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Nigeria: Electricity Firms Drag FG to Court over N1 trn Debt

8Mar

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Economy, Nigeria

Nigeria: Electricity Firms Drag FG to Court over N1 trn Debt

Accuse FG of unfair practices, refusal to pay for power generated Allege favouritism towards 2 coys in gas supply The power crisis in the country may worsen as the Power Generation Companies in Nigeria, GENCOs, have dragged the Federal Government before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, over alleged preferential treatment to two of its competitors with intent to harm their business interests. The GENCOs, which said members were on the verge of collapse over debts in excess of N1 trillion currently generate 80 per cent of the power consumed in Nigeria. They accused the Federal Government of giving preferential treatment to Azura Power West Africa Limited and Accugas Limited to the detriment of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry and the power sector as a whole. ...

Nigeria: Corruption getting worse in Nigeria – Transparency International

22Feb

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Corruption, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Corruption getting worse in Nigeria – Transparency International

Corruption is getting worse in Nigeria, according to the latest corruption perception index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) on Wednesday. While the country scored 27/100 and was ranked 136th in 2016, the latest CPI scores Nigeria 28/100 but with a rank of No. 148 out of 180 countries surveyed — a significant 12 places below where it was the previous year. This will come as a blow to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration who came into office on the strength of his anti-corruption credential. Although the administration has put many suspects on trial and seized assets of politicians and government officials, it has also been accused of condoning corrupt practices by top government officials. The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their p...

Nigeria: Shocker! Monkeys Swallow N70m Belonging to Northern Senators

22Feb

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Corruption, Crime, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Shocker! Monkeys Swallow N70m Belonging to Northern Senators

After a shocking confession of an official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, which claimed that a mysterious snake allegedly swallowed N36 million naira, from the Board’s vault, which she made from the sale of scratch cards, another N70m handed over to the Northern Senators Forum has been allegedly swallowed by monkeys in the farm of a ranking senator. This was revealed to newsmen by Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna) minutes after Senator Abdullahi Adamu was removed as the chairman of Northern Senators forum. Senator Adamu was accused of mismanaging N70 million belonging to the Northern Senators. Shehu Sani said it was alleged that some monkeys swallowed the money. He said the money was swallowed by the monkeys at the senator’s farm. Sen. Shehu Sani, told new...

Nigeria: My Husband Was ‘Trashed’ After APC Won 2015 polls – Remi Tinubu

20Feb

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: My Husband Was ‘Trashed’ After APC Won 2015 polls – Remi Tinubu

As the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, begins to reconcile warring sides in the ruling party, his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has decried that her husband was “trashed” after the party won the 2015 elections. President Muhammadu Buhari had mandated Tinubu to reconcile aggrieved party members ahead of the 2019 general elections, an assignment the former governor of Lagos State has since begun. But his wife, who is representing Lagos Central Senatorial District at the Senate, on Monday featured on Your View, a breakfast show of Television Continental, where she alleged that Tinubu was sidelined despite his efforts towards ensuring that APC won the polls. Mrs. Tinubu, who disclosed that she was forced to discourage her husband from his continu...

BREAKING: Kaduna Factional APC Office Demolished

20Feb

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Breaking News, News, Nigeria

BREAKING: Kaduna Factional APC Office Demolished

The factional office of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State led by Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi was on Tuesday demolished. Our correspondent learnt that the one-storey building on 11B Sambo Road, was pulled down amidst tight security about 5am. On Thursday, the factional APC, ‘APC Akida’ and the ‘Restoration APC’ unveiled the office, saying that they had to stay away from the headquarters of the party along Ali Akilu road to avoid the activities of thugs. Less than 24 hours after it was unveiled, the office was defaced with a red paint but the party officials moved on unperturbed as they used the facility on Sunday to announce the suspension of the state governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai for six months. However, on Monday, the suspension was overturned by the party executiv...

Nigeria: Give us justice, else no 2019 campaign, Ortom warns FG

19Feb

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Fulani Herdsmen, Justice, News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Nigeria: Give us justice, else no 2019 campaign, Ortom warns FG

The governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, has again called on the federal government to act fast in its bid to find lasting solution over herdsmen attack in the country, especially Benue. The governor equally threatened the federal government with the forthcoming 2019 election, noting that he has already stopped anything that has to do with politics till federal government stops herdsmen from killing his people. In an exclusive interview with ‘The Osasu Show’, the governor expressed dissatisfaction over federal government’s approach in treating the case. In his words, “It is as if the federal government has taken sides with Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association. Both the IG of police and defence ministers statements are testaments to what I am saying. “Though I don’t know t...

Nigeria: I was Almost Killed for Rejecting Underage Voters, Says ex-INEC Commissioner

19Feb

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: I was Almost Killed for Rejecting Underage Voters, Says ex-INEC Commissioner

A former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Lai Olurode, says he almost lost his life for refusing to allow underage voters to vote some years ago. He, therefore, called on the Federal Government to ensure that registration officers, who are mostly members of the National Youth Service Corps, were protected at all times. Olurode was the INEC National Commissioner for the South-West from 2010 to 2015. Olurode said this during an interview with one of our correspondents on Sunday while reacting to allegations of underage voting in the recently concluded local government election in Kano State. The former INEC commissioner said, “If the people can be enlightened, underage voting will reduce. There are certain areas of this country where e...

Nigeria: Southerners are Biased, Plotting to Split North – Prof Ango Abdullahi

18Feb

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Fulani Herdsmen, Nigeria, Security

Nigeria: Southerners are Biased, Plotting to Split North – Prof Ango Abdullahi

…Says cattle rearers are fighting back over injustice …Asks: What makes the kidnapping of Olu Falae so special? …‘Those who live in Lagos don’t know what is happening in Nigeria Professor Ango Abdullahi, a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, is the spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF). Abdullahi, in this interview, bares his mind on the controversy dogging the creation of state police and herdsmen, describing the claims linking herdsmen to killings in the Middle Belt as a political agenda to split the ‘monolithic North’. He deplores what he points out as injustice meted to herdsmen, accusing the southern part of Nigeria of bias against them. A national security meeting has reportedly accepted the creation of state policing as the way out of the insecur...

Football: Mane Fires in 3 as Liverpool Thrash Porto 5:0

15Feb

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Senegal, Sports

Football: Mane Fires in 3 as Liverpool Thrash Porto 5:0

Sadio Mane scored a brilliant treble as Liverpool romped to a 5-0 thrashing of Porto at the Estadio do Dragao on Wednesday to march towards the Champions League quarter-finals. Mane fired the away side ahead in the first leg of the last-16 clash, before Mohamed Salah’s audacious finish for his 30th goal of the season quickly made it two. The Senegalese forward slotted in his second as Liverpool completely outclassed their opponents, with Roberto Firmino adding his name to the scoresheet with 20 minutes to play, before Mane’s searing strike completed his first European hat-trick. “It was important to play as a team and we did, we played great football from the beginning,” Mane told BT Sport. “We created so many chances and we scored five. It was well deserved.” Playing in the...

Nigeria: Amendment of Electoral Act Targeted At President Buhari – Dissenting Members of the NASS

15Feb

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Nigeria

Nigeria: Amendment of Electoral Act Targeted At President Buhari – Dissenting Members of the NASS

The perception out there is that this Section 25 was included to target Mr. President - Omo-Agege The adoption of the report by the Senate and the House of Representatives Conference Committee on the Amendment to the Electoral Act caused division in the ranks of the All Progressives Congress caucus in the upper chamber of the National Assembly on Wednesday. According to the report, the sequence of the elections will commence with National Assembly, to be followed by governorship and State Houses of Assembly, while presidential poll will come last. Trouble started when the Chairman of the Conference Committee, who is also Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, Senator Suleiman Nazif, presented the report at the plenary on Wednesday. Af...