Ticket: Lagos Assembly aspirant sues APC

An aspirant who sought to represent Lagos Island Constituency 1 in the state’s House of Assembly, Wasiu Sanni, has sued the All Progressives Congress for allegedly omitting his name in the final list submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Sanni, who claimed to have won the party’s December 2, 2014 primary with 186 votes, is accusing the APC of transferring his mandate to the first runner-up in the said election, Hakeem Masha, who was said to have polled 70 votes.

Jonathan cannot suspend or sack Jega

                                                                               INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega

We must never permit a situation of having to lock the stable door after the horse had bolted. The constitution is clear and unambiguous: the process of removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, according to Section 157 of the 1999 Constitution, starts from the Senate and ends with the President.

Reacting to the purported dismissal of Maurice Iwu by President Goodluck Jonathan in the Daily Independent in 2010 under the title, The collapse of the Rule of Law in Nigeria, I said inter alia:

Iran former vice president taken to jail

Tehran - Iran's official IRNA news agency says the country's former first vice president has been taken to jail to serve his prison term.

Mohammad Reza Rahimi, a top aide to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was convicted by Iran's supreme court last month of corruption and sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a 10 billion rial ($300 000) fine. The court also ordered Rahimi to pay compensation equivalent to some $800 000.

Argentinian President formally charged

Buenos Aires - Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was formally charged Friday with the alleged cover-up of Iran's involvement in a 1994 attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that claimed the lives of 85 people.

Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita charged Fernandez de Kirchner in connection with the complaint that Alberto Nisman filed on 14 January. Nisman, who had been investigating the attack on the community centre for 11 years, was found dead in his apartment, under mysterious circumstances, just four days later.

Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and two other pro-government politicians were also charged in connection with the alleged cover-up.

Modupe Ozolua rents homes & sonsors businesses for hundred of displaced women in Gombe

On February 12th 2015, four days after a three day research visit to several Internally Displaced Nigerians camps in Gombe, Body Enhancement Foundation returned to rent houses, donate sewing machines, cap knitting kits, cloth knitting machines, new fabrics for trading, groundnut production items, monies to start businesses, and cartons of Indomie noodles to displaced women at the Wuro-Juli in Akko LGA and The Federal Low-cost Mini (Intercessors For Nigeria) camps, Gombe.