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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it would revoke the registration of about 400 Capital Market Experts who fail to provide updated information of their companies/firms by July 31. Mr. Naif Abdulsalam, the head Corporate Communications of SEC said this in a statement in Abuja. Abdulsalam said the directive was stated in a circular released by the commission in Abuja. He said, “any firm that it’s response is not received within this time frame would be considered inactive and SEC would exercise its powers to revoke its registration”. The Commission gave the directive in accordance with the powers conferred on it by the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2007. SEC had directed all Capital Market Experts to provide updated information of their companies/firms in December 2016 and February 2017. Abdulsalam said it was, however,  observed that a large number of Capital Market Experts comprising Reporting Accountants, Solicitors, and...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Kiev – The police said a device exploded in the U.S. embassy compound in Ukraine’s capital Kiev in the early hours of Thursday. The police said that no one was injured in the attack. Authorities added that an attacker threw the device over the embassy’s fence just after midnight. Police called the attack a terrorist act. The post Police say explosive device thrown into U.S. embassy compound in Kiev appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rEqP1M via Blogger http://ift.tt/2rPkijt

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it would revoke the registration of about 400 Capital Market Experts who fail to provide updated information of their companies/firms by July 31. Mr. Naif Abdulsalam, the head Corporate Communications of SEC said this in a statement in Abuja. Abdulsalam said the directive was stated in a circular released by the commission in Abuja. He said, “any firm that it’s response is not received within this time frame would be considered inactive and SEC would exercise its powers to revoke its registration”. The Commission gave the directive in accordance with the powers conferred on it by the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2007. SEC had directed all Capital Market Experts to provide updated information of their companies/firms in December 2016 and February 2017. Abdulsalam said it was, however,  observed that a large number of Capital Market Experts comprising Reporting Accountants, Solicitors, and...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Kiev – The police said a device exploded in the U.S. embassy compound in Ukraine’s capital Kiev in the early hours of Thursday. The police said that no one was injured in the attack. Authorities added that an attacker threw the device over the embassy’s fence just after midnight. Police called the attack a terrorist act. The post Police say explosive device thrown into U.S. embassy compound in Kiev appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rEqP1M

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A female Lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, who was accused of killing her husband Lowo, on a Monday denied the allegation. She said she loved her husband and did not kill him. Yewande, a staff of the Department of Public Prosecution in the Oyo State of Ministry of Justice, was accused of killing her husband with a knife on Feb. 2, 2016,  at Akobo area of  Ibadan. The lady, led-in evidence by her counsel, Mr Leye Adepoju, gave a narration of what happened beginning from 1 Feb. 2016 when one Racheal Jegede, who she described as the mother of Lowo’s son called her with a private number and accused her of not allowing Lowo to take care of the boy. “I switched off the phone and went to Lowo because he had told the woman not to call me again. By that time, Lowo had settled in bed. According to her, she reported the call to Lowo. But the report appeared to have made Lowo angry as he had told the woman to stop bothering about the other woman. “He just got ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Beijing – Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their “gaokao”, the annual university entrance exam seen as key to landing a lucrative white-collar job. So high are the stakes and so competitive is the exam that some students resort to cheating. Authorities said over the years, students have used wireless cheating devices disguised as erasers, belts and watches. Some also use tiny earpieces to communicate with accomplices helping them outside the exam room. The innovations have forced authorities to step up their game in response. Authorities said exam centrws this year have deployed metal detectors, facial and fingerprint recognition technology, cellphone-signal blockers, wireless detectors and even drones in their fight to root out cheating. Even before the exam kicked off in earnest on Tuesday, security officers had arrested 52 people nationwide. Cheaters and their accomplices face up ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J New Delhi – The police said that eight people, including four children, were killed and over 12 others injured when a factory wall collapsed in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. The police said the incident took place early in the morning at Saraj Majra village, 120 km from the state capital Shimla, when the boundary wall of the factory adjoining a big slum suddenly collapsed during a storm. “While eight people died on the spot, those injured have been admitted to Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in the neighbouring state at Chandigarh, where they were referred to by a local hospital. “The death toll may go up later in the day as the condition of some of the injured is serious. Doctors at the hospital are trying their best to treat the injured,” the police said. The police said that some senior officials have gone to the area to assess the damage. A probe had been ordered into the incident to ascertain how th...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J New Delhi – The police said that eight people, including four children, were killed and over 12 others injured when a factory wall collapsed in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. The police said the incident took place early in the morning at Saraj Majra village, 120 km from the state capital Shimla, when the boundary wall of the factory adjoining a big slum suddenly collapsed during a storm. “While eight people died on the spot, those injured have been admitted to Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in the neighbouring state at Chandigarh, where they were referred to by a local hospital. “The death toll may go up later in the day as the condition of some of the injured is serious. Doctors at the hospital are trying their best to treat the injured,” the police said. The police said that some senior officials have gone to the area to assess the damage. A probe had been ordered into the incident to ascertain how th...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 citizens, all Shiites, after a “grossly unfair trial” linked to political protests, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, which has one of the highest rates of executions in the world, has witnessed protests and clashes with police in its mainly Shiite eastern province since 2011. Court documents obtained by the two human rights groups showed that a total of 38 defendants, including the 14 sentenced to death, were convicted of charges linked to demonstrations in the eastern province 2011 and 2012. Most had been held in pretrial detention for more than two years, many of them in solitary confinement, the groups said. “The rise in death sentences against Saudi Arabian Shiites is alarming and suggests that the authorities are using the death penalty to settle scores and crush dissent under the guise of combating ‘terrorism’ and maintaining national security,” said Sarah Leah Whitso...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Recent months have proven over and over again that Nigerians cannot afford to be complacent in how they protect our democracy; our very future and the wellbeing of future generations depend on it. It will be catastrophic if we are lulled into a false sense of security simply on account of our democracy having exceeded all the other times – first, second and third republics – when our democracy was truncated. To avoid the past experience being repeated we must be wary enough to address the problems that aborted democracy in this country in the past. It is okay to be paranoid in this instance since it is apparently the better approach. We must for once stop expecting that creases and rumples in the polity would smoothen themselves out. They will not! They will simply fray to the point of causing a tear and by them we would be compelled to apply stitches. Nigeria’s detractors are not relenting. They have no plans to. They have sponsored terrorists’ insurgency to de...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 citizens, all Shiites, after a “grossly unfair trial” linked to political protests, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, which has one of the highest rates of executions in the world, has witnessed protests and clashes with police in its mainly Shiite eastern province since 2011. Court documents obtained by the two human rights groups showed that a total of 38 defendants, including the 14 sentenced to death, were convicted of charges linked to demonstrations in the eastern province 2011 and 2012. Most had been held in pretrial detention for more than two years, many of them in solitary confinement, the groups said. “The rise in death sentences against Saudi Arabian Shiites is alarming and suggests that the authorities are using the death penalty to settle scores and crush dissent under the guise of combating ‘terrorism’ and maintaining national security,” said Sarah Leah Whitso...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Recent months have proven over and over again that Nigerians cannot afford to be complacent in how they protect our democracy; our very future and the wellbeing of future generations depend on it. It will be catastrophic if we are lulled into a false sense of security simply on account of our democracy having exceeded all the other times – first, second and third republics – when our democracy was truncated. To avoid the past experience being repeated we must be wary enough to address the problems that aborted democracy in this country in the past. It is okay to be paranoid in this instance since it is apparently the better approach. We must for once stop expecting that creases and rumples in the polity would smoothen themselves out. They will not! They will simply fray to the point of causing a tear and by them we would be compelled to apply stitches. Nigeria’s detractors are not relenting. They have no plans to. They have sponsored terrorists’ insurgency to de...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J …Targets Southern, East African markets By Nkiruka Nnorom Oando Plc has said that it has secured federal government’s approval to build a 500Mega Watts, Mw, power plant in Kwale, Delta State that will cater for additional 20 per cent of the nation’s power needs. This, according to the company, is in addition to an existing stand-by 500MW power plant in Kwale that supplies power to the nation in case of any national shut down. The company also said that it plans to diversify its market and increase its presence in the Southern and East African regions, adding that it would undertake capital increase during the year . Addressing stockbrokers at the company’s Facts Behind Figures, FBF, presentation at the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, the Group Chief Executive Officer, Oando Plc, Mr. Wale Tinubu, noted the company also has approval to develop a direct 22 KV line to Enugu, and assured that the projects would be delivered by Q1, 2019. “The logic is that there wil...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Calabar – Some traders at the Marian Market, Calabar, have decried the heaps of refuse in the market and expressed fears of possible disease outbreak in the area if Un cleared. The traders who spoke on Sunday in the market, urged relevant authorities to evacuate the refuse and to ensure regular clearing of the dumps. A yam seller, Mr Sunday Daniel, said that the bad odour emitted from the refuse was very inconveniencing for traders and those who came to the market for purchases. Daniel said the situation was worst for people living around the market because of non regular clearance of the heaps. He added that the situation was very inconveniencing for him but that he had to endure it since he had no money to rent a shop outside the environment. “We have been enduring it since we do not have money to rent shops. This is the only available space for us and we have to stay on top of refuse to sell.” Mrs Kate Agba who sells plantain and other edibles close to on...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J ‘The Salafists came to Africa to destroy… Islam’ says Chiekh Abbas Motaghedi, the Iranian director of Dakar’s branch of Al-Mustafa. NAN- In an upmarket suburb of Senegal’s seaside capital, a branch of Iran’s Al-Mustafa University teaches Senegalese students Shi’ite Muslim theology, among other subjects. The branch director is Iranian and a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hangs on his office wall. The teaching includes Iranian culture and history, Islamic science and Iran’s mother tongue, Farsi; students receive free food and financial help. The university is a Shi’ite outpost in a country where Sufism, a more relaxed, mystical and apolitical form of Sunni Islam, is the norm. Two miles away, the Islamic Preaching Association for Youth (APIJ) teaches the strand of Islam that predominates in Iran’s great religious, political and military rival, Saudi Arabia. The APIJ funnels cash from donors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai and Kuwait to mo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Maiduguri – The Borno Police Command on Friday confirmed the killing of seven persons after two suspected female suicide bombers attacked Mandarari ward in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno. Malam Murtala Ibrahim of the Borno Police Command Public Relations Unit, confirmed the incident in statement he issued in Maiduguri. Ibrahim said that the attack took place on Thursday. “Yesterday at about 22.45 hours, two suspected female suicide bombers detonated explosives strapped to their bodies at Mandarari ward in Konduga LGA, killing themselves and five others. “Six persons sustained various degrees of injuries. “The corpses and injured persons were evacuated to General Hospital Konduga, and normalcy restored to the area.” Recalled that three suspected female suicide bombers were killed while attempting to attack a military outpost near Muna garage in the outskirt of Maiduguri on Wednesday. The post Breaking: 7 killed in another suicide bomb attack in Borno...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Abuja – The Director, Centre for Satellite Technology Development, Dr Spencer Onuh, says Nigeria requires more communication satellites for it to make quick returns on its investments in space technology. Onuh said in an interview in Abuja on Friday that the returns on investment in communication satellites usually takes up to 15 years. He explained that a satellite is an artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or another planet in order to collect information and enables easy access for communication. “The satellite has the capacity to generate income on a short term basis but not all the satellites. “It takes three to five years to develop earth observation satellites, but to get quick returns of money from satellites, we need more communication satellites. “All you need to do is your initial investment, the return on investment is very quick and it takes a shorter period to develop. “You can still be reaping the income in 15 years time; we need mo...