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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Summon Okonjo-Iweala, Adeosun, Oronsaye, others By Emman Ovuakporie A BUJA — THE House of Representatives Committee on Public Procurement investigating the pre-shipment inspection contract, yesterday, unearthed five ghost companies, which benefitted from N17 billion consultancy fees between 2011 and 2017 . Chairman of the committee, Oluwole Oke, who disclosed this, yesterday, read the riot act to all ministers and accounting officers of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, saying: “The shortest way to Kuje prison is through breach of procurement laws.” Apparently disturbed over the slow pace of the investigative hearing, members vowed to unearth those behind the contract scam and resolved to invite Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Minister of Finance and Jonah Otunla, former Accountant-General of the Federation, AGF, to appear before the House on June 6, 2017 over alleged infractions in the Public Procurement Act, 2007. Those also summoned by the House Com...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J To fund proposed National Roads Fund with taxes Every passenger to pay additional charge of 0.5% By Henry Umoru A BUJA— STRONG indications emerged, yesterday, that the Senate is recommending a fuel levy of five naira chargeable per litre on any volume of petrol and diesel products imported into Nigeria and on locally refined petroleum products. The Senate also recommended various taxes and levies to fund the proposed National Roads Fund. The recommendations are contained in a report by the Senate Committee on Works on a Bill for an Act to Establish the National Roads Fund for the purpose of financing the Maintenance and Rehabilitation of National Roads and for other Matters connected therewith, 2017( S.B 218) presented by its chairman, Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano South). In the report, which was signed by Senator Gaya and others, the committee recommended that the proposed National Roads Fund would be funded through axle load charges, toll fees, a percen...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Hon. Justice Agwadza  William Atedze of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has queried the use of public funds to buy vehicles for politicians, and counselled Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to research the issues “to see how best we can reconcile our social and cultural values viz-a-viz the entire war against corruption and advise our policymakers accordingly.” Justice Atedze said this yesterday at the launch of SERAP’s latest report titled Combating Grand Corruption and Impunity in Nigeria: An Agenda for Institutional Reforms in Anti-Corruption Strategies . The report is published under a project to promote justice sector and anti-corruption oversight mechanism reform, which SERAP is undertaking in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USA. Apart from Justice Atedze who represented the Chairman of the CCT, Hon. Justice  Danladi Yakubu Umar at the report launch, other anti-corruption agencies that at...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A   25-year-old woman, Sandra Ishaku, was yesterday arraigned at a Jos Upper Area court, for allegedly selling her four-months-old baby for N100,000. Ishaku, along with three others— Amaechi Emmanuel, Jones Osim and Gladys Chukwuma— were charged with conspiracy, cruelty and child abandonment. According to the prosecutor, Mr. L. O. Ocho, Ishaku, on May 10, sold her baby to Chukwuma for N100,000. Ocho told the court that the transaction was carried out in Jos, in the chambers of Osim, a legal practitioner. “Ishaku conspired with Emmanuel and sold her baby to Chukwuma, who had just relocated from Ebonyi State to Jos,” Ocho added. The Presiding Judge, Yahaya Mohammed, did not take the plea of the accused, opting to remand three of them— Ishaku, Emmanuel and Chukwuma— in prison custody, while the matter was adjourned to June 1, when hearing would commence. Mohammed, however, granted Osim bail after his counsel, Mr. Lawrence Anya, pleaded that he be released o...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Japan’s Kashima Antlers have sacked manager Masatada Ishii five months after he steered them to the Club World Cup final, officials said Wednesday. The 50-year-old was dismissed after Kashima beat China’s Guangzhou Evergrande 2-1 in the last 16 of the Asian Champions League on Tuesday, only to crash out of the competition on away goals. Ishii, who took charge in July 2015 and led the team to the J-League Cup before adding an eighth J-League championship and an Emperor’s Cup title last year, will be replaced by first-team coach Go Oiwa. Kashima gave Spanish giants Real Madrid a fright in last December’s Club World Cup final in Yokohama before a Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick helped see off Ishii’s spirited side. However, the team have struggled this season and currently sit seventh in the J-League first division after losing five of their first 12 games. The post Japan’s Antlers fire coach who riled Ronaldo appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News ht...