The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday November 21, 2013 arraigned one Raymond Okemo before Justice H. A Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt on a 3-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence and issuance of dud cheque. Raymond allegedly induced a company, Fuidex Nigeria Limited to confer a benefit on him by delivering some construction materials amounting to thirty four million, nine hundred and sixty thousand naira (34, 960,000) on the pretext that he would pay the sum sixty days after delivery. Despite the agreement signed by the parties and the invoice issued to…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday November 21, 2013 arraigned the duo of Emmanuel Osita Okereke and Ishmael Chinyere Nwogu before Justice J. Y. Tukur of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo on a six count charge bordering on personation, forgery and criminal conspiracy to obtain the sum of N1,145,000 (one million, one hundred and forty five thousand naira) for employment into National Task Force. The accused persons are alleged to have forged a document of the federal government titled “Restricted, Federal Government of Nigeria, National Task Force” and falsely held public offices as Director-General and…
The Acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Christy Atako has recently conducted an inspection tour of the ultra-modern foot bridge project under construction along the busy Aba Road in Port Harcourt. During the inspection tour, the NDDC boss assured users of the road which also links the Corporate Headquarters of the Commission in the State of safety from accidents and other road hazards while crossing the road. She added that the foot bridge is very significant as the Commission’s top priority has remained the delivery of quality projects. Christy Akako urged more…
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Head of ECOWAS Election Observation Mission, Prof. Amos Sawyer has appealed for peaceful parliamentary polls in Mali on Sunday to consolidate the progress made towards the restoration of constitutional order and the country’s territorial integrity.Speaking to journalists shortly after his arrival in Bamako on Thursday 21st November 2013, Prof. Sawyer, former President of Liberia’s Interim Government of National Unity, who is leading 100 ECOWAS observers urged Malian political parties, the electorate and other stakeholders to replicate the political maturity they demonstrated during the recent successful presidential elections in the country.He explained…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Somalia has brought together 41 Somali diaspora experts from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, the United States and the United Kingdom to develop a three-year strategy for institutional capacity development in Somalia. The group, meeting at IOM’s annual Migration for Development in Africa (MIDA) conference, will provide a strategy that will guide IOM’s intervention in capacity development in Somalia over the next three years. MIDA is an institutional capacity-building programme that aims to mobilize competencies acquired by African nationals abroad to address the human resource needs of the continent.At the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As part of its on-going European Union-funded project, “Stabilizing At-risk Communities and Enhancing Migration Management to Enable Smooth Transitions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya” (START), IOM Libya has organized a workshop for Libyan officials to discuss migration management challenges facing the country.The event prioritized actions aimed at developing the country’s migration policies and established a policy taskforce that will serve as a forum for continuing discussion on further development of Libya’s migration management policies.The workshop saw the attendance of nine ministerial level officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Labour, Interior,…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — While expulsions of undocumented migrants from Tanzania have tapered off, conditions for many Burundian, Rwandan and Ugandan migrants now stranded in border transit centres are deteriorating due to heavy rain.Many migrants, including vulnerable women, children and the sick have little or no shelter, with children at particularly high risk of contracting diseases associated with the wet season, including upper respiratory tract infections and diarrhoea. At Sango Bay transit centre, close to the Ugandan border, two children also died of malaria last week due to lack of medicines.At border transit centres in…
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Delegations The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) will meet in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) from 25 to 27 November to debate security in the Great Lakes region and the situation in the Comoros archipelago. The plenary debates will be precededover the weekend by meetings of the JPA standing committees and the womens’ forum.The debates will also focus on the social and environmental impacts of pastoralism on ACP countries, South-South cooperation and “triangular” cooperation (South-South cooperation with the support of a county in the North) and cooperation between the African Union…
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In just four days, Nairobi will be the East African capital of the food processing and packaging industry. From the 26th to 28th of November the KICC will be the venue for the first Food Processing & Packaging Exposyum – FPPE 2013 (http://www.fppe-ke.com).Logo: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/logos/banniere.pngDownload the brochure: http://bit.ly/1i1dMOeDownload the programme: http://bit.ly/17xW8edPhoto 1: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/photos/image.png (Continent of opportunities; Africa is on the up)Photo 2: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/photos/image2.pngPhoto 3: http://www.photos.apo-opa.com/plog-content/images/apo/photos/capture1.pngThe Exposyum is aimed at visitors from the food producing and processing industry such as coffee, tea, meat, fish, fruit, vegetable, dairy, beverages, bakery goods, confectionery and horticulture…
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Somali authorities arrested two journalists, one of them the victim of an alleged rape, on Wednesday in Mogadishu, the capital, and charged them with defamation in connection with a report on the alleged rape, according to news reports and local journalists.In a video, which was posted online earlier this week, Radio Shabelle journalist Mohamed Bashir interviews a female reporter of Kasmo Voice Women Radio, who says that she was raped at gunpoint. The unnamed victim said she was assaulted by two journalists from the state-owned Radio Mogadishu, according to news reports.The…