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PHOTOS: Shettima, Alia, others attend Akume’s son wedding in Benue

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The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator George Akume, recently played host to a lavish wedding ceremony for his son, Samuel, in Benue State, coming shortly after he formally introduced his new wife, Zaynab Ngohemba, into his family.

The high-profile wedding of the former Benue State governor’s son drew widespread attention, attracting several top political figures from across the country.

Vice President Kashim Shettima attended the ceremony on behalf of President Bola Tinubu.

The presence of the Vice President was confirmed in a statement issued on Sunday by his Spokesman and Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Stanley Nkwocha.

“Vice President Kashim Shettima, representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has arrived in Benue State to grace the wedding reception of the son of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume,” Nkwocha wrote.

He said the wedding united Akume’s son, Samuel Aondoakura, with Deborah Ershima, the daughter of a renowned engineer.

“The solemnization of the holy matrimony is between Samuel Aondoakura and Deborah Ershima, the daughter of Engineer Msula Atoga.

“The Vice President was welcomed to the state by the SGF and the Governor of Benue State, Dr Hyacinth Alia, among other dignitaries of the state,” the statement added.

The celebration followed reports of Akume’s own marriage to Zaynab, which was conducted discreetly last year and only became public recently.

The union was announced in a congratulatory Facebook post by Abraham Dajoh, a member of the Akume Dajoh family from Mbakor in Benue State.

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“We, the entire Dajoh family, happily join our daddy, uncle and brother, His Excellency, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. George Akume Jugu Dajoh, in welcoming his new and uncommon wife, Queen Zaynab Ngohemba-George Akume Dajoh, into the Dajoh family,” the post stated.

Zaynab was formerly married to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, in a highly publicised traditional wedding held in Benin City on March 12, 2016, with a reception in Ile-Ife the following day.

The marriage, however, lasted 17 months and ended in August 2017.

After the separation, she publicly confirmed the split, returned to her maiden name, and later relocated to Doha, Qatar, where she became involved in philanthropic work. In the years that followed, media reports linked her to a wealthy Arab prince, with whom she was said to have welcomed a daughter in 2022.

Akume and Zaynab were recently seen together at the SGF’s 72nd birthday celebration on Saturday, further drawing public attention to their marriage.

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Death row inmate Christa Pike scores legal win as judge reopens her case against execution by lethal injection

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Death row inmate, Christa Pike has scored a legal victory after a judge reopened her case against being put to death by lethal injection following her botched execution.

The convicted murderer, 50, was due to be the first woman put to death in Tennessee for over 200 years on Sept. 30 but instead became the country’s first death row inmate ever to survive the lethal injection.

In January, her legal team filed a complaint in court challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol, which was later dismissed by the Tennessee Supreme Court in May, according to court documents obtained by The Post.

In an order issued on Thursday, Judge I’Ashea Myles ruled that the case should be reopened in the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville.

Myles wrote that Pike had established “extreme, unique, exceptional, or extraordinary circumstances” allowing her to seek relief from the court.

The original complaint filed in January called for the court to stop the use of the lethal injection against Pike, arguing that in her case it was unconstitutional.

“Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol, calling for a single drug (pentobarbital), is plagued with the same issues that have marked botched executions for decades: secrecy, intentional omission, inattention to detail, and untrained and unlicensed prison personnel attempting to fill medical role,” Pike’s lawyers wrote.

“As the State of Tennessee seeks to execute its first woman in 250 years, and the only woman on Tennessee’s death row ––- Christa Gail Pike –– those problems have come to head.

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“The new protocol, as applied to the Plaintiff and her unique medical conditions, is unconstitutional under the United States Constitution and the Tennessee Constitution.”

The attorneys also argued that Pike’s “physical characteristics,” including small veins, made insertion with a needle difficult.

Pike was sentenced to death for the sadistic murder of her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate Colleen Slemmer in Jan. 1995, when she was 18.

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PHOTOS: Russian bus stop bombing k!lls at least 33 in Ukraine

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ussia has continued its invasion against Ukraine for more than four years and is showing no signs of backing down.

At leaat 33 people were k!lled when Russia carried out a bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, authorities said on ​Thursday, October 8.

The Ukrainian authorities described the latest bombing as a targeted strike on civilians in the key ‌stronghold sought by Moscow.

Another 18 people were wounded in one of the largest single attacks this year, which took place on a street where police said two city buses were operating at the time of the strike.

President Volodymyr ​Zelensky described it as a bus stop.

Images posted by police showed bodies ​strewn across a street littered with debris, as well as a ⁠charred shell of what appeared to be a bus.

“For them (the Russians), a ​bus with passengers is an attractive target precisely because one strike can kill as ​many people as possible,” regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on the Telegram app.

There was no immediate comment from Moscow on the attack.

Russia denies targeting civilians, though it has regularly pounded ​Ukrainian cities, towns and other targets during its full-scale invasion that began in ​February 2022.

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Man decries absence of emergency workers as car burns on Third Mainland Bridge

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A Nigerian man has called out the Lagos State Government over the absence of emergency workers on the Third Mainland Bridge.

The man said he.was driving on the bridge when he spotted a vehicle that had overturned and burst into flames.

He further explained that what shocked him the most was that the burning vehicle was just a stone’s throw away from the Lagos State Emergency unit stationed on the bridge, but not a single official was in sight to handle the situation.

Lamenting the situation in the viral video, the man could be heard saying: “Imagine, Lagos State Emergency — nobody is here.”

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