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http://ift.tt/2ptZ2N6 Ifeanyi Ubah An Abuja High Court on Thursday rejected the application of Mr Ifeanyi Ubah, the Chairman of Capital Oil to secure freedom from the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS). Ubah was arrested by the DSS on May 5, over alleged diversion of petrol kept on his tank farm in Lagos by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The NNPC had claimed that the petrol kept in Ubah’s farm valued at N11 billion, saying it was an attempt by the defendant to cause scarcity of the product in the country. Justice Yusuf Halilu of FCT High Court at the resumed hearing on the matter granted the order following an ex-parte application brought before him by the Counsel to DSS, Mr G. O. Agbadua. According to Halilu, it is necessary to grant DSS application in the interest of justice to allow it carry out more investigations about the whole matter. He said that the court had no power to disallow the agency from doing its work, stressing that t...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lagos – A divorce-seeking housewife, Mojisola Ajiboye, on Thursday told an Agege Customary Court that her husband is not the biological father of her son. She gave the testimony in the divorce suit she filed against her estranged husband at the court. The petitioner, a 30-year-old nurse, who resides at No. 46, Shiaba St., Agege , a Lagos suburb, said she regretted her seven-year marriage to Samson Nkanang, 33. She claims that the husband usually abandons her at home and travels on official trips without any form of care. “My husband is irresponsible and has turned me into a punching bag, I am no longer interested in the union; I want the loveless marriage dissolved,’’ she pleaded with the court. The petitioner told the court that the petitioner whom she has been married to for over seven years is not the biological father of her son. “I was impregnated by another man during the period my husband travelled on an official trip,’ she said. The estranged wife u...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Enuma FADAMA Rice Production Cluster in Kuchita, Lavun Local Government Area of Niger, says that Federal Government’s ban on importation of rice has boosted rice farming in the country. Mr Ndatsu Fari, the Chairman of the group, told newsmen on Thursday in Minna that the ban had helped rice farmers to improve their productivity. He said that the policy had encouraged mechanised farming, while strengthening smallholder rice farmers and increasing local production of the commodity. “Rice importation in Nigeria has been an impediment to local rice production because our government and farmers no longer paid attention to production of our own rice,’’ he said. “So, we are supporting the Federal Government’s ban on importation of rice, as this will encourage local rice farmers and industries,’’ he said. Fari, however, urged the government to make farm inputs and implements available, affordable and accessible to farmers, as this would boost the nation’s efforts...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Federal Government says it will prosecute N-Power volunteers that are receiving monthly stipends but refuse to appear in their primary places of assignment. Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation (N-Power Scheme), disclosed this at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum. He said that government had discovered 17 N-power volunteers that had been receiving salary since Decembers and refused to go to their primary places of assignment. “This issue of them not going to work is exception that we are not going to take chances. We are going to really blow that exception so that it becomes a deterrent. “Because in the school where I identified them, their dutiful colleagues, the volunteers who are the true Ambassadors of N-power, are there and they know these people. “So now if we don’t investigate and prosecute them they now get de-motivated. “They must remain motivated to continue to work regardless of what season i...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A federal court convicted eight Brazilians on Thursday for planning an attack on the Rio Olympics inspired by Islamic State; and sentenced them to between six and 15 years in prison. The eight men were arrested in July, two weeks before the Games opened in Rio de Janeiro, raising fears of an attack on the global sports event. Authorities said they were a loosely organised group of amateurs barely connected by social media. The leader of the group, Leonid el Kadre de Melo, 33, was convicted of recruitment with aim of practicing acts of terrorism and was sentenced to 15 years and 10 months in prison. The other seven were convicted of criminal association and promoting a terrorist organisation and sentenced to six years and five months in prison. Brazilian government officials said the group had not met in person; lacked funding and did not actually had contact with Islamic State, though they had tried to purchase guns. Evidence in the sentencing included photo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The immediate past Captain of Heartland FC of Owerri, Chinedu Efugh, has tipped his former club to regain promotion to the Nigeria Professional League (NPFL) due to their current form. Efugh, who now plays for Abia Warriors FC of Umuahia, said this on Friday in Lagos that consistency was the key to promotion for Heartland. Heartland, the 2011 and 2012 back-to-back Federation Cup winners, got relegated at the end of the 2015/2016 NPFL season following a dismal performance. “With the way they are winning their matches, I know they will make a quick return to the NPFL. “If they are consistent enough and play as a team as they have played since the beginning of the Nigeria National League (NNL), then I see them coming back,’’ he said. On his sojourn with his current club, Abia Warriors FC, Efugh who plays in the defence, said that the club’s aim was to get a continental ticket at the end of the season. “Our aim is to ensure that we get a continental ticket and w...