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Fire on Tuesday night gutted a section of the Economic Community of West African States Secretariat, located in Asokoro District of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. It was gathered that the fire affected the floor accommodating the Department of Finance and Account of the commission. First responders including firefighters have since been drafted to the incident scene. A senior official of the commission confirmed the fire outbreak to SaharaReporters. The official said the fire had already been put out.   Breaking News News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2PCxh4N via EDUPEDIA

Mohammed Bello Adoke The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has rearraigned former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke. Adoke was initially arraigned on a seven-count charge but the EFCC arraigned him on a 14-count amended charge of money laundering to the tune of over $6,000,000. He was rearraigned before Justice I. E. Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Mohammed Bello Adoke Adoke was rearraigned alongside Aliyu Abubakar. Both defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them by the anti-corruption agency. The judge adjourned the case until August 11, 12, and 13, 2020 for the commencement of trial. Corruption Money Laundering News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/31jfPYj via EDUPEDIA

Two nurses and one other person have been arrested for stealing and selling a newborn baby by the police in Katsina State. SaharaReporters gathered that one Shamsiya Sani, 25, a resident of Dandagoro Quarters, Katsina, was delivered of a baby girl at a clinic around  Kofar Kaura Quarters and was said to have abandoned the baby shortly after the delivery with a note. The two nurses, Misira Tijjani and Grace Ejigu, were alleged to have conspired and sold the child to one Mrs Eucharia Onyema of Sabuwar Kasuwa Quarters, Katsina. But luck ran out on them when they were arrested on their way from the hospital with the child through the help of a tricycle rider, who suspected them of stealing the child and alerted the police. Confirming the incident, spokeperson for the state police command, Gambo Isah, said the suspects were arrested on July 28, 2020 based on a tip-off for selling the newly born baby girl. He said investigation was ongoing into the matter. Isah said, “On 25...

The management of Bristow Helicopters Limited has terminated the appointment of 100 pilots. This comes barely 24 hours after Nigerian airline, Air Peace, sacked over 70 pilots citing COVID-19 crisis. The aviation company in a statement on Tuesday said those sacked comprised both Nigerian nationals and expatriates working with the company. According to the airline, the decision to sack the pilots was due to the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It said it had engaged with the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers to negotiate a fair and equitable redundancy compensation for those affected. The statement reads, “The spread of the COVID-19 virus has severely impacted all sectors in the aviation industry including our market, which primarily serves the Nigerian oil and gas sector. “In addition, the ongoing downturn in the global oil and gas market continues to influence and determine the demand for our services. “The combined effects of these ‘arisings’ ...

Niger Delta Development Commision (NDDC) Building, Port Harcourt. The Niger Delta Rights Advocates has threatened to join the Trade Union Congress and other civil society organisations to protest the delay on the part of the Nigerian Government in taking action against officials of Niger Delta Development Commission involved in corruption. The group called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to stain his government with the mud of corruption by endorsing the continued dramatisation of corruption in the commission. In a statement, spokesperson for the group, Darlington Nwauju, said, “In as much as government is a continuum and ordinarily nothing would have been seen as awkward in having a sitting management team commissioning the projects completed by its predecessor, the case of the Prof Pondei-led NDDC IMC is quite different for the basic reason that there are a plethora of uncompleted and abandoned projects which the IMC could lay hands on to deliver to the people of t...

A massive explosion hit Central Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, resulting in the death of over 10 persons and leaving many others wounded. The explosion, which erupted at the port in Beirut according to local media, started with a fire. Nearby houses and cars were hit by the resulting shockwave from the explosion. Lebanon’s Health Minister, Hamad Hasan, said the explosion in central Beirut caused a “very high number of injuries” and extensive damage, Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI) reported. Reuters quoted sources as saying 10 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage. Beirut governor, Marwan Abboud, inspected the explosion site at the Beirut port, revealing that contact was lost with a number of firefighters, who rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire. Abboud said that Beirut city was stricken, adding that what happened was unprecedented.   Videos shared on social media showed a burst of flames as it engulfed houses and nearby buildings. ...

The Nigeria Postal Service and the Federal Inland Revenue Service are currently in a tussle over who has the legal right to collect stamp duty for the country. Recall that the government through the FIRS had increased the payment of stamp duties, which led to an uproar among Nigerians. In a tweet, Chairman of NIPOST, Maimuna Abubakar, said the organisation was the only agency charged with the responsibility of producing adhesive stamps and revenue for the purchase of such stamp accrues to NIPOST. She also said that there was nowhere in FIRS Act or Stamp Duty Act that states FIRS can produce stamp or sell such. The NIPOST board chair also said FIRS did not only steal NIPOST stamps but also ideas. She tweeted, “I am worried for NIPOST, having sleepless nights because of NIPOST, we need the general public to come to our aid, FIRS stole our mandate. “FIRS are now selling stamps instead of buying from us. NIPOST are the sole custodians of national stamps, another agency printin...

Abubakar Malami Embarrassed by revelations of corruption and abuse of public trust allegedly committed by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, a group, Kebbi Concerned Citizens, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the AGF. KCC urged the President to order an investigation into all allegations against Malami to convince Nigerians and the international community that the administration’s anti-corruption posture was genuine. The petition implored President Buhari to swiftly act the same way he did when Malami brought up Issues against the suspended EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu. Abubakar Malami The petition, signed by the Director-General of KCC, Ibrahim Mohammed, also informed the President that Nigerians were devastated by corruption allegations within the top hierarchy of his government. The petition reads, “Millions of Nigerians passionate and desirous of corruption-free Nigeria were left devastated with many unfor...

The giant of Africa needs a political resuscitation for her to live again. If a government fails to be responsible, it then becomes a matter of necessity for the people to organise and revolt. The nature of democracy is people-centred, that’s why it is described by a one-time US President, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), to be “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” As it is that what we have in Nigeria’s democracy is government of the old, by the callous and for the rich, the country is due for a revolution; to put an end to the misrule of many decades. The powerful few at the helms of affairs have long enjoyed the docility of the hoi polloi: children of nobody go through hassles to have a university education, graduate to be either underemployed or unemployed; the few powerful earn six figures salary yet tell the poor that a living wage of hundred thousand naira will cause inflation; no life supporting amenity is accessible to the poor; mass killing by bandits i...

A serving member of the National Youth Service, Mr Abiodun Sanusi, has said that revolution was the only solution to Nigeria’s problems. Sanusi, who declared his support for the #RevolutionNow protest in message on Tuesday, said the problems bedevilling the country was a result of bad leadership.  He said Nigerians had suffered enough in the hands of both past and successive governments, urging youths to troop out to participate in the protest scheduled to take place across major cities in the country on Wednesday. Sanusi said that citizens of the country, mostly especially the youth cannot continue to suffer in silence under a government that had failed to meet their welfare. He said, “We have also demanded a reliable, adequate and affordable healthcare system, adequate security, 24 hours electric power supply, adequate infrastructures and nationalization of all public owned resources and properties in the country. “I enjoin every Nigerian youth to support the #Revolut...

Justice Jude Okeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court is dead. SaharaReporters gathered that the 64-year-old died at the National Hospital in Abuja. Justice Okeke was called to Bar in 1985 and completed his National Youth Service the following year. He served the Nigerian Bar Association as Chairman of Abuja branch until his appointment as FCT High Court judge in 2007.   News OBITUARY AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/39UNmvG via EDUPEDIA

HUMAN RESOURCE ADEQUACY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN AKOKO SOUTHWEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Education has been defined as the tool for integration of the individual into the society, so that the individual can achieve self-realization, develop national consciousness, promote unity and strive for social, economic, political, scientific, cultural and technological progress (Adesina 1985). Education is also a process through which an individual becomes integrated into the society to become promoter of his society and becomes an adult who is able to stand on his own (Fafunwa 1974). According to Oyekan (2006), Education has been recognized as a process of impacting some knowledge, skills and attitude to the learners, in which this is impossible without the efficient allocation of resources. ‘ > For schools to be meaningful and purposeful they must be adequately equipped and staffed. Teachers are ...

GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL DETERMINATION OF THE CAUSES OFROAD FAILURES (A CASE STUDY OF IKUN TO AFO) IN ONDO STATE, SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 PREAMBLE Soil and rock are materials widely used for construction purposes. The qualities of these construction materials are essential in their choice for various civil works. These qualities are evaluated by the geotechnical test of the soil materials. Therefore engineering geological properties of the subsoil that constitute sub grade material along Ikun to Afo Akoko were evaluated in order to determine their suitability for the civil engineering works. Roads of various categories in Nigeria have shown signs of failure in the form of cracking, rutting, deformation and peeling. In some cases, these signs of distress are visible within a short period of commissioning the road, yet the causes have not been fully established. Some researchers (Arumala and Akpokodje, 1987; Jegede, 2004; Osadebe and Omange, 2005) and ag...