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CNP Sues Buhari, Saraki, Dogara over NDDC Board
The Concerned Ndokwa Patriots has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before the Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State over the exclusion of indigenes of Ndokwa from the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission.
The CNP urged the court to mandate the President to appoint an Ndokwa person into the board.
Joined in suit were the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubarkar Malami; President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and three others. Punch
FG Approves Four Oil Wells For Lagos
…To commence payment of 13% derivation fund to state
The Federal Government on Wednesday announced that four out of the five Aje Oil Wells have been approved for production of crude oil in Lagos.
The Chairman of the Indices and Disbursement Committee of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Alhaji Aliyu Mohammed, stated this when he led members of the Committee on a courtesy visit to Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, at the Lagos House, Ikeja. The Nation
PDP National Convention: Makarfi inaugurates National Executive
The National Caretaker Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has inaugurated the National Executive Committee of the party. This was made available to newsmen by the Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor, Electronic Media, and Simeon Nwakaudu.
Wike addresses members at PDP National Convention Performing the inauguration at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday , Senator Makarfi said that the National Executive Committee, NEC, include the Board : The PDP Governors, National Assembly Caucus , Board of Trustees, National Caucus, 36 State PDP chairmen and national officers of the Party. Vanguard
Budget Padding: Court Declines to Hear Jibrin’s Suit
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, declined to hear fundamental rights enforcement suit the erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Jibrin Abdulmumin, lodged before it.
Dogara and had approached the court, begging it to shield him from being arrested or interrogated over his allegation that Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara and three other lawmakers, surreptitiously padded the 2016 budget with about N40billion.
The plaintiff, through his team of lawyers led by Mohammed Abdulhamid and Chukwuma Nwachukwu, told the court that his colleagues were plotting to implicate and make him “a scapegoat” after he revealed how N40bn out of N100bn allocated to the entire National Assembly, was diverted. Vanguard
Doctor Arrested for Removing Patient’s Kidney
Adamawa Police Command has arrested a medical doctor, Hassan Yakubu, for allegedly removing a patient’s kidney.
Yakubu, who works in a private clinic in Yola, was alleged to have removed the only kidney of a 23- year-old Isah Hamma, who is now receiving medical attention at the Yola Federal Medical Centre.
The Adamawa Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Othman Abubakar, who confirmed the arrest to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Wednesday in Yola, said the doctor has been picked by the police. Guardian
‘Niger Delta Avengers Ready to Negotiate With FG’
The Niger Delta Avengers has agreed to hold talks with the Federal Government to resolve the lingering crisis in the Niger Delta region.
The spokesman for the Dialogue Group, Mr. Ballantyne Agiri, said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.
Agiri said that the NDA had constituted a contact and dialogue group to engage the Federal Government in meaningful dialogue as part of the initiatives to resolve the crisis.
He added that the group was determined to come out with results that would yield lasting peace, equity, justice and harmony among all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. Punch
Business News
Customs Reopens Lagos Warehouses As Exporters Lose Over N100m
After three days, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has finally reopened the export warehouses belonging to handling companies at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Daily Trust has learnt.
The facilities belonging to Nigeria Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO) and Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCOL) were reopened as some exporters estimated that about N100m would have been lost during the period.
Officials of NCS sealed the warehouses on Monday over a tip-off that Donkey skins were being hoarded in the facilities for illegal exportation. Daily Trust
Modular Plants Critical To Mining in Nigeria – Deloitte
Professional services firm, Akintola Williams Deloitte, has highlighted the need for the introduction of smaller, scalable and modular processing plants to develop the mining sector in Nigeria.
The firm, in a report entitled, ‘Modular plants: A solution to mining in Nigeria,’ said the sector might be on a road to recovery, given the attention being paid to it by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
According to the report, the plants are modular in that companies can include various modules that offer downstream processing to the level desired, and are scalable in that many small plants can be introduced, so that each runs in parallel. Punch