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Your Excellency, for over 40, the people of Ndokwa/Ukwani in Delta State have lived peacefully with the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and a host of other oil companies, who own massive oil production operations in the area.  Despite the fortune these companies have been making from their various operations, the people have had to live with continuous gas flaring, water pollution and toxic emissions as well as land degradation, with no social and physical infrastructure to support the communities.   We conducted a fact-finding tour of the community, wherein we traced a four decades of travail of the Ndokwa/Ukwani nation. The Federal Government’s attempt to develop the nine states of the entire Niger Delta region through the Niger Delta Development Commission has become counter-productive on account of corruption and malfeasance in the helm of affairs of the leadership, managing the commission’s finances and its affairs in general.  Meanwhile a huge chunk of oil and gas mining oper

File Photo: Gunmen Bandits have killed Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State, Alhaji Lawal Dako. According to Katsina Post, Dako was shot by bandits on November 8 but died on Friday, November 20 from injuries sustained as a result of the attack. File Photo: Gunmen middleeastpress He died at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital. Katsina is one of the states with a high rate of insecurity in Nigeria. CRIME Insecurity Politics News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3kUMmeS via EDUPEDIA

File Photo Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Friday killed a student union leader, Auwal Rabiu, on the road linking the Kaduna International Airport and the Rigasa Train Station connecting Kaduna to Abuja. The bandits also injured one Umar El-Khatab while one other person identified as Sani Digana was feared to have been abducted during the attack. File Photo SaharaReporters gathered that the three young men were inside a vehicle when the gunmen fired at them around 9:00pm along the road. The remains of Auwal was laid to rest on Saturday at Rigasa Cemetery with a mammoth crowd in attendance. During the ceremony, the remains of an elderly man was also brought for burial and family members of the deceased said he was also a victim of the gunmen attack a day before. Sources within Rigasa said the Divisional Police Officer of the station, CSP Goronyo, also escaped the attack by luck. CRIME Education Insecurity News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New Yo

Fredrick Nwabufo ‘Why always Buhari?’ As it was in 1984 under General Buhari, so it is in 2016 and 2020 under President Buhari? Is it by the unfortunate hands of kismet that recession hits Nigeria every time Buhari takes charge of the country’s affairs? If the recession of the 80s under Buhari was a conspiracy by economic and political factors, to what do we attribute that of his first coming as a civilian President — and now in his second coming? Why does pestilence scourge the land, hunger ravage the population and lives lost malevolently when Buhari presides over the country? Why always Buhari? Buhari’s undoing is his wonted predilection for hierarchising ethnicity, religion and loyalty above competence. Since 1999, no President has obtrusively shown a more nepotistic aspect than Buhari. It is unarguable that the President arrays the most competence-challenged cabinet ever in the chronicle of governance in Nigeria. Yes, a recession cabinet. Fredrick Nwabufo Here is a cabin

Protesters and activist stormed the venue of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Saturday to demand the immediate release of Nicholas Mbah, an #EndSARS protester, who was arrested by the police in the state. Mbah was arrested days after the protest at an Automated Teller Machine point. He was arraigned on trumped-up charges of arson and rioting.  The protesters asked the panel and Lagos State Government to order the immediate release of Mbah, whose health condition was currently deteriorating. It was gathered that the police initially denied him medical treatment and he slumped three times while in prison. A medical report of Mbah sighted by SaharaReporters showed that he was in 2018 treated of hemorrhagic complications at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital. “The above named (Nicholas Mbah), who had surgery on July 2018 on account of multiple leiomymectomy, recently developed hemorrhagic complications. “He has had crisis many times since the surgery. We

The Nigerian Army has said that it will repeat same action it took at the Lekki Toll Gate anywhere in the country if such a situation arises again. Ibrahim Taiwo, Commander of 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, disclosed this on Saturday while testifying before the judicial panel the Lagos State Government set up to probe the incident. Twitter/EditiEffiong On the night of 20 October, 2020, at about 6:50pm, operatives of the Nigerian Army opened fire on peaceful# EndSARS protesters at the toll gate, killing an unconfirmed number of people . See Also #EndSARS CCTV Footage Shows Military Started Fire At Lekki Toll Gate 0 Comments 7 Hours Ago Despite evidence of people being killed and injured at the Lekki incident, the army had maintained that blank bullets were used on protesters. While being cross examined by Olumide Fusika, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Taiwo said given the same circumstance, the army would act in a similar way to that of October 20, 2020. He

The 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, the formation involved in the October 20, 2020 Lekki shooting of peaceful protesters, has said that soldiers went to the toll gate with live ammunitions. Ibrahim Taiwo, Commander of the division, disclosed this on Saturday while testifying before the panel the Lagos State Government set up to probe the incident. Twitter/EditiEffiong See Also #EndSARS CCTV Footage Shows Military Started Fire At Lekki Toll Gate 0 Comments 7 Hours Ago While being cross examined by Olumide Fusika, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Taiwo insisted that no one was shot dead as soldiers only fired blank ammunition at the protesters and not live rounds. He said that they were meant for the protection of the army team that was deployed to restore order in the state. Despite evidence of people being killed and injured at the Lekki incident, the army representative said the soldiers only used blank bullets while their colleagues with live rounds were on g

President Muhammadu Buhari The Nigerian economy has again slipped into its second recession under the Muhammadu Buhari-led government as the gross domestic product contracted for the second consecutive quarter. The same happened in 2016, making it the second recession in a space of four years and the worst economic decline in almost four decades. President Muhammadu Buhari According to gross domestic product numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday, the nation recorded a contraction of 3.62 per cent in the third quarter of 2020. The last time Nigeria recorded such cummulative GDP was in 1987, when GDP declined by 10.8 per cent. The cumulative GDP for the first nine months of 2020, therefore, stood at -2.48 per cent just as it recorded a -6.10 per cent in the second quarter of this year. The report reads, “Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) recorded a growth rate of –3.62% (year-on-year) in real terms in the third quarter of 2020. “Cumulativel

The National Bureau of Statistics has officially confirmed that Nigeria was in its worst economic recession in 33 years. According to the NBS gross domestic product report for the third quarter of 2020, Nigeria’s economy contracted by 3.62 per cent to record its lowest growth rate in three decades. Reuters SaharaReporters gathered that the last time Nigeria had this magnitude of economic decline was under the regime of Ibrahim Babangida, when the economy recorded consecutive decline of 0.51 per cent and 0.82 per cent in first and second quarters of 1987. This is also the second recession under the President Muhamadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration. Economy News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3q0678S via EDUPEDIA

No fewer than eight members of the National Youth Service Corps posted to the Wailo Orientation Camp in the Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State have tested positive for Coronavirus. The Information Officer, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Ibrahim Sani, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday. Sani said the corps members contracted the virus while undergoing the three-week orientation exercise at the camp. According to him, the Executive Chairman of the State Primary Healthcare Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, has instructed a surveillance team to carry out sample collections and investigations of all corps members undergoing training in the camp to avoid de-escalation. He added that a holding room had since been allocated by the state Director of the NYSC for those that are suspected to be positive cases. Sani said, “On the recent reopening of NYSC camps, a surveillance investigation revealed that out of 600 that reported in the camp, e

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on police brutality has resume the viewing of the Closed-Circuit Television footage of the October 20 Lekki Toll Gate shooting of protesters. Soldiers had opened fire on peaceful #EndSARS protesters demonstrating at the toll gate, leaving about a dozen of people dead and many others injured. The Nigerian Government had continuously denied killing protesters despite numerous evidence. See Also #EndSARS LIVE: Lagos State Judicial Panel Viewing CCTV Footage Of Lekki Tollgate Shooting 0 Comments 3 Hours Ago The panel established to investigate the matter requested to view the CCTV footage of the day recorded by Lekki Concession Company, the organisation in charge of the toll gate. The panel started viewing the 20-hour-long video before it was agreed that Mr Ademola Ogunlana, a lawyer representing some victims of the shooting, be allowed to watch the video and suggest some parts to be viewed by the panel. At the resumption of s

Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Araribe, has said that the only person from the South-East region working for President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Villa was a photographer. Abaribe made this known on Friday when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels TV in reaction to Governor David Umahi’s defection from Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. Abaribe, who is a member of the PDP, said Umahi’s defection was merely an occurrence and will be evaluated properly during the next presidential election. He said, “Let us assume Governor Umahi is bringing the South-East, as he says, into the mainstream because that was what I heard yesterday. What is the mainstream? Is it the Aso Villa that belongs to all of us that you cannot find a single person from the South-East, except a photographer? “Before, every part of this country was represented in the Aso Villa, so when you want to do government business because sometimes government business is done from

Video of #EndSARS: Lagos State Judicial Panel Viewing CCTV Footage Of Lekki Tollgate Shooting #EndSARS: Lagos State Judicial Panel Viewing CCTV Footage Of Lekki Tollgate Shooting WATCH LIVE #EndSARS News AddThis :  Featured Image :  Original Author :  Saharareporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/395F6uK via EDUPEDIA