News

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:15

House of Reps condemns ‘growing impunity’ of SSS, begins probe

Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously adopted a motion to urgently check growing cases of rights abuses and acts of impunity by the State Security Service. The decision came on the heels of numerous disobedience of court rulings by the domestic intelligence office. The agency has flouted several court orders for the release of detainees since 2015. It has continued to detain a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, despite bails granted by courts. Asides the two, several Nigerians, including journalists, are widely believed to be…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:14

Ohanaeze to FG: We won't accept massacre of Igbo

Apex Igbo body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has told the Federal Government that leaders of the South-East would no longer fold their hands while security agencies kill and incarcerate their youths. It charged the Federal Government to set up an independent judicial inquiry to look into the alleged killing of some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by security operatives in Port Harcourt. Ohanaeze, in a statement by its President General, Chief John Nwodo, raised four issues, which the inquiry should determine. They are: Was the IPOB demonstration an unlawful assembly? Did IPOB require a police permit to demonstrate? Was…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:08

Shell wins court ruling on Nigerian pollution claims

Royal Dutch Shell won a court victory in London on Thursday that forces a group of Nigerian farmers and fishermen to rely on Nigeria's justice system to hear their claims that the oil company polluted their land and water. The High Court found that Shell's parent company, which is incorporated in Britain, wasn't legally responsible. Claims against its subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, should, therefore, not be heard in the U.K. courts. "The court rightly decided these claims should be dealt with by the Nigerian courts and confirmed longstanding principles of corporate law, which are critically important for…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:06

Court orders temporary forfeiture of Shell, Eni oilfield in corruption probe

An Abuja court has ordered the temporary forfeiture of assets and the transfer of operations of a long-disputed oilfield owned by Shell and Eni, among others, to the federal government, court papers showed. The court orders will last until Nigeria's anti-corruption agency concludes an investigation into how the current owners acquired oil prospecting licence (OPL) 245, according to the papers released on Thursday. This is the latest of many inquiries, including by Dutch and Italian authorities, into the 2011 purchase of the OPL 245 block which could hold up to 9.23 billion barrels of oil, according to industry figures. "We…

Friday, 27 January 2017 02:59

Reps seek open coverage of court proceedings

A bill seeking to provide for open coverage of court proceedings with a view to making the Judiciary more transparent and accountable passed through second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill sponsored by Hon. Daniel Reyneiju (PDP-Delta) is titled, “A Bill for an Act to provide for media coverage of court proceedings and for other related matters’’. Leading debate on the general principles of the bill, Reyneiju said that the judiciary as an arm of government should be covered by the media which mirrors the society. He observed that of all issues handled by the law courts, the…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:43

APC summons Senator Shehu Sani over comments on Buhari, SGF Lawal

All Progressives Congress (APC) has written to the Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani to come and explain his utterances regarding the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari. The party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun drafted a letter yesterday evening to be sent to the senator inviting him to the party’s office in Abuja to discuss his criticism of the president’s handling of the allegations of corruption levelled against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal. Senator Sani had thrown a tirade on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday accusing the…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:18

FG threatens to deal with subversive rumour mongers on Buhari’s health

The Federal Government says the full wrath of the law will be brought to bear on the authors of subversive messages being circulated on the health of President Muhammadu Buhari. The government said this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed. “The source/sources of the fabricated messages are already being investigated and the authors should prepare to face the consequences of their actions,’’ the minister said. According to Mohammed, the President is hale and hearty and there is no iota of truth in the subversive messages being circulated on his…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:17

Inflation rate becoming unbearable, says Tinubu

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged the Federal Government to bring Nigeria out of the throes of recession by urgently reviewing its monetary policies. Tinubu spoke on Wednesday as a guest lecturer at the National Defence College Course 25 lecture, titled, “Strategic Leadership: My Political Experiences.” He argued that Nigeria’s current inflation rate of 18 per cent was unbearable and Nigerians were suffering for it. The APC chieftain, who urged the Federal Government to “stimulate this economy,” said the decline of oil prices seemed to be a long-term phenomenon and strategic objectives must be…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:13

MMM boss, wife flee Nigeria

Mr. Chuddy Ugorji, the initiator of the Nigerian faction of the mavrodi mondial moneybox ponzi scheme (MMM) has fled the country with his wife, Amaka. Reports say MMM Number one Guider has absconded and relocated to Philippines. He fled the country when many investors were awaiting anxiously to be paid back their money with the agreed interest. Chuddy’s relocation came barely 24 hours after he released condition for the payment of some three million Nigerian investors. He had given the impression that the Ponzi scheme has started paying outstanding mavro (money) to Mavrodians, the participants of the scheme. But the…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:12

No single killer herdsman arrested but DSS hounding me, says cleric ‘rescued’ by Fayose

Apostle Johnson Suleman, general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, has challenged the Department of State Service (DSS) to go after herdsmen who have “already killed over 7000 persons” in the country. But for the intervention of Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, Suleman would have been arrested in the wee hours of Wednesday. Operatives of the secret police had stormed the hotel where the fiery preacher who was in Ekiti for a 2-day crusade lodged, with the intention of arresting him. The action of the DSS comes days after Suleman told his security aides to kill any herdsman found…

More...

Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:00

LAUTECH: Group appeals to Mgt, ASUU to settle their differences

A group, Oyo Patriotic Front (OPF), has said that its earlier statement calling on the management of Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH) and unions in the institutions especially members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to resolve their differences and allow academic activities to resume in the school has been vindicated based on the media report credited to ASUU that their grouse was beyond salary agitation. The socio-cultural group in a statement by its Chairman, Chief Jare Adepoju on Tuesday noted that the statement by ASUU put to fore and shed light on the crisis in the Oyo and…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 02:59

Police, Shi’ites clash at National Assembly

The Army was called in to disperse protesters at the National Assembly yesterday. The Shi’ites group converged on the National Assembly to protest continued detention of their leader, Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky. Police and other security personnel attempted to disperse the protesters with tear gas. When the confusion did not abate an hour later, men of the Guard Brigade were drafted to quell the protests. The protesters regrouped at the adjacent Ministry of Foreign Affairs to continue their protest. Police spokesman Anjuguri Manzah said nine persons were arrested. “Nine of them were arrested and they will be charged to court for…

Wednesday, 25 January 2017 11:50

Works Minister, Fashola, in N166 billion contract mess

Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP) has queried the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola over the award of 10 road and bridge contracts worth N166 billion. The BPP said the minister and his ministry violated the laws guiding contract awards in Nigeria in the manner they selected contractors for the projects. The procurement agency is asking Mr. Fashola to explain, among other things, why the costs of some of the projects were inflated and why some were awarded to unqualified firms. The construction of the roads and bridges, spread across the country, were appropriated for in the ministry’s…

Wednesday, 25 January 2017 11:48

Fulani herdsmen killing Nigerians are from Senegal, Mali – Northern govs

Northern Governor’s Forum, NGF, says it has resolved to work with relevant stakeholders to secure Nigeria’s borders and register Fulani immigrants entering into the country to rear cattle. Chairman of the Forum, Gov Kashim Shettima of Borno, disclosed this to journalists at the end of the forum’s meeting in Kaduna, on Tuesday. According to him, the governors observed that most of the herdsmen involved in issues of insecurity are immigrants from Senegal and Mali. “We also mapped out new strategies that would be used by the local Fulani herdsmen to rear their cattle without having to move across the country,”…

Page 798 of 826

News

More...

Search

Most Read

Editorial

News

Business

Politics

Opinion

Features

Strangely

Crime

Wars

SCIENCE & TECH

SPECIAL REPORTS

Sports

VIDEOS