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Enugu Student Emerges BPE’s Best Essay Writer

November 29, 2019 6:56 am

A student of Girls’ Secondary School, Abakpa-Nike, Enugu State, Miss Chidiogo Jane Onoh, has emerged the overall winner of the maiden edition of the essay writing competition of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).

In a letter to the principal of the school, the Director-General of BPE, Alex A. Okoh, stated that Miss Onoh’s entry in the essay writing competition titled: The Reason for Government Reforms and Privatization of Public Enterprises, “was adjudged the best by the Bureau’s team of evaluators”.

Okoh congratulated the student for emerging the overall winner in the country as well as the school for producing …

House Probes Alleged Violation Of Labour Laws By IOCs

November 29, 2019 6:54 am

The House of Representatives has ordered an investigation into the alleged violation of labour laws by international oil companies (IOCs), including the casualisation of labour.

The House also directed the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, to provide to the Committee on Labour, Employment and Productivity a performance update and report concerning plan to reform the process of granting and renewing recruiters’ licence to labour contractors as announced in July 2018.

The House took the decision following the adoption of a motion moved by Hon. Benjamin Kalu.

Kalu said Nigeria, as a member of the International Labour …

Igbo And Nigerian Presidency Conundrum

November 29, 2019 3:54 am

IGBO people constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria. They are economic, social and educational giants in their own right. Their spirit of mercantilism and commercial dexterity has made them universally ubiquitous. The Igbo in the Diaspora spread to parts of Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. But at home in Nigeria the Igbo people are political midgets. The political fortunes of Ndigbo have been on downward trend since the exit of Dr.NnamdiAzikiwe, the visionary leader of Igbo extraction and nation builder who believed strongly in the unity of Nigeria.

When in 1957, the British colonial authorities offered …

Igbo Businessmen Now Vulnerable, ADF Cries Out

November 29, 2019 3:54 am

The Ala-Igbo Development Foundation (ADF) has decried what it called the continued hounding of Igbo businessmen in the country, saying that they have become an endangered species. 

ADF also urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to be cautious in its attempt to intervene in the alleged indictment of Chief Executive of Air Peace Airlines, by the US Department of Justice, as an independent inquiry would be very essential at this point in time to establish the truth once and for all.

Chairman of the group’s Media and Publicity Bureau, Chief Abia Onyike, in a statement in Enugu, yesterday, …

Tambuwal Warns Against Dictatorship

November 29, 2019 3:53 am

Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has urged the media to remain vigilant and mobilise Nigerians to defend the nation’s democracy, saying the country cannot operate a democracy like a military dictatorship.

Also, former Governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, tasked the media, civil society groups and other stakeholders in the democratic space to resist the Hate Speech Bill, saying it will amount to tyranny and a breach of fundamental human rights of citizens.

They spoke yesterday in Sokoto during the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Guild of Editors’ Conference.
Tambuwal also rallied the media to defend free speech by …

Abuja Art Week Debuts to Boost Culture, Tourism

November 29, 2019 3:52 am

Art lovers were treated to the best of art technology and music as the maiden edition of Abuja Art Week held recently in Abuja. The event brought together a selected group of galleries, organisations, artists and events all under one umbrella to network and socialise in an art environment.

Organised by Hezekina Pollutina Ltd in partnership with various restaurants and service providers to create unique attractions and engagements, it also featured both local and international artists and organisations such as Female Artists Association of Nigeria (FEAAN), Institute Francais and Argentinian Embassy.

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Peace

Let’s Forgive And Save Air Peace

November 29, 2019 3:52 am
The report of last weekend’s indictment of Mr Allen Onyema, chairman of Air Peace airlines by the US Department of Justice in the Northern District of Columbia came as a shock to me as it did to many other Nigerians. To say I am sad  would be an understatement. I tried valiantly to understand the indictment. The claim was that Onyema laundered over $20 million from Nigeria through the United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents on his purchase of aero planes that are yet to be delivered.  

Onyema has swiftly responded that all he did …

FG Places $200m Bank Guarantee With UK Court In P&ID Row

November 29, 2019 3:50 am

Nigeria has given a bank guarantee of $200 million to the United Kingdom Commercial Court hearing its dispute with a British Virgin Islands-based engineering firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID), over a botched Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA), which the federal government believed was fraudulently procured.

But P&ID has denied any wrongdoing in the agreement it entered into with the federal government to process wet gas for the generation of electricity for the country.

In what is clearly a positive step forward for Nigeria, the United Kingdom Commercial Court presided over by Justice Butcher yesterday accepted the …

Africa

Nigeria Will Strengthen Ties With S. Africa Through Tourism

November 28, 2019 2:18 pm

Nigeria’s minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday said Nigeria will continue to explore culture and tourism as veritable platforms to strengthen its ties with South Africa.

“A few years back, we did actually put in motion the machinery for cultural exchanges between Nigeria and South Africa and we are still working on it,” Mohammed said in a meeting with the South African Minister of Tourism, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, in Lagos on Thursday.

“Because we believe that a lot of issues can be resolved when we bring to South Africa our very popular artistes because I am told that …

Traps Set By APC For Oyo People’ll Fail, Group To Folarin

November 28, 2019 12:07 pm

An Oyo State-based socio-political group, Oyo Kajola Group (OKG), Thursday came hard on the Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Senator Teslim Folarin, for claiming in an address to his party loyalists that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had set two traps for the government of Governor Seyi Makinde, which according to him it cannot escape.

The group in a statement by its Media Coordinator, Mr. Adebayo Ayandele, and made available to THISDAY, said the statement credited to Folarin, had exposed the evil intention of the APC, its members and that of the Senator in question.

According to him, “By …

Buhari’s Rejected $30 Billion Loan Resurfaces In Senate

November 28, 2019 8:58 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has formally written to the Senate to approve an undisclosed amount of foreign loan to the Federal Government.

The said $30 billion loan was rejected by the 8th Senate headed by Bukola Saraki.

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, read the loan request from President Buhari on the floor of the Senate on Thursday.

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The Senate rejected it in November 2016 in a bipartisan move. No reason was offered on why the loan request was rejected then.

According to the Debt Management Office (DMO), the total …

2023

Bode George: Only God Knows Who Will Be Alive In 2023

November 28, 2019 8:57 am

Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) accountable for the promises made during the last election and stop directing their energies to the issue of 2023 presidency.

Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, George, who is the Atona Oodua of Yorubaland said solutions to problems of unemployment, hunger, insecurity and other challenges should be the focus of Nigerians and not the 2023 presidency.

According to him, it is absurd that Nigerians are dissipating energies on the issue …

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