key issues of governance which directly affected Deltans.<br> <br>

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Presidential Election: Tribunal begins hearing on Atiku’s petition against Buhari Wednesday

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="600" height="372" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m_Fyy4rEwOo/XJqBzheCL2I/AAAAAAADQFo/XA4Ifu8sGnAlVPpZFBYIFWOsTo99vsRkgCLcBGAs/s640/Buhari-atiku%2B..png" width="640"></div> <br> <br> <b>The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, will on Wednesday, commence hearing on the petition the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge the outcome of the February 23 presidential election.</b><br> <br> The petitioners, are seeking to invalidate the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the presidential contest. <br> <br> It was learned Tuesday night that a five-man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal will conduct pre-hearing session on the petition Atiku and his party lodged before the tribunal on March 18.<br> <br> It was however not clear if the panel will be headed by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa or by Justice Abdul Aboki who earlier made preliminary orders that compelled the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant all the parties access to electoral materials that were used in the conduct of the election.<br> <br> <br>

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Nigeria 1-0 Egypt: Paul Onuachu’s stunning goal gives Super Eagles victory against Pharaohs

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OTuXgdlO3nk/XJp4XKuBT9I/AAAAAAADQFA/DqGelB2zg84vYQNxU4nl_giTp52LycU1ACLcBGAs/s1600/onon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OTuXgdlO3nk/XJp4XKuBT9I/AAAAAAADQFA/DqGelB2zg84vYQNxU4nl_giTp52LycU1ACLcBGAs/s400/onon.jpg" width="400"></a></div> <br> <b>Super Eagles Debutant, Paul Onuachu scored a spectacular winner as Nigeria defeated Egypt 1-0 to start their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Cup on a positive note at the Stephen Keshi Stadium on Tuesday.</b><br> <br> It took only 10 seconds of play for the FC Midtjylland forward to score what would be the matchwinner against Javier Aguirre’s men - hosts of the Afcon finals in June.<br> <br> FC Midtjylland striker Paul, who was making his first start for the Eagles, sent the home fans into wild celebrations as early as the 10 second of the encounter, when he beat his marker before unleashing a ferocious volley that beat the Egyptian goalkeeper for the only goal of the encounter.<br> <br>

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Algerian army demands immediate removal of ailing president

<br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9ioATlId80/XJp_7Rws_3I/AAAAAAADQFg/WoY8sX8UAZcQLw09JH0gAEq3CBYQDib-ACLcBGAs/s1600/Algerian-President-Abdelaziz-Bouteflika.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="675" height="209" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9ioATlId80/XJp_7Rws_3I/AAAAAAADQFg/WoY8sX8UAZcQLw09JH0gAEq3CBYQDib-ACLcBGAs/s320/Algerian-President-Abdelaziz-Bouteflika.jpg" width="320"></a></div> <br> Ahmed Salah, Algeria’s chief of army staff, has demanded President Abdelaziz Bouteflika be declared unfit to rule after weeks of protests against him.<br> <br> The army chief urged an immediate adoption of the country’s Article 102, which allows for a president to vacate office if declared unfit.<br> <br> “We must find a way out of this crisis immediately, within the constitutional framework,” he said in a speech on television<br> <br> “This solution achieves consensus and must be accepted by all.”<br> <br>

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Burundi releases schoolgirls held for scribbling on President Nkurunziza’s portrait

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="824" height="266" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B_ZF9VrW2OA/XJp-9s8saOI/AAAAAAADQFY/6oqincoT_dEv5j0x-7Ni7bfiogSESDCdQCLcBGAs/s400/Nkurunziza1%2Bburundi.jpg" width="400"></div> <br> Burundi has released three schoolgirls who were detained over accusation of scribbling on President Pierre Nkurunziza’s picture in textbooks which led to international outcry.<br> <br> The three girls were the last still being held from a group of seven children arrested earlier February in Kirundo province, in Burundi’s northeast some 200 kilometers from the commercial capital Bujumbura.<br> <br> All were accused of insulting Nkurunziza by defacing his image.<br> <br> A regional court in Kirundo had decided last Wednesday to proceed with a full trial against the three.<br> <br>

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INEC suspends Certificates of Return issuance to Zamfara Gov, Assembly polls winners

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YUlk3fJ_2_Q/XJp-CZ29U7I/AAAAAAADQFQ/LJY7xjtXhrEGQlkgfxMA-S4OBd56uhUOQCLcBGAs/s1600/Prof.-Mahmood-Yakubu-copy-504x315%2Binec.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="504" height="250" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YUlk3fJ_2_Q/XJp-CZ29U7I/AAAAAAADQFQ/LJY7xjtXhrEGQlkgfxMA-S4OBd56uhUOQCLcBGAs/s400/Prof.-Mahmood-Yakubu-copy-504x315%2Binec.jpg" width="400"></a></div> <br> The Independent National Electoral Commission has suspended the issuance of Certificates of Return to winners of the last governorship and House of Assembly elections in Zamfara State.<br> <br> On its verified Facebook page, INEC said, it was just served the court orders cancelling the primaries conducted by the Zamfara All Progressives Congress.<br> <br> The court order was issued by the Court of Appeal in Sokoto State on Monday.<br> <br>

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