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ABUJA – SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara yesterday canvassed for the involvement of the National Assembly in the appointment and removal of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, to ensure operational independence and command integrity.

The police in Lagos have arrested a man who allegedly defrauded some men of various amount of money by dressing like a woman before them. The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Joseph Offor, disclosed the arrest to newsmen on Monday.

A man in Australia was on Tuesday in Sydney charged to Supreme Court for hiring hit men to assassinate his common-law wife, but the assassins reneged, saying they don’t kill women. Douglas Trapnell, the Crown Prosecutor, told the court that Congo-born Balenga Kalala, commissioned the assassination of his partner of 10 years, and mother of his three children, to be carried out while she was in Burundi attending a funeral.

A jihadist leader in restive Mali has denounced a peace deal signed this year and called for further attacks againstFrance, which helps national forces fight extremists, according to a recording authenticated Monday. In the recording released in October, before Friday’s string of deadly attacks in Paris, Ansar Dine leader Iyad Ag Ghaly endorsed the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in the French capital last January. The satirical weekly “got what it deserved”, he said.