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Share In a bid to continually decongest the correctional centres and ensure quick dispensation of justice, the Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Henry Olusiyi, has released an accused, Abdullahi Usman, unconditionally. Usman, who was diagnosed with diabetes, and scabies, has been detained for over one year for alleged criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. The Chief Judge, who acted based on the medical report brought before him, said the accused has been detained for too long without trial. W...

By Fri Dec 25 2020 President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the family of the late Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, to uphold the good name left behind by him. Buhari, in a letter addressed to the bereaved family, said the good family name was worth more than gold The President’s letter was delivered to Sam’s younger brother and the head of the family, Abraham Nda-Isaiah by his personal staff, Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity; Sarki Abba, Senior Spec...

This is contained in his condolence letter to the family on Thursday. The Nigerian leader urged them to uphold the family’s name. “On behalf of the Federal Government and my family, I sincerely express my condolence on the sudden transition of my friend and ally, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, Publisher of Leadership Newspapers. “Indeed, Sam’s untimely passage filled me with shock and sadness to the point that I was lost for words when the news reached me,” he said. The president added that he w...

By Muyiwa Adetiba According to some statistics, about 30 million Nigerians go to bed hungry every night. Only about one in four has one or more meals per day. About three in five start the hustle of the day without breakfast. About two in three earn less than a dollar per day while graduate unemployment is a whopping one in two. As grim as these statistics are, they are not 2020 statistics. And everybody knows this year has been exceptionally brutal on many fronts. Just as people were trying to...

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2020: For many Sierra Leoneans who had feared a change of government in 2018 may simply usher in more of the same corruption and poor governance, today’s publishing of the country’s Auditor General’s 2019 Report into the SLPP government’s management of public funds, confirms those fears. The report, like all previous reports, makes for disheartening reading. There is corruption and malfeasance across the corridors of almost every government ministry a...

Explained: When Jayalalithaa refused to send IPS officers to Centre India Published: Monday, December 14, 2020, 12:17 [IST] New Delhi, Dec 14: In the wake of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees refusal to send three IPS officers on central deputation, similar refusal from Tamil Nadu has echoed when Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa refused to send IPS officers to Centre in 2001. Presently, the Centre has asked for the three IPS officers to be sent on deputation with the Government of India ...

The President, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, urged the couple to “treat the other person in the same way you wish to be treated” and wished them a successful marriage. The Governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, gave out the hand of the bride in marriage. The delegation also included the Minister of Water Resources and Galadiman Kazaure, Engineer Suleiman Adamu; the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Domestic Affairs, Sarki Abba; the Senior Specia...

Everyone was in the loop, defiant sondland says he followed trumps orders. and then usee the supporting stories there down at the bottom below the picture, vice president mike pence. vp was told ukraine military aid appeared tied to investigations. and secretary of state mike pompeo, state chief ensnared in scandal. in kansas city, kansas city star, mike pompeo is from -- this kansas city star is missouri based but kansas city nearby to kansas. mike pompeo is from kansas. hes a big deal in terms...

Risky so sondland broke away. and theres him talking to his lawyer, right, about the strategy for saving himself. well-done l.a. times. l.a. times front page today. here was "the wall street journal" today five column page one headline, envoy says trump directed effort. sondland cites quid pro quo between ukraine probes meaning ukraine investigations and a meeting with the president. heres the st. louis post dispatch from st. louis, missouri. banner headline across the whole front page. it was n...

And why it happened. just to get closure, basically. >> whitehouses body has been brought here to louisvilles morgue, where the kentucky chief medical examiner, dr. tracey corey, will perform the autopsy. >> were looking for evidence of petechial hemorrhages. >> shes assisted by a medical student and a technician. as she proceeds, dr. corey dictates her findings into a recorder. >> body identified as john whitehouse. exterior of the body, body is that of a normally developed, normally nourished ...