Air Mashals now accompany flights enamating from Nigeria to United States, just as full body scanners are now selectively used in Nigeria airports (more…)
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has struck out the application filed by two directors of Daily Times Nigeria Limited , DSV Limited and Senator Ikechukwu Obiorah, challenging the order of the court earlier granted in favour of Mike Nwachukwu.
Justice Nyako had while ruling on the ex-parte motion brought by Nwachukwu, restrained the two directors and their agents from further taking steps in any manner injurious and prejudicial to the interest of the plaintiff and Daily Times including but not limited to taking any step or decision emanating from the purported extraordinary general meeting of the company which held on January 31/1/2010.
But soon after the order was granted, DSV and Obiorah approached the court with a notice seeking to set aside the interim order on the ground that it was obtained by positive misrepresentation and suppression of facts.
They argued that DSV and Obiorah who are 1st and 2nd respondents in the suit concealed facts from the court and thereby misled it into granting the ex-parte order wrongfully when there are two valid and subsisting judgments before two courts.
Justice Nyako stated that she has read several authorities and cannot find in any of them where an order was set aside because the party did not disclose the existence of the existing cases, adding that the call was a different type of remedy but certainly not discharge of an interim order.
She submitted that what may call for a second look was what the relief sought ex-parte were vis-à-vis the affidavit in support of the motion and the originating process, saying without predetermining any other motions yet to be moved, the case was only calling for the interpretation/enforcement of the provision of Companies and Allied Matters (CAMA) as it related to calling of the meetings and removal or otherwise of directors.
The judge had also restrained the 1st and 2nd respondents and their agents from parading themselves as shareholders of Daily Times and exercising any power of control of shareholders of the company.
She also restrained the Corporate Affairs Commission (6th respondent) in the interim from carrying out, executing or exercising any of its statutory powers pursuant to the instructions or directives of the 1st and 2nd respondents in respect of the company pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has promised sweeping reforms to ensure only credible candidates are elected and sworn into office next year.
Chinedu Offor, reporting from Lagos, said Jega promised President Goodluck Jonathan that only credible members of the INEC staff will be retained.
“What that means is that he is going to fire a lot of workers whom he thinks have compromised their position and increase the wages of those workers to insulate them, if that is possible, from financial inducement or bribery from politicians.
“He will also carry out training of the staff, especially in…using computers to assure votes are counted,” said Offor.
Jega will encounter challenges in his efforts to achieve these goals, Offor said. For instance, he will have to contend with influential politicians who want their candidates to be elected.
Jega also has to deal with the funding of INEC. Offor said the Senate wants it to be an independent body, not just in name, but also in reality, by having its budget set aside, instead of the being controlled by the president.
Another challenge will be to reduce the number of political parties.
“Right now, in Nigeria, we have approximately 53 potential parties, and most of them are not viable. So [Jega] has to find a way of reducing the number of political parties, which the Senate has asked him to do,” explained Offor.
“But the big question is: ‘How is he going to do this democratically?’
“The constitution of Nigeria allows anyone to set up their own political association. How are you going to prune down the number of political parties that have already been approved by INEC?”
Atta Jega says he will do everything possible to ensure there is a legitimate number of political parties in Nigeria that can effectively challenge any ruling party.
A Nigerian judge has stopped the payment of a $US75 million ($A86 million) settlement involving a 1996 Pfizer meningitis drug study that families say killed children in the West African nation.
Judge Gabriel Kolawole issued an order on Tuesday stopping payment to 192 families and victims of the clinical trial. Kolawole also ordered DNA tests to determine who received the drug be halted over disputes by families refusing the test.
Nigeria alleges that Pfizer conducted illegal meningitis-drug experiments, resulting in deaths, brain damage, paralysis and slurred speech in many of the children involved in the 1996 study. Pfizer denies the charge and says its scientists acted lawfully and in keeping with professional standards while testing the drug, Trovan.
Nigerian Police Service again lost one of its ranks as the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) attached to Ibusa Police Division in Delta State, Mrs. Mercy Dagogo, was shot dead Monday by unknown gunmen. Mrs. Dagogo, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) was killed at about 8.25pm near the Ogbogonogo Main Market in Asaba, the State Capital.
It was learnt that the former Ibusa police boss was standing by her car waiting for her daughter who had gone inside the market to buy some food stuffs when the assailants struck. She was said to have been shot at close range and died on the spot.
There was no clue on why she was killed at press time. Witnesses said the gunmen, after killing the woman, shot sporadically into the air to scare market women and passersby.
Daily Trust learnt that nothing was removed from her but the assailers fled the scene when they heard the siren of the police patrol team. Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) ASP Charles Muka confirmed the death of Mrs. Dagogo, who was recently deployed to Ibusa Police Division to quell ritual killings.
Muka said the body had been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre in Asaba, adding that the police were on the trail of the killers.
A policeman Corporal Emmanuel Ochiba,that killed a 20 year old man during the 2001 Jos crisis has been sentenced to death by a Jos Court of Appeal yesterday (more…)
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The All Nigeria Peoples Party yesterday said it will not put forward any Presidential candidate for the 2011 elections until the he ruling Peoples Democratic Party’s announces its choice for the election Addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja on the 2011 presidential election, the party’s National Chairman, Ume-Ezeoke said: “when PDP comes up with its candidate for the presidential election, then we shall come up with our candidate and this will shake the entire country.” Prodded to give hindsights to who shall become the ANPP presidential candidate, he said, “just wait and see what will happen.” Some of the candidates who have indicated interest in taking over from Ume-Ezeoke are the former governor of Edo State, John Oyegun; former chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party, Harry Akande and the former National Secretary of the party, George Moghalu.Others include the incumbent National Publicity Secretary of the party, Emma Eneukwu; and the current Chairman of the party’s BoT, Gambo Mogaji. THISDAY gathered that the odds favour Akande and Oyegun from the South-west and South-south respectively. This is because the vice presidential candidate of the party may emerge from the south-east. A source further confirmed that the next chairman of the party would be a straight fight between Akande and Oyegun. The party’s National Executive Committee meeting which took place in Maidugiri last month had ordered a national convention for July 17 to elect a new set of members for the Central Working Committee. Ume-Ezeoke and his team were elected in August 2006 for a four-year tenure |
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The Federal Government has lamented that developing nations including Nigeria have not been able to access the $30 billion financial pledges made by the industrialised nations towards tackling the problem of Climate Change . Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, gave this suggestion at the weekend when he met with United States officials led by the Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, Dr. Jonathan Pershing, at the 13th Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Environment holding in Bamako, Mali. The minister in a statement by his Special Assistant (Media), Mr. Rotimi Ajayi, said the facilitating access to the climate funds by the vulnerable nations would further enhance the integrity of international collaborations and negotiations on Climate Change. |
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