Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pensions Reform Task Team (PRTT), collapsed in court on Thursday as his trial resumed at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The drama began when Anayo Adibe, counsel to Maina, told the presiding judge, Justice Okon Abang, of the Federal High Court, that he would be unable to continue with his client’s no-case submission motion today, because he was yet to receive the record of proceedings of the court since Maina’s arraignment. But, Justice Abang told Adibe that it was his duty to get the record of proceedings, which had already been processed, from the…
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state sued Facebook Inc on Wednesday, saying that it broke antitrust law and should potentially be broken up. With the filing of the twin lawsuits, Facebook becomes the second big tech company to face a major legal challenge this fall. The FTC said in a statement that it would seek an injunction that “could, among other things: require divestitures of assets, including Instagram and WhatsApp.” In its complaint, the coalition of 46 states, Washington, D.C. and Guam also asked for Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp to be judged to be…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Mr Ibrahim Tudu of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the Bakura State constituency supplementary election in Zamfara. INEC Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Yahaya Tanko of Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, said Tudu polled 23,874 votes to win the election. “The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr Dan-Kande Bello, polled 16,546 votes, while Mr Ibrahim Tudu of the PDP scored 23,874 votes and he has been declared elected,” he said. The state PDP Chairman Alhaji Tukur Dan-Fulani who spoke to journalists shortly after the announcement, charged the winner…
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved the sum of N1.1 billion for the expansion of the apron of Maiduguri airport and insurance cover for 22 airports across the country. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known to State House correspondents at the end of the council’s meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Wednesday. “The first memo was a contract for the expansion of the apron of Maiduguri airport. “This contract is worth N719,117,868.60. The expansion of the Maiduguri airport has become necessary because of the increased traffic at the airport that apron…
By Tina George, Minna The Chairman of the Niger state Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB), Dr Isah Adamu is currently in trouble for allegedly charging primary six pupils to pay for the final examinations and testimonials. The House of Assembly, which revealed the development, also described the charge as illegal, saying that it was the jurisdiction of the Board to charge such levies. The lawmakers also threaten to prosecute the Chairman over the action. AsheNews gathered that although the Board had fixed N400 to be paid by each pupil, those in some public schools were made to pay higher. The…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has reacted to a report by the Amnesty International, AI, titled, “Nigerian Military Crimes”, saying it is obviously desperate to incriminate the Nigerian military. Major General John Enenche, its Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, (CDMO, said in a statement that “the attention of the Nigerian Military has been drawn to the recent report released by Amnesty International (AI) in its chapter 3 as “Nigerian Military Crimes”. “In the first place, the so-called research does not meet the universal academic or global best practice criteria, of having the justifiable percentage of sample in the population, claimed to…
The United Nations (UN’s ) Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) have provided 2.5 million dollars for the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programmes in six states. The states are Ekiti, Ebonyi, Oyo, Kwara, Kogi and Plateau states for two years. “The grant is premise on the 2019 Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) NORM survey which revealed that the six states were at the lowest ebb of access to water and sanitation, with the highest number of people still practicing open defecation’’. According to the WASH NORM household survey, only 42 per cent of Nigerians use basic sanitation…
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Wednesday presented a 2021 budget proposal of N169.8 billion to the State Assembly. Ugwuanyi said that the 2021 budget estimate was 13 per cent higher than the 2020 revised budget of N169.5 billion. The governor said that the 2021 budget estimate was made up of N101. 1 capital expenditure which represents 60 per cent of the estimated budget size. He said that the recurrent expenditure stood at N68.1 billion representing 40 per cent of the estimated budget size. The governor said that the budget estimate had a recurrent revenue of N110.08 billion and…
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to order suspension and activation of new SIM cards. This he said was to allow an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database. Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, NCC, said in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, that this was in line with Federal Government’s desire to consolidate the achievement of September 2019 SIM card registration. Adinde explained that the objective of the audit was to verify and ensure compliance by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with the set quality standards and requirements as issued…
… Says president cannot expose strategies to the public The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami has said that the National Assembly, NASS, had crossed its boundary by summoning President Muhammadu Buhari to address it on security challenges. Malami, in a statement he signed personally on Wednesday also asserted that the “confidentiality of strategies employed by the President as the commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not open for public exposure in view of security implications in probable undermining of the war against terror.” According to him,…