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Saturday, 21 October 2017 04:54

How Buhari govt secretly recalled wanted ex-pension boss sacked for alleged corruption

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has secretly reinstated fugitive former chairman of Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, into the civil service. Multiple sources confirmed that Mr. Maina, who is wanted by anti-graft agency, EFCC, was secretly recalled and promoted to the position of director in charge of Human Resources in the Ministry of Interior. Before his appointment to chair the pension task force, Mr. Maina was an assistant director in the ministry. The news of the reinstatement first filtered through a congratulatory message for Mr. Maina by a group called League of Civil Society Organisations which commended…

Saturday, 21 October 2017 04:50

Pollution kills 9 million a year, costs $4.6 trillion - Report

Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 - about 9 million - could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released Thursday in the Lancet medical journal. The financial cost from pollution-related death, sickness and welfare is equally massive, the report says, costing some $4.6 trillion in annual losses - or about…

Saturday, 21 October 2017 04:49

Nigeria has fifth highest pollution deaths, mortality rates - Report

Increasing pollution worldwide is proving deadlier than war, natural disasters or smoking, according to a new report published in the Lancet medical journal. Based largely on 2015 data from the Global Burden of Disease, the report estimates that at least 9 million premature deaths were caused during the year by diseases from toxic exposure. While the highest death tolls were reported mostly in Asia, the highest rates of pollution-related mortality were seen in Africa. Here are the countries with the highest number of pollution-related deaths and the highest pollution-related mortality rates. 10 HIGHEST POLLUTION-RELATED DEATH TOLLS (PERCENT OF ALL DEATHS)…

Saturday, 21 October 2017 04:47

Nigeria has third highest infant mortality rate in the world – WHO

Nearly ten per cent of new-born deaths in the world last year occurred in Nigeria, a new report by United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has revealed. According to the report, five countries accounted for half of all new-born deaths last year, with Nigeria third on the list. These are India (24 per cent), Pakistan (10 per cent), Nigeria (9 per cent), Democratic Republic of the Congo (4 per cent) and Ethiopia (3 per cent). Most new-born deaths occurred in two regions: Southern Asia (39 per cent) and sub-Saharan Africa (38 per cent). The report showed that 15,000 children died globally…

Saturday, 21 October 2017 04:42

Oyedepo describes escape from third near plane crash

Mr David Oyedepo, presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, otherwise known as Winners’ Chapel, on Friday chronicled his escape from a recent incident that could have led to a crash of the plane that he was travelling in. Oyedepo was travelling from Cyprus to Israel in company with his wife and three other key members of the church. He described the incident in a written testimony read out to the congregation by a church member during a thanksgiving service at the Canaanland headquarters of the church in Ota, Ogun State. According to the testimony, it was the third potential…

Saturday, 21 October 2017 04:40

Labour unions react to FG’s move to implement ‘No Work, No Pay’ ‎during strikes

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)Labour officials have faulted the plan by the federal government to implement the ‘No work No pay” rule over workers’ strikes in Nigeria. Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, announced the plan after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council last week Wednesday, against the backdrop of a spate of strikes by industrial unions in the country. Speaking with State House correspondents, Mr. Ngige said Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation had on April 27, 2016 set up a technical committee on industrial relations matters in the federal public service, following a…

Friday, 20 October 2017 04:08

World Food Prize: We’re proud of you, Buhari tells AfDB president, Adesina

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday said Nigeria remains proud of its former Minister of Agriculture, Mr Akinwumi Adesina, for winning the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. Adesina, president of African Development Bank (AfDB), was yesterday presented the $250,000 prize and laureate sculpture at a ceremony at the Iowa State Capitol, United States. In a video message, the president said: “I received with delight the cheery news of your award as 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. Certainly this did not come to me and many Nigerians as a surprise, given your antecedents and contributions to the development of agriculture across the African…

Friday, 20 October 2017 03:43

Oyo civil servants to get housing loan in seven days - Commissioner

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Oyo State government on Thursday, said civil servants in the state will receive their housing loans in seven days, saying it is also partnering the Federal Government to provide low cost housing schemes of 720 units for the people of the state to complement the recently created GRAs. The State Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Survey, Mr. Ajiboye Omodewu, who made the disclosure while addressing journalists alongside his counterpart from the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun, also stated that the state government will not tolerate activities of land grabbers (Omo Onile) in the…

Friday, 20 October 2017 03:40

Ogun, Oyo, Osun delegates arrive Ibadan as Jehovah's witnesses launch three regional convention

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Thousands of delegates from Oyo, Ogun and Osun states in the ongoing regional convention of Jehovah's Witnesses have arrived Ibadan , Oyo state capital, for the third in the nine series of the annual gathering . The convention, themed "Don't Give Up!", starts on ‪Friday October 20th, 2017‬ at the Assembly Hall of Jehovah's witnesses Ifatumo village along Lalupon, Ejioku road, Ibadan. Spokesperson of the convention, Mr Olayinka Dada, in a statement issued on Thursday, said the three-day programme is divided into 52 parts and will be presented in a variety of formats, including brief discourses, interviews…

Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:53

After presiding over FEC meeting, Buhari departs for Turkey

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday left Nigeria for Istanbul, Turkey, to participate in the ninth Summit of the Developing 8 (D-8) Friday, October 20, 2017. Buhari departed the country after presiding over the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in the State House, Abuja. According to a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Tuesday, the president would ahead of the D-8 summit, visit Ankara, the capital city, acting on the invitation of Turkish President, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He also said the president would in Ankara “have a tete-a-tete with his Turkish counterpart while delegations from both countries will…

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Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:51

Kachikwu, Baru meet with Osinbajo

Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Ibe Kachikwu, and Group Managing Director, GMD, of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr Maikanti Baru, on Wednesday held a closed door meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in his office at the presidential Villa, Abuja. Kachikwu, who briefed State House correspondents after the meeting said it was held to discuss issues in the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. He said the meeting was necessitated by some information brought about by an International oil company, AGIP, regarding its operations in “Okpai, in terms of Zabazaba field, and in terms of the…

Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:48

Jonathan meets IBB in Minna

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, held a closed-door meeting with former Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida at his uphill residence in Minna. Jonathan reportedly drove to Minna in a GMC bullet proof SUV with registration number ABJ 961ER, with eight vehicles in his convoy and arrived at Babangida’s residence at about 10.00am. The meeting between the two leaders, which started few minutes after 10.00am, did not end until 12.14pm. Jonathan declined to give details of his visit to IBB, saying it was “private and personal.” When pressed further, Jonathan said he was in Minna to congratulate the former military leader…

Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:46

FG to commence pension payment of Biafran veterans

Pensions Transition Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, has disclosed plans to commence payment of pension benefits to soldiers, paramilitary officers and police officers dismissed as a result of their roles in the Nigerian civil war which lasted between 1967 and 1970. The agency said this on Wednesday via a press release signed by the spokesperson, Mr Ema Okondo. Okondo said those to be paid specifically are members of the military, Nigeria Police and paramilitary officers who fought alongside the Biafran secessionists and were dismissed from service as a result of this. “The dismissal of those officers was commuted to retirement in 2000…

Thursday, 19 October 2017 03:40

Zimbabwe First Lady sues in dispute over $1.35 million wedding anniversary ring

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace has sued a Belgium-based businessman for failing to deliver a $1.35 million (1 million pounds) ring she ordered for a wedding anniversary, state media reported on Wednesday. Grace, 52, an influential figure in Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party and seen as a potential successor to her husband, is nicknamed "Gucci Grace" for her reputed dedication to shopping. But she and her 93-year-old husband have kept their assets under wraps despite frequent local private media reports on Grace buying properties in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Herald, a government-controlled newspaper, reported that Grace was suing businessman…

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