Judge Withdraws From Saraki's Suit Over Alleged Bribe
Justice
Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has withdrawn from a
fundamental rights suit filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki, to
crush the charges of false declaration of assets brought against him by
the federal government at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Kafarati
explained that his integrity had been called into question in the
matter, hence his decision to disqualify himself from it.
According
to him, his decision comes on the heels of a report on an online
publications accusing him of corruption to the tune N2bn..
Kafarati belives that if he ruled against or for Saraki his decision would be interpreted differently.
He
said:“A publication made allegations against my person, alleging that I
have been compromised with N2bn. They also alleged that I am known in
the legal cycle for being susceptible to corruption.
“What
this has done is to put my integrity to question and they know that what
they said is not true. They just derive pleasure when they malign the
integrity of a judicial office.
“It is
unfortunate that we don’t have the appropriate laws to take care of
this. As it stands, I am caught between two devils, if the judgment
goes in favour of Saraki now they will say that I have been compromised,
on the other hand, if it goes against him they will say I have been
intimidated.
“In
light of the allegation, the right and appropriate thing to do is to
disqualify myself and return the case-file to the Chief Judge for
re-assignment to another Judge.“It is only in this country that people can wake up and start calling people names.“In
the circumstance, I disqualify myself from this case. I will hereby
send the case file to the chief judge for re-assignment to another
judge.”
Kafarati
had fixed Tuesday, March 22, for judgment on Saraki’s suit but instead
of delivering the judgment, he announced his withdrawal from the case.
Rivers APC Candidate Demands Refund of Bribe From INEC Staff
Mr Azubuike Nwajoku of the All Progressives Congress storms the INEC
collation centre and demands a refund from an official after it was
apparent that he had lost the election to the PDP candidate.
Is this not shameful? So this is what they do...Ehn!
World Water Day: Poorest People Go Broke Buying Water, Rich People Get It Cheap
Did you know that the
poorest people in the world pay more of their income to get clean water
than anyone else?
Today is “World Water Day.”
In a broader sense you might say that every day is “World Water Day,”
if you don’t want to die of thirst. In developed countries, water is
clean and very cheap. In poor, undeveloped countries with weak public
infrastructure, many people are forced to buy water from private
vendors, who charge exorbitant prices. It is a classic example of the
poor being hit with greater expenses than the rich.
The LA Times covers a new report out today from the group WaterAid that show just how impossible the situation for those at the bottom of the least developed nations:
In Papua New Guinea, for example, where 60% of the
country’s 7.3 million population is without safe water, the poorest of
the poor pay as much as 54% of their daily earnings for about 13 gallons
of water from a delivery service, according to the report... In
Madagascar, people who rely on tanker trucks for their water supply
would spend as much as 45% of their daily income to get just the
recommended daily minimum supply, according to the report. And in
Mozambique, families who depend on black-market vendors for water could
spend up to 100 times as much for the resource than people who have
access to a community tap subsidized by the government.
In
developed parts of the world, a standard water bill is as little as 0.1%
of the income of a minimum-wage earner, according to the report.
Delivering clean water to all citizens is a great example of the
usefulness of government development funded by tax dollars that benefits
everyone.
Rob Ford, the former mayor of Toronto, died this morning at the age of 46, according to reports out of the city.
Ford’s health had been rapidly worsening recently. Last week, Ford’s
family released a statement about his health in response to premature
rumors of his death, announcing that the current city councilman was in
the hospital to continue “his battle against cancer.”
In 2014, Ford announced he had liposarcoma,
a rare form of cancer that grows in the body’s soft tissue. In October
2015, Ford revealed that the cancer had spread to his bladder. Speaking to press outside a Toronto hospital, Ford seemed to acknowledge that his life was nearing its end, asking for people to help his wife and two children.
“I’m optimistic, and I’m a realist too. If that has
spread once, where else has it gone?” he told a press scrum outside
Toronto’s Mt. Sinai hospital.
“If I pass before my time, I just ask people to please try to help out Dougie and Stephanie and Renata in any way you can.”
Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Team Are a Bunch of Dangerous Clowns
Last week, when asked who advises him on foreign policy, Donald Trump said,
“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain
and I’ve said a lot of things.” He continued, “I talk to a lot of
people and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are.”
The time has come.
Trump revealed the names of the people whose voices he listens to that
do not come from inside his own brain. “Walid Phares, who you probably
know. PhD, adviser to the House of Representatives. He’s a
counterterrorism expert,” he said.
“Carter Page, PhD. George Papadopoulos. He’s an oil and energy
consultant. Excellent guy. The honorable Joe Schmitz, [was] inspector
general at the Department of Defense. General Keith Kellogg. And I have
quite a few more. But that’s a group of some of the people that we are
dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we
do. But that’s a pretty representative group.”
Representative of what, exactly? Well. Walid Phares,
the “counterterrorism expert” who also served as an advisor to Mitt
Romney, has ties to a right-wing Lebanese militia accused of committing
war crimes during that country’s bloody 15-year civil war. From Mother Jones, in 2011:
During the 1980s, Phares, a Maronite Christian, trained
Lebanese militants in ideological beliefs justifying the war against
Lebanon’s Muslim and Druze factions, according to former colleagues.
Phares, they say, advocated the hard-line view that Lebanon’s Christians
should work toward creating a separate, independent Christian enclave. A
photo obtained by MotherJones shows him conducting a
press conference in 1986 for the Lebanese Forces, an umbrella group of
Christian militias that has been accused of committing atrocities. He
was also a close adviser to Samir Geagea, a Lebanese warlord who rose
from leading hit squads to running the Lebanese Forces.
Carter Page (“Carter Page, PhD.”)runs a hedge fund in New York
and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. “Until 2007, he
was Deputy Branch Manager of Merrill Lynch’s representative office in
Moscow which he opened in 2004.” He’s a banker.
A 2005 press release from CACI International, which had just hired him, gives a brief biography for General Keith Kellogg:
General Kellogg most recently was Senior Vice President
of Homeland Security Solutions for Oracle Corporation, having joined the
company after a decorated 32-year career in the U.S. Army. He also had
taken leave of absence from Oracle to serve the U.S. government as Chief
Operating Officer of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in
Baghdad, Iraq from November 2003 through March 2004.
As a member
of the CPA, General Kellogg served on the staff of Administrator L. Paul
Bremer. He played a key role in the effort to rebuild Iraq and bridge
the link between security and critical infrastructure. As a result of
his service, the Secretary of Defense awarded Kellogg the Department of
Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the highest defense
award that civilians may receive.
Approximately $8.8 billion in Iraqi government funds allocated to the
CPA disappeared during the eight-month reign of Paul Bremer, under whom
Kellogg served.
Joe Schmitz was the Pentagon’s inspector general for three years, starting in 2002. From the Los Angeles Times, in 2005:
Schmitz slowed or blocked investigations of senior Bush
administration officials, spent taxpayer money on pet projects and
accepted gifts that may have violated ethics guidelines, according to
interviews with current and former senior officials in the inspector
general’s office, congressional investigators and a review of internal
e-mail and other documents.
Schmitz also drew scrutiny for his
unusual fascination with Baron Friedrich Von Steuben, a Revolutionary
War hero who is considered the military’s first true inspector general.
Schmitz even replaced the official inspector general’s seal in offices
nationwide with a new one bearing the Von Steuben family motto,
according to the documents and interviews.
Schmitz left his government post to take a position at the parent company of Blackwater USA, the defense contractor.
And last but not least, the “oil and energy consultant” George Papadopoulos comes to the Trump campaign from Ben Carson. On his LinkedIn page, he cites as one of his “Honors and Awards” his participation in the 2012 Geneva International Model United Nations.
Nike unveils self-lacing sneakers inspired by the movie, Back To The Future
In 1989, when shoe designer Tinker Hatfield created the futuristic, self-lacing Nike Air Mag for Back to the Future 2, he probably didn't think they would become a reality during his life time.
This is amazing! what do you have to offer the world?
The Kardashian sisters have been slammed with $200m lawsuit over their beauty line.
Kim, Khloe and Kourtney could be on the hook for more than $200 million
for not tweeting about their own makeup line ... this according to a new
lawsuit.
Hillair Capital Management claims it ponied up more than $10 million to
save the Kardashian sisters' struggling cosmetics line, "Kardashian
Beauty" ... after their former business partner went belly up.
As we previously reported, the Kardashians originally partnered up with a
company called Boldface in 2012, launching a makeup line called "Khroma
Beauty."
Problem was ... a year later, a judge blocked the company from using the
name "Khroma." The girls changed the name to "Kardashian Beauty," but
Boldface started tanking.
A savior stepped in ... Hillair Capital Management, buying out Boldface
and sinking $10 mil into the business. Hillair now claims the Kardashian
girls didn't hold up their end of the bargain by blasting out the
virtues of "Kardashian Beauty" to their millions of followers.
Hillair wants its $10 mil back plus what they would have made ... up to $180 mil
Did you know that vendors sell bags of fresh air in China to combat air pollution?
This kind of business is highly lucrative in this part of the world, in fact, some
people may
soon have to pay for the very air they breathe. Lolz. This is occurring in China's Southern Guangdong province.
Chinese residents and tourists visit these airy mountainsides to escape
the choking pollution of the city, while there, they can buy bags of
fresh air from vendors.
Many tourists hiking the mountain trail shared on social media their
surprise at signs reading "purchase clean air to purchase a healthy
life" and "Unpolluted air - big bags for 30 renminbi (£3) and small bags
for 10 renminbi (£1)." The villagers made quick bucks as tourists
bought bags of the stuff, they even put flowers in the bags to make the
air smell even better.
Ex Super Eagles Coach Sunday Oliseh asks for prayers after Belgium bomb blast
The erstwhile Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh who is based in Belgium with his family
has asked his fans on Twitter to pray for him after bomb
attacks in Brussels, Belgium this morning.
Chinese man eats four huge centipedes, says it is delicious
The sight of these crawlies is actually disgusting let alone munching them but this man loves them so much that he eats them. In a video believed to
have been filmed in China and uploaded to LiveLeak, he is seen buying
four huge centipedes from a food vendor and then chews them
like they are the most delicious thing he's ever tasted.
Centipedes are popular in Chinese folk medicine where
they are usually boiled, sun-dried, then ground into
powder for use in herbal preparations. They are also used in the
treatment of tuberculosis and certain cancers.
