The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has said it would resist any attempt to pay five per cent of its funds found in a commercial bank to any whistle-blower.
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Mixed reactions trail Skye Bank’s licence revocation
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked the operating licence of Skye Bank Plc with immediate effect. This was declared by the apex bank Governor Godwin Emefile on Friday evening in Lagos.
Meanwhile, Polaris Bank has been established to assume ownership of the assets and liabilities of Skye Bank, while the management of the defunct bank was retained for its good performance.
Emefile said N786 billion has been injected into the bank with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria ordered to commence the sale process of the bank from Monday.
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CBN said that customers deposits are safe despite the revocation of the licence.
The defunct Skye Bank has been on CBN’s lifeline since July 2016 and the apex bank says it can no longer continue to intervene to keep the balance liquid.
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Operation Python Dance should be In The North Says Campaign for Democracy
National Publicity Secretary of CD, Dede Uzor A. Uzor, while addressing newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra State warned that any further deployment of soldiers in any part of the southeast would amount to a declaration of war aimed at exterminating the defenceless and innocent citizens of the area.
CD described as very unfortunate, a situation where the Nigerian Army is reluctant in deploying soldiers to crisis-ridden North, where Boko Haram insurgents and herdsmen and armed bandits have been slaughtering Nigerians without adequate response from the military, only to deploy soldiers to peaceful southeast states to carry out unnecessary operations.
According to CD, “casualty figures during the previous operations especially Operation Python Dance 11 were as high as 200 victims and this time around, there is a grand plot to exterminate more lives of Ndigbo across the South East, subject them to untold hardship and undermine their economy.”
“We are disappointed that the federal government is not thinking of providing job opportunities and basic infrastructures in the South East states, rather it is busy plotting to kill more Igbo youths who were either protesting federal government’s high handedness, misrule or infrastructural denials among others.
“It is unfortunate that there is no single Federal Government industry existing in South East where youths can be employed. There is no Service Chief of Igbo extraction, they should deploy the soldiers for Operation Python Dance III crisis torn North.”
“The Federal Government and the Nigerian Army should perish the thought of Operation Python Dance III, It is another avenue to spill blood in Igbo land, there is no hiding that fact, because past experiences were glaring to what is going to happen if they insist on having the exercise the third time in Southeast.”
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Senator defects again just few weeks after leaving APC for PDP
The senator representing Benue north east senatorial has decamped to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) – Barnabas Gemade had recently decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) – He said he left the party because Benue state governor Samuel Ortorm betrayed him.
Senator Barnabas Gemade, former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman, has defected from the PDP to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) weeks after joining them. He was one of the 14 All Progressives Congress (APC) senators who recently decamped from the ruling party.
Gemade, who spoke on his reason from decamping again, said Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom betrayed him over Benue north east senatorial ticket. Recall that Senator Gemade had indicated that he would seek reelection in the coming 2019 general elections.
Gemade made this known in Makurdi, the Benue state capital, while speaking to journalists. He said his record of achievements and score card in the Senate in the last seven years placed him on a good stead to clinch the ticket of his party in the primaries and defeat his opponent in the coming election.
He dismissed insinuations that the ticket had been zoned to the Kwande axis of his constituency, stressing that the assertion was wrong and unattainable.
“It has always been the turn of Kwande since I started contesting election to the Senate. I started contesting election to the senate from 2007 which I lost. At the time I contested with a candidate from Kwande. I contested in 2011 which I won and I contested in 2015 and I won,” he said.
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IPOB sit-at-home Turns Bloody In Rivers, Fails In Ebonyi, 3 OTHER STATES
The sit-at-home order observed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday turned bloody, as four drivers were abducted, while no fewer than 15 trucks were set ablaze by hoodlums in Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State. This followed a clash between