Obi lacks moral justification to criticize Obiano_APGA
From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Media Warriors Forum yesterday took a swipe at former governor of Anambra state Mr. Peter Obi and said that the former governor is not qualified to cast aspersion on Governor Willie Obiano. The National Coordinator of the forum, Mr. Chinedu Obigwe, while reacting to the statement credited to Obi, who said...
Obiano Storms campaign office, ensure smooth execution of projects
>assures on peaceful poll, landslide victory for him By Kingsley Ezekwelu The alert Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has said that the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA)has more than 1.3 million registered members and supporters from other political parties in Anambra state. He noted that with that strong population and controlling numerical strength in the state ,APGA would win landslide in the forthcoming governorship...
400 may lose jobs
• As AMCON takes over Best Western Hotel in Lagos About 400 workers are likely to lose their jobs following the alleged forceful take over of Best Western Hotel, Allen Avenue, Ikeja Lagos, yesterday, by The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). The incident, which started at about 4am, took everyone by surprise as contingent of armed mobile policemen stormed the hotel and...
WAEC/NECO: Borno students lament withholding of results
Students of public secondary schools in Borno have expressed concern over the withholding of examination results by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Commission (NECO). The two agencies withheld results for the June/July 2017 examinations due to the inability of the state government to settle outstanding fees. The state government had pledged to contribute 75 per cent of...
IGP seeks Buhari’s approval to recruit 155,000 in 5 years
….Vows to punish corrupt officers From Sola Ojo, Kaduna In an attempt to meet up with United Nations’ recommended policing ratio of 1:400, the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Friday sought President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval to recruit additional 155,000 policemen and women within the next five years. If the approval is given, 31,000 police officers will be added annually and may address...
Confab counsels journalists on post-retirement investment initiatives
Some delegates at the ongoing 13th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference in Port Harcourt on Friday urged journalists to put in place viable post-retirement investment initiatives. The participants spoke while discussing a paper, “The Editor as a Businessman,’’ presented by Mr Chooks Oko, Editor-in-Chief of Citizens Trumpet Newspaper. Mr Gbenga Aruleba, Head of Current Affairs at the African Independent Television (AIT), who...
Court finds 5 police officers guilty of murder of 2 friends
… Awards N50m compensation to victims’ families From: TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt A Rivers State High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, has found a five-man patrol team of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) guilty of extra-judicially killing of two friends, Michael Akor and Michael Igwe, in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the State. The SARS team was led one ASP Samuel...
FG installs lab to track Nigeria’s crude oil
The Federal Government has installed a laboratory to track oil theft in the country, saying that crude oil theft would soon be a thing of the past. The anti-theft laboratory was installed in Bayelsa State. Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, disclosed this, on Friday, during the commissioning of the ultra modern Bio-resources Laboratory complex and the livestock feed...
Apapa gridlock: Stay away from Lagos for now, govt. orders truck owners
…Says order to subsist pending clearing of traffic spillover …Attributes bottleneck to breakdown of operations at ports …Deploys RRS, LASTMA, LASEMA to enforce directive at state borders Worried by the recent traffic bottleneck that has taken over Apapa and its environs, the Lagos State Government on Friday directed owners and operators of articulated vehicles/trailers and petroleum tankers to stay away from Lagos...
Osinbajo launches PPP portal, says ICRC attracted N3.7trn on 51 projects
The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), has so far attracted N3.7 trillion private capital for its on going 51 projects located in different parts of the country, the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said. This is even as he noted that Private Partnership, (PPP) was key to addressing the country’s infrastructural deficit. Osinbajo disclosed this at the official launch of the World Bank...