The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba refused to recognize Mr. Aminu Tambuwal as speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Abba simply addressed Mr. Tambuwal as "Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal," a title that offended members of the House Committee on Police Affairs. 

Abba said that it would be 'subjudice' for him to address Tambuwal as speaker for as long as the matter was in court. 

Punch reports:
Chairman of the House committee, Mr. Usman Bello-Kurmo, asked him a direct question, “Is Aminu Waziri-Tambuwal the Speaker of the House of Representatives or not?”

The IG replied, “Mr. Chairman, you know that matters before the courts are subjudice.

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Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has been elected first female president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC.)

She was elected on Thursday at the body's ongoing 166th General Meeting in Vienna Austria. 

She replaced the former president, Libyan Vice Prime Minister for Corporations, Adourhman Atahar Al-Ahirish. 

AC/DC finally joined iTunes in 2012 after years of refusing to do so, but make no mistake, the Australian rock band is still old school.
"I would like everybody to buy vinyl again," guitarist Angus Young said in an interview. "That's my favorite."
He continued with a loud laugh: "They ought to make them portable — iVinyl."
AC/DC, which has enjoyed four decades of success, will release "Rock or Bust," its first album in six years, on Dec. 2. It is the follow-up to "Black Ice," which sold 784,000 units during its first week in 2008.
The band has yet to join Spotify, something Young said is possible.
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The Nigerian Senate on Thursday dismissed a scathing attack by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he merely sought to disrespect the National Assembly by accusing its members of extensive corruption, According to Premium Times.

Obasanjo had in a furious outburst Wednesday, accused members of the Senate and House of Representatives of stealing constituency funds, and extorting government officials they supervise through blackmail and intimidation.

According to spokesperson for the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, "the allegation as spurious as it were. Its very distant from the truth and is nowhere near reality."

“President Obasanjo for the avoidance of doubt, was the initiator of the constituency project in the year 2000 as a means of ensuring that proj ... Read more »