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Congratulations goes in order to Tobi Amusan for setting a new world record in the women's 100m hurdles final during the World Athletics Championship in Oregon, USA.

What does the option of APC's Muslim-Muslim Presidential Ticket mean to you?

A. Competence over Religion
B. Insensitivity to Sentiments of Nigerians
C. Electoral Winning Strategy
D. An attack on National Unity and diversity
E. Others (specify)

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1. Where the police used their initiative on the strength of their investigation to effect an arrest or detention, no liability will like against them.
2. A citizen who is arrested by the police in the legitimate exercise of their duty and on grounds of reasonable suspicion cannot succeed against the police for breach of his fundamental right to personal liberty.

Justice Augie noting the finality of Supreme Court decisions had stated that "The decision of this court is final for all ages; it is final in the real sense of the word, final; and no force on earth can get this court to shift its decision... To do otherwise is to open a floodgate of litigation on appeals that have already been settled by this court. There is no even guarantee that if these two applications are granted, the other side will not come with a fresh application to review the ruling on the ground that this court did not consider certain aspects of the arguments in its ruling. There would be no end in sight.”

However, whilst there is no constitutional provision for the Supreme Court to review its judgment as section 235 of the Constitution gives a stamp of finality to any decision of the Supreme Court; It is evident that where the grounds exists, Supreme Courts of basically all jurisdictions will not shy away from setting aside their judgments or orders but that such inherent jurisdiction cannot be converted into an appellate jurisdiction as though the matter before it is another appeal intended to afford the losing litigants a new window to restate or re-argue their appeal