DE- APPLAUSE: Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Mrs Funmilayo Adeyink...

DE- APPLAUSE: Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Mrs Funmilayo Adeyink...: Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Mrs Funmilayo Adeyinka is Dead in Lagos Hospital, St. Nicolas at age 52. she died of cancer according to family...

Frills and trills at 16th City People Award

Sunday, March, 31st 2013, Celebrities trooped out in thier hundreds to attend the much-talked about City People Award. The event was witnessed by high and mighty in the Society, Politicians and Bussines gurus were also not left out as well as Fashionister who looked Gorgeous in Black and white the colour code for the event. Among those who attended the event are Otunba Segun Runsewe, Ogun State First Lady, Mrs Folusho Amosu, Jagun Lekan-Alabi, Iyalode Alaba Lawson, the event was held at Balmora Hall Oregun, Ikeja Lagos. BY: OLUSEGUN RAPHEAL

L-R: Ogun State first Lady, Mrs Folusho Amosu and City people Publisher, Dr. Seye Kehinde

L-R: Chief Tola Adeniyi, Iyalode Alaba-Lawson and Oloye Lekan Alabi

 

Captain Chris Najomo amd wife Martha



L-R:Capt. Chris Najomo and  Otunba Segun Runsewe

L-R: Olori Olugbenle and wife of Ogun State Deputy Governor, Mrs Adesegun

L-R: Mrs Kemi Soname, Hon. Adejare and Mrs Bukola Faleke

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L-R: Alhaja Tai Elemosho and Toyin Kolade

Mr. Segun Adisa and wife

Foluke Daramola and Hubby Mr. Salako

Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Mrs Funmilayo Adeyinka is Dead

Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Mrs Funmilayo Adeyinka is Dead in Lagos Hospital, St. Nicolas at age 52. she died of cancer according to family sources. she joined politice from the banking sector.
she was 52 years old.

Serena Williams rode her bike to a match to beat traffic

Serena

Miami traffic was so bad this weekend that Serena Williams didn't know if she'd be able to get to her Sony Open match in time.

The world No. 1 was scheduled to play Ayumi Morita at 7 p.m. on Saturday night but realized she was going to have trouble making it the few miles from her hotel to the tennis facilities at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne

"The traffic was crazy and everyone was like, `I have been here for an hour, and I'm staying like eight minutes away. I'm like, `OK, I'm not going to make my match.'

"So I asked for a golf cart, and the hotel didn't have a golf cart. Then they were like, `We have a motor bike.' I'm like, `I don't do motor bikes.' They said, `We have a bicycle.' I said, `I really don't do bicycles, but I will today."

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Imo State Deputy Face Impeachment



Sir Jude Agbaso



Okorocha

Faced with impeachment threats, the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Sir Jude Agbaso has asked the High Court of Imo State and a Federal High Court in Owerri to stop moves to remove him by the state House of Assembly

He asked the court to restrain the state Chief Judge, Justice A B Njemanze and the impeachment panel from taking further step with his removal from office, pending the determination of the suit.

The deputy governor specifically urged the court to “stop the Imo CJ from acting on a request from the Speaker of the state Assembly, Hon Benjamin Anyanwu to appoint a six- man panel to further proceed against his removal over unfounded allegation, conclusion or recommendation of the panel pending the determination of the suit.”
The defendants in the suit are the six - man panel (Hons Simeon Iwunze, Ikenna Emeh, Greg Okemili, Innocent Ekeh, Kingsley Dimaku and Samuel Anyanwu) the Speaker (Uwajumogu), state Assembly, Imo CJ, and the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command.
In a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed at the state High Court, dated March 14, 2013, Agbaso averred that the constitution of the panel did not follow due process.

He said if the impeachment panel is allowed to go ahead, it would “present a fait accompli on the court and render its decision nugatory.”
The deputy governor pleaded with the court to “take judicial notice of the fact that the Imo CJ is aware of the pending suit.

He said the CJ had assigned the suit to Justice F I Duruoha Igwe and directed that the matter be entertained on Monday, March 18, 2013.

Some of the grounds for the reliefs being sought by Agbaso:

• The applicant is apprehensive that the defendants will go ahead with further breach of his right to fair hearing by proceeding on the contents of the challenged document against him before the substantive suit is determined, which will work exceptional hardship on the applicant.
• Unless the restraining court orders are made, the defendants will do everything any moment from now to present the court with a fait accompli and render the decision on the application nugatory.
• Given the nature of their statuses and offices personal service of the order and originating process cannot be conveniently effected on them. He said: “The posers then are:  If the CJ knew there was a case where himself was a defendant and there is a prayer for him to be restrained from as the CJ of the state from acting on a request by the Speaker of the Imo State House to appoint a panel of 7 persons to further proceed against the applicant (Jude Agbaso) in any manner howsoever in connection with his removal from office as the deputy governor of Imo State;

· whether on an allegation, conclusion, finding or recommendation on any issue in, connected with or relating to the report of the special ad hoc committee constituted by the House of Assembly, why did he go ahead with the constitution of the panel knowing full well that section allows him 188(5) of 1999 Constitution, a period of seven days between the passing of the motion by the House and the appointment of seven persons by the CJ?

· .In view of the fact that the Speaker and clerk of the House have received copies of the processes filed in court on Thursday 14^th of March, and thereby being aware that there was a pending suit, could they legitimately in a country governed by rule of law do anything to over reach the pending suit. The Speaker is a trained lawyer and he ought to aware of the legal position

The applicant pleaded with the court to grant an “order of interim injunction, restraining the commissioner of police and his agents from harassing and intimidating him or invading his residence or office pending the exhaustion of all legal options available to him under the 1999 Constitution (as amended) against the defendants.”
Agbaso is also seeking an order for substituted service of the court processes on the defendants through their agents or through advertisement in two newspapers including DAILY SUN newspaper.

Agbaso through his lawyer, Mr. Patrick Ikweoto (SAN) urged the court to note that “in spite of the pendency of the suit, the Imo CJ went ahead to constitute the seven-man impeachment panel.
Ikweoto also cited the case of Chief Adefarati v. Ondo State Governor “on the sanctity of not taking any further step over pending suit in order not to overreach the court.

Meanwhile, Agbaso has also filed another suit before a Federal High Court in Owerri against the defendants, challenging the propriety of the impeachment proceedings against him.
He is asking to hold that he is entitled to fair hearing as enshrined in section 36 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended)

He urged the court to grant a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants and their agents from proceeding with the impeachment process.

Church Vicar finally sacked over Fayemi’s N5m donation

Church Vicar finally sacked over Fayemi’s N5m donation

St Pauls Millennium Anglican Church

Gov. Kayode Fayemi

The crisis rocking St Paul’s Millennium Anglican Church in Odo-Owa Ekiti in Ekiti State over the N5 million donated by Governor Kayode Fayemi has taken another dimension with the compulsory retirement of the church’s vicar, Rev Michael Ogunniyi. This is despite the threats and protests by members of the church that the rank of the cleric, who had earlier been demoted from Archdeacon to Canon by the Anglican Bishop of Ekiti West Diocese, Most Rev Oludare Oke, should be restored.

It will be recalled that the crisis began when the cleric, in defiance of the order of the Anglican Bishop that the N5 million donated by Governor Fayemi during the burial of the former Anglican Primate, Most Rev Abiodun Adetiloye, should be kept in a special fixed account, saying it was an endowment fund and not a gift to the Odo-Owa church alone.
But some members disagreed with the bishop and prevailed on Rev Ogunniyi to use the money to buy a new bus for evangelism and for renovation of the church.
The church consequently bought a new bus for N3 million, spent N1 million on renovation and kept the remaining N1 million in bank. This consequently earned the vicar a demotion.
In a statement yesterday, the Diocesan Communicator Emeritus Dr Kunle Olasope and Diocesan Communicator Prince Sola Adetule, said the Bishop had on March 1, 2013 handed over a letter of compulsory retirement with six months’ notice to the cleric.
The statement reads: “The question of Vicar Ogunniyi is strictly a matter of discipline which must be maintained if the person, position and authority of the bishop are not to be rubbished and dragged in the mud”.
The diocese also allayed the fear of demotion of the Odo Owa church from archdeaconry as it announced the Dean of the Cathedral, Very Revd Julius Olaosebikan, as supervisor of the church until Rev Ogunniyi would bow out.
The vicar, who was originally billed to retire in 2017, said he had accepted the compulsory retirement, adding that he did not regret the action.”
He told journalists on phone yesterday that “the matter is all about purchase of the bus which the church had been longing for in the past 15 years. My loyalty is to the church and not to the bishop. I have no regret”.
Ogunniyi, however, advised members of the church not to engage any violent act because of the bishop’s action.
Some members of the Provincial Church Council (PCC) had last week threatened that they would sue the bishop if he did not restore the rank of the vicar, adding that they might be compelled to move out of Ekiti Anglican West Diocese.
But the Diocese, which said the board had passed vote of confidence in the bishop for the effective way he has run the affairs of the diocese, added: “As for those who threaten court action at Odo Owa, they are entitled to their rights, but the Diocese will not be deterred”.
Mennnnnn....you've got to love this Nigeria's power couple in these romantic and playful pics that will be used for souvenirs and backdrop at the reception of their white wedding in Dubai which is just three away.

While their traditional wedding will hold this Friday 8th March at the Apostolic High School, Esit Urua Community, Eket - Ibeno road, in Uyo, the bride's hometown.

 

GROSVENOR CELEBRATING ROYAL WARRANT IN LAGOS

Penultimate week,  Grosvenor celebrated their just awarded Royal Warrant by Her Majesty – The Queen of England. The quintessential shirt makers with style. Grosvenor is renowned for producing collections of stylish shirts and distinctive accessories combining English sartorial tradition with a contemporary edge. The event has high fashion personalities in attendance