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The House of Representatives yesterday accused banks of encouraging prostitution by setting unrealistic targets for their female marketers. It also decried casualisation in the industry, describing it as slavery. Hon. Segun Alexander Adekola, who sponsored the motion entitled, “Urgent Need to Curb Unwholesome Practices of Banks in Nigeria,” said staffers who don’t meet the largely unrealistic targets are summarily dismissed. Contributing to the motion which led to a long debate, Hon. Rita Orji said in some cases, bankers who failed to meet targets were sacked through text messages. Adekola said: “A critical assessment of the targets being given to these employees to meet, show them to be unrealistic, unreasonable, ordinarily unattainable and irrational. “But these banks resort to unethical means to ensure that these targets are met by either explicitly or impliedly encouraging their staff, especially the female ones to engage in illicit behaviour.” House  Majority Leader, H...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the arrest of indicted persons involved in the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to date. ‎The 13-man committee set up by the Office of  the National Security Adviser to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector in the period under review, submitted its interim report to the president yesterday.. The committee inaugurated on  August 31,  is yet to complete its work, according to Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. In a statement from the Presidential Villa on Tuesday night, former National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki, was accused of awarding over N271.8 billion fictitious contracts. “Further findings revealed that between March 2012 and March 2015, the erstwhile NSA, Lt Col MS Dasuki (rtd) awarded fictitious and phantom contracts to the tune of N2,219,188,609.50, $1,671,742,613.5...

A policewoman, Sergeant Obotie Adesuwa, attached to the Akinpelu Police Division,of Lagos state, has been arrested for allegedly selling a one week old baby. According to Punch Newspapers, Adesuwa took the baby from its mentally ill mother, named Toyin, who was brought to the police station by a Good Samaritan. A police source said “The incident happened at the Akinpelu Police Division. The sergeant received the report of a mentally deranged woman and her newborn baby. But on the same evening, she was said to have arranged for the woman and the baby to be put inside a car and driven away by unknown persons. “At a junction, the baby’s mother was given N500 and asked to alight. The car drove away with the baby. It was on Monday, November 9, that the mother unbelievably showed up at the station to ask for her baby. The sergeant initially denied ever meeting her. “The DPO was later informed, and took all of them to the Area Commander, and then the female sergeant was arrested. The bab...

Yesterday November 17 was World Prematurity Day. And UNICEF shared this touching photo to mark the day.

An explosion suspected to be from an improvised Explosive Device, IED, has just occurred at a Motor Park in Yola, Adamawa State. A witness, Mohammed Danasabe, told PREMIUM TIMES that the explosion was so loud it could be heard all over the city. He said many people were killed, but could not give a figure. “I am currently at the scene and we are helping to evacuate injured to the Hospital, there are many dead bodies all over the place,” he said. The scene of the blast is close to the main vegetable market in the town and the explosion occurred as traders were closing for the day and rushing home, Mr. Dansabe said. Yola has been hit by two deadly bomb attacks this year, with more than 50 people killed. The last attack occurred in October.

News just coming into our Newsroom is that there was a heavy explosion in Umuahia a few minutes ago at Umuwaya road junction. The cause of the explosion is not know at the moment. But there are speculations that the explosion and fire may have been caused by Drums of petrol at the location.

The tension between governor Oshiomole and the Igbinedions took another turn today after some old women took to the streets to protest what they call Oshiomole ’s unbridled utterances against the Igbinedions after he described Lucky Igbinedion’s alleged unlawful withdrawal of $31 million from the government coffers as clear abuse of power. Oshiomhole also said that the Igbinedion family had thrown caution to the winds, using every available means to wage war against him because he recovered over 200,000 hectares of land illegally acquired by Chief Gabriel Igbinedion during the tenure of his son, Lucky, as governor.

The Nigerian senate has summoned leadership of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, to answer to its controversial admission policy, The Nation reports. The upper chamber also asked JAMB to increase the validity of its results from one to three years to reduce the number of yearly applicants. Senate asked its committee on Education to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the new policy including allegations of favouritism and to review the power of JAMB in relation to admission. It urged the body to consult widely with Parents Teachers Association, Academic Staff Union of Universities and other stakeholders in the education sector with a view to coming up with a friendlier, holistic, comprehensive and sustainable admission policy.

New pics shows sick Paris terror mastermind laughing as he drags the corpses of his Syrian victims behind his truck Yesterday, the vile mastermind was named as Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of ISIS' top executioners and now among the world's most wanted war criminals. The 27-year-old is believed to have persuaded thousands of young jihadis to come to Syria, including his 13-year-old brother Younes, ISIS' youngest fanatic. In chilling video footage, Abaaoud is seen driving a pick-up truck with a mound of bloody corpses in tow. One of his accomplices sits perched on the back, while another can be heard complaining about the smell. The ISIS extremists are seen smiling and joking as the bodies are driven towards what appears to be a mass grave, where they are thought to have been dumped. In what is believed to be a reference to what pick-up trucks are commonly used for in the West, Abaaoud is heard saying how instead of towing jet skis and motorcycles he and hi...

Secessionist Radio Biafra has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari, acting in concert with Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has made plans for 2,000 people to join the ongoing pro-Biafra protest in the South Eastern part of the country in order to join the so-far peaceful protest violent. According to a report on its official website, the group also said that it has postponed its 11 million man march so as to forestall the aforementioned violence. The report read in part: Buhari’s confidants like El Rufai have recruited over 2000 persons and paid them heavily to join the IPOB Global Peaceful Protest and turn it into a violent protest, because they have seen that the Biafran protesters are not going to stop anytime soon as against what some people earlier anticipated. Remember that these protests have been going on in over 88 countries around the world, the protesters are unarmed and they have not caused any injury to anyone, instead the Nigerian soldiers have killed, intim...