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Chris Brown arriving at the D.C. Superior Court in Washington. Brown is scheduled to appear in a District of Columbia court for what would be a third attempt at a plea deal to resolve an assault case that dates to October 2013. According to court filings, Brown was scheduled to appear in D.C. Superior Court on Friday for a plea hearing but was unable due to travel issues. The hearing was rescheduled for Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — Chris Brown pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hitting a man outside a Washington hotel, an assault that occurred while the singer was on probation for attacking his then-girlfriend Rihanna. Brown pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to time served. He spent two days in a District of Columbia jail in this case. The Grammy-winning singer was arrested in October. The victim told police Brown hit him after he tried to get in a picture th...

The former Governor of Lagos state and chieftain of the opposition All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has launched a blistering response to allegations made against him by a former Minister of External Affairs, Tom Ikimi. Mr. Ikimi, who last week left the APC and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], had blamed Mr. Tinubu for his ordeals while in the opposition party. He said the former governor hijacked the party and was now using his vantage position in the fold to frustrate anyone who could stand up to him. The former minister particularly blamed Mr. Tinubu for frustrating his ambition to become the party’s national chairman. Read Mr. Ikimi’s allegations here . Mr. Tinubu has now responded, describing Mr. Ikimi as a man with an awful past who could not be trusted with the leadership of the party. Tinubu Tears Apart Ikimi; says he’s a devious man with an awful past September 2, 2014 Premium Times Bola Tinubu ...

Barring any last minute change of mind, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will on September 24 formally declare his intention to contest the 2015 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The party will commence the process of picking its presidential flag-bearer through direct modified primaries in October. The presidential election holds February 14. Sources said the decision of Mr. Abubakar to signify his intention to seek election to the nation’s highest political office was reached at a meeting by his aides on Monday in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. The details of the meeting are still sketchy because the politician was in Imo Stare on Monday to chair a lecture organised by the Progressives Governors Forum.  Atiku, reputed to have built impressive political structure across the country, served as vice president between 1999 and 2007 in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo....

Why PDP disqualified Acting Gov. Fintiri Fintiri The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has explained that allowing the Adamawa State acting governor, Umaru Fintiri, to contest its primary next week, ahead of the state’s governorship poll October, would contravene the Constitution. The party announced Mr. Fintiri’s disqualification Saturday, saying the decision was taken on “moral grounds”. Speaking later to reporters, the chairman of the PDP screening committee, Ibrahim Mantu, said Mr. Fintiri’s aspiration would be a violation of Section 191 (2) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. The section explains the circumstance under which the Speaker of a State Assembly can act as a state governor where a vacancy exist in which both the governor and his deputy have vacated office. “Where any vacancy occurs in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) of this section during a period when the office of Deputy Governor of the State is also vacant, the Speaker of the House of Assembly of the St...