21January 2014. His Excellency, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Governor, Ogun State, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Your Excellency, Your open letter to our colleague, Senator Olugbenga Obadara in the January, 20th. 2014 edition of The Nation newspaper refers. You wrote to us, no doubt about that, as there were almost 10 different references to a perceived group Obadara belongs to. Unfortunately, ... Read More »
The Nigeria music industry will welcome the first album of emerging star and ace vocalist, Taiwo Agbohunsa, popularly known as LACE; the album titled Benin to Nigeria will drop on valentine day, 14th February. LACE, the crooner of monster hit single ‘sebi wo’ is regarded as the future of trado-contemporary music in Africa, with his perfect blend of urban R ... Read More »
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday expressed the belief that with the measures put in place by his administration, especially the new National Automotive Industry Policy; the country would soon be exporting cars to other countries. Jonathan spoke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while granting audience to a delegation of the business community from Anambra State led by Governor Peter Obi. ... Read More »
The new Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, has given an assurance that the military will bring the Boko Haram insurgency in the country to an end before April this year. He said that it was mandatory for the military to eliminate the Boko Haram insurgency in the next three months in order to prevent a constitutional problem ... Read More »
A succession process that will culminate in Chief Keith Richards becoming a non- executive Chairman of Promasidor Nigeria Limited and Mr. Olivier Thiry becoming the Managing Director has begun. It would be recalled that Chief Richards a few months ago clocked sixty years. In a statement by the company, the current Chairman, Mr. Mark Rose said, “Keith Richards has done ... Read More »
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Adeyemi Ikuforiji has commended the Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) for achieving e-voting to determine its leadership of the institution in the just concluded Students’ Union elections held at the Ojo and other satellite campuses of the University. Hon Ikuforiji stated this while presenting gifts and cash prizes ... Read More »
Delta State government and the Republic of Ireland at the weekend agreed to pursue bilateral relations on economic cooperation on a number of areas with Irish business delegation expected in Nigeria later in the year. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and Ireland’s Minister of Trade and Development, Joe Costello agreed that a joint working partnership will be organized to explore opportunities of ... Read More »
President Goodluck Jonathan has sent the names of 12 would-be ministers to the Senate for confirmation. Top on the list of would-be ministers are former National Security Adviser, retired General Mohammed Aliyu Gusau; Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro; and a former Governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna. Aliyu is the representative of Zamfara State, while Obanikoro is ... Read More »
The Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria on Monday evening passed a bill that now places fine of N10,000, three months imprisonment or both for first offenders. The law for a law to prohibit smoking in designated places and vehicles, which was sponsored by Gbolahan Yishawu, the lawmaker representing Eti-Osa Constituency 2 at the House, had lingered since last ... Read More »
The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, in Lagos, yesterday, paraded six persons, including a couple, over alleged visa fraud at the Italian Embassy. Mrs Ngozi Isintume-Agu, spokesperson of the unit, who paraded the suspects, said they were arrested after receiving a petition from the Italian Consulate-General, alleging visa fraud by the couple. Isintume-Agu said the couple, Ayinmola Alabi and his ... Read More »
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