Navalny says Putin's regime must be destroyed

Russian opposition leader calls for mass protests after he is given a suspended sentence and his brother is jailed.

Navalny's younger brother Oleg was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail [EPA]

Russia's top opposition leader Alexei Navalny has called for mass protests to "destroy" President Vladimir Putin's regime after a court handed him a suspended sentence and jailed his brother in a controversial fraud case. At a hearing that was abruptly brought forward by two weeks, a Moscow judge on Tuesday found both Navalny and his brother Oleg guilty of embezzlement and sentenced them to three and a half years in what is widely seen as a politically motivated case.

A LIB reader has a message for all single women...:-)

Written by a LIB reader, David King...

Ladies, come in here! Want to know why your kid sister(s) or girls who grew up before your eyes are already engaged or even married while you can't even boost of a serious boyfriend?

Here is the singular reason why; "Being real". Every man has his 'mumu botton'. At the same time, every man has a particular type of girl he's been envisioned to settle down with (It might not be known to him until he finds the mrs right).

Obasanjo, Buhari planning interim govt —FG

 

The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered.

The minister said this in Lagos at the launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher,’ written by an activist, Yinka Odumakin, in reaction to Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My Watch’

2015: PDP sure of victory in Kaduna –Sambo

Vice President Namadi Sambo is hopeful that with the overwhelming support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) enjoys in Kaduna State, the party will garner over two million votes in the 2015 general elections.
Sambo expressed this optimism during a unity and family meeting of the state chapter of the PDP which held at the Hassan Usman Katsina House, Kawo, Kaduna, on Sunday.
The vice president  also said he expects 100 per cent victory for the party’s candidates in other elective positions including that of the governor.

Lagos Disagrees With Sambo Over Comments On Heavy Taxation

The Lagos State Government has said the statement credited to Vice President Namadi Sambo that people were leaving the state in droves as a result of the heavy taxes imposed on them by the All Progressives Congress-led administration in the state, is untrue and ‘lacking in facts’.
In a statement on Monday by the Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Information and Strategy, Lateef Raji, the government wondered how the vice president, who was not known for courting controversy, could make such a statement.
It, therefore, advised Mr. Sambo, to in the future, make “simple greetings” instead of making “non-residential claims that are lacking in facts”.

Rivers APC lambasts Amaechi’s critics over funding allegation

All Progressives Congress (APC) Rivers State chapter, has taken a swipe at the critics of Governor Chibuike Amaechi, who accused him of funding his party at the national level.
The state Chairman of the party, Dr. Davis Ikanya, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday, said the state chapter did not have such money to fund the party at the national level.

2015: Minister warns politicians over inflammatory comments

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, has warned that politicians who make inflammatory statement will be arrested and prosecuted.