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‘You dont have power to summon me - EFCC former boss

Ibrahim Lamorde has told the senate committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions that they do not have the powers to invite him for an investigation as he is no longer the chairman of the anti-graft agency. The senate committee is currently investigating allegations that Lamorde diverted N1 billion of recovered stolen funds during his tenure. Speaking through his Lawyer, Festus Keyamo who represented him at the senate hearing today, Lamorde argued that it is only a law court that can invite him for any investigation. He said he will only honor the invitation of the senate only if he is invited as a witness and not an accused. The Chairman of the committee, Emmanuel Nwanyawu, told Keyamo that the committee is not a court of law and, therefore, a lawyer cannot appear before it on behalf of his client. He said another letter of summons would be issued to Mr. Lamorde informing him he must appear before the committee on November 24th.

Petroleum pipeline expload in warri

 petroleum pipeline which is close to an army barracks in Warri, Delta state exploded. Fire fighters are working to contain the spread of the fire.

Female Baby sellere brought to police station in Lag

Obotie Adesuwa, is currently in the cell of the X-Squad Section of the Lagos State Police Command, after she allegedly sold a one week-old baby boy who had been brought with his mother to the police station. It was learnt that the sergeant who is from Edo State, is attached to the Akinpelu Police Division, where the baby boy and her mother, Toyin, who is said to be mentally unstable, had been brought to by a Good Samaritan. It was learnt that the Good Samaritan, who was taking care of the Toyin had brought her and her baby to the station after Toyin was delivered of the baby in a psychiatric hospital. They were reportedly brought to the police in the last week of September, Adesuwa, who was on duty, had received the baby but failed to document the incident. However , on Monday, November 9, when Toyin showed up at the station to ask for her baby, the sergeant pretended that she didn't know her. A police source said: “The incident happened at the Akinpelu Police Div...

2 Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris

"Several law enforcement agencies are working ... to determine the nature of the threats which caused the aircraft to divert," FBI Special Agent Todd Palmer of the Salt Lake City division said. No U.S. military aircraft were scrambled in either incident, NORAD spokesman Preston Schlachter said. "Diversion of flights are the most draconian response to a bomb threat," CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem said. Officers searched the plane that landed in Salt Lake City and rendered it safe, Salt Lake City Airport Police Chief Craig Vargo said. He said airport officials have turned the plane back over to Air France, which was preparing the plane for departure.

Many people dead in Yola explosion yesterday

people were feared killed on Tuesday when an explosion occurred at a motor park in Jimeta, Yola, the capital of Adamawa State. The blast, sources said, could have come from Improvised Explosive Device allegedly planted by members of the Boko Haram sect. Eyewitnesses said that the motor park was not from a vegetable market. “I cannot say how many people died in the explosion but human parts littered the place. It happened when traders were closing shop for the day,” a resident, who simply identified himself as Mustapha, said. Security agents were said to have rushed to the scene to take the injured to the hospital while the dead were taken to mortuaries of some medical facilities in the town. As of the time of filing this report the police had not issued any statement on the incident.