Video:- Okonjo- Iweala Dances To 'Chop My Money'

A video of Nigerian economist and former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The video demonstrating the comprehensively famous financial expert moving obediently to the tune of Psquare's 'Slash my cash' has chosen to become a web sensation at once she is at present doing combating to demonstrate her innocence from the continuous examination of arms arrangement including previous national security consultant to President Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki.

On the other hand, it was seen that Okonjo-Iweala got on camera moving to the well known Nigerian melody around a year prior, amid a rousing converse with a vast gathering of youth. While attempting to pay tribute to late South African president, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, amid a TEDx thought sharing talk, she advised the young to stand up while she moved to the tune of the said melody. She later chatted on the point: 'Don't trivialize defilement, tackle it'.



Meanwhile, there are solid signs that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) might soon summon the previous account clergyman for addressing over assertions that she is aware of present circumstances of how the $2bn implied for securing of arms intended to fight feared Islamist order, Boko Haram was spent.

N18billion: Group Detects Alleged Foul Play In Buhari's Cabinet

In a request to President Muhammadu Buhari marked by its National Coordinator, Victor Giwa, the gathering blamed the workplace for the SSA to the President on MDGs of arrangements to occupy a portion of the N15bn asset discharged for the installment of the contractual workers by honoring new contracts to themselves and accomplices.

It additionally blamed the workplace for the SSA to the President on MDGs of deliberately declining and fail to pay the temporary workers.

The bunch's request to President Buhari peruses: "The outline of the actualities is that sure Nigerians, specialists and little scale entrepreneurs and businesses of work had in 2013/2014 awaited and won various contracts under the OSSAP on MDGs for different works in every one of the conditions of Nigeria. The agreements were executed, assessed and affirmation was given by the significant power and guarantees activity issued for ahead installment.

"Sir, rather than brief installment of the contractual workers, who had by their letter of recompenses, looked for and got advances and other credit offices from different bank for the execution of the venture, the previous SSAP enjoyed specific installment, control and reserve preoccupation, paying a small add up to the genuine temporary workers.

He noted: "After arrangement of exceptional weight and disturbance from these contractual workers and the mediation of the previous Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Iweala, in 2014, the then SSAP, joined these temporary workers' liabilities in the estimation of 15 billion naira, in the 2015 spending plan of her office, under the sub head MDG Intervention 1 and 2 and the contract based workers were appease to sit tight for the discharge.

"It is stunning that while the OSSAP is currently in receipt of the said whole through a warrant of discharge dated December 8, 2015, under the sub head MDG Intervention 1 and 2, officers of the OSSAP have fizzled, decline and fail to pay the said temporary workers their full entirety. Be that as it may, have somewhat occupied with preoccupation of this asset into grant of new contracts, for individual increases. This is in clear break of the Fiscal Responsibility and Financial (Control and Management) Acts, Laws of the Federation.

"All the more along these lines, the authorities even in the recompense of the new contract, have shamelessly debased the express procurements of area 30 (an e) of Public Procurement Act, in that they neither allowed bidders or participants to watch the offering procedure nor did they bring about every one of the offers to be made in the open.

"It's is further inquisitive that the OSSAP-MDGS knowing very well indeed that we have just yet two weeks to the end of the 2015 monetary year, are still set on proceeding with the acquirement prepare that is definitely not extortion.

"All supplications for the OSSAP to channel the assets into selling its liabilities to its temporary workers have been met with a reason that the Projects are implied for the Members of the National Assembly.

"The constitution of Nigeria is clear that while the Assembly Appropriates the Executive Implements so we are at a misfortune on how it has now turned into the obligations of the National Assembly to demand the usage of ventures that are sure to come up short and that will just prompt expanding the officially over bloated liabilities of the Federal Government.

"Hence, we are looking for the accompanying requests to God: (i).Immediate installment of the appropriately owed contractual workers through the MDG Intervention 1 and 2 discharges; (ii) Outright cancelation or stoppage of the recompense of new contracts."

In the interim, the government has said the poor condition of the nation's economy, particularly the deterioration in the Naira swapping scale, is the immediate result of the limitless blunder of the economy and the careless plundering of the national treasury under the quick past organization of Goodluck Jonathan

Amnesty urges release of allegedly abused boy by police in egypt

Egypt should quickly discharge a 14-year-old kid who says he was sexually manhandled in detainment by police utilizing a wooden stick and convey his charged torturers to equity, Amnesty International said.

Mazen Mohamed Abdallah's family told the rights amass the adolescent was over and again tormented in guardianship, including likewise being given electric stuns to his private parts.

"The terrible misuse depicted by Abdallah gives a sickening knowledge into the far reaching and routine utilization of torment and sick treatment by Egyptian security powers in police headquarters," Said Boumedouha, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program delegate chief, said in an announcement on Friday.

The kid's case is one of a few highlighted over the previous weeks by rights bunches who say police severity is at the end of the day across the board in Egypt.

The Interior Ministry declined quick remark on Amnesty's allegations yet said it would issue an announcement later. It has said it would explore all misuse affirmations.

The gathering said Abdallah was tormented into admitting enrollment of the Muslim Brotherhood and taking part in an unapproved dissent.

The Brotherhood was expelled from force by the military in 2013 when then-military boss Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed previous President Mohamed Mursi, an individual from the gathering, after mass dissents against his chose principle.

The gathering was then prohibited and security strengths slaughtered several its supporters and imprisoned thousands, with hundreds more sentenced to death in mass trials.

Egypt's police were infamous for human rights misuse amid the guideline of czar Hosni Mubarak however dissolved away amid the uprising that toppled him in 2011. They have subsequent to made a solid rebound under Sisi, who supplanted Mursi as president.

Two cops were sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison for tormenting a legal counselor to death in a police headquarters in February.

On Friday, nine police were alluded to a criminal court and accused of pounding the life out of a father of four.

He was one of no less than three men who passed on in police authority in the space of a week in November, inciting uproars in the place where he grew up and uncommon media investigation of police techniques.

N1 trilion fine: MTN may sack more workers

Antennas radiating from MTN Nigeria on Thursday demonstrated that the information transfers firm may be sacking so as to sustain arrangements to lessen its workforce a sizeable number of its lesser representatives.

This is coming one week after the first indigenous Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Michael Ikpoki, and the Regulatory and Corporate Service Executive, Akinwale Goodluck, left the organization.

Ikpoki and Goodluck left the organization taking after the inconvenience of a N1.04trilion fine on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission for not cutting off more than 5 million unregistered Subscriber Id Module cards. Taking after extraordinary entryway, the Federal Government has now cut the fine by 25 for every penny to N780bn.

Dependable sources at the Lagos central station of the organization told our journalist on Thursday that the administration was arranging eliminated the quantity of representatives, particularly those in the lower framework.

Talking on state of obscurity, one of the sources said, "This is a troublesome time for MTN. We are truly confronting significant issues. In light of this fine, the administration has begun cutting expenses. Workers' remittances are being checked on.

"The stunning thing now is that we learnt the administration is wanting to scale back, particularly among the lower unit staff. The arrangement is to do it noiselessly. No declaration will be made of the sacking. Individuals will simply be paid off."

In any case, a senior administration representative of the organization, who likewise talked on state of secrecy given the present circumstance of things in the firm, negated the arranged sacking of junior laborers.

"It is an untruth. It is not genuine. The association is right now incline as far as staff quality, so how would we oversee sacking individuals once more? MTN can't be battling fights at distinctive closures," the source said.

He included, "We are until further notice focused on the most proficient method to determine issues around the fine. For the individuals who had been requested that go, it was not as though they were chargeable in the matter, however reality will be told at the opportune time.

"For the present, there is no arrangement to scale down. It might be later on. MTN has turned into an establishment. We are likewise as of now taking a shot at how to get more laborers."

On the other hand, another senior administration representative of the organization countered the case by his associate, saying.

"The organization may be incline in assets if it in the long run pay the fine, however it is not incline in staff quality and that is the reason it needs some more individuals out. Presently, they have begun cutting expenses and remittances, and are wanting to sack the lesser specialists without satisfactory result bundle.

"Is that how the organization needs to recover the N780bn fine would it be advisable for it to in the end pay up to that sum?"

Ekiti state governor fayose says APC plans to upturn his election

Ekiti State Governor, Peter Ayodele Fayose, has charged that there are arrangements by the decision party, All Progressives Congress (APC) to upturn his organization.

Addressing Channels TV, Fayose raised the alert saying APC has arrangements to upturn the judgment of the Supreme Court on the 2014 governorship race that got him into force as a second time senator.

Perused: Ekiti Governor blows hot, challenges Buhari, DSS

He further claimed that the gathering is wanting to utilize the military request reports when conveyed to upturn the Supreme Court judgment.

Couple of months back, the military had constituted a board of investigation into the operations of its authorities in the governorship race, after the APC claimed that the military schemed with the Peoples Democratic Party to fix the race to support Fayose.

"They went to Kaduna and after all entries, they need to now come up and say that military fixed Ekiti race.

"They are discharging their report soon and they need to return and say that, knowing completely that the military report holds no water in law, the lawyer General of the country or different offices of the Federal Government will need that report uncovered and that will be issued in Kaduna at whatever time from now.

"They need to utilize that and approach the Supreme Court to survey its position which is not known not," he asserted.

NEWS:- Boko Haram won’t stop us from celebrating Xmas------ said CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria has said that the security challenges the nation over won't ingrain dread in Christians amid the prospective Christmas festivity.

The affiliation, however requested that Christians "safeguard themselves when it gets to be fundamental" even with any incitement.

The General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Musa Asake and its Director of National Issues, Mr. Sunny Oibe, expressed these in discrete meetings   in Abuja.

Asake said, "The present condition of shakiness in the nation won't in any case keep places of worship from having bigger social occasions to observe Christmas. The Department of State Services has alarmed individuals and whatever I can say is that houses of worship ought to reinforce their security by ensuring the spots of love and homes.

"No measure of risk from the agitators ought to terrify us from going to chapel particularly on a Christmas day. I consequently approach all Christians amid this merry period to watch and ask and be prepared to shield themselves when it gets to be important. Administrations by the beauty of God will occur and all will go well. Our God will see us through effectively."

In his response, Oibe said, "Christians will assemble to commend the conception of their friend in need, Jesus Christ; the unrivaled ruling King, with or without the security difficulties standing up to our dear country. Our security and wellbeing is for the sake of the Lord of Host. Our confidence is unshaken and can't be broken by the exercises and strengths of shrewdness men making trepidation in the area."

Biafra: Kukah says, Kanu is a bigger crowd-puller than Buhari

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, has said nothing wasn't right with the unsettling for Biafra by individuals from the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

Kukah, who said this on Friday night at the assembly address of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, included that the expert Biafra instigators were practicing the flexibility of expression.

The minister exhorted the Federal Government to join forces with the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, saying the administration ought to try to work with him in view of his magnetism.

The diocesan further said no Nigerian legislator could activate a colossal number of supporters like Kanu without paying them, saying the administration did not have to dog this sort of individual but rather to cooperate with him.

Kukah said: "This nation can't proceed with along these lines. MASSOB has right to request Biafra since we have flexibility of expression. The issue of Nigeria ought not be with Kanu but rather ought to be with who let the entryway open.

"The President of Nigeria or any representative, unless he pays, can't bring the quantity of individuals that Kanu brought out. The uneasiness of Nigeria ought to be that a young fellow who can bring out such awesome number of individuals merits working with."

The pastor likewise wailed over the condition of Nigerian colleges. He said the administration and in addition instructors ought to be faulted if a few understudies neglected to graduate.

Kukah expressed that understudies had a say in the advancement of their teachers in a few colleges yet that was not the situation in the country's varsities.

"Somewhere else, understudies have a say in the advancement of their educators however here in Nigeria, an excess of indecencies are being dedicated. We require an era of legal advisors and judges who can twist the circular segment of equity for poor people," he included.

In his introductory statements, the Vice-Chancellor of the OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, said the college remained the best in the nation, saying numerous deeds had been accomplished since he expected office.

Terrible Accident in Enugu

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has communicated trouble over the passing of eight All Progressives Congress supporters and a conductor in a car accident on the Ezzamgbo segment of the Abakaliki-Enugu parkway.

The accident happened when the driver of a Toyota Sienna passing on the APC supporters lost control and slammed into a truck going to Abakaliki.

The gathering supporters were said to be going to Enugu to join the followers of the Labor Party contender for the last governorship race in Ebonyi State, Edward Nkwegu, who had massed at the Court of Appeal anticipating the decision on Nkwegu's allure.

In an announcement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Emma Anya, on Saturday, Umahi said it was "grievous that the casualties who were providers of their families lost their lives while going to witness a practically futile offer," by Nkwegu.

PDP- We’ll back Buhari to end insurgency

The Peoples Democratic Party said in Abuja on Friday that it would not censure President Muhammadu Buhari-drove All Progressives Congress government on the off chance that it neglects to meet the December 31 due date to end uprising in the nation.

Maybe, it said that it would back the President to end the dread war.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, expressed the party's position when he got a young gathering under the aegis of Northern Youth Network at the gathering national secretariat.

Metuh said, "APC had guaranteed that they were going to end uprising in two weeks, they later said it will be over in two months and after that they now gave December 31 due date to end Boko Haram.

"Presently, notwithstanding the dialect it is framed in moving the objective posts, and in spite of taking note of and watching every one of the infractions and a wide range of dangerous reactions APC mounted on us when they were in resistance, the PDP as a national gathering will shun making remarks on issues on the deficiencies relating to the war against insurrection in the nation.

"For us in the PDP, we remain totally in backing of the government in the war to destroy revolt in our property and we charge all Nigerians to bolster President Muhammadu Buhari in the war against fear. "The war by the fear gathering is not against the President, it is not against the APC nor is it against the PDP.

"It is somewhat a war being pursued against Nigerians and the kinsmen ought to remain as a united power with our President to battle and annihilation the agitators.

"On the off chance that we do this we will be battling for a typical decent. We would make an impression on those that look to separation us that we are unified and that Nigeria is really one nation and that we need to remain so. We have chosen not to examine things relating to the war against insurrection and we will remain by the President as the pioneer of nation."

Metuh said that even in doing as such, the gathering would in any case not delay or modest far from making its perspectives known on different ranges it feels that the administration is not doing admirably.

"We won't be threatened or hassled into relinquishing our part as the main resistance party. We will remain a practical and vocal voice of the restriction and we will stay centered in our productive feedback against the legislature of the day," he included.

Fashola said :- FG will pay great attention to roads, others

Mr. Babtunde Fashola

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, 

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the Federal Government will give careful consideration and put vigorously in street base, power and lodging in the coming years.

The segments, he said, would be organized by virtue of their commitments to national economy because of their abilities to create multiplier impacts and livelihood on an extensive scale.

The clergyman said this amid the opening service of the 2015 actuation for recently enlisted amount surveyors and honing firms and the fourth yearly expert center on danger administration, composed by the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria, on Thursday in Abuja.

Fashola said the administration would be depending on the backing of enrolled Nigerian amount surveyors and different experts in the development business in its journey to convey great administration to the general population.

The priest, who was spoken to by the Director, Survey Department, Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Dickson Onojah, asked amount studies to present their mastery as development expense administrators as a powerful influence for the costing of activities keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish esteem for cash and cost productivity in the execution of tasks in both the general population and private segments of the economy.

He said, "I am enchanted to be having impact in today's incitement function for a gathering of experts like enlisted amount surveyors, who are key players in the assembled environment, which is a key segment of our economy.

"Here, we are discussing foundation, for example, streets, lodging and urban advancement, all of which go under the domain of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, which I have been accused of the obligation of supervising.

"It is one area, which this legislature will give due regard for in perspective of its commitments to the national financial because of its ability to create multiplier impacts and occupation on a vast scale."

Fashola recognize the QSRBN for "the great work you have done as such far in the quest for your command not just in the customary enrollment and impelling of qualified amount surveyors, additionally in the range of expert advancement and accreditation of amount looking over projects in the colleges and polytechnics."

The QSRBN President, Mallam Hussaini Dikko, expressed that 317 recently enlisted amount surveyors and 34 rehearsing firms of amount surveyors were accepted, bringing the aggregate number of enrolled amount surveyors and honing firms in the register of the board to 2,777 and 236 separately.

He cautioned that the board would cinch down vigorously on any enlisted amount surveyor that occupied with sharp practices.

Dikko said, "in such manner, enlisted amount surveyors must line behind President Muhammadu Buhari in his against defilement campaign. Amount surveyors have a key part to play in battling defilement in the building and designing industry."

Oil falls to $39, threatens Federal Government’s savings plan

'Femi Asu 

Worldwide benchmark Brent rough on Thursday developed its misfortunes, dropping to $39 per barrel in this manner debilitating the Federal Government's capacity to spare income from raw petroleum deals one year from now.

The Federal Executive Council had recently proposed $38 per barrel as the oil benchmark cost for the 2016 spending plan, down from $53 this year.

The Excess Crude Account, into which the nation spares the distinction between the business sector cost of oil and the monetary allowance benchmark to give a pad when oil costs fall or additional money is required for spending on foundation, has been drained as of late as oil incomes dove.

The record, which remained at about $4.11bn in October 2014, dropped to $2.45bn in December that year, down from about $3.11bn in November. The equalization in the ECA was put at $2.1bn in July this year.

Congresspersons on Wednesday differ among themselves on the $38 per barrel proposed by the Federal Executive Council as the oil benchmark cost for the 2016 spending plan, which was contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper sent to the upper chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari.

While a portion of the administrators required an increment in the benchmark value, others bolstered the choice of the Federal Government to peg the benchmark at $38 per barrel.

Brent, against which the greater part of the world's oil, including Nigeria's is evaluated, has fallen by more than 60 for each penny in the previous year and a half, putting weight on oil-sending out nations.

The worldwide benchmark fell underneath the $40-per-barrel mark on Tuesday without precedent for right around seven years because of oversupply. It later headed back above $40, at which it exchanged on Wednesday.

Remarking on the proposed $38 per barrel benchmark for the 2016 spending plan, the Head of Energy Research, Ecobank Capital, Mr. Dolapo Oni, in a messaged reaction to addresses from our journalist, said, "I think it is a reasonable cost. The oil business sector is really unstable and responding to the OPEC news right now."

He said oil cost could even go lower to $38 per barrel, however included that it would recuperate above $40 and possibly $50.

"We have guage a normal of $46.33 per barrel one year from now in light of the fact that we see the potential at costs above $50 and in addition costs in the $20-30 territory. As I would like to think, in this manner, I think the benchmark is agreeable," Oni said.

Nigeria, as different nations that depend on oil incomes, has seen its accounts gravely hit by the decrease in oil costs, with unrefined exchanging underneath the nation's 2015 spending plan benchmark cost as of late.




The precarious decrease in oil costs had in March constrained the National Assembly to settle for $53 per barrel as the benchmark cost for the 2015 spending plan, down from $65 proposed by the Executive, which needed to alter it twice, from $78 to $73, and later to $65.

Goldman Sachs, a standout amongst the most persuasive banks in ware markets, as of late said that oil could tumble to as low as $20 per barrel in the midst of reasons for alarm that the world is coming up short on capacity limit.

The Chief Executive Officer, Total, Patrick Pouyanne, had on Monday said he didn't expect weight on oil costs after OPEC's choice last Friday not to force a roof on rough yield and keep generation at abnormal states.

"OPEC's choice was normal by the business sector. We don't envision a recuperation in 2016 (at oil costs), on the grounds that in 2016, the development in limit will be bigger than the development sought after… I am not exceptionally idealistic for 2016," he told journalists in Qatar.

OPEC neglected to concede to another yield portion on Friday, permitting part nations to keep pumping more than 31 million barrels for each day of oil, further swelling an overabundance that has brought down costs.

The OPEC choice sent Brent into substantial fall on Monday, when it tumbled to $41 per barrel, the most minimal level since March 200

In Osun:- Pupils attack teachers with guns

Femi Makinde, Osogbo

A few instructors at Anglican High School and Adenle Middle School in Osogbo barely avoided being shot when a few cultists attacked the school compound and pursued out educators.

The school which houses understudy populace of around 7,000 is comprised of Anglican High School 1-5 and a few understudies of Adenle Middle School.

Our journalist accumulated on Thursday that the emergency was brought about by a few understudies who knew they couldn't pass the qualifying examination the state needed to direct to choose those whose WAEC expense would be paid by the state government.

However, some said the emergency began last Friday when an understudy distinguished as Toib and his associates raged the school premises with dane firearms to assault an individual from Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme ( O' YES cadet) who they had issues with.

An instructor told our journalist that Toib and his pack pursued a female Home Economics educator out of the class when the inconvenience began.

The attack of the school constrained different understudies and laborers to escape.

The Friday intrusion was said to have constrained the school powers to welcome policemen yet the cultists prepared more individuals and assaulted the police even on Monday.

The advancement, it was accumulated prompted the guideline given to the educators by the Nigeria Union of Teachers that all instructors ought to avoid school in view of the danger to their lives.

It was further learnt that the Osun State Ministry of Education had likewise shut down the school to keep any passing.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, when reached declined to make any remark on the emergency.

He said, " This is a subject I would prefer not to discuss. Possibly you can see the agent representative and pose your inquiries."

On the other hand, the NUT director, Mr. Amudah Wakeel, when reached said the emergency was so genuine, including that a percentage of the educators were fortunate to have circumvented being shot dead by the rampaging cultists.

Wakeel said, " Some cultists among the understudies attacked the school. They needed to execute a portion of the educators. They took dane firearms to the school yet our individuals were lucky.

"An individual from "OYES" cadet was harmed with a hatchet by the understudies yet he survived. The police were conveyed to keep the circumstance from prompting loss of lives. We have taught our individuals to avoid the school on account of the danger to their lives.

"The union has the ability to teach individuals not to go to class if their lives were debilitated and this is precisely what happened. The instructors quit going to class and the administration has shut down the school."

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, when reached told our third party that seven suspects were captured regarding the emergency.

It will be reviewed that an educator at the Oosgbo High School was harmed with a hatchet taking after the wicked conflict between understudies of the school and understudies of Government Technical College, Osogbo, in 2014.

Marketers:- We’ll continue to sell fuel above N87 per litre

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Rivers State branch, has said it will keep on offering fuel above government-affirmed pump costs unless the stops consent to the same order.

IPMAN made this promise on Thursday at the yearly meeting of the Department of Petroleum Resources, warehouse proprietors and different partners in the oil division.

Premum engine soul otherwise called petrol had been rare in the nation, prompting a trek in cost from the official cost of N87 to between N120 to N180 per liter.

Be that as it may, IPMAN Chairman, Mr. Sunny Nkpe, cautioned that the union would not have the capacity to implement N87 per liter of petrol on its individuals.

Nkpe rebuked stations proprietors for the infringement of the order that fuel ought to be sold at authority costs.

He contended that there was no chance retailers would purchase item at a high rate from the stations and administer to the clients beneath the expense cost.

Clarifying that the advertisers were prepared to serve people in general with uprightness and appreciation if terminal proprietors offer at the affirmed value, the IPMAN director in the state said, "We won't consent to the administrative petrol cost of N87 until the warehouses proprietors follow the same mandate.

"The terminals offer to us at a high value and anticipate that us will offer at the official rate. We purchase above endorsed cost from the station proprietors. We won't acknowledge that; we will oppose any specialists who will come to uphold such request until the terminals proprietors make the best decision."

Be that as it may, Mr. Paul Fred, who represented the warehouse proprietors in the state, pointed out that stops in the state were as of now confronting numerous difficulties.

Fred clarified that the warehouses were confronting the issue of money and portion.

As indicated by him, "In the midst of the said difficulties, the terminals proprietors are prepared to play by the standard of the amusement keeping in mind the end goal to advance the nation."

Talking at the event, the DPR cautioned that the organization would no more endure any terminal proprietor and advertiser who occupied with any type of unlawful practices in the oil and gas industry inside of the zone.

Keyamo tells Buhari to punish corrupt politicians

Lagos legal advisor, Festus Keyamo, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to be stopped by the reactions that he is being particular in his against debasement war.

Keyamo requested that Buhari rebuff those effectively discovered blameworthy of improving themselves unjustifiably in the last organization.

The legal advisor, who said this in a progression of tweets on his official Twitter handle on Wednesday, said those reprimanding the President for being specific in his hostile to debasement war were those chargeable of defilement.

He said, "The individuals who say that President Buhari is specific in his against debasement war ought to hold up till 2019. Vote out the All Progressives Congress and manage those he (Buhari) disregarded. Until further notice, gives us a chance to manage those (degenerate lawmakers) that have being gotten."

Keyamo said regardless of the downpour of reactions against him on the online networking, he would keep on supporting the President in recuperating plundered assets.

He said it was heartbreaking that the individuals who faulted previous President Goodluck Jonathan for not examining individuals for defilement related offenses were pointing the finger at President Buhari for taking up arms against thieves.

He included, "A few individuals imagine that futile tweets and entertaining rationale would deter a few of us from supporting President Buhari's endeavors against bandits. I giggle. What do we truly need in this nation? Goodluck Jonathan didn't capture anybody for defilement, we grumbled. Buhari has chosen else, despite everything we grumbled.

"Individuals that have slaughtered thousands by stashing assets intended to ensure lives are presently asserting human rights misuse. Some grumble about those confined with court orders for taking cash implied for the obtainment of arms yet are quiet about the individuals who are in their graves as a consequence of the extortion.

"By following marauders, Buhari is bowing to the wishes of the masses that conveyed him to control. What's more, that is the voting public that he needs to fulfill."

MUST READ:- Northern leader Meet With Igbo Royal Fathers

A powerful designation was invited by the Governor of the state Rochas Okorocha, who held a meeting to rub minds on the past aggravations in the South-East.

The Northern customary rulers said they put stock in the solidarity of Nigeria and are stressed over the unsettling for the Biafra state. They said the nervousness ought to be observed.

The meeting was gone to by the top of the line customary leaders of Nigeria containing the Obi of Onitsha, Emir of Lafia, Emir of Fika, Gbong Gwom Jos among others.

The Igbo imperial fathers displayed their new boss HRM Eze Eberechi Dick, who duplicates as Chairman Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers.

The customary rulers educated Okorocha that peace has come back to the conventional organization in the South-East.

The Imo state representative in his answer adulated the Northern conventional rulers for their enthusiasm for the occasions in the state including that the Igbos has lost a larger number of lives than whatever other tribe in Nigeria for the peace in Nigeria.

Okorocha said Igbos are dedicated and are found in all aspects of Nigeria, proceeding with that the Igbo man doesn't consider himself to be an outsider in any area.

He gave the confirmation that the guests that the tumult is being investigated by the governors and pioneers of South-East.

The representative included that murdering of Ibos in the Boko Haram emergencies without remuneration, pardon allowed Niger Delta adolescents without stretching out same to Igbo young people who presented their arms and so on.

"Nigeria is my supporters, having been conceived and prepared in the North, enabled by the South West and being of Igbo parentage," he said.

Okorocha at the wake of the dissents exonerated that the Southeast governors and Igbo pioneers of any complicity including that the separatists abhors the backing of dominant part of the Igbo.

Additionally the senator had ventured up security in the state to stop the expert Biafra bunches from holding the dissent in the state.

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose says Buhari’s corruption war is a quest for vengeance

Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has portrayed President Muhammadu Buhari's war against debasement as a mission for retribution. 

Fayose made the remark on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, by means of an announcement discharged by his media assistant, Lere Olayinka.

The announcement peruses:

"After glaringly defying court arranges, whatever that is done or said by the Buhari-drove government concerning Sambo Dasuki will seem malevolent and it stays to be perceived how an administration that declined to comply with the court will now charge Dasuki to the same court."

"Once more, is it the obligation of the DSS to examine misrepresentation? In the event that Dasuki conferred misrepresentation as being charged, why not let the suitable government organization handle his matter? Why first tormenting him sincerely with the DSS attack on his home?"

"My position is that, since the national government said report of its board arraigned Dasuki, why capturing and keeping him? Why not charge him to court with the goal that he can likewise acknowledge knit or safeguard himself?"

Fayose had before blamed Buhari for running an one-chance government saying that the president's organization had not yet brought the change it guaranteed amid his decision battle.

Lagos promise to improved safety measures for residents

Sesan Olufowobi 

The Lagos State Government says it will keep on making the wellbeing of Lagosians its need and will never desert them to any destiny that comes to pass for them.

The administration additionally emphasized its dedication to the prosperity of its workforce to get the best out of them.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-legislative Relations, Dr. Ibironke Sodeinde, said this on Friday amid her visit to the casualties of the Owode-Onirin Scrap Market barrel blast accepting treatment at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.

Sodeinde, who was joined by the Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, said the administration would pay the doctor's visit expenses brought about over the span of the casualties' treatment as an exhibit of its dedication to their prosperity.

"This, we accept, will pad the money related hardship on their families," she included.

Sodeinde said the legislature was not ignorant of the level of introduction of firefighters to chances from flame and different perils in the line of obligation.

She said, "Firefighters are key to open wellbeing; they take part in putting out flames and pulling individuals from blazing autos, structures and different hazardous circumstances. To this end, the legislature has protected them, enhanced their welfare bundles and prepared their offices to lessen their powerlessness to risks."

The casualties, who were 11 in number, were raced to the healing center as an aftereffect of direct introduction to suspected smelling salts gas released from busted surrendered barrels, bringing on the firefighters and the merchants to be oblivious.

The flame, which heightened from smoldering of load of decline by an occupant brought about the blast of the barrels which prompted the arrival of the harmful substance.

The executive of the flame administration said firefighters were unsung saints, who took a chance with their lives under the sun and in the downpour to guarantee that lives and property were ensured.

He said seven casualties had been released, while the remaining were in stable condition and reacting to treatment.

Probe Okonjo-Iweala over Abacha loot, SERAP tells Muhammed Buhari

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Ramon Oladimeji 

A human rights bunch, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has required a test of the Ministry of Finance covering the period amid which it was going by Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

The gathering said the test got to be imperative in perspective of the data given to the World Bank by Okonjo-Iweala on how the repatriated plunder from the late military ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha, was spent.

In an announcement on Sunday by its Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, SERAP said it had gotten a 700-page report from the World Bank, wherein Okonjo-Iweala was cited to have said that the repatriated Abacha plunder was spent on streets, power, training, wellbeing and water somewhere around 2004 and 2005 over the six geopolitical zones of the nation.

As per SERAP, Okonjo-Iweala told the World Bank in a letter dated January 9, 2005 that N65bn of Abacha plunder was repatriated from Switzerland out of which N10.83bn was spent on wellbeing; N7bn on training; N6.2bn on water; and N21.7bn on power.

The ex-clergyman was said to have included that a portion of the assets were spent on new and progressing venture ventures and that significant government services had the points of interest of the spendings.

In any case, SERAP, which asserted that "there is no confirmation of such ventures, as a great many Nigerians keep on going on dead streets, while they keep on lacking access to sufficient power supply, water, wellbeing and quality instruction," said President Muhammadu Buhari must test Okonjo-Iweala's association in the spending of the repatriated Abacha plunder.

SERAP said the exposure by the World Bank was in light of an entrance to data demand it made to the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, on September 21, 2015.

As indicated by the gathering, aside from the 700-page archive it got from Ann May of the World Bank Access to Information Team, it likewise got a letter dated 24 November 2015 from the Director of the World Bank in Africa, Mr. Rachid Benmessaoud.

The gathering said it is as yet examining the records to check whether they contain data that Nigerians might want to know.

President Buhari- Terrorists kill over 10,000 Nigerians, displace two million

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday night unveiled that more than 10,000 persons were killed and more than two million dislodged inside by terrorists in Nigeria in the most recent six years. 

He said most of the inside dislodged persons are ladies and youngsters.

As per an announcement on Saturday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President talked at a feast facilitated by Queen Elizabeth II for Heads of State and Government taking an interest in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta.

Adesina cited the President as requiring the foundation of a Commonwealth Committee to supervise the rendering of more noteworthy help and backing to Nigeria and other part nations antagonistically influenced by the scourge of terrorism.

Buhari communicated the trust that the board of trustees would have been set up before the following meeting of the association.

The President additionally anticipated that the advisory group would visit part nations of the Commonwealth in the grasp of terrorists with a perspective to advancing handy procedures for more significant help to the influenced nations.

He asked the Commonwealth to demonstrate more prominent purpose in helping Nigeria and other creating countries in its positions to conquer the difficulties of financial advancement, security, terrorism and defilement.

He said, "With the change of worldwide correspondences, terrorism has no outskirts now. What happened as of late in France profoundly affected every one of us, yet not very many nations understand that Nigeria has endured terrorist losses of more than 10,000 murdered in the most recent six years. At this time, we have more than two million inside uprooted persons, the vast majority of whom are ladies and kids, and the greater part of the youngsters are vagrants."

Buhari educated the get-together of endeavors by Nigeria and different individuals from the Lake Chad Basin Commission to control the danger of Boko Haram.

He said the issue of terrorism in West Africa had been exasperated by the breakdown of the Gadhafi administration in Libya.

"We have consented to a joint team for the disposal of Boko Haram, yet it may not be simple, particularly after the occasions in Libya when prepared individuals with weapons moved back to Sahel locale from where they were enrolled by the previous Libyan pioneer. Those weapons and aptitude in their utilization are currently exasperating the circumstance in the Sahel and further south," the President said.
While calling for more noticeable overall support for Nigeria and distinctive countries impacted by terrorism, Buhari imparted his association's vitality about the assistance starting now being gotten from the Commonwealth, Britain, the Group of Seven Industrialized Nations, France and the United States.

He included, "I am grateful to Britain, France and the United States. They have formally sent gatherings to set up the Nigerian Military and Police in the control of terrorism. The Commonwealth has helped us in such an assortment of courses by the conspicuous reinforce they have been accommodating offer us some help with defeating the issue of terrorism."

The Queen's Banquet at which Buhari talked was in like manner gone to by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Blacklist Ki Moon.

Obama decries weapon violence after most recent deadly shooting

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AFP 

US President Barack Obama reproved the nation's pandemic of firearm brutality on Saturday and reestablished a call for harder controls on military-style weapons after yet another destructive shooting, saying "that's it."

The most recent carnage went ahead Friday when a man entered a family arranging facility in the condition of Colorado and supposedly started shooting, killing three individuals, including a cop, and injuring nine others.

The rationale of the suspect now collared was not known and police were to examine him Saturday.

The catastrophe came a day after Americans praised their esteemed Thanksgiving occasion, a period to unwind with family, and ushers in the Christmas season vigorously.

Obama said the suspect had been outfitted with an ambush weapon — that was the first authority expression of this subtle element — and he likewise uncovered interestingly that the man had held prisoners at the Planned Parenthood focus from which he started shooting at individuals outside in an hours in length standoff with police.

"We need to take care of the simple availability of weapons of war on our lanes to individuals who should not be wielding them. Period. Nothing more will be tolerated," Obama said in an announcement.

The shooter had entered a Planned Parenthood facility around twelve Friday and began shooting from a window. Police encompassed the building, and after a trade of gunfire and a standoff enduring over five hours the shooter surrendered.

Neighborhood police on Saturday distinguished the suspect as 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear. News reports said he was from South Carol