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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Demola Akinyemi …As NUPENG blasts Senate over planned N5 petrol levy I LORIN —THE Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki, weekend said  the proposed National Road Fund Bill recommendation by the Senate committee on Works, would not lead to any increase in the current pump price of fuel. This came as Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, condemned the Senate recommendation for a N5 levy on fuel price, saying it would make the price of a litre petrol to sell above N145.00. Saraki, who made the clarification while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State after the breaking of fast, also said the Senate would this week discuss a motion on the interest rates being charged by commercial banks on loans to customers, particularly entrepreneurs who borrowed funds to stay afloat and contribute to the National Gross Domestic Product, GDP. According to him: “This is an opportunity to clarify the inaccurate reporting....

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Victor Ahiuma-Young & Demola Akinyemi …As NUPENG blasts Senate over planned N5 petrol levy I LORIN —THE Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki, weekend said  the proposed National Road Fund Bill recommendation by the Senate committee on Works, would not lead to any increase in the current pump price of fuel. This came as Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, condemned the Senate recommendation for a N5 levy on fuel price, saying it would make the price of a litre petrol to sell above N145.00. Saraki, who made the clarification while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State after the breaking of fast, also said the Senate would this week discuss a motion on the interest rates being charged by commercial banks on loans to customers, particularly entrepreneurs who borrowed funds to stay afloat and contribute to the National Gross Domestic Product, GDP. According to him: “This is an opportunity to clarify the inaccurate reporting....

http://ift.tt/2qOMDJq THE Ijaw nation has described the Senate’s passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, as a display of government disregard for oil host communities. Ijaw nation which made the observation yesterday through the Izon-Ebe Oil and Gas Producing Communities Association, IOGPCA, in Warri, Delta State, said, the PIGB as passed by the Senate is a direct opposite of the original Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. The Ijaw body stated: “In the original PIB, 2% was set aside for host communities. Surprisingly, it was removed from the PIGB. On composition of governing board, no reference was made to host communities, but that it will be composed by the President. Clear concession would have been accorded host communities.” Referring the 8th Senate to Ijaw National Congress’s recommendations to the 6th and 7th senates during past public hearings in the days of the PIB, the Ijaws called on the current Senate to immediately commence re-amendment of the PIGB to refle...

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http://ift.tt/2qOMDJq THE Ijaw nation has described the Senate’s passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, as a display of government disregard for oil host communities. Ijaw nation which made the observation yesterday through the Izon-Ebe Oil and Gas Producing Communities Association, IOGPCA, in Warri, Delta State, said, the PIGB as passed by the Senate is a direct opposite of the original Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. The Ijaw body stated: “In the original PIB, 2% was set aside for host communities. Surprisingly, it was removed from the PIGB. On composition of governing board, no reference was made to host communities, but that it will be composed by the President. Clear concession would have been accorded host communities.” Referring the 8th Senate to Ijaw National Congress’s recommendations to the 6th and 7th senates during past public hearings in the days of the PIB, the Ijaws called on the current Senate to immediately commence re-amendment of the PIGB to refle...

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http://ift.tt/2qOMDJq THE Ijaw nation has described the Senate’s passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, as a display of government disregard for oil host communities. Ijaw nation which made the observation yesterday through the Izon-Ebe Oil and Gas Producing Communities Association, IOGPCA, in Warri, Delta State, said, the PIGB as passed by the Senate is a direct opposite of the original Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. The Ijaw body stated: “In the original PIB, 2% was set aside for host communities. Surprisingly, it was removed from the PIGB. On composition of governing board, no reference was made to host communities, but that it will be composed by the President. Clear concession would have been accorded host communities.” Referring the 8th Senate to Ijaw National Congress’s recommendations to the 6th and 7th senates during past public hearings in the days of the PIB, the Ijaws called on the current Senate to immediately commence re-amendment of the PIGB to refle...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A   38-year-old man, Yusuf Oriyomi, and his friend, Idowu Ayigoro, 42, were yesterday brought before an Ikeja chief magistrate’s court, for allegedly sexually assaulting Oriyomi’s 15- year-old daughter. The father is being tried for sexually assaulting his own daughter, while his friend was arraigned for alleged sexual assault on the same girl. The father, a baker, resides at 24, Ferry Close, and his friend, a carpenter, resides at Arabamo Street, both in Oworoshoki, a suburb of Lagos. The prosecutor, Inspector Clifford Ogu, told the court that the offences were committed in 2012 and on April 30, 2017 at Oworonshoki. Both have sexually assaulted the girl on different occasions, with her father and his friend taking turns. Ogu said that the girl’s mother had travelled to their village when the father woke her up at  night and put his manhood between her thighs. He said: “When the girl’s mother came, she told her and also narrated how her father’s fri...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Onozure Dania FOLLOWING a recent statement credited to General Alani Akinrinade (retd) that the  Igbo should have been allowed to secede, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has added his voice to the fray by advising the Federal Government on the best way to resolve the Igbo agitation for self realization. Speaking in Abuja, Onuesoke said the Igbo ethnic national has rights that must be respected,    noting that if the Igbo choose to be on their own, they should be allowed to go. He, however, advised that should that be the case, to avoid bloodshed,    the federal government should conduct a referendum among the Igbo, both in Nigeria and diaspora, over their demand for self determination so that some of them are not forced against their wishes. According to him, “In 1973 Northern Ireland voted in a referendum, whether to be part of the United Kingdom or not and the citizens voted against ...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Methodist Church Nigeria, Diocese of Nyanya, has expressed concern over President Muhammadu Buhari’s health, and called on the Church to pray for his quick recovery. The Church made the call in a communiqué issued on Sunday in Abuja at the end of the Annual Synod of the diocese, under the chairmanship of the Bishop of Nyanya, Rt. Rev Samuel Nortey. The communiqué was signed by Very. Rev Noble Kalu, the Synod Secretary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sunday’s synod is entitled: “God’s Word, My Guide’’. Kalu, in the communiqué, commended Buhari for the fight against corruption, noting that the fight should be based on the rule of law and no sacred cows should be spared. He also praised Buhari for the relative peace in the Niger Delta region through the dialogue option adopted by the Federal Government. He called on Nigerians, irrespective of political, religious and ethnic background to join hands with the present administration to build a c...