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A police officer, Funke Jimoh, has sued the Nigeria Police Force and the Police Service Commission in a Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegedly violating her right to medical attention. According to an affidavit submitted by Ms. Jimoh in court, she was participating in a mandatory police cross country race training exercise at the Eleyele Police Training School in Ibadan, Oyo state, in July 2000, when she suffered a hip injury.

Her femoral head, which is the highest part of the bone between the hip and the knee joint, was damaged. She received treatment at a police clinic at the time. In February 2011, Ms. Jimoh claims that the injury flared up again, and she was referred from the clinic to University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, which advised her to seek medical treatment abroad to get a femoral head replacement. She wrote a letter through the commissioner of police, Oyo State, to the inspector-general of police to provide financial assistance for a surgical operation in Germany as recommended by UCH, but was surprised by the force’s response.

“To my utter dismay, instead of the defendants to accede to my request by providing financial assistance for my medical treatment abroad, the defendants on 16 August, 2004 discharged me from the force on medical grounds without any compensation whatsoever.”

The plaintiff also claimed that the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, after an investigation, concluded in a report that she was wrongfully discharged from the force, and the committee passed a resolution for her reinstatement, along with the payment of her entitlements and the provision of adequate medical attention. So far, according to the plaintiff, the police has ignored the committee’s resolution...

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Ms. Jimoh is seeking a declaration from the court stating that the refusal of the defendants to provide medical treatment for the replacement of her femoral head, which was damaged while taking part in a police exercise, is illegal and unconstitutional according to Article 16 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights Ratification and Enforcement Act. She is also seeking a declaration stating that the refusal of the defendants to pay her salary and allowances from August 16, 2004 is illegal and unconstitutional. Other requests include an order directing the defendants to provide the plaintiff with medical treatment at the University Teaching Hospital/Clinic in Ulm, Germany, and an order directing the defendants to immediately effect the payment of all arrears owed to the plaintiff. The presiding judge, Abdul Kafarati, adjourned the matter until March 9 for hearing.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, is not known for shunning the spotlight and with the appearance of Newer 77virgin minded terrorists like Osama B Laden and Our own Farouk Abdul mutallab .The Jackal a regular in Frederick Forsyth's Novels like (the Day of the Jackal).One wonders while legend around Osama & co. have not created a cult following novel writing.Dan Brown should maybe look into this .

Looks like he wants the top spot in the News back.

For years the world's most wanted terrorist, he once claimed, in front of the television cameras, to have killed more than 1,500 people in the pursuit of Palestinian liberation.

But the Venezuelan revolutionary, serving life imprisonment for the murder of two French intelligence officials and their informant in 1975, seems to have decided that not all publicity is good publicity.

With the help of his wife, a French lawyer whom he married in prison, Sanchez – once described as "the most dangerous man alive" – is suing a Parisian production company over a three-part television drama he claims could violate his "biographical image".

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre has demanded that the producers hand over the master copy of the footage for her to check for errors and potentially make changes before it is broadcast on the French Canal+ channel.

Coutant-Peyre told a court in Nanterre last month that the drama, which has not yet been finished, would make her husband out to be the instigator of crimes for which he has not been found guilty.

"You'd have thought it was the prosecutor narrating ... it's a film against Ramírez Sánchez," she said.

Lawyers for Film en Stock, meanwhile, insisted that handing over the film would signify a violation of its creative rights.

"How could we tarnish the image of Carlos when he himself has claimed to be behind almost 2,000 deaths?" the company's lawyer, Richard Malka, asked.

Daniel Leconte, the firm's owner and the producer of the three-part drama, said he had never allowed any of his subjects access to his material before it was aired.

"For us, this would be catastrophic," he said. "It would mean that every time we make a film we are giving our subjects the right to direct their own lives."

He said the film be presented clearly as a fictional interpretation of a real man's life and could not be taken as an attempt at a factual biography.

"As far as the facts are concerned, we know almost everything about him already," he said. "Carlos' own life actions destroyed his name. He doesn't need me for that."

A verdict in the case is due tomorrow.

Ramírez Sánchez, who was given his nickname after a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel The Day of the Jackal was found in his belongings and mistakenly believed to be his, was wanted in at least five European countries at the peak of his infamy.

Eventually captured by French police while recovering from surgery in Sudan in 1994, he has been in prison ever since, having been sentenced in absentia to life in jail.

The 60-year-old is awaiting a new trial before a special anti-terrorism tribunal for other attacks in the early 1980s.