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Professional surveyors and estate valuers under the auspices of Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers have urged governments at all levels to provide affordable accommodation to low-income earners through the provision of subsidy and mortgage loans. Alao Shobanke, chairman of the institution made the call Monday at a press briefing in Abeokuta, Ogun state, asserted that if housing sector enjoys patronage from governments, it is capable of providing a country with substantial income. Shobanke said: “For low income earners, who can build, buy or even rent, they need to be assisted substantially. Government needs to subsidise the provision of housing accommodation…

¨I have a baby now at 19 years and I don’t have anything to take care of my baby girl. I am begging them to help so I can have a hand work. I will appreciate it so that I won’t suffer with this little child,” a Libyan returnee wept profusely. Vivian Imunero, who is among the 65 Libyan returnees, while speaking to Vanguard, appealed to both the Delta and Edo state governors for help. An indigene of Delta state, she was said to have lived in a village close to Benin City with her parents before traveling to Libya…

Two persons were weekend arraigned before a magistrate court in Benin, for allegedly defrauding 11 Reverend fathers of N42 million through their wonder bank business. Mr Greg Okojie and Monday Ahunwa were said to have lured the Reverend Fathers to the Wonder Bank by paying high interest rate on their deposit. The priests were said to have been introduced to the operation of the Wonder Bank by a branch manager of a new generation bank, Mr. Greg Okojie. It was gathered that Father Fidelis Arhedo was first introduced to the Wonder Bank supposedly owned by Monday Ahunwan and deposited N13…

Soldiers of the 144 Battalion, Asa, Ukwa West council area, Abia State, have arrested two robbery suspects who dispossessed a man of an undisclosed sum of money along Ikot Ekpene road, Aba. Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the victim whose identity could not be ascertained, had withdrawn money from a new generation bank when the robbery suspects who operated with a motorcycle snatched the bag containing the money from him. However, luck ran out on the robbers when sympathisers alerted an Army patrol van which was passing through the area. The soldiers pursued and arrested the robbers as they made to…

Suspected militants in Obon Ebot village in Etim Ekpo local government area of Akwa Ibom State Sunday allegedly captured and beheaded a soldier during a bloody shoot-out between them and a combined team of soldiers, Department of State Service (DSS), the police and other para-military officers. Straightnews gathered that JTF officers stormed the village to arrest a wanted militants’ leader popularly called ‘Aboy Ikpor’ and his gang, who led the Ikot Ekpene prison break, in which no fewer than 40 inmates escaped in December 2017. It is reliably learnt that during the raid of their hideout by the security operatives,…

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has raised alarm of threats to his life over the recently enacted Open Grazing Prohibition law by his administration. Ortom, who spoke Saturday in Makurdi, said he had already reported the matter to security agencies for them to arrest those behind.. The governor said: “There are threats to my life because of the grazing law we enacted in the state to ensure peaceful coexistence between our local farmers and herdsmen. “It is on record. I have also reported the matter to the security agencies that one Gilolo and another of the Miyetti Allah were…

His Eminence, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, the retired Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, has warned the nation’s leaders to tread softly because there is anger in the nation, arguing that even leading members of the ruling All Progressives Congress at the centre have demonstrated commendable candour by openly acknowledging that the hopes of 2015 have been shattered. In his latest open letter to the nation, Cardinal Okogie began on a sporty note, reminding the nation that late football commentator, Ernest Okonkwo, was fond of using an Igbo proverb while giving minute-by-minute description of football matches on the radio. “Anytime there was…

Nigerians are told to make sacrifice as a foundation for national growth and development, c has advised. Buhari, who gave the advice in his country home in Daura, Katsina State, when he met with senior citizens of the state, led by Governor Aminu Masari, said in the life of a country, there were occasions when citizens must forgo personal pleasures or pay the ultimate price for the progress and unity of the nation. The President in a statement signed by Malam Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said: ‘‘The Nigeria of our time is in need…

Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance, has called for the designation of tax malpractices by multinational corporations in Nigeria and other developing countries as foreign corrupt practices. Adeosun made the call at the Platform for Collaboration on Tax, PCT conference in New York, which rounded off over the weekend. The PCT is an initiative of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, IMF and United Nations. The minister explained that Nigeria was doubly affected by illicit financial flows as a result of corruption and tax evasion. She requested global organisations such as the OECD,…

Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been queried and given 48 hours to explain why the agency filed corruption charges against chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Mr. Danladi Umar. In the query dated February 16, with reference no. DPP/ADV:368/15, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, said the clarification was necessitated by the fact that EFCC under Magu had on two occasions, cleared the CCT boss of complicity in the N10 million bribery allegation upon which the charge was based. Malami…