Saturday, 16 April 2016
Photos: Temi Otedola steps out on the red carpet with her mother at Bvlgari store reopening
Photos: Buhari arrives Nigeria after his 5-day working visit to China
Kunle Afolayan shows off his private cinema in his home
BREAKING: Saraki Loses Again, Judge Says His Actions Are "Abuse of Court"
Abdu-Kafarati who gave a judgement today (Friday) dismissed the suit as an abuse of court process.
The judge was scheduled to deliver judgment at noon. But he arrived 30 minutes earlier...
Bukola Saraki filed the suit against the Chairman of Code of Conduct
Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar and others involved in his ongoing trial
on charges of false declaration of assets.
In the suit, Saraki argued that his trial before the CCT, as currently constituted was a violation of his right.
The Senate President said he could not get justice from the CCT Chairman who he claimed is currently being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for alleged bribery.
In the suit, Saraki argued that his trial before the CCT, as currently constituted was a violation of his right.
The Senate President said he could not get justice from the CCT Chairman who he claimed is currently being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for alleged bribery.
He argued that since the EFCC is also prosecuting him before Justice Umar, the CTC Chairman may find it difficult to do justice and act independently in his his case.
In essence, Saraki is asking the High Court to disqualify Justice Umar from presiding over his trial at CCT and challenging the legality of the charges.
Sources said the court did not grant Saraki's requests as it has no supervisory role over the Tribunal.
With the latest judgement as the final blow on Saraki's many delay tactics suits, Nigerians are expecting him to face his trial and prove his innocent or face the consequences if found guilty.
FOR REAL? This Young Boy Just Got Married To This Woman
Female Civil Servant Busted! Only One Woman has 61 Houses
Consequently, ICPC may start publishing list of most corrupt Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
The Chairman of the ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta, said this while addressing participants of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies at the Abuja headquarters of the agency on Friday.
Speaking on the theme - ‘The role of the ICPC in the War Against Corruption: Mandate, Strategies and Challenges’ - the ICPC boss said:
“We are developing scorecard like Transparency International which rates
countries as to the level of corruption of countries. We have developed
one for ministries departments and agencies. Hopefully, we know those
who will take the first prize.”
He added that once 2016 Budget is passed, ICPC would begin monitoring how monies are being spent.
he said, “From one of the employees of one of the organisations, we seized about 61 or 62 houses in an estate. The matter is in court so I can’t say too much but I want to say that the officer was not a man. We do prosecution but also try to seize the assets acquired (through corrupt means) so that apart from prosecution, we can strip you of the assets within and outside the country.”
He added that once 2016 Budget is passed, ICPC would begin monitoring how monies are being spent.
he said, “From one of the employees of one of the organisations, we seized about 61 or 62 houses in an estate. The matter is in court so I can’t say too much but I want to say that the officer was not a man. We do prosecution but also try to seize the assets acquired (through corrupt means) so that apart from prosecution, we can strip you of the assets within and outside the country.”
Billionaire Adenuga's Son & His Babymama Fighting Because He Refused To Marry Her
An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has granted custody rights to Eniola, son of billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga, over his 16-month old daughter.
But his estranged girlfriend with whom he had the child, Maggie Ogun, a pharmacist, has sought the court’s leave to appeal the order.
In his earlier ruling, Chief Magistrate O. A. Ogunbowale had dismissed her objection that Adenuga cannot take adequate care of the child.
The ruling: “Consequently, the applicant (Adenuga) is hereby granted an overnight access to the subject (child) every fortnight from 8 am on Saturday to12 noon on Sunday.”
The Nation reports that the order took effect from March 16 and would subsist until the case is determined.
But, Ms Ogun, through her lawyer, Mrs Marian Jones of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), has applied to the magistrate for leave to appeal the ruling.
She is also praying for an order suspending the ruling’s execution, as well as an order praying for a stay of proceedings pending the appeal’s determination.
The magistrate’s absence stalled the application’s hearing on Wednesday. Adenuga also applied to the court to change his counsel from the firm of Adesokan & Adesokan to Akintunde Williams & Co.
The young Adenuga who works at Conoil Producing Limited, said he started “an amorous affair” with Ms Ogun in October 2013.
She informed him in 2014 that she was pregnant with his child, following which he took full responsibility for their welfare.
Adenuga said he paid for her ante natal care at Reddington Hospital, gave her N100,000 monthly and took her to London where she was delivered of a baby girl on October 23, 2014.
He said he paid the bills worth 22,000 pounds, purchased a first class Lagos-London return ticket for her, and accommodated Ms Ogun and her mother in his Cadogan Gardens, London home.
The applicant said Ms Ogun returned to Lagos last year January, and denied him access to the child.
“I was denied access by the respondent to see my daughter on the ground that I was not interested in marrying her. I sought her understanding in this regard and reminded her of the fact that we had both agreed to end the relationship as it was heading to nowhere,” he said.
Adenuga said Ogun’s mother insisted that he would only see the child on the condition that he married her daughter. Thus, he was not allowed to see his child between last year March and October.
According to him, on one occasion that he was allowed access to the house, he observed that Ms Ogun left his daughter in the care of a security man who doubled as houseboy/nanny and her grandmother, a septuagenarian.
“I was shocked at the unhealthy, unhygienic and unsafe environment in which my daughter was being brought up,” he said, adding that he sends N200,000 to Ms Ogun monthly for their upkeep.
Adenuga said he enrolled his daughter at a “world-class” crèche where he paid N600,000 per term. He said he was only able to see his daughter when he organised a birthday party for her, and when he took her and Ms Ogun to Dubai on holiday.
He said, "On getting back to Nigeria, she reverted to denying me custody and access to my daughter."
On why he wants custody of the child, Adenuga said: “The respondent is unwilling to create time needed to care for my daughter physically, emotionally and mentally and I reasonably believe that my daughter currently lacks motherly attention.”
But Ms Ogun, in her counter-claim, said she never denied Adenuga access to his child. She said from last May to October, she took her daughter to the applicant’s mother’s residence in Victoria Island every weekend.
She said she also took the daughter to the applicant’s father’s house on Banana Island at least thrice a week and sometimes slept over.
She claimed that, problem arose when Adenuga’s mother demanded that she and the daughter spend two weeks monthly at her residence. She said her family refused because she was not married to Adenuga.
According to her, she was trying to resolve the issue amicably when Adenuga, on October 13 last year, came to her home in company of a policeman demanding that his daughter be produced, and in the process assaulted her mother and damaged her phone.
She denied keeping her daughter in the care of a security man, saying: “During my working hours and prior to when my daughter started attending crèche, she is left in the care of my grandmother and my nanny.”
She said the only time her daughter was ill, she was diagnosed with an infection common to children when they start crawling and teething and was promptly treated.
“I have never denied the applicant access to my daughter, rather, he wants custody. I don’t believe it is in my daughter’s interest that the applicant be granted custody of my daughter,” she said.
According to her, Adenuga “is not suited to cope with the demands of having full custody of a 16-month old female child.” She added that “he does not have a definite schedule” and “comes home by
12."
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