Nigerian singer, Crown Uzama, popularly known as Shallipopi, has announced that he is currently on “break” from smoking. The ‘Pluto Presido’ crooner announced this while sharing a video from his vocation via Snapchat recently. He advised his fellow smokers to abstain from the habit sometimes.

He said, “No be everytime you go dey smoke igbo, sometimes take a break. I am on break now. I am feeling good.  Nigerian celebrities, including Tonto Dikeh, Don Jazzy, Terry G, Faze, Dr Sid and Kizz Daniel have announced quitting smoking in the past.

However, some of them later made a U-turn, with Terry G and Kizz Daniel confirming on their respective social media pages that they have returned to the habit.

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The convener of Easyread Legal’s Mentorship Programme, Caleb Oboagwina, has called on members of the Nigerian public to report any lawyer found engaging in corrupt practices for disciplinary action. Oboagwina made this call while speaking to newsmen at the 2nd Externs General Conference and 10th Year Anniversary of the programme on Saturday in Abuja.

Decrying reports of corruption in the legal profession, Oboagwina said corrupt lawyers are sanctioned by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee.
If you find anyone wanting, don’t be silent. Report such a person immediately for disciplinary action against him or her to serve as a deterrent to others nursing the same evil and unethical ideas.

“Don’t be afraid. Report them no matter their reputation in the profession,” he said. He tasked aspiring lawyers on hardwork and dedication to excel in the profession whenever they are eventually called to the Nigerian Bar, urging young ones to see the profession as something that would redeem the society.

“If we have lawyers who would stand up for their rights, especially when they go up in the judiciary, and shun corruption, the society would be a better place.” Also speaking, the 2nd Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Clement Chukwuemeka, charged lawyers to speak to power and hold the government accountable when it fails in its responsibility of providing social amenities or infrastructural facilities to the masses.

According to him, the responsibility of lawyers is not to make money but to provide justice where the need arises, especially those who do not have anyone to speak for them.

“Judges grant bail to the high and mighty in corrupt cases after which such cases may be swept under the carpet but the poor are being sent to jail for minor cases because they have no one to speak for them,” he added. Easyread Legal’s Mentorship Programme is a platform that renders assistance to students of the Nigerian Law School engaging in Bar Part ll programme.

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In other news – Residents seek quick intervention as bridge linking Adamawa with Borno collapses

Residents of Madagali, a major town in the northern part of Adamawa State which shares borders with Goza in Borno State, have appealed for the quick response of federal authorities after a major bridge in the town collapsed.

The Madagali Bridge collapsed completely in the night of Thursday, August 15, after a heavy rain that caused an overflow of the Madagali River over which the bridge was built. Read more 

Residents of Madagali, a major town in the northern part of Adamawa State which shares borders with Goza in Borno State, have appealed for the quick response of federal authorities after a major bridge in the town collapsed. The Madagali Bridge collapsed completely in the night of Thursday, August 15, after a heavy rain that caused an overflow of the Madagali River over which the bridge was built.

People moving goods from northern Adamawa to southern Borno or vice versa now have to stop their vehicles on either side of the collapsed Madagali Bridge, download such goods and have labourers lift the goods on the head and walk through the river to other vehicles at the other end before the journey could continue. A resident of Madagali, Mathew Maziga, said that Madagali and Goza residents who are most directly affected now suffer much hardship and are waiting hopefully for quick action on the collapsed bridge.

Another resident, Suleiman Abubakar, said prices of goods coming from Borno State have further increased in the locality since the collapse of the bridge, as traders now have to bear the extra burden of paying young men to convey goods across the river. The residents made the appeal when the management of North East Development Commission, NEDC, visited the site of the collapsed Madagali Bridge on Sunday.

Managing Director of the Commission, Alhaji Mohammed Alkali who led the NEDC team on the visit, assured that work would begin soon to reconstruct the bridge. He said President Bola Tinubu has given the Commission the go-ahead to fix the bridge.

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In other news – Gunmen abduct over 10 people in Zamfara community

More than 10 community members of Matusji village in Talata Mafara local government area of Zamfara State have been kidnapped. Among the victims is a patient. A villager, Ahmad Babangida told newsmen that the bandits stormed the community with sophisticated weapons and started shooting sporadically at about 2:30 am on Friday.

We were all asleep but the heavy noise of the gunshot woke us up and everyone started running”, he said. Read more