The Senate, Wednesday, excoriated president Muhammadu Buhari over his proceeded with the inability to consent to the Federal Audit Bill intended to reinforce and make the constant battle against debasement viable.

It would likewise be reviewed that the upper chamber first passed the said bill in 2018. The Federal Audit Service Bill tries to enable the country's office of the Auditor-General to consider responsible and punish government organizations and authorities who will not present their financial report for review.

Be that as it may, since it was passed and submitted to Buhari for consent in 2018, the President has, up to this point not consented or dismissed the bill.

A few legislators said Buhari's inability to sign the bill imperils measures went for improving budgetary straightforwardness and responsibility among government associations and authorities.

Like this, the Chairman, board of trustees on Public Accounts, Senator Matthew Uroghide has suggested that the bill be re-passed.

Likewise, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in his comments, said the bill would acquire responsibility and honor the funds of government and the battle against evil.

It was on this reason the bill was passed again for presidential consent, yet numerous legislators trust his inability to sign the bill into law will be a the difference with his acknowledged battle against debasement.

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The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Shippers Council, Mr. Hassan Bello said the new Ibadan Inland Dry Port venture, on 90 hectares of land breadth assigned by the Oyo state government, would cost $99,665,626.

He expressed this amid a visit to Governor Abiola Ajimobi in his office and a review of the rail line expected to be finished before the year's over alongside Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.

Bello included that the dry port will upgrade the country's freight dealing with limit and help decongest our seaports.

In his reaction, Ajimobi featured the advantages of the inland dry port task to incorporate commercial development, more openings for work and improved way of life of inhabitants of the state.

"The rail venture and in expansion, the Ibadan Inland Dry Port, for which we are here to complete a trade of letters and documentation today will go far to improve the economy and move self-awareness of individuals and organizations in Our State.

"We are glad this is occurring presently, we are a piece of this history, and we are appreciative to God for this.

"On the dread of traffic gridlock, I guarantee you that Ibadan will experience a gridlock of trade, and financial development and not that of thuggery and disharmony. We will work with the approaching organization to guarantee viable physical infrastructural contributions to keep away from traffic blockage," Ajimobi said.

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Seventy-Five alumni of University of Ibadan (UI) have been accepted into Pharmacy calling with the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka advising the inductees to be great envoys of the foundation.

The VC who had before introduced multimillion Naira recently fabricated Pharmacy Faculty where he guaranteed to keep on wisely spread the assets of the University in an evenhanded way, urged the new Pharmacists to have a beneficial outcome to the social insurance conveyance framework by adding to the circulation of value meds in the nation.

"As at today, this Faculty which turned out to be undeniable in 1983 has created almost 800 Pharmacists who are contributing colossally to the improvement of Nigeria and different countries of the world, either in the pharmaceutical, wellbeing or different segments. As of late, Mrs. Olutayo Arikawe, a graduated class of this University was named the Pharmacist of the Year in the United Kingdom", said the VC.

Prof. Olayinka who emphasized his promise to the improvement of UI expressed "my vision for UI is to make it an exploration concentrated organization for the change of Nigeria as a 21st century information-driven, quickly globalizing economy", including, "my central goal is to make a superior University with remarkable instructing and learning offices that are locally significant, broadly prevalent and comprehensively aggressive and to deliver graduates who are famously employable ."

He in this way called for help from the guardians, graduated class, and well-wishers to make UI less reliant on the government for financing.

Prior, the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Oluwatoyin Odeku had expressed gratitude toward the VC for committing assets to assemble the Faculty complex, asking the University's Management to finish the venture by getting furniture and other relevant offices.

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday responded to guarantee by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed that its 2019 presidential competitor, Atiku Abubakar was plotting to topple the President Muhammadu Buhari-drove Federal Government.

GISTOK had revealed that Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the 2019 version of the Annual Ramadan Lecture held at Oro, Kwara State, announced that the resistance were endeavoring to "switch" popular government.

Mohammed had said Atiku and the PDP were attempting to make Nigeria ungovernable with the expectation of ousting President Buhari.

He had made the charge at the 2019 release of the Annual Ramadan Lecture held at Oro, Kwara State.

Nonetheless, representative of PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan said the cases were indications of distress by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to clutch control.

Ologbondiyan claimed that APC was plotting to create allegations against the PDP and Atiku.

The announcement peruses: "most definitely, detestable that in their urgency to clutch control no matter what, President Buhari's handlers and the APC occupied with this tricky disinformation, web lies and smear crusades against PDP Presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar.

"It is likewise unforgivable that as opposed to owning up, the Federal Government and the APC, through the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, are looking to cover their tracks and redirect open consideration from their insidious demonstrations by making unverified security

"The Facebook disclosure uncovered how President Buhari, in his guaranteed respectability, permitted the enrolling of hoodlums, programmers and web fraudsters in the edgy endeavor to control the perspectives on Nigerians against Atiku Abubakar; a plan which bombed as Nigerians had effectively made up their brains to get rid of the awkward, beguiling, malignant and degenerate APC organization.

"Our gathering has data of how the APC needed to turn to unrefined control of the discretionary procedure to muscle cast a ballot and adjust race results after it flopped in the smear crusade venture.

"The APC has now initiated a recharged plot to participate in manufactured security allegations against the PDP and our Presidential competitor in another urgent trick to play the person in question and redirect consideration from its perpetual race controls, all in the disastrous endeavor to defame the PDP, dupe Nigerians and present authenticity on the result of the fixed race."

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The Ondo State Government has dispelled any confusion air on its arrangements to authorize Marijuana in the state.

Day by day POST reviews that Akeredolu had asked the Federal Government to shaft center into the therapeutic cannabis industry as parts of measures to expand the nation's economy.

Akeredolu said Ondo State, which is known for its rich land for the development of cannabis will utilize the Thailand's program, which he said is based on abusing the likelihood of restorative cannabis.

The representative has from that point forward gotten thumps and credit over the circumstance.

Shehu Sani begged Akeredolu to put the state's assets in something more important than the proposed Indian hemp ranch.

while preferences of Sowore and Seun Kuti praised the thought.

In any case, Akeredolu has cautioned that cannabis development is yet to be legitimized instead of reports making rounds.

Talking through the Commissioner for Information, Yemi Olowolabi, the senator said the state government was making it lawful.

He said the cooperation with the NDLEA meant that Federal Government's agree to the development of the harvest in the state.

"We are still at the rudimentary phase of this issue. Before we authorize cannabis developing in this state, it needs to go through specific methods and we have started the techniques.

"The help we look for from the Federal Government is the joint effort we as of now have with the NDLEA, which is an office of the administration.

"Since we are managing the NDLEA, we are managing the Federal Government."

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Inhabitants in different states have kept on moaning over the shortage of water. A week ago, the Katsina State House of Assembly gathered the Commissioner for Water Resources, Salisu Gambo Dandume, to show up before it today the same number of inhabitants depend on water sellers for their everyday needs. Absence of pipe-borne water in the Katsina city and environs is accepted to be because of the breakdown of water siphoning machines at Ajiwa Water Works.



An occupant, Malam Yusuf Ahmed of Layout Kofar Kaura in the city, said water sellers are misusing the circumstance. “Envision a truck with twelve 25 liter gallons that we used to purchase for N250 is presently N500. That is if you are fortunate to see the seller. They are hot wares now”. The state water board has been conveying water, utilizing tankers, to the city.

The Managing Director of the board, Babangida Mohammed, said 13 trucks were utilized day by day to supply water twice in the town. The magistrate said yesterday that water shortage would before long be over as “the government has acquired new siphoning machines and will, by next tomorrow (Tuesday) complete their establishment.” In Kano State, territories like Gandu, Dakota, Yan Kaba, and Zango, need water.


An occupant of Gandu lamented that they had not seen faucet water for right around a year. One of them, Mukhtar Isah, stated: “A significant number of our homes have burrowed wells, and that has been what we have been utilizing for our water supply.” Occupants of Sabon Gari said for more than two years; the experts had been attempting to fix the water supply in the territory.

Tadeola Benson said the region had been in limbo because of the absence of faucet water for quite a long time. In Gombe State, water shortage is gnawing hard in Gombe city and its rural areas, including a couple of zones associated with the state local water plot, compelling inhabitants to depend on business boreholes at extravagant costs.

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Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC), says checking vote purchasing is an overwhelming errand because of the vast number of individuals engaged with the demonstration.

Owasanoye expressed this in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in New York. Commercial According to him, vote purchasing is so uncontrolled and across the board in the nation that it was hard to capture and indict wrongdoers.

Moreover, endeavors to achieve vote purchasers at surveying units more often than not prompt conflicts between furnished hooligans and security operators that imperil the lives of voters. Commercial He recommended that more consideration ought to instead be given to avoidance through the organization of innovations and improvement in the nation's casting a ballot framework.

"When something is widespread like this, you can scarcely destroy it by authorization estimates alone. "Take, for instance, a circumstance where an entire network, driven by their pioneers, achieved a consent to exchange their votes.

"Individuals were driven by assessment pioneers to state we should be paid for our votes. Presently, would you be able to capture a whole network?

"Examination and arraignment are over the top expensive, and the ability to do all the available cases is seriously constrained. "It is beyond the realm of imagination to expect to summon every one of the cases that are gazing you in the face.

"Along these lines, you need to embrace preventive estimates that help to reduce defilement significantly more overwhelmingly than implementation," Owasanoye said. To this end, the ICPC supervisor said the commission held an approach discourse after the last broad races to distinguish compelling approaches to wipe out the issue.

One of the critical suggestions at the discussion, as per him, was the need to expand the job of innovation in the casting a ballot procedure. (NAN)

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The government has blamed previous President Goodluck Jonathan and former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke, of taking kickbacks for the dubious OPL 245 arrangement.

These allegations were incorporated into archives documented at a London court by legal counselors speaking to the government concerning installments made to gain the permit in 2011.

In the court body of evidence documented against Shell and Eni, the government said Jonathan and Alison-Madueke infringed upon the law for making a mystery benefit and side-covering the legislature from its actual offer of the arrangement.

The bureaucratic military government granted OPL 245 to Malibu Oil and Gas Ltd on the ninth of April 1998, which was said to be possessed primarily by Mohammed Abacha, child of the Sani Abacha, and Etete, who was the oil service at the time.

President Olusegun Obasanjo repudiated Malibu's permit on the second of July, 2001and appointed the oil square to Shell, without an open offer.

Malibu went to court, yet possession was returned to it in 2006 after it came to an out-of-court settlement with the central government.

Shell battled back and started assertion against Nigeria, however when President Goodluck Jonathan came to control in 2010, the debate seemed to have been settled with Shell and Eni consenting to purchase the oil hinder from Malibu for $1.1 billion.

The oil organizations likewise paid $210 million as a signature reward to the government of Nigeria.

Be that as it may, the arrangement has been trapped in more contentions and preliminaries over claims of gift and complex mechanisms by authorities of the Nigerian government and their remote accessories.

The OPL 245 is accounted for to be one of the greatest undiscovered oil assets in Africa with stores assessed at nine billion barrels.

As indicated by the court report: "Rewards were paid. The receipt of those influences and the interest in the plan of said authorities were in rupture of their guardian obligations and Nigerian criminal law".

Reuters reports that Jonathan's representative declined to remark, saying the previous president was on obligation as a decision onlooker in South Africa.

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The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said President Muhammadu Buhari sacking administration boss unexpectedly won't illuminate the instability circumstance in the nation.

Adeboye expressed this while talking at the central command of RCCG, The Throne of Grace, Ebute-Metta in Lagos, amid a thanksgiving administration with the subject, 'Triumph over the conjugal tempest.'

The minister addressed columnists after the administration through the Assistant General Overseer, Administration, and Personnel, RCCG, Pastor Johnson Odesola.

He stated, "I trust the administration boss are working, and besides those that have accomplished their retirement age, they have been concentrating the circumstance of the nation regarding security and would have a few plans they are dealing with.

"On the off chance that they are changed, the new administration boss would need to start from the very beginning once more.

"I have confidence in great progression plan whereby those to supplant the present administration boss would gain from the officeholders and just need to proceed from where they stop."

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In spite of denying plans to set out on mass conservation of its laborers, the top administration of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas organization has met to approve the rundown of no less than 120 representatives to be backed out of the organization soon.

In particular, the Talent Council of the gas organization made up of the Managing Director, Mr. Tony Attah; his agent and the general chiefs, met on Thursday to confirm the sack list purportedly gathered by the Organizational Manager, Nath Obioha.

A dependable source in the organization, who talked with our journalist on Saturday, said regardless of the strident forswearing of the administration of designs to sack a portion of the laborers, the board saddled with the undertaking kept on gathering to close the plans.

NLNG is a joint gas activity of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and oil goliaths – Shell, Total and Eni – which started the formal task in 1999.

A nearby source in the organization had revealed to SUNDAY PUNCH that strain had kept on ascending among the specialists as "none of us is uncertain who could be influenced by this activity."

SUNDAY PUNCH had, penultimate Sunday, revealed that the NLNG had initiated moves to terminate at any rate 10 percent of its around 1,200 laborers under a program is named as 'realignment to win.'

The distribution had expressed that the laborers were coordinated to reapply for their employment, indicating three positions they might want to be considered for in the re-association.

They were anyway advised to take note of that the organization was not under any impulse to fix them in the workplaces they had demonstrated in their reapplication letter.

One of the staff individuals had asked why NLNG would move forward with an arrangement to decrease its workforce when the gas organization "stays a standout amongst the most beneficial organizations in Africa."

He included, "It is weak on all parameters. How would you legitimize the sacking of laborers in an organization that made a benefit of over $2bn in 2018? It could be defended if the organization is in trouble; however, this isn't so.

"It is only a ploy to toss more than 100 individuals into the work advertise when the country's economy is in such a dangerous circumstance. What's more, these are immediate laborers, not those approved from the joint endeavor accomplices."

However, two days after the distribution, Attah had exposed the report, yet neglected to deny the designs to lay off a portion of the laborers.

Attah had said in his inner notice titled 'RTW in the media,' clarified that the realignment was to change the organization "to stay aggressive in the worldwide vitality business."

He included that the activity had prompted the making of the places of two new broad administrators and seven supervisors.

"He didn't deny the arrangement to sack; he just said the activity was to reposition the organization. It beats one to hear the MD legitimizing such strange move," one of the laborers disclosed to SUNDAY PUNCH.

"The equivalent Nath Obioha left on such realignment as a Shell laborer in Shell Gabon. After the realignment, Shell Gabon went into pain and must be sold by Shell. Is that what they need to accomplish here too? Would you be able to envision that Obioha's arrangement did not go through the board?"

The source affirmed that the sack letters might be dispersed for this present week as the Talent Council had endorsed the rundown.

"They previously pondered and endorsed the rundown. The situations have been finished. The letters are prepared, and any minute from now, those influenced will become acquainted with when the summary is discharged straightaway (this) week.

"Tragically this is going on when NLNG is closing its Final Investment Decision on its Train 7," the source included.

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