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Nine suspected Christian bombers apprehended

Nine people believed to be Christians were on Sunday apprehended in Bauchi while trying to bomb a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) parish.
The suspects, who were said to be members of the church located at Unguwar Rimi along Jos- Bauchi road, were seriously beaten by a mob before they were rescued by a team of policemen from the Toro Divisional Police Division where they were detained before being transferred to the state police command in Bauchi.
A COCIN church in Jos was rocked by an explosion which claimed 3 lives (including that of the bomber) and injured 38 others on Sunday morning. Jos has witnessed several ethnic/religious clashes that have claimed hundreds of lives.

BOKO HARAM: JONATHAN, GOVERNORS MEET U.S OFFICIALS NEXT MONTH

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, United State Senate Chairman on Foreign Relations, Senator John Kerry, former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and some selected Governors from Nigeria will meet in Washington DC to brainstorm on the scourge of Boko Haram and other security situations in Nigeria.

The two day event scheduled to hold from March 29 and March 30, 2012 at the Capital Hilton Hotel, DC will also discuss issues bordering on Maritime security and investments.

The event tagged: Enhancing Security in Nigeria Through the Partnership of the U.S Senate and House of Representatives is aimed at drawing up a more realistic road map in solving the security challenges in Nigeria.

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, Minister of Police Affairs and Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolada are all billed to participate at the conference.

Others includes: Minister for State, Defence, Erelu Olusola Obada, Special Adviser to the president on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, Special Adviser to the president, Maritime Security, Hon. Leke Oyewole Olugbenga.

While Governor Uduaghan is billed to speak on Investment in the Niger Delta Region, Governor Aliyu will speak on Investment in Northern Nigeria; Governor Lamido will do an Overview.

Organizers of the event include: Izzi Faafa, Dr. Ljubica M. Buba, Miss. Julia Johnson and Dr. Maureen N. Eke.

BREAKING NEWS PHOTO D'BAN & NUDE DANCER HIT INTERNET, WHO IS AFTER D'BANJ???

These raunchy Photos hit the Internet after D'banj Interviewed President Goodluck Jonathan briefly on Silverbird Television, The President opted to face D'banj than submit to a Presidential Debate Organised by News Channel 
D'banj has been widely criticized for his role in the Interview

Sanusi: CBN won’t submit budget to N/Assembly

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said the apex bank will not submit its budget to the National Assembly for appropriation, saying the lawmakers had “donated” its appropriation powers to the bank.

This was disclosed in a letter signed by CBN’s Director Legal Services S. M. Onekutu on behalf of the governor, dated February10, 2012 and addressed to the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency.

Sanusi said that “by section 6 (3) of the CBN Act 2007, the National Assembly is deemed to have donated its authorisation powers under section 80 (3) of the constitution as it relates to the budget of the CBN to the board of the CBN.”

The letter further reads: “The budget of the CBN is not subject to the yearly appropriation process. This position is borne out by precedence and convention as never before in the annals of the history of the federal budgeting has the CBN budget been subject to the annual appropriation process. It is indubitable that the spending of the CBN is not from the consolidated revenue fund of the federation; the bank recognises that same may be deemed to be spending from “other public fund of the federation” within the meaning and intendment of section 80 (3) of the constitution and thus be subject to the spending authorisation regime prescribed there under that is authorisation via an Act of the National Assembly.”

The apex bank governor said that the authorisation spending by the CBN was prescribed by the CBN Act 2007 in section 6 (3) which provides that board of the CBN shall be responsible for the consideration and approval of the budget of the CBN.

The apex bank’s letter to the committee was in response to an earlier letter by the committee requesting it to forward its 2012 budget estimates to the House for appropriation.

The lawmakers had threatened not to pass the budget unless 31 revenue generating agencies including the CBN and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) forward their budgets to the National Assembly for appropriation.

Sources in the National Assembly told Daily Trust that the apex bank’s 2012 budget was over N300 billion.

Recently, while testifying before the House of Representatives Joint committee on Finance, Petroleum Up and Down Stream, investigating the non-remittance of N450 billion into the federation account by the NNPC, Petroleum Minister Diazeni Allison-Madueke said the NNPC was being run like a limited liability company and as such could cannot be subjected to processes of appropriation by the National Assembly.

Other revenue generating agencies include the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, Nigeria Ports Authority, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Security Agency, Nigeria Gas Company among others.

When contacted, Chairman House Committee on Banking and Currency, Rep. Chukwu Jones Oyereri (PDP, Imo), said he will not discuss the letter with journalists because it was not meant for “public consumption” and “the way you got the letter is even questionable because it was not addressed to

3 killed as suicide bomber attacks church in Jos

(AFP) – A suicide bomber drove an explosives packed car into a church in the volatile central city of Jos on Sunday and killed three people, church leaders told AFP.

The attack is the latest in a country grappling with what have become almost daily assaults, most of them blamed on the Islamist sect Boko Haram.

Church workers said a car forced its way through the gate during an early morning service.

“We were in the church during the time of worship and a suicide bomber forced himself into through the gate, into the church and the bomb exploded,” John Haruna, the reverend of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN), told AFP.

Another church member who is also an activist with the Christian human rights organisation Stefanos Foundation gave a similar account.

“It was suicide bomber, he drove his car into the church, approaching the pulpit and it exploded. Three members of the church died and 10 are injured,” Mark Lipdo, said.

He said pieces of human flesh littered the church premises.

Boko Haram has been blamed for a wave of increasingly bloody gun and bomb attacks in several parts of Africa’s most populous country in recent months, mostly in the Muslim-dominated north.

Incidents of attacks are also growing in the central region, the so-called middle belt which divides the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south.

Last Sunday several people were wounded in an explosion near a church outside the capital, Abujba.

Boko Haram has targeted Christians on several previous occasions, notably with a series of coordinated blasts on Christmas Day

Flavour & Nabania engaged and expecting a baby

So I got a scoop and I asked the girl in question and she confirmed it. One of Naija's finest artist, Flavour N'abania is engaged and expecting his first baby with US-based singer Beverly Heels. See hotness! Congrats to them.