The Chinese government has asked Nigeria to settle the legal dispute over the $5.8 billion Mambilla power failing which it would not provide the funds for the project.In 2006, the China Gezhouba Group Corporation of China (CGGC) and China Geo-Engineering Group Corporation (CGCOC) had won the bid for a joint venture to execute the hydropower project with a proposed capacity [...]
Nigeria's penchant for signing agreements that end up putting the country on the back foot continues to haunt the federal government as another power deal wobbles, TheCable can report.There is growing apprehension in government circles over the sovereign guarantee given to Azura-Edo IPP, a power-generating private company, by the Buhari administration in 2015 to enable it secure a $237 million loan [...]
In September, Mohammed Mahmood, Nigeria’s minister of environment, said seven federal universities are running strictly on solar energy.Speaking at the 2019 climate action summit in New York, US, the environment minister said 30 more federal universities are subscribing to the use of renewable energy.“We are sourcing some money through climate financing. I am proud to say that Nigeria is [...]
While Nigeria is still struggling to untie the legal knots around the controversial P&ID gas and supply processing agreement (GSPA), another sloppy deal has boxed the country into a tight corner, TheCable can report.A gas supply agreement (GSA) between the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Ltd and Accugas Ltd has gone sour, forcing the federal government to keep paying [...]
The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights has charged the federal government to probe the allegations in the undercover report on the rot in the criminal justice system.In a three series report, the corruption in the system was exposed. From the police to prison warders to court officials.Adopting the pseudonym Ojo Olajumoke, Fisayo Soyombo, an investigative journalist, feigned an offence [...]
Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the Police to the point of release by the prison. To experience the workings of the system in its raw [...]
Ja’afaru Ahmed, controller general of the Nigerian Correctional Service, says he has set up a panel to probe Ikoyi Prisons, now known as "Ikoyi Custodial Centre", following an investigation by Fisayo Soyombo, an undercover journalist.Soyombo spent eight days as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system.He documented experiences on "drug abuse, sodomy, bribery, pimping and [...]
Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, beginning from the moment of arrest by the Police to the point of release by the prison. To experience the workings of the system in its raw [...]
Due Process Advocates Foundation (DPA), a civil society organisation (CSO), has asked the national assembly to investigate the police over alleged abuse of their prosecutorial powers.The call for the probe is coming after TheCable reported about bribery at Pedro police station in Lagos state.In a statement on Thursday, Ifeanyi Calistus, DPA information director, said the report highlights "some institutional failures [...]
The Lagos state police command will investigate Pedro police station over bribery allegations.Frank Mba, Nigerian police spokesman, made this known on 'Your View', a breakfast show on TVC, on Wednesday.TheCable had reported the investigation which exposed bribery at the station.Fisayo Soyombo, the undercover journalist who undertook the investigation, also announced the development in a tweet."BREAKING: Force PRO Frank Mba says Lagos [...]
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