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This is one of the best post I have ever seen, for those abusing the OP, I pray you have the opportunity to travel, that is when you appreciate Nigeria. God bless you OP, I have a first hand experience so I can relate.

premierlead:
You have just commented like a dummy so to say. FYI, The MD knew right that her surbodinate, Mr Thomas wife's is a married woman yet went ahead to have illicit affairs with her to the extent of impregnating her twice and here now you are vituperating gibberish. Kiddo!

The question I have for u is that was the woman raped, was she made to sleep with him under duress. Does the subordinate in question didn't know she is married before opening her legs.

This should move to d front page

This is the time for the youth in Nigeria to push for a new labour laws and end casualization in Nigeria. This is part of our problem and the protesters should make it part of their demand.

I support this

he National Pension Commission (PenCom) and ARM Pension Managers have appealed against the judgment that legitimitises 50 per cent lump sum for retirees.

An senior officer in the pension industry, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Commission has also obtained a stay of execution on the judgment.

The appeal and stay of execution order are coming on the heels of a judgment by Justice Oyebiola Oyewumi of the National Industrial Court (NIC), Abuja Judicial Division in the case a 63-year-old retiree, Mr. Maroof Giwa v. ARM Pension Managers and the National Pensions Commission.

Giwa sought the order of the court to claim 50 per cent lump sum from his pension as against the 25 per cent stipulated by the Pension Reform Act (PRA), 2014, which pension managers pay.

The retiree claimed that the computation of the lump sum/benefits by the defendant done on the 25 per cent was illegal.

He argued that he could not be treated like a retiree as he quit service voluntarily and that he’s above 60 and would want to withdraw 50 per cent or 75 per cent of his pension.

Delivering her judgment, Justice Oyewunmi granted Giwa’s prayer.

She said the norm should be broken for Giwa, considering his age, and the life expectancy of male Nigerians as projected by World Health Organisation (WHO).

She held that 25 percent lump sum calculated by the Arm Pension Managers was unlawful.

She said the 25 percent withdrawal stated in the Pension Reform Act is for a retiree who retired at 50. The provision, she said, does not apply to Giwa.

However, Arm Pension Managers, argued that the claimant had no case.

Its counsel, M. Abdulraheem, submitted that the PenCom only guarantees a 25 per cent lump sum.

He submitted that to allow the claimant argument would amount to tinkering with an Act of the National Assembly and that it would enable not only the claimant but also other RSA holders determine what should be paid to them.

He said doing so would amount to usurping the powers of the second defendant as stipulated by law that the withdrawal of lump sum is an option predicated on the condition that the residue in the RSA would be sufficient to procure funds withdrawals or annuity.

Also, PenCom counsel E. O. Awa argued that the Act did not provide for a lump sum of 50 per cent, 65 per cent, 75 per cent or 25 per cent except 25 per cent for an employee who retires before 50 or disengages from employment.

But Justice Oyewumi held that 60 years and above was not in the spirit of Section 7(2) of the Act that specifically made provision for a 50-year-old retiree to withdraw 25 per cent lump sum.

Some observers have, however, said the judgment took advantage of what seems like ambiguity in the law, citing Section 173 of the Constitution, Section 7(1) and (2) as not stating that it applies to retirees who are over 50.

Some experts, however, disagreed, stating that there was no ambiguity.

A chief executive officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “While some retirees want 50 per cent, 75 per cent or all their pension to be given to them at a go, others believe the 25 per cent is okay as it will allow them to receive monthly or quarterly pension, which is like salary.

“In any case, it is best to leave the matter to the courts to decide and interpret the law. Ultimately, PenCom approves percentage payouts as they are empowered to by law. We all want immediate gratification which is human nature. And it is more pronounced in a country with very little saving culture. This attitude to savings is further exacerbated by our vey challenging economy. We need to continue to dialogue and hopefully find a middle ground that works most. Pension operators need to lead a campaign to sensitise the public on the objectives of the PRA, such that the stakeholders will see that it was created in their interest,” he added. Source https://thenationonlineng.net/pencom-pfa-appeal-judgment-on-50-per-cent-lump-sum/?fbclid=IwAR3cAqWttDoGFbyZjiFYlOrs0h8Dr5f9OpkVqk1M1o03BfjqrAq41TNyUVc

I am confused as to whether to build or renovate. I need opinion from professionals

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed an appeal filed by Slok Nigeria Limited challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which convicted former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor-Kalu

Mr Kalu, a serving senator, was jailed alongside Udeh Udeogu, his Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House during Mr Kalu’s tenure.

The former governor was sentenced to 12 years in prison for stealing public funds while in office. Mr Udeogu was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A third defendant, Mr Kalu’s company, Slok Nigeria Limited, was ordered to be wound up and its assets forfeited to the Nigerian government.

They were convicted for defrauding the Government of Abia State when Mr Kalu was governor.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) had brought the criminal charge against the duo for conspiring and diverting N7.65 billion from the coffers of the state.

After their conviction, Slok and Mr Udeogu filed an appeal on technical grounds. They claimed that the Federal High Court in Lagos did not have the power to try them because that was not where the offence was committed.

The appellants were Slok and Mr Udeogu while the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Federal Republic of Nigeria, the EFCC and Mr Kalu were respondents respectively.

However, the argument of the appellants was rejected by the court of appeal. The three judges who presided said in a judgement delivered by one of them, Olabisi Ige, that the appeal was lacking in merit, Punch Newspaper reported.

Justice Ige held that section 98(3) and (4) of Administration of Criminal Justice Act(ACJA) 2015, were not applicable to the appellants’ case.

The appellate court held that a petition must relate to an allegation of wrongdoing by the trial judge.

“Nothing is perverted with the decision of the trial court. The complaint of the appellants is a non-issue.

“If a court has jurisdiction/power, the fact of doing so under a wrong law is no reason to set it aside. The rights of the appellants were not infringed,” the judge said.

The appellate court further held that the appellants did not show mala side (bad faith) by the chief judge and EFCC.

The court added that there was no element of forum-shopping in the case.

The judges upheld the judgement of the lower court, meaning Messrs Kalu and Udeogu will continue to serve their jail terms while Slok would be wound up as ordered by the lower court.

U can't even snap the land make we see, u go do fine poster we be like lekki, sit down there we are coming ooo. I

The House of Representatives is considering criminalising employing workers on casual contracts beyond six months.

The House will also prohibit outsourcing to third parties, while any casual workers sacked by an employer after six months will be entitled to the benefits of full-time workers for six months.

These are being proposed in the Labour Act (Amendment) Bill 2019 awaiting second reading by the House.

Speaking to our correspondent, the sponsor of the bill, Mr Olawale Raji, said the proposal was part of his efforts towards protecting workers in the country.
The amendment to Section 8 of the Principal Act would now read, “(1) Every worker in Nigeria engaged or employed by and has remained in such employment for a period of not less than six months shall have his employment or engagement regularised by the employer as a full and permanent worker of such employer with all its accompanying entitlements.”

The proposed law states that failure by any employers to comply with Subsections 1 and 2 will constitute an offence, which will attract a two-year sentence, N2m fine or both.


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Reps to criminalise workers’ casualisation
Published February 18, 2020

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja


The House of Representatives is considering criminalising employing workers on casual contracts beyond six months.

The House will also prohibit outsourcing to third parties, while any casual workers sacked by an employer after six months will be entitled to the benefits of full-time workers for six months.

These are being proposed in the Labour Act (Amendment) Bill 2019 awaiting second reading by the House.

Speaking to our correspondent, the sponsor of the bill, Mr Olawale Raji, said the proposal was part of his efforts towards protecting workers in the country.


The amendment to Section 8 of the Principal Act would now read, “(1) Every worker in Nigeria engaged or employed by and has remained in such employment for a period of not less than six months shall have his employment or engagement regularised by the employer as a full and permanent worker of such employer with all its accompanying entitlements.”

The proposed law states that failure by any employers to comply with Subsections 1 and 2 will constitute an offence, which will attract a two-year sentence, N2m fine or both.


The new Section 9 of the principal Act will now read, “(1) Notwithstanding Section 25 of this Act, an employer, who has obtained the minister’s licence, employment outsourcing by such employers within its core aims and objectives of operation is hereby prohibited. It is an offence for an employer to pay another person, whether corporate or natural person, for services rendered to it by its worker.”

The House on December 4, 2019 called on the Central Bank of Nigeria to sanction commercial banks using casual workers to run their critical operations.

After adopting a motion on the matter, the lawmakers called on commercial banks “to convert their casual staff who are handling core operations to permanent staff without further delay,” while urging the CBN “to sanction any bank that fails to comply.”

High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, has sentenced two men to prison over N362m allegedly disbursed by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke.

Justice Nathan Musa of High Court 1 on Thursday in Yola also ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to produce the 3rd defendant, Allison-Madueke before his court.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had charged Ibrahim Mohammed Umar (1st defendant), Sahabo Iya Hamman (2nd defendant) and Allison-Madueke (3rd defendant) to court for allegedly laundering the said N362m.

He said, "The 3rd defendant in her desire to influence election in favour of then President, Goodluck Jonathan, authorised the release of N362m public money through Fidelity bank to the 1st and 2nd defendants to corrupt election officials.”

Considering the evidences as provided by both the prosecuting and defence counsels, Justice Nathan convicted Umar and Hamman on three-count charges.

He therefore, sentenced them to seven years on each of the charges.

The judge however, considered a plea of allocotus from the defence counsel and ordered that the sentences will run concurrently.


Source:http://saharareporters.com/2019/12/12/breaking-court-jails-two-men-over-n362m-trial-orders-igp-produce-diezani?fbclid=IwAR3kUL3mT2owRpObhfXYzmzi7KrRCk2pxzCa1xuczvadVUNvvQEIUJSnPhQ

Go for Nissan Xtrial

Nigeria will surely cash in from this. More revenue for us

Half of Saudi Arabia's oil production has gone offline following a surprise drone strike.

Drones attacked Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia and the Khurais oil field run by Saudi Aramco early Saturday morning, the kingdom's interior ministry said, sparking a massive fire at a crude processing plant essential to global oil supplies.

The closure will impact nearly 5 million barrels of crude processing per day, affecting 5 percent of the world's daily oil production. And while Aramco is confident that it can recover quickly, if it can't, however, the world could face a production shortage of as much 150MM barrels per month. An outcome which could send oil prices into the triple digits.

Houthi rebels-- who are backed by Iran in a yearlong Saudi-led battle in Yemen-- have apparently asserted responsibility for the strikes and pledged that more assaults can be expected in the future.
A Houthi spokesperson explained, “We promise the Saudi regime that our future operations will expand and be more painful as long as its aggression and siege continue," adding that the attack involved ten drones.

The Iran-backed Houthis have recently been behind a number of assaults on Saudi pipelines, vessels and other energy infrastructure as tensions grow in the region
There have been no details on the severity of the damage but Agence France-Presse quoted interior ministry spokesperson Mansour al-Turki as saying that there were no human casualties as a result of the attack.


Source: crudeoil.com

I don't mind fairly used.

House, please I need a car spray oven booth for immediate purchase, let me know of you have any.

DexterousOne:
This is not an intelligent thing to say

can you please share you own intelligent thing for us to learn from?

Kaybex007:
Well, let me tell you more about me which you do not know, I currently sit inside AC cuz i am making money from my poultry business , I rear chickens and turkeys, which means I am one of those citizens wishing the Nigeria economy well. If you don't mind, you can come and join me and let me teach you how poultry business works.

I like you my brother, its time for you to be richer since poultry products are also smuggled into the country.

Kaybex007:
The truth is if our so called local are affordable and cheaper than the exported ones, the people will look inward and patronize our locally made rice, but when the local ones are far expensive than the imported ones, I can assure you that people will look outward even if it is not as good as the locally made.

It will be cheaper if you yourself go back to farm to produce more rice. You sit inside AC and you want to eat cheap rice abi

we all talk here as if its not our responsibilities to go back to the farm to produce rice. Looking at our level of unemployment it is unfair on the part of we Nigerians to condemn what the federal government has done. Let us all go back to the farm produce rice and make money. https:///eBEM7nG

FarahAideed:
There is nothing shameful in importing milk, most countries import milk from Netherlands , are you better than Singapore that imports milk ? Did Botswanas president allow herders to kill over 25 thousand innocent people before the started expecting milk ? Everything Buhari is doing is geared toward empowering his Fulanis and nothing ..Did Nigerian poultry farmers make noise and kill people before making Nigeria poultry sufficient? Hell No ... Buhari is doing these with Fulanis in mind just watch what he. Will do when other tribes start trying to rear cattles

I can you come here to support the importation of milk to the tune of $1b yearly. A country of 180M people and yet to are telling us to because Singapore import milk and then we should continue to import. Even if you hate Buhari is the CBN governor a fulani man to? Please let us be logical and rational in our thinking

abayomilaws:
Why the sack? Very unnecessary
... Nigeria is supposed to be a secular state . the cartoon is very illustrative of the situation at hand. It illustrates desecration of the temple of God. In the column, he cites ezeugo also known as Reverend king and other charlatans. He vividly paints the picture like a good artist that he is. With his paintbrush, he draws a caricature of a drunk Biodun Fatoyinbo emitting urine on the holy book. The innuendo is not for the church as a whole but directed to that drunk charlatan, Biodun fatoyinbo who emits his urine on the holy Bible. He does not draw that emitter to be the sole true practice of Christianity. This is a lampoon on an individual not the whole Church. I am sorry for this nation, we are so hypocritical. God , if you be, burn Nigeria, for our iniquities should be more than Sodom and his Gomorrah.

What right does the editor have to paint Biodun Fatoyinbo as a bad Christian. How can you be one sided on an issue and call yourself a professional journalist. He deserves what he got, can they do that with the Quran in the face of the Alfa's molesting their students? Please think before you write.

Which location is the car, will like to inspect

Interested. Am in Ibadan where can I come for inspection and how much last

Thats our minster for Niger Delta or Labour

I love Borno people as the reject the party that love to practice lootocracy. They are just like the Kwara people and not the IPOB who do not have political direction.

John Yusuf, the pension thief who five years ago, was given a slap on the wrist by Justice Abubakar Talba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, for stealing N32.8billion police pension money, has finally gotten his deserved sanctions. John Yusuf The Court of Appeal Abuja Division on Wednesday jailed him six years and also asked him to refund N22.9billion. Justice Talba had sentenced him to two years in jail, with the option of paying a fine of N750,000. The judgment triggered national outrage. The ruling by the appellate court was the climax of the appeal by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which on April 26, 2013 approached the appellate court to set aside the judgment of the lower court.

The five grounds of the appeal, bordered on the exercise of discretion of the Judge in imposing sentence on the respondent who pleaded guilty to the three count charge, in which he admitted converting an aggregate sum of over N24 billion of Police Pension fund into his personal use. The EFCC asked the Appeal Court to decide “whether the trial judge exercised his discretion judicially and judiciously when having convicted the respondent of a three count charge of conversion of over N3billion contrary to section 309 of the Penal Code, His Lordship imposed two years imprisonment with an option of fine of N250, 000 on each of the three counts”. Yusuf’s lawyers on 10 June 2015 raised a preliminary objection on the competence of the appeal for which they argued that the notice of appeal was filed outside the mandatory 90 days and therefore in contravention of s. 24(2)(b) of the Court of Appeal Act, 2010 (as Amended) and therefore urged the Court to dismiss the appeal.

The Justices of the Court of Appeal, dismissed the preliminary objection on the grounds that; “Having considered the computation of time volunteered by both parties, the question to be answered was whether the day the Judgment of the trial court was delivered was to be inclusive in the computation of the mandatory 90 days for which a notice of appeal was to be filed? “That the day the Judgment of the trial court was delivered being the 28 January, 2013, was not to be included in the computation of the 90 days. “That since the day of the Judgment is not included, the 90 days starts running from the 29 January, 2013 and the 90 day will fall on a Sunday. “That by virtue of s. 15(2) of the Interpretation Act CAP 123, where the last day is a holiday, the counting shall continue until the end of the next following day which is not a holiday. “That since the 90th day was a Sunday and by virtue of s. 15 (5) of Interpretation Act, a Sunday is a holiday, the next day which the notice of appeal was filed is within time, hence the appeal is competent and is therefore allowed”. Ruling on the substantive matter, the Justices of the Court of Appeal held unanimously that the three counts involving the respondent (Counts 17, 18 and 19) clearly stated the amounts for which the appellant alleged that the respondent converted for his personal use. That the respondent pleaded guilty to the three counts and thereby admitted to the conversion of an aggregate sum of about N24billion to his personal use. The judges ruled that the sentence of the trial court, does not serve as deterrence to both the convict and others. Consequently, they ruled that the sentence is “hereby quashed and deserves to be reviewed as follows: *on Counts 17, the Respondent is hereby sentenced to two years imprisonment with an addition of fine of N20billion Naira; *on Counts 18, the Respondent is hereby sentenced to two years imprisonment with an addition of fine of 1.4billion Naira; *on counts 19, the Respondent is hereby sentenced to two years imprisonment with an addition of fine of 1.5billion Naira”. The prison sentence will run consecutively and the fine is to be cumulative.

In a related development, the Supreme Court on March 9 dismissed the appeal by Onyia Ifeanyi, seeking to upturn his conviction and sentence to 7 years imprisonment on November 28, 2013 by the Federal High Court Enugu presided over by Justice M.L. Shuaibu ( as he then was) for the offence of obtaining by false pretence and being in possession of documents containing false pretence. Dissatisfied with his conviction, the appellant had lodged an appeal against it at the Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal, which affirmed the decision of the trial court. Still not satisfied with the decision of the appellate court, the convict proceeded to the Supreme Court. The apex court in a unanimous judment on March 9, affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal Related

The Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Administrative Secretary in Kwara State, Christian Nwosu and Tijani Bashir to seven years in jail.

Justice Mohammed Idriss gave the order on Friday after both men were found guilty of offences bordering on money laundering to the tune of N264,880,000 million

Source :
https://www.channelstv.com/2019/01/25/breaking-court-sentences-ex-inec-officials-to-seven-years-in-prison/