The Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), Abdurasheed Bawa says he has appealed the contempt of court ruling by an FCT court on him. ASHENEWS recalls that Justice Chizoba Oji of the FCT High Court on Tuesday, committed Bawa to prison for disobeying court order made on November 21, 2018 in which it directed the commission to return a Range Rover and the sum of N40 million to an applicant. The court viewed Bawa’s disobedience as willful and held that he be committed to Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. However, reacting to journalists question during the 2023 budget defence with the…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Babagana Wakil, Maiduguri Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday, released N814m grant to a combined 9,154 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s), to stimulate local businesses. The Governor gave the grant at the launch of the “Borno COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus” programme, codenamed “BO-CARES”. ‘BO-CARES’ is Borno State’s domestication of the Federal Government’s ‘NG-CARES’, to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor and vulnerable households and small scales enterprises. BO-CARES, Zulum explained at the launch, hopes to minimize youth restiveness by boosting individual and cooperative businesses operated by youths. The combined 9,154 beneficiaries were…
The Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced an Iranian protester, Mahan Sedarat to death. ASHENEWS reports that the Iranian court issued a death sentence against Sedarat, a man arrested during the nationwide protests sparked by the September death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of morality police. A judiciary source told IranWire that the sentence was handed by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court and will be communicated to Sedarat’s lawyer in the coming days. The defendant was charged with carrying a cold weapon, as well as with assembly and collusion against Iran’s national security.…
Justice Chizoba Oji of an FCT High Court has ordered the committal of the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prison over contempt. The judge also directed the Inspector-General of Police to ensure the committal order is executed. Oji gave the order dated October 28, a certified true copy (CTC) of which was made available to newsmen in Abuja. AVM Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo had brought a motion against the Federal Government, marked FCT/HC/M/52/2021, in the suit with the number FCT/HC/CR/184/2016. AVM Ojuawo through his counsel, R.N. Ojabo, sought for an order committing the Chairman or Acting Chairman (or…
An independent petroleum products marketer, Mr Mike Osatuyi, says the only realistic pump price of petrol is between N200 and N210 per litre. He said on Tuesday in Lagos that Federal Government’s pricing template that fixed pump price at N169 per litre of petrol is grossly unrealistic when landing cost of the fuel at the station is N194 per litre. “I buy petrol at N186.50k per litre from the depot and it costs me about N9.50k to get the same litre to the pump after paying levies. “How do you want me to sell at N169 per litre when I…
Uganda’s Minister of Education Janet Kataha Museveni, said on Tuesday that government would shorten the school term by two weeks to reduce daily contact amongst students and help curb the spread of Ebola. Authorities have been struggling to contain the highly infectious and deadly haemorrhagic fever since the epidemic spilled into the capital Kampala, home to around two million people. As of Monday, the country had recorded a total of 135 confirmed cases and 53 deaths, according to the health ministry. The minister said the cabinet had taken a decision to close pre-schools, primary schools, and secondary schools on Nov.…
Zimbabwe state-run Herald newspaper on Tuesday reported that Zimbabwe first satellite, ZimSat-1, has been successfully launched into space. ZimSat-1, a nanosatellite was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday. It was successfully launched from the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Launch Facility in Virginia on board the Cygnus NG-18, an uncrewed spacecraft that provides commercial cargo resupply services to the ISS. According to the Herald the actual deployment of ZimSat-1 into orbit will be done through the Japanese Kibo module about two weeks after the launch. Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology…
Malawi on Tuesday received a consignment of 2.9 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) for a single dose reactive campaign to the Cholera outbreak. The recent outbreak has killed over 200 people since the country reported the first case in March. A joint statement released by the WHO, UNICEF and Malawi government said the OCV consignment arrived Monday “at a critical time as the country continues to respond to the ongoing Cholera outbreak”. According to the statement, the cholera response has been funded by Gavi, the Global Alliance of Vaccines. It said the WHO, the Malawi government through the…
The World Bank on Tuesday announced a new multi-partner fund that will pool funding from the global community for projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is contained in a statement obtained from the World Bank website on Tuesday in Abuja. The announcement was made at COP27 – Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. According to the statement, funds would also be pooled from donor countries, the private sector and foundations, for scalable pathways to greenhouse gas emission reduction. It said the Scaling Climate Action by Lowering Emissions…
Nigerian government has said that it was pushing for 400 billion dollars commitments from developed countries and partners on climate change to finance its Energy Transition Plan (ETP). Implementable negotiations continued on Tuesday at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, venue of the global conference on climate change otherwise known as COP27. Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, disclosed this on the sideline of the annual global event. Abdullahi, who led the Nigeria delegation to the climate change conference, said that the country expected very positive affirmative commitment when it came to funding to mitigate the challenge arising from climate change effect. “We…