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Friday, 10 June 2016
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, ex-Minister of Finance Mrs Esther Nenadi Usman, Ahmadu Ali and Prof Jerry Gana on Thursday failed to convince the court to dismiss a suit filed against them by Abuja based Twinkle Nigeria Limited over an alleged N360m campaign debt.
The N360m debt was allegedly incurred by the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation during the 2015 Presidential election.
Usman was the Director of Finance; Ali the Director General and former Information Minister, Gana the Director, Contact and Mobilization of the Presidential Campaign Organization of the PDP.
In its suit marked CV/2733/2015 the plaintiff claimed that it rendered support services to the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation in the 36 states of the federation and for which the organization managed by Usman, Ali and Gana failed to pay.
Justice Salisu Garba of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama on Thursday dismissed an objection filed by the respondents seeking the dismissal of the suit.
In his ruling, Justice Garba held that contrary to the respondents' contention the suit filed by Twinkle Nigeria Limited was competent as it raised triable issues.
He therefore directed the respondents to file their defense to the suit.
“The plaintiff can sue the 4th defendant (Usman) being the Director of Finance and acted on behalf of the organisation.
“I also hold that the suit discloses reasonable cause of action. In the light of the analysis above, the notice of preliminary objection is hereby dismissed.
“There are triable issues to be determined in the suit. I hereby direct the respondents to file their respective pleadings,” Justice Garba ruled
The case was adjourned to September 27 for hearing.
The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC is working on the creation of a database of Nigerians displaced, dead and missing from the activities of groups.
The NHRC is collaborating with other Federal Government agencies on the initiative which is designed to enhance government’s on-ongoing efforts at addressing the challenges created by the activities of terrorist groups.
The Executive Secretary of the NHRC, Prof Bem Angwe said in Abuja on Thursday at a “roundtable for the establishment of database of missing persons in Nigeria” that
about 1.8 million Nigerians have so far been documented as missing, while many more are still unaccounted for since the beginning of insurgent activities in the country.
Read what the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT got for capital projects in the 2016 budget.
North Central: Total share - N271.79 billion
Federal Capital Territory, FCT: N209 billion (76.99%);
Nasarawa State: N14.75 billion (5.43%);
Kwara State: N5.19;
Niger State: N12.59 billion(4.63%);
Plateau State: N6.63 billion (2.44%);
Benue State: N7.46 billion (2.75%);
Kogi State got N7.25 billion (2.67%).
North West: N73.7 billion
Kano State: N32.14 billion (43.61%);
Kaduna State: N19.82 billion (26.99%);
Katsina State: N9.52 billion (12.92%);
Jigawa State: N3.56 billion (4.84%);
Kebbi State: N3.15 billion (4.28%);
Zamfara State: N2.53 billion;
Sokoto State: N2.97 billion (4.04%)
The South West: N48.97 billion
Lagos State: N16.14 billion (32.95%);
Oyo State: N12.28 billion (25.08%);
Ogun State: N7.95 billion (16.23%);
Osun State: N6.52 billion (13.30%);
Ondo State: N3.77 billion (7.70%);
Ekiti State got N2.32 billion (4.74%).
North East: N46.69 billion
Gombe State: N9.70 billion (21%);
Taraba state: N9.23(20%); Bauchi State: N9.23 billion (20%);
Yobe State: N6.99 billion (15%); Adamawa state: N5.98 billion (13%);
Borno State: N5.98 billion (12%).
South South: N35.31 billion
Cross River: N10.75 billion (30.46%);
Delta State: N7.55 billion (21.38%);
Akwa-Ibom State: N1.92 billion (5.45%);
Bayelsa State: N3.21 billion (9.08%);
Rivers State: N7.29 billion (20.66%);
Edo State: N4.58 billion (12.98%)
South East: N28.22 billion
Abia State: N6.93 billion (24.55%);
Anambra State: N3.02 billion (10.20%);
Ebonyi State: N4.63 billion (16.41%);
Enugu State: N10.15 billion (35.98%);
Imo State: N3.49 billion (12.36%)
Details of the capital allocation in the 2016 Appropriations Act signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari are contained in a document at the National Assembly Budget and Research Office.
Thursday, 9 June 2016
Ex-military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was on Wednesday, forced to dispel rumours about his death for the second time in three months.
Speaking from Germany where he is undergoing routine medical check-up, IBB told TVC live television programme, ‘Journalist Hangout' that he was hale and hearty and not dead as being speculated on social media.
Back home, the gap toothed General's family has described rumours of his death as mischief carried too far.
His brother, Alhaji Datijo Aliyu, told newsmen in Minna, Niger State that he had just spoken to the former military ruler whom he confirmed, is undergoing routine medical check-up in Germany.
“Even when he was President of Nigeria he usually goes for the medical check-up because of the bullet he is carrying in his system as a result of defending Nigeria. In fact, there was a time he travelled for three months when he was president to attend to the same bullet, so there is nothing special in this particular journey.
“He even wanted to come back, but we (family members) insisted that he should stay there and rest because any time he is in Nigeria there is always that pressure on him as statesman attending to different issues. We are surprised. We don’t know where this rumour is coming from.
“Just as he has always said, nobody is above illness nor will not die one day, but wishing somebody alive death is mischief carried too far and I can confirm to you that I spoke to him this afternoon. I will not stand here and lie to you and many people in Minna out of curiosity have also spoken to him too.”
If you have been asking about what the Niger Delta Avengers are fighting for, here it is.
The militant group have just articulated their grouse in this freshly released statement.
ENOUGH OF THIS INJUSTICE.
Since the day crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity and quality in Oloibiri, present day Bayelsa state, what we have been asking from successive governments in Nigeria is portable drinking water in the midst of plenty of water mass, electricity, roads, employment, quality education/educational facilities, resource control, participation in the oil business and inclusive governance that will engender substantial freedom.
The reverse has been the case, from Oloibiri, Brass LNLG and export terminals in Bayelsa; Bonny LNLG and export terminals in River state; ExxonMobil in Akwa Ibom; Escravos EGTL/ Tankfarm and export terminals; Forcados Tankfarm and export terminals in Delta state operated respectively by Anglo-Dutch Shell, Chevron/Texaco Over seas, Agip ENI, ExxonMobil. The history of the communal lives is terror of poverty, inhumanity and desolate living conditions. But when you move into these facilities operated by the Multinational Oil Corporations, they are living like Kings and Presidents.
For over five decades, we have given Multinational Oil Corporations and their collaborator the Nigerian State peace, cooperation and love for the crude oil to flow unhindered from our land. The continuous tranquility is only manifesting in the development of mountains, rock, valleys, deserts and lagoon but the Niger Delta territory continually alienated from all types of development and all essence of quality human life.
Meanwhile all successive governments worship the crude oil taken from the region. Our communities and the people are only good at securing the pipelines, oil and gas facilities. What a tragedy?
We are calling on the international community especially Britain, France, the United State of America, Russia, China and European Union to speak up against this ongoing terror and come to the aid of the Niger Delta, as witnesses to this grave inhumanity and history of terror perpetuated against the people of the Niger Delta daily. This history of terror, we the Niger Delta Avengers will resist and correct with every means necessary. We have nothing to loose in the battles ahead; justice they say is only found within the structure of a nation state, rather than provide this justice the Nigerian government has decided to mobilise her military might to intimidate, torture, maim, victimise and bombard a section of the nation state and her citizenry to allow the free flow of our oil.
Some persons, groups, and commentators may ask, what do the people of Niger delta want? We are not like some of these personalities who run champagne parties or turn Rivers State Government House into a house patrimony of god-sons and prebendalism. They says the progress and success of a nation state is the reflection of her constitution that is not manufactured to favour some section and excludes the yearning and aspirations of others; but the indwelling spiritual and historical development of its people.
Since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914 to date, our resources have been used to sustain the political administrative live wire of Nigeria to the exclusion of the Niger delta.
Finally, we are calling on the international community, to come and support the restoration of our right to peaceful self-determination from this tragedy of 1914 that has expired since 2014. We want our resources back to restore the essence of human life in our region for generations to come because Nigeria has failed to do that. The world should not wait until we go the Sudan ways. Enough is enough
God Bless Niger Delta People.
Brig. Gen Mudoch Agbinibo
Spokesperson.
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