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Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Wikki will vent spleen on 3SC, says Yakubu
Wikki Tourists
Wikki Tourists’ striker, Victor Yakubu, whose side were dumped out of the CAF Confederation Cup last weekend by RSLAF of Sierra Leone, has said his club are focused on winning the rescheduled top-flight clash against Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC), reports supersport.com.
The Bauchi Elephants, dumped from the Caf Confederation Cup by the Sierra Leonean opposites Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) FC, will entertain the Oluyole Warriors in today’s rescheduled matchday 7 clash at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium (ATBS) in Bauchi.
Yakubu said his side’s resolve to bounce back to reckoning, as well as reclaim their pride of place in the domestic scene, will start with the clash against the Ibadan landlords.
“We have to redirect our whole attention to the league after the shocking elimination from the Caf Confederation Cup.
“We are going to give everything in us to ensure we win the clash against 3SC on Wednesday in Bauchi.
“The clash will be an acid test on our resolve to bounce back to reckoning in the domestic league.
“It will equally ascertain how quickly we want to return to the continent so the clash against 3SC is quite crucial.
“The truth is that we are under pressure from our teeming fans and supporters to get back to winning ways once again.
“3SC are a good side and proven their capacity to ruffle feathers in the on-going top-flight so we expect a difficult match from them tomorrow (Wednesday).
“However, we quite understand that we cannot afford to drop points in the league if we must achieve a landmark at the end of the season,” said Yakubu to supersport.com.
Wikki Tourists are 18th on the 20-team top-flight on seven points, 13 behind league leaders Plateau United though with two games in hand against Kano Pillars and MFM FC.
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Experts seek review of extant legislation on human trafficking
A seminar on human trafficking prosecution has sought a review of the nation’s extant legislation in order to make the establishment of facts against perpetrators of the evil trade easier.
At the one-day workshop organised by the Conference of Western Attorneys-General (CWAG) in conjunction with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) yesterday in Calabar, Cross River State, with the theme, “Human Trafficking and Prosecution and Victims’ Fund and Protection”, the experts and participants concurred on ridding the society of the menace.
One of the facilitators and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Anthony Idibe, noted: “Clearly we can do much more, not just in terms of prosecution but in terms of awareness. From the workshop, you can see from the case study how difficult it is to even prove a case and the amount of resources required to prove a case given all the challenges we have identified here.”
He added: “There are challenges and if you look at our law which they tried to amend in 2007, it focuses too much on pure human trafficking offences which iare very difficult to prove. So we need to amend our law like the one they have in Utah, United States to create lower level offences.”
NAPTIP’s Chief Legal Officer, Ijeoma Amugo, noted that her agency had secured 316 convictions and forfeited their assets to the Victims Trust Fund. She added that the fund “is being managed by a committee headed by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice.”
Amugo said 145 cases were pending owing to insufficient funds, among other challenges.
The state Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Joe Abang, regretted that the host city was being used as transit point for the illicit trade.
A board member of CWAG, African Alliance Partnership, Mr. Markus Green, observed: “The whole issue is about the victim. The justice system serves to protect the victim.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Government orders foreign missions to promote patronage of Nigerian goods (Read full details)
Nigeria's minister of industry, trade and investment, Okechukwu Enelamah
As part of initiatives to boost the nation’s economy, Nigeria’s foreign missions will henceforth be involved in the sale of products and services produced in the country.
The Federal Government through the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment is partnering the country’s foreign missions abroad in this direction.
This will improve the export of local products, increase revenue, create jobs, and assist in diversifying the economy.
While addressing journalists on the development yesterday in Abuja, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah said a directive had been issued to foreign missions to ensure that visas are processed within 48 hours to encourage investors willing to invest in the country.
He said the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) recently signed by Nigeria in Davos, Switzerland will improve the export of local products, adding that the country’s trade policy is being updated every five years.
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