#WEEKLYREPORTS - NEWS ON ASUU, BOKO HARAM, NYSC, JAMB, CORRUPTION AND MORE

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 NEWS ON TRENDING TOPICS FOR THIS WEEK ...

CORRUPTION OR NOT

GEJ's group, N2N, has spent about ₦2bn to run newspaper & radio/TV adverts defending the FG’s aborted petrol subsidy withdrawal: Daily Trust

Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, The chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, shocked officials of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Thursday with the revelation of how the pension reform task team caught a high ranking civil servant in the pension unit at the office of the Head of Service with of N2 billion stashed in his private residence.

Court acquits Dimeji Bankole and Usman Nafada, says duo do not have case to answer over the ₦40bn corruption charge.

NDDC budgeted a whopping sum of ₦1.3 billion on fumigation of its premises and another N2.2bn to organise seminars in the 2011 fiscal year.

The Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Chief Patrick Ekeji is reportedly being summoned by the House of Representatives over the Commission’s expenditures, including N1.2 million for Facebook account.
http://dangeleyez.blogspot.com/2012/01/national-sports-commission-reportedly.html

The Presidential Task Team on Pension Reform has recovered about ₦151bn of embezzled funds and assets of FG since it was set up in 2010.

THE DEATH SENTENCE OF AL-MUSTAPHA

A Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere on Monday convicted Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State General Sani Abacha and Lateef Shofolahan over the murder of of Kudirat Abiola, the wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola. The accused persons have been sentenced to death by hanging.

Mrs Abiola’s Murder case is adjudged to be the longest criminal trials ever experienced in the nation’s history, lasting more than 12 years with five successive judges during which time the accused persons were held in detention. This time in prison calendar is equivalent to 20 years.

--THE APPEAL

Twenty Four Hours after they were convicted & sentenced to death by hanging, Maj. Hamza al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan have filed separate notices of appeal against the judgment of the Lagos High Court.

JAMB

 JAMB has extended registration for the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from February 2nd to March 4th, 2012. ...while the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would take place on March 24th, 2012.

 Also, registration can be done at accredited centers listed on jamb.org.ng

NYSC

Alhaji Bolaji Abdullai, the Minister of Youth Development has directed that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) should post NYSC members to rural areas only from next year.

He also added that there should be no provision for redeployment.

ASUU

Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, Thursday, assured that the federal government would henceforth endeavour to fulfill every agreement reached with the Academic Staff Union of the Universities,ASUU.

While appreciating the union for its understanding of the federal government’s position to call off the strike, Rufa’i  reiterated government readiness to fulfill every agreement entered into with the academic body

  

BOKO HARAM

Ag. IGP Mohammed Dikko Abubakar has said Deoxyribonucleic acid otherwise known as DNA will now be used to track down criminals in Nigeria.'

The State Security Service (SSS) in Borno state  said on feb 1 that it had arrested Abul-Qaqa, the spokesman for Boko Haram but Boko Haram says the person arrested and in the custody of the SSS is not its spokesman, Qaqa, but head of its enlightenment dept, Abu Daadaa

 #BokoHaram struck again in #Kogi State; four killed as sect attacked police station and bank.

Multiple bomb blasts in Maiduguri on Thursday left six people dead. Security forces suspect #BokoHaram members

OTHERS

15 suspects are being detained over alleged illegal bunkering of about 30,000 litres of petroleum products, EFCC said yesterday.

Suspected armed robbers, yesterday, raided one of the car parks at MMIA, Lagos, carted away over $600k from the Bureau de Change operators.

Governor Fashola has declared that it would henceforth be regarded as a criminal offence to drive on Lagos roads without number plates.

NUPENG has suspended its two-day old strike called in solidarity with its members in Shell, who were having dispute with the mgt of the coy.

A van belonging to the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) allegedly crushed a bus conductor along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

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