FIFA HAS SUSPENDED SUAREZ FOR NINE MATCHES AND BANNED FOR FOUR MONTHS

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended Luis Suarez for nine matches and banned for four months this was as a result of the ‘bitten’ that occurred during the FIFA World Cup match between Italy and Uruguay played on 24 June 2014,

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has decided that:

‘’ The player Luis Suarez is regarded as having breached art. 48 par.
 1 lit. d of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC) (assault), and art. 57 of the FDC (an act of unsporting behavior towards another player).

The player Luis Suarez is to be suspended for nine (9) official
 matches. The first match of this suspension is to be served in the upcoming FIFA World Cup fixture between Colombia and Uruguay on 28 June 2014. The remaining match suspensions shall be served in Uruguay's next FIFA World Cup match(es), as long as the team qualifies, and/or in the representative team's subsequent official matches in accordance with art. 38 par. 2a) of the FDC.

The player Luis Suarez is banned from taking part in any kind of
 football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) for a period of four (4) months in accordance with art. 22 of the FDC.

A stadium ban is pronounced against the player Luis Suarez in accordance with art. 21 of the FDC as follows: the player Luis Suarez is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium during the period of the ban (point 3). The player Luis Suarez is prohibited from entering the confines of any stadium in which the representative team of Uruguay is playing while he has to serve the nine-match suspension (point 2).

 The player Luis Suarez is ordered to pay a fine in the amount of CHF 100,000.

 The decision was notified to the player and the Uruguayan FA today.
 
"Such behavior cannot be tolerated on any football pitch, and in particular not at a FIFA World Cup when the eyes of millions of people are on the stars on the field. The Disciplinary Committee took into account all the factors of the case and the degree of Mr Suarez's guilt in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Code. The decision comes into force as soon it is communicated,'' said Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.’’

HUMAN PARTS DEALERS: OLAKUNLE OGUNSOLA AN ACCOUNTING GRADUATE AND 3 OTHERS ARRESTED

Olakunle Ogunsola, 26, who claimed to be an Accounting graduate from the Lagos State University, has been arrested alongside his partners in crime; Oyebamiji Olalekan, Alfa Alhaji Rasheed Opeyemi Abass and Akorede Wasiu. Ogunsola.


The suspect said he had been dealing in human parts ever since he was an undergraduate at the Lagos State University, Ojoo, Lagos State, and that he sells the parts to pastors and Islamic clerics to make their congregation grow.


Ogunsola was, who is married with a kid, said: “I have sold human meat to alfas, pastors and native doctors.

“I sold to two pastors this year, but cannot remember the names of their churches now. “The pastors use it to make their churches move forward. “I use them too for soup and powder. “But now I feel bad about it. “I sold to four or five alfas too. “The first pastor I sold to was at Sango-Ota and he paid me N24,500 for the skull.”


The first person to be arrested was Waheed Ajigbotoloun, who led SARS operatives to the shops and homes of the other four suspects. Ogunsola said that he used to get his human part supplies from Ajigbotoloun. He added: “I bought human heads, by this I mean the skull. “I also bought pieces of human meat, which could be any part of the body.

“The price ranges from N6,000 to N10,000. “The supplier gets them from Joju Cemetery in Sango-Ota, Ogun State. “I was introduced to him around October 2013. “Another seller who does the same in Ile Epo Market is called Mr. Lukman, whom we also call ‘Oosa’. “I have bought only six human skulls.
“I got a fresh human hand also while going from Cele to Super Bus Stop. “I did not know whether it was a man or woman’s hand.”

Olalekan, 40, residing at Ipetu-Ijesa, Jankara, Ijaiye area of Lagos State, in his own words said: “I sell each for N6,000 to N7,000.

“They told me they got the meat from the cemetery. “I have sold five to six pieces of human heads. “I know it was wrong, but I was looking for money.” Alfa Abass, 50, who lives at Ile Ogbo Street in Ajegunle area of Lagos State, was in charge of calling prayers to his mosque called ‘ Edalere Mosque’ also located at Ajegunle, Toll Gate area. He also confessed to being a native doctor, aside from being a Muslim cleric. Abass said: “I use human parts for treatment of my patients. “I had used it twice before. “I paid N1,500 for the human parts. “I used it for a mentally ill boy. “The boy got cured. “He went back to school afterwards.”

Wasiu, 30, from Ita Ajana Compound in Sango-Ota, Ogun State, a father of four, confessed to being a native doctor. “He explained that he used to buy his human parts from one Mr. Tantoloun. “He met and started transacting business with the guy since 2010. “I used my human heads to help women who are in the process delivering. “I buy each head for N4,000.”

FESTUS KEYAMO,22 OTHERS SHORTLISTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS SAN RANK

Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Adeniyi Keyamo and 22 others, have been shortlisted by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee for an interview preparatory to the award of the prestigious rank of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) on them.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court and Secretary to the LPPC, Mr. Sunday Olorundahunsi, said in statement on Tuesday that the interview would take place on July 8 and 9, 2014. Apart from Keyamo, others shortlisted candidates are   Gerald- Godwin Ezeuko (Jnr), Samuel Zibiri, Dr. Joshua Olukayode Olatoke, Dr. Adewale Adedamola Olawoyin, Olusola Olaseni Idowu,  Chukwudi Obieze, Kevin Chukwudi Nwufo and Chief Wale Taiwo,

They also include Dr. Theophilus Akinpelu Onigbinde, Teslim Busari, Olatunde Oluranti Adejuyigbe, Richard Ayodele Akintunde, and Sylvanus Ogwemoh.
Others are Adewale Adesokan, Tawo Tawo, Andrew Igbokwe, Chike Onyemenam, Fredson Chijioke Okoli, Dr. Amuda-Kannike Abiodun, Oluwakemi Balogun, Ahamefula Ikechukwu Ejelam, and Hakeem Afolabi Olatunde.

The LPPC enjoined the general  public to comment on the integrity, reputation and competence of the shortlisted applicants on or before July 7, 2014.
The statement reads, “This serves to notify the general public that the under listed applicants have been found worthy to attend the interview preparatory to the award of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, 2014.
“The interview dates  shall be on the 8th and 9th July, 2014. The general public is at liberty to comment on the integrity, reputation and competence of any of the applicants. Such comments if any shall reach the undersigned on or before 7th of July, 2014”.

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD CHURCH: ILLEGAL EXECUTIVES LOOTED OVER 150 MILLION NAIRA WITHIN 6-WEEK

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Rev Prof Paul Emeka ,the embattled General Superintendent of Assemblies of God Church, had alleged  that  over N150 million naira was looted by the Rev Chidi Okoroafor led illegal executives  just within six weeks of his purported suspension. Rev.Emeka made this known to Rev Obinna Akukwe, a church leader and Director of Media of General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers (GAAICOM) who led a team of gospel ministers on a mediatory mission to resolve the crisis in the church.


Rev Emeka who was suspended on the allegations of administrative and financial misconduct in March 2014 claimed that within six weeks of his purported suspension, the usurpers have already looted about N150 million naira and even went as far as forging his signature on a cheque of N9million naira.

According to the cleric “these illegal men have looted and spent more than N150 million of the General Council funds. They keep holding these illegal meetings with the District Superintendents and Treasurers from zone to zone, telling them how they would remit money to them. They have opened new accounts because I keep blocking any existing accounts I discover. They are mercilessly dealing with the General Council funds with which they service their numerous lawyers and members of their think-tank whom they quarter in various places to keep manipulating the church and the court with lies. They even forged my signature on a cheque of N9 million on March 18. Thank God that the bank alerted me promptly”.

Rev Emeka who described his suspension as illegal and unconstitutional. Implying vindictive motive behind his purported removal, he said that “Suspension as a form of discipline in the Assemblies of God is designed to serve a spiritual and holy purpose and not to achieve political and vindictive purpose. The purported suspension pronounced on me on March 6, 2014 was the meanest exercise of discipline. It was motivated by hatred, god-fatherism, envy and opportunism. It fell short of a legal General Committee.”. Going further the embattled General Superintendent told Rev Akukwe and other clerics  that his suspension followed the usual unconstitutional means whereby Nigerian politicians remove people from office without recourse to laid down procedures and believes that there is “ a moral duty on me to resist this type of imposition so that it does not become a custom in the Assemblies of God Church whereby a few persons can just gang up and use force to remove an elected church leader without following the laid down procedure“.

According to him “The body that pronounced that suspension was a wrong one. The so-called General Committee did not have up to twenty unit heads out of about 105 unit heads. In other words, it didn’t have a quorum. In the roll call, according to the video, majority of the Districts were absent. Observers were used as voting members. This was in addition to the fact that the process was wrong. The GS is the only one authorized by the constitution to call for a General Committee.”. Clarifying further the cleric said that “The Ambassadors of the Kingdom filled the hall. The Ambassadors were to participate only if their Districts delegated them to come. But being Ambassadors did not automatically qualify them to be there and do business. Rather, they were supposed to be there as a party having a case with the GS. Unfortunately, it was the Ambassadors who wrote petitions against me, they judged me, convicted me, condemned me and punished me. They moved the motions to nail me; these were the same people who signed the petition against me.”

Rev Emeka decried the unholy involvement of the immediate past General Superintendent, Rev Dr Charles Osueke in the plot to unseat him and described the entire plot as “the unholiest plot of the century. It was anything but holy. It was driven by hate, a long-held desire to revenge a perceived a personal wrong. It was driven by a passionate desire to make good his plot to enthrone his god-son Chidi Okoroafor.”

Clarifying further on his claims the cleric said that “It is necessary to inform you, according to their video tape, that even before coming to the meeting, they had decided what to do to me, and the least of these evil plots was to step me down. This they decided to do even when they had not heard from me. During the meeting, they used votes to decide whether I would be stepped down or be suspended. In Assemblies of God, we do not use votes to decide the suspension of a person. You cannot decide the punishment of an adulterer, a thief, etc. with votes. Therefore, if I really had sinned and they knew it, there wouldn’t have been any need to vote to decide which discipline to mete out on me.”

Rev Paul Emeka alleged that his travails began when he decided to introduce financial propriety into the system. He decried a situation whereby in Evangel University, within the first month of operation brought a salary bill of N6 million naira and in the second month the salary was jerked to N9 million while by the third month it escalated to N13 million even when a student population of 73 does not justify such increment. He claimed to have complained that they were employing staff for the university without due consultation to the point that 135 staff were serving 73 students within a few months of operation and his complaints was misinterpreted as disloyalty to the status quo.

Rev Paul Emeka also believed that his proposal to increase the pension of retired pastors of the church brought him in conflict with an interest that wants their retired pastors to continue to suffer. He wondered why they preferred to use pastor’s fund to run offices rather than increase pension to pastors. According to him “As at last year, the pastors fund generated N2.5 billion from the time that scheme started, all that had been paid to the pastors was only N123million in 16 years, up to N300 million and more was spent on office.

The purpose of that scheme was not to run office or other things but to help our pastors in retirement but many of them are suffering and we felt free to our conscience to allow them in that state and pay lip service to our holiness. “

Meanwhile a senior cleric in the church who is part of the arrowhead of the suspension of General Superintendent, have claimed that the  main issues against Rev Paul Emeka has to do with introduction of strange practices in the church. Speaking to Rev Akukwe and GAAICOM officials on condition of anonymity, the cleric claimed that “Rev Paul Emeka introduced the wearing of rings, worldly dancing and singings into the church and is on a mission to radicalize the spiritual structure of the church. He is giving prominence to some Evangelists in the church who are preaching prosperity at the expense of holiness and the Ambassadors have to salvage the church before the devil takes over”.

He described Rev Dr Chidi Okoroafor as the man that will take the church to the next levels and expressed optimism that the meeting of the General Council scheduled for the 26th of June will finally “throw Rev Emeka out of the place for sanity to prevail”.

K1 AS THE KING IN 'EKO:THE BLESSING OF OLOFIN' THE MOVIE

Eko: The Blessing of Olofin is an Epic movie yet to be released. The movie is produced by Fola Onifade, while Femi Bright directed it.

 Wasiu Ayinde Anofowose aka K1, has taken the role of a king, also features are top actors like Bukky Wright, Jide Kosoko, Iya Awero, Leye Adeshile, Orisha Bunmi, Yemi Blaq and Kanran, among others.

The Blessing of Olofin the movie is centred on the true story of Lagos.

MERIAM IBRAHIM ‘S NINE MONTHS IN HELL: FROM DEATH ROW TO FREEDOM

The case against Ms Ibrahim dates from 2013 when 'a group of men who claim to be Meriam's relatives' filed an initial legal action, the vicar's statement said. However, according to one Mr. Mustafa, Ms Ibrahim had never seen these men before,

Ms Meriam Ibrahim, who was born eastern Sudan's Gedaref state on November 3, 1987 to a Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother, according to a statement from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum. According to said the statement signed by Father Mussa Timothy Kacho, episcopal vicar for Khartoum, ‘she (Ms Ibrahim) has never been a Muslim in her life.' Her father abandoned the family when she was five, and she was raised according to her mother's faith, it says.

Miss Ibrahim joined the Catholic Church shortly before she married the Mr Wani who was born in Khartoum but is now a U.S. citizen, in December 2011, the vicar said.

She was convicted under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.

Mr Wani, according to source owns a barber shop, a mini-mart and an agricultural project in Gedaref, while Ms Ibrahim Ms Ibrahim is a trained doctor. 2011 - Meriam Ibrahim, who was raised Christian by a Christian mother, marries Daniel Wani, a Catholic from South Sudan who is a U.S. citizen
September 2013 - Meriam is arrested on charges of apostasy and adultery for practicing Christianity and marrying Wani, a Christian. Her son is held in prison with her

‘May 15, 2014 - Meriam, who is eight months pregnant, is sentenced to death by hanging and 100 lashes after refusing to renounce her religion
May 23 - Meriam gives birth to baby Maya while shackled in prison
May 28 - Mr Wani meets his baby daughter for the first time. Both children are held in prison with their mother because authorities won't release them to the care of a Christian
May 30 - U.S. lawmakers join British MPs in calling for Sudan to release Meriam, as international outcry over her sentence increases
June 1 - Sudanese officials raise hopes when they claim they are planning to release Meriam - only to dash it when other officials deny she is getting clemency
June 18 - Sudanese authorities finally remove the shackles from Meriam's legs at the insistence of her doctors
June 23 - A Sudanese court overturns Meriam's death sentence and orders her released from prison’.

SOURCE: MAIL ONLINE

A REAL HERO:13-YEAR OLD RICKY OSAGIE DIED WHILE TRYING DROWNING TWO GIRLS IN IRELAND

Ricky Osagie, 13, died on Saturday after trying to save two girls who were drowning in a lake in Ireland.
Although the two girls are in stable condition, Ricky died at Temple Street Children’s Hospital early Saturday.

According to his father, Kelly Osagie, “He was trying to help someone else,”  “That’s what happened. My son died a hero. He went in and then that was it. My son is gone but a girl is alive because of him.”

“He always smiled and was happy all the time,” his father added. “He had so many friends. He is a hero, a real hero. I want the world to know what my son did. He was a man.”
“He was such a fantastic footballer,”  “We have trophies everywhere in the house. Ricky was going to play for Ireland, that’s what he said he was going to do.”He added.

May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

Culled:   Irish Sunday Mirror