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Nigerian Twitter reacts to Dino Melaye's 'invasion' of Bourdillon road

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Nigerians on twitter are reacting to Dino Melaye's 
"invasion" of Bourdillon, Lagos this evening. Dino stormed the state to 
dare APC South West zone members who had earlier released a statement informing 
him that he is barred from coming to the South West until he apologizes to 
Sen. Oluremi Tinubu following his recent row with her. See more tweets after the cut...</div>
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Nigerian Twitter reacts to Dino Melaye's 'invasion' of Bourdillon road

Nigerians on twitter are reacting to Dino Melaye's "invasion" of Bourdillon, Lagos this evening. Dino stormed the state to...

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Muslim youths attack another Catholic Church, says Friday belongs to us (photos)

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A group of Muslim youths, on Friday attacked St. Philips Catholic 
Parish, Baki Iku, very close to Zuma Rock in Niger State.

According to eyewitnesses, some Catholics had gone to the church to pray
 and were attacked by the Muslims who claimed that Friday is their day 
of prayer and that the Church only has right to worship on Sundays.<br />
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were destroying the Church properties: the doors and the windows. Some 
soldiers managed to get there later but a lot of harms have been done to
 the building, while the Christians ran away in different directions to 
avoid being killed.

It should be recalled that Alhaji Kabiru Sokoto had on Christmas day 
four years ago (December 25 20111) detonated a bomb that killed over 200
 Catholics and passersby at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, close 
to St. Philips that was destroyed.

Rev Fr. Luka Sylvester Gopep, the Vicar-General of the Diocese confirmed
 the incident.<br />
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He said, "Sometime around 2pm, some Muslim youths in their hundreds left
 their Mosque after their Friday Jumat prayer and rushed to the Church 
premises, climbed the wall and destroyed everything in the Church: the 
windows, the alter, musical instruments, the chapel.

"The security man in the church premises was beaten to pulp. Some women 
who were holding a prayer meeting were chased away. The seminarian who 
is resident in the premises was also beaten up and chased away."

Just last week, Mrs Eunice Olawale Elisha, a mobile preacher of the 
Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was killed by some fanatical 
Muslims in Kubwa, FCT.<br />
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Kim Kardashian steps puts her curvy body on display in a tight dress

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Mother of 2 and business entrepreneur, Kim Kardashian and her friend 
Jonathan Cheban were joined by her glam squad as they jetted to New York
 from Los Angeles for the Revolve Hamptons party on Saturday.
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Photos: Patience Jonathan visits her hometown, Okrika in Rivers state

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Former First lady, Patience Jonathan, yesterday visited her hometown, 
Okrika in Rivers state for the funeral ceremony of Late Queen Comfort 
Kaine Obudibo, wife of His Royal Highness, King E. T. I. Obudibo, Ikwo 
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Photos: Patience Jonathan visits her hometown, Okrika in Rivers state

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Nigerians And The Failed Coup In Turkey By Reuben Abati

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Turkey is about five hours away from Nigeria by air, about 2, 634 miles 
from here, but the night there was a coup attempt in Turkey, July 15, 
with soldiers shutting down parts of Ankara and Istanbul, you’d think 
Ankara is a city somewhere in Nigeria and Istanbul is an extension of 
our country. Commentaries kept flying up and down on Nigeria social 
media space, with the coup attempt in Turkey becoming a trending topic.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br />
And yet the strongest connection between Nigeria and Turkey is probably 
trade, tourism, socio-cultural affinities, and the fact that many 
Nigerian travellers now find it easier and cheaper to travel through 
Turkey to other European capitals, with Turkish Airlines making all the 
profit and no Nigerian airline on that route!<br />
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Still, if Turkey finds itself in a bad shape, as it has, that is not 
likely to affect the already sorry fortunes of the Naira or the 
forbidding cost of food items in Nigerian markets. On Friday, many 
Nigerians stayed awake and projected their own worst fears unto the 
Turkish situation.<br />
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By way of summary, there was among the Nigerian commentators an 
all-round condemnation of any attempt to upturn the Constitutional order
 either in Turkey or anywhere else in the world. When it was reported 
that a former Turkish President had remarked that the coup will not 
stand, because “Turkey is not Africa”, (former President Abdullah Gul 
actually said Latin America), there was also a feeling of outrage. How 
dare he make such a racist comment in the midst of such a serious 
situation?<br />
<br />

When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took to Facetime on his mobile phone
 to get himself onto television, and he pleaded with the Turkish 
population to take to the streets to resist the coup makers, and his 
call was heeded, not a few commentators at this end wondered if 
Nigerians would have answered such a summon to patriotism and whether or
 not religious and ethnic sentiments or the fear of being shot to death 
would not have kept the people indoors. Concerns were also expressed 
about the fate of Nigerians living in Turkey in the event of a blowout 
at the crossroads of Europe. By Saturday morning, the coup had failed. 
Erdogan was significantly back in control. About 200 persons had died, 
and over 2,000 persons were recorded as injured. As I monitored the 
situation in Turkey and the reactions in Nigeria, I was struck by how so
 much can be learnt from the strong interest that the failed coup 
attempt has generated among educated Nigerians.<br />
<br />
Nigerians know what it means to have a constitutional order derailed by 
military intervention. Between 1960 and 1999, Nigeria moved from one 
form of military rule to another, characterized by obstinacy, and 
absolutism, experiencing only short spells of civilian rule. Similarly, 
the military in Turkey have since 1960 intervened directly at least four
 times (1970, 1971, 1980, 1997). And in all instances, the Turkish coup 
plotters always claimed that their role was to restore order and 
stabilize the country. This is a rhetoric that is quite familiar to 
Nigerians. Every military coup is justified on messianic grounds. In the
 latest onslaught in Turkey, the plotters claim they want to establish a
 “Peace Council.”<br />
<br />
Between 1993 and 1999, Nigerians fought the military to a standstill, 
insisting on a definite return to civilian rule and the 
institutionalization of democracy. Sixteen years later, the democratic 
spirit is well established among the people, if not the Nigerian 
leadership elite. The people have seen what a demonstration of people 
power can achieve: they used it to get the military out of power, they 
relied on it to insist that the Constitution be respected and obeyed 
when a President died in office and certain forces did not want his 
successor to get into office, and again, they have seen people-power at 
work in removing a sitting government from power. Right now in Nigeria, 
to toy with this power of the people in any form is to sow the seeds of 
organized mass rebellion.<br />
<br />
Not surprisingly, in the past few years, every display of the people’s 
supremacy in other parts of the world has attracted either interest or a
 copy-cat instinct among Nigerians. First, there was the Arab Spring, 
which resulted in calls for the Nigerian Spring, which later found 
expression in the politically motivated Occupy Nigeria protests of 
January 2012. And now from Turkey, the major point of interest for 
Nigeria has been in my estimation, how the people took to the streets to
 confront soldiers. The coup failed in Turkey because it lacked popular 
support. Turkey has for long been considered an embarrassment in Europe.
 A successful coup in 2016 would have put the country in a worse shape 
and done further damage to the country’s reputation. The people stood up
 for their country, not President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<br />
<br />
They stood up for an idea: The idea of democracy. The three major 
political parties disowned the coup. Mosques called on the people to go 
to the streets and fight for democracy. Even Erdogan’s critics, 
including the Kemalists and the Glulenists, denounced the coup plotters.
 The images that came across were images of the police confronting the 
soldiers and disarming them (This was intriguing- can anyone ever 
imagine the Nigeria police protecting democracy: they would have since 
collected bribe from the coup plotters, there is massive corruption in 
Turkey too but their police fought for the nation). Ordinary citizens 
lay down in front of the coup plotters’ tanks and asked to be crushed; 
brave citizens disarmed the soldiers and took over the city squares.<br />
<br />
It is the kind of bravery that Nigerians find surreal. The coup attempt 
in Turkey comes at a time when the civil society in Nigeria is beginning
 to lose the spirit to stand in front of tanks, and guns: the people 
have been battered to a point where their strongest protection is their 
power of the ballot and so the average Nigerian endures suffering, 
convinced that when again it is time to vote, no one can rob him or her 
of his power to choose. But the situation in Turkey reminds us of the 
kind of danger that any democracy, with troubled foundations can face, 
hence Nigerians ask if they too can be as courageous as the Turkish have
 been, with both Turks and the much abused Kurds, and other divided 
groups, uniting, momentarily, on one issue.<br />
<br />
Not that Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan deserves the victory over the coup 
plotters, though. Outsiders, including Nigerians, consider him a bad 
guy; and even if he is still popular and blindly followed by the 
majority of his people, his 13-year record in office falls far short of 
standards. He came to office on the wave-crest of popular appeal. In 
Istanbul where he was a city mayor at a time, he remains immensely 
popular, and he is also probably the most popular leader, not in Europe,
 but the Arab world. Thrice, he and his party, the AKP, won nationally 
organized elections. But success soon got into Erdogan’s head, as he 
descended into the lower depths of arrogance and dictatorship. He 
started having issues with neighbours and allies.<br />
<br />
He became undemocratic, shamelessly alienating civil society, the press 
and the judiciary. He is so temperamental and intolerant of criticism 
and alternative views, he is now surrounded mainly by sycophants and 
relatives. In his attempt to dominate everything and everyone, he became
 known as the “buyuk usta”, that is “the big master”, and of course, he 
now lives in a $615 million Presidential palace with 1, 150 rooms! In 
addition, he wants to acquire US-style executive Presidential powers and
 he is busy battling, real and imaginary enemies.<br />
<br />
He may have been saved by the people’s rejection of the coup attempt, 
but perhaps Erdogan has been saved more by his own cleverness. The coup 
attempt against his government was an amateur, unorganized effort. It 
lacked the support of the military command, which Erdogan had cleverly 
subjected to civilian control, and among whom he had built centres of 
personal loyalty. Over the years, he weakened the military and 
strengthened the police and the intelligence services. The coup plotters
 over-estimated their capacity and misread the people’s mood.<br />
<br />
Their failure may embolden Erdogan and even make him more authoritarian:
 he is already sounding off about being in charge and dealing with the 
coup plotters (over 2,000 of whom have already been rounded up and 
arrested, even judges have been fired). But Turkey is in a very bad 
shape. Resentments run deep. There are deep fears about threats to the 
country’s secularism, and attempts to Islamicise the country. A paranoid
 Erdogan could worsen the situation. Both the United States and the 
European Union should take a keen interest in what happens in Turkey 
after the coup attempt, to ensure that rather than dig deeper into 
authoritarianism, Erdogan would see the need to run a more open, 
inclusive and democratic government.<br />
<br />
The coup may have failed, and democracy may have won, but whatever 
issues led to a group of ill-prepared soldiers taking the law into their
 hands cannot be wished away. To tell the truth, Recep Erdogan acts very
 much, in all respects, like an African leader in Europe - that probably
 explains the keen Nigerian interest. The key lesson, all told, is that 
the importance and survival of democracy relates to the importance of 
civic virtue, this is why leaders must rely not just on the people’s 
commitment to an idea, but must seek to make democracy work for all the 
people.

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EFCC reportedly seize properties worth N1.350bn belonging to Fayose

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The EFCC has reportedly seized properties worth N1.350billion belonging 
to Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose. The properties are said to be 
located in highbrow areas of Lagos and Abuja. Four in Lagos and two in 
Abuja.<br />
<br />
The houses seized are located at: 44, Osun Crescent and 32, Yedseram Street in 
Maitama, Abuja; and houses 3, 4, 6, and 9 in Plot 100, Tiamiyu Savage 
Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>According to the N<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 All the houses in Lagos were paid for by Abiodun Agbele, the detained
 associate of the governor who is currently under investigation.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Agbele allegedly paid over N880 million for the Lagos properties.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Sources said the duplexes were “acquired within 180 days in office by Fayose.”</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“We have discovered that he paid for the houses through his associate’s company, De-Privateer Limited of Agbele.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“De-Privateer remitted slush funds into three accounts including FCMB
 (0519693019), First Bank of Nigeria (1000070240) and Zenith Bank 
(1014016919).</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“The payments were made as follows: First Bank—N40m (29/1/15); N39.5m
 (30/1/15); N132.5 (30/1/ 15); N3.2m (4/2/15); N980, 000(4/2/15); N200m 
(17/2/15); N47m (13/2/15); N50m (13/2/15).</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“The lodgements in an account in Zenith Bank (1014016919) included N42.5m (9/4/15); N25m (23/4/15); and N229m (6/3/15).</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“About N200million was paid into FCMB account 0519693019 on March 9, 2015.”</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
He said the anti-graft agency seized the properties by invoking 
sections 28 and 34 of the EFCC (Establishment Act) 2004 and Section 
13(1) of the Federal High Court Act, 2004 which empower the anti-graft 
agency to invoke Interim Assets Forfeiture Clause.</blockquote>
The properties were seized recently over allegations that Fayose 
received N1.219bn from the Office of the National Security Adviser when 
Col. Sambo Dasuki through a former Minister of State for Defence, 
Musiliu Obanikoro. They are also accusing Fayose of allegedly receiving 
bribe money from contractors in the state.<br />
<br />
You can read the rest on <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/efcc-seizes-n1-350b-six-choice-properties-fayose/" target="_blank">The Nation</a><br />
<br />
The EFCC also invited and questioned former Secretary to the Government 
of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, on Thursday July 14th at their 
office on his alleged role in the $15bn arms scam.

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EFCC invite and question Doyin Okupe for allegedly receiving N85m from Dasuki

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The EFCC last week invited former 
Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Jonathan on Public 
Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, to their office, to question him for allegedly
 receiving N85million from embattled former National Security Adviser, 
Col. Sambo Dasuki 
(retd.)<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>The former presidential aide is accused of receiving 
N50million cash from Dasuki and a company linked to him received 
additional N35million from the office of the NSA.<br /><br />
<br /> Okupe is not being detained by the EFCC however after he told them 
he has a heart condition and presented a medical report as proof. So for
 now, he comes from home to answer questions.<br />
<br />
A few months ago, Okupe took to Facebook to say that he 
received money from Dasuki on several occasions for the running of his 
office but never partook in the campaign<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"I was not paid arms
 deal money. The NSA paid for the running of my office monthly from 
August 2012. Dasukigate was in 2014. I did not take part in the 
campaign.” he tweeted in May</blockquote>

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Dasuki files new suit, demands N15bn compensation & public apology from FG, says he's been in solitary confinement

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Detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo 
Dasuki (rtd), has dragged the federal government to an Abuja High Court 
challenging his continued incarceration since December last year.  In the new 
suit, Dasuki asked the court to order his immediate release from 
detention either conditionally or un-conditionally.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br />
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Dasuki, 
who claimed that his fundamental right to freedom of liberty and dignity
 to life had been grossly violated by the federal government with his 
detention, prayed for an order of the court to compel the federal 
government to pay him N15 billion as general damages and compensation 
for his alleged illegal detention in violation of his rights as 
enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 He also prayed the court to 
compel defendants in the suit to jointly and severally tender a public 
apology to him to be published in two national dailies for the violation
 of his rights.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 Defendants in the court action are the Department of
 State Security Service (DSSS), National Security Adviser (NSA), 
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the Economic and Financial 
Crimes Commission (EFCC).</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 Dasuki asked the court to declare that he 
was entitled to his rights to dignity of human person, personal liberty,
 fair hearing, freedom of movement, private and family life and to 
acquire and own properties as enshrined in the 1999 constitution.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 He
 also wants the court to declare that his arrest and continuous 
detention since December 29, 2015 in the custody of the DSSS and NSA by 
officers of the federal government without allowing him access to his 
medical personnel, members of his family and without charging him to 
court within the time prescribed by law is wrongful, unlawful, 
un-constitutional and a violation of his right granted by the country’s 
constitution.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 Dasuki said upon his release on bail at Kuje prison on
 December 29, 2015, he was re-arrested by the 
operatives of the DSS and had since been kept in solitary conferment, 
thereby impairing his ability to provide for his family.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 The 
affidavit indicated that the concern and apprehension of his family 
became compounded when president Muhammadu Buhari in his maiden 
Presidential media chat of December 30, 2015 said that Dasuki will not 
be released because of the weight of charges against him and that he may
 likely jump bail.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 Dasuki claimed that unless the court comes
 to his rescue by protecting him and order his immediate release, his 
right to life, human dignity, personal liberty, privacy, family life, 
freedom of movement and right to own properties already impaired and 
violated by the defendants will continue to be impaired and put in 
jeopardy.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
 The case has been assigned to Justice Peter Kekemekun. The court is however on vacation.</blockquote>
Source: Thisday

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