Hyacinth Chinweuba Human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to release 40 suspects currently being detained by the Nigerian Navy. Falana in a letter to the President said the suspects have been held incommunicado by the Navy for about eight months. He said this was wrong, arguing that what the Navy needed to do was to charge the suspects to court. He urged the President to order the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas to release the eight suspects or charge them to court without delay. He argued that the suspects are…
Author: Orientalnews Staff
Hyacinth Chinweuba The Nigeria Customs Service has sent a total number of 929 bags of impounded foreign parboiled rice, 30 cartons of Spaghetti and 307 bales of clothing to the Bauchi State Government, to support feeding of people at various Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) home across the country. According to a released report from the Bauchi/Gombe Command, the Area Comptroller in charge, Comptroller Kalla Hamis, made this disclosure recently in the Command. Speaking further to buttress his efforts, Kallah said that the decision was based on the directive issued from the Customs Headquarters in Abuja to ensure the released items…
Joseph Bakare The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohamed, has conveyed federal government decision announcing May 29 and June 12 as public holidays to mark the transition to a new government and Democracy Day respectively. Mohammed said that most of the activities formerly performed on May 29 as Democracy Day have been moved to June 12 and that the events slated for May 29, would be low key, and that world leaders will only attend the June 12 events. Until June 6, 2018, the Democracy Day was held annually on May 29, the day the military handed over power…
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has raised objections on the new guidelines for the accreditation of media organisations and journalists covering the National Assembly The guidelines issued by authorities of the National Assembly (NASS) are due to become effective from June 11 2019. The Guild slammed them as primitive, undemocratic and blatantly anti-press and anti-people. Most contentious of the guideline is the demand for the two-year income tax papers of a media organisation wishing to be accredited for coverage. Other requirements include “presentation of evidence of certificate of incorporation of the media organisation, evidence of membership of…
Yemisi Izuora Incessant power outage and inadequate water supply is gradually dragging activities of government in Anambra state to a halt. The unpleasant situation has forced the government to begin to think outside the box to tackle the issues that have consistently slowed down pace of implementation of government policies by civil servants. Government workers at the Jerome Udoji Secretariat Complex, Awka have been making appeals to Government for provision of these essential utilities. Briefing newsmen in his office on the development, Victor Meju, a senior special assistant to the governor on Public Utilities, said government would soon provide functional water…
Yemisi Izuora One Oluwaseun Adegoke, a 24 year old teacher who allegedly sent West Africa Examination Council answer booklet on the internet to a student, on Monday, appeared in Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The police charged Adegoke, who live in Orile-Agege, Lagos for unlawfully assisting a candidate in the course of an examination. The Police Prosecutor, Insp Innocent Odugbo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on May 17 at a private school in Agege, Lagos. He said that the defendant scanned a WAEC answer booklet of a student while the examination was still on and sent…
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has received a “Rotary Outstanding Invaluable Company Award” from Rotary International District 9110, Nigeria, one of the 535 Districts that make up Rotary International worldwide and it comprises over 100 Rotary Clubs with over 3000 professional men and women as members. In a notification letter signed by its District Governor, Mr. Kola Sodipo Rotary said the award was bestowed on NSE based on its “impactful Corporate Social Responsibility projects in the areas of Education, Health, Economic and Youth Empowerment, and Environment, amongst others, which Rotary considers invaluable in the service to humanity. The…
Yemisi Izuora Nigeria’s insurance industry regulator, the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has given June 30, 2020, as deadline for operating insurance firms to comply with its new minimum paid-up share capital. The regulator in a released information stipulated an increase in the minimum paid-up share Capital Requirements for Insurance and Re-insurance companies, with the deadline but did not recommend sanctions for default. The NAICOM, through a circular with No. NAICOM/DPR/CIR/25/2019 signed by the Director, Policy And Regulation Directorate, NAICOM, Mr Pius Agboola, said “In the exercise of the powers conferred on the commission by the enabling laws, the minimum paid…
Yemisi Izuora The International Air Transport Association (IATA), has recertified the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc, SAHCO, Corporate Headquarters, Lagos and Abuja stations. The recertification was issued to SAHCO after it passed the IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO) standards audit conducted on the company after the expiration of the previous certification. By this recertification, it means that SAHCO PLC has continued to model its operations in Lagos and Abuja to ISAGO standards, as a result making a commitment to continue to operate to globally accepted industry best practices. The Audits cuts across Load control, Passenger and Baggage Handling,…