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BY IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA – The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has been asked to stop the federal government from going ahead with the proposed national conference. In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 167/204 and dated 3 March, 2014, a constitutional lawyer, Dr Tunji Abayomi, maintained that President Goodluck Jonathan, has no constitutional power to convoke or convene a National Conference without the express backing of a law ratified by the National Assembly. Joined as defendants in the suit are the Attorney-General of the Federation, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Specifically, the plaintiff, is asking the court to determine whether a National Conference can be convened by the President and/or government of Nigeria without a law made by the National Assembly enabling them to do so. In an affidavit in support of the suit deposed to by Mr. Patrick Bisong, the plaintiff, alleged before the court that the federal government has...

A CNN team in Crimea was told to stop broadcasting on Thursday or they'd be kicked out of their hotel.  CNN International correspondent Anna Coren told Anderson Cooper  her team was told by the management of the hotel they are staying in that unless they stopped broadcasting the hotel would kick them out. "Really bizarre, just a couple of hours ago the management of our hotel where we've been staying for over a week, we've got a team here, told us we basically have to shut down our operation or we'd be kicked out. We asked for the reason, they didn't give us one. Very unusual, basically said stop broadcasting or we'll kick you out,' Coren said. Coren told Cooper her team got the "very strong feeling" the hotel was getting pressured. "They're getting pressured, whether it be from local milita, who obviously had the major run in with the UN official envoy Robert Serry  yesterday  and basically rode him out of the country, or wh...