Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has officially released, for the first time, its audited statement of accounts to the public. Though the corporation has been sending copies of the annual statements to the presidency and the National Assembly in the past, it was learnt that the new initiative followed a resolve by the new management to promote transparency in its operations. However, the 43-year organisation, in its 2018 audited statement, which we saw yesterday on its website, did not present a consolidated report of its activities as a unit. But it made public the accounts of its listed subsidiaries –…
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All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday gave further insight into why the party failed to give Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the right of first refusal in his re-election bid and why he was eventually excluded from the race for its ticket in the September governorship election in the state. Oshiomhole, after a meeting of members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) with the Chief of Staff to the president, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, described APC as a party governed by rules, insisting that the party could not have bent such rules to favour Obaseki.…
Oyo reviews curfew, mosques, churches to operate at 25 per cent capacity …as govt workers resume Monda
The police in Imo State have recovered the bodies of two students at a Vic-Mic lodge in Nekede area of the state. The deceased until their death were students of the Federal Polytechnic in Nekede. Confirming the incident to Channels Television, the spokesman of the State Police Command, Orlando Ikeokwu, identified the dead as Cynthia Obieshi and Samuel Osuji. Ikeokwu explained that the students were believed to have taken substance suspected to be drugs. He noted that the Divisional Police Headquarters, Nekede/Ihiagwa acting on intelligent report moved to Room 19, Vic-Mic Lodge broke into the room and found two lifeless…
The West African Examination Council in a letter to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission dated March 13, 2020 confirmed that Benue lawmaker, Victor Yagba Kuranen, forged the certificate he used to contest and win election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019. Kuranen was on June 9, 2020 questioned by officials of the ICPC after being accused by his constituents of forging his 1998 May/June Senior Secondary Certificate Examination result. Victor Yagba Kuranen Confirming the development in the letter responding to enquiries by the ICPC, Osindeinde Henry S.A, Officer-In-Charge, Test Administration, for the Head…
Nigerian doctors have commenced a nationwide strike as coronavirus continues to ravage the country. The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of Nigeria announced that they commenced a nationwide “indefinite strike” on Monday morning, hours after COVID-19 cases in the country exceeded 16,000 with over 400 deaths. Roland Aigbovo, the president of the ARD, confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES over the phone. He did not give further details. On the day Nigeria recorded its third case of coronavirus in mid-March, resident doctors in Abuja had threatened to embark on the strike action but later called it off after the Nigerian Medical Association advised…
Norway’s health authorities said on Monday they had suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of the new coronavirus after the national data protection agency said it was too invasive of privacy. Launched in April, the smartphone app Smittestopp (“Infection stop”) was set up to collect movement data to help authorities trace the spread of COVID-19, and inform users if they had been exposed to someone carrying the novel coronavirus. On Friday, the data agency, Datatilsynet, issued a warning that it would stop the Norwegian Institute of Public Health from handling data collected via Smittestopp. Datatilsynet said the…
Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun was due to convene the country’s top security council on Monday after days of angry protests over a deepening economic crisis. Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with security forces at the weekend across the Mediterranean nation whose currency has collapsed amid the worst financial crisis since Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war. Relative calm returned on Sunday evening, with protesters holding a peaceful rally in Beirut while dozens marched to a central square in the northern city of Tripoli, AFP reporters said. That came after three nights of violence in which demonstrators, angered by sky-rocketing prices and the government’s…
An autopsy conducted on Rayshard Brooks, the 27-yr-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in a struggle outside a fast-food restaurant, concluded that he died from blood loss and organ injuries caused by two gunshot wounds. A statement issued by an investigator for the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office stated that the manner of the death of Brooks was a homicide as the slain man had grabbed an officer’s taser but was running away when he was shot dead. Caught on an officer’s body camera and a surveillance camera, the encounter seemed friendly at first as…
The fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in Atlanta has poured more fuel on the raging US debate over racism, prompting another round of street protests and the resignation of the southern city’s police chief. The death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was ruled a homicide by the county medical examiner’s office on Sunday, a day after Wendy’s restaurant where he died was set on fire and hundreds of people marched to denounce the killing. His deadly encounter with police on Friday drew expressions of outrage, shock, and dismay in a country deeply shaken by civil…