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Why the fallout from Brexit may prompt a long-overdue reckoning
Cheer up. I bring good news. The Second World War will soon be over.
To be precise, it will be over for Britain. It ended long ago for the rest of Europe–not just the fighting but dealing with its aftermath. For most of western Europe, the biggest step towards shaping the future was signing the Treaty of Rome in 1957. For Greece, Spain and Portugal, it was shedding fascism in the mid-1970s. For eastern Europe, it was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But so far, Britain has had no such moment of liberation, catharsis or soul-searching. We…
FG inaugurates technical committee on petroleum pricing modulation FG inaugurates technical committee on petroleum pricing modulation
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The Federal Government, on Monday, inaugurated the Technical Committee on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) Pricing Framework.
The Committee was inaugurated at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja by the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, who said the Committee was expected to work assiduously to come up with a viable framework for PMS price modulation.
The minister noted that the setting up of the Committee was part of the continuation of the dialogue between the Federal Government and Organised Labour on the issue of the increase in fuel price and electricity tariff.
Federal Secretariat, Abuja
As of August 31, 2020, the pension assets under the management of PFAs were worth N11.35 trillion.
Governors have declared interest to borrow from the fund, but the Pension Reform Act, 2014 (PRA, 2014) prohibits such borrowing.
Section 89, subsection 1, paragraph C of the PRA, 2014, provides that a PFA shall not “apply any pension fund assets under its management by way of loans and credits or as collateral for any loan taken by a holder of retirement savings account or any person whatsoever.”
Similarly, section 2, subsection 6 of the 2019 Regulation on Investment of Pension Fund Assets issued by PenCom provides that “A PFA shall not engage in borrowing or lending of pension fund assets.”
The atmosphere of Cork city in the winter of 1920 was tense. In March, Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain had been assassinated by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Terence MacSwiney, his successor, was arrested in August on charges of sedition and died on hunger strike in a London prison in October. About 30 miles west of the city on November 28, the IRA killed 17 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Auxiliary Division at Kilmichael.
Unsanctioned reprisals against Irish civilians and their property were privately supported by British prime minister David Lloyd George. At a speech in Carnarvon in October 1920, he made his support of this approach public when he excused the conduct of the British forces in Ireland. General Macready, the British commander-in-chief in Ireland, declared martial law in counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary on December 10, 1920. Under martial law, a curfew of 10pm was imposed each night. The military was allowed to carry out ‘official’ repri
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