
Radio Desk
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has secured nine convictions and recovered three hundred and twelve million naira proceeds of fraud through the work of its office in Benin City, Edo State.
The Zonal Head of Operations, Mailafia Yakubu, made the revelation while giving account of the work done by the anti-graft agency in the zone over its first twelve months.
Yakubu also disclosed that the EFCC currently has twenty-eight cases in various courts, adding that the commission would not relent on its efforts to eradicate corruption in Nigeria.
Aside prosecution, Yakubu said the Commission was also keen on nipping corruption in the bud through public enlightenment and sensitization campaigns targeted at students of secondary schools and tertiary institutions.
Detailed of the anniversary activities of the EFCC were contained in a statement released by the Head of Media and Publicity of the agency, Wilson Uwujaren.
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reinstatement of three Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service who have been without posting since November 2015.
However; one of those affected, Fatima Binta Bamidele, has already attained the compulsory retirement age of sixty years, and is to be proceed on retirement with full benefits.
Bamidele, as well as Ibukun Abimbola Odusote and Nkechi Ejele were investigated by the Federal Service Management Committee and that of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and found to be innocent of allegations made against them.
In a statement signed by the Director of Information in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Lawrence Ojabo, President directed that the career of the permanent secretaries must not be terminated on grounds of unproven allegation until they are due for retirement.
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has called for the review of the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Agreement between Nigeria and oil multinationals.
NEITI said the existing agreements were obsolete and their reliance for the computation of revenues to be shared between the government and oil companies had led to huge financial losses to the federation.
For instance, the agency noted that the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contracts Act of 1993 provides for a review of the terms when prices of oil crosses twenty dollars per barrel in real term; and a review of the terms fifteen years after operation of the agreement and five years subsequently.
However; it observed with concern that Nigeria was yet to adhere to the important provision even with oil price revolving around seventy dollars per barrel.
NEITI’s concerns were contained in an Occasional Paper on the review of three years of the financial and operations reports of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
The review established that crude oil production under the Production Sharing Contracts has since overtaken production under the Joint Venture arrangements.
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa says elections will go ahead as planned on 30th July, despite an attempt on his life.
Forty-one people were injured in the blast at a rally in the city of Bulawayo, which occurred close to Mnangagwa as he was leaving the stage.
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa also condemned the attack, saying any political violence was totally unacceptable.
The president was in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city and an opposition stronghold, to campaign for his Zanu-PF party ahead of the July election.
The Plateau State Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Jos South Local Government Areas.
This follows reports that dozens of persons have been allegedly killed in Gashish and Ropp Districts of Plateau State during an attack that were carried out on about eleven communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
According to a statement by the Secretary to the Plateau State Government, Rufus Bature, the movement was restricted from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, except for those on essential duties.
The decision, according to the government, was to avert further breakdown of law and order.
The Nigerian Air Force has deployed three hundred Special Forces to Benue State to help stem the tide of clashes between herdsmen and local militias in farming communities.
This was confirmed by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, during a visit to the NAF unit in Makurdi, in continuation of his tour of NAF formations nationwide.
Air Marshal Abubakar was accompanied by the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Air Force, Samson Okwu.
During the visit, the Chief of Air Staff and other senior officers were briefed by the Joint Task Force Commander, Major General Adeyemi Yekini, and the Air Component Commander, Group Captain Precious Amadi.
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the closure of all dilapidate public schools across the state.
Students and pupils of the affected schools are to be relocated to other schools, which the state government is yet to announce.
However; Governor Obaseki specifically directed that pupils and staff of Holy Aruosa Primary School in Benin City should be relocated to the nearby Agbado Primary School.
The directives were made after the Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie, visited Holy Aruosa Primary School yesterday morning to assess the level degradation of the structures.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, disclosed in a statement that the state government had initially ordered the relocation of the school and was shocked to notice that it was still in use by the teachers and pupils.
To this end, Osagie said Governor Obaseki has ordered an investigation of the flaunting of his directive, including allegations that some teachers who do not wish to be transferred had retained the pupils in the school for selfish reasons, despite the unsafe condition.
A new deal has been reached to end more than four years of civil war in South Sudan.
The agreement requires that former Vice President and rebel leader, Riek Machar, should be relocated to a neutral place country outside the region.
Regional leaders endorsed the plan during two days of talks in Ethiopia without Machar, who has been under house arrest in South Africa since fleeing Juba in 2016.
President Salva Kiir rejected proposals to work together with his former Vice-President in any transitional government.
Meanwhile; the deadlock between the warring sides continues, with South Sudan facing a worsening food crisis.
The United States government has imposed visa bans on a number of Congolese officials accused of corruption or electoral malpractice.
The US State Department said the move was intended to send a strong signal, but stopped short of mentioning the names of the affected Congolese officials.
The American said the measures are in line with its commitment to fight corruption and support credible elections.
This comes as the Democratic Republic of Congo prepares to hold a much-delayed presidential election in December to choose a successor to President Joseph Kabila.
Somalia has resumed exporting fish to Kenya for the first time in thirty years, with Kingfish and tuna as the most popular.
The development has been partly attributed to a reduction in the level of piracy off the Somali coast.
Also, fish traders in the port of Kismayo say they are now able to export due to better refrigeration at a new processing factory.
Somalia has been devastated by more than thirty years of civil war fueled by Islamist militants, which has prevented many businesses from developing.
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