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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

The Federal high court today asked Dr Lamido Sanusi to accept his fate and go back home.

Court maintains Lamido Sanusi's suspention

 Former CBN Governor, Dr Lamido Sanusi remains suspended.
The Kano prince whom had gone to the Federal high court to challenge his suspension by President Goodluck Ebere Jonathan was today asked to go home and accept his fate

Sanusi who has never hidden his desire to succeed the Emir of Kano Alhaji Dr Ado Abdullahi Bayero who ascended the throne in October 1963 after the demise of Muhammed Inuwa who ruled for three months following the dethronement in 1963 of Muhammed Sanusi who happened to be Ado Bayero's half brother has so much to fall back and wait for.

In the ruling spanning over 2 hours, Honourable Justice Kolawole upheld the submissions of the Counsel to the President, Dr. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN and that of the Counsel to the Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN. In his Preliminary Objection filed in opposition to the Plaintiff’s Originating Summons, Learned Counsel to the President, Dr. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN argued that the Federal High Court lacks Jurisdiction to entertain the suit between Mallam Sanusi and the President since it bothers on Labour matters. Accordingly, he had urged the Court to decline Jurisdiction on it. Towing the same vein, the Counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation sued as the 2nd Defendant, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN had in the hearing of the matter urged the Honourable Judge to wash his hands off the case as the Court lacked Jurisdiction to entertain the suit.

Upholding the submission of Learned Counsel to the Defendants, the Honourable Court declined Jurisdiction and accordingly referred the matter to the National Industrial Court. The Learned Judge in the course of delivering the Ruling faulted the submissions of Counsel to Mallam Sanusi, Mr. Kola Awodein, SAN and Mr AB Mahmoud SAN who in their pleadings had said that Mallam Sanusi was not an employee of the Federal Government but that of the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria, which he incidentally headed. Upholding the arguments of the Counsel to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Umoh SAN, the Court also struck out the name of the IGP sued as 3rd Defendant holding that there was no cause of action against the Inspecto General of Police..

Evil men on the loose: Primary school pupils stabbed in China by 35 years old Chen in the central province of Hubei

The 35-year-old suspect, a man surnamed Chen, rushed into the school in Macheng in the central province of Hubei and began slashing at students with a kitchen knife, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the local government.
Police apprehended Chen at the scene, the report added, and the eight injured pupils were hospitalised.
China has seen several violent attacks against children in recent years, including a spate of five incidents in 2010 which killed 17 people -- 15 of them children -- and wounded more than 80.
Last March, a man killed two relatives and then slashed 11 people, including six children, outside a school in China's commercial hub Shanghai.

Manchester United appoint Louis van Gaal as manager


Louis van Gaal promised to "make history" and return Manchester United to winning ways after being named as manager of "the biggest club in the world".yesterday.

One of the worst-kept secrets within football finally became public knowledge when the Netherlands manager was named as the new boss of the struggling English giants.
Manchester United chief executive, Ed woodward has this to say about the choosen one: "In Louis van Gaal, we have secured the services of one of the outstanding managers in the game today,  "He has achieved many things in his career to date and Old Trafford provides him with a fitting stage on which to write new chapters in the Manchester United story."

And true to the football gaffers' bid to restore the club to its former glories, Vn Gaal has retained Ryan Giggs as his assistant manager and Ryan is excited and thrilled to have the chance to serve as assistant manager, answerable to the dutch man.  Giggs said on Monday, before announcing his retirement from playing. "Louis van Gaal is a world-class coach and I know I will learn a lot about coaching from being able to observe and contribute at such close quarters.
"Manchester United has been a huge part of my life and I'm delighted to be able to continue that relationship in such a key role.
"Today is a new chapter filled with many emotions -- immense pride, sadness, but most of all, excitement towards the future. United fans I hope will share and echo my belief that the club, the management and owners, are doing everything they can to return this great club to where it belongs, and I hope to be there every step of the way."

United finished the season in seventh place and had to watch neighbours Manchester City win the title. 

Van Gaal is set to rejuvenate an aging squad with major changes in defence expected after the long-established centre-back pairing of Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand both announced they were leaving the club. 

United's US-based owners, the Glazer family, also want van Gaal to restore the reputation of the club's youth system as a conveyor belt for first-team talent, something Moyes was said o have little interest in during his brief time at Old Trafford. 

"I am delighted that Louis will be our next manager," said Joel Glazer. "He has an outstanding pedigree as a coach, both as a man who motivates his teams to win trophies and as someone who believes in giving young players a chance to prove their worth."

Is Oscar Pistorius really sick upstairs?

Oscar Pistorius 'is suffereing from generalized anxiety disorder' . psychiatrist


The twenty seven (27) years old Olympian  is accused of murdering his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in his home last year.
Pistorius has not claimed he was insane or mentally incapacitated when he shot her. But when the defense put the psychiatrist on the stand, it raised the question of the athlete's mental health, the judge said last week.
The expert panel evaluating Pistorius has three options:
 1) They could find that Pistorius was mentally incapacitated when he shot Steenkamp, which would end the trial immediately in a verdict of not guilty by reason of mental illness. That would lead to the athlete being committed to a mental institution until he is ruled not to be a danger.
2) The doctors could also find that he had "diminished responsibility" at the time he killed Steenkamp. In that case, the trial would resume, and the experts' finding would be taken into consideration during sentencing if he is found guilty.
3) The third possibility is that the experts could disagree with the defense psychiatrist and say that Pistorius' mental health is not an issue at a


The trial will not resume until June 30th,  Judge Thokozie Masipa ruled yesterday.