Nigerians are in safe hands – Aisha Buhari

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, on Thursday said Nigerians are in safe hands in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

The President’s wife spoke in Enugu, where she inaugurated a Health Screening Initiative Programme.

She also assured Nigerians that her husband’s administration would generate love, unity, security and integrity in the country.

EFCC: Man Bags 3 Years Jail Term For ₦1.7m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, secured the conviction of one Anyalebechi Wilson Nwachukwu before Justice F. A. Olubanjo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Umuahia, Abia State.

Anyalebechi had been arraigned on May 5, 2014 on a 10-count charge bordering on forgery and obtaining money by false pretences to the tune of N1.7million (One Million Seven Hundred Thousand Naira).

The convict had initially pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to him.

However, prosecution counsel,  Mainforce Adaka Ekwu,  urged the court to commence trial, when the convict later pleaded guilty to all the charges preferred against him.

Delivering his judgement, Justice Olubanjo found the accused person guilty on  the 10 counts  and sentenced him to three years imprisonment on each of the counts without an option of fine.

The sentence is to run concurrently from the date of  his arrest.

Media & Publicity Unit

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Kenyan-Based Nigerian Pastor Says He Delivers Women By Sucking Their Breasts

A Kenyan-based Nigerian pastor, who goes by the name, Pastor Chijioke, has admitted that he ‘delivers’ women by sucking their breasts.

A radio station based in Nakuru, Kenya, 99.0 FM Hero Radio, revealed this via an audio recording where the supposed pastor claimed he sucks women’s breasts while giving them ‘deliverance’ in his church.

The On Air Presenter, OAP, Joyce Vobis, called the pastor’s mobile phone using a fake name, Nancy, to ask for spiritual guidance and counselling when he revealed quite a lot on air and didn’t realise he was being recorded.

Akwa Ibom Tibunal Should Have Cancelled Governorship Election – Etiebet

A previous Petroleum Minister, Don Etiebet has responded to the outcome of the Akwa Ibom. Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that sat in Abuja. As indicated by him, the decision was a fraud and suppression of the people’s will. Talking with columnists in Uyo on Wednesday, Etiebet said that he and different senior citizens in the state were determined to return majority rules system to Akwa Ibom State.

He said the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State had appealed for total cancelation of the governorship decision. Etiebet demanded that the decision should have been totally canceled, including that the environment was not favorable for the general population to participate.

His words: “We will always stand by the truth in this state. We have to work hard to ensure that this state belongs to all Akwa Ibom people, not to a group of hooligans, cult boys, or thugs.

“We are not going to submit to any intimidation by anybody. Who in this state has not benefitted from me that I should be afraid of?

“We want to return this state to democracy; we want to return this state to a situation where people will come out and cast their votes for the candidates of their choice. Right now, there is no such environment.”

Daily Post.

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Saraki’s lawyers withdraw from corruption trial, vacate tribunal

The legal team of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday withdrew their representation in the corruption trial of Mr. Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The lawyers left the tribunal on Thursday after the special court refused to suspend the trial to allow the Supreme Court rule on the matter.

Mr. Saraki is facing a 13-count charge bordering on alleged corruption and false declaration of assets.
He was arraigned on September 18, but pleaded not guilty to the charges and was granted bail.
On Wednesday, Mr. Saraki appealed to the Supreme Court to stop the trial after the Court of Appeal in Abuja refused his request last week.