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                  Their Royal Highnesses,as Patrons of Heads Together,London Marathon charity of the year,will spen the day supporting #TeamHeads Together.Before the race,TRH met Heads Together runners to wish them the best of luck for the day.Heads Together aims to raise awareness,tackle stigma and create a national conversation around mental health.Each of the 39,000 marathon runners have beeb given a Head Together headband,to help make the 2017 marathon the 'Mental Health Marathon''.More photos below.

                                                             Justice Abdulaziz Anka of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi,Lagos on Monday,April 24,2017,struck out out a N100m fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by a former Minister of State for Defence,Musiliu Obanikoro,against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,on the grounds of incompetence.The former minister; his wives,Fati and Moroophat,and sons,Gbolahan and Babajide,had through their counsel,Lawal Pedro,SAN,in the suit,sued the Commission for ''unlawful invasion of their houses and seizure of some of their properties''.They had urged the court to declare the seizure of items from their houses on June 14,2016 by the Commission as null and void.However,in his ruling today,Justice Anka upheld the preliminary objection by E.E Iheanacho,counsel to the EFCC,who said: ''Since the main claim of the applicants was founded on tort,their principal reliefs are not maintainable under the Funda

                Khoe Kardashian took to her social media today to mark the 102 year anniversary of the Armenian genocide.She captioned the photo above ''Today marks the 102 year anniversary of the Armenian genocide.In 1915,the Ottoman Empire committed mass extermination of 1.5 million Western Armenians.I am proud to be an Armenia!!! It is our duty to not be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation no matter their race or creed.Silence encourages the tormentor,never the tormented.It saddens me that history books don't acknowledge such torture but my voice will be used to bring awareness to my people for being survivors!!! ''I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race,this small tribe of unimportant people,whose wars have all been fought and lost,whose structures have crumbled,literature is unread,music is unheard,and prayers are no more answered.Go ahead,destroy Armenia.See if you can do it.Send them into the desert

                             One of the victims of the clash between Yoruba and Hausa in Ile Ife,Mojeed Owoyomi,who was rumoured to have been beheaded during the clash,tells FEMI MAKINDE his experience in this interview. Question: What do you do for a living? Answer: I am a vulcaniser {tyre repairer] at Sabo area in Ile Ife.That was the place the crisis between Hausa and Yoruba people occurred on March 8. Question: It was rumoured that you were beheaded and your head was hung on a pole and paraded round the area.What really happened? Answer: It is a lie! I was not beheaded.That is why I am talking to yoy now.I am not dead,don't believe that rumour except you cannot see my head sitting on my neck.I am alive.I thank God that I am alive.When the crisis started,I ran away from the scence but they burnt my motorcycle and my engine,the one I use to inflate tyres was carted away.But I realised later that one of my kinsmen was the one who removed the engine to prevent the hoodlums from

                                                   Justice O. Efreti Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba,Delta State has ordered that Mrs Fidelis Omoile,a serving Independent National Electoral Commission's {INEC} official in Isoko-South Local Government Area of Delta State,be remanded in prison custody following her arraignment on monday,on a two-count amemded charge,bordering on conspiracy and money laundering,by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC.omoile was docked for allegedly collecting the sum of N112,480,000.00 {One Hundred and Twelve Million,Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira},as a bribe during the countdown to the 2015 Presidential election.She was among the over 100 INEC Officials that allegedly collected part of the $115million {N23bn} disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources,Diezani Alison-Madueke,during the countdown to the 2015 presidential election.Omoile was arrested on 11 April,2016 following an intelligence received by

                     Garba Shehu,the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,stated this in Abuja yesterday sunday night,in reaction to social media reports on the purported resignation of Kyari and Daura.Shehu,who frowned at the report,said the Chief of Staff left Abuja on saturday for China on a presidential assignment and would be back by the middle of the week.He said ''The report is pure mischief.What I can tell you is that the President sent the Chief of Staff Malam Abba Kyari to China on an assignment.He left on Saturday and we are expecting him by the middle of the week.The DG DSS,who spoke with me a few hours ago,is busy on his job.Nothing to indicate resignation.I think these are mere distraction''.

                    Garba Shehu,the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,confirmed this development in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday sunday.According to the presidential spokesman,the Office of National Security Adviser {ONSA} is adopting the whistle-blowing approach so as to end shooting incidents and the harrassment of law abiding citizens by holders of such illegal weapons.He said the proposed adoption of the whistle-blowing policy on illegal weapons by the Federal Government,followed the success of the policy in the recovery of huge amount of questionable and stolen funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision {EFCC}.Shehu said the presidency had started drawing up the rules of a whistle-blower mechanism to throw a spotlight on the regime of gun ownership and control as a bold move to prevent and eradicate illegal ownership of small arms and light weapons in the country.He explained that the aim was to disarm communities especially those

               This is to announce that the planned meeting of the South West Governor's Forum scheduled to hold in Abeokuta,the Ogun State capital,on Monday,April 24,2017,has been put on hold.The South West Governors have decided to put the meeting on hold in honour of the Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria,DAWN Commission,Mr. Dipo Famakinwa,who sadly passed away on friday,April 21,2017.While we regret any inconvenience this might have caused,a future date for the meeting will be duly communicated. Signed Adejuwon Soyinka Senior Special Assistant {Media} Ogun State Governor April 23,2017.