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Nollywood Actresses, Iyabo Ojo, and Ngozi Nwosu, have sympathized and prayed for their colleague, Kemi Afolabi over the state of her health.

Afolabi had in a recent interview disclosed that the doctor told her she has five years to live after she was diagnosed with Lupus.

Reacting in an Instagram post, Iyabo Ojo apologized to the actress for not keeping in touch.

She prayed that God will heal her.

Rupiah Banda, who was Zambia's president from 2008 to 2011, has died at the age of 85 after suffering from colon cancer.

"His life of service to our country, and to our continent, represents the highest form of patriotism," President Hakainde Hichilema said.

Mr Banda, a former diplomat, was serving as vice-president when, in 2008, President Levy Mwanawasa suffered a stroke and later died. He then took office, becoming the country's fourth president, and won the subsequent election.

But he stepped down in 2011 after losing that year's poll to Michael Sata. Mr Banda was widely praised at the time for accepting defeat, rather than challenging the result.

His time in office was dogged by corruption allegations and in 2013 he was arrested after being accused of stealing millions of dollars.

He denied the accusations, describing them as being part of a witch hunt, and was never convicted.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has distanced himself from reports of him backing the Southeast to produce Nigeria’s President in 2023.

Reports had it that Obasanjo said the Southeast would bring a lot to the table if allowed to produce the country’s president.

Obasanjo was quoted to have made the remark when he received a Presidential aspirant, Mao Ohuabunwa, in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

However, Obasanjo’s spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, said the former President was misrepresented.

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THE NEW ANAMBRA STATE BURIAL LAW. (The aftermath of the killings during burial last week in Awka).

1. All burial/funeral ceremonies of indigenous deceased persons must be registered with the town union of the deceased persons. The registration fee is NGN1,500

2. No person must erect any billboard, banner, or posters of any kind of deceased persons in the State. 100k fine or 6 months jail term or both for violation.

3. Persons are allowed to erect only directional posts (such as the ones leading to the venue). Must not be erected before seven days to the burial date and must be removed not later than seven days after the burial date. 100k fine or 6 months jail term or both for violation.

4. Co**se must not be deposited in the mortuary or any other place beyond 2 months from the date of death. 100k fine or 6 months jail term or both for violation.

5. No blocking of road/street because of burial except with the approval of the appropriate local govt authority.

6. No public display of casket for purposes of fabrication and sale. 50k fine or 1-month jail term or both for violation.

7. Deceased family must clear outstanding levies owed to the community or religious body before the funeral ceremony.

8. There must be no Wake of any kind for any deceased person in the State. All vigil Mass, service of songs, or religious activity for the deceased person prior to the burial must end by 9:00pm. There must be no food, drink, live band, or cultural entertainers during and after vigil Mass, service of songs, or religious activity for the deceased person.

9. All burial/funeral ceremonies for any deceased person in the State must be for one day.

10. All burial Mass/services must start not later than 9:00 am and must not last more than 2 hours.

11. No preserved co**se must be exposed for more than 30 minutes from the time of exposition. It could be kept in a room under lock and key.

12. All condolence visits after any burial/funeral ceremony must not exceed one day.

13. During a condolence visit, no person must give to the deceased person's family, as a condolence gift, any item exceeding money, one jar of palm wine, one carton of beer, and one crate of soft drink.

14. No deceased person's family must give out any souvenir during the burial/funeral ceremony.

15. For Ibuna Ozu Nwa Ada, there must be no demand of more than 10k by the maiden family of the deceased woman.

16. Undertakers at any burial ceremony must not exceed 6 in number. There must be no dancing with the casket by the undertakers.

17. Wearing of special uniform/aso ebi is restricted to (1) immediate family of the deceased person, (2) church groups, and (3) umunna, umu ada and iyom di, where applicable.

18. Provision of food/drinks is not compulsory. It is at the discretion of the bereaved family.

19. No burial on any local market day of the town. For Nimo, no burial on Oye market day.

20. Umuada of the deceased person's family must stay only on the day of the Wake and the burial/funeral.

21. No more custom of Ndi Youth demonstrating with the picture of the deceased person within the town.

22. No destruction of cash crops, economic plants, household utensils/ properties by Ndi Youth, condolence visitors, masquerade, or any other person.

23. No use of any type of gun except Nkponana.

24. No brochure of the deceased person except for Order of Mass/service.

25. All condolence registers during any burial/funeral ceremony must be kept at a convenient corner on the premises.

26. There shall be no second funeral rites after burial except in the case of legacy.

27. Commissioner for Lands is required to create a State burial ground in every community. Rejected co**ses and unidentified co**ses will be buried there. A "rejected co**se" is a co**se deposited in a mortuary for more than two months. Every mortuary attendant is bound to report to the Ministry of Health any co**se that has stayed beyond one (1) month from the date it was deposited. Failure to notify the Govt is an offense.

28. There will be Monitoring and Implementation Committees. Members will be paid such remuneration as may be determined by the town union of the town. The Town Monitoring Committee is responsible for (1) registering all deaths in the town, (2) giving clearance for every burial/funeral ceremony in the town, and (3) submitting records of the implementation of the Law to the Department of Town Union and Chieftaincy Matters in the State. The Implementation Committee must be present at any burial ceremony to observe the implementation of the Law. Obstruction of the Committee is an offense and attracts a fine of 50k.

29. Contravention of the provisions of the Law is an offense punishable by a 100k fine or six months jail terms.

30. Magistrate Court has jurisdiction to try offenses under the Law.

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1. Some worshippers were on Thursday abducted when bandits attacked a mosque in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was learned yesterday that the armed gang struck during evening prayer (Ishai prayer).

2. A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order to commence committal proceedings against the Managing Director of the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahmed Lawal Kure, over alleged seizure of NICON Insurance Ltd’s assets.

3. The National Publicity Secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Emmanuel Yawe, is dead. It was gathered that Yawe, aged 65, died in his sleep in the early hours of Friday in Abuja.

4. The battle for the leadership of APC appears to have been shifted to London, the United Kingdom, as President Muhammadu Buhari meets with the embattled Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni.

5. An Independent Investigation Panel, investigating police brutality, which led to the End SARS protest, on Friday, ordered retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, the Chairman of National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), to produce a suspended DCP, Abba Kyari, on March 22, 2022.

6. National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, and the embattled Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi met behind closed doors in Abuja on Friday. Special Assistant to the Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwaze, made the disclosure yesterday.

7. The Young Professionals Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed their unalloyed support to the current leadership of the party led by Niger State Governor Sani Bello and their absolute confidence in the party’s ability to resolve any differences within the internal democratic machinery.

8. The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr. Usman Baba has ordered an immediate ban on the use of unapproved uniforms by police officers on duty. The Acting Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

9. An attempt by some governors of the All Progressives Congress to sack the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Governor Mai Mala Buni, seems to have hit a brick wall following the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognize the acting Chairman of the party, Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State.

10. Two days to the expiration of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the National President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke says “nothing tangible has been done”. He spoke in an interview on Friday.