AFTER what it considers as the failure of moral persuasion, “naming and shaming” of employers who have failed to comply with the provisions of the Pension Reform Act 2004, the National Pension Commission, PENCOM, yesterday, in Lagos, said it would in the next one month drag defaulting employers to court

THE Presidency may have turned down request by some oil companies calling for a probe of the Federal Government’s approval of the $600 million renewal fee in respect of oil mining leases, OMLs, for Mobil Producing Nigeria, MPN, as approved by then President Umaru Yar’Adua.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday brought fresh fraud charges involving N1.7billion against six principal officials of Kogi State government before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

THE Borno State Commissioner of Housing and Rural Electrification, Alhaji Umar Abatcha, has promised the people of the state that Governor Modu Sheriff’s administration is poised to provide better accommodation for civil servants at a subsidized rate after the completion of the on-going multi-billion naira 1000 housing units along Maiduguri-Damaturu road.

Instructively, United Nations Declaration against Torture, recognises it as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity”.