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 Senator Ahmed Markafi led Peoples Democratic Party has warned against the judiciary being used to threaten democracy in the country. Speaking Sunday in Port Harcourt against the backdrop of developmemts in Abia , Edo and within the party, member of the Caretaker Committee of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye said there should be a check on the way and manner politicians were shopping for injunctions and court orders, stressing that it could truncate the nation democracy. Dismissing as bizare and unsutainable a court order that the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC, should recognise the candidate from Ali Modu Sheriff’s Congress for the governorship election in Edo state Adeyeye said efforts so far by Sheriff and his team to go round securing court orders was absurd.

Renowned constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Mike Ozekhome, has said that his colleague and human rights activists, Mr. Femi Falana was wrong on his position that the Nigerian constitution cannot guarantee absolute immunity against criminal prosecution for governors, deputy-governors, President and Vice-President in the country. Falana had during a paper entitled: ‘The Limits of Immunity Clause’, he delivered at the 6th birthday of the Edo State’s Secretary to Government, (SSG) Professor Julius Inhonvbere,

Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) say they have attacked five oil pipelines. In a series of tweets on the Avengers’ Twitter handle in early Sunday morning, NDA said the operations to blow up the pipelines were carried out between Friday and the wee hours of Sunday.

The priests and members of the three Catholic Dioceses in Enugu State, Nsukka, Awgu and Enugu, on Saturday, turned out in their thousands for peaceful mass rallies tagged“Diocesan peaceful prayerful protest march”, as they protested the violent activities of herdsmen in the state and expressed their anger at the menace posed by herdsmen.

That’s an indication that Trump will be making a push to win Wisconsin, a Midwestern industrial state that hasn’t voted Republican since 1984. Hillary Clinton begins July with $44 million in cash to continue hammering Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House. As part of that effort, Trump spoke to a group of conservatives at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Colorado.

 Here are 10 things you need to know 1. A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Abia State, Friday Nwosu has filed a suit against the judgment of the Federal High Court which declared Sampson Ogah as governor-elect. Nwosu averred that the court, having disqualified Ikpeazu as the governorship candidate of the PDP in Abia in the 2015 polls, should have declared him as governor-elect and not Ogah. 2. The Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal on Saturday described reports that he was planning to become governor of Adamawa State as baseless.

At least 55 people have been killed in northern Pakistan and India in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains. Floods in the Chitral district of Pakistan damaged houses and a mosque killing at least 30, officials said. Another 25 are now known to have died in floods and landslides in India's Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh states in recent days.

Photo: The Herald Former Zanu PF Harare youth leader, Acie Lumumba's family and friends yesterday said he has gone missing and they feared he may have been kidnapped following his obscene insult of President Robert Mugabe on Thursday. Police yesterday confirmed the former Zanu PF politician who abandoned the party after making many damning allegations against its officials, could not be found.

Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMany of the dead were children, it is reported At least 79 people have been killed and 131 injured in an explosion claimed by the Islamic State group in Baghdad, Iraqi police say. A car bomb exploded near a restaurant and shopping area in the central district of Karrada late on Saturday. The street was busy with shoppers after sundown in the holy month of Ramadan, which ends this week.

Sanjoy Majumdar reports: "Foreigners were isolated and then singled out" Bangladesh has declared two days of national mourning for those killed when Islamic militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka.