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Reports say that a former basketballer with the Nigerian national basketball team, D'Tigers, Chinedu Onyeku, was shot dead in a failed burglary in that happened in Texas, USA on November 21, 2012.
Ex-Nigerian Basketballer, Chinedu Onyeku Shot Dead In Alleged US Burglary
Pregnant Nollywood Actress Beaten To Death By Lover
Report reaching Nigeriafilms.com confirms that one of the up and coming Yoruba actresses, Silifa Ladeji otherwise known as Silifonia, has bled to death after her lover severally physically assaulted her, which led to her death today.
A close pal of Silifonia, who is also an actress, divulged to Nigeriafilms.com that Silifonia's boyfriend, who she is pregnant for, was in the habit of beating the late actress.
We promise to give you more details of her death as our source is presently in shock of the death of her close pal.
A close pal of Silifonia, who is also an actress, divulged to Nigeriafilms.com that Silifonia's boyfriend, who she is pregnant for, was in the habit of beating the late actress.
We promise to give you more details of her death as our source is presently in shock of the death of her close pal.
NAFDAC destroys N20m stockfish in Aba
The NAFDAC on Friday destroyed stockfish worth N20 million in Aba, Abia.
Mr Emeka Onwuasoanya, the agency's Assistant Chief Regulatory Officer at the Aba Special Zone, said in Aba that the stockfish was mopped up from two containers.
Onwuasoanya said the 500 bags of stockfish were discovered to be spoilt following their exposure to rain while in transit.
He said the inspection was done with the cooperation of the importer, adding that the loss would have been avoided but for some lapses.
Onwuasoanya, however, commended the importer for giving the agency the required support during the inspection.
"It is true the company lost huge sum of money, but the destruction was inevitable to avoid being consumed by unsuspecting buyers,'' he said.
Mrs Emmanuela Okorie, the Managing Director of KC Nnodim and Sons Ltd., the importer of the goods, said the stockfish, imported from Norway, got bad through leakage of containers while on the sea.
"We imported the goods from Norway and during off-loading, we discovered that most of them were damaged,'' she said.
She said the problem was normal in such business, but the loss in the present transaction was enormous.
Okorie said she lost 90 per cent of the goods with the money borrowed from banks, adding that there was no insurance cover to recover the amount.
She said most insurance companies shied away from the business because of the carelessness of shipping companies.
"I really felt bad, particularly in this very one, where I lost 90 per cent of the goods to water leakages,'' she said.
(NAN)
Mr Emeka Onwuasoanya, the agency's Assistant Chief Regulatory Officer at the Aba Special Zone, said in Aba that the stockfish was mopped up from two containers.
Onwuasoanya said the 500 bags of stockfish were discovered to be spoilt following their exposure to rain while in transit.
He said the inspection was done with the cooperation of the importer, adding that the loss would have been avoided but for some lapses.
Onwuasoanya, however, commended the importer for giving the agency the required support during the inspection.
"It is true the company lost huge sum of money, but the destruction was inevitable to avoid being consumed by unsuspecting buyers,'' he said.
Mrs Emmanuela Okorie, the Managing Director of KC Nnodim and Sons Ltd., the importer of the goods, said the stockfish, imported from Norway, got bad through leakage of containers while on the sea.
"We imported the goods from Norway and during off-loading, we discovered that most of them were damaged,'' she said.
She said the problem was normal in such business, but the loss in the present transaction was enormous.
Okorie said she lost 90 per cent of the goods with the money borrowed from banks, adding that there was no insurance cover to recover the amount.
She said most insurance companies shied away from the business because of the carelessness of shipping companies.
"I really felt bad, particularly in this very one, where I lost 90 per cent of the goods to water leakages,'' she said.
(NAN)
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Barely four days after a deadly attack on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS) office in Abuja, soldiers yesterday stormed suspected “cells” and hideouts of suspected members of Boko Haram in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Boko Haram: 20 arrested as soldiers raid hideouts in Abuja
Barely four days after a deadly attack on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS) office in Abuja, soldiers yesterday stormed suspected “cells” and hideouts of suspected members of Boko Haram in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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Few weeks after they were flown to Germany to meet their principal and continue proper medical attention, two of the three aids to Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State returned, Thursday.
Plane Crash: Two Of Governor Suntai's Aides Return from German Hospital
Few weeks after they were flown to Germany to meet their principal and continue proper medical attention, two of the three aids to Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State returned, Thursday.
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The Osun State Government has approved a N10,000 monthly allowance for the elderly, under its social security scheme tagged: “Agba Osun”.
The Special Adviser to Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Special Needs, Mr. Biyi Odunlade, told reporters yesterday that 1,343 of the1,602 beneficiaries have received their first two allowances.
He said the remaining are yet to show up for the payment.
Osun State to give out N10,000 monthly allowance for the elderly
The Special Adviser to Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Special Needs, Mr. Biyi Odunlade, told reporters yesterday that 1,343 of the1,602 beneficiaries have received their first two allowances.
He said the remaining are yet to show up for the payment.
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Reps probe Orubebe’s multi-billion naira mansion
The House of Representatives on Thursday ordered an investigation into a “multi-billion naria” mansion said to belong to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe.
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The Federal Executive Council, yesterday, approved the construction of a new banquet hall in the Presidential Villa for the sum of N2.2 billion.
The approval is part of the final set of N19.4 billion contracts for this year covering road construction, rail transportation and infrastructural development in the Federal Capital Territory.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, who briefed State House correspondents after the meeting, said the new banquet hall would have a capacity of 150 seats.
He said subsequent Federal Executive Council meetings would be devoted to reviewing what had been achieved by government in the last one year.
Dr Abati, who stood in for the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said aside from the roads, rail and other contracts, the council also approved the award of contract for the conduct of fiscal allocation and statutory disbursement audit for 2007 to 2011 as well as oil and gas industry audit.
He said the approval was in conformity with section 2 of the NEITI Act 2007.
He said: "The objective of this initiative is to ensure transparency and accountability in the application of resources from payments received from extractive industries and to further ensure that all fiscal allocations and statutory disbursements due from the Federal Government to statutory recipients were dully made."
Abati noted that the essence of the contract was to enable NEITI track extractive industry sector funds paid into the federation account as distributed and received by federal, state and local government areas.
He said there would also be special emphasis on the application, utilization of the funds, on beneficiaries of the 13 per cent derivation and relevant federal institutions that directly received allocations from the Federation Account.
FEC approves N2.2bn for the construction of a new banquet hall in the Presidential Villa
The Federal Executive Council, yesterday, approved the construction of a new banquet hall in the Presidential Villa for the sum of N2.2 billion.
The approval is part of the final set of N19.4 billion contracts for this year covering road construction, rail transportation and infrastructural development in the Federal Capital Territory.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, who briefed State House correspondents after the meeting, said the new banquet hall would have a capacity of 150 seats.
He said subsequent Federal Executive Council meetings would be devoted to reviewing what had been achieved by government in the last one year.
Dr Abati, who stood in for the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said aside from the roads, rail and other contracts, the council also approved the award of contract for the conduct of fiscal allocation and statutory disbursement audit for 2007 to 2011 as well as oil and gas industry audit.
He said the approval was in conformity with section 2 of the NEITI Act 2007.
He said: "The objective of this initiative is to ensure transparency and accountability in the application of resources from payments received from extractive industries and to further ensure that all fiscal allocations and statutory disbursements due from the Federal Government to statutory recipients were dully made."
Abati noted that the essence of the contract was to enable NEITI track extractive industry sector funds paid into the federation account as distributed and received by federal, state and local government areas.
He said there would also be special emphasis on the application, utilization of the funds, on beneficiaries of the 13 per cent derivation and relevant federal institutions that directly received allocations from the Federation Account.
2 Children Died In JTF Custody In Maiduguri
Two brothers, Babagana Mustapha and Hassan Mustapha held by men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State have died while in their custody, father of the boys told a Maiduguri high court yesterday.
Two boys were arrested and detained since April this year by soldiers during house to house search in Shehuri north area of Maiduguri.
The father of the two brothers, Mustapha Bukar, had earlier filed a case of enforcement of fundamental human right at a Maiduguri high court over the detention of his children.
In the suit, which was brought before Maiduguri High Court 11, the Chief of Army Staff, Inspector General of Police and the Borno State commissioner of police, were joined as co-defendants.
In the case, which was filed by Barrister Babagana Shettima on behalf of the applicants, they want the court to declare that their continuous detention without arraignment before a competent law court is illegal and void.
Also in an affidavit to support the suit the father narrated how men of the Nigerian Army raided their home in Shehuri and arrested his children.
When the case came up for hearing yesterday, the father of the deceased through his counsel told the court that his children had died in custody of the military and sought for the case to be struck.
The presiding judge, Justice Alkali Wakil Gana, then struck out the case.
Counsel to the Chief of Army Staff said he agreed with the decision to strike out the case, saying however that the children did not die in the custody of JTF, which he said is not directly under him.
(DailyTrust)
Two boys were arrested and detained since April this year by soldiers during house to house search in Shehuri north area of Maiduguri.
The father of the two brothers, Mustapha Bukar, had earlier filed a case of enforcement of fundamental human right at a Maiduguri high court over the detention of his children.
In the suit, which was brought before Maiduguri High Court 11, the Chief of Army Staff, Inspector General of Police and the Borno State commissioner of police, were joined as co-defendants.
In the case, which was filed by Barrister Babagana Shettima on behalf of the applicants, they want the court to declare that their continuous detention without arraignment before a competent law court is illegal and void.
Also in an affidavit to support the suit the father narrated how men of the Nigerian Army raided their home in Shehuri and arrested his children.
When the case came up for hearing yesterday, the father of the deceased through his counsel told the court that his children had died in custody of the military and sought for the case to be struck.
The presiding judge, Justice Alkali Wakil Gana, then struck out the case.
Counsel to the Chief of Army Staff said he agreed with the decision to strike out the case, saying however that the children did not die in the custody of JTF, which he said is not directly under him.
(DailyTrust)
FG Stops Lagos State From Accessing World Bank Loan
Fashola Tackles FG over $600m World Bank Loan
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, Tuesday approached the House of Representatives Committee on Loans, Aids and Debts, seeking an intervention in an alleged attempt by the Federal Government to halt a $600m loan facility the state had with the World Bank.
Fashola who met with members of the House Committee on Loans, Aids and Debts, told the lawmakers that it was improper to halt a running loan facility, particularly when the loan had been factored into the 2013 budget proposal of the state.
We will sue Boko Haram at International Criminal Court- Oritsejafor
CAN says it considering taking Boko Haram to the International Criminal Court.
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, the umbrella body of tens of millions of Nigerian Christians, said on Wednesday that it is putting plans in place to press charges against the Islamic insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the International Criminal Court.
The President of the Association, Ayo Oritsejafor, stated this at the opening of the National Executive Council Meeting of the association in Awka, Anambra State.
"We at CAN are strongly considering pressing charges against the Boko Haram sect for crimes committed against Christians at the International Criminal Court and we will commence soon," Mr. Oritsejafor said.
The Christian leader also urged the Federal Government to pronounce the sect a foreign terrorist group.
"The Federal Government should designate the Boko Haram sect as a foreign terrorist group," Mr. Oritsejafor said.
"We will not encourage Christians to carry arms, but we have always called on Christians and the churches to defend and protect themselves," he said, adding that "The way the sect is succeeding in its attacks, it is obvious that it is not done yet."
Mr. Oritsejafor alleged that some churches in the north cannot get airtime on radio and television. He challenged governors of Northern States to take positive steps towards resolving the Boko Haram crisis.
"We call on the governors of the 19 northern states to come together and hold a meeting to know the fate of their people who are being killed in the north," he said.
The CAN president called on other governors to challenge their northern counterparts to end the crisis.
"Without the measures put in place by the southern governors, there will be reprisal attacks every day. So why shouldn't the northern governors put in the same measures?" Mr. Oritsejafor asked.
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The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, the umbrella body of tens of millions of Nigerian Christians, said on Wednesday that it is putting plans in place to press charges against the Islamic insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the International Criminal Court.
The President of the Association, Ayo Oritsejafor, stated this at the opening of the National Executive Council Meeting of the association in Awka, Anambra State.
"We at CAN are strongly considering pressing charges against the Boko Haram sect for crimes committed against Christians at the International Criminal Court and we will commence soon," Mr. Oritsejafor said.
The Christian leader also urged the Federal Government to pronounce the sect a foreign terrorist group.
"The Federal Government should designate the Boko Haram sect as a foreign terrorist group," Mr. Oritsejafor said.
"We will not encourage Christians to carry arms, but we have always called on Christians and the churches to defend and protect themselves," he said, adding that "The way the sect is succeeding in its attacks, it is obvious that it is not done yet."
Mr. Oritsejafor alleged that some churches in the north cannot get airtime on radio and television. He challenged governors of Northern States to take positive steps towards resolving the Boko Haram crisis.
"We call on the governors of the 19 northern states to come together and hold a meeting to know the fate of their people who are being killed in the north," he said.
The CAN president called on other governors to challenge their northern counterparts to end the crisis.
"Without the measures put in place by the southern governors, there will be reprisal attacks every day. So why shouldn't the northern governors put in the same measures?" Mr. Oritsejafor asked.
NAN
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The Nigerian Prison Service got a new name yesterday. It is now “The Nigerian Prisons and Correctional Service.”
This followed the third reading and passage of “A Bill for an Act to repeal the Prisons Act Cap. P29 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and enact the Nigerian Prisons and Correctional Service, to make comprehensive provisions for the administration of Prisons in Nigeria and for related purposes” by the Senate.
Nigerian Prison Service gets new name
The Nigerian Prison Service got a new name yesterday. It is now “The Nigerian Prisons and Correctional Service.”
This followed the third reading and passage of “A Bill for an Act to repeal the Prisons Act Cap. P29 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and enact the Nigerian Prisons and Correctional Service, to make comprehensive provisions for the administration of Prisons in Nigeria and for related purposes” by the Senate.
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PICTURES: Auchi Armed Robbery
Eyewitnesses said the robbers invaded Auchi through Wareke-Auchi road after dislodging a Nigerian Army checkpoint leading to Auchi township.
The armed robbers then proceeded to raze down the Auchi Police command after successfully robbing GT and Access banks in the town.
A bank manager from GT bank was kidnapped and later released. Two soldiers and several civilians including students of the Auchi Polytechnic were reportedly injured.
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