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January 7, 2015 – Prominent journalist, Mr. Azubike Ishiekwene has resigned his appointment as Group Managing Director of Leadership newspaper. Isiekwene resigned January 30, 2015 from the organisation but remains as executive consultant. Meanwhile, Mr. Mike Okpere has been appointed as group managing director of the organisation. He resumed February 2, 2015. In a statement, chairman Leadership, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, said Okpere had demonstrated competence and shown strong commitment to the growth and development of the company in the last two years. “He has shown an extraordinary capacity to learn and adapt and has brought his talent as an auditor/accountant,…
January 7, 2015 – Price of crude oil on Tuesday dropped below the $50 mark to settle at $46.69 in the international market. The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said on Tuesday that a basket of twelve crude stood at 46.69 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, compared with $48.99 the previous day, OPEC said. According to the secretariat, the new OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes (ORB) is made up of the following: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine…
January 7, 2015 – The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba has vowed to pay salaries of missing police officers for one year to their wives. The IGP made the vow when he visited wives of officers declared missing following the attack by Boko Haram insurgents at the Police Mobile Training College, Gwoza on the 20th August, 2014. He gave each of the six (6) families Five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000) and food items with a promise that salaries of the missing policemen will be paid for one year with effect from August 2014 when the sad incident occurred. He…
You must always remember that we are a party of democrats, not a party of hooligans. We are a party of patriots, not a party of renegades. We are a party of statesmen and women. We are a party of builders, not destroyers. We are a party of committed servants of the people. You must let our people see once again, that we are in this to serve and to move Nigeria forward, not to move Nigeria backwards January 7, 2015 – President Goodluck Jonathan today inaugurated members of his Presidential campaign headed by Dr. Ahmadu Ali, urging the group…
January 6, 2015 – The Lagos State House of Assembly today passed the 2015 appropriation of N489,689,869,621 for the state government. The budget as presented to the house by Governor Babatunde Fashola comprises recurrent expenditure of N241,977 and capital expenditure of N247,713. The House had given its committee on Economic Planning and Budget, headed by Hon. Mudashiru Obasa and other committees two weeks to work on the budget. The period was eventually extended as some ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) did not come up with the necessary papers in time. Works and Infrastructure got the highest vote of N72.250 Billion…
By Phillip Obaji January 6, 2015 – Hauwa, 16, is from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, a region blighted by years of Boko Haram insurgency. She says fear is with her daily, dictating how she lives. “I’m scared of walking along roads on my own because I don’t want to be raped for the second time,” she told me on the day I met with families affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in Maiduguri. Borno State as a whole has borne the brunt of the violence that has lasted for more than five years in northeastern…
By ACHIEVER PETERSON January 6, 2015 – The Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday reacted to reports in some sections of the media attributing the recent cabinet shake-up in the state to rifts between him, President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, saying he is “not at war with the President.” A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, described the reports as trivial, misrepresentation of facts and a deliberate propagation of falsehood by mischief makers, According to him, some of the reports captioned; “Bayelsa: Dickson, first…
January 6, 2015 – President of Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick has ordered Dolphins FC of Port Harcourt star Emem Eduok out of the camp of Super Eagles’ B, preparing for two international friendly matches in the United Arab Emirates. “We are not happy with the cloud of controversy over his transfer issue and it is a terrible distraction to the team and Nigeria football generally. “Telling him to leave the camp does not mean we are indicting him. We will carry out an investigation and whoever is found guilty, be he/she an agent or player manager or…
January 6, 2015 – The Lagos State Signage and Outdoor Advertisement Agency (LASAA) has vowed to remove all political posters that have defaced the Lagos metropolis, saying the police has no right gag it from carrying out its statutory duties. Managing Director of LASAA, Mr. George Noah spoke in reaction to comments credited to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, that the police will henceforth arrest staff of the agency who attempt to remove any billboard or posters of the various political parties even if such was illegally deployed. Noah added that its activities had been non-selective,…
January 6, 2015 – Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU,Nigeria, Professor John Obafunwa today revealed that he inherited over 1, 200 cases of examination malpractices when he assumed office as VC of the university. Obafunwa who was addressing the Lagos State House of Assembly on a petition brought before it by Mr. Toviho Oluwaseyi Ezekiel, a student who was not to allowed graduate for partaking in examination malpractices in year one said Toviho’s case could not be treated as an isolated case. “It was one of the over 1200 cases of exam malpractices that we inherited and we are…
