NIGERIA: SUSPECTED COCAINE DEALER PLEADS GUILTY TO OFFENCE IN COURT

ILLICIT DRUGS

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a 24 year old male, Ibrahim Kabo who is facing drug peddling charges before the Abuja Federal High Court on Thursday pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him.

Addressing the court headed by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, the prosecution’s representative Mr. Mike Kassa said Kabo was brought before the Federal High Court on a two count charge in respect of the possession of illegal drugs by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

NIGERIA: BEAUTY QUEEN DROPS CROWN AFTER BEING SEXUALLY HARRASSED BY ORGANIZERS

 

CROWNED MISS CYNTHIA UGBAH

A beauty queen Miss Cynthia Ugbah, who won the Queen of Trust International 2015 has alleged sexual harassment by the pageant organizers and abdicated her crown.

Cynthia in her resignation letter addressed to the organizers said her decision was reached after much thought and careful consideration and with a conviction that it was of mutual benefit and for the sake of peace.

She said she had returned the crown and other items to the organizers but they continued to run a smear campaign against her. She said what she experienced at the pageant left her with only the option to resign. She went on to thank them for all they had done for her.

SENATOR BEN MURRAY-BRUCE GIVES OUT CHRISTMAS RICE TO HIS CONSTITUENTS FOR THE YULETIDE (PHOTOS)

The Christmas season 2015 has come and gone, however, some experiences are unforgettable for one reason or the other.

One of such is the sharing of rice and other food items, sometimes money inclusive by many politicians to their constituents to ensure that all had a decent meal to celebrate the season too.

All across Nigeria it was the norm and many remain grateful for the kind gesture. One of such politicians who did this was Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, the senator representing the Bayelsa East constituency of Bayelsa State and it was the local ofada rice which he eats himself. You can see pictures of the items in the photos below:

NIGERIA: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MOVE TO AMEND MINIMUM WAGE, REVENUE ALLOCATION LAWS

SPEAKER DOGARA

The House of Representatives is set to review the National Minimum Wage Act 2004 and the Allocation of Revenue Act 2004 with the second reading passage of their respective Amendment Bills at plenary on Wednesday.

The Bill for an Act to Amend the National Minimum Wage Act CAP. N.16 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 sponsored by Hon. Peter Akpatason and if passed into law, seeks to exclude the establishments that have foreign participation from the list of establishments exempted from the payment of national minimum wage.

ALFRED HAWIT: EX FIFA VICE PRESIDENT EXTRADITED TO THE USA TO FACE CORRUPTION CHARGES

MR. ALFREDO HAWIT

The FIFA whirlwind is consuming more people every day, this time it’s the former vice president of the association Alfredo Hawit, 64, who got his face stamped. He has been extradited from Switzerland to the United States and was to appear in court today.

He is the fifth FIFA official extradited by Switzerland to the United States in connection with the several financial controversies in the football body administration being investigated and he is alleged to have received hundreds of thousands of dollars as bribe when he was the General Secretary of the Honduran football federation.

FIFA RELIEVES ITS SECRETARY GENERAL JEROME VALCKE OF HIS JOB

FORMER FIFA SEC. GEN. JEROME VALCKE

The FIFA Ethics Committee is at it again, this time its bite is on Jerome Valcke, 55, the football governing body’s Secretary General who has been relieved of his job on the advice of its adjudicatory chamber headed by Hans-Joachim Eckert.

The Committee had carried out proceedings against him in respect of allegations of corruption and confirmed the termination of his appointment. The Secretary General had previously been on suspension from all football related activities for the same allegation. The former Secretary General has, however, denied the allegations which are connected to a set up that was supposed to sell tickets for the Brazil 2014 World at a price higher than their official price. The arrangement did not go through; as the contract was rescinded before any tickets could be sold.

NIGERIA: NNPC TANKER GOES UP IN FLAMES WHILE DISCHARGING FUEL IN ABUJA

BURNT PETROL TANKER

A petrol tanker belonging to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Tuesday, caught fire while discharging petrol at a filling station along Abdulsalami Abukakar Way, Apo, Abuja.

It was gathered that the tanker which was loaded with 45,000 litres of petrol, was completely burnt down, while the filling station was partly affected.

GHANA: COURT KEEPS IN REMAND ARTHUR SIMPSON-KENT, ALLEGED KILLER OF UK ACTRESS SIAN BLAKE & HER TWO SONS

SIAN BLAKE AND HER SONS

ARTHUR SIMPSON-KENT

Reports have it that a Magistrate court in Accra, capital of Ghana has ordered that British citizen, Arthur Simpson-Kent be remanded in police custody on his alleged murder of his girlfriend, British actress Sian Blake and her two children in the UK before his escape to Ghana.

 

Justice Rosemond Agyirie making the order directed also that while the suspect was in the police custody he should be allowed to have free and unlimited access to his legal representatives.

NIGERIA: SOLDIERS DETAIN 65 CHIBOK GIRLS' PARENTS IN BORNO

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS RALLY IN ACTION

Soldiers have detained 65 parents of the abducted Chibok girls who were on their way to Abuja from Borno to participate in the protest of the Bringbackourgirls (BBOG) movement scheduled for Thursday.

According to Tunji Olanrewaju, a member of the BBOG strategic team and spokesman, who spoke with TheCable, the 65 parents were stopped at Askira, near Chibok, in Borno state by soldiers acting on “orders from Above”.

“Over 120 of them (Chibok parents) were supposed to come for the march on Thursday.  So they were leaving Chibok this morning because it is a two-day trip.They set out at 7am  – about 64 0r 65 of them – in several buses, but they were stopped at Askira by soldiers,” Olarenwaju explained.