BREAKING: Court refuses to grant Sowore’s application against detention order

The Federal High Court , Abuja, on Wednesday , refused to grant the motion filed by Mr Omoyele Sowore , Convener , # RevolutionNow protests , challenging his detention for 45 days by the Department of State Security .
Justice Nkeonye Maya , who declined all applications by Counsel to Sowore , Mr Femi Falana, SAN , sent the case back to Justice Taiwo for further hearing .
Falana, who had asked the court to set aside the ex parte order granted by Justice Taiwo , also applied for bail orally when Justice Maha rejected the earlier application .
Sowore , who is presently in detention had, on August 9 , approached the court , seeking an order to vacate the ex parte order that gave the DSS the legal backing to detain him for 45 days.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Taiwo Taiwo had, in a ruling on an ex parte application , on August 8
ordered Sowore’ s detention for the said period to enable the DSS to carry out and conclude its investigation on allegations levied against him .
The DSS had also , on August 20 , challenged the court order , allowing it to detain Sowore for 45 days against its request of 90 days pending investigation .

Second term: Osinbajo presides over first Economic Management meeting

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday , presided over the first Economic Management Team meeting of the President Muhammadu Buhari- led second term in office .
According to his Osinbajo’ s media aide , Laolu Akande, via his verified Twitter handle , Osinbajo is presiding of the meeting themed , “ Next Level Agenda : Budget issues . ”
Present at the meeting include the Minister of Finance , Budget and National Planning , Zainab Ahmed; Minister of Industry , Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo; Minister of Information and Culture , Lai Mohammed ; Minister of Works and Housing , Tunde Fashola , Minister of State, Finance , Budget and National Planning , Clement Ike , and Minister of State, Petroleum , Timipre Sylva .
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VP Osinbajo presiding over the first Economic Mgt Team meeting of President Buhari's 2nd term, themed Next Level. Agenda: Budget issues. In attendance are Ministers: Finance, B&NP; Industry, Trade& Investment; Info; Works & Housing; B&NP State & Petroleum State. There's also...

1999 constitution, responsible for Nigeria’s problems —Afe Babalola

The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti , Chief Afe Babalola , SAN , on Tuesday , held the 1999 constitution responsible for Nigeria’ s problems .
He made this known during the ceremony , where he was conferred with the African Role Model and the African Union Agenda 2063 Ambassador awards by the African Union Economic Socio-Cultural Council .
He said , “ The 1999 Constitution is , in large measure , responsible for the problems we have in Nigeria today . The constitution has discouraged and crippled development in the states . Consequently , Nigeria remains a poor country like most African countries.
“ What Nigeria needs is a bill sponsored by the government , asking the Senate to pass a law for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference that the membership will be elected on zero party system .
“ It is only through a true federal constitution that transformational leaders can emerge and a true Nigeria nation can emerge from over the 300 nations in the country . Africa needs leaders who can transform the continent . The renaissance has started in ABUAD . We have succeeded in nine years to transform education in the country . ”