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Friday, 27 January 2017 16:39

Men more corrupt than women – Magu

Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has said that corrupt tendencies were more pronounced among males than females. “Looking at the number of people that have been apprehended by the commission, the number of men involved outnumbers the women", Magu said on Friday, in Abuja, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Magu made the statement when the executive committee of the National Council of Women Society (NCWS), paid him a courtesy visit. He said, however, that women were not pure or immune to greed, but that were only less corrupt. Magu described women as…

Friday, 27 January 2017 16:37

LAUTECH management, students resume as lecturers continue strike

Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) have resumed for studies after a directive by the university management. The school was closed in June last year as lecturers went on strike to demand payment of their salaries. In a circular earlier distributed by management of LAUTECH and signed by Jacob Agboola, the school asked all academic and non-academic staff to resume on Friday. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported that lecturers had vowed not to resume Friday even when students resume. By Friday morning, most lecturers did not resume. Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, chairman of ASUU, LAUTECH Chapter, Biodun Olaniran,…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:24

NLC asks Buhari to speak to Nigerians; no, not necessary, says TUC

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak to Nigerians. NLC argued that it would be proper for the President to make a public appearance to dispel rumours in the country about his health. General Secretary of NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, told one of our correspondents on Thursday that the President should speak to Nigerians since Nigerians were worried about his health. He said the President should call the bluff of those peddling orchestrated rumours by publicly addressing the citizenry. Ozo-Eson said, “In the social media, stories circulate without confirmation; I think that the easiest way…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:22

Nobody will compel Buhari to speak amid health ‘rumours’ – Presidency

President Muhammadu Buhari is neither ill nor admitted in any hospital in London as being speculated, his spokesperson, Mr Femi Adesina, said Thursday. Adesina, who is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the president, said this in a live interview programme on CNBC Africa. “The president is in London on vacation. He is not in any hospital and he is not ill. “When he was travelling last week the statement we put out was that he was going on vacation and during the vacation he would do routine medical check-up and nothing has changed from what we put out…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:20

N166bn Contract Mess: 10 Questions For Minister Fashola - Premium Times

On Wednesday, we ran a story on the query the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP) sent the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over the award of 10 road and bridge contracts worth N166 billion. The BPP said the minister and his ministry violated the laws guiding contract awards in Nigeria in the manner they selected contractors for the projects. The procurement agency also asked Mr. Fashola to explain, among other things, why the costs of some of the projects were inflated and why some were awarded to unqualified firms. The construction of the roads and bridges, spread…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:18

Nigerian literary icon Buchi Emecheta dies at 72

Nigerian author, Buchi Emecheta, whose works included The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price, has died at her home in London at the age of 72, the BBC reported yesterday. Emecheta’s books were on the national curricula of several African countries. The author of more than 20 books was known for championing women and girls in her writing, though famously rejected description as a feminist. “I work toward the liberation of women but I’m not feminist. I’m just a woman,” she said. The topics she covered in her writing included child marriage, life as a single mother,…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:15

House of Reps condemns ‘growing impunity’ of SSS, begins probe

Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously adopted a motion to urgently check growing cases of rights abuses and acts of impunity by the State Security Service. The decision came on the heels of numerous disobedience of court rulings by the domestic intelligence office. The agency has flouted several court orders for the release of detainees since 2015. It has continued to detain a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, despite bails granted by courts. Asides the two, several Nigerians, including journalists, are widely believed to be…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:14

Ohanaeze to FG: We won't accept massacre of Igbo

Apex Igbo body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has told the Federal Government that leaders of the South-East would no longer fold their hands while security agencies kill and incarcerate their youths. It charged the Federal Government to set up an independent judicial inquiry to look into the alleged killing of some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) by security operatives in Port Harcourt. Ohanaeze, in a statement by its President General, Chief John Nwodo, raised four issues, which the inquiry should determine. They are: Was the IPOB demonstration an unlawful assembly? Did IPOB require a police permit to demonstrate? Was…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:08

Shell wins court ruling on Nigerian pollution claims

Royal Dutch Shell won a court victory in London on Thursday that forces a group of Nigerian farmers and fishermen to rely on Nigeria's justice system to hear their claims that the oil company polluted their land and water. The High Court found that Shell's parent company, which is incorporated in Britain, wasn't legally responsible. Claims against its subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, should, therefore, not be heard in the U.K. courts. "The court rightly decided these claims should be dealt with by the Nigerian courts and confirmed longstanding principles of corporate law, which are critically important for…

Friday, 27 January 2017 03:06

Court orders temporary forfeiture of Shell, Eni oilfield in corruption probe

An Abuja court has ordered the temporary forfeiture of assets and the transfer of operations of a long-disputed oilfield owned by Shell and Eni, among others, to the federal government, court papers showed. The court orders will last until Nigeria's anti-corruption agency concludes an investigation into how the current owners acquired oil prospecting licence (OPL) 245, according to the papers released on Thursday. This is the latest of many inquiries, including by Dutch and Italian authorities, into the 2011 purchase of the OPL 245 block which could hold up to 9.23 billion barrels of oil, according to industry figures. "We…

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Friday, 27 January 2017 02:59

Reps seek open coverage of court proceedings

A bill seeking to provide for open coverage of court proceedings with a view to making the Judiciary more transparent and accountable passed through second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill sponsored by Hon. Daniel Reyneiju (PDP-Delta) is titled, “A Bill for an Act to provide for media coverage of court proceedings and for other related matters’’. Leading debate on the general principles of the bill, Reyneiju said that the judiciary as an arm of government should be covered by the media which mirrors the society. He observed that of all issues handled by the law courts, the…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:43

APC summons Senator Shehu Sani over comments on Buhari, SGF Lawal

All Progressives Congress (APC) has written to the Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani to come and explain his utterances regarding the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari. The party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun drafted a letter yesterday evening to be sent to the senator inviting him to the party’s office in Abuja to discuss his criticism of the president’s handling of the allegations of corruption levelled against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal. Senator Sani had thrown a tirade on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday accusing the…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:18

FG threatens to deal with subversive rumour mongers on Buhari’s health

The Federal Government says the full wrath of the law will be brought to bear on the authors of subversive messages being circulated on the health of President Muhammadu Buhari. The government said this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed. “The source/sources of the fabricated messages are already being investigated and the authors should prepare to face the consequences of their actions,’’ the minister said. According to Mohammed, the President is hale and hearty and there is no iota of truth in the subversive messages being circulated on his…

Thursday, 26 January 2017 03:17

Inflation rate becoming unbearable, says Tinubu

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged the Federal Government to bring Nigeria out of the throes of recession by urgently reviewing its monetary policies. Tinubu spoke on Wednesday as a guest lecturer at the National Defence College Course 25 lecture, titled, “Strategic Leadership: My Political Experiences.” He argued that Nigeria’s current inflation rate of 18 per cent was unbearable and Nigerians were suffering for it. The APC chieftain, who urged the Federal Government to “stimulate this economy,” said the decline of oil prices seemed to be a long-term phenomenon and strategic objectives must be…

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