WITHDRAWAL OF NIGERIAN RUGBY SEVENS FROM COMMONWEALTH GAMES BY NOC, A MAJOR SETBACK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME IN NIGERIA It was with great and undeniable shock and dismay I received report of the withdrawal of the Nigerian Rugby Sevens from the Commonwealth game coming up this summer in Glasgow, Scotland by the Nigerian Olympic Committee (NOC) with no ... Read More »
International Oil Company, Total, has appointed the first female Managing Director to run its Nigerian operations. The company, in a statement on Friday, named Mr. Elisabeth Prousst as the Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Total upstream companies in Nigeria consisting of Total E&P Nigeria Limited, Total Upstream Nigeria Limited and several other subsidiaries. The statement said Proust would also double ... Read More »
The life of a 17-year-old student of Bowen University, Opeyemi Odusanya, has been cut short by some cult members in Lagos. It was gathered that the undergraduate was murdered for allegedly rejecting sexual advances from some youths in the area and also for “being too proud.” WE learnt that the victim was a 300 level student of Biochemistry at the ... Read More »
Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Cowbell milk emerged one of the top winners of the Lagos State Government Support Our Schools Initiative Corporate Social Responsibility Award for 2014. The award ceremony which was part of the Support Our Schools Initiative’s annual Corporate Social Responsibility Award/Breakfast Meeting with the Governor; held under the watchful eyes of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), ... Read More »
To unravel what seemed to be an accidental discharge that led to the death of a relative of Abia State Governor, Mr.John Ndubuka, the state command of the Nigeria police has set investigation to get the root of the urgly incident. Briefing journalists over the incident at the Government House, Umuahia, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dr. Eze ... Read More »
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, February 13, 2014 arraigned one Ngozi Ibeka before Justice Valentine Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Wuse, Abuja on a 14-count charge bordering on fraud and breach of trust. Ibeka, Managing Director of Em-Lette Nigeria Limited is alleged to have received several supplies of rice from Stallion Nigeria Limited ... Read More »
Justice Adebisi Akinlade of the Lagos High Court, sitting in Igbosere on Monday, February 17, 2014 ordered Oluwaseun Ogunbambo who is standing trial in a case of forgery and obtaining N610million by false pretence to present himself for trial on April 23 and 24, 2014 or risk a bench warrant. Ogunbambo who was not in court at the last adjourned ... Read More »
A Lagos High court sitting in Igbosere, presided over by Justice Adebisi Akinlade on Monday February 17, 2014 sentenced Jamiu Seun Odunayo, a former banker, to One Hundred and Fifteen Years (115) imprisonment with no option of fine over an offence which borders on fraud, stealing, and obtaining money by false pretence. The convict was arraigned by the Economic and ... Read More »
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has called for the convocation of an Agric Summit by the 19 Northern States to chart a roadmap for the development of agriculture as agribusiness rather than dependence on oil revenues. Governor Ahmed said this in a lecture he delivered at the inauguration of New Leadership and Public Lecture organized by the Arewa ... Read More »
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