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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Morenike Taire Quite recently, I visited the one- time headquarters of the Nigerian Postal Service (Nipost) in Marina, Lagos. The décor was far from modern, and one got a sense of the front desk being much larger than it is required to be. Nonetheless, a consistent buzz assured of the functionality of the organization. Posters on every wall issued instructions as well as information and staff was more than polite- they were friendly, at least to my party. Perhaps it was to prepare us for the information they were about to give: the elevators were out of service, which meant we would be using the stairs on our sojourn to the 8th  floor. The elevator was not the only thing out of use. Half of the 8th  floor had been cordoned off on account of disuse. Every word spoken virtually echoed, perhaps on account of the old-fashioned, high-ceilinged nature of the architecture; or perhaps because of the under-population. One can by no means refer to it as a fi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Nwabueze Okonkwo The lingering Igweship crisis in Ojoto community in Idemili South Local Government Area, Anambra State has taken a dangerous dimension as terror gangs  unleashed mayhem on perceived opponents. At the centre of the crisis are the two contestants to the Igweship throne, High Chief Gerald Mbamalu who incidentally is the incumbent Regent of the community and Chief Dennis Adindu Okafor, a Lagos-based business mogul. While Mbamalu and his loyalists are insisting that an election of new Igwe has not yet taken place in the area, Okafor and his own loyalists are claiming that he had already been elected as the new Igwe. The crisis climaxed yesterday when a town crier, Mr Emeka Uzor was beaten to a pulp  for allegedly announcing that nobody has become the Igwe-elect of Ojoto and that the state government has ordered that every move about election of a new monarch should be suspended for now as a result of the worsening situation of the crisi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emma Una TO  combat climate change, the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP has distributed  1,700 energy saving  cooking stoves and lead electric bulbs to members of communities devastated  by gully erosions in Cross River State. One thousand seven hundred members of the  five communities of Nyahasang, Atakpa, Ikot Ekpo, Edim Otop and Ikot Nkebre  were handed the single and double cooker stoves  while  Federal Government Girls’ College, Edgerly Girls’ Secondary School, Hope Waddel College  were given giant size   stoves  to encourage the schools  to replace  fossil fuel stoves and fire wood which hitherto they  used in cooking  food. Dr  Fidelis Anukwa, the NEWMAP Coordinator  in the state  who distributed the stoves to beneficiaries on Wednesday in Calabar said the energy stoves cook faster and do not emit  carbon substances into the envi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J …I have no business with FUOYE, Fayose replies By Rotimi Ojomoyela The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof Kayode Soremekun,  yesterday accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of being the brain behind  the crisis rocking the university. Soremekun said the governor was allegedly sponsoring some union leaders, whom he accused of beating up some lecturers on campus some few days back. The university had last week suspended three union leaders, including the Chairmen of Senior Staff Union of Nigerian  Universities, Comrade Ademola Mutiu, his counterpart in National Association of Academic Technologists, Comrade Ekundayo Ojugbaye and Chairman of the  Non Academic Staff union, Comrade Adebayo Dada for declaring industrial action and for unruly behaviour  to the council members. But Fayose , who denied the allegation through his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka , said he has no business with the...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A businessman and philanthropist, and Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International Ozonkpu Mbas in Anambra State has extended his acts of generosity to a widow in the community, Mrs. Ngozi Adi Ekenta. He built and donated a storey building to her as well as financing her petty trading activities. Chief Ekpe who had awarded full secondary school scholarship to ten students at Ide Girls’ Secondary School Enugwu Ukwu in the past five years, pledged to actively assist the less privileged in the society as long as God gave him the capacity to do so. Addressing members of the Rotary Club of Njikoka Chapter, the club President, Chief Francis Nwabasili praised Chief Ekpe for his humanitarian services and requested wealthy members of the community to emulate his good example. He observed that Chief Ekpe was not embarking on these laudable projects because he was wealthy but because of his love for humanity and interest in assisting the less privileged. The post Mbas donat...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCO) has expressed its readiness to partner and support the  Lagos state government’s Light Up Lagos initiative, describing the project as the most successful strategy in strengthening security and curbing   crimes. This was made known  by the company’s Managing Director Mr Bayo Ojulari when he led other Management staff of the company on a courtesy visit to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode recently. Mr Ojulari who commended the state government for embarking on urban renewal and infrastructural development projects that have changed the face of governance in the last two years, noted  that various reforms of the state government has made it a must visit for investors. The Managing Director,   while describing the Light Up Lagos Project of the state government as the best crime control strategy to be taken by any administration, stated that SNEPCO was  ready to provide ...