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(Nigeria) The absence of Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday stalled hearing in the suit by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP against five governors, who defected to the APC. The PDP had sued the five governors, and prayed the court to declare their seats vacant. The governors, Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano State), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto State) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), had on November 26, 2013, defected to APC. The PDP counsel, who filed the suit on behalf of the party, said it was brought pursuant to Section 177 (c), 221 and 222 (c) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The court was expected to hear if the PDP had served the defected governors at today’s hearing. Justice Kolawole was also to hear PDP’s reply to the motions filed by the defendants’ counsel. The judge had on January 6, ordered PDP to serve hearing summons on its five defected governors at the APC headquarters and n

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned the Federal Government against going ahead with its reported plan to remove the elected governor of Borno State and appoint a military administrator to oversee the affairs of the state, under the guise of intensifying the fight against Boko Haram. In a statement in Ibadan, Oyo State on Monday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the presidency should realise that there is always a limit to impunity, and that if indeed anyone should be removed over the protracted insurgency in the state and the entire North-east, it is President Goodluck Jonathan. ''What is happening in the North-east in general and Borno state in particular is failure of leadership at the highest level of government, especially because the imposition of a state of emergency in the three worst-hit states has given the President emergency powers to deal with the protracted crisis. ''As the Presid

(Nigeria) Scores of final year students of Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, on Monday resumed as directed by the institution’s management amid tight security. The students were seen discussing in groups on the campus. The authorities had on January 23 closed down the institution following a violent student demonstration against the shutting down of the school’s registration portal. The management, in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, directed the reopening of the university for its final year students on February 24. The Dean of Students Affairs, Prof. Kabir Akinyemi, told NAN that the university’s portal had been reopened for the final year students alone. Akinyemi said the reopening of the portal would enable them to register online ahead of their rain semester examinations. The don said writing the examinations would also enable the final year students to participate in the June batch of National Youth Service Corps programme. ``We had to consider the

(Nigeria) Four autonomous communities in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area  of Imo State on Monday barricaded the main entrance of the Owerri Business Unit of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company in protest of  `blackout’. The protest, which lasted for more than six hours, resulted in gridlock at Amajeke Junction, where the company’s office is located. The gridlock also affected the nearby Royce Road. The affected communities are Elelem, Umuhu, Ngor and Ntu.  The Leader of the protesting group, Mr Felix Nwogu, told NAN that the communities had been engulfed in `blackout’ for the past three months. He said that the situation had caused much setback to the communities. Nwogu said that the communities had written letters to the company on the situation, claiming that the company had failed to address the situation.  “Those in charge of power distribution have not shown any interest in solving the problem. This protest is to make everybody feel our pain and make the r

(Nigeria) The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, on Monday called on the Federal Government to effectively monitor the sales of kerosene in filling stations across the country. Mr Oluwaseyi Gambo, the National Public Relations Officer of PENGASSAN, made the call in an interview the News Agency of Nigeria  in Lagos. Gambo said that lack of interest in monitoring and effective regulation by government agencies were responsible for some filling stations selling the product above the approved pump price of N50 per litre. ``It is only in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC mega stations that we know it’s being sold at a regulated price. There should be publicity on radio, television and the newspapers on how much kerosene is being sold for at our filling stations. ``The government should set up monitoring units to monitor and arrest those stations that sell above the approved pump price. If there is a threat to shut down the well

(Nigeria) Mr Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has cautioned politicians against early campaign to avoid overheating the polity. Idowu made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos. He said that INEC had issued timetable which clearly indicated the timeline for commencing campaign by political parties and candidates in the country. According to him, the commission has repeatedly warned political players to always abide by the provision of the Electoral Act to ensure sanity in the political process. “We have issued a timetable to indicate the timeline for campaign. INEC has also repeatedly warned politicians on the need to play politics by the rule”, he said. He said that though INEC was not a law enforcement or security agency, it was however in a position to ask law enforcement agencies to help in enforcing laws on electioneering campaign. Idowu reiterated the determinatio

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced a mechanic,  Hafix Asimiyu, 31, to two years imprisonment for drug trafficking. Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia sentenced the accused, after he pleaded guilty to the count charge of dealing in Indian hemp. ``The accused has pleaded guilty to the charge before this honourable court and he is hereby convicted as charged. The convict is accordingly sentenced to two years imprisonment beginning from Feb. 8, 2013 the date of arrest, or in the alternative to pay a fine of N50,000. ``The drug exhibit is to be returned to the office of the NDLEA for destruction, if this judgement is not appealed within 30 days of delivery," the judge held. The convict, who resides at Nurudeen Bolade St., Oshodi Expressway, Lagos, was arraigned on October 16, 2013, and had pleaded guilty. The judge had, however, adjourned the case for review of facts and sentencing of the accused. The Prosecutor, Mr Kalu Orji, had told the court that th

At least 26 policemen were killed and 10 others wounded on Monday in clashes between gunmen and police in northern Iraq, police said. A police source said that the clashes occurred when unidentified gunmen attacked police forces tasked with protecting oil pipelines in the village of Ghazil. The source added that the clashes lasted more than one and a half hours. No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. Report says that Iraq is witnessing its worst violence in recent years. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, a total of 8,868 Iraqis, including 7,818 civilians and non-combatant security personnel, were killed in 2013, the highest annual death toll in years.

Uganda's president called homosexuals mercenaries and prostitutes Monday as he signed off on one of the world's toughest anti-gay laws, defying warnings from Western donors. Yoweri Museveni said he could not understand how one could "fail to be attracted to all these beautiful women and be attracted to a man" instead and described in lurid detail his particular revulsion to oral sex. "That is a really serious matter. There is something really wrong with you," Museveni, a devout evangelical Christian who has been in power nearly decades, said of gay men. "Homosexuals are actually mercenaries. They are heterosexual people but because of money they say they are homosexuals. These are prostitutes because of money," he added. The bill he signed into law holds that repeat homosexuals should be jailed for life, outlaws the promotion of homosexuality and requires people to denounce gays. "You push the mouth there, you can come back with

Egypt's prime minister Hazem al-Beblawi said his government submitted its resignation to interim president Adly Mansour on Monday, state media reported. The announcement comes ahead of a presidential election due to be held by mid-April and as defence minister and army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely tipped to win the poll if he stands. But Sisi has to resign from the government and the army before he can officially announce his bid to run for president.

Some 500 African migrants stormed a triple barbed-wire border fence Monday that divides the Spanish territory of Melilla from Morocco, with about 100 making it over, an official said. The migrants targeted two different sections of the border and were "very violent" as they used "sticks and threw rocks at Spanish and Moroccan police", said a spokeswoman for the Spanish government's representative in Melilla. About 100 of the roughly 500 migrants involved in the border assault managed to enter Melilla, she added. The Moroccan interior ministry said at least 27 people had been wounded, including 13 members of its security forces hit by rocks that the migrants hurled at them as they stormed the border fence. Moroccan police arrested around 100 migrants, including 14 who were taken to hospital in the nearby town of Nador suffering injuries caused by the barbed wire that the Spanish authorities have placed on top of the barrier as a deterrent. It was the l

Fresh clashes between peacekeepers and militias have killed two soldiers and two gunmen in the capital of the strife-torn Central African Republic, where the fighting was ongoing, an officer with the force told AFP. Two Chadian peacekeepers and two fighters from the mostly Christian anti-balaka militia died in clashes Sunday in Bangui, a senior officer with the African-led MISCA force told AFP.  Fresh fighting in the same area on Monday seriously wounded another Chadian soldier.

(Nigeria) Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Sunday in Abeokuta dismissed as incorrect insinuations that he had ever planned to defect to the  All Progressives Congress, APC, reports NAN. Tambuwal denied the allegation shortly after a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the latter’s residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The Speaker was in the former president’s residence for a meeting which commenced at 12.30 p.m. and ended at 2.15 p.m. (about two hours later). Tambuwal, who reaffirmed his membership of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, told newsmen shortly after the meeting that he had come to visit a PDP national leader. ``I have come to visit our PDP national leader. `Baba Obasanjo’ and I are still in PDP," the Speaker who was accompanied by three of his colleagues --- House Minority Leader, Sumaila Kawu, as well as Ajibola Muraina and Aminu Shagari --- said. Tambuwal further explained that he was in Abeokut

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State, has described as empty boast, comments credited to the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will crush APC in the state and arrest Governor Rotimi Amaechi immediately after the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan come 2015. APC in statement Sunday by Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, said “We would have ignored this ranting of a drowning man, but we decided otherwise so that the public may not be tempted to believe Wike’s devilish insinuation that Amaechi has committed any crime for which he deserves to be arrested as soon as he loses his immunity as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution as a sitting Governor. Indeed, nothing could be further from the truth, for the alleged crimes exist only in the satanic imagination of Wike and his cohorts. “We, however, understand Wike’s frustration since, by taking the entire Rivers State with him to APC, Governor Amaechi has dea

( Nigeria) Rivers State governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, Mr Rotimi Amaechi has called on religious leaders across the country to champion the vanguard against corruption in the country. He also said the church as a body has the responsibility to examine, enlighten and educate the citizens of the country on the means to ensure that political office holders run accountable and transparent leadership to those who voted them to power. Speaking on Sunday at Christ Church, Port Harcourt during a service organized for the Induction of the Resident Minister and reception of Assistant President Ministers, Amaechi urged religious leaders to as a matter of responsibility hold government accountable. According to him, “I have been trying my best possible to avoid politics in the church but God will not come down to act, we will act on our own. “While we are talking about the problem and the ways to end religious wars in the country, others are busy stealing

Brazilian police fired tear gas and arrested hundreds on Saturday as they dispersed a crowd in Sao Paulo that violently protested expenditures for the World Cup tournament. About 1,000 protesters took to the streets in what was initially a peaceful expression of anger over the $11 billion (eight billion euros) Brazil is spending to host the Cup, the world's premier football event. Protesters then went on a rampage, smashing bank windows and setting up roadblocks with garbage set on fire. The unrest comes four months before the World Cup opening game is played in the city's Arena de Sao Paulo on June 12. As of midnight, military police in Sao Paulo reported 230 arrests in a Twitter message. Among those arrested were five journalists, the O Estado de Sao Paulo daily reported. At least five police officers and two protesters were injured, police said. Recent protests have drawn far fewer people than those which marred the Confederations Cup in mid-2013, but this yea

A Cairo court adjourned Sunday the trial of Egypt's former president Mohamed Morsi along with other 35 people over espionage charges to Feb. 27, official news agency MENA reported. The other defendants, including Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badei and his two deputies Khairat al-Shater and Mahmoud Ezzat, former parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni and others, rejected lawyers assigned to defend them, reports Xinhua. The defendants are accused of spying for foreign bodies including Palestinian Hamas movement to carry out terrorist acts in Egypt. Speaking from inside a glass cage, the defendants told the judge they have the right to choose their defending team. During the first session on Feb. 16, the presiding judge Shaaban El-Shami asked for mandating ten lawyers for the defendants, as their original lawyers withdrew to protest against putting Morsi and his Brotherhood comrades inside a glass cage during the trial, deeming it as illegal procedures. The Pu

No fewer than 19 Afghan soldiers were killed and seven captured on Sunday when rebels attacked an outpost in eastern Afghanistan, police said. Kunar province police spokesman Ahmad Farid who made this known in Kabul said a large number of the militants assaulted an army outpost at 3.30 a.m. in the Ghaziabad district. ``In an hour-long gun battle, 19 soldiers were killed. ``The militants also took seven soldiers, but four of them could manage to escape,” Farid said. He added that two of the four soldiers who managed to escape were also wounded. The Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the attack. 

Gunmen shot dead a senior police officer in northern Egypt on Sunday, the latest deadly attack targeting Egyptian security personnel since the ouster of  President Mohammed Morsi. Egyptian security officials said in a statement that two men on a motorcycle gunned down Capt. Mohammed Eid near his house in the city of Sharqia and escaped. The statement said Eid was a National Security Agency officer involved in investigating some leaders of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood to which Morsi belonged. It added that he was the second senior police officer to be killed in less than a month. Reports say unidentified gunmen in January had killed Gen. Mohammed Said, head of the Interior Ministry's technical office, near his home in Cairo. Security forces and facilities have been the target of a series of attacks since the military deposed Morsi in July 2013. However, the military-backed government blamed the attacks on the Muslim Brotherhood, which it designated a terrorist orga

(Nigeria) The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Command in Lagos State says it intercepted 15,300 litres of petrol being smuggled out of the country on Friday. Mr Clement Adesuyi, the state NSCDC Commandant, told newsmen in Lagos on Sunday that men of the command carried out the operation in Badagry. ``We recovered 45 drums with 300 litres each and 72 other containers with 25 litres each and one Yamaha boat. Five suspects who were in the boat jumped into the sea to escape arrest. They were coming from Escravos in Apapa,” he said. According to him, his men are still on trail of the suspects. ``Our men are still on the watch out for the suspects. We have spread across the border line to ensure that our petroleum products are not smuggled out illegally through the sea. One major challenge we have in arresting suspects on the sea is lack of speed boats. ``We currently have about 30 good swimmers in Badagry alone, but we need bigger engine boats. Nigeria is losing

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Sunday condemned attempts by some individuals and groups to politicise the suspension of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN governor,  Malam Lamido Sanusi.  In a statement, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Olisa Metuh, in Abuja, the party said the issues leading to Sanusi’s suspension were strictly based on the management of the economy. The statement urged Nigerians to disregard those attempting to politicise or introduce sentiments into the matter. It said that the party had implicit confidence in President Goodluck Jonathan and his efforts to ensure the stability and growth of the economy. The statement said the decision to suspend the CBN governor was done in the best interest of the nation to safeguard the financial sector. It dismissed insinuations that the suspension was aimed at silencing a whistle blower and promoting corruption. ``After thorough analysis of the issues surrounding the suspension, it was clear

(Nigeria) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has faulted the legal advice provided last week by the Attorney of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke to the effect that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was empowered by the NNPC Act to remit only to the federation account, its net earnings after deducting cost of its operations. SERAP in the statement Sunday by its Executive Director, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni said that, “the advice by Mr Adoke is patently inconsistent with the letter and spirit of Section 162 of the Constitution, which is to establish a dedicated account into which all public revenue by the Federal Government shall be paid, as well as to remove any arbitrary and non-transparent and non-accountable spending of public revenue. “In the first place, the use of the words ‘all public revenue’ in Section 162(1) suggests that the constitution allows of no distinction between net revenue and gross revenue. Secondly, the

(Nigeria) Edo State Government and doctors in the state under umbrella of Nigeria Medical Association have reached an agreement  on matters affecting the doctors’ conditions of service and improving infrastructure in the health sector in the state. The doctors had gone on a strike, last year, to press home their demands for employment into various cadres in the health management board, improvement in the infrastructure in hospitals and health centres across the state and full implementation of the doctors Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS and the Consolidated Health Salary Structure, CONHESS. Speaking after a meeting with the doctors, where the issues were on the agenda, Governor Adams Oshiomhole told reporters: “I just finished a meeting with the doctors, and what was discussed was about the entire healthcare delivery chain including primary healthcare centre and the fact that we have carried out a comprehensive survey to establish precisely where have health cent

(Nigeria)  Nigeria's former central bank chief Lamido Sanusi on Sunday described the president who ousted him as a simple man trying to do well who has been undermined by incompetent and fraudulent aides. Sanusi, widely respected by economists in Nigeria and abroad, was suspended by President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday over alleged financial misconduct, a move seen by many analysts as politically motivated. Sanusi has accused the state Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) of misappropriating $20 billion (14.5 billion euros), allegations that earned him powerful enemies across the government. In an interview with AFP in Lagos, Sanusi said many of the people advising Jonathan are sycophants who do not speak frankly about the extent of corruption in government. "When you sit with President Jonathan himself he appears a nice simple person who is trying his best to do his best," Sanusi said. "His greatest failing obviously is that he is surrounded

(Nigeria) The immediate past Minister of Police Affairs, Retired Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade, on Saturday declared his intention to run for Ekiti governorship election, reports. Olubolade declared in Ado Ekiti at a reception in his honour by members of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, Ekiti State chapter. Olubolade resigned his position as the Minister of Police Affairs to vie for the governorship position. He said that he would not borrow money from the capital market to finance the state if elected. He also said that his administration would run a programme that was in tandem with the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan to bring development to the state. Commenting on the N25 billion bond sought by the incumbent, Governor Kayode Fayemi from the capital market, Olubolade said that ``borrowing of money by Fayemi is a proof of his failed government. ``I want to assure you that I will not borrow a dime to finance the state and all I am going to do as

(Nigeria) Businessmen and women in Asaba, Delta State and its environs have lamented the negative impact of the current power failure in the area on their businesses. They lamented the situation in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Asaba on Sunday. Mrs Stella Obinna, a dealer in drinks, said she had been experiencing low patronage because she could no longer chill her drinks, pointing out that customers preferred cold drinks. Obinna said that the cost of running the business had gone higher because she now relied on the use of generator to power her deep freezers that chilled the drinks. Mr Usman Aliu, a tailor, said that the incessant power failure had affected his business because he needed electricity for operating his sewing machines and ironing. Aliu also said that he now made use of generators to power his tool so as not to disappoint customers. The tailor lamented that even when the cost of making the clothes had increased, he could not give extra charges.

(Nigeria) The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Mohammed Adoke, has faulted the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN over its patronage of  private law firms in matters between government establishments. Adoke stated this on Thursday when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance to give his opinion on the monetary transactions of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC in its remittances between 2012 and 2013. He described the hiring the services of private lawyers to interpret a matter related to constitutional provisions by Sanusi as "irregular". "The resort by the CBN governor to get paid legal opinion from private counsel on the interpretation and application of the enabling statutes of government wholly-owned corporations is irregular. "It is a deliberate attempt to whittle down the powers of the Attorney-General of the Federation as the Chief Law Officer of the Federation as enshrined in the 1999Constitution,

(Nigeria) Gunmen killed 13 people, including nine children, in a raid on a village in central Nigeria on Thursday, an official said, the latest violence to hit a region wracked by years of sectarian conflict. "The attack took place around 1:00 am (0000 GMT) and 13 people were killed in their sleep" in Rapyem village, said Habila Dung, administrator of the Barkin Ladi local government area in Plateau state. He described the raid as "barbaric" and said nine children were among the dead. Plateau falls in Nigeria's so-called Middle Belt, on the dividing line between the mainly Christian south and predominantly Muslim north. Mostly Muslim herdsmen from the Fulani-Hausa ethnic group have been blamed for scores of attacks on mainly Christian agriculturalists from the Berom ethnic community. Fulani leaders say the Berom politicians who control the state have systemically suppressed the rights of herdsmen, denying them access to desperately needed grazing

Student protest leaders in Venezuela called a march with white flowers for peace Thursday after another night of violent disturbances wracking the capital Caracas and other cities. President Nicolas Maduro angrily rejected United States and other calls for dialogue as the protests, which have left four people dead, entered their third week. Demonstrators -- students and opposition parties -- are angry over rampant street crime, runaway inflation, corruption and bleak job prospects in the country with the world's largest proven oil reserves. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who has kept a low profile during the protests, on Thursday challenged Maduro to prove his claims that the demonstrations were part of a conspiracy to overthrow his government. "Is this a coup or an auto-coup?" he asked. "The only one who has talked about a coup d'etat has been government. It is a fabrication by government actors," he said. Prominent opposition leader Leopol

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, on Thursday in Abuja said it only received funds to cover its capital and operational expenditure from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Mr Victor Briggs, the Managing Director of NPDC, disclosed this at the Senate Committee on Finance hearing on the alleged missing $20 billion oil revenue. Briggs was reacting to allegations by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN that six billion dollars out of the missing funds was paid to the company. He, however, did not disclose the amount that the NPDC received from the NNPC for capital and operational expenditure. ``NPDC will like to confirm that it received funds from NNPC to cover its capital and operating expenditures as approved by NNPC for the NNPC funded assets during the period under review. We did not in NPDC receive $6 billion.’’ According to him, royalties and taxes are paid from the account managed by the NNPC. He assured the committee that before Fe

(Nigeria) The leader of radical Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, threatened attacks in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region in a new video released on Wednesday. "You will in coming days see your refinery bombed," Shekau warned in the 28-minute video obtained by AFP through the same channel as previous clips. It is unclear when the video was recorded. "Niger Delta, you are in trouble," Shekau said, speaking in Hausa, the dominant language in northern Nigeria. The video was shot in an open field, where Shekau was surrounded by an armoured tank, two military vans and about a dozen gun-bearing soldiers. Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, derives more than 90 percent of its foreign exchange earnings from oil. The US government, which has designated Shekau a terrorist, has offered a reward of up to $7 million for information on his whereabouts. In the video, Shekau -- who admitted killing an Islamic cleric, Adam Albani, about two weeks a

(Nigeria) The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has assured stakeholders and investors of the stability and smooth functioning of the financial market, irrespective of the suspension of Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Isaac Okorafor, the Deputy Director, Corporate Communication of the CBN on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Sanusi was on Thursday suspended by President Goodluck Jonathan for acts of financial recklessness and misconduct among other allegations. ``The CBN, therefore, assures all stakeholders, especially market operators, international investors and the general public that the CBN as an institution remains stable.  ``The CBN  will continue to facilitate the smooth functioning of the financial market as well as ensure currency and price stability,’’ it said. It added that the apex bank had received a letter from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, conveying the president's dec

(Nigeria) A Zamfara High Court, sitting in Gusau, on Thursday adjourned a case of armed robbery and attempted murder preferred against Sen. Ahmed Yarima  and 29 others to  April 8. Yarima, a former governor of Zamfara, was arraigned in the court by the Inspector-General of Police on an eight-count charge of armed robbery, conspiracy and attempt to commit murder, among others. Yarima appeared before Justice Bello Gummi of the High Court along with the 29 co-accused persons. However, the lead defence counsel, Mr Muhammad Katu, observed the prosecution should have cited the charges on separate sheets of paper to avoid duplication and complications. This forced the judge to adjourn the sitting for about three hours. On return,  Gummi ruled that the case was properly filed and ordered for the continuation of the case. Both the  prosecution and defence counsel, Mr Oloye Torugbene and  Katu, respectively, however, applied  for an adjournment. The judge adjourned the case to A