Prof. Adeniyi Olatunbosun, the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan says the inclusion of plea bargaining in the nation’s criminal justice system is a welcome development. Olatunbosun told newsmen on Monday in Ibadan that the concept would help to “fast track adjudication, decongest cases in court and forestall deliberate subversion of justice’’.

The defectors included 16 serving local government chairmen, and Alhaji Ibrahim Khalid, the state Chairman, Association of Local Government Chairmen (ALGON). Eight serving Vice-Chairmen of local councils in the state and Alhaji Lawal Abdu, the immediate past Secretary to the State Government, were also among the defectors. The list also has Alhaji Hameed Malammadori, former Minister of Power and Steel, and Alhaji Saminu Turaki former Governor of the state.

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Sunday abducted the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Local Government Madam Serefina Otazi, family sources told newsmen. Mr Patrick Oba, nephew to the Commissioner, said she was kidnapped in Otuoke at gun point on her way to attend funeral at Ewoi Community in Ogbia Local Government Area.

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AT a church event, a then serving president said that he honoured the church’s invitation because the pastor of the church routinely prayed for him and e-mailed him the transcript of the prayers.

Thatcher’s radical policies, successfully adapted across the US, Europe and large parts of Asia, sparked off a new world order and confirmed the evolution of global economic powerhouses. For a uniquely placed country like Nigeria, blessed with resources but hexed with endemic problems, these events hold tremendous relevance and opportunity. They are also crucial to Nigeria making progress towards the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals of eradicating hunger and poverty and improving environmental sustainability, among others.

Apart from the military profession that I retired from, I decided to go into other things. I am also a lawyer by profession because I studied law, went to Law School and was called to bar as solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Muhammadu Buhari was focused in his persistent pursuit of the presidency. Having attained the maximum political office as a military head of state 32 years earlier at the age of 41, Buhari seemed determined to regain political office as president.

Tension is building up in the South-East and parts of South-South geopolitical zones following the continued detention of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Director Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, who was, last Wednesday, discharged and acquitted by a Magistrate’s Court in Abuja of the treason preferred on him by the Department of State Security Services, DSS.

The Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, has said he does not have any plans to decamp to the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying, his support for the Federal government’s anti-corruption stance is not borne out of my personal interest but the interest of the masses who are in the majority and the love for the country.

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, and former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, says he is ready and willing to compete against Governor Seriake Dickson at any electoral contest.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday enjoined Nigerians to pray and work for the good of the country, stressing that God would see the nation through its period of hardship.

LAGOS—Twelve men, who have been on the wanted lists of the Police for allegedly beheading one Afeez Obokwu in May this year, have been arrested by officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti Yaba.