Saturday, June 29, 2019
Judge Who Ordered Diezani’s Arrest Is Dead
Valentine Ashi, a judge of the federal capital territory high court in Abuja, is dead. The judge was said to have died at a hospital in Abuja on Thursday. He reportedly suffered a liver ailment.
According to a court official, the judge’s family informed the court about his death on Friday. Called to bar in 1987, Ashi served a lecturer at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja campus, in 2001 until he was appointed a judge in FCT on July 15, 2010.
MOSOP’s Secretary-General Abducted
The Secretary-General of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Anthony Porole, has been kidnapped.
Porole was kidnapped around 8.30 p.m. on Friday in his compound at Biara-Ogoni hometown in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, with the criminals shooting sporadically before escaping with him to an unknown destination.