Founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is yet to prove it has the courage and audacity needed to address the foundations of Nigeria’s problems.

 

There are strong indications that about five bank chiefs may soon face trial over $153million allegedly withdrawn by the ex- Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke from the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in December 2014.

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has said that the money spent by the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom (UK) on the lounge when she visited London recently was a far cry from the £32,000 landing fees for private jets of former Nigerian First Ladies.
An online news portal had in a recent report alleged that Aisha is swindling the Nigerian High Commission by abusing her privilege anytime she travels to the UK. The news portal showed some documents to buttress the claim.
One of the documents showed that Mrs. Buhari was in London in October 2016 and claimed the High Commission allotted the sum of £10,000 for her expenditures, including an extravagant VIP reception on her arrival at the airport.

Nigeria’s Federal High Court Chief Judge, Justice Ibrahim Auta, has redeployed about 11 justices of different divisions of the court.
Those affected include Justices Mohammed Liman, Okon Abang and nine others.
The redeployment of Liman and Abang is suspected to have been effected over their handling of some recent cases, especially those involving the leadership of the troubled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which had created controversy within the polity.

Jerry Greer, the son of country singer Craig Morgan, was found dead in the waters of Kentucky Lake in Humphreys County, Tennessee, officials confirmed late Monday.
The search for Greer had gone from rescue to recovery, after the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency brought in military-grade sonar to search Kentucky Lake.
Jerry Greer, 19, never resurfaced after a tubing accident there on Sunday afternoon.
In a statement via his publicist, Morgan said his "family is grateful for everyone's support and prayers and requests privacy during this difficult time."
The teen recently graduated from Dickson County High School in the Tennessee town where his father was raised.
Morgan, 51, is best known for his hit singles "That's What I Love About Sunday," "International Harvester" and "Bonfire

The Minneapolis Police Department’s motto is “To Protect with Courage, To Serve with Compassion.”
Except when it comes to Saturday night’s Minnesota Lynx game at the city’s Target Center, it seems.
Four Minneapolis police officers, working the game as independently contracted security personnel, walked off the job before this past weekend’s game against the Dallas Wings in response to members of the Lynx wearing T-shirts in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and calling for change in the wake of recent police shootings that left two black men dead, according to the Star Tribune.
“If we take this time to see that this is a human issue and speak out together, we can greatly decrease fear and create change,” Lynx guard, 2014 WNBA MVP and three-time league champ Maya Moore told reporters at a press conference players called prior to the game. “Tonight we will be wearing shirts to honor and mourn the losses of precious American citizens and to plea for change in all of us.”

Moore and her Lynx teammates sported black T-shirts with the words, “CHANGE STARTS WITH US … JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY,” stacked on the front. On the back, the shirts featured the names Philando Castile and Alton Sterling — the two men fatally shot last week by police in Falcon Heights, Minn., and Baton Rouge, La., respectively — along with the phrase “BLACK LIVES MATTER” underneath.
Additionally, the shirts featured a Dallas Police Department emblem in honor of the five officers killed by a rogue sniper during a rally protesting the shooting deaths of Castile and Sterling. Lynx players also denounced the “senseless ambush” of the five fallen officers, according to the Star Tribune, and praised Dallas police for their efforts against the unnecessary use of deadly force in recent years.
So, it seems four Minneapolis police officers walking off a security detail for 7,613 fans in attendance at Saturday’s game was ill-advised at best and downright deplorable at worst. These officers are paid to protect and serve, albeit independently in this scenario, and one would think that should take precedence over political beliefs that clash with what was a rather reasoned take by the Lynx.
Making matters worse, Minneapolis Police Federation Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the city’s police union, stood firmly by the decision to leave their security post, even calling for others to do the same.
“I commend them for it,” Kroll told the Star Tribune. Adding that the four officers who walked off the job have refused to work future Lynx games and many of their colleagues have joined that lack of effort, Kroll said, “If [the players] are going to keep their stance, all officers may refuse to work there.”
In other words, the Minneapolis police union is asking WNBA players to change their stance against racial profiling if the city would like officers protecting citizens in the stands at Target Center.
This is not good. Not good at all.
According to the Star Tribune, Kroll cited “false narratives” with regard to the public’s response to police shootings of black men in recent years and warned Lynx players, “Rushing to judgment before the facts are in is unwarranted and reckless.” But shouldn’t Kroll be held to the same standard?
Let’s not forget a man was gunned down in front of his fiancée and her 4-year-old daughter by an officer at a neighboring police department, regardless of motive, and calling for change to whatever protocol ultimately left the man dead is hardly a rush to judgment, unwarranted or reckless.
Before you consider whether Castile could have also acted differently in the situation that led to his death, ask yourself if this kicker from Kroll to the Star Tribune comes from a union president who is sensitive to this issue or has no interest in opening a dialogue on black lives mattering: “They only have four officers working the event,” said Kroll, “because the Lynx have such a pathetic draw.”

March 03, 2016 The princess spent about 20 minutes answering questions from her lawyer aimed at distancing her from involvement with Aizoon, the real estate consulting company he ran from an office inside the Barcelona mansion they lived in for years with their four children but were forced to sell as their legal troubles mounted.
Asked by her lawyer why she never talked with her husband about what the company did, Cristina responded that "they weren't issues that interested me. At that time my children were very small and we were very busy."
"He was in charge of the family expenses. I didn't get involved in that," she added. The case centers on accusations that Urdangarin used his former title of Duke of Palma to embezzle about 6 million euros ($6.6 million) in public funds for the nonprofit Noos Institute he ran with a partner that put on sport conferences. Seventeen people are charged, including Urdangarin and the princess.
Money went from Noos to Aizoon, which Urdangarin and the princess testified was set up to receive his income. A three-judge panel hearing the case will weigh whether the couple criminally abused Aizoon, described in court papers as a "front company" that may have funded luxury vacations and parties at the couple's modernist mansion along with other expenses.
Immediately after taking the stand, Cristina invoked her right to answer only questions posed by her own lawyer and sat silently and listened, but didn't respond to questions posed by a lawyer for the group that leveled the tax fraud charges.
Under Spanish law, groups like the Manos Limpias (Clean Hands) organization involved in the princess' trial can pursue criminal charges against people when authorities decide not to do so. Prosecutors had recommended not charging the princess, saying she should face an administrative fine at most.
The Manos Limpias lawyer, Virginia Lopez Negrete, told the princess she would have asked her about Aizoon and for explanations about personal and business expenses. Cristina's much-anticipated appearance came after Urdangarin wrapped up three days of testimony and was unable to explain in court how personal expenses like the safari trip and the wine were billed to the Aizoon credit card.
But Urdangarin, a former Olympic handball medalist-turned-entrepreneur, insisted he never knew he might have been doing anything questionable. Cristina faces two counts of tax fraud, each carrying a maximum jail sentence of four years. She is the first member of Spain's royal family to face criminal charges since the monarchy was restored in 1975. Urdangarin faces stiffer charges and a possible jail sentence of nearly 20 years.
Urdangarin testified that his wife never used the Aizoon credit but that he and other people did, passing the bills to his secretary at the firm. An investigative judge found that the couple never reported as income personal expenses billed to the company, but Urdangarin testified he relied on the advice of others for determining which expenses should be charged to Aizoon.
"I have never been aware of committing any tax offense because I had my advisers who told me everything was correct," Urdangarin said. The expenses charged to Aizoon cited in court included 15,797 euros ($17,174) for the Africa safari, 6,672 euros for a coaching course for Cristina and 1,357 euros for wine.
Urdangarin said he had made Cristina a co-director of Aizoon because he wanted her to be part of the business project but also insisted "she didn't have anything to do with the company's activities." Urdangarin testified Wednesday that palace officials who worked for former King Juan Carlos oversaw the princess' tax filings and had detailed knowledge of his business operations.
Cristina is the sister of King Felipe VI, who took power in 2014 after his father abdicated. Legal experts say Cristina's defense relies on her convincing the judges that she knew nothing about her husband's business activities.
Testimony by the defendants ended Thursday night but the judges are expected to hear months more testimony from other witnesses and experts. Cristina won't have to appear in court again until there is a verdict, which isn't expected until sometime over the summer.

 The lawyer for Spain's Princess Cristina argued in court Tuesday that the sister of King Felipe VI should be found innocent of tax fraud after an anti-corruption group lawyer insisted she should be jailed for eight years. June 14, 2016 Pau Molins urged a panel of three judges to "restore justice" for Cristina during final defense arguments in the trial that also includes her husband and 15 others charged with an alleged scheme to defraud millions in public contracts for sports events and conferences.
Prosecutors are seeking a 19-year jail sentence for Cristina's husband Inaki Urdangarin, an Olympic handball medalist turned entrepreneur. His lawyers on Tuesday also insisted that he committed no crimes and should be cleared by the panel.
A prosecutor and a state attorney representing Spanish tax authorities have said officials agreed she committed no crimes and should face at most an administrative fine for tax evasion. The judges could take weeks or months to issue verdicts.

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China has marked the start of Ramadan with its customary ban on civil servants, students and children in a mainly-Muslim region from taking part in fasting, government websites said as the holy month started on Monday.
China’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist and for years has banned government employees and minors from fasting in Xinjiang, home to the more than 10 million strong mostly Muslim Uighur minority. It has also ordered restaurants to stay open.
The region sees regular clashes between Uighurs and state security forces, and Beijing has blamed deadly attacks there and elsewhere in China on militants seeking independence for the resource-rich region.
Rights groups blame tensions on religious and cultural restrictions placed on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the vast area, which abuts Central Asia.
Several local government departments in Xinjiang posted notices on their websites in the last week ordering restrictions on fasting during Ramadan.
During the holy month, the faithful fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious.
“Party members, cadres, civil servants, students and minors must not fast for Ramadan and must not take part in religious activities,” a notice posted Thursday on the government website of central Xinjiang’s Korla city said.
“During the Ramadan month, food and drink businesses must not close,” it added.
A Uighur official in the city’s Tiekeqi township named Ahmatjan Tohti told a group of men wearing traditional doppa hats at a meeting last Monday that officials should “resolutely stop party members, civil servants, students and minors from entering mosques for religious activities” during the festival, a separate report posted on the website last Tuesday said.
A website run by the education bureau of the regional capital Urumqi’s Shuimogou district posted a notice last Monday calling for “prevention of students and teachers from all schools from entering mosques for religious activities”, during Ramadan.
In the northern city of Altay, officials agreed to “increase contact with parents”, to “prevent fasting during Ramadan”, according to a post Friday on the state-run China Ethnicities Religion website.
Islamic threat-Meanwhile the website of the Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County government in northwest Xinjiang said Monday that restaurants in the area would be instructed to stay open during Ramadan to “ensure that the broader masses have normal access to cuisine”.
Dilxat Raxit of the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group, condemned the restrictions in an email Monday, adding: “China thinks that the Islamic faith of Uighurs threatens the rule of the Beijing leadership”.
China keeps tight control over religious groups, though Beijing often says it grants citizens broad freedom of belief.
China’s State Council on Thursday released a white paper which declared that religious freedom in Xinjiang “cannot be matched by any other period in history”.
“During the month of Ramadan, Muslim restaurants can decide whether they want to do business. There will be no interference,” it said.
“Local governments ensure that all religious activities during Ramadan go on in an orderly manner,” it added.