February 2019

ExxonMobil allegedly denying Nigerians job offers

February 13, 2019 1:43 am

There are allegations that ExxonMobil may have resorted to anti-labour practices aimed at drastically excluding Nigerians from core activities in the company.

Sources alleged that the intention was to make the company a complete foreign firm in spite of its joint partnership agreement.

In fact, there are allegations that the company has resorted to activities that have continued to quietly eliminate its Nigerian employees and replacing them with hoards of new imports in disregard to Nigeria’s existing laws and development guidelines, thereby subjecting more Nigerians to premature job losses.

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We’ll deal with Amosun for disrupting rally in Ogun – APC

February 13, 2019 1:07 am

The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, has accused Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State of sponsoring thugs to pelt Jubril, the impostor being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari and other important personalities during its campaign rally in Abeokuta on Monday. The campaign rally which ended in chaos following the way, Ogun people pelted Jubril, and the dignitaries that occupied him.

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Babachir Lawal docked over ₦272 million grass-cutting deal

February 13, 2019 12:35 am

ABUJA—Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, docked former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, before an Abuja High Court at Maitama, following his alleged complicity in ₦272 million contract fraud.

Lawal, whose arraignment came about two years after he was accused of illegally diverting a contract the Presidential Initiative for North-East, PINE, awarded for the removal of grasses in Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps, to his own company, pleaded not guilty to the 10-count criminal charge the EFCC preferred against him.

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Bloody clash at APC campaign rally in Ekiti

February 13, 2019 12:01 am

Ado-Ekiti—Scores of supporters of All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party sustained various degree of injuries during a bloody clash at a campaign rally in Omuo Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti East Local government area of Ekiti State. The incident was said to have occurred when members of the APC were said to be holding a joint rally for the senatorial candidate in Ekiti South District, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and the House of Representatives candidate in Ekiti South Federal Constituency, Femi Bamisile, Monday evening, when the suspected PDP thugs invaded the rally and launched attacks on them.

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14 confirmed dead at APC rally in Rivers

February 12, 2019 11:26 pm

It has been confirmed that fourteen persons lost their lives in the course of APC Presidential rally on Tuesday in Port-Harcourt. The stampede that was the cause of death happened when Jubril, the impostor (being paraded as Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari) arrived the state.

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The plan to force Shell out of the oil business

February 12, 2019 12:37 pm

Climate activists are threatening to sue Royal Dutch Shell to try to force it out of the oil business. A bloc of environmental groups in the Netherlands, where the company is based, says it wants to get a court ruling that would compel Shell to move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.

The groups say Shell is “deliberately obstructing” efforts to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius, the key goal of the Paris agreement.

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Israel’s longest-serving premier fights for his future

Democrats and Israel

February 12, 2019 12:17 pm

Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota apologized for tweets she put out that many considered anti-Semitic. “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Omar said in a statement.

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NCAA, yet to find the aircraft with worn out tyre

February 12, 2019 12:02 pm

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA ) on Tuesday said it was yet to identify the airline that had a worn out aircraft tyre trending on social media

Its spokesman, Sam Adurogboye, said though it was yet to establish the carrier whose aircraft allegedly had such a worn out tyre but insisted in line with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Standard and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (Nig.CARs) no airline operator can embark on commercial air transportation for hire and reward without airworthy operating aircraft.

Citing the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (Nig.CARs) Part 5.4.1.1, Adurogboye said …

CCT chairman reports only to the Presidency, NBA affirms

February 12, 2019 11:40 am

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said on Tuesday that it agreed with the argument by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal ( CCT ), Danladi Umar that he and his tribunal were not answerable to the Judiciary, but the Presidency.

NBA, in a statement issued on Tuesday by its President, Paul Usoro (SAN), said Umar was correct in that argument, but contended that the fact that the CCT was under the control of the Executive informs the urgent need to discontinue charge of breach of code of conduct pending against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter …

US border security matter

February 12, 2019 11:15 am

There’s a deal on the table, but will the President go along with it? That’s the question Washington is waking up to this morning, after congressional negotiators said last night they’d reached an agreement in principle to avoid another government shutdown.

The deal would include $1.375 billion dollars for barrier funding to cover about 55 miles of new barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, which had been a priority for the White House.

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Senate votes on $8bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia by Trump

US lawmakers in a new agreement to prevent shutdown

February 12, 2019 3:13 am

U.S. lawmakers on Monday reached a tentative deal to try to avert another partial government shutdown on Saturday, but congressional aides said it did not contain the $5.7 billion President Donald Trump wants for a border wall.

“We reached an agreement in principle” on funding border security programs through Sept. 30, Republican Senator Richard Shelby told reporters.

“Our staffs are going to be working feverishly to put all the particulars together,” Shelby said. Neither he nor three other senior lawmakers flanking him provided any details of the tentative pact.

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Atiku not endorsed by Northern Elders’ Forum – Dr Junaid

February 12, 2019 2:51 am

A Second Republic lawmaker and prominent member of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Dr. Junaid Muhammed, has said the socio-cultural group did not endorse People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

According to Muhammed, only some members of the group, led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, backed Atiku.

Last week, leaders and elders of some geo-political zones announced their endorsement of the PDP candidate as their preferred choice for the February 16 presidential polls.

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