Big Brother Fake housemate, Ese told Bisola this morning that Thin Tall Tony is a married man with kids. She told Bisola that she had a dream in which it was revealed to her that Tony is a married man. Lately TTT and Tboss have been so close. But it was a dream from Ese.
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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday fixed March 2 for the hearing of a suit filed by a human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), seeking to vacate the order freezing his firm’s bank account containing his N75 million legal fees from Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose.
Justice Abdulazeez Anka ordered that a hearing notice be issued on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the court had on Feb. 7 ordered a temporary forfeiture of N75 million found in the applicant’s Guaranty Trust Bank account following an application by the EFCC.
When the case was called on Thursday, the EFCC was not represented in court. Addressing the court, Ozekhome said his suit was filed on Feb. 14 and that EFCC was served on Feb. 20 according to a proof of service.
Justice Anka noted that the commission was still within time to respond. He said the commission was entitled to seven days which, he said, had not lapsed, adding that the commission should be allowed their clear seven days.
In his response, Ozekhome asked for the earliest possible date for hearing of his application, insisting that the suit was urgent.
Ozekhome, who is seeking the immediate vacation of the interim forfeiture order, argued that the EFCC’s application for the interim order was done in bad faith.
The commission, he said, did not comply with the statutory and judicial authorities in obtaining an interim order through a motion ex-parte.
According to him, the respondent suppressed material facts in obtaining the order and as such, “the action is unconstitutional as same offends constitutional provisions.”
He said the EFCC did not disclose to the court that Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti, had unfrozen Gov. Ayodele Fayose’s accounts forthwith.
He said the unfreezing order allowed the governor to operate his account before transferring the sum of N75 million to his chambers’ account.
The lawyer said that the N75 million was part payment of his legal fees from Gov. Fayose of Ekiti State.
He further argued that the EFCC’s application and the subsequent order were based on non-compliance with court rules and judicial authorities regulating the granting of ex-parte application.
“The entire gamut of the application leading to the granting of the interim order ex-parte amounts to forum shopping and a calculated attempt to over-reach me.”
He submitted that the issue, whether the said sum formed proceeds of a crime, was currently on appeal. Justice Anka adjourned the suit to March 2.
Vía The Guardian Nigeria http://ift.tt/2lOG6ek
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as Farmajo, address supporters after his victory on Wednesday (AFP Photo/MUSTAFA HAJI ABDINUR)
Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed sought to downplay soaring expectations of his new administration at his inauguration Wednesday, warning it would take decades to fix the nation’s many ills.
“Our government is facing so many challenges and even though I will be doing my best, I also want to make clear for the Somali public that due to limited resources regarding economy and forces of security, what we could do is going to be limited,” he said.
The president, widely known by his nickname Farmajo, officially took office last week, however his inauguration was held Wednesday in the presence of several regional leaders.
The ceremony took place in the highly-secured airport zone to avoid an attack by the Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab group which has threatened a “vicious war” against the new government.
Farmajo’s election has been greeted with elation in a country desperate for a turnaround from decades of conflict and anarchy.
However he warned that there would be no quick fixes.
“Your problems were created during twenty years of conflict and droughts. A solution will need more than another twenty years,” he said.
“I directly request the Somali public to help work in resolving the basic essential problems in the coming years. If we address those the rest will be dealt with by the next governments,” he said.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, as well as delegations from Kuwait and Egypt, attended the ceremony.
In a sign of the challenges facing Farmajo’s administration, a car bomb at a busy market killed 39 people on Sunday.
– ‘Somalia is united’ –
The president has promised a $100,000 (95,000-euro) reward for information on who carried out the attack. Shabaab has not claimed the attack but it bears all the hallmarks of the group.
Farmajo said that insecurity, as well as a cycle of droughts which currently have parts of the country at risk of famine, were the main challenges facing the new administration.
“Al-Shabaab killed about 900 innocent Somalis most of them children, women and elderly during attacks and blasts last year … I am telling you that killing a number of people and destroying property will not deter Somalis,” said Farmajo.
“Somalia is united today and we are telling the misguided Somali youngsters to abstain from detonating themselves into their people and not to destroy the property of their country.”
He said “we are ready to welcome those misguided youths with open hands and to provide them with incentives to start up their business.”
Somalis fondly remember Farmajo’s brief stint as prime minister in 2010-11 which showed him to be a no-nonsense leader set on improving governance and cracking down on corruption.
The Shabaab was forced out of the capital by African Union troops in 2011 but still controls parts of the countryside and carries out attacks against government, military and civilian targets, seemingly at will, in Mogadishu and regional towns.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since the collapse of Siad Barre’s military regime in 1991, which led to decades of civil war and violent anarchy.
Vía The Guardian Nigeria http://ift.tt/2m7IM7n
