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NWTF Highlights Inhibitions Faced By Women In Politics

NWTF Highlights Inhibitions Faced By Women In Politics

October 23, 2019 7:21 am

Kemi Olaitan writes that a report on the 2019 general election published by Nigerian Women Trust Fund, in partnership with the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative with support from MacArthur Foundation puts in perspective the issue of gender inequality and enhancement of women’s participation in politics

Seven months after the 2019 general election which President Muhammadu Buhari won for a second time, virtually all other winners are in already in their offices and the losers either at the tribunals, appellate courts or strategising for another day, but the reverberations have not stopped as reports continue to spew out on …

Senate: MDAs Recruiting To Cover Up Bloated Personnel Cost

Senate: MDAs Recruiting To Cover Up Bloated Personnel Cost

October 23, 2019 6:43 am

The Senate yesterday accused some federal government agencies of secretly recruiting to cover up for their over-bloated personnel cost and also queried the ₦600million voted for a privatised electricity distribution company in the 2020 Appropriation Bill.

This is just as the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has disclosed that it discovered ₦9.2 billion in the accounts of some ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs).

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Senator Kwari Suleiman, who made this disclosure during the 2020 budget proposal of the ICPC before the committee, added that the appointment letters of the newly …

Host Communities; HOSCON Welcome Planned Audit Of NDDC

Host Communities; HOSCON Welcome Planned Audit Of NDDC

October 23, 2019 6:28 am

The umbrella body for oil-bearing communities in the Niger Delta region, Host Communities of Nigeria (HOSCON) has assured President Muhammadu Buhari of the support of all stakeholders in the region in his quest to probe the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

HOSCON said the support of the stakeholders was as a result of the fact that there was nothing to show for the huge funds that have accrued to the commission since its establishment.

The group, led by Dr Mike Emuh as its National Chairman, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the initiative, adding that such a bold …

Botswana Begins Voting In Test Of A Stable Democracy

Botswana Begins Voting In Test Of A Stable Democracy

October 23, 2019 5:43 am

Voting opened on Wednesday in Botswana for a hotly contested general election that could test the country’s traditionally stable politics, as the ruling party faces its toughest challenge yet.

The historic Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) — whose rule has been unfettered since independence from Britain in 1966 — was shaken up earlier this year after former president Ian Khama dramatically renounced his hand-picked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi.

Voters started gathering late on Tuesday at Tlogatloga secondary school in Botswana’s capital Gaborone, waiting all night to cast their ballot.

“I have spotted a candidate I think is the right person and I …

INEC To Correct General Election Error With Bayelsa, Kogi

INEC To Correct General Election Error With Bayelsa, Kogi

October 23, 2019 3:59 am

At the end of a two-day seminar on the preparedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States, the commission said the two elections would correct the mistakes in the 2019 general election and set a new standard for future elections.

This is coming as stakeholders from Kogi and Bayelsa States have listed violence, vote-buying and manipulation of youths as some of the issues that would determine the outcome of the polls in the two states.

Speaking yesterday, the Chairman of the Board of INEC’s Electoral Institute, who is also …

Why Kogi Panel Cleared Former Deputy Gov Of Misconduct

Why Kogi Panel Cleared Former Deputy Gov Of Misconduct

October 23, 2019 3:36 am

•State assembly failed to call relevant witnesses, present documents
•Could not substantiate four charges, abandoned two pleadings

•Breaches constitution despite these findings

The probe panel, which investigated the former Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Mr. Simon Achuba, on allegations of gross misconduct, returned a not-guilty verdict against him because none of the six-point charge against him was substantiated by the state House of Assembly, our reporters learnt yesterday.

A copy of the report submitted to the state legislature last Friday, upon which the lawmakers summarily removed Achuba from office, despite his clearance, detailed how the legislators either failed to provide …

Amid Non Endorsement, Audu’s Wife Berates Governor Bello

Amid Non Endorsement, Audu’s Wife Berates Governor Bello

October 23, 2019 3:03 am

• ‘We are collaborating to avert violence, rigging’

At a time faction of the Kogi State executive chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) distanced itself from the purported endorsement of Governor Yahaya Bello, the wife of one of the disqualified gubernatorial aspirants, Mr. Mustapha Mona Audu, Zahra, yesterday, regretted that the governor was not canvassing for votes the same way President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo did during the 2015 and 2019 polls.

It would be recalled that the Kogi APC faction led by the state secretary, Salam Adejo, addressed a press conference in Abuja, where they denied …

NLC Vows To Enforce New Minimum Wage Payment For Workers

NLC Vows To Enforce New Minimum Wage Payment For Workers

October 23, 2019 2:54 am

• Ebonyi to review workers pay as allocation drops
• Minister wants more allocation to labour ministry

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday vowed to enforce the total implementation of the new national minimum wage once the issue of consequential adjustments has been settled with the states.

Labour threatened that with the signing into law of the new minimum wage, any state that violated its provisions would be sued.

The president of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, stated the position of the workers during the opening of its 2019 national leadership retreat holding in Enugu, regretting that Nigerian workers were forced …

Telcom Operators; ACTON Seek NCC’s Autonomy On USSD Prices

Telcom Operators; ACTON Seek NCC’s Autonomy On USSD Prices

October 23, 2019 2:34 am
Telecommunications operators under ACTON have called on the Federal Government to allow the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) independence to enforce the legal determination of the USSD pricing that was approved to be effective from September 1.

The operators, under the aegis of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), said the banks should only be allowed to apply a cost recovery charge to the consumers using the USSD platform or any other telecom related platform used to gain access to the consumers’ mobile device or the Subscribers Identification Modules (SIM).

Speaking with The Guardian, the President of the ATCON,

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Outrage Over Alleged Plot To Arrest Undercover Journalist

Outrage Over Alleged Plot To Arrest Undercover Journalist

October 23, 2019 2:24 am

• Prisons service condemns report as tissue of lies
• Identify security operatives trailing you, police tell Soyombo
• NUJ, editor’s guild, others caution govt, urge probity

Nigerians yesterday condemned an alleged plot by security operatives to seize investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo.

The reporter, whose undercover stories exposed corruption in Nigerian police cells and prisons, has since gone into hiding. The “threat is real,” he told The Guardian, noting, however, that he is “safe and calm.”

The first installment of the three-part investigation by Soyombo, a former editor of The Cable and a contributor to Al Jazeera, detailed how …

Customs Nabs 15 Smugglers, Seizes 1,645 Bags Of Grains

Customs Nabs 15 Smugglers, Seizes 1,645 Bags Of Grains

October 23, 2019 2:16 am
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested 15 suspected smugglers and seized 1,345 bags of foreign rice and 300 bags of assorted grains along Mubi/Yola road, Adamawa State, during a routine patrol.

The Customs Comptroller for Adamawa and Taraba states, Mr. Kamardeem Olumoh, warned that “there is no escape route again for smugglers” in the two states under his control.

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He said this while conducting journalists round a warehouse where foreign rice is re-bagged in local bags to beat security operatives.

Olumoh said that NCS had taken over the warehouse and

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Terror As Trailers Fall Into Bad Spot On Agege Motor Road

Terror As Trailers Fall Into Bad Spot On Agege Motor Road

October 23, 2019 2:09 am

It was a scene of the absurd yesterday when a bad spot on the ever-busy Agege Motor Road claimed three trucks, which all fell into the vast crater on the road one after the other. Tragedy was averted when a trailer carrying a container first fell into a big ditch just before Idi-Oro bus stop and landed on a tricycle, which thankfully not carried any passengers.

Another trailer brought to offload contents of the previously fallen container also fell into the crater while a third trailer, which was brought to lift the other two off the road also fell at …

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