EDUPEDIA247

A South-East group, Igbo Board of Deputies, has filed a suit at an Abuja High Court, against the Nigerian government and China Exim Bank for depriving the five Igbo states of capital projects to be funded from a $22.7 billion loan. The application is asking the China Exim Bank to suspend loan disbursements to the Nigerian government until an amendment is done to include the region in the projects. This was contained in a statement made available to SaharaReporters by the plaintiffs on Wednesday. A letter had earlier been written to the Chinese bank in Johannesburg on March 11, 2020, for its involvement in collaborating with the Nigerian government to exclude the South-East from capital projects funded by the loan. One of the petitioners, Austin Okeke, disclosed that the group has also petitioned the Economic Community of West African States Court. “Be pleased to note that our court action against the Government of Nigeria, China Exim Bank et al. will be coming up on Decembe...

Cybercrime detectives of the Hyderabad Commission have arrested a Nigerian, identified as Morgan, who defrauded a pastor of over Rs 24 lakh (N12million) by posing as a Canadian philanthropist, wishing to donate money and masks for pandemic-affected poor of the city. According to the Times of India, the Nigerian was residing in Bangalore. Google/cybercrime The police explained that Morgan befriended Pastor Moses of Banjara Hills through a social networking platform by posing as a Canadian philanthropist. The police said, “Morgan told Pastor Moses that he was upset about the poor, who were worst affected by the pandemic.  Morgan told Moses that he donates money for charity and expressed his willingness to send some cash to Moses along with other items like sanitisers, masks and laptops to distribute among the poor,” cybercrime Assistant of Commissioner of Police KVM Prasad, said. “After Moses agreed to distribute the items, he received a phone call from a woman, who pose...

The Ogun State Police Command on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old herbalist, Misipode Dosu, for allegedly killing a hotelier, Jimoh Bello. In a statement on Thursday, the command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the herbalist was arrested after several months of thorough investigations into the case.  The deceased, who was said to be the owner of J.B hotel in the Owode-Yewa area of the state, was found dead in the boot of his car on May 29 by men of the Idiroko divisional headquarters.  According to the police, Dosu, during interrogation revealed that the deceased had come to him for money ritual and paid N250,000 out of the N300,000 price he gave him to carry out the exercise.  The herbalist, however, said after some time, the deceased started disturbing him that he had not seen any result of the money ritual he paid for. He added that since he was not able to deliver, he had to kill the hotelier by giving him some concoction to cover his tracks. Dosu w...

Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari was advised on Thursday by the minority caucus in the House of Representatives to disregard the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and appear before the House as soon as possible. The caucus, in a statement signed by the minority leader, Ndudi Elumelu, criticised the statement by the AGF that the National Assembly lacks constitutional powers to summon the president to address it on the deteriorating insecurity and killings. He said the claim by the Attorney General was unlawful and reckless.  “We as lawmakers, therefore, urge President Buhari not to allow officials like Abubakar Malami to ridicule his office and further alienate him from Nigerians.  “Mr President, having agreed to appear before the House and given that the constitution backs the invitation, should take steps to honour the invitation and not allow himself to be distracted by persons who have demonstrated that they do...

Ibrahim Magu The use of raw power to settle personal scores against ones perceived enemies, is a dastardly but palpable contemporary political reality. Our own nation’s political landscape has not been devoid of this aberrant behavior. Even though, our democratic dispensation is still in its infancy, yet it could be seen as being fully replete with these clearly very unpleasant but ubiquitous phenomenon.  Just when broad sections of our country are savoring the constitutional order and the rule of law which were being ushered by the dawn of democracy in our great nation, a very hard to bear devastating blow was dealt to these delightful longings through the open display of raw power by the well connected powerful government officials, some of whom, are known to be occupying top echelon in the nation’s federal Cabinet.  At this stage, allow me to take your restive minds back to the well orchestrated, dare-devil and commando-styled but widely reported arrest of the emba...

The Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, berated  President Muhammadu Buhari, over his failure to secure lives and property in the country in the last five years. According to PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, Buhari has nothing to tell Nigerians, and that could be responsible for his reported boycott of a joint National Assembly sitting today. “Mr President is afraid of the obvious; he knows he has nothing to tell Nigerians on the security situation in the country. That is why he is running from the National Assembly. He also failed in every area of governance including security,” Ologbondiyan stated on Thursday. The spokesperson of the opposition party also said there was no plan by the PDP caucus in the House of Representatives to embarrass the President at the sitting today. “There is no plan of any sort by any member of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to embarrass Mr President. Mr President is...

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Yusuf Tukur Buratai. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, has cancelled invitations to his son, Hamisu Tukur Buratai’s wedding after a senior military officer tested positive for COVID-19 at the ongoing Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference in Abuja. Hamisu is expected to get married on Friday, December 11, 2020. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt General Yusuf Tukur Buratai. Sagir Musa, Acting Director, Army Public Relations, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Musa also announced the cancellation of the remaining activities of the conference and urged all the participants to immediately proceed on self-isolation in line with the Nigerian government’s protocol for COVID-19 and to prevent any further spread of the disease. The statement reads, “This is to inform your excellencies, your royal highnesses, distinguished senators, honourable members, respected elders, friends, brothers, sisters and other invited guests...

A former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, on Thursday, collapsed in the dock during the resumed hearing in his N2bn money laundering trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The Thursday’s sitting was scheduled for the hearing of the defendant’s no-case submission, following the close of the prosecution’s case with nine witnesses earlier on Wednesday. Twitter/#Maina The defence lawyer, Anayo Adibe, was briefing the judge, Justice Okon Abang, that his team had yet to receive the records of proceedings requested from the court’s registry when a loud thud of Maina’s fall drew attention to the dock. Prison officials immediately rushed to him to attend to him. Justice Abang said the court would rise for about five minutes, Punch reports. Corruption Politics Scandal Breaking News News AddThis :  Featured Image :  Original Author :  Saharareporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of human rights activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, till tomorrow, Friday 11, 2020 as the trial judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, was said to be indisposed. The court registrars told the activists to come back on Friday.  A  crowd of Sowore’s supporters had earlier thronged the court in solidarity chanting ‘Free Sowore’ songs. Armed mobile police officers were earlier deployed to the court premises to maintain law order. ACTIVISM Human Rights News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2IziBDl via EDUPEDIA

The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide (also known as Winners Chapel), David Oyedepo, has stated that COVID-19 is not real but rather a lie from the pit of hell. He made this assertion during a sermon on the second day of this year’s Shiloh, an annual gathering of members of the Living Faith Church held in December. The Bishop told his congregation that they only fell victims to what they feared.  He said, “We were making progress; instead of blaming COVID-19, we started planting churches, so COVID-19 was tired and (got) parked away. We made a nonsense of the COVID-19 here. I have zero regards for it; it is a lie from the pit of hell.” He said that the so-called symptoms of COVID-19 were everyday symptoms, hence cases classified as COVID-19 cases were unreal.  He said, “Somebody has a temperature and then (they say) he has COVID-19. Everybody here has a temperature. You can’t be in the tropics and not have a temperature.  “I have never seen...

Some officers of the Federal Fire Service In Kaduna State have cried out against embezzlement of their allowances during the COVID-19 lockdown as well as illegal and preferential postings in the service. Some of the officers, who spoke to SaharaReporters, lamented that the injustice was being perpetrated by some few corrupt senior officials in the Kaduna State office. It was learnt that the latest episode was the sudden and inconsiderate “deployment” of about 33 of them to Sokoto State without payment of their outstanding allowances or relocation costs. One of the affected officers told SaharaReporters that he had just been transferred to Kaduna State in March, and was now penned for another transfer to Sokoto, despite the rule in the service that transfers are to be done until after three years.  The absurd transfer came barely two months after the officers of the Federal Fire Service complained of the nonpayment of their salaries and allowances. In the transfer docume...

The Nigerian government has stated that a total of 38,051 foreigners applied for the country’s citizenship from September 2018 to October 2020. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, disclosed this at the 4th Quarter 2020 Public-Private Partnership Units’ Consultative Forum of all Ministries, Departments and Agencies hosted by the Ministry of Interior. He said the ministry recorded a total of 45,751 business application and 38,051 citizenship applications from September 2018 to October 2020, which led to an improvement in income generation for government by the ministry.  Belgore at the event called on the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, to consider professionalisation of the Public-Private Partnership Unit in all Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government. He said that the call for professionalising the PPP Units in all MDAs had become necessary, especially with the in...

The Nigeria Police Force has again deployed armed personnel to the premises of the Federal High Court, Abuja, as the trial of human rights activists, Omoyele Sowore, and Olawale Bakare resumed today.  About 200 anti-riot policemen, seven Hilux vehicles and a water cannon truck have been stationed near the main gate of the court ahead of the trial.  It was learnt that this massive deployment was done to intimidate the activists’ supporters and friends who would be attending the trial.  Some of Sowore’s friends and supporters have already pledged to be in the court in solidarity with the activists. Justice Ijeoma Ojuku had on October 21, 2020, refused to grant the application by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), seeking the revocation of the bail granted to the activists. #EndSARS ACTIVISM Human Rights Legal News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24...