Day: July 9, 2020

Financial recklessness in NDDC unacceptable – Lawan

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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the allegations of financial recklessness and misappropriation of funds leveled against the Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) were unacceptable hence the decision by the Senate to investigate the activities of the Commission. Lawan stated this in a speech delivered on Thursday to declare open an investigative public hearing by the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Investigation of the Alleged Financial Recklessness in the Niger Delta Development Commission. The Senate President who underscored the need for the…

Finance Minister meets NASS leadership on 2021-2023 MTEF/FSP • Says Buhari to sign revised 2020 budget Friday • President to present 2021 budget in September

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Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed on Thursday met with the leadership of the National Assembly on plans to submit the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) later this month. The Minister while briefing principal officers of the Senate and House of Representatives led by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had given directives for the Ministry to expedite action on next year’s budget estimates to enable him present the 2021…

Seven arrested over multiple bank robberies in Ondo ,Ekiti

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Police Operatives attached to the Special Tactical Squad have arrested a 7-man criminal gang that attacked and robbed three comm​ercial banks in the South-West States of Ondo and Ekiti between 2019 and 2020, killed innocent citizens including six (6) policemen and carted away several millions of naira. Police investigation revealed that the armed robbery suspects namely: Tunbosun Ojo ‘m’ 42years, Ismaila Ojo ‘m’ 25years, Victor Oyeyemi ‘m’ 36years, Dele Ariyo ‘m’ 44years, Shola Oladimeji ‘m’ 50years, Olubodun Folayemi ‘m’ 44years and Adeniyi John ‘m’ 42 years – carried out the robbery of…

FACADO calls for more actions against rape, gender based violence

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The Fatherless and Motherless Children Aid Organization(FACADO) has called on relevant government agencies,and stakeholders to join hands for more actions to fight against incessant rape cases and gender based violence in Nigeria. The Founder and Director of FACADO orphanage home, Amb. Ngozi-Anih Grace George,made this call at a press conference organized by the organization in New-karu, Karu,Nasarawa state,on Thursday 9th July 2020. George who described rape as a global pandemic, reiterated her organization commitment towards campaigns against rape, incest and gender based violence in Nigeria. Read the statement in full:…

How We Tracked ‘Woodberry’ Via IPhone, WhatsApp, Bitcoin Transactions – FBI

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Olalekan Jacob Ponle, popularly known as Woodberry, was nabbed through details accessed from his WhatsApp, iPhone and Bitcoin transactions, court documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES reveal. Mr Ponle, alongside Ramoni Igbalode, also known as Hushpuppi, was arrested in the United Arab Emirate on June 10 for multiple fraud charges after a raid by operatives of the Dubai crime unit. The duo were then extradited to the United States on July 2. Mr Ponle, 29, is currently facing charges bordering on wire fraud conspiracy at a United States District Court sitting…

Saga of a living ancestor By Dare Babarinsa

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It is interesting that even now people of Ile-Ife still refers to Baba Adesoji Tadeniawo Aderemi in the present tense. It is as if one day, he would be sighted at Oke Itase or any of the many sacred sites in Ile-Ife, the city which the Yoruba people believe is the Land of the First Dawn. Aderemi was the Ooni of Ife for 50 momentous years. Forty years ago when Chief Bola Ige was the Governor of old Oyo State, the Ooni passed on to the land of the ancestors.…

3rd Plateau Leadership Summit: Webinar

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Are you a business owner, entrepreneur, professional, politician, civil/public servant or student? Do you desire to grow above the set-backs of the Covid-19 pandemic? The global health crisis has, without doubt, placed many in a position of near-crisis, thus the 2020 Plateau Leadership Summit, with the theme, “Building For the Future; Post Covid-19 Strategies for Socio-economic Development” is set to stir us towards the path of overcoming the challenges and exploring the opportunities thrown up, bringing stakeholders, policy makers and professionals from different backgrounds to share thoughts. Come glean ways…

Magu and the Abuja Power Game By Olusegun Adeniyi

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“Steve Manson’s magazine dealt in corruption: he attacked the rich, the powerful and the famous – and he made enemies. In a job like that, you couldn’t afford to have dirty secrets of your own. With the whole town itching for you to make a slip, it was like living in a goldfish bowl…” — Goldfish Have No Hiding Place. I don’t know if the detained acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, grew up (like some of us) reading the novels of English…

Senate holds valedictory session for Osinowo ….Deceased lawmaker was an asset to Ninth Senate – Lawan

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The Senate on Wednesday held a valedictory session in honour of deceased lawmaker representing Lagos East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Adebayo Osinowo. The session which started at about 11:30am lasted almost three hours and had Senators paying glowing tributes to the life and times of Osinowo. The Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi (APC – Kebbi North) in his motion to kickstart the valedictory session, gave a profile into the life of the deceased. “Senator Adebayo Osinowo was born in mid 50’s into the family of Late Alhaji Rabiu…

Magu: A Nation’s Five Years Go to Waste By Olawale Olaleye

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In the foreseeable future, there’ll be many slants to the travails of the now suspended chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu. Any time historians attempt to document his otherwise gangly reign, it is expected that some elements, regardless of the differing angles, must be constant like a recurring decimal. First, it is expected that researchers, at any time an attempt is made at this effort, must interrogate what it was that really qualified a man, who from every indication was unfit for a job, but…