The Bayelsa state government has faulted the federal government’s claim that the state is not one of the top ten states affected by the recent flooding recorded in many parts of the country. Humanitarian affairs and disaster management minister, Sadiya Farouk, on Thursday said Jigawa was the most affected state and that Bayelsa was not in the top ten. She made the remark in reaction to claims by elder statesman and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, who implored the Federal Government to act to save flood victims in the Niger Delta and not abandon them. The…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to a former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who is currently in custody in the United Kingdom. Justice Ekwo made the order following an ex-parte motion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a short ruling on the motion, the Judge ordered the anti-graft agency to publish the interim forfeiture order of the properties in a national daily within seven days from the date the order was given. Justice Ekwo specifically asked anybody interested in the properties covered…
A three-man panel of Judges of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, led by Justice Bature Isah Gafai, has dismissed an appeal filed by Baba Chado Kantigi claiming ownership of House No. 10, Kinshasa Street, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja. The appeal was dismissed on Monday, October 31, 2022. Kantigi filed the appeal to claim ownership of the property linked to Liman Kantigi, a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Niger state when Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu was governor. The EFCC, had, sometime in 2017, confiscated some properties linked to Kantigi based on intelligence linking him with money laundering and fraudulent acquisition of assets. …
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, arraigned Olasupo Shasore, Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, and former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos state on 14-count charges bordering on money laundering to the tune of N159,700,000.00 and $60,000. A statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren and made available to ASHENEWS on Friday, said Shasore was arraigned alongside his company, Middlesex Investment Ltd, before Justice I.E. Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, for failing to develop a programme to combat money laundering and other illegal acts, including failing to designate a compliance officer as specified under Section 9(a)…
The Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital Sokoto chapter of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (UDUTH-MDCAN), has told the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that members of the union were not favoured by the minister of Labour, Chris Ngige in anyway. ASUU had issued a press statement titled: “Attempt To Further Polarise and Sectionalise ASUU, through Selective and Bias Payment of Salary to Selected Professional Medical Members of ASUU UDUS by the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige”, claimed that Ngige was biased in paying selected professional…
When Bakuvie Zinna, a Ghanaian cowpea farmer was invited by a local extension agent to take part in demonstrations for a new variety resistant to the pod borer, he couldn’t hide his excitement. Zinna considers the pest a key enemy for attacking his crops every other season and forcing him to incur huge expenses on pesticides, only to get low yields. He is looking forward to the release of the pod borer-resistant (PBR) cowpea variety that doesn’t require the eight sprays typically applied on a normal cowpea field to give maximum yield. The PBR cowpea, a genetically modified variety, has…
The West African Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) has invited the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) to jointly set up a gene editing platform to fast-track crop improvements using modern technologies. This was disclosed by WACCI Associate Director, Prof Kwadwo Ofori, when he received the AATF pod borer research team led by the project manager, Dr. Jean Baptiste, in Accra, Ghana. WACCI is a leading centre for training plant breeders in Africa and its scientists have produced more than 60 improved seed varieties in the last decade. Prof Ofori said establishing a gene editing platform would expedite research and help…
The publisher of EverydayNewsngr.net, Prince Petrus Obi has alleged that his life is being threatened by the Cubana group. According to Obi, the threat followed recent attack by some hoodlums which affected the Cubana Club in Enugu among others. He said the group in a text message threatened to teach the publisher that his group is not a small one. He also threatened to attack the family of the publisher. Read the text below: “I give u 24hours to bring down that useless fake post of urs.. u think u are playing wit a small group .. if after 24hrs…
The Northern Emancipation Network has lamented that despite the successes claimed by government, rampant attacks on rural communities in Kaduna state persist and people are still kidnapped at will on almost a daily basis. The Network, making the revelation through its Publicity Secretary, Lawal Hamisu, regretted that while communities in Giwa Local Government Area in the northern part of the state live under perpetual threats, the attacks and daily kidnappings are largely unreported and unchecked. The Group observed that government troops concentrate efforts on urban areas and towns and major highways only leaving helpless rural communities vulnerable. “We can cite…
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday adjourned the alleged money laundering trial of former Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, until January 31 and February 1. The case was earlier scheduled for continuation of trial on October 26, but could not proceed due to a mix up in the date, while a new trial date was to be agreed on by parties and fixed by the court. Fayose is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over N6.9 billion fraud and money laundering charges. He was first arraigned on October 22 2018, before Justice Mojisola…