The Nigerian Defence Headquarters says security operatives have eliminated scores of criminals linked to the outlawed Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and their Eastern Security Network (ESN) counterparts. Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko told newsmen in Abuja on Thursday that the criminals were eliminated in the Southeast and parts of the South-South. He added that the criminals were eliminated in different operations between June 3 and 16. Onyeuko said that the military and other security agencies had contained several IPOB/ESN activities such as attacks on police stations, killing of security operatives and civilians as well as destruction…
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A Lagos High Court has sentenced former managing director of defunct Bank PHB, Francis Atuche to six years in prison. Justice Lateefat Okunnu convicted Atuche alongside a former Chief Financial Officer of the bank, Ugo Anyanwu on six 27-count amended charge of conspiracy to commit a felony and stealing, which was brought against them before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. While Atuche who was found guilty on counts 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 23 of the charge would serve a six-year term for each count, Anyanwu will serve a four-year jail term for counts…
Dr N. K. Arora said Biological E’s made-in-India vaccine is expected to have 90 per cent effectiveness against COVID-19 and would likely be a game changer in the fight against the pandemic. Arora, Head of India’s COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), said this on Thursday. Arora in an interview with a local television news channel NDTV said the vaccine is entering Phase 3 trials and could be available by October. According to Arora, Biological E’s vaccine to be called Corbevax is similar to the Novavax vaccine. Biological E will be out likely in…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC), Justice John Tsoho, not to reassign Abdulrasheed Maina’s case to another judge. The EFCC also called on Justice Tsoho not to transfer the trial of his son, Faisal, and few other cases which matters had far been heard to a new judge. Justice Okon Abang was the presiding judge in the trial of the Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Maina and his son, before he was transferred to Warri division of FHC. The Chief Judge, Tsoho, had, in a March…
The Presidency has reacted to the latest communiqué by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum, asking Nigerians not to entrust the party with the national leadership of the country at any time. The presidency added that “What the governors are asking of NNPC is to “break the bank” for their own profligate political ends”. The PDP Governors had on Monday, had raised an alarm on the manner in which the NNPC carries out its operations, while decreeing the recent NNPC’s failure to make its statutory contributions to the Federation Account, an action the governors noted, that resulted in “starving…
The Sokoto zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, arraigned five management staff of the State Primary Staff Pension Board for alleged fraud of N500 million. The money was meant for the payment of retired pension and gratuities. The staff were arraigned before the Sokoto High Court on 28 count-charge bordering on forgery, criminal breach of trust and misappropriation, contrary to sections 92 (2), 311, of the Penal Code law CAP 89, Laws of Northern Nigeria and Sections 351, 353, 348 of the Sokoto Penal Code law 2019. Those arraigned include Abubakar Aliyu, Secretary; Hassana…
The world is inching towards becoming a global hamlet from its current status of global village. Thanks to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that has made distance, no matter how long, immaterial and allow people from different continents participate in a common event in real time. ICT is saving cost and time for several people from not being physically presence in some events while partaking in such events effectively, thus, quadrupling their productivity. ICT platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and many other social media use Internet services to link and network people for effective communication in the…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has announced that Nigeria is to receive 3.92 million additional doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from COVAX by the end of July 2021. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, made the announcement at a press briefing on Tuesday, in Abuja. Nigeria received its first consignment of 3.92 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility, COVAX, on March 2, 2021. COVAX, an initiative co-led by the vaccine alliance, GAVI, and the World Health Organisation (WHO), aims to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, by dividing about…
The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) has commended the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) for adopting Public-Private Partnership (PPP) procurement methodology to develop property worth N1.5 billion in Kano State. The acting Director-General of ICRC, Mr Michael Ohiani, made the commendation, while presenting Certificate of Outline Business Case (OBC) Compliance to the Chairman of NAHCON, Zikrullah Hassan, on Monday in Abuja. Ohiani said that NAHCON had identified that the commercial development of some of its property would help to raise the needed funds to meet up with the continuous growth of Hajj activities in the country and become self-sustaining.…
President Muhammadu Buhari has emphasized the need for countries rocked by security challenges in the West African sub-region and those in the Sahel to team up to confront the menace. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Spokesman, said Buhari stated this when he received the new Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr Mahamat Saleh Annadif, at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday. The president said: “You are our neighbour. You have vast experience on matters affecting the Sahel, having served for five years in Mali. ”I hope you will get the countries to…