Dino Melaye's Ex-Wife Files Fresh Divorce Suit

Tokunbo Melaye, the estranged wife of onetime member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dino Melaye, has according to CityPeople magazine, filed a fresh divorce suit few weeks after she withdrew the original suit.

This time, Tokunbo is asking the court to share everything the former Honourable member has into 2, including his exotic and expensive cars. In addition to the cars, she also listed all Dino’s properties in
Abuja, and Lokoja, asking the court to share the properties in 2 equal parts.

Aircraft with 57 passengers makes air return

A passenger aircraft belonging to Overland Airways, which left Ibadan for Abuja on Monday, had to abandon the journey around Minna, Niger State and make a detour to Lagos for emergency landing, after its windshield was broken.

The plane, which left Ibadan around 8am, had on board a former President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Mr. Lanre Ogundipe, an officer in the Accountant-General of the Federation’s office, Mr. Demola Akinlabi, and 55 others.

Ogundipe, who spoke to our correspondent from Abuja on the incident, said the aircraft was in good condition before the windshield broke, adding that a major tragedy was miraculously averted.

“We started well but midway around Minna in Niger State, the pilot made a detour to Lagos, which was strange. We later got to know that the windshield broke and the flight could not continue for long,” he said.

Ogundipe added that the passangers had to be evacuated and put in another aircraft, which arrived Abuja in the afternoon.

Fayose: Aggrieved PDP leaders give Jonathan ultimatum

Some aggrieved leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State have given President Goodluck Jonathan a five-day ultimatum to intervene in the crisis rocking the party over the emergence of former Governor Ayo Fayose and Senator Gbenga Aluko as the  governorship candidates of the party.

One of the leaders of the PDP in the state, Chief Feyisayo Fajuyi, who led other party leaders to a press conference in Ado Ekiti on Monday, called on the President to declare null and void the primary election which produced Fayose.

Fajuyi said that the process which led to the primary election of March 22 was fraught with irregularities saying based on this, the election should be annulled.

Other leaders who attended the press conference were: Chief Bankole Fayori (Irepodun/Ifelodun), Oluwalana Ayobami (youth president), Chief Ajayi (Ise/Orun),  Mrs.  Foluke Adetunji (Ekiti West), Mr.  Akinola Adams (Ijero-Ekiti) and Biodun Ajibadeola (Ikole-Ekiti).

$510bn Gross Domestic Product: Investors not attracted by size of economy –World Bank

That Nigeria now has the largest economy in Africa after rebasing its Gross Domestic Product will not necessarily pull foreign investment into the country, the World Bank has said.

Experts from the World Bank said    that policies and profitability were more critical factors in determining the destination of Foreign Direct Investments.

They spoke during the release of Africa’s Pulse – an analysis of issues shaping Africa’s economic future through video conference in Washington, United States on Monday.

The conference which had participation of journalists from 12 countries in Africa was moderated from Washington. It was addressed by the Chief Economist, World Bank, Africa Region, Mr. Francisco Ferreira, and the Lead Economist, World Bank, Africa Region, Punam Chuhan-Pole.

After rebasing the economy, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics put the nation’s GDP at $510bn ahead of South Africa’s $370bn.

But the experts said the standard of living of individuals in a country was also a critical factor in determining what is happening in the country and not the state of its GDP alone.

Apo killings: NHRC indicts Army, DSS

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, yesterday, said its investigations revealed that eight persons that were killed by a joint team of the Nigerian Army and operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, at an uncompleted building situated at the Apo District of the Federal Capital Territory on September 20, 2013, were not members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect as was alleged by security agencies.
In a report it released yesterday, the commission, which had earlier conducted a public hearing on the matter, said there was no shred of evidence to show that the deceased victims belonged to the dreaded Jama’atu ahlus sunnah lid da’awati wal jihad, also known as Boko Haram.

Compensation

Consequently, the commission ordered the Federal Government to pay N10 million compensation to each of the families of the eight deceased persons as well as pay N5 million to each of the 11 injured survivors.
More so, the NHRC directed the Attorney‑General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, to ensure that evidence of payment of the compensation was lodged with the registry of the commission within 30 days from yesterday.

Ibadan Horror: Forensic experts exhume bodies, collect victims’ property

FORENSIC pathologists, yesterday, began exhuming bodies of some victims of the Soka kidnappers’ den in Ibadan for forensic analysis.
The experts were drawn from the University College Hospital, Ibadan, and Nigeria Police from Abuja. This came just as the police dismissed rumours that some victims were still trapped underground.
According to Superintendent of Police Olabisi Ilobanafor, the Public Relations Officer of Oyo State Command, “how can a human being survive underground for more than three weeks without food or drink? Where will they get power to charge the phone people have been saying someone was calling with?
“It is a mere rumour and figment of their imagination. People should not carry rumours that will have psychological effects on families of missing people.

Atiku Abubakar's Son Dubai Wedding - Pics.

former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, (r) introducing the parents of his son's wife Mrs Margarita, (1st r) and Mr Nadim Saleby to Chief Bisi Akande, Interim National Chairman of APC at the wedding reception of Atiku's son, Abubakar A. Abubakar and his bride Mariana Nadim in Dubai over the weekend.

The groom Abubakar Atiku Abubakar and his mother Hajiya Ladi Atiku Abubakar