Wednesday, August 01, 2018
A 29-year-old suspect identified as Innocent Oseghale, who was accused of murdering 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro in Macerata in January, has admitted to chopping up the 18-year-old Roman woman's body but not to her homicide, reports said on Tuesday.

It was gathered that Mastropietro's dismembered body was found in two suitcases near to Macerata.

Oseghale is accused of homicide and of the charges of trying to hide a body and contempt for a human corpse.
During questioning in English with investigators at Marino del Tronto jail, Oseghale said Mastropietro died of a drugs overdose at his home and he cut up her body as part of an attempt to get rid of it.
Oseghale also denied raping Mastropietro and cleared his compatriot Desmond Lucky, saying he was alone with the woman when she died.

Oseghale is said to be an asylum seeker with a residence permit, which expired last year. He is married and has a daughter. He, however, stays alone in an apartment, not rented in his name. Police, after searching his flat found 70 grams of hashish, but not heroin.

Carabinieri forensic police found bloodstained clothes belonging to the victim and other blood traces at the suspect’s home. They also found a receipt from a nearby pharmacy where the victim had bought a syringe, reports said.

Oseghale has a record for drugs offences, police said. He was pinned down by CCTV footage of the area where the suitcases were dumped, and by a foreign national who said he saw him carrying the suitcases there.

Wednesday, August 01, 2018
The All Progressives Congress has queried Senate President Bukola Saraki and given him 48 hours to explain why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for violating the party’s constitution.

In a resolution signed by its National Secretary, Mai Maila Buni, the APC accused Dr Saraki of breaching Article 21 of its constitution and engaging in anti-party activities.

Among several other allegations, the APC claimed that the Senate President “encouraged and facilitated by providing an enabling environment for the defection of some senators who are members of the APC to the other opposition parties”.

It also claimed that Dr Saraki “deliberately refused to screen nominees for appointments submitted by Mr President who are members of the party”.

“This has caused untold embarrassment and ridicule to the party and the government,” it said.

The party further accused the Senate President of causing avoidable delays in the budgetary process and passage of the appropriation act into law.

It also claimed that despite efforts to address grievances to reconcile aggrieved members, he worked against the process and encouraged the formation of an association which sought to impersonate and pass off the name of the party.

The APC dissolved its executives in Kwara State on Monday after it, among other things, said some members of the executives in the state participated in a rally calling on the Senate President to defect to the Peoples Democratic.

In its query to Dr Saraki on Tuesday, the APC accused him of organising the rally and of embarrassing the party.

Furthermore, the APC attributed delays in the budgetary process on the Senate President.

“You used the office of the Senate President to cause avoidable delays in the budgetary process and passage of the appropriation act into law thereby frustrating the implementation of the party’s manifesto and programs and frustrating the APC led Federal Government in the actualisation of the campaign promises of the party,” the APC said.

According to the statement, failure by the Senate President to respond to the queries will attract sanctions.

Wednesday, August 01, 2018


Frenchman and Manchester City's Benjamin Mendy arrived at training in style this morning as he pulls up in a brand new yellow £300,000 Ferrari F2X  



The 24-year-old World Cup and Premier league winner returned to Man City early in a bid to return to full fitness ahead of the new season.




Man City ,who came out victorious during their pre-season games against Liverpool FC and Germany's Bayern Munich are currently preparing for Sunday's Community Shield clash against FA Cup holders Chelsea, with Mendy desperate to be involved after making just one appearance in Russia.



His Ferrari F2X is the modified version of the Ferrari F12berlinetta and limited to only 30 units worldwide.

Wednesday, August 01, 2018
As shared by Tunde Ednut on IG, this lady was stripped Unclad for stealing phone.

But I think she should be handed over to the police.

Watch the video below:

Wednesday, August 01, 2018
The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, is plotting to remain in office despite defecting from the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.

Mr Saraki had on Tuesday renounced his membership of the party after weeks of speculation that he would do so.

“I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the All Progressives Congress (APC),” he wrote on his Twitter handle.

He later announced that he was rejoining the PDP, a party he left in January 2014 after he accused it of raping democracy repeatedly.

Mr Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, emerged the senate president in June 2015 following the success of the APC at the general elections. He and 10 other senators had joined the party in January 2014 from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The other senators were Shaba Lafiagi (Kwara North), Mohammed Ndume (Borno South), Danjuma Goje (Gombe Central), Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa West), Magnus Abe (Rivers South East), Wilson Ake (Rivers West).

Others were Bindo Jubrilla (Adamawa North), Abdullahi Gobir (Sokoto East) and Alhassan Aisha Jummai (Taraba North).

Mr Saraki emerged the senate president against the wishes of the leadership of the APC, which favoured Ahmed Lawan, the incumbent senate leader.

A close aide of Mr Saraki told PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday that his principal would remain in his position, citing precedences.

According to the aide, although a clearer picture of which of the parties between the APC and PDP commands majority in the upper chamber would emerge when the senate resumes from recess in September, Section 50 of the 1999 Nigerian constitution (as amended) does not bar persons from minority parties from occupying the position of the senate president.

Section 50 (1) (a) of the document states that there shall be “a President and Deputy President of the Senate, who shall be elected by the members of that House from among themselves.”

The aide, who pleaded not to be quoted because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, argued that the Constitution does not specifically states that members of minority parties cannot seek election into the position.

He said Mr Saraki would rely on the provision to retain his seat until June 2019 when the Ninth Senate would elect its presiding officer and new principal officers.

The aide further argued that defecting to another party was not one of the ways a senate president could lose his position.

Buttressing his argument, he cited Section 50 (2) of the Constitution which says “The President or Deputy President of the Senate or the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall vacate his office:

a) If he ceases to be a member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case maybe, otherwise than by reason of a dissolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives; or

b) When the House of which he was a member first sits after any dissolution of that House; or

c) If removed from office by a resolution of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the members of the House.

The aide also argued that in line with the constitution, there were occasions in the past political dispensations in the country where persons from minority parties presided over both chambers of the National Assembly.

He specifically referred to the Second Republic when the late Edwin Ume-Ezeoke of the defunct Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP) was Speaker of the House of Representatives while his deputy, Ibrahim Idris, was of the then governing National Party of Nigeria (NPN).

He also cited an instance where John Wash Pam, also of the NPP, was the deputy senate president. Mr Pam from Plateau served as deputy to NPN’s Joseph Wayas.

Both cases were however made possible because of the alliance formed between the two parties after the 1979 elections.

The aide also recalled that in the Seventh Assembly, then Speaker Aminu Tambuwal defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC but retained his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

He also said in the current Eight Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, a member of the PDP, is sitting as the deputy senate president despite belonging to the minority PDP.

The aide further told this newspaper that although he would not foreclose attempts by the APC leadership to seek to remove Mr Saraki, he however, said such move might also trigger the removal of other principal officers who are members of the ruling party, Mr Lawan.

When contacted, the spokesperson to Mr. Saraki, Yusuph Olaniyonu, confirmed that Mr. Saraki was not considering resigning as Senate President.

“All I can say at this time is that you should go and read the constitution,” Mr. Olaniyonu said. “Does it forbid members of minority or majority parties from becoming presiding officers of House or Senate.”
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