Housewife bags 7 months imprisonment for converting friend’s N100,000...Read It All On Tafia World

A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced a housewife, Gift Benjamin, 41, to seven months imprisonment for converting her friend’s N100, 000 to personal use.

Benjamin, a resident of Abattoir area of Jos borrowed the amount from her friend and did not pay back.
She faced a two-count charge of criminal breach of trust and theft, punishable under sections 317 and 322 of the penal code.
The Magistrate, Mrs Helen Danboyi, gave the sentence after the accused pleaded guilty to the charges and begged the court for mercy.
Danboyi said that the sentence would...

No crisis in Akwa Ibom APC – Chairman...Read It All On Tafia World

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom, Dr Amadu Attai, has said that the state Executive Council was intact and there was no crisis in the party.

Attai gave the assurance on Friday in Uyo at a news conference on state of affairs of the state executive council of the party.
He said that the party had on Jan. 23, expelled Sen. John Akpanudoedeghe, a former governorship aspirant of the party in the 2015 general election.
According to him, the expulsion is contained in a letter addressed to the APC National Vice Chairman/Zonal Chairman South South, titled: “Expulsion of Senator John James Akpanudoedeghe”.
He said: “Furthermore, we want it be known that...read it here...

Senate threatens to arrest contractor over abandoned N37m project...Read It All On Tafia World

He made this threat when the committee visited the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology Zaria.
Senator Na’allah threatened to arrest Mushaj Fahaj Nigeria Ltd for absconding with about thirty-seven million naira (N37m) meant for the completion of the college’s third hangar project.
He explained that he threatened to the contractor upon realization that he had been mobilized with about thirty-seven million (N37m) naira and had only performed a job valued at about eleven million naira (N11m) .
He criticized further the absence...read it here...

Biafra: Buhari has influenced ECOWAS Court to ignore Kanu’s case – IPOB...Read It All On Tafia World

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has expressed disappointment over the handling of its case against the Nigerian government by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. IPOB said the inability of the court to rule on the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu was disappointing.

The pro-Biafra group had hoped that the ECOWAS Court would deliver express judgment in order to have its leader released, but has now expressed displeasure that the Court seemed aligned with Nigerian courts to frustrate their aspiration.
In a statement by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, the group said...read it here...

Court orders arrest of Ondo APC chieftain...Read It All On Tafia World

 A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Friday ordered the immediate arrest of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Ademola AriyThis follows his failure to produce an accused person, Bimbo Akinsehinwa, whom he stood for as a guarantor.

Akinsehinwa, with four others, including Aderonke Gbadamosi, Akinsira Usiola, Kofoworola James and Ganiyat Itunu, were brought before the court over fraudulent practices.
All the accused had pleaded not guilty to...read it here...

PDP, AD, SDP form opposition forum...Read It All On Tafia World

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party and several other political parties have agreed constitute a broad based political opposition, known as United Forum of Democrats.

The group disclosed this in a resolution signed by Prof. Jerry Gana on Thursday in Abuja after its Wednesday’s meeting.
According to the resolution the forum is made up of of the leadership of PDP, People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Social Democratic Party (PDP), Alliance for Democracy (AD), Accord Party, among other political parties.
It stated that the...read it here...

Trump Says lsreal Settlement Growth not 'Good For Peace'...Read It All On Tafia World

A picture shows a general view of a construction site in a new housing project in the Israeli settlement of Nili, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.AFP/Gil Cohen-Maget

US President Donald Trump does not believe Israeli settlement growth in Palestinian territories is“good for peace”, he told a paper Friday, in his most direct comments on the matter since inauguration.

In the interview published in Hebrew by the Israel Hayom newspaper, Trump also said he was thinking “seriously” about moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a move fiercely opposed by...read it here...

Lawyer wants hawking banned nationwide...ReadIt All OnTafia World

A girl hawks groundnuts arranged on a tray along a road in Nigeria's southwest city of Osogbo.

An Ilorin based lawyer, Mr. Tunde Jimoh, has called on the Federal Government to impose a ban on hawking by children nationwide.
Jimoh, who made the call in Ilorin on Friday, said government must protect the children to safeguard their future.
He said that hawking has ruined the lives of promising Nigerian children, with many of them lured into different negative acts beyond their mental scope.
According to him, hawking has also caused set back to the lives of many teenagers who are lured into prostitution, abusing hard drugs and other vices.
He said, “Many young girls are being raped and boys are being lured into armed robbery, which have had negative impact on their lives.
“Hawking should never be encouraged in Nigeria, hawking has done more harm than good to the future of Nigerian teenagers.”
The legal practitioner urged parents to stop sending their children to hawk on the street, so as to save their dignity and insure their future.
Jimoh advised that seminars be organised for parents to sensitise them on the dangers inherent in allowing children to hawk on the street.