Following the report of the conference Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the House of Representatives on Friday, in Abuja passed the bill, allocating three per cent to host communities. The three per cent is however against 10 per cent demanded by the host communities and also the initial five per cent agreed to by the House of Reps. Southern Governors’ Forum had also rejected the three per cent proposal at their meeting in Lagos. The PIB is an Executive bill, which sought to reform the Oil and Gas sector and ensure its governance met with best global…
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The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered television and radio stations in Nigeria to desist from revealing “details” of the activities of bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in their reports. NBC made this known in a statement titled, ‘Newspaper Reviews And Current Affairs Programmes: A Need For Caution’, which was signed by the Director, Broadcast Monitoring, Francisca Aiyetan, on behalf of the new Director-General of the Commission, Balarabe Ilelah on Friday. “Headlines of most Newspapers on a daily basis are replete with security topics. While bringing information on security to the doorsteps of Nigerians is a necessity, there is a need…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday called on the National Assembly to quickly pass the National Water Resources Bill, a demand that could overheat a simmering anger from politicians and policy experts from Southern Nigeria who said the bill was yet another evidence of Buhari regime’s determination to subjugate the resource-rich section of the country. The bill was rejected twice in 2018 and 2020 when Mr Buhari pushed it, arguing that it was to ensure access to adequate potable water amongst all Nigerians. But the language of the bill contradicted the president’s claim. The bill was designed to give control of…
President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan congratulated senator on Thursday after considering the votes and proceedings on Thursday’s plenary, declaring that the Senate has accomplished the goal it set for the day. Mr Lawan then announced the adjournment of the Senate until September 14 for its annual summer recess. He congratulated the senators for devoting and sacrificing so much time towards achieving their goals. “You will all recall that at the beginning of the ninth senate, we resolved to have a legislative agenda and in our legislative agenda, the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and the amendment of the Electoral Act…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned that hoteliers who allow Yahoo Boys to check into their facilities risk being prosecuted and jailed. In a statement on its official Facebook page, the anti-graft agency said hoteliers could bag a five-year jail term for allowing cybercriminals access to lodging in their hotels. The warning came after Peoples Gazette’s report exposed how the anti-graft agency violently seized a Lagos hotel access card and broke into guests’ rooms in an overnight raid. Many guests, including couples, were passing the night at the mid-size hotel when EFCC agents broke in at about…
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has slammed the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for trying to shift the blame for the rising insecurity to Eighth Senate. Recall that Buhari’s Media Adviser, Femi Adesina, had in a statement claimed that the recent security summit organized by the Ninth National Assembly was the maiden edition. But Saraki in a statement by his media aide, Yusuf Olaniyonu, described Adesina’s statement as false. He stated that the Eighth Senate organized a security summit to deliberate and proffer solutions to security challenges in Nigeria. The statement reads: “The Media Office of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the immediate-past…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reacted to Peoples Gazette’s report that it breaks into suspects’ privacy, sometimes arresting occupants unclad during the barge in. Wilson Uwajaren, the anti-graft agency’s spokesman, told Punch that the commission has observed that some of its targets use naked women as shields during raids, hence the operatives often move in nonetheless to prevent them from destroying evidence. On Tuesday, witnesses told Peoples Gazette that dozens of hotel guests were left traumatised after anti-graft agents breached their privacy in the early hours of the day at Parktonian Hotel in Lagos. They told The…
The federal executive council (FEC) has approved the award of a contract to Dangote Industries to construct five roads totalling 274.9 kilometres at N309,917,717, to be advanced by the company as a tax credit. A tax credit is an incentive given to taxpayers, usually subtracted directly from taxes owed or expected to be paid to the government. Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, stated this on Wednesday while briefing state house correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. Fashola explained that the road contract, which was the second approved for ministry by the council,…
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun state physically assaulted a bailiff attached to the Ogun State High Court, on Tuesday. It was gathered that Adetayo Odunlami, a court bailiff, was in Iperu, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State to serve a court summons on some leaders of the APC. A councillorship aspirant, Muyiwa Osularu, had dragged the Vice-Chairman, Caretaker Committee of Ikenne Local Government, Hon Efuwape Olaitan Muhammed, his party, the APC and the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) to Sagamu High Court over allegations of substitution of name. Osularu had argued that he…
A 21-year-old student of the University of Lagos, Chidinma Ojukwu, who is the prime suspect in the murder case of Super TV proprietor, Usifo Ataga, has denied her involvement in the death of the deceased after initially admitting that she killed him. The suspect stated this in an interview with CrimeFighters TV on Monday, revealing that she gave a false confession when she admitted that she stabbed the deceased to death. According to her, the deceased and her both checked into the apartment but she left to get some things for both of them, by the time she returned there…