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The Opu-Nembe Surveillance Contractors have dragged the Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company to a Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Nembe over alleged breach of contracts. The matter was separately registered in suit numbers NHC/1/2020 to NHC/12/2020 chronologically. The claimants, Mr Nicholas Ebiye, Johnson Theophilus and 10 others filed the suit over an alleged injustice and malicious punishment meted out against the Opu-Nembe Surveillance Contractors by Aiteo. According to the information gathered by SaharaReporters, in 2015, Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company Limited awarded contracts to the Opu-Nembe Surveillance Contractors for surveillance of its facilities within OML 29 with terms and conditions stated in the Contracts. The Surveillance Contractors reportedly duly mobilised to site in the said year and discharged the surveillance activities from that period till date, except for three (3) contractors that were given Notice of Termination o

Boko Haram terrorists on Saturday abducted a worker of the United Nations, Garba Idris, along the Damaturu-Maiduguri road, in Borno State. The insurgents attacked some commuters near Matari village between Minok to Jakana road around 8:30am. The Boko Haram fighters held Idris, aka Alooma, a Senior Protection Assistant with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The terrorists ambushed vehicles conveying commuters near Matari village between Minok to Jakana highway. A source said the terrorists, clad in military uniform, mounted a roadblock with three Hilux pickup trucks and motorcycles. “Witnesses said while searching the passengers, Idris attempted to throw away his Identity card but one of the insurgents sighted him. He was then asked to step down from the vehicle along with two others. The rest were allowed to continue the journey. “The other two passengers were later released on the ground that they are very poor people and of no use”, the source disclosed. Unconfirme

Aisha Yesufu Human rights activist and co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, has lambasted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, saying the country belongs to everyone and no one should be arrested for protesting peacefully.   Yesufu noted that human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, who was arrested on December 31 during a crossover protest in Abuja, has a right to protest every day if the government also continues to be “incompetent, clueless, corrupt and inept.” Aisha Yesufu Yesufu wrote on Twitter, “Nigeria belongs to all of us. The right Buhari @MBuhari has to be an incompetent, clueless, corrupt, inept and a failed President without being arrested is the right Omoyele Sowore @YeleSowore has to protest every day. No Nigerian is more Nigerian than any Nigerian #FreeSowore.”  Nigeria belongs to all of us. The right Buhari @MBuhari has to be an incompetent, clueless, corrupt, inept and a failed President without being arrested is the right

A human rights group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, has demanded that human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and his colleagues be released from police custody. The HEDA Resource Centre, in a release on Sunday, stated that the group would renew its campaign to embarrass the government if it continues to keep Sowore in custody over trumped-up treason charges. See Also ACTIVISM Arrest, Assault on Sowore, Others Confirm #EndSARS Protest Demands Not Met—Group 0 Comments 16 Hours Ago HEDA, in a statement by its Chairman, Mr Olanrewaju Suraju, said the arrest of Sowore on New Year’s Eve was an ill-thought action that was uncalled for. The group said, “The police authorities have been asked to release Mr Omoyele Sowore without delay. “The police arrested Sowore on December 31 while he was leading a political vigil organised against corruption and bad governance. Sowore ought to have been granted bail by the police but instead, he was kept behind bars and compe

COVID-19 Test Five persons reportedly died of COVID-19 complications in Oyo State on Saturday, SaharaReporters gathered.  The figure was part of the latest data released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Saturday night. COVID-19 Test Google Oyo, the fifth most affected state by the virus in Nigeria, with 3,994 cases now has a death toll of 51. According to PM news, Kano also recorded two deaths on Saturday, taking its death toll to 68. In southeastern state of Anambra, one person also died of the virus, which pushed the death toll in the state to 20. Overall, Nigeria’s death toll is now 1,302, from 1,294 on Friday.   PUBLIC HEALTH News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/355vI7q via EDUPEDIA