NDLEA : Baba Suwe loses N25m award at Appeal Court

The Court of Appeal sitting in Igbosere, Lagos, Friday quashed the judgement of Justice Yetunde Idowu of an Ikeja High Court, which awarded N25 million as damages to popular  actor, Mr Babatunde Omidina (also known as Baba Suwe) over infringement of his fundamental human rights by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
In its judgement, read by Justice Rita Pemu, the appellate court held that the NDLEA has the prerogative to keep the respondent in custody while investigation is being carried out.
The appellate declared that the Lagos High Court does not have the jurisdiction to entertain in the first place the fundamental human rights suit filed by Lagos radical lawyer and rights activist, Bamidele Aturu on behalf of the comedian.
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Herdsmen massacre 17, several hundreds flee homes in Benue

Despite efforts by  security agencies to stem the recurrent invasion of parts of Benue state by armed Fulani herdsmen, no fewer than 17 persons have been killed  in Akough village in Guma local government area of the state by suspected Fulani mercenaries.
The armed herdsmen also razed Akough  market, where some persons were also killed.
Also some members of insurgent group, the Joint Task Force (JTF) handed over to Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state, in a confessional statement said that  they used to spy for the sect on the movement of the JTF and that were paid N5,000 after any successful operatione yesterday.
Saturday Vanguard gathered from eyewitnesses that the armed attackers stormed the village three days ago at the early hours of the day,  burning down houses and huts, leaving several persons dead while many others sustained varying degrees of injuries. The development has forced several hundreds of people to flee their homes for fear of being attacked in another onslaught.
Also, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, counselled the Federal Government that dialogue with the members of Boko Haram sect and other aggrieved elements in the country remains the only solution to resolving the current impasse.
Alhaji Abubakar who made this known at the Rotary International Conference, organized by District 9125-Nigeria, at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, said, there was need to engage aggrieved groups in dialogue while taking decisive security measures to protect innocent people.

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My quest for the perfect bottom left me with NO LIMBS'

A mother-of-two whose quest for the perfect bottom led to a quadruple limb and buttock amputation has warned other women against black market silicone injections.
Hair stylist Apryl Michelle Brown, from LA, spent five years in excruciating pain when an unlicensed practitioner injected her buttocks with bathroom sealant, telling her it was silicone, in order to enhance them.
Doctors had no idea how to treat the botched implants and told her she might have to live with the agony, but when they finally operated the injections became so badly infected she was induced into a coma.
It was only when she awoke two months later that Apryl, now 46, discovered the lengths medical staff had gone to to keep her alive.
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Forty-six-year-old Apryl, who lives in Los Angeles, endured black-market silicone injections that a surgeon later identified as nothing more than bathroom sealant

Speaking on to Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langford ITV's This Morning via satellite link, Apryl explained that as a child she had been teased for having a 'flat butt' and developed a complex, so when a woman came into her salon in 2004 saying she had had silicone injections, Apryl thought she had been 'sent from God'.

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Police hunting for missing Georgia confirm they have found a body in woodland

A 22-year-old man was last night charged with murder after the body of missing teenager Georgia Williams was found in woodland.
Police said a member of the public discovered the body of the 17-year-old former head girl on the Nant-y-Garth pass near Wrexham, North Wales yesterday, five days after she disappeared.
Officers revealed evidence had also emerged which showed the teenager died at an address in her home town of Wellington, Shropshire.
Jamie Reynolds, a friend of Georgia’s who was originally arrested on suspicion of kidnap, will appear before Telford Magistrates’ Court this morning.
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Developments: Detectives investigating the disappearance of 17-year-old Georgia Williams say that they found a body in north Wales this afternoon. Jamie Reynolds has been charged with her murder

Accused: Jamie Reynolds, right, has today been charged with the murder of missing 17-year-old Georgia Williams, who went missing after leaving home to meet friends last Sunday

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Ogun Police arrest 8 robbery suspects

The Ogun State Police Command, yesterday,   said it arrested eight armed robbery suspects that  specialised in car snatching  and other criminal acts in  Ifo communities of Ifo Local Government Area of the state.
In a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, stated that the  arrested suspects were members of the gang  that have  in recent time terrorized the Ifo community.
Adejobi said:  “ Biodun Olugbodi, is  the leader of a secret cult group that had threatened to carry out a reprisal attack on members of the unregistered Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, last May 9.
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Nigerian Army Links Boko Haram To Hezbollah

 

By SaharaReporters, New York

Nigerian troops in the Joint   Task Forces in Kano today said that investigations into the discovery of weapon cache found in a home occupied by Lebanese foreign nationals in Kano shows that Boko Haram Islamist militants have connections with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah
A press release signed by the spokesman for the JTF Captain Ikedichi Iweha stated that investigations conducted so far shows that there is a local cell of the Hizbollah in Nigeria.

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On 28 May 13 a combined team of the JTF involving the NA of the 3 Brigade here in Kano and the Kano state DSS conducted a thorough search of this house located at No 3 Gaya Road offBompai Road Kano belonging to one Abdul Hassan Taher Fadlalla a Lebanese national who is currently out of the country. After painstaking search of the whole premises, the search team uncovered an under ground bunker in the the master bed room where a large quantity of assorted weapons of different types and caliber were recovered.
The bunker was specially constructed for this purpose. It is worth mentioning to say that the weapons include anti tank weapons, rocket propelled guns, anti tank/anti personnel mines among other dangerous weapons.
All the weapons and ammunition recovered were properly concealed with several layers of concrete and placed in coolers, drums and bags neatly wrapped.
These discoveries were not accidental but the out come of an ongoing robust counter terrorism investigation by the Department of the State Services Abuja in the past several months. The investigation also confirms the existence of a Hizbullah Foreign Terrorist Cell in Nigeria. Consequently, the DSS on 16 May 2013 arrested one Mustapha Fawaz the co-owner of the popular Amigo Supermarket as well as the wonderland Amusement Park all in Abuja. Thus, his arrest and confession unveiled other members of the foreign terrorists network which led to the interception of one member of the syndicate named Abdullah Tahini a Lebanese national at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport  with undeclared amount of sixty thousand United States Dollars on him enroute Beirut. There after on 26 May 2013 one Talal Roda also a Lebanese with Nigerian Passport was arrested in this same house.
All those arrested have confessed to have undergone Hizbullah terrorist training and further implicated one Fauzi Fawad, also a co-owner of Amigo Supermarket and wonderland Amusement Park. However, the fellow is now at large. The arms and ammunition were targeted at facilities of Israel and Western interest in Nigeria, however, the security agencies are making frantic efforts to unveil the true situation. At the end of investigation, all those involved will be prosecuted.