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Monday Okoro, an ex-convict recently released from Enugu Prisons; and Chidiebere Oke, have been arrested for specializing in robbing, raping and blackmailing female victims in Enugu. The state Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amaraizu, said the suspects were apprehended by an irate mob, who subjected them to thorough beating to the point of killing them before they were rescued and taken into custody by the police. The suspects were said to have swindled their female victim of some amount of money and also gang-raped her. They later asked her to be paying them anytime they call her. Narrating her ordeal, their victim said that on October 26, she came out from her street to Emeka Abalu in Phase Six Trans Ekulu, Enugu to board a tricycle going to Enugu Town. But unfortunately, ran into the tricycle with some boys. Unknown to her, they were fraudsters and hoodlums operating as tricycle operators. They started telling her that they were foreigners looking for a certain address. Amara

Goodluck Jonathan, former President had given further reasons why he want to be shielded from appearing as a witness in the ongoing trial of ex-Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh at an Abuja Federal High Court. Metuh, who is standing trial for receiving the sum of N400m from the Office of the National Security Adviser in 2014, had issued a subpoena on Jonathan. DAILY POST had reported that yesterday the former president had urged the court to set it aside because it's an invasion of his privacy. Jonathan while given further reasons in the motion filed challenging the subpoena, said "with several attempts by some persons in the current dispensation, to harass, intimidate and rubbish" his reputation and that of his wife, the witness summon issued on him was a ploy to drag his name in the mud. The motion filed on his behalf by his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Jonathan recalled that there had been attempts to seize the properties an

Labour 'tried to cover up rape' Party official suggested allegation would harm my career, says female activist Bex Bailey said she was discouraged from reporting the alleged attack A senior Labour official tried to cover up the alleged rape of a member of staff at a party event, it was claimed yesterday as the Westminster sex scandal deepened. Bex Bailey, 25, a former member of the national executive committee, waived her right to anonymity to reveal that she had been raped during a party event in 2011 when she was 19. When she tried to report the incident two years later she claimed that the official tried to dissuade her because it could damage her career. The allegation is the most serious yet in a growing storm over sexual misconduct in politics. In a separate claim made yesterday, a parliamentary staff member said that she had been sexually assaulted by an MP

- The police in Bayelsa state says it arrested Ogunaisi Akpusu, a nephew of Goodluck Jonathan, for allegedly shooting two people - Akpusu was questioned and released as police commissioner Asuquo Amba says investigation shows it was accidental - The incident happened at a masquerade festival in Bayelsa state Oguanisi Akpusu, a nephew to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has been arrested by men of the Bayelsa state police command for allegedly shooting two people during a masquerade festival. Akpusu's arrest was confirmed by the police command which also said the man has been released. The incident, according to Leadership, happened at Emeyal 1 community of Ogbia local government area of the state. The report said the commissioner of police, Asuquo Amba, confirmed the incident on Tuesday, October 31, in Yenagoa, the capital of the state. Amba, while parading suspects, said investigations showed that the shooting was accidental but added that the victims sustained wounds on their

  Timothy: Letters to a Son   A devotion introduction for November   From your friends at  RayStedman.org   The apostle Paul's two letters to Timothy, together with his letter to Titus, are often called the Pastoral Epistles. This is appropriate, in one sense, because these letters were written to young pastors who were involved in the leadership of churches. They constitute, therefore, a kind of handbook for pastors. But I prefer to call the letters the Filials rather than the Pastorals, because filial has to do with sonship, and that is what Timothy and Titus were--sons in the faith of the apostle Paul. He had led them both to Christ. They were very dear to him, and they had shared many hardships with him on his journeys throughout the Roman Empire. In this first letter to Timothy (whom he had left at the church at Ephesus), Paul is giving him counsel and guidance on how to conduct himself in the leadership of that church. Scholars have had difficulty identifying the timing of th

The Department of State Service, DSS, on Wednesday brought former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, to an Abuja Federal High Court. The development was in compliance with an order by the court. Dasuki decked in a light blue attire with a cap to match arrived the court in company of DSS operatives, ahead of the commencement of the trial of Olisah Metuh, former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Metuh is on trial before Justice Okon Abang for allegedly receiving the sum of N400m from the Office of the NSA under the leadership of Dasuki before the 2015 presidential election. Details later…

The embattled Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has canceled a dinner scheduled for Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja tonight for which his guests were to be members of the National Assembly. The event was slated for 7 p.m., and was strictly by invitation to all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, according to an invitation card of the dinner obtained by SaharaReporters. It was signed by the Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu. The scale of the scandal involved is immeasurable, given that Baru is due to appear before the Senate Adhoc Committee charged with probing the corruption allegations leveled against him by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, concerning the award of NNPC contracts. Senator Omotayo Alasoadura said the members of the Senate rejected the invitation after it became public earlier today. It is unclear whether Mr. Baru intended to pay from his own pockets fo