Whistle-blowers to receive 5% of N1bn recovered - Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has disclosed that any whistle-blower whose information leads to the recovery of up to 1 billion Naira will receive 5% of the amount; that the reward for any amount between 1 and 5 billion Naira will be 5% for the first 1 billion Naira and 4% of the remaining 4 billion Naira, and that any amount over 5 billion Naira will attract 2.5% reward. In a statement released on Sunday, Lai said;

HUMAN TRAFFICKERS MAKE $150 BILLION YEARLY -UN

At least 21 million people are victims of human trafficking, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, adding that the traffickers are smiling to the bank with $150billion every year.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says that human traffickers smile to the bank with $150billion every year.

Guterres, who made the remarks at the ‘Ministerial Open Debate on Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations: Forced labour, slavery and other similar practices’ organised by the Security Council, condemned the rising cases of human trafficking and describing it as appalling.

The UN scribe estimated that traffickers made $150 billion annually through different forms of human trafficking and called for strong efforts to stop the evil trade.

NBC ALLAYS FEARS OVER BENZOIC ACID IN SOFT DRINKS

Read the press statement from NBC below...

Our attention has been drawn to media reports, which contain misleading information on the safety of benzoic and ascorbic acids as ingredients in soft drinks, citing a Lagos High Court order.

CUSTOMS BOSS, HAMEED ALI ARRIVES NASS IN MUFTI

Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali, has arrived the National Assembly for his appearance before the senators. He however defiled their order to appear in a Customs uniform, intsead arriving in mufti. He came in at about 10.30am in company of the Special Adviser to President Buhari on Senate matters, Ita Enang.

APOSTLE SULEMAN SAYS CHURCH MEMBERS WHO BELIEVE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM ARE DEMONS

In light of the Stephanie Otobo scandal,Apostle Suleman has chastised church members who dount him. .Speaking recently, he said if anyone is known to doubt his integrity, they should be removed from whichever department they are in because they are demons

There are things when Christians hear...I am sorry to say that even members of this our church are having double mind. Please mark those members. If they are in departments, remove them because those are demons. You see me every time and somebody can tell you certain things?"

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FORMER NNPC BOSS, ANDREW YAKUBU ARRAIGNED IN COURT

Former Managing Director of NNPC, Andrew Yakubu, was this morning arraigned before Justice Ahmed Mohamed of a Federal High Court in Abuja for the $9.6 million and £72,000 found inside a safe at one of his homes in Kaduna state on February 10th.









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ISSA HAYATOU VOTED OUT, AS AHMAD AHMAD EMERGES NEW CAF PRESIDENT

The long-serving Caf President was voted out of power on Thursday as African football's leaders voted for his Madagascan adversary.

Issa Hayatou's 29-year grip in African football ended on Thursday when Caf voted for Madagascan football administrator Ahmad Ahmad as the confederation's new president.

SMUGGLERS FLOOD NIGERIAN MARKETS WITH POISONOUS FISHES

Smugglers are beginning to flood the markets with harmful frozen fish illegally brought into the country through land borders, the Federal Government has said.

According to the government, the smugglers bring in all sorts of frozen fish such as tilapia, red pacus, river bream, pangassius, horse mackerel, sardine, and croaker through the country’s land borders.
It, however, vowed to clamp down on the perpetrators and declared that anyone found importing frozen fish without licence from the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development risked a five-year jail term or a fine of $250,000, or both.

PMB TO RETURN TO WORK ON MONDAY

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Buhari will on Monday write to the National Assembly to notify them of his return to the country. According to Adesina, this will make his return to work formal and constitutional.