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The harmattan is coming early for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In one week alone, the party lost at the presidential election tribunal, and also left daggers in the backs of two of its contestants in governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa, only a few months away to the polls. As if that was not enough, one of the party’s …

The Federal government says it has begun several entrepreneurship skill programs to stem the tide of unemployment in the country. Minister of State for Science and Technology, Barrister Mohammed Abdullahi disclosed this on Thursday when the delegates of the Nassarawa State All Progressive Congress (APC) Committee paid him a working courtesy visit in his office in Abuja. He said such …

Officials of the Edo State Government and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have visited victims of Wednesday flooding in the state to take stock of the damage, assuring those adversely affected of relief materials to cushion the impact of the natural disaster. Speaking to journalists after inspection of the affected areas, Special Adviser to the Governor on Special Duties, Hon. …

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN has said that the conviction of P&ID over allegation of money laundering and tax evasion by the Federal High Court, Abuja and the order for forfeiture of its assets in Virgin island and Nigeria, will substantially help Nigeria wriggle out the $N9.6billion London court judgment. The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had in …

Former Provost of the College of Education, Igueben, in Edo State, has testified before the Commission of Inquiry set up to probe the activities of Colleges of Education, Ekiadolor and Igueben; Michael Imoudu College of Physical Education, Afuze; the College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi and the College of Agriculture, Agenebode. The commission of Inquiry was set up by Edo State Governor, …

The contract for gas supply and processing (GSPA) was signed by the administration of late President Umaru Yar’Adua and P&ID. The company was to build gas processing facilities around Calabar, Cross River State, and the government was to supply wet gas up to 400 million standard cubic feet per day. The agreement defined wet gas as “associated gas removed, during …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has nominated Benjamin Iyase as commissioner in the state and has forwarded his name to the Edo State House of Assembly for confirmation. The governor has also appointed Dr. Ikponmwosa Omorodion as his Special Adviser on Technical Education. Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, and members of the …

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday convicted  and subsequently ordered the winding up of Process and Industrial Development Limited and its Nigerian affiliate, P&ID Nigeria Limited, for charges of fraud and tax evasion in respect of the contract leading to the recent controversial judgment of a British court empowering the firm to seize about $9.6bn worth of Nigerian …

Two representatives of the Process and Industrial Development Ltd on Thursday pleaded guilty before the Federal High Court in Abuja to charges of fraud and tax evasion instituted against them in respect of the contract leading to the recent controversial judgment of a British court empowering the firm to seize about $9.6bn worth of Nigerian assets. The Economic and Financial …

The anti-graft agency, EFCC, will today charge suspects involved in the P&ID contract negotiations to court. The suspects are to be charged at the Federal High Court in Abuja, an official told PREMIUM TIMES, without naming the suspects. The two suspects to be charged are P&ID’s parent company in the British Virgin Island ( Process and Industrial Development Ltd) and the …