* Buhari set to Recover Government Properties in possession of Ex Government Officials.
* 500 Boko-Haram Victims Sponsored by UN to Acquire Vocational Skills.
* Unilorin Barred Indecently Dressed Candidates from Post-UTME exams
* Okonji Iweala Denies Diversion of $1 billion Rail Transport Loan
* Properties Worth Millions of Naira Seized from Civil Servants - ICPC
On the Foreign Scene
* Spy Agency Assisted by AT&T to get Leaked NSA Documents - Reports.
* Crashed Plane also Carried Huge Cash.
Buhari set to Recover Government Properties still in position of ex Government Officials.
President, Muhammadu Buhari has set up a committee, comprising civil servants and representations from some security agencies, with the mandate to recover the public assets from the political appointees that served under the president predecessor's, Goodluck Jonathan.
And President Buhari is also making all necessary arrangement and taking steps to recover all looted funds from Europe, particularly Switzerland, and America. This was confirmed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu during a chat with newsmen in Abuja recently. He talked of the President's intention to go after all ex public officers still in possession of Government properties.
“That is precisely the case. Even here at the Villa, there are cars and other property belonging to the government which are yet to be returned.
“The property belong to the Nigerian people. We are not trying to humiliate anyone by asking them to return their cars or houses,” Quoting Garba Shehu.
“Imagine how much Nigeria will save by retrieving and re-using these government properties instead of purchasing new ones for new government officials,” he said.
Mr. Shehu said President Buhari’s aim was not to humiliate anyone but to make the affected individuals return public property.
500 Boko-Haram Victims Sponsored by UN to Acquire Vocational Skills.
On Monday, It was disclosed by UN, that 500 victims of Boko-Haram was sponsored to acquire vocational skills by the organization. The victims include individuals from three North East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.
Mr Matthew Alao, UN Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Analyst, while addressing News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) named UNDP Livelihood Support Scheme for the zone, to be those in charge of the programme. According to him, the participants will also undertake specialised training on conflict resolution and peace building.
“A total of 500 beneficiaries who are victims of Boko Haram from three North East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe will be placed in a two-week compulsory orientation programme.
“They are going to undergo physical exercise, training, capacity building on mediation, conflict prevention, conflict transformation, social integration, peaceful coexistence for two weeks.
“We received over 2,000 applications and engaged in rigorous screening exercise out of which we selected the 500 that genuinely need this assistance.
“We took the successful 500 candidates for 2-weeks intensive course on mental and physical training.
“We are also going to train them on mediation and conflict transformation as well as business management; after that, we will put then on six-month to one-year training,’’ he said.
And he indicated the continuity of the UN in supporting the displaced persons until peace was restored in the area.
Unilorin Barred Indecently Dressed Candidates from Post-UTME exams
The University of Ilorin Post UTME begins today, 17 of August and amongst the required materials of the 65,000 cleared candidates seeking admission into the school for the 2015/2016 includes;
- centres printed copies of their examination schedules indicating that they were slated to write the examination at a particular date and time. This is because the exam is to be conducted in batches.
- payment receipts generated from the students’ portal of the University’s website. This is to verify
candidate’s identity– through pictures that tally with the face of each candidate.
The Deputy Director, Corporate Affairs of the institution, Kunle Akogun, who made this known in a statement in Ilorin on Sunday, cautioned the candidates against indecent dressing and bringing of cell phones or any electronic appliance into the examination hall.
“Candidates for the pre-admission screening exercise are also advised to be decently dressed, as candidates with indecent dressing will not be allowed into the screening premises.
“Also, phones and all other forms of mobile communication, electronic devices, bags and luggage are not allowed within the screening premises,” he said.
The students scheduled for the screening are those who scored 180marks and above.
Okonji Iweala Denies Diversion of $1 billion Rail Transport Loan
The Former Minister of Fiance has spoken up on the allegation of diversion of $1 billion loan taken from a China-Exim Bank intended for the Rehabilitation of the Lagos-Kano rail road in our previous news, President Buhari intention to Probe Diverted $1 billion Rail Road Foreign Loan was detailed. This allegation was put forth by the permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Alhaji Muhanned Bashar. The former minister has denied all allegation of the money been diverted in a statement released on vanguard
news.
Properties Worth Millions of Naira Seized from Civil Servants - ICPC
Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Tribunal has begun its' clampdown on wealthy civil servants. They have successfully seized millions of Naira worth of property & cars from just three civil servants of a Ministry in Abuja. According to Punch, a document obtained from the Office of the Chairman of the ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta, revealed that the properties were seized from three officials of the Ministry of Niger Delta. Further investigation showed that the three officials are all principal account officers of the ministry. They include,
- Poloma Kabiru Nuhu - who has 10 hectares of land valued at N50m, property worth 90m alongside 16 plots of land in Abuja • Mangset Longyl Dickson - who has a property worth over N7million and • Daniel Obah - who has a four-bedroom duplex at Karsana South District in Abuja, valued at N60m & other plots of land in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
On the Foreign Scene
Spy Agency Assisted by AT&T to get Leaked NSA Documents - Reports.
According to GUARDIAN NEWS!
The US National Security Agency has used a unique, decades-old partnership with AT&T to snoop on Internet usage, according to newly disclosed documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
The documents provided by the former NSA contractor and reviewed by The New York Times and ProPublica described a “highly collaborative” telecom giant that demonstrated an “extreme willingness to help.”
The Times said it was unclear whether the programs are still operational in the same way today. The documents were dated from 2003 to 2013.
AT&T granted the NSA access to billions of emails that traveled through its domestic networks, and helped the spy agency wiretap all online communications at United Nations headquarters, the documents show.
AT&T has provided the Internet line to the world body’s headquarters.
Company spokesman Brad Burns insisted that “we do not provide information to any investigating authorities without a court order or other mandatory process other than if a person’s life is in danger and time is of the essence.”
“For example, in a kidnapping situation we could provide help tracking down called numbers to assist law enforcement,” he told AFP.
In the documents, AT&T and other companies are not identified by name but rather code names.
Crashed Plane also Carried Huge Cash.
There are reports that the Indonesian crashed plane carrying 49 passengers and 5 crew(54people) was also having cash worth almost half a million dollar in it. On Monday, rescuers were able to reach the debris in remote eastern Indonesian mountains believed to be that of the plane which crashed on Sunday afternoon, when it lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on a short flight from Jayapura, the capital of Papua province.
The ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop was en-route to Oksibil, a remote settlement in the mountains to the south of Jayapura. In the plane was 6.5 billion rupiah ($470,000) in cash, which were government funds being transported by postal officials for distribution to poor families, according to the head of the Jayapura post office.
However, There's yet to be news of survivals.
That's it on News Update today, thanks for stopping by. Cheers!
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President Buhari, in his reported comments on the allegation, made no
reference to Dr. Okonjo-Iweala but rightly stressed the need for due
process and transparency in the execution of public projects, a
sponsored media campaign has once again been launched by political
elements to make the former minister the culprit in a non-existent
scandal. - See more at:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/my-1bn-china-exim-bank-story-by-okonjo-iweala/#sthash.R7JCOGhD.dpuf
rehabilitation of the Lagos-Kano rail line was diverted - See more at:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/my-1bn-china-exim-bank-story-by-okonjo-iweala/#sthash.R7JCOGhD.dpuf
rehabilitation of the Lagos-Kano rail line was diverted - See more at:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/my-1bn-china-exim-bank-story-by-okonjo-iweala/#sthash.R7JCOGhD.dpuf
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