FG Re-arraigns Justice Ngwuta, Commences Trial

The Federal Government has re-arraigned Justice Sylvester Ngwuta on 11 out of the 16-count charge of alleged money laundering and breach of professional ethics earlier levelled against him.
No reason was given by the prosecution counsel, Mrs Olufemi Fatunde, for the reduction in the number of charges brought before Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The prosecution witness, who is the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mr Gambo Saleh, told the court how much Justice Ngwuta received as monthly salary and allowance.
He said the judge received 751,087 Naira as monthly salary; 710,000 Naira as monthly allowance and got $1,300 dollars per night for 18 days in annual medical check-up abroad.
According to Mr Saleh, this was from 2001 when Justice Ngwuta became a Supreme Court judge to 2016.
He told the court that the judge also received some welfare packages during festive periods.
The witness said Justice Ngwuta’s total remuneration for the five times he travelled abroad between 2011 and 2016 was 50,000 pound sterling at 10,000 pound sterling per trip.
According to him, the judge also received a little above eight million Naira during the period for medical care and over 192,000 dollars for foreign travels.
The trial has been adjourned till Friday, March 17 for continuation

Rakitic Extends Barcelona Contract Till 2021

Barcelona midfielder, Ivan Rakitic, celebrated the Catalans’ extraordinary Champions League comeback against Paris Saint-Germain by extending his contract at the Camp Nou.

The Spanish champions announced they have reached an agreement with the Croatian international for the renewal of his contract until June 30, 2021.

Barcelona also confirmed that his release clause will be set at 132.5 million dollars.
The 28-year-old has won eight trophies since joining Barcelona from Seville in 2014

Four Killed In Ondo Bloody Cultist Clashin

 Four persons have been reportedly killed in Ondo town, the headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of the state, in a bloody clash that broke out between two cult group members in the town on Friday.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ondo State Police Command, Femi Joseph, confirmed the incident to Channels Television.

He also said the police have made some arrests in connection with the clash, while investigations are still ongoing to unravel the root cause as well as bring all the perpetrators to book.
Joseph however stated that officers from the Divisional Police Station in the town have since intervened and peace has been restored to the area.
Furthermore, he disclosed that the police have not been able to establish whether the clash had any political undertone or involved any politicians in the town as was being rumoured by some individuals.
The violence was said to have coincided with the home coming of the immediate past Governor of the state, Olusegun Mimiko, who is an indigene of the town.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hilda Ibifuro-Harrison, had previously assured the residents of adequate security of their lives and property, sending warnings to criminals to desist from the acts or leave the state

North Korean Murder: Third Suspect Arrested In Malaysia

Malaysian police made a third arrest on Thursday in their hunt for the people involved in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The third person, whose nationality was not disclosed, was the friend of an Indonesian woman who was detained earlier in the day in connection with the killing of Kim Jong Nam at the airport in the Malaysian capital on Monday, police said.
“He was detained to facilitate investigations as he is the boyfriend of the second suspect,” said Abu Samah Mat, the police chief in Selangor state, told Reuters.

The Indonesian woman was remanded in custody for seven days along with another woman, who held a Vietnamese travel document, who was caught trying to leave the country through the budget airline terminal of Kuala Lumpur airport on Wednesday, the Bernama state news agency reported.
Kim Jong Nam, 46, was assaulted at the same airport on Monday with what was believed to be a fast-acting poison as he was about to leave on a flight to Macau.
He sought help, collapsed and died on his way to hospital.
Lawmakers in South Korea earlier cited their spy agency as saying it suspected two female North Korean agents had murdered Kim. U.S. government sources also said they believed North Korean assassins were responsible.
Kim Jong Nam had spoken out publicly against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state, and he had also expressed fears for this safety.
South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers in Seoul that the young, unpredictable North Korean leader had issued a “standing order” for his elder half-brother’s assassination, and that there had been a failed attempt in 2012.
North Korean agents have killed rivals abroad before

FIRE OUTBREAK IN UNN

The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology building, Faculty of the Pharmaceutical Sciences, university of nigeria nsukka got burnt.

The fire was said to have started in the early hours of Saturday being 21st of January 2017.

Efforts at putting out the fire by well meaning students proved abortive.
The degree of damages is yet to be ascertained at the time of this report but the building contacins everything the Department is made up of which includes files and documents of both students and staff, laboratory equipments and administrative equipments, etc.
While we sympathize with the department as well as the faculty, we wish to call on the university community as a whole to be security conscious, especially as regards the use of the facilities available to us