Angry mob lynched 60 year old man in Yola for committing homosexual

A 60 year old man alleged to be a homosexual was lynched by angry mob in Yelwa Ward in Yola. The 60 year old man was suspected to have subjected a 20 year old boy to indecent acts for years, which has left him with a strange sickness. The deceased identified as Hassan Buba, a resident of Yelwa Ward in Yola North Local Government, according to sources, admitted of having canal knowledge of his victim for over four years. Eyewitness account disclosed to newsmen in Yola that the Late Hassan Buba met his untimely death when his victim confessed to his parents that his unending ailment was as a result sexual encounter with the old man. It was at this junction that the deceased was invited to the victim’s family house where he admitted to having long standing sexual relationship with the boy. The deceased equally confessed to using supernatural means to lure the boy into the act and to prevent him from exposing the act.

CPC wants court to dissolve Adamawa Assembly

THE Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Adamawa State chapter, has concluded arrangement to file a case on Monday, next week for the dissolution of the 25-member Adamawa State House of Assembly. While addressing journalists yesterday in Yola, the state chairman of CPC and former member of the House, Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri, said that the House failed to meet the constitutional provisions of sitting for 180 days yearly. He alleged that the House sat for only 91 days from June last year to June this year, pointing out that the lawmakers lacked any constitutional powers to operate again, since they abused the constitution and their oath of office. In a reaction, Speaker of the House, Ahmed Umaru Fintri, maintained that the House sat for 91 days in the chambers of the Assembly and pointed out that committee meetings were also included in the 180 days stipulated by the constitution. On the controversial amendment of the Establishment and Administration law 2000 number four to create room for government to constitute an electoral college to elect a caretaker committee for councils, the Speaker said that the bill was for interest of the public. He said that the aim of the bill was to ensure that there was no vacuum at the local council level in a situation where the governor failed to conduct elections as at when due. However, the CPC boss said that the action of the House to pass a bill to clash with the provisions of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was a gross abuse of law and creation of monarchy in a democratic dispensation. Waziri, who urged Governor Murtala Nyako, not to sign the bill into law, said that the bill was antithetical to the growth of democracy and that it would breed dictatorship at the local council level. The former lawmaker insisted that his party would pursue the court case to dissolve the House to the Supreme Court to ensure that the rule of law takes its rightful place in the state. Emmanuel Ande, Yola (Culled from Guardian website )