"May God rest the souls of the dead, heal the injured, and comfort the bereaved."
~Pres.@MBuhari— President Buhari (@NGRPresident)November 17, 2015
"The enemies of humanity will never win. Hand in hand, we will rid our land of terrorism."
~ Pres@MBuhari— President Buhari (@NGRPresident)November 17, 2015
The House of Representatives has been told that banks promote prostitution in the country by setting unrealistic targets for their female marketers.
Hon. Segun Alexander Adekola, while sponsoring a motion entitled, “Urgent Need to Curb Unwholesome Practices of Banks in Nigeria,” on Tuesday said that female marketers are usually send to solicit for huge deposits for the banks and those who fail to meet the largely unrealistic targets are quickly dismissed.
His words ;
“A critical assessment of the targets being given to these employees to meet, show them to be unrealistic, unreasonable, ordinarily unattainable and irrational.
“But these banks resort to unethical means to ensure that these targets are met by either explicitly or impliedly encouraging their staff, especially the female ones to engage in illicit behaviour.”
In her support for the motion, Hon Rita Orji noted that female bankers are known to have been sacked through text messages for failing to meet such unrealistic deposit targets.
Majority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, recalled that his earlier attempt to stop the practice with his Corporate Prostitution Bill in the Sixth Assembly, was frustrated by some bankers when it got to the stage of public hearing.
“Marriages have been wrecked and homes destroyed because of this practice and I am sure that none of us here will allow our daughters to be involved in this,” he said.
Calling for a voice vote on the motion, House Speaker, Hon Yakubu Dogara appealed to bank managements in the country to desist from the practice of sending young women to solicit for million naira deposits.
Nigeria's Under-23 soccer team on Sunday morning cheated death as their aircraft developed a technical problem on their way to Gambia and had to make an emergency landing at the airport in Accra, Ghana.
The team was going to Gambia to camp and perfect strategies for the African U23 Championship billed for Senegal.
Goal reports one of the team officials as saying that the crew of the Arik Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing at Accra airport when the aircraft developed an unexpected technical problem.
"Thank God for His goodness and his mercies. We escaped a plane crash on our way to Gambia. The pilot had to make an emergency landing in Accra. We are still in Accra.
"We are still stranded here and we are yet to get any news from Arik officials,” the official said.
Four men are by now explaining to the Bauchi State Police Command and the court how 25 years old Rose Luka got buried in a shallow grave at the Bayan Gari area of Bauchi metropolis after an abortion-gone-awry.
Sources said that the suspects, Hillary Joseph 31, Nasiru Haruna 25 and Hamisu Yashi 30, all of Bayan Gari Area of Bauchi conspired and hurriedly buried Rose Luka a female from Adamawa State aged 25 after she died from complications resulting from an unsuccessful abortion.
In the words of Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Haruna Mohammed,
“about 17:00hrs,following intelligence report, Police detectives attached to Tafawa Balewa housing Estate Division Bauchi arrested one Hillary Joseph male and 31 years, Nasiru Haruna male and 25 years, and Hamisu Yashi male and 30 years all of Bayan Gari Area of Bauchi State."
He said that forensic experts have visited the crime scene and the deceased's corpse exhumed.
He added that preliminary investigations revealed that Rose Luka died from complications arising from abortion.
He also said that the corpse was deposited at the University Teaching Hospital Bauchi for autopsy.
According to the police spokesman, the patent medicine seller, one Mudashiru Bako aged 30 who sold and administered the abortion drugs to the victim is also in police net.
Exhibits recovered from the suspects include, two Shovels, one Sachet of Diclofene tablets, one sachet of mebendazole with four tablets, Prednisolone eight tablets, Bunto blood tonic and a bottle of water mixed with unidentified substances.
The suspects were arraigned at Chief Magistrate Court One Bauchi on Thursday 12 November 2015.
Telecommunications company, MTN on Saturday donated 330 mattresses and 330 pillows to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs at the Bajabure camp in Yola, Adamawa State.
Pedeino Mathias who presented the items on behalf of MTN commended the efforts of NEMA and other humanitarian agencies which have been taking care of the IDP camps.
‘’We are here to donate these items on behalf of MTN. The management wants to identify with the IDPs using this modest contribution. MTN is doing the same today in Borno and Yobe. We appreciate NEMA for their support and cooperation,” she said.
Camp Coordinator, Balarabe Musa thanked MTN Nigeria for identifying with the IDPs while urging other corporate organizations to do same.
“We have received 330 mattresses and 330 pillows as donation from MTN. We are really happy for the concern shown by the company and I assure you the items will be distributed to the IDPs.
“We appreciate donations we receive from individuals and groups and we appeal for more to be able to meet the needs of the IDPs. NEMA is doing its best on behalf of the federal government to accommodate IDPs and make them comfortable but we need the support of all,” he said.
The Chairman of the IDPs, Bajabure camp, Alhaji Madu Goni also thanked MTN for the kind gesture.
“We the displaced persons in this camp are grateful and over joyed that MTN has remembered us and decided to send their donation to help us.
“This shows they care for us and have concern for our plight. We call on other organizations across the country to emulate the gesture,” he said.
The Defence Headquarters on Saturday dismissed the report of the International Criminal Court, ICC which accused the military of war crimes in its fight against Boko Haram as biased, subjective and unacceptable.
It said that the ICC reached its conclusions without hearing from the Nigerian military, thus compromising the objectivity of its report.
The ICC which accused the military of arbitrary arrests, detention, torture and execution of Boko Haram suspects also alleged attacks on civilian populations by the Army as well as recruitment of child soldiers through government backed militia, the Civilian JTF.
The ICC also alleged that " more than 7,000 people reportedly died in military detention since March 2011 due to illness, poor condition and overcrowding of detention facilities, torture, ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions."
However, Defense spokesman Col Rabe Abubakar in his response to the allegations said that the Nigerian military deserves commendation for its contributions to global peace and security rather than blackmail.
His words ;
“The Nigerian military conducts its operations to protect Nigerians and the nation’s territorial integrity; it is constitutionally empowered to protect lives, property as well as protect the sanctity of its territories against both internal and external aggression in whatever form and under whatever guise.
“The Nigerian military operates within laws, codes of conduct and rules of engagement to execute operations in line with the best global military standards; our officers and men have steadfastly been serving our nation and making huge sacrifices, especially against the activities of Boko Haram terrorists and our citizens are happy with the successes recorded.
“Moreover, there was no iota of accusatory evidence from any Nigerian individual, organisation or group against our forces.
“It is apt to put it on record straightaway that even when we were accused of human rights violation, no iota of allegation comes from Nigerians but from external interests or those who stand as proxy for such interests.
“We constituted a powerful committee and invited the human right group to serve but they declined.
“So this report is unacceptable, biased and one-sided as our views were never sought; it is based on mere hearsay which does not hold water in any court of law.
“Therefore, the Nigerian military which has high respect for law is not in agreement with this one-sided subjective and biased judgement, especially as there was no fairness exhibited at all.
“We will not be deterred in putting in our best to end this menace no matter the blackmail or propaganda from whatever source.”
The International Criminal Court, ICC in its Preliminary Examination Report on Nigeria, said it is preparing six charges of war crimes against the insurgent group Boko Haram.
The ICC is accusing Boko Haram of killings, abductions and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in which it says over 8000 have been killed.
The charges include "attacks conducted against civilians when taking control of towns and villages as well as bomb attacks launched against civilians in civilian areas."
The report goes further to say that; “Following military operations since February 2015 during which territory previously held by Boko Haram was recaptured, mass graves or other sites with decomposed bodies were discovered allegedly containing the bodies of civilians killed by Boko Haram.
“Boko Haram reportedly also detained thousands of civilians in its camps and in towns under its control in Borno state and other undetermined areas in the north-east of Nigeria, including in the Sambisa forest,around Lake Chad, and near the Gorsi mountains in Cameroon.
“For example, in Bama town, hundreds of men were reportedly held by Boko Haram in the town’s prison for several weeks before being executed.
“Between January 2012 and October 2013, 70 teachers and more than 100 schoolchildren and students were reportedly killed or wounded.
“In May 2014, Nigeria Union of Teachers reported that at least 173 teachers had been killed between 2009 and 2014, Borno State officials have cited a slightly higher figure of 176 teachers.
“At least 50 schools were either burned down or badly damaged and 60 more were forced to close. In March 2014, the Borno State government decided to close all secondary schools in the state in order to protect students and teachers from further attacks.
“In addition, as a result of direct threats from Boko Haram, 120 schools were forced to close in10 districts of the Far North of Cameroon. Boko Haram was included as a new party on the list of the Secretary General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict (2014) for attacks against schools among other alleged conduct.”
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