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Sunday, 29 September 2019 05:26

Nigeria loses renown energy expert, Aderibigbe

With heavy heart, we announce the passing of one of Nigeria's erudite scholars, reservoir of knowledge and an International expert in Nigeria's Energy sector, Mr David Aderibigbe, a professor of energy mix, on Monday, September 16, 2019, at the age of 69, after a brief illiness. Aderibigbe was the first to corporately explore the Ocean Renewable Energy System (OES) and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) as pre-development assessment initiative/activities at technical workshop sessions with Foreign governments, International Agencies/ Professional bodies, and relevant agencies of Federal Government of Nigeria. His leading professional activities in this sector within international organisation/Agency/Corporations: International Energy…

Saturday, 28 September 2019 05:43

Mothers of freed kids back Kaduna slave school’s harsh methods, torture

Parents of the freed 300 male children allegedly chained, tortured and sexually assaulted at an Islamic school in Kaduna have protested against the police for putting their children in protective custody. The protesters, mostly women and who openly backed operators of the school and their methods, asked the police to release their children immediately. They insisted the allegation by the police that the children were being sexually abused at the Islamic school was false. Some of the mothers said there was nothing wrong with the Islamic school, wondering why police decided to raid it. Kaduna State Command of the Police…

Friday, 27 September 2019 06:10

Relief as Nigeria secures ‘stay of execution’ on $9.6bn judgement

UK Commercial Court has granted Nigerian government’s application for a ‘stay of execution’ of a $9 billion judgment debt in favour of the Irish firm, P&ID. The judge however ordered Nigeria to deposit $200 million in the court’s account within 60 days pending its appeal, and Nigeria must pay some court costs to P&ID within 14 days, Reuters news agency reported. If Nigeria fails to deposit the amount in the court’s account within the stipulated period, which the P&ID lawyer said was the minimum period it will take Nigeria to raise the funds from the capital markets, the court will…

Friday, 27 September 2019 06:09

FG’s wages to rise by N556bn in three years

If the personnel cost budget of N2.67tn proposed by Federal Government for next year is approved by the National Assembly, then the wage bill of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government will have increased by N556bn in three years from N2.11tn in 2018 to N2.67tn in 2022. The amount was contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper for 2020 to 2020. An analysis of the document showed that the wage bill of government has been assuming an upward trajectory owing to number of personnel in the public sector. The document showed that personnel cost rose by…

Friday, 27 September 2019 06:04

Ex-French President Chirac dies at 86

Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and who defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at 86. President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute in a nationally televised speech to a predecessor he said incarnated an “independent and proud” country and called Chirac “a statesman we loved as much as he loved us.” “We are remembering tonight with emotion and affection his freedom, his personality, the talent he had to reconcile simplicity and grandeur, proximity and dignity, love of the motherland and openness to the universal,”…

Thursday, 26 September 2019 05:38

N90bn allegation: Osinbajo says ready to waive immunity to clear name

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared his readiness to waive his constitutional immunity to “enable the most robust adjudication” of several baseless allegations, insinuation and falsehoods against his person and office. Mr Osinbajo made this declaration in a tweet he personally authored. Below is the full text of his tweet: “In the past few days, a spate of reckless and malicious falsehoods have been peddled in the media against me by a group of malicious individuals. “The defamatory and misleading assertions invented by this clique had mostly been making the social media rounds anonymously. “I have today instructed the commencement…

Thursday, 26 September 2019 05:35

Insecurity: Military resumes operations nationwide

Barely 24 hours after two lawmakers from Borno State initiated a motion of urgent national importance and raised the alarm that eight local government areas of the state were under the control of insurgents, Nigerian Army said Wednesday that it would resume multiple military operations across the country. The military has come under criticism in recent times for engaging in operations that would stretch its capacity to the limits and the attendant loss of focus. Army Headquarters said wednesday it was extending Operation Positive Identification first launched in Northeast to track fleeing insurgents across the nation to checkmate bandits, kidnappers,…

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:49

Buhari to world leaders: P&ID’s $9.6bn claim against Nigeria a huge scam

President Muhammadu Buhari warned on Tuesday that Nigeria would not tolerate attempts by persons and organisations he called international criminals to defraud the country. He also stressed that his administration would sustain its anti-corruption fight. Buhari cited Federal Government’s prosecution of Process and Industrial Development over the controversial $9.6bn judgment it obtained from a London court against Nigeria as an example of “a scam.” He was speaking at the General Debate of the ongoing 74th Session of United Nations General Assembly in New York. Buhari told the session that the world was facing various crises, including financial crimes, and called…

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:46

Keyamo removed as Niger Delta minister, redeployed

Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Festus Keyamo, has been redeployed to Ministry of Labour and Employment about one month after his assumption of office. A statement from Director of Information at Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Willie Bassey, said Keyamo would replace Mr Tayo Alasoadura as Minister of State at the labour ministry, while Alasoadura replaced him at Niger Delta Affairs ministry. The statement said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved of the swap. It said, “President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate redeployment of two Ministers of State as follows. “Mr Festus…

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:45

Buhari to govs on federal roads: ‘Mind your business while I mind mine’

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked state governors not to fix federal roads if they will eventually demand refund for the rehabilitation. Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja when he appeared before the House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee on Abandoned Federal Government Projects (Works) from 1999 till date. According to the minister, the President issued the directive due to the humongous amounts being claimed by the governors after repairing federal roads in their states. Fashola said, “The states submitted a bill of almost a trillion naira when President Buhari was elected.…

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Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:44

Court orders Sowore’s release

A court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered State Security Service to release activist and former presidential candidate Mr Omoyele Sowore while charges of treason against him are pending. Security agents arrested Sowore in early August after he called for a revolution. He said it was needed because an election held in February, in which President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term, was not credible. Mr Buhari, a former military ruler, faces criticism for his administration’s record on human rights, particularly a deadly crackdown on members of a now-banned Shi’ite group that a United Nations special rapporteur said involved the excessive…

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:43

Boko Haram now rules over 8 LGs in Borno - Reps

Despite claims by federal government that it has “technically” defeated Boko Haram and that the terror group was no longer in control of any territory, two members of House of Representatives from Borno State, the epicentre of the insurgency, yesterday told the House that eight local government areas in the state were under the control of the insurgents. They expressed concerns about the spike in the deadly activities of the terrorist group, saying the insurgents have refreshed their expansionist quest and continued to sustain control over more local government areas/communities in the state. House Chief Whip, Mr Mohammed Monguno, representing…

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 05:38

UK supreme court rules Johnson's suspension of Parliament was illegal

In a decision that badly undermines Boris Johnson’s authority, Britain’s highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the prime minister broke the law by suspending Parliament in a way that squelched legitimate scrutiny of his Brexit plan. The historic move by the U.K. Supreme Court offered a ringing endorsement of Parliament’s sovereignty and slapped down what justices viewed as the legislature’s silencing by the executive. The ruling upended the prime minister’s plan to keep lawmakers away until two weeks before Britain is due to leave the European Union. The Supreme Court said Johnson’s suspension was “void” and never legally took effect,…

Tuesday, 24 September 2019 05:29

Nigeria runs on generators and 9 hours of power a day - Bloomberg

Kabir Sabo’s sewing machine hums busily as he hems a “babariga,” a popular dress in northern Nigeria, in his small corner shop on the outskirts of Abuja. It can hardly be heard over the sound of Nigeria’s worst problem. Sabo’s noisy electricity generator costs him an average of 3,000 naira ($8.30) a day in fuel, he says. That’s the bulk of the roughly 4,000 naira he makes daily. “When you are a small business owner in a country where there is no power, it really is depressing,” he said. “I have on multiple occasions shut down to take up a…

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