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Tuesday, October 16,10t1
Floods ravage farms in the North By Abdulwaslu Hassan with
confirmrd the mddenl deKribms it
age nclH re port
as a -calamityII nvy romu have aboO deslroy.ed OWT 2,000 rums In Adamawa ,lllc The District Head 00 i.artn Ga<b, Bosom Tamban. saJd on Friday lhal the iocldml occurred on Wrdnndlly
Rice fa~ In C'rQmbor ,'.tlt on Monday bmffilM the Ims of product worth mllhon~ of nairlll 10 IhlS year', flood
Alha}. Ibhuum 8abanlta)'t. the st,llt', a-. ... rmm oflhc IDee Flrmers !l.noc:il.tion ofN'~ru. told 1M News Agt'IXyofNIgt'ri.l (NAN)mGom~ that heavy I1l1nfall w;;a.s~ away milny rKt fums In W stalt'. N<J fewcr lhan 100 housuaod 2" I farms Ni~ t>ttn dnuoyed by Ilood III
Kofaand TofanlvtIb.gesm KUSJda
tOtal C>o\-nnmcnt Arc;I of Kauina Statr
The flood IS said 10 hncdt'Stro)'td 115 hausn and 95 farms in Kofa vlibgtand 15 housn aoo 51 (arms in Tor"nl "tlbgc
Mansur Murn;lI, the Carclan, Chalrman of the Ioal govcmmttll.
~Ovrr 2.000 farms of maize, rice, youndnut and ~Iabks we:rc: also tolally 5ubmergro by W1Iler,~ Mr Tambuisaid A luge Kale fumn in Kano. SWo Nanono said he estimaled thai the recent floods dc:strO)'td about 95 ptr cent of nce farms m the ~ta l e PremIum Times quo(eti him u saylllg ~The rhmage cau5C'd 10 rice fums in the Jtate is ColoSSilI beaust about 95]'1ft cent of rice fums In the state ha\'e comrle1e1y bttn wuhcd away by f100d.~ In Pbtnou State, AbrahAm VII,ap, the \ule's Commwionn for Informallon and Communication
told newsmen afler the weekJy Ut(:utlvt council meding on Thursday that more than 100 vilbgt:' and ",000 hectares of farmlands wc:rc: destroyro The comnlis~IIOnef nid U'veral crops had abo ~n washed aWlilY npllg the situation would lead 10 Hkdy shortage of food lupply in lhe state u the ;lfns ravilged were millflly agricultural nelU Similarly, over 3.200 hecluc:s of ru;:e pbntalion under Ihe ilulhOl'ily of T.da Shonga Irngallon Scheme 10 F.du I.oul GovtTnmcnl Am in KWlIra slate have ~n wuhro away by flood Basro on reports. aptrts hilve warned 10 reachon 10 the budge1 th.t Increased tariffs in the aMence of ad~uate local proo.itKlion would lnod 10 .kyrocketlOl of nce prices, adding 10 the inflallonary pressure alrtady in place
'Bauchi loses N3.5bn farms produce to flood' 8 y Abd ulw aslu Hassan
Bauchl state ha"ll 1051 aboul N15 billion worth of farm produce to flood thiS )·eu. Permanenl S«retary Rauchl .tale mmllliry of Agric, Dr Daud.a Abdullahi hu $<lid He made thu known at Ihe NatIOnal Agru:ultural Show ground in Tudunwada along AbuJa
Kerr. road 1(xlay saying aboul 30,000 h~lareJ of f:umlands have be-en submerged by the nood Abdullahi said ~Thn year we: have a seriOUS flood and many farmen ha~ be-en affected We have estimated a!loU! 30,000 h~tares of farmlands Ihat han b~n submerged and crop" worth Nl.5 billion ha,,'e
been delltrO)'td·
He added that ~On the part of the .tate, we are prrp;r,nn8 _ package to usllt fannen to go inlo dry !tilron farmmg this year According 10 him ~N soon as the WlIter r~edn, farmers arc gomg to be: encou raged by Ihe slate ~overnment 10 go IIltn dry SCil\On farming ~o that it
N35m fraud: Ex-NBA vice president remanded in prison 8y Ro nald Mutum
The Immrolalc past vice presIdent of the Nigenan Bar AUOClillion (NSA). Barruter Emonena Bleulng VkJrl hu been remanded in I'flson custody. over aUegc-d N35 million fraud A stalement by the spokesman of the Economic and FlIlanclal Cflmes Com minion
(EfCC). Uwu/llen laid hUlice: U N Agomoh of Ihe Fedenll IlIgh Courl sitting In Pori I lillrcourt, yUlerday. remanded Barn ,ter Emonena Bleuin8 on three count chargu of fraud. stealing Inti money launder mg broughl agamst him by the EFCC ·lIe Is alleged 10 have converted a N15 million Judgement sum paid by the Central Bank
or Nigeria (eRN) to h" dienl, one Samuel OnowighoK, by conculing the origin of Ihe fund and UJlnl pan of II to acquire 150.000 Unit. of Flul Bank of Nlgena Pic ~harel and thereby commiu .n offence punishable under secllon 14 (1) (a) of the Money I.aundering Act, 2004~ The statement said The tase WlIJ adjourned 10 October 18. 2012
EFCC arraigns engineer over fra ud By John Choks Azu
1he f,conomK and Fina.ncaal Crimes ComnllS,'non (EKC) )uterday!UTWg.ned an tngJl1«r 10 an Abu/ill I hgh Court over <illeg((.llSsuance of dud cheque valued at N3 mdhon
Eng' F.bongAftaofVtolmducTC'l.nlllca.1 We'lt Alnc:a 1Jd ...., all~ tu ha,,"e muM an Inlcr. ' IIntnlaJlWlkchc:tjoefmN3mlUI(>Il \" (lne 1ellla I T~r, who couklllOl (.Mh 1\ wtlhllllh~ m"nth~ of 1 ~~U3nce The lk.. used f'CNID demed the one count charge In" I'fOl1IrlN hl~ counvl
o Akpokona 10 make ill\ appltcation for Ius
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F.FC<": coorud ()(hbo Owobefa, who did
I1OlI.lJ'P05C the apphcation. ~"tf urged the: court 10 grant Nil based on conJniofU wtudt will K'Curc the apreannce of the
ac(lued ~1Il for tn,u. IU5tKe S F. AI;ule "'OyllIbo granted hid In the: accu\td ~n m the rum of N3 IIlIlhon "',Ih a wrel y In like ~m The judge al.wonkrni thai the ""ely m. I!'II be: 'e'\tdent 10 the l-Cl· anr.lmll~ownalandedJ"f\"rtfl)'
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NAIC begins farmers' claims assessment The Nigerian Agncuhural Insurance Corporilltlon (HAIC) Rid on Monday that it had commenced the aJK$5.ffient cbims by farmen whose lnve:stmcnl!'l were alfected by the recenillood dIlUter in the country Mr Bashir Martins. the Assislant General Manall.er, M<uiteung. In the corporahon. 8i11ve this IIldic<itton in an Intnv.ew WIth the NtwJ Agency ofNlgena (NAN) III Abuja o n Monday MartIns said that farmen woo mmrcd then farms with NAIC hilld .tarted fiIlIlg their claims (NAN)
NCC files criminal charges against music society 1M N~I Copynghl Comrmssion (NCC) has mwtuttdSl.lO'1ftl.lfl3l~
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