Ex-Edo Assembly Speaker Seeks Court’s Protection Over Planned Arrest

The immediate past Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, has approached the Edo State High Court in Benin, to seek a restraining order to prevent his `imminent’ arrest.

According to court documents, seen by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Friday, Adjoto is seeking protection of court to enforce his fundamental human rights and also prevent his “imminent arrest by some security agencies’’.

The document named the agencies as the inspector-general of police, director-general of the Directorate of State Security Services and the commandant-general of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Others are the commissioner of police in Edo, director of the DSS in Edo, commandant of the
NSCDC in Edo and the chairman of the APC party in Edo.

Adjoto filed his application, suit no 13/126m/2020 entitled: “Notice of Application for Order Enforcing Fundamental Right (Order 2, Rule 1)’’ at the Benin High Court in the Edo State Judicial Division.

The former speaker is seeking among other things: for the court to declare that the respondents planned, contemplated and or intended to arrest and detain him.

According to him, the respondents have articulated trumped-up allegations to keep him away from the forth coming governorship election in Edo.

The former speaker described the purported plan to arrest him as unlawful, illegal and amounting to flagrant infraction on his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

He is also seeking an order of perpetual injunction “restraining the respondents, their agents, privies, servants, thugs of any name, whatsoever from arresting, detaining or kidnapping him upon any trumped-up allegation.

The grounds for the application, according to Adjoto is that he received a classified information from his sources in Abuja to the effect that the 7th respondent had shortlisted five prominent members of the PDP in Edo, to be arrested and detained.

He alleged that the PDP chieftains to be arrested would be held in detention until the conclusion of the Edo governorship election.

Adjoto deposed to a 25-paragraph affidavit to support his application.

Edo State is billed for governorship polls on Sept. 19, in a high-stakes election, described by analysts as likely to be settled with blows, betrayals and bloodshed. (NAN)

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Ex-Edo assembly speaker seeks court’s protection over planned arrest - Orient Daily News

The immediate past Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, has approached the Edo State High Court in Benin, to seek a restraining order to prevent his `imminent’ arrest. According to court documents, seen by the News Agency

You Must Undertake To Finish Evans’s Case, Judge Tells 6th Counsel

A mild drama unfolded during the trial of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans), before an Ikeja High Court, when the judge, Justice Hakeem Oshodi, ordered Evans’s new counsel to write and sign an undertaking to finish the case.

Oshodi gave the order to Mr Oyekunle Falabi on Friday after dismissing a no-case submissions filed by Evans’s four co-defendants.

Falabi is from the law chambers of Okpara and Co.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that since the trial began on Aug. 30, 2017, Evans has changed lawyers five times.

The lawyers who have represented Evans include Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, Mr Noel Brown and Mr Olanrewaju Ajanaku.

Following the ruling on the no-case submissions, Falabi told the court that that the chambers of Victor Okpara and Co. had just been briefed about the case.

Upon hearing Falabi’s law chambers, Oshodi said: “Okpara, your principal once delayed a trial in my court for two years. I will never forget it. You must write an undertaking.”

The judge immediately dictated the wordings for the undertaking and Falabi wrote and signed to ensure that he or the law chambers would not abandon the case.

The wordings of the undertaking are: “I, Oyekunle Falabi, representing the law firm of Victor Okpara, undertake on behalf of the first defendant (Evans) in suit No. ID/590761, to represent him in defence of this matter at all times when the matter comes up in Justice Oshodi’s Court.

“In the event of any breach of this undertaking, the court is at liberty to report us to our national body, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).”

After Falabi wrote the undertaking, Oshodi ordered that the document should be witnessed and signed by the Lagos State Solicitor-General, Ms Titilayo Shitta-Bey, who represented the prosecution.

Following the signing of the undertaking by Shitta-Bey, lawyers for Evans’s co-defendants requested for adjournment in order to prepare for defence.

Responding to defence counsel’s request for adjournment, Shitta-Bey told the court, “Counsel should take the undertaking serious.

“Constitutionally, they are guaranteed adequate time to prepare for their defence but not indefinite time.”



Oshodi adjourned the case to Oct. 16 for defence.

NAN reports that Evans is standing trial alongside Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba for alleged kidnap of of the Chief Executive Officer of Maydon Pharmaceutical Ltd., Mr Donatius Dunu.

Earlier in a ruling, Oshodi rejected the no-case submissions of Uchechukwu (third defendant), Ifeanyi (fourth defendant), Nwachukwu (fifth defendant)/and Aduba (sixth defendant) and ordered them to open their defence.

Oshodi said that the prosecution presented evidence to the court that linked the four co-defendants to the alleged crime.

He noted that during the trial, the fourth prosecution witness, Insp. Idowu Haruna, told the court that during interrogation, Evans identified his other gang members to include the third, fourth, fifth and sixth defendants.

The judge said: “This witness (Haruna) also mentioned that the second defendant is the husband of the third defendant.

“The third defendant, upon his arrest, had linked the first defendant (Evans) to the alleged crime and said the first defendant was their leader.

“The victim (Dunu) in his court evidence, said that though he was blindfolded, his food was being made in captivity by a woman whose voice was that of the third defendant, the wife of the second defendant.

“There is a prima face case as the first defendant also implicated the co-defendants in Exhibit 10.

“The duty of the court is to look at the totality of the evidence so far before it. The prosecution has laid out a prima facie case.

According to the judge, the court finds and holds that no evidence has been discredited on the face of the document.

“The third, fourth, fifth and sixth defendant are now called to open their defence.”

According to the prosecution, the defendants allegedly kidnapped Dunu on Ilupeju Road in Lagos on Feb. 14, 2017, and collected 223,000 Euros (N100m) as ransom from his family.

Dunu allegedly held captive by the defendants because his family had not paid additional ransom, was said to have escaped captivity and alerted the police.

Four witnesses including Dunu testified on behalf of the prosecution wbich closed its case on Jan. 10. (NAN)

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You must undertake to finish Evans’s case, judge tells 6th counsel - Orient Daily News

A mild drama unfolded during the trial of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans), before an Ikeja High Court, when the judge, Justice Hakeem Oshodi, ordered Evans’s new counsel to write and sign an undertaking to finish the ca

Anambra Assembly Urges FG To Resume Work On Enugu-Onitsha Expressway

The Anambra House of Assembly on Friday urged the Federal Government to resume and complete work on the Anambra section of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway.

The resolution followed a motion raised under Matters of Urgent Public Importance, by Mr Nnamdi Okafor, Majority Leader and member representing Awka South l Constituency.

According to Okafor, the Enugu-Onitsha expressway is a major highway that connects the South-West through River Niger to the South-East, South-South, and Northern Nigeria via Benue and Kogi.


He said the reconstruction contact of the important Trunk-A highway with heavy vehicular traffic, was awarded to Messrs Reynold Construction Company (RCC) in November 2018 with a completion period of 42 months.

The majority leader said that RCC started work immediately on the worst dilapidated Umunya/Awkuzu axis and completed it in record time.

He said the company immediately after, embarked on the Amawbia/Awkuzu section.

According to him, the contractors were doing well at a very good pace until the lockdown and state boundary closures that came with the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The lockdowns and interstate border closures have been lifted by the federal government several weeks ago, and construction companies and businesses have since resumed their activities.

“We are worried that the contractor, RCC, has yet to return to site about five months after stoppage of work, and the reconstruction may be abandoned again as was done in the past.

“We are also convinced that immediate resumption of work and completion of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway will boost economic activities and improve goods delivery time.

“It will also minimise vehicular damages, increase revenues to states served by the highway and eliminate the agonies of the road users,” the lawmaker said.

The Speaker, Mr Uche Okafor, commended the federal government for the quality of work being done on the road and prayed for the immediate resumption of work it.

“Be it therefore, resolved that the Anambra State House of Assembly calls on President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Minister of Works, to direct the contractors handling the Anambra section of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway to return to site and complete the good works they have started.

“The completion of the expressway will alleviate the sufferings of road users, ” he said.

In another resolution, the assembly urged Gov. Willie Obiano to direct the state’s road maintenance agency to patch all potholes on state roads to encourage free mobility of people, goods and services.

The resolution followed a motion raised by Mr Patrick Udoba, representing Anambra West Constituency.

According to Udoba, maintenance is essential to keep the roads in good condition and ensure safety along the routes.

“We are aware that the state government recently acquired three automated dura pothole patching machines for each senatorial zone to help the agency maintain and attain zero pothole on our roads.

“The rainy season has opened a lot of potholes on our roads and if not checked, they will pose serious threat to the lives, property and economy of the state,” Udoba said. (NAN).

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Anambra Assembly urges FG to resume work on Enugu-Onitsha expressway - Orient Daily News

The Anambra House of Assembly on Friday urged the Federal Government to resume and complete work on the Anambra section of the Enugu-Onitsha expressway. The resolution followed a motion raised under Matters of Urgent Public Importance, by Mr Nnamdi O

This is one interesting story. Would you pray over your faulty equipment after it's been replaced severally?

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4 transformers bad in 1yr. The Ikota Housing Estate community in Ajah Lagos, had to result to prayers. Divine intervention desperately sought. @Gidi_Traffic @EKEDP pic.twitter.com/EU4XhBLjIq

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*DOMINION MANDATE DAILY DEVOTIONAL*

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2020

*FATHERS, DO NOT PROVOKE YOUR CHILDREN*

*BIBLE READING: COLOSSIANS 3:21*

*"And now a word to you parents. Don't keep on scolding and nagging your children, making them angry and resentful. Rather, bring them up with the loving discipline the Lord Himself approves, with suggestions and godly advice." Ephesians 6:4 (TL.*

We have established the importance of children honouring their parents according to Scriptural standards; however, honour is much easier to give from the standpoint of love and mutual respect rather than fear or terror fuelled by constant provocation. In other words, a child is ready to go to the ends of the earth for a father whose love for him is unquestionable.

The Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ is "gentle and lowly in heart"(Matthew 11:29). The two aforementioned qualities i.e. gentleness or meekness alongside lowliness of heart or humility, are essential for Christian parents to cultivate in order to raise up children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. More often than not, most parents stretch the boundaries of "tough love" in a bid to make their children emotionally sturdy; however, as we have seen in the Scriptures, provocation can be counterproductive because it has a way of damaging the confidence and self-esteem of the children on the receiving end of it.

There is a huge difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism which every parent must understand; for instance, the reason children in elementary school are referred to as pupils is that they are delicate, just like the pupil or apple of the eye, therefore, they ought to be handled with care. Our Lord Jesus, Who is our Ultimate Model was known as One Who "won't walk over anyone's feelings, won't push you into a corner"(Matthew 12:20 MSG). That is exactly how we ought to behave towards our children to avoid breaking their spirits due to unwarranted nagging and excessive scolding.

The Bible gives us a template for child upbringing; God in His Infinite Wisdom, said through Apostle Paul, "All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God, and is profitable for DOCTRINE, for REPROOF, for CORRECTION, for INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS."(2Timothy 3:16 NKJV). In applying this to proper Christian parenting, there are four steps involved which must be followed sequentially:

1. *Doctrine Teach your children what they don't know and what they should do.

2. *Reproof Rebuke them for what they do wrong; this is the first part of proper criticism because it's morally wrong to reprove a child for something you didn't teach him.

3. *Correction Show them what they ought to have done and how they ought to have done it. Constructive criticism is incomplete without correction.

4. *Instruction Guide them into making the right decisions while reassuring them; they must know that even though they may have DONE what is wrong, they ARE NOT wrong. In other words, learn to separate issues from persons.

Children are like flowers that are open and receptive to mild dew but closed to violent rain; one of the most effective ways to win our children's confidence is for them to win ours, hence the onus lies upon us to always carry them along with us at their own level. The Lord grant us the grace to train up our children in the way they should go.

*PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we thank You for opening our eyes to the truth about proper parenting; forgive us, O Lord, for provoking our children in times of ignorance. Help us to have a healthy influence over them as their covering that we may not lose them in Jesus' Mighty Name.

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