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A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has sentenced a former Taraba State governor, Jolly Nyame, to 14 years in prison without an option of fine.

Mr Nyame was found guilty of 27 out of 41 counts of alleged diversion of public funds while he served as governor of Taraba State.

He was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly diverting N1.64 billion while he served as governor between 1999 to 2007.

The judge sentenced the defendant to four different terms in prison, after finding him guilty of receiving gratification, obtaining public funds without due consideration, criminal breach of trust and gratification.

The various sentences include a time of prison for two, five, seven and 14 years respectively.

The judge Adebukola Banjoko however noted that the terms are expected to run concurrently, meaning he would serve 14 years in jail unless the conviction is upturned by a higher court.

In the lengthy judgement that lasted over four hours, the judge narrated how several witnesses brought to court by both parties corroborated the allegation of fraud against the defendant.

The EFCC presented various witnesses who alluded to the fact that Mr Nyame approved the diversion of various funds amounting to over N345 million to a company, Saman global, within five weeks in 2005, among other allegations.

Despite claims by Mr Nyame that he never knew the said company, the court found him guilty of breaching public trust after noting that the ex-governor confirmed approving the memo wherein the order for the transfer of the funds. source https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/270387-breaking-ex-taraba-governor-jolly-nyame-jailed-14-years-for-misappropriating-state-funds.html

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The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N64.108bn for additional work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The additional work will be done on Section I of the road from Lagos to the Sagamu interchange.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of a meeting of the council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Fashola said the additional work would cover pedestrian bridges as well as toll plazas for that section in order to accommodate the changing nature of the road.

He stated, “The council approved additional work on Section 1 of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The council approved additional work on over 43.6 kilometres for N64.108bn, which cover pedestrian bridges and toll plazas for that section so as to accommodate the changing nature of that road.

“Since its conception, so many new structures: religious institutions, factories, universities and increased human activities, have come up along that road.

“The inherited design didn’t provide for these at all. The additional work is also to modify the quality of bitumen, polymer modified bitumen, in order to deal with the heavy cargo that passes through that road.

“The first section is handled by Julius Berger. The second section under RCC, which covers over 80 kilometres, will come to council to incorporate similar work, including drainage work when we finish the procurement.”

Fashola added that the council approved the award of the Subaila-Falala-Bini-Baku-Bauchi Road that connects Kano and Bauchi states for N4.578bn.

The Minister of State for Agriculture, Heneiken Lokpobiri, said the council approved new 10 rice mills for the country at a cost of N10.7bn.

He listed the states where the mills would be located as Kebbi, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Bayelsa, Anambra, Kaduna, Niger, Ogun and Bauchi.

Each of the mills, according to him, will have the capacity to produce 100 tonnes of rice per day, and the private sector would manage them.

Lokpobiri said, “Today, FEC approved the establishment of 10 very large rice mills to enhance the milling capacity of the rice value chain in the country.

“Few years ago, it was reported that this country needed a minimum of 100 large mills. As of today, we have about 21, but the Federal Government, in its wisdom, decided that today we should approve the establishment of 10 new rice mills at the total cost of N10.7bn.

He said the cost of the mills would be paid back within a given timeframe as would be agreed between the Bank of Agriculture and the rice mills.

“The states will be 10. Nigeria, over 30 states are growing rice; in today’s memo, the 10 rice mills will be located across the six geopolitical zones in Kebbi, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Bayelsa, Anambra, Kaduna, Niger, Ogun and Bauchi states.

“The capacity of the rice mills is 100 tonnes per day each.”

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed that N10bn was approved to fight erosion in the country.

He also said that $460m was approved to facilitate the usage of new buildings at airports.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said FEC also approved the licensing agreement between the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development and May and Baker Plc.

This, he said, was in respect of scaling up commercialisation and marketing of Niprisan, a potent anti-sickle cell drug, for use in Nigeria.

The minister explained, “As you might be aware, sickle cell disease is a common problem, particularly among blacks in Africa, South East Asia and Latin America, and it is estimated that about 25 per cent of Nigerians carry the sickle cell gene and over two million people have sickle cell anaemia, that is having the two genes combined.

“And for many of them, when they are under stress, they take ill; what happens is invariably they develop severe bone crisis, they develop infection and some of them will die from this.”

He added, “This drug was first used in Oyo State over 20 years ago and NAPRED conducted clinical trials to ensure that we are able to document that it was safe and efficacious, and the drug was licensed at an international organisation, which went into bankruptcy.

“What we have done is to reactivate the product and it will now be marketed in Nigeria through this agreement, and we believe that the marketing and production in Nigeria will bring a lot of comfort to millions of Nigerians who are infected with the sickle cell gene.”

Adewole said the council also approved the construction of a trauma centre at Federal Medical Centre, Owerri at the cost of N840.8m.

He said the centre would be completed in 48 weeks.

The minister said, “We expect that it will serve as a first-class centre of care for accident and trauma cases along the Port Harcourt, Owerri and Enugu axis, and will really change the dynamics of care in these areas.

“The approval of Naprisan is coming on the eve of an approval granted by government for us to establish a department of traditional medicine in the Federal Ministry of Health.

“This will be the first time that this will happen and that department will really provide us the leeway to research into many of our traditional products, and the first mandate of this department will be to look into the cure for malaria in our forest.”

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Dear All, why is it that band 7 or 7.5 is really not a good score in IELTS for PR. I have seen most post here where people intend rewriting the test after a score of L7,R7.5,W7.5,S7.5. I need more clarification in this regards.

Thanks

I really want this present administration to live up to the change initiative they promise by looking into the big scam and corruption going on at the immigration office. They are really giving this administration a very bad outlook with the exorbitant charges in their office. if you intend doing your registration online you will not get your passport in three mounts since you refuse to come to their office to bribe them.

Furthermore, charges ranges from 30-35k instead of the official fee of 8,500 for 30 pages for new passport and 65 k for loss passport. House we need to wage an online war against them. Operation say no to bribery and corruption must start from the Nigerian Immigration Service.

Dear All,

Greeting! I need clarifications on the questions below

1 I want to register my wife for WES and her surname name has changed from her fathers name to mine, how will I now register her for wes. Is it with my name or her fathers name.


2 If am to use her fathers surname as the level of registering for WES at what point are we going to indicate that the surname has changed in our quest for EE

3 Does professional certification add points eg CIPM, ICAN etc.

Call your PFA. They will guide you on what to do accordingly. Your money will surely be remitted once they step into your issue. It i s statutory payment.

Good development

Listen to ur boy, if ur own blood talk to u I think u should listen. Forgive her as he requested u to do. U to remember UV once been 5 star General. Its not easy to forgive but for his sake.

GoldNiagara:
Where is the Act, plus you have to pay good money! We can start a class action if you can aggregate enough peep.

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Please check the attachment in the first post

I hereby attach the newly released Act for all to view

I was shocked when i saw the new guidelines released by PENCOM in relation to the issue of voluntary contribution. I was wondering if PENCOM has the right to issue guidelines that will contradicts the PENCOM Act.

Why will PENCOM determine how i intend to save and collect my money with my PFA a right giving to me by the PENCOM Act. What right do they have to set aside the PEMCOM Act with a mere guideline that is not enshrined in the PENCOM Act. I wish to seek the help of lawyes in the house to please help seek an injuction to stop the implementation of this directive.

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will this weekend, again, pump more dollars into the foreign exchange market in continuation of its strategy to further strengthen the value of the Naira.

A source in the apex bank, said that the CBN has planned the release of an additional $350 million bringing the total to $570 million in this week alone to further crash the value of the Dollar. Already this has generated panic among currency traders who are yet to recover from the losses some of them have suffered in the last two weeks owing to sharp and sudden appreciation of the Naira. Confirming the development, the Acting Director, Corporate communications, Isaac Okorafor, told our correspondent that, with improving reserve levels, the Bank was determined to continuously make forex available to all genuine customers through their banks

The nation’s foreign reserve hit about $29 billion as at Tuesday, last week, a position that has given comfort to the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, and his team to massively intervene in the forex market. With the current position, those hoarding the hard currencies would have to quickly off-load to reduce their losses. Informed sources speak of the likelihood of a liquidity glut as banks are beginning to send out salespeople to scout for customers to buy the dollar in an effort to avoid losses arising from the expected further appreciation of the naira. It will be recalled that since last Tuesday the CBN has so far supplied a total of $570 million to the market made up of $80 million for Personal Travel Allowance (PTA), Medicals and school fees, $100 million in wholesale forwards, an additional $350 million planned for injection on Friday or Saturday.


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/cbn-pump-350m-forex-market/

We dont have Bua and Unicem here in ibadan. Its only Dangote and Elephant ul get here. I wish the FG could help in bringing the price down.

The price of cement is now 2700 and we voted for change despite the fact that we produce locally. We implore the govenment to please help in reducing the price of cement.

I am still in shook today as i was told the price of cement is 2500 per bag. Federal Government please help.

we have different types of leukemia, what type of leukemia does he have?

we have different type of leukemia, what type of leukemia does he have?