December 11, 2019

Polanski Blames Weinstein, Says Media Making Me A Monster

December 11, 2019 3:50 pm

Film director Roman Polanski has spoken out for the first time since another woman accused him of rape, declaring that the media are “trying to make me into a monster”.

And in an extraordinary twist he blamed Harvey Weinstein for his woes, in an interview with Paris Match magazine published Wednesday.

He claimed the disgraced Hollywood mogul tried to brand him a “child rapist” to stop him winning an Oscar in 2003 for “The Pianist”.

Polanski — a fugitive from US justice since 1978 after he admitted the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl — also dismissed the latest rape …

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Rejects Genocide Claims At Top UN Court

December 11, 2019 3:50 pm

Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi rejected allegations of genocide against Myanmar in the UN’s top court Wednesday, despite admitting the army may have used excessive force against Rohingya Muslims.

Suu Kyi denied “misleading and incomplete” claims by The Gambia that a 2017 military operation had attempted to exterminate the Rohingya, in a rare address by a state leader to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Once hailed worldwide as a rights icon for her defiance of the same generals she is now defending, Suu Kyi also warned the Hague-based court that its involvement in the case risked “feeding …

Greta Slams ‘Misleading’ Climate Pledges At UN summit

December 11, 2019 3:49 pm

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg accused rich countries of “misleading” people over climate action at UN talks in Madrid on Wednesday as scuffles broke out between security guards and environmental protestors.

The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an “opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition” to act on climate, the 16-year-old told delegates and observers to vigorous applause.

“Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action.”

Nations are gathered in Spain’s capital to finalise the rulebook f the 2015 landmark Paris climate accord, which …

Nnamdi Kanu’s trial: I escaped being lynched – Ejiofor reveals

Kanu’s Lawyer, Ejiofor Files ₦2bn Suit Against Police

December 11, 2019 11:38 am
Lawyer to the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOP), Nnamdi Kanu,  Mr. feanyi Ejiofor, on Monday filed a ₦2 billion suit against  the Nigerian Police Force at the Abuja Federal High Court over an alleged invasion of his house and killing of four occupants by operatives of the force.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/135/2019, Ejiofor is asking the court for an order to compel police to pay him the sum of N2 billion as compensatory and damages for the burning of his house and shooting of his aged mother by the police at his Oraifite hometown
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Punch Playing Partisan Politics Not Journalism –Presidency

December 11, 2019 11:35 am

The Presidency has accused the Punch newspapers of playing partisan opposition politics and not journalism in its decision to address President Muhammadu Buhari as Major General, to protest his “disregard” for the rule of law.

In a second statement from the presidency on the matter, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, described Punch newspapers’ decision as absurd particularly when it never changed former Olusegun Obasanjo’s title to General, even when he disobeyed Supreme Court order  withholding local government funds of Lagos State.

It said: “It is unprecedented and absurd in our recent political history. The Punch …

NSCDC Probes Fraudulent Messages On Recruitment

December 11, 2019 11:35 am
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has commenced investigations to fish out those behind fake messages being sent to unsuspecting candidates who had applied for employment in the organisation to send their names for replacement and report for training.
 
The NSCDC said there is no replacement taking place in the Corps and the fraudulent messages neither emanated from the Corps nor the Civil Defence, Immigration, Fire and Correctional Services Board which is saddled with the sole responsibility of recruitment into the Corps.
 
A statement issued in Abuja yesterday by Emmanuel Okeh (DCC), Civil Defence Public Relations Officer (CDPRO), 
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Ugwuanyi

Encomiums For Ugwuanyi As Council Bosses Bow Out

December 11, 2019 11:34 am

By the time Enugu State Governor, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi dissolved the 17 elected council chairmen, the Chairman of Enugu North Local Government Area, Emma Onoh left with his head high. 

Onoh who in less than three months, recently completed one of the most adoring pavilions in Enugu state, had declared that he owed no debt at all as his first term of two years came to an end on December 4, 2019.

He hailed Governor Ugwuanyi for providing enabling environment for council Chairmen to operate, describing the governor as a super administrator.

The council boss made the remarks when the …

House Probes Unexecuted Constituency Projects

December 11, 2019 11:33 am

The House of Representatives has set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the amount of unspent constituency project funds not remitted in the last 10 years.

The House ordered the investigation following the adoption of a motion moved by the Speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, on the need to refund unspent budgeted monies.

Read Also: Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General

The ad hoc committee, chaired by Hon. Francis Agbo, was also tasked to unmasked the defaulting agencies and report back to the House for further legislative action.

In his lead debate, Hon. Abubakar Fulata emphasised the need for …

Wabote Highlights Benefits Of NLNG Train 7

December 11, 2019 11:32 am

The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Simbi Wabote, has reiterated that the upcoming Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Train 7 will have significant impact on the Nigerian economy and the oil and gas industry in particular.

The Final Investment Decision (FID) on the long awaited projected is expected to be taken before the year runs out.

Speaking at the just concluded 2019 Practical Nigerian Local Content in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Wabote said the project would bring more revenue to the country through taxes as well as creation of 10,000 direct jobs which …

1 Dead, Many Injured As Trailer Crushes Vehicles In Abuja

December 11, 2019 11:31 am

A middle- age woman died instantly on Wednesday morning when an articulated vehicle ploughed into several vehicles, at the Kugbo Hill, Nyanyan along the Abuja- Keffi Road.

Eye witnesses said the accident occurred at about 10.00 am, when the trailer developed a brake failure while it was about descending the hill. In the process, the driver lost control of the vehicle, when it crushed the other vehicles on its path.

Read Also: Punch Newspaper Vows To Address Buhari As Major-General

The articulated vehicle was said to be laden with an excavator, which it was taking to a construction site before …

Efik’s Cultural Day Of Glamour, Fun

December 11, 2019 11:31 am

It was a day of colours, glamour and extravagant display of cultural fiesta. It was a cultural festival like no other, a festival of dancing, a festival of traditional songs, festival of local delicacies and strong local liquors, festival of cultural attires, festival of masquerades and ultimately a festival of the people, for the people and by the people of Efik in Calabar, Cross River state.

United by culture, said to be more powerful than religion, hundreds of Efik sons and daughters from far and wide and across all walks of lives, had held residents of the Federal Capital Territory …

Niger

Niger: 2020 Budget Based On Payment Of 30,000 Minimum Wage

December 11, 2019 11:30 am

The Niger State government has said that its 2020 budget is based on the payment of the ₦30,000 minimum wage.

This is just as the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thumbed down the fiscal estimates describing it as “budget of nothingness and profound sleaziness”.

The state Commissioners for Planning, Alhaji Mamman Musa and that of Finance, Alhaji Zakari Abubakar, while giving the breakdown of the budget in Minna on Wednesday, said like other aspects of the budget, the implementation will commence once the fiscal estimates are passed by the House of Assembly and assented to by …

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