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BY:  SaharaReporters, New York   October 10th 2013 Gov. Peter Obi Some officials of the Anambra State Association-USA (ASA-USA), a watchdog group formed in part to monitor and address looting and other excesses by Anambra State politicians, have been accused of acting as the lapdogs of corrupt politicians. SaharaReporters first broke the report that some officials of the association are accused of receiving $60,000 from Ifeanyi Uba, a controversial oil marketer turned governorship candidate. A group of disaffected members of the association filed a lawsuit in California accusing several of the association’s officials of acting illegally and failing to give proper account of ASA-USA’s finances. Efforts by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra to persuade the plaintiffs to withdraw their lawsuit hit a snag, as several of the plaintiffs dismissed the governor’s entreaties. Some of the members accused Mr. Obi of trying to protect corrupt elements within ASA-USA’s leadership. “...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE  October 10th 2013 A 25-year-old woman, Yakbyen Nanbol, who allegedly conspired with her lover of the same age to murder her husband, has been nabbed by policemen in Jos. The woman, a mother of one child, which she had for the deceased husband, yesterday, said she did not ask her lover, who was her late husband’s friend, to kill him. She said her lover (Samson) had approached her several times for love-making, which she always turned down. She said: “I knew Samson through my husband. He has been coming to our house whenever my husband traveled. My husband did not stay home regularly. “Samson will come to the house, requesting for lovemaking. I finally gave in and we have been meeting until he killed my husband.” However, the suspect claimed that he had been in love with the woman since July and had been having the affair since, whenever the husband, a labourer, was away. ‘Why I killed him’ Samson, a native of Langtang South, noted that because of his “impre...