Malami said FEC also approved a memo seeking to amend the Geneva Convention and re-enact it to grant access to justice by prisoners of war (POW).The
President Muhammadu Buhari on October 8 presented the Finance Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly for consideration and passage into law.
The president presented the bill alongside the 2020 Appropriation Bill. He proposed an increase in the Valued-Added Tax rate from five percent to 7.5 percent.
The bill also proposes to amend the
Prison authorities in Europe are not doing enough to monitor the health of inmates, meaning prisoners are more likely to suffer untreated conditions and are released without adequate support, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
The UN body warned that such failings will come at a “high cost” for society at large as they add to the public health burden.
The WHO collected the data of 39 European countries between 2016 and 2017 and recommended that prisons test for tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health problems and addictions.
“A prison sentence takes away a person’s liberty; it should not also …
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) said it has commenced the verification of about 7,000 retirees in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Executive Secretary of PTAD, Chioma Ejikeme, who disclosed this recently in Abuja said the verification was going on simultaneously in the three centres in the FCT.
She noted that those expected to partake in the exercise are retirees from the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), and its mobile arm, MTEL, and the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).
Others include both academic and non-academic staff of federal universities.
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Not many post-1970 kids know Dr. Okechukwu Ikejiani. But many who lived during his time remember that he was Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) and at the same time doubled as Pathologist-in-Chief of the corporation in Lagos. He was a university teacher and an expert in the medical field.
Biographical records of him available on igbonet.com, listed him as a lecturer in Pathology at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Consultant Pathologist at the University Teaching Hospital Ibadan, Director of National Clinic Laboratories Ibadan, Medical Director of Pfizer Laboratories, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Council of University of Ibadan. …
A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Mubi North, Adamawa State, Ahidjo Mohammed, was kidnapped by gunmen around 7pm on Tuesday. The officer was kidnapped while returning to Mubi from Yola, where his mother had been receiving medical attention.
The kidnappers are demanding N50million ransom. Similarly, another resident of Mubi, a trader, Alhaji Mahmudu Mbilla, from Mbilla village was also kidnapped on Monday night and the kidnappers are demanding N5million from the family of the victim. Police public relations officer, Usman Nguroje, confirmed the kidnap and said the state police command had dispatched personnel, including the IGP anti kidnap squad, …
Former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Chief Femi Fani Kayode writes:
President Muhammadu Buhari approves Air Force University in Bauchi after Police College in Kano, Defence Academy in Kaduna and Army University in Borno.
Southern slaves keep clapping! You will get sense by force!
The bitter truth is that the fundamental problems of Nigeria cannot be solved by political parties and can only be solved through the self-determination of the various ethnic nationalities that cohabit in what is essentially an accursed and doomed union of bondage and servitude.
Following the positive acclaim on her debut release on the Universal Music Group, ’49-99′, Tiwa Savage unveiled two new singles Wednesday, ‘Attention’ and ‘Owo Mi Da’.
Both tracks reveal the singer’s alter egos through lyrics styles and instrumentation employed on each musical offerings.
Taking the route of needy lover, Tiwa holds back tears from an unrequited love on ‘Attention’. Over steady rhythmic beats, she subtly warns of a breakup if her lover fails to pay give her the attention she craves.
Produced by Blaqjerqzee, the track’s texture is reminiscent of ‘Keys …
The federal government has approved the issuance of Euro 500 million sovereign guarantee from the Credit Suisse AG London Branch and a syndicate of international lenders.
Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, told State House correspondents Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. He said the international lenders will serve as collateral for the Euro 500 million facility, to be extended to the Bank of Industry.
He explained that the purpose of the loan is to finance major industrialisation projects and Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) values chains …
Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have expressed doubts over the ability of security agents to protect members of the opposition during the 2023 general elections.
They said the violence that characterised Kogi and Bayelsa gubernatorial elections was a pointer to what lies ahead in 2023 when the country return to the poll.
Minority Leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, while briefing newsmen in Abuja, also called on the Inspector-General of Police to fish out culprits who burnt a PDP woman leader to death in Kogi State.
He said the impunity that greeted the
President Muhammadu Buhari’s record on the rule of law has been described as alarming and below acceptable standard, author of Corruption and Human Rights Law in Africa, Dr. Kolawole Olaniyan, has declared.
He claimed that since Buhari assumed office, he has clearly shown that he did not have any regard for judges neither nor respect for rule of law or human rights.
Olaniyan, who is also a legal adviser at the Amnesty International’s Secretariat, London, argued that the president had treated judges with contempt on at least 40 occasions, a situation he
The endorsement of Magu by PACAC was made yesterday by PACAC’s Chairman, Professor Itse Sagay, when he led his team on solidarity visit to the EFCC boss at the Commission’s Headquarters.
While declaring that Magu deserves appointment as the substantive chairman of the EFCC, Sagay said: “When something is good, when you see high quality, merit, dedication, and somebody who is courageous in the fight
