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Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State today attempted to eject his wife, Clara Chime, from her State House quarters over her decision to go public about his illegal detention of her. In effect, Mrs. Chime would have regained the freedom she has been denied for months, and for which she has campaigned publicly in the past week. The governor’s action followed a marathon meeting the governor held with Clara’s Igwe family, during which the governor decided to let her leave the government house. However, insiders say Mrs. Chime said she would prefer to travel out, preferably to the United Kingdom, to take care of herself and then be allowed to return to her matrimonial home upon completion of her trip.

In his last minute effort to save the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from becoming a minority party in the days leading to the 2015 elections, President Goodluck Jonathan has sent out message to all the seven New PDP governors for a closed door meeting in Aso Rock on Monday, as gathered by source . Jonathan had ignored the governors on his return from Israel but he became scared after the APC leaders and supporters visited the G7 governors and were given Presidential treatment in their states.

Since the controversy over the N255m bulletproof cars bought for her by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Agency started, Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, has been avoiding the Presidential Villa, SUNDAY PUNCH can authoritatively report. Oduah, who is seen as one of the closest ministers to President Goodluck Jonathan, had been a regular face in the seat of power since her inception as minister up until the scandal broke out. Apart from the weekly Federal Executive Council meetings, which she attends religiously on Wednesdays, the embattled minister is also known for attending meetings and consulting from time to time with the President.

Despite the triumph of the Golden Eaglets Friday in Abu Dhabi it was a show of shame and national disgrace as NFF General secretary Barrister Musa and the Federations First Vice President Chief Mike Umeh exchanged blows in public, right inside the stadium. Eye witness account has it that problem started brewing early evening when Chief Umeh wondered why members of the League Management Committee were allocated “ better cars” than NFF chieftains. He then and there told a colleague that Musa was incompetent and not fit to handle NFF matters.

The Chairman of the Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, has denied that the Commission has been compromised in its investigation of the complaint of illegal detention made by Clara Chime, the wife of the governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime. In a statement issued today, he described such allegations as both factually inaccurate and manifestly unfounded. He explained that upon returning from Enugu, the commission’s high level investigation team led by Professor Bem Angwe, its Executive Secretary, issued a public statement on the visit reflecting the public interest in this case.

A woman who claims to have been a classmate delivered some bizarre claims about Obama in an interview. As Right Wing Watch first reported, Mia Marie Pope told right-wing preacher James David Manning that she believes that Obama was not only active within the gay community, but also a heavy cocaine user during his years in Hawaii. "He always portrayed himself as a foreign student," Pope said. "Girls were never anything that he ever was interested in ... He would get with these older white gay men, and this is how we just pretty much had the impression that that's how he was procuring his cocaine."