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4 Nigerians among 9 held on suspicion of fraud
Detectives take nine members of a human trafficking ring, including four Nigerian citizens, from one wing of the Detective Branch headquarters in Dhaka to another on Thursday
‘Many of these individuals destroy their documents after their visa expires. As such, they have no identity verification, which makes them difficult to deport’
Detective Branch (DB) of Police has detained nine people, including four Nigerian nationals, from different areas of Dhaka.
Among the detained, Jhon Agodi UGO, Liza Akther alias Eshta, Afeez, Mohammad Mohsin Sheikh, Tasmia Parveen alias Shimu, Mikel Eugene Obumneme and Namdi Kelvin, were held on charges of fraud.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Jamal Hossain and Mohammad Mojibur Rahman were detained for alleged links to human trafficking.
DMP Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten confirmed the matter at a press briefing held in the DMP Media Centre on Thursday.
According to the commissioner, the fraud ring would send friend requests to potential victims from a Facebook account under the name of Prisca Khalifa. They would then attempt to con those who responded to the request by claiming that “Prisca” needed some money for “processing purposes” in order to withdraw a significant amount left to her by her late father. The fraudsters would then abscond with the victim’s money.
The fraud ring was brought to police attention after Kamruzzaman, a victim, informed them of the matter.
The commissioner added that Liza Akther had 10-12 accounts in various banks, and had conducted transactions amounting to Tk1.5 crore in the last month alone. He further said there was evidence to suggest the money was sent to Pakistani citizen Danesh Rijvi through corrupt money exchange officials.
In addition, Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten said Nigerian national Jhon Agodi UGO was the accused in a drug case and was out on bail.
When asked why foreign felons were not deported,the commissioner said: “We have arrested many foreigners, the majority of whom are African, for various crimes. Many of these individuals destroy their documents after their visa expires. As such, they have no identity verification, which makes them difficult to deport.”
Regarding the suspected human traffickers, Commissioner Baten said Jamal Hossain and Mojibur Rahman allegedly traffic people overseas for a fee, before holding them ransom and extorting even more money from family members of the trafficking victim.
He added that legal action would be taken against the two.
ANALYSIS: Constitutional Amendment: Nine key areas Senate, House of Reps disagree
Members of the House of Representatives disagreed with their Senate counterparts on nine issues when they picked up key elements of the constitution for amendments Thursday.
The Senate held a similar exercise on Wednesday when about 97 senators took decisions to amend up to 33 laws in the Constitution.
Those amendments were picked up by House members for consideration on Thursday.
Both chambers are forging ahead with the amendments even though Nigerians from different ethnic, political and religious affiliations continue to argue that the Constitution itself should be discarded and a fundamentally different one be promulgated in its stead.
Procedurally, the House shouldn’t have bothered voting on the amendment bills that had already failed in the Senate yesterday, but Speaker Yakubu Dogara said the House decided to take its own votes on those issues “in order to put its position on the record.”
By most measures, an amendment to the Constitution is considered a Herculean task: The House and Senate will have to agree on every section of the Constitution listed for amendment.
Each of the amendments that both the House and Senate agreed to will then be forwarded to the 36 states for ratification. Two-thirds of the state Houses of Assembly (i.e.: 24 state assemblies) will have to agree on the amendments before being returned to Abuja where the Clerk of the National Assembly will then send them to the president for assent.
Any amendment that fails to muster two-thirds of Houses of Assembly automatically fails and will be dropped from the list of bills to be transmitted to the president.
For instance, a National Assembly amendment that granted autonomy to state Houses of Assembly ironically failed in 2010 because it didn’t garner two-thirds support when the Houses of Assembly considered it.
Going by Thursday’s development, only 24 amendment bills, out of the 33 considered, will now go to be forwarded to Houses of Assembly for at least two-thirds to ratify.
Here are the nine amendment bills that the House passed today but which Senate rejected yesterday or the Senate rejected yesterday but which House passed today: These nine will no longer be part of the amendments to be sent to the Houses of Assembly.
At least five in abducted oil team in northeast Nigeria killed: university
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least five members of an oil exploration team kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have been killed, a university spokesman said on Thursday. I
The military said a day earlier that it had recovered the bodies of nine soldiers and a civilian during its rescue of all staff from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) who were on the survey team.
The military’s statement did not refer to team members from the University of Maiduguri, however, which contributed staff including geologists to the team surveying in the conflict-ridden Lake Chad Basin region.
A spokesman at the university, deputy director of information Ahmed Mohammed, said on Thursday that two university academics and at least one driver were among at least five dead.
Four others staff members from the university are missing, he said.
A military spokesman did not immediately reply to phone calls and text messages requesting comment.
Northeastern Nigeria has been wracked for eight years by an Islamist insurgency that has killed at least 20,000 people and forced some 2.7 million to flee their homes.
The NNPC, which contracted university staff, has for more than a year surveyed what it says may be vast oil reserves in the Lake Chad Basin. It is aiming to reduce its reliance on the southern Niger Delta energy hub, which last year was hit by militant attacks on oil facilities.
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Nigeria: Government Mulls Creation of U.S.$1 Billion ICT Company
In efforts towards the fourth industrial revolution in Nigeria, there are plans by the Federal Government to establish a $1 billion Information and Communications Technology (ICT) firm.
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, who hinted this at the weekend in Ibadan, disclosed that there are plans to build a national ICT Park and Exhibition Centre in Abuja, which are also tailored towards the revolution.
Adebayo, while delivering a lecture titled: ‘Jobs Nowhere But Jobs Everywhere: ICT To The Rescue Of Unemployed Youths And Graduates’, at the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, said the establishment of the ICT company would help to boost indigenous technology.
According to him, plans toward the establishment would soon be unfolded, while reminding Nigerians that ICT can drastically reduce the huge amount of N1.5 trillion being spent on Nigerian students studying in foreign educational institutions.
According to him, if the Federal Government succeeded in establishing the proposed ICT University of Nigeria, the country will not only develop world-class local capacity, but also reduce the strain on the naira through reduction of foreign currency sourced for the training of citizens outside the country.
The minister said government is prepared to use ICT to foster youth empowerment and development through granting of loans, sponsorships and financial support among other innovative schemes to lucrative business ideas.
Reiterating the commitment of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to use ICT as a critical pillar to leverage on job and wealth creation, and a critical tool in diversifying the Nigerian economy, Shittu said government has established one form of ICT infrastructure or the other across the six geopolitical zones.
Elaborating on the planned ICT University, Shittu said: “We already have the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), which is for short term training programmes, in six locations across the country, and we will transform this Institute into the ICT University of Nigeria. This unique University would by God’s grace take off effectively in September 2017, and would be run as a Public Private Partnership with the best business and entrepreneurship models.
I have engaged with several stakeholders at the international level, Facebook, Motorola, Ericson, and I am still talking to many more stakeholders. We are encouraging them to come and adopt the respective university campuses as their own.
“I am happy to report that this project is receiving a global boost and endorsement. The committee set up has been working round the clock on the realisation of this objective, and has indeed submitted its final report on Tuesday 18th July 2017. A Vice Chancellor and other senior officials would soon be appointed.
“The ICT University will be a multi-campus institution of the present Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), located in Abuja, Lagos, Enugu, Kano, Asaba, and Yola.”
He said a recent World Bank report revealed that ICT is transforming the world of work, creating new job opportunities and making labour markets more innovative, inclusive and global and accordingly. It is also influencing employment both as an industry that creates jobs, and as a tool that empowers workers to access new forms of works in new and more flexible ways.
He added that the ICT sector alone contributed N500 billion into the nation’s economy in 2014, and created about 2.5 million jobs in 10 years. The statistics also show that the sector attracted about $30billion of foreign investment from 2003 to 2014.
The minister, therefore, urged Nigerian universities to take a cue from what is happening in the Nigerian ICT ecosystem value chain and put their various faculties on the path of growth and prosperity by leveraging on ICT.
He also promised that government would provide the much needed infrastructure, and favourable policies that would create the enabling environment for young people to innovate unhindered in the various start-ups and innovative centres across Nigeria.
Nigeria: Adewole – Nigeria to Achieve Below 100 Maternal Mortality Ratio By 2030
Abuja — The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has said that despite Nigeria’s current rating as second to last country on the Maternal Mortality index scale in Africa, it is possible for the country to achieve a below 100 ratio by the year 2030 and 300 maternal mortality rate in 2018.
This, he said is possible if the government can strengthen the various social intervention programmes noting that there is a strong correlation between maternal mortality and level of social and economic development of any country.
Adewole stated this recently in Abuja, while inaugurating the Task Force on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria at the Conference Room of the Ministry.
According to him, a vivid analysis of the global and national trends in maternal mortality revealed that while the ratio is decreasing globally, the ratio in Nigeria is far below average, stressing that the rate has continued a downward turn and that Nigeria is “next to the worst which is Chad.”
Lamenting the enormity of maternal mortality rate in Nigeria, he said while Nigeria contributed only 2.4 percent to the global population, it is unfortunate that the country contributes 14 percent to global maternal mortality, a trend which he said need to be reversed.
The minister said, the ministry in an effort to reverse this trend in line with the global United Nations development goals has put together seasoned experts as members of the Task Force to achieve the Social Development Goal Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) target of 70 per 1000 live birth in 2030. And bring down maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria. He said currently statistics indicate that Nigeria’s Maternal Mortality Ratio is 576 per 1000 live births.
He added that current major causes of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria are Haemorrhage 22 per cent, Hypertensive diseases 12 per cent, Infections 15 per cent, Unsafe Abortion 13 per cenr, Obstructed labour 8 per cent, and Indirect causes 20 per cent, with Hypertensive disorders and Unsafe abortion assuming greater proportion.
Adewole said the six states in Nigeria with the worst maternal health indicators using the Skilled Birth Attendance Rate (SBAs) as proxy indicators and which will serve as the pilot states for the Task Force assignment are; Sokoto (5.4 per cent), Zamfara (6.1 per cent), Jigawa (7.6 per cent), Katsina (7.7 per cent), Kebbi (9.3 per cent), and Yobe (10.2 per cent), adding that Kaduna and Oyo States will serve as control role models.
Our target is that maternal mortality must be less than 100, it can’t be 1000. Anything less than two digit is unacceptable. We will love to see that in2018 we make 300 per 1000 as we move on with the intervention,” he said.
He charged the members of the Task Force to come up with a road map with three months and recommend the immediate mid- term and long term reduction of maternal mortality, conduct a rapid situation analysis and landscaping of maternal mortality in the country and document any other recommendations that may strengthen the Nigerian Health System with a view to improving maternal health nationwide.
Nigeria: 14-Year-Old Daniel Needs N4 Million to Treat Deadly Tumour
14 years old Daniel Akishi, from Benue State needs N4m to treat a deadly mouth tumour if he must live to fulfill his dreams in future.
Speaking during a visit to THISDAY, his guardian, Mr. Ande Joseph said Daniel has been suffering from the disease for the past 10 years, adding that he has been taken to different hospitals, but have been unable to treat him due to financial constraints.
“He is unable to chew food. What we give him now is fluid, and sometimes swallow. But chewed food is out of it because of the nature of the swelling. He has been battling this since he was four years old.”
He said they visited a hospital in Bariga , Lagos, but the doctor told them the operation can’t be done in Nigeria. “He referred us to a doctor in India who demanded Daniel be brought for urgent health attention but the family lacks the financial strength fly him to India.
“I brought him to Lagos from the village so he can access a good medical care. The hospital I took him to here in Lagos, I was told they can’t treat him. So we were linked to an Indian doctor. When we estimated the cost, everything totaled N4.1m. We are looking up to Nigerians for help,” he said.
Daniel can be reached on 08111950559. Account name: Terpase Daniel Akishi, Account number: 6040443239, Bank name: Fidelity bank.
Man caught transporting €140,000 worth of cocaine jailed for four-and-a-half years
A Nigerian man caught transporting cocaine valued at €140,000 following a “controlled delivery” of a suspicious package has been jailed for four and a half years.
Anthony Eya (42) was stopped in his car with the drugs following a surveillance operation put in place by gardai after customs officers alerted them to the arrival of a suspicious package.
Eya, formerly of Park View, Ballyowen Lane, Lucan, Co Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of the drugs for sale or supply at Ballyowen Lane on August 28, 2012.
The court heard Eya, a naturalised Irish citizen, got bail after his arrest and left Ireland for Nigeria in 2013. He later made arrangements to return and has been in custody since May 2017.
Garda Marcella Shanahan told Garrett McCormack BL, prosecuting, that the package was identified as suspicious as it came through customs and a “controlled delivery” was made to an address in Adamstown, Lucan. Eya later came to this address and the package was put in his car.
Osinbajo To Inaugurate $1.5bn Indorama Fertiliser Plant In Port Harcourt
Osinbajo To Inaugurate $1.5bn Indorama Fertiliser Plant In Port Harcourt
By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, will inaugurate a new world-class fertiliser plant built by Indorama Eleme Fertiliser and Chemicals Limited, today in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
In a statement by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, the plant with production capacity for 1.5 million Metric Tons of Urea fertiliser is considered the world’s largest single-train Urea plant.
According to him, Eleme Petrochemicals Company Ltd, now Indorama Eleme Fertiliser and Chemicals Limited was privatised in 2006 after the sale of Federal government’s 75 percent shares to a core investor through a competitive bidding process.
He explained that the Plant has a production capacity of 4000 metric tons (MT) of nitrogenous fertiliser per day or 1.5 MT per annum and was built with an investment of USD 1.5 billion.
He stated that the fertiliser plant is supported by a Port Terminal at the nearby Onne Port Complex, and a Gas Pipeline of 83.5KM for gas supply.
Akande said, The plant will bring about a green revolution in the agriculture sector not only in Nigeria but also in other parts of Africa and beyond, in line with the economic diversification of the Buhari administration.
“Besides making fertiliser available to farmers nationwide at affordable cost, the plant will also boost crop yield for farmers and help in minimizing the food grain deficit in Nigeria.”
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