It has been gathered that Justice Akinkugbe of a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, has granted an interim order restraining management of AIT from airing a documentary on a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The documentary was tittled ‘Lion of Bourdillon’.

Details coming later..

After days of waiting for the APC to decide who would be the running mate of General Muhammadu Buhari, the party Presidential flag-bearer has finally put an end to different speculations on who becomes his Vice with the adoption of Yemi Osibanjo as his running mate ahead of other candidates thrown up for the position like Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Kayode Fayemi...

Who is Osibanjo?

Yemi Osinbajo is the senior partner at SimmonsCooper Partners. Yemi is a professor of law and a former attorney-general of Lagos state and commissioner for justice. He is also a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN). Yemi was educated at the University of Lagos, Nigeria (LLB, 1978) and the London School of Economics (LLM, 1980). He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1979. He has authored several books on civil procedure in Nigerian superior courts, rules of evidence and justice reform.

Yemi has 31 years of litigation experience including significant trial and appellate work. Yemi supervises the commercial litigation group at SimmonsCooper Partners (SCP), a leading commercial litigation and corporate commercial firm in Nigeria. With a multi-jurisdictional competence spanning Nigeria, the United States and the United Kingdom, SCP fuses sound legal counsel with superior advocacy, and personal and responsive service. SCP provides a very comprehensive and integrated range of litigation, transactional, advisory and several support services to a vast array of clients.

Yemi has conducted very important constitutional and precedential cases before the Nigerian Supreme Court. Some of these include fiscal disputes between the federating units and the federal government; disputes regarding the ownership and control of oil and gas resources; town and physical planning disputes between the federating units and the federal government; an international territorial jurisdictional dispute in the West African sub-regional court; shareholder disputes involving a multinational, private investors and state-owned investment corporations and energy disputes arising from multinational participation in power projects in Nigeria. In other cases, Yemi has advised and represented clients in a broad range of commercial and corporate issues including securities litigation, investments and divestments, joint ventures, oil block acquisitions, product liability, fiduciary duties of directors, intellectual property, and corporate valuations. He is also involved in statutory and regulatory appraisal representation before the legislature and federal and state agencies.

While in public office as attorney general, Yemi is credited with undertaking far-reaching significant judicial reform in Lagos state, addressing critical areas as judges' recruitment, remuneration, training and discipline. In addition, he addressed access to justice for the poor by establishing appropriate institutions in the Office of the Public Defender and the Citizens Mediation Centre. In honour of his contributions to legal reform and the development of law in Nigeria, a compendium of essays on Nigerian constitutional law was compiled. The authors of these essays were senior lawyers and law professors with a foreword provided by a past chief justice of Nigeria.

Yemi is a member of the International Bar Association and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and has served in the Nigerian Body of Benchers and the Council for Legal Education of Nigeria. He is currently an independent director of CitiBank Nigeria and an ethics adviser to the board of the Africa Development Bank. He has also served in various capacities within the United Nations Organisation. Yemi speaks frequently at several commercial litigation events locally and internationally. He is actively involved in the pursuit of legal education reform in Nigeria.

 Five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors will on today  visit former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his Abeokuta residence.
The purpose of the visit as gathered by shadedreflects team is to find ways of appeasing Obasanjo to support the re-election bid of President Goodluck jonathan in 2015

The governors decided to consult the former President after an exhaustive assessment of the party's chances in the 2015 presidential race.
The governors who will visit Obasanjo are Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Sule Lamidoof Jigawa, Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, Isa Yuguda of Bauchi and Liyel Imoke of Cross River.
The governors are equally expected to visit former military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida in Minna to solicit his support for the Jonathan 2015 project.

Report reaching Shaded reflects has confirmed that the Yobe state capital, Damaturu is under seige by the dreaded Boko Haram sect. The insurgents who came into the town at about 5am from the Gujba axis south east of the town were shooting sporadically and triggering off explosives.

Shaded reflects correspondent who was in Jerusalem area along with other thousands of residents said he heard more than five explosions with deafening sound

Residents of Jerusalem and Pawari, bye pass along Gujba road have all deserted their house for safety.

The Yobe State University was reported to be under attack but there was no report of casualties.

Following the recent event that happened at the Obafemi Awolowo University, a video has been released to back up the truthfulness of the incident.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3TzOO7wlY

The people democratic party alongside the President has condemned the latest attack by the B'haram group and extended their heartfelt condolences to the bereaved, the people of Kano State and the Kano State government. In a statement released by Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, the President commiserated with all the families who lost their loved ones.  He called on relief agencies and medical personnel to deploy every possible effort to assist the injured, and for the general public to heed the call for the donation of blood by the hospitals where the injured are being treated.

President Jonathan however, calls on all Nigerians not to despair in this moment of great trial in our nation’s history but to remain united to confront the common enemy.
The President said he is confident that no terrorist act against fellow citizens will destroy the Nigerian spirit to remain positive, resolute and united in the quest for lasting peace and security in the country. He appeals to all Nigerians to remain vigilant and cooperate actively with our security agencies to win the on-going war against terror.

An attack has been launched on Kano central Mosque few hours ago which left unidentified number of people dead and many wounded. Shadedreflects team gathered that the Emir of Kano was targeted. The details of the attack are  unknown  as at the time of this report. God help us o

An attack has been launched on Kano central Mosque few hours ago which left unidentified number of people dead and many wounded. Shadedreflects team gathered that the Emir of Kano was targeted. The details of the attack are  unknown  as at the time of this report. God help us o

It has been gathered that some members of the upper legislative chamber have decided to pitch their tent with some members of the lower house( the house of representative) has 63 members out of the 109 members of the senate has signed up to the plan to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan from office.
The Punch reported that one of the arrowheads of the move to remove Jonathan in the Senate showed our correspondent the list containing the signatures of the senators.
The source also added that eight Peoples Democratic Party senators were among the signatories to the planned impeachment notice.
An All Progressives Congress senator from the North-West zone, who asked not to be named,told our correspondent that the lawmakers’ major grouse was the President’s handling of the economy and political affairs of the country.
The senator cited poor implementation of the national budget since 2011, alleged high level of corruption and “gross disregard” of the legislature at both the federal and state levels as topping the list of lawmakers’ anger against Jonathan.
Asked whether he realised that the process of impeachment could be tedious and cumbersome, the senator said, “ We know and we are prepared to show the President that we have responsibility to the people and the nation in general.
“We are prepared to lay the impeachment notice anytime from next week. Meetings are already being held.”
Senator Ibrahim Musa (APC Niger North) confirmed that there were moves by some members of the Senate to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President but failed to give details.
“I think there is something like that but I don’t have the details, it is still coming as a rumour,” Musa said.
But The PUNCH learnt that the impeachment move against the President had really gained momentum with the APC senators mobilising themselves to carry out the exercise anytime from next week.
Investigations by our correspondent revealed that some PDP senators, who were initially at the forefront of the struggle, had retreated following the intervention of the senate leadership and the promise of automatic tickets by the party.
It was learnt that the PDP senators had been pleading with their APC colleagues to hold on till next week pending the outcome of the moves by the senate leadership to ensure the realisation of the automatic tickets agreement they had with the PDP and Jonathan.
An APC senator told our correspondent on condition of anonymity that the impeachment letter contains the signature of both the APC and PDP senators.
He explained that the letter could not be laid on the floor of the senate because some PDP senators appealed to them to delay the action.
He said, “The truth of the matter is that the impeachment notice would have been laid if not for our colleagues in the PDP who pleaded with us to delay the process pending when the senate leadership would come up with the result of its efforts at securing automatic tickets for them.
“In any case the process had started but if we submit the letter now, the signatures of the PDP senators will be there and the party might want to use that as an excuse to deny them their automatic tickets.”
The PDP senators contacted by our correspondent on the issue declined to make comment.
However, one of them who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the process of impeachment had not been suspended.

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Boko Haram, the militant group notorious for terrorists activities in Nigeria and other neighbouring countries, hasIt seems like launched another attack on Thursday when they bombed another bus station in Yola where at least 5 soldiers and 35 civilians has been reported dead, shadedreflect team has gathered. This latest attack brings the total number of lives claimed by the group to 118 in just 72 hours.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the latest deadly attack, but Boko Haram militants are active in the area and have repeatedly targeted public places, Reuters reported. The bomb explosion at the busy station in the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern province of Adamawa killed at least five soldiers and at least 35 civilians were killed, the news agency said.
“There were bodies everywhere on the ground,” Reuters quoted eyewitness Abubakar Adamu as saying.

It was the third blast in northern Nigeria in the past 48 hours: Two female suicide bombers detonated explosives in the town of Maiduguri, killing 78 people and injuring 50 others Tuesday. The first woman attacked a marketplace, and the second waited until law-enforcement officials and medical personnel had arrived on the scene, CNN reported.
Nigeria’s northeastern province has been under attack by the Salafist militant group Boko Haram since 2009. At least 1,500 people have died since the group began its insurgency.
The militants made international headlines in April when they abducted more than 280 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state. The kidnapping sparked a global political campaign to rescue the students. The Chibok abduction was “just one in a series of similar kidnappings from schools in northeast Nigeria in recent months,” according to a recent report by the United Nations.
The Islamist extremist group, whose name can be translated as “western education is a sin,” wants to establish an Islamic emirate, a goal similar to those of militant groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State group. After the group formerly known as ISIS declared its caliphate this summer, a Boko Haram leader declared his allegiance to Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Baghdadi has yet to formally accept the Nigerian-based militants’ pledge.

Baba Iyabo let us hear word jare, whats d different  between the two of you, and Nigeria politicians generally except that you are older than him. He is just following d footsteps of democracy leaders b4 him.

 Ko Viashima Viashima, Lagos
There are indications that issues bothering corruption, the tragic rise in militant activities,  the failure of the State through the Military to reinforce trust in Nigeria's sovereignty provoked by  administrative anomalies may be brewing a major revolution in Nigeria, according to a former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other-Related Offences Commission, Justice Mustapha Akanbi. Justice Mustapha who dropped the hint on Tuesday during an interactive session with  Journalists, berated the Judiciary for allowing itself to be bought by those with resources. Shadedreflects.blogspot.com Correspondents have reported.
He also warned political actors in the country and its leadership against godfatherism and corruption saying a revolution exemplified by the recent incident in Ouagadougou is possible in Nigeria.
The renowned Jurist spoke with journalists in Abuja ahead of the public presentation of his two books – “The story of my two worlds” (an Autobiography) and “A life of service and grace: Shared perspectives” (a collection of Essays by scholars) scheduled for today (Wednesday) where ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo will function as chairman of occasion.
According to him, the present generation should not see life as mere acquisition of wealth but a call to service.
He said, “I have been a member of the National Judicial Council with Justice Babalakin. I remember that when we were leaving, the Secretary was almost weeping saying ‘when people like you are leaving, who will be the voice of the voiceless’? The Bench is not supposed to be for the highest bidder. I was invited by an Oyibo man, the Chief Justice of Northern Nigeria then to come unto the Bench because I started practicing Law initially. I didn’t want to be a Judge.
“But I told my father that I have been invited to be a High Court Judge, he said he was a friend to the father of Williams and Fani-Kayode who was a great Lawyer and said, ‘as a young Magistrate, they will bow before you. Now they called you to become a Judge and you said you want to think about it? Go and take that job.’ It’s not like now, if the right persons are appointed, you won’t have any problem with the Bench. You know the pressure now, with everybody lobbying to get to the Bench, that is the problem.”
Akanbi also warned that revolution should not be ruled out in Nigeria so long as the political actors continue to misplace their priorities.
He however said that the African Union and the world generally frowns at violent revolution and will always ensure a return to democratic rule.
The ex-ICPC boss said, “I am a democrat, but if you see what happened recently in Ouagadougou when they have to go and burn those places, it wasn’t a coup as such but a demonstration to show that the people aren’t going to take it. See how Hong Kong became a less free corrupt country. It was the people who rose up to challenge the Chief of Police.
“What I envisage is that when you push people and they have their back pushed to the wall, they are bound to react. Revolution means more than a change. It can be violent, it can be peaceful. But what happened in Ouagadougou recently is an obvious lesson for those who care to listen. It (revolution) is possible in Nigeria if we go on without thinking of the ordinary people.
“Among those to whom I dedicated my book, I spoke of the poor, needy and ‘talakawas’ of the society because I have been privileged to bring up my children with my late wife in the way we deemed fit. Our philosophy in the house was to produce a scholarly and religious people. Today, I have produced scholarly and religious people. So long as we continue to see poor people suffering but live in mansions, with the way things are going and we pretend, there will be problem.”
According to him, Nigeria should be a society where people should be in appointment or employment on the basis of merit and not godfatherism.
Akanbi said, “With the way things are going nobody feels comfortable, no reasonable person feels comfortable. If you went to the same school with another person and did very well. Because that person knows me or Mr. X, he’s able to get a job you cannot get because he belongs to a particular political party, will you be happy? In my days, you can be anything without knowing anybody, without having a godfather. But today, we all know what it is; there is corruption.
“I have heard of one Fakunle who said he has been sleeping in the church for five years begging only to see his name pasted on a Notice board that he has been employed in ICPC. He didn’t know me, I didn’t know him. In fact, when he was to be appointed, a different name was suggested. But it was because I sat at the interview and saw what happened. I didn’t know him and have never met him.
“I told somebody, the chap you are bringing is not as qualified as Fakunle, I later discovered he came from the same town with one of our officers. I said no, he can’t come in. I demanded for his papers and I saw he did better. That was how he got to ICPC.
“Integrity matters, I was very lucky because in my early years, I worked with the expatriates and generally, all these godfatherism and nepotism don’t come in. That is why I see it as a challenge. I have preached and practiced it. I felt that if I put it in a book form, those who will have access to it when I am no more, will know what made my life what it is.
“Look at late Dr. Nelson Mandela, he was for 27 years in prison. Can anybody compare him with anybody in Nigeria? If you take Martin Luther King Jr and what he stood for, we will get there. But let’s create an environment where the children of the weak and poor will also have a place in the society that they can compete very well with the children of the rich and the leaders.”
He added that as a product of a generation who lived in Ghana when politics was volatile and when Kwame Nkrumah was fighting the imperialists, “the present generation should not see life as mere acquisition of wealth.”
“They must seek, propagate knowledge and live and fight for the rightness of their call. Let them make a retribution that they must live on the path of righteousness for service to God and man. Those who make a great nation are those who sacrifice for the common good. My belief: I am an optimist and I know that Nigeria will survive. We can’t remain like this but we will have to open up the space to appreciate what is good and decent.”
“We have to tell the world that there is another aspect of life other than politics and wrangling. In ICPC, I have been able to prove a point that you can employ people without necessarily knowing them. There hasn’t been any teacher who taught me from Primary 1-7 and secondary school that I haven’t written about; In my book, I talked about decent Nigerians of yesteryears and compared them with Nigerians of today because they were the people who made me to read Law, who assisted me without knowing my background, they don’t come from my family”, the retired auspice stated.
By Shadedreflects team