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NJC Continues Emergency Meeting

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For the second day running, members of the National Judicial Council (NJC), have continued their meeting to take a position on the arrest of some judges by the Department of State Security Services (DSS). All the members are said to have reconvened this morning at the three arms zone area of the Supreme Court Complex in Abuja. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, who is also the chairman of the NJC had described the arrest of judges as saddening and regrettable. He however gave the assurance that the NJC, the apex body of the judiciary saddled with the responsibility of disciplining erring judicial officers, will respond to the issue appropriately. On Tuesday, an emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) was scheduled, to discuss the arrest of some judges last week but ended without members reaching any resolution. The meeting, which held at the three Arm Zone of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, will continue on Wednesday. Journalists, who had gathered early e
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Obama: Trump stands disqualified

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President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments on a 2005 videotape about groping women would disqualify him from even a job at a convenience store. Speaking at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Obama said the choice was clear in the Nov. 8 election even before the tape was leaked last week showing Trump speaking crudely about women. “Now you find a situation in which the guy says stuff that nobody would find tolerable if they were applying for a job at 7-Eleven,” Obama told the crowd, referring to the convenience store chain.
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F.G Still Dialoguing With Niger Delta — Kachikwu

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has said that it is not true that the Federal Government has abandoned the people of the Niger Delta region. The Minister made the clarification on Saturday in an interview at the end of the 2016 Convocation Ceremony of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, in Delta state. He explained that the dialogue between the Federal Government and the people of the region to find lasting solutions to the lingering violence and pipeline vandalism in the region was ongoing. He said that the President was very supportive of the project of ensuring that government reached an agreement with the people through dialogue by ensuring that the old model which failed was restructured. Meanwhile, the Minister has ordered the award of scholarships and immediate employment to the best graduating students of the Petroleum Training Institute, which according to him is to help them further their education.
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Corruption: DSS recovers over N360m in 3 judges’ homes.

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Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday, said it recovered over N360 million from the residences of three judges following raids, on Friday night,‎ of the residences of seven judges of the Supreme, Federal and High Courts across the country. A breakdown of the monies allegedly recovered from the residences of the three judges is N93,558,000; $530,087; £25,970 and €5,680. The three judges were identified as Justices Adeniyi F.A. Ademola, Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta and John Inyang Okoro. The DSS claimed Governor Nyeson Wike of Rivers State frustrated the raid of the house of one of the seven judges in which it alleged about two million dollars was being kept, a charge Wike rejected.
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Breaking!! More than 800 killed as fiert storm leaves Haiti for Florida

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Hurricane Matthew killed more than 800 people and left tens of thousands homeless in its rampage through Haiti. This occurred earlier this week before it lashed Florida on Friday with howling winds and rolled northward up the U.S. Atlantic coast. The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, surged to at least 842 on Friday as information trickled in from remote areas previously cut off by the storm, according to a Reuters tally of death tolls given by officials. Matthew, potentially the first major hurricane to hit the United States head on in more than a decade, triggered mass evacuations along the coast from Florida through Georgia and into South Carolina and North Carolina. Southern Florida escaped the brunt of the storm overnight, but U.S. President Barack Obama urged people not to be complacent and to heed local officials' instructions in the face of a storm that could be the most severe to strike northeast Florida in more than 10
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IPOB's Detained leader drags Case To ECOWAS Court

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The detained self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, has taken quest for freedom to the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja. Mr Kanu is demanding the release of his personal belongings allegedly seized during his arrest and a monetary compensation of 800 million dollars for alleged violation of his liberties. He is also asking the court to compel the federal government and their agents to respect, protect and promote his human rights. Hearing in the case has been fixed for November 8, 2016. Kanu alongside his co-accused, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi are facing a six-count charge of treasonable felony, brought against them by the Nigerian government. A Federal High Court judge in Abuja had in September withdrawn from the case. Mr Kanu had filed a petition against Justice Tsoho before the National Judicial Council over alleged judicial rascality. Justice James T
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Senators Reacts To Withdrawal Of Alleged Rule-Forgery Case

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The Nigerian Senate says the rule-forgery case against its presiding officers, Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has been a distraction to the law making body. Reacting to the withdrawal of the forgery charges , the Senate further stated that the withdrawal was a confirmation of its position that the nation could not afford any sharp division between the various arms of government. In a statement by its spokesman, Senator Aliyu Abdullahi, the Senate said the decision to withdraw the case and its subsequent dismissal had confirmed its earlier statement that the case was indeed an abuse of court process having been dismissed earlier by the court. He further stated that the Upper Chamber had always believed that the case was politically motivated and that the executive could not decide for the legislature the genuineness or otherwise of its standing rules.
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