08/20/18

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered the security chiefs to scale up their efforts in order to make Nigeria safe and secure for the citizens.

The President gave the directive when he presided over a meeting with the security chiefs inside the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting which started at about 11:30 am and lasted for more than two and half hours.

He disclosed that the meeting reviewed the security situation across the country with a mandate from the President that security should be beefed up.

General Olonisakin said the security chiefs also briefed President Buhari on the progress made so far in the military operations in some troubled states, especially in Benue, Zamfara, and Taraba.

“The President directed that we continue to step up our game to ensure that the nation is safe and people go about their activities in a very safe environment,” he said.

The meeting is President Buhari’s first major assignment since he returned to the country on Saturday after a 10-day working vacation in London.

It had in attendance the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, as well as the Chiefs of Air and Naval Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, and Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris; Acting Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Matthew Seiyefa, and Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar, were also present.

Others in attendance were the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali; Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha; and the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, among others.

It was Mr Seiyefa’s first meeting with the President since he took over from former DSS DG, Mr Lawal Daura.

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The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2018 June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).

According to a statement from the Council on Monday, a total of 742,455 candidates representing 71.48% scored five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

It added that 939,733 candidates representing 90.47% got five credits and above, irrespective of the English Language and Mathematics subjects.

NECO revealed that 875,464 candidates, representing 84.77% and above had credit in English Language while 850,331 candidates representing 82.34% and above scored credit in Mathematics.

A comparative analysis of candidates who scored five credits and above in the examination, including both subjects for 2017 and 2018 showed an increase of 0.63% this year.

Although there was a drop in the number of cases of examination malpractice recorded in 2018, the figure remained high with 20,181 candidates caught for their alleged involvement in various forms of misconducts.

A total of 1,041,536 candidates registered for this year’s examination but 1, 032,729 applicants sat for the examination.

NECO released the results 42 days after the examination.

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The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Nigeria Police and other stakeholders on Monday set up a system to empower Nigerians to expose corrupt officials.
Mr Kolawole Banwo, Programme Manager, (CISLAC), said this at a one-day Stakeholders Consultation towards Establishment of Steering Committee for the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC) in Abuja.
He said: “CISLAC  set up the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre as a platform for citizens to report cases of corruption so that relevant institutions would address them.
“The role it will play is that it will empower citizens to speak up against corrupt practices, sometimes one of the ways to deter corruption is for the people to actually speak up against it.
“So ALAC educates people on their rights especially rights to social services and rights not to be exploited.
“This is because once they know those rights, they will be able to challenge it when somebody is doing it and then they will have a platform to report to.
“CISLAC will then escalate the cases by revealing them to the relevant institutions mandated to address such cases,” he said.
Banwo said that the stakeholders meeting was organised to discuss about the committee that would be set up for the effectiveness of the ALAC.
Also speaking, representative of the Nigeria Police, ACP Abayomi Shogunle, Head of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU )said that the unit was established to effectively attend to Nigerians.
Shogunle said that the major aim was also to fight corruption in the Nigerian police force.
“When we say we are fighting corruption in the Nigeria police force, people doesn’t take us serious.
“The truth is we have the figures out there posted on the internet of cases of police officers that have been dismissed as a result of unacceptable corrupt practices.
“We have the data posted on our platform which shows that in the first two years we were able to recover N11.1 million bribe collected by police officers from members of the public,” he said.
Shogunle said that the money was returned to the rightful owners.
According to him, bail is free but due to ignorance on the part of the public and cases of some police officers abusing their office people pay.
He added that recently, the force had dismissed up to six police officers for collecting money for bail and urged Nigerians to report fraudulent officers.
He said the numbers are: 08057000001 08057000002, twitter handle is @PCRRU adding that “we need Nigerians to reach us so we can serve them better”.
Ms Bathsheba Tagwai, Legal Adviser, CISLAC, said that other stakeholders were “National Orientation Agency (NOA), National Human Rights Ommittion (NHRC) and Female lawyers.
Tagwai said others also include the EFCC ,the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, and legal aid council among others.
She said that a committee would be set up to help create synergy between ALAC and the relevant institutions to ease communication and make it more effective to help provide an improved feedback mechanism.
She said this would also help to improve resolutions of cases reported by using their good office to ensure that cases were effectively handled.
This, she said would give voice to the voiceless and also reduce corruption.
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The Police on Monday arraigned one Eunice Nwankwo and her three children before a Mararaba Upper Area Court in Nasarawa State for allegedly killing a neighbour’s goat.
Nwankwo, 33, and her children, all minors, who reside at Aso C Extension, are being tried on charges, bordering on criminal conspiracy and mischief.
They, however, denied the charges.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Hamen Donald, told the court that one Rebecca Daniel of the same address as the defendants, reported the matter at the Mararaba Police Station on Aug. 7.
He told the court that the complainant had alleged that the defendant and her three children conspired and killed her goat, valued at N10, 000.
Donald said that the offences contravened Sections 96 and 329 of the Penal Code.
The Judge, Mr Ibrahim Shekarau, granted the first defendant bail in the sum of N20, 000 with one surety in like sum.
He said that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and should be of reputable character with substantial means of livelihood.
Shekarau adjourned the case until Aug. 28 for hearing.
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Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State says he has what it takes to contest against President Muhammadu Buhari for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year’s presidential election.

The governor said this in a series of tweets on Monday, one day after the APC national leader, Bola Tinubu, accused him of defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he wanted the Presidency.

He said, “If I wanted to and if the Presidency is what Ahmed Tinubu thinks I defected, I could contest with President Buhari under the APC. I have what it takes to have contested with Mr President.

“I adduced reasons of my defection to the PDP. The reasons are still on record. Automatic ticket by the APC is certainly not part of that.”

Governor Tambuwal also faulted the claim by the APC chieftain that he left the ruling party because it could not give him the automatic ticket he demanded.

On the contrary, he alleged that Tinubu has shown by making such accusations that the APC lacked a level-playing ground for its members.

Tambuwal said, “In any case, Tinubu is confessing that there is no level-playing ground for all members of the APC; that there is no internal democracy in it, and that some people were denied their right to internal democracy”.

“Tinubu tried to rock the boat when he was denied Buhari’s Vice Presidency. He thinks every other person could behave his way. If I wanted to contest under the APC as president, I could have done so and only the votes could have produced a winner,” he insisted.

In a statement on Sunday entitled “They Go Away Because We Go the Right Way”, Mr Tinubu alleged that Governor Tambuwal and Senate President Bukola Saraki left the ruling party because the APC refused to give them automatic tickets for the 2019 elections.

The governor defected from the APC on August 1, the following day the Senate President announced his defection from the ruling party. LR News

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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State said the consistency with which the police interfered with the electoral process in the state was a declaration of war on the people.

This is just as a presidential hopeful of the People Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, on Sunday,  asked the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government to stop the continuous harassment of Wike in the name of politicking.

Wike, who spoke during a state broadcast on Sunday, described Saturday’s House of Assembly bye-election for Port Harcourt State Constituency 3 as a failed exercise due to the disruption by the police and armed thugs.

The governor insisted that the armed thugs were working for the All Progressives Congress in the state, calling on Rivers people not to succumb to the antics of the police, lest they become slaves in their fatherland.

“The consistent sabotage of the electoral process by the police amounts to a declaration of war against the people of Rivers State and their solemn rights to freely and fairly choose their leaders and representatives,” he said.

Wike said despite assurances from the Rivers State Commissioner of Police during the last State Security Council meeting that the police would remain neutral and act professionally, the police on Saturday, August 18, 2018, joined forces with the APC thugs to disrupt the election.

He stated, “Instead of providing security for voters and INEC officials, the police brazenly colluded with political thugs of the APC to subvert the democratic process and denied the people of Port Harcourt Constituency 3 their rights to free, fair and credible elections.

“It is important to note that Ojukaye Amachree, who led the thugs, is the same person facing multiple murder trial and instead of arresting him as ordered by the trial court, the police have continued to aid and shield him from arrest and prosecution.”

Wike recalled that the June 16, 2018 local government election, which the APC failed to participate, was conducted peacefully without rancour and added that it was not the first time the police would be indicted during an election in the state.

He pointed out that following the widespread violence that erupted in the 2016 legislative re-run election in Rivers State, the INEC Panel Report (at page 66) indicted the security agencies as “brazen election riggers” and singled out the F-SARS Commander,  Mr Akin Fakorede, as the arrowhead of the violence and rigging that characterised those elections.

Meanwhile, Makarfi, a former governor of Kaduna State and presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP, claimed that Wike remained the most intimidated state governor in the country, noting that the deployment of federal might to harass him (Wike) must stop henceforth.

The former lawmaker was reacting to the suspended Rivers State bye-election for Port Harcourt Constituency 3 in the Rivers State House of Assembly, which was marred by violence on August 18, 2019, forcing the INEC to put a halt to the poll. LR News

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Nigerian banks are hiring more staff, indicating that the sector is booming.
The National Bureau of Statistics revealed in its latest report that the number of bank staff in the second quarter that ended in June, increased by 13.67 per cent, from 89,608 in first quarter to 101,861.’’
The NBS also said a total volume of 509,668,433 transactions valued at N32.90trn was recorded in the banking sector during the second quarter.
The NBS made this known  in its “Selected Banking Sector Data: Sectorial Breakdown of Credit, ePayment Channels and Staff Strength (Q2 2018)’’ report released in Abuja.
According to the report, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transactions dominated the volume of transactions recorded.
It said 217,417,961 volume of ATM transactions valued at N1.6 trillion was recorded in the period under review.
“In terms of credit to private sector, the total value of credit allocated by the bank stood at N15.34trillion as at the second quarter.
“Oil and Gas and Manufacturing sectors got credit allocation of N3.45trillion and N2.02trillion to record the highest credit allocation as at the period under review. 
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As Catholic Church struggle to redeem its battered image necessitated by sex abuses of children by its Clergy, report has emerged that the church has spent more than $3 billion to settle cases.
According to National Public Radio (NPR), Clergy sex abuse of children has rocked the foundation of the Catholic Church in terms of trust and reputation.
The multibillion-dollar expense has gone to settlements in response to lawsuits filed by people abused by clergy, reports NPR.
Nearly 20 Catholic dioceses and religious orders have filed for bankruptcy because of the scandals.
An attorney whose firm represented abuse victims said that the money the church has paid because of the crisis is part of justice for those who suffered, though it hardly compensates for all the damage done.
“I don’t like the word healing,” said attorney James Stang to NPR, “because it’s too much of an individual process; but at the end of the day, that accountability is demonstrated by the payment of money.”
The lawsuits have been filed primarily against dioceses and religious orders, which have the kind of auspices over priests that a single parish does not.
The Catholic Church assets involved in settlements include cash, stocks, and land.
Johnny Vega, who was raped by a priest as well as a deacon of the New Jersey church where he was an altar boy, was one of more than two dozen victims who were part of a $5 million settlement in 2005 with the Paterson Diocese.
Vega and the other plaintiffs alleged in the lawsuit that the Diocese of Paterson and then-Bishop Frank J. Rodimer could have prevented the abuse.
“For the billions it has cost the Catholic Church, it does not compare to the cost of (traumatic) lives that many have suffered over the years,” Vega told Fox News.
For years, Vega struggled in silence through the abuse and the toll it took on him.
The priest and deacon were almost sacred figures to his parents, as well as others in the congregation, Vega said, and the thought of revealing the horrors they had inflicted on him was intimidating to a young boy.
He embarked on a chaotic path that included trying to end his life and hanging out with the wrong crowd before he began a journey toward healing that included starting a support group for other Latinos abused by priests.
“I was lucky enough to have had the support system needed to keep me strong and fight for changes.”
The Paterson Diocese also provided four years of psychological counseling, but did not publicly admit guilt or issue an apology.
On Tuesday, a grand jury in Pennsylvania released a report that said that hundreds of Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children, and possibly many more, since the 1940s, and senior church officials, including a man who is now the archbishop of Washington, D.C., systematically covered up the abuse.
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