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An AirAsia flight, QZ8501, bound for Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia and carrying 162 people on board went missing early Sunday morning. Indonesia air traffic control lost contact with the plane about an hour after departure, somewhere over the Java Sea,  between Belitung island and Pontianak, on Indonesia's part of Kalimantan island. Seventeen children and crews members make up the list of passengers on board the missing airplane. Search and rescue operations have been launched with the Indonesian army as well as Singapore and Malaysia, scouring the area around Belitung.

Justice Evoh Chukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a middle-aged man, Mr. Okwara Emmanuel, to two-years inprisonment for manufacturing fake insecticides. The convict had earlier pleaded guilty to the six-count charge filed against him by federal government pleaded and urged the court through his counsel, Ugochukwu Oparah, for leniency. He was arrested following a petition written against him to the National Agency For Food, Drug and Administration Control, NAFDAC, which raided his mini factory last at Kuje where he was arrested with a gas cylinder and empty cartons of insecticides. In the chrge filed by Umar Shamaki, counsel to the federal government in the matter, okwara was accused of manufacturing unregistered Raid, Baygon, Mortein insecticides and Dettol antiseptic products. According to the charge, the offence was contrary to section 1 of the Food, Drug and Related Products Act, Cap. F33, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under s...

Nigeria's Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, on Monday, opposed an application brought before a federal high court in Abuja by Mr. Olatoye Wahab and Mr. Adejumo Mansouri Ajegbe, asking that their suit on the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the forthcoming presidential election to be transferred to the Court of Appeal for determination. Wahab and Alegbe had approached the federal court asking it to determine whether by the combined effect of section 135(2) (a) and (b) of the Nigerian Constitution, a person sworn into office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on two previous terms is deemed to have been elected to that office at two previous elections. They are also asking the court to determine whether the President can present himself for the purpose of being elected as the President having participated as a candidate and emerged winner at two previous presidential election on account of which Jonathan would hav...

Moves by immediate past national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur to return as the party's boss suffered a set back as a federal high court in Abuja on TUESDAY, dismissed a suit instituted by Mr. Aliyu Gubrin, challenging Tukur's resignation and the appointment of Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu as the national chairman of the party. He had asked the court to restrain  Mu'azu from acting as the chairman of the party and to halt the planned national convention of the party scheduled for 10th and  11th of December, 2014  where the party is expected to adopt President Goodluck Jonathan as its sole candidate  for next year's Presidential election. He further asked the court to hold that Tukur's resignation is invalid for non compliance with the Constitution of the party and the Electoral Act 2010 and to make an order setting aside the Tukur's resignation as the party's national chairman. However, the court presided by Justice Ev...