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http://ift.tt/2p2ljWT Nigerian Ports Authority • Agencies Kick, Reluctant To Exit • Stakeholders Chart Path To Smooth Implementation As the seven agencies ordered to vacate the nation’s seaports reluctantly quit, importers and clearing agents have heaved a sigh of relief over the ended regime of multiple charges and touting.    The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), on Wednesday, ordered seven agencies out of the ports while another seven received the nod to stay on. The development is a direct fallout of the Executive Order on the ease of doing business at the seaports signed recently by the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo. Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, listed the approved agencies as NPA, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Department of State Security (DSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Ports Health.    The Guardian’s investigations reveale...

http://ift.tt/2p2ljWT Nigerian Ports Authority • Agencies Kick, Reluctant To Exit • Stakeholders Chart Path To Smooth Implementation As the seven agencies ordered to vacate the nation’s seaports reluctantly quit, importers and clearing agents have heaved a sigh of relief over the ended regime of multiple charges and touting.    The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), on Wednesday, ordered seven agencies out of the ports while another seven received the nod to stay on. The development is a direct fallout of the Executive Order on the ease of doing business at the seaports signed recently by the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo. Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, listed the approved agencies as NPA, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Department of State Security (DSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Ports Health.    The Guardian’s investigations reveale...

http://ift.tt/2pzUi9l “We boldly say that two wrongs don’t make a right. We should not go down the same lane with some of our brothers in the Southeast. We have a duty, as young people, to re-write all the mistakes of the past and also to strengthen the unity of our country. • Notice Invalid Without Mandate, Says SAN Another group from the northern part of the country yesterday condemned the ultimatum issued earlier by some 16 northern groups giving Igbos October 1 deadline to vacate the region. The group, Coalition of Arewa Dialogue Youth Forum, said the ultimatum issued by the 16 northern groups was provocative and a grave threat to national security. In a reaction to the notice, a constitutional lawyer, Gabriel Ofodile Okafor (SAN), has said the notice is a welcome development, but unfortunate, as the groups cannot claim to represent either the political class or traditional institution; hence the notice is invalid, as it is without any mandate. Addressing a press confe...

http://ift.tt/2pzUi9l “We boldly say that two wrongs don’t make a right. We should not go down the same lane with some of our brothers in the Southeast. We have a duty, as young people, to re-write all the mistakes of the past and also to strengthen the unity of our country. • Notice Invalid Without Mandate, Says SAN Another group from the northern part of the country yesterday condemned the ultimatum issued earlier by some 16 northern groups giving Igbos October 1 deadline to vacate the region. The group, Coalition of Arewa Dialogue Youth Forum, said the ultimatum issued by the 16 northern groups was provocative and a grave threat to national security. In a reaction to the notice, a constitutional lawyer, Gabriel Ofodile Okafor (SAN), has said the notice is a welcome development, but unfortunate, as the groups cannot claim to represent either the political class or traditional institution; hence the notice is invalid, as it is without any mandate. Addressing a press confe...

http://ift.tt/2qTqBAs Real Madrid’s Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates next to the trophy after Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League final football match between Juventus and Real Madrid at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff, south Wales, on June 3, 2017. JAVIER SORIANO / AFP Cristiano Ronaldo said he had no intention of slowing down after spearheading a 4-1 victory over Juventus that made Real Madrid the first team to retain the UEFA Champions League. Ronaldo’s double in Saturday’s final at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, allied to goals by Casemiro and Marco Asensio, earned him a fourth Champions League win and gave Madrid their third in four years and 12th in total. Ronaldo, 32, has now scored 600 career goals for club and country, including 105 in the Champions League, and has finished as the top scorer in the competition for the last five seasons. “I think people don’t have words to criticise, because the numbers don’t lie,” he told reporters after r...

http://ift.tt/2qMDPPX Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd), former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on Saturday disclosed that his book, which will soon be made public will expose how MKO Abiola was killed Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd), former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on Saturday disclosed that his book, which will soon be made public will expose how the winner of the acclaimed June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was killed. He said he had finished work on the three-volume book that will expose the conspiracy and those who perpetrated the heinous act. The former security officer said he was detained for 15 years in Lagos prison because he was in possession of videocassette that captured the conspiracy in Aso Rock, Abuja. He said it was unfortunate that his “persecutors “ deceived Nigerians that he was being prosecuted for alleged killing of Mrs. Kudirat Abiola, wh...

http://ift.tt/2qTqBAs Real Madrid's Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates next to the trophy after Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League final football match between Juventus and Real Madrid at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff, south Wales, on June 3, 2017. JAVIER SORIANO / AFP Cristiano Ronaldo said he had no intention of slowing down after spearheading a 4-1 victory over Juventus that made Real Madrid the first team to retain the UEFA Champions League. Ronaldo’s double in Saturday’s final at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, allied to goals by Casemiro and Marco Asensio, earned him a fourth Champions League win and gave Madrid their third in four years and 12th in total. Ronaldo, 32, has now scored 600 career goals for club and country, including 105 in the Champions League, and has finished as the top scorer in the competition for the last five seasons. “I think people don’t have words to criticise, because the numbers don’t lie,” he told reporters aft...

http://ift.tt/2qMDPPX Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd), former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on Saturday disclosed that his book, which will soon be made public will expose how MKO Abiola was killed Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd), former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on Saturday disclosed that his book, which will soon be made public will expose how the winner of the acclaimed June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was killed. He said he had finished work on the three-volume book that will expose the conspiracy and those who perpetrated the heinous act. The former security officer said he was detained for 15 years in Lagos prison because he was in possession of videocassette that captured the conspiracy in Aso Rock, Abuja. He said it was unfortunate that his “persecutors “ deceived Nigerians that he was being prosecuted for alleged killing of Mrs. Kudirat Abiola, wh...

http://ift.tt/2pVMYp0 Chatham House A Chatham House report launched yesterday in Abuja has estimated that at least $480 billion was stolen by corrupt officials between 1960 and 2004.Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute based in London. The report, titled “Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria, a Social Norms Approach to Connecting Societies and Institutions,” said that close to $400 billion was stolen from Nigeria’s public accounts from 1960 to 1999. It added that between 2005 and 2014, $182 billion was lost through illicit financial flows from the country. This stolen commonwealth, the report observed, represents the investment gaps in building and equipping modern hospitals to reduce Nigeria’s exceptionally high maternal mortality rates estimated at two out of every 10 global maternal deaths. British Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Paul Awkright, noted that corruption is bad for people and business. “Corruption fu...

http://ift.tt/2pA4Gm0 AXA Mansard Insurance The Board of Directors of AXA Mansard Pensions Limited has appointed Abubakar Sadiq Bello as an independent non-executive director of the company. Bello, a seasoned banker with over 24 years cognate experience in banking, started his career in 1990 as a pioneer member of staff of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. He rose through the ranks at GTBank where he held several key management positions. He left GTBank in 2011 as a General Manager and the bank’s Chief Compliance Officer. In August 2011, he was appointed to the board of Mainstreet Bank Limited as an Executive Director responsible for the North Bank directorate until December 2014. He was the pioneer Chairman, Committee of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria; Vice Chairman, Committee of Heads of Bank Operations of Banks in Nigeria (CHBO); Member, Unique Taxpayer Identification Number (UTIN) Steering Committee; Member, MICR Technical Implementation Committee and a faculty mem...

http://ift.tt/2pVKdE9 Apart from the access road to the project site at Oghareki, a perimeter fence, three buildings and a gantry, there is nothing else on ground for the project, which was started in 2009.<br /> • Police ban demand for tinted glass permit Having spent N23.2 billion eight years after commencing work at the Independent Power Plant (IPP) at Oghara, Ethiope West Local Council of Delta State, about N20 billion is still needed to complete the project, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said. Apart from the access road to the project site at Oghareki, a perimeter fence, three buildings and a gantry, there is nothing else on ground for the project, which was started in 2009. Okowa, who spoke during a town hall meeting at Oghara yesterday, told the audience which included former Governor, James Ibori, Deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro, the state Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Kingsley Esiso and others that the government needs money to connect the turbi...

http://ift.tt/2raB7XT (FILES) This file photo taken on July 9, 2016 shows Texan hip hop recording artist and record producer Travis Scott performing at the Quebec City Summer Festival. Rapper Travis Scott was arrested after a concert in Arkansas with police accusing him of "inciting a riot" as the crowd rushed to the stage, injuring several people. In the latest such incident for the 25-year-old, an enthusiastic crowd pushed through barricades to move closer to him at the arena concert the night of May 13, 2017. Florence Cassisi / AFP Rapper Travis Scott was arrested after a concert in Arkansas with police accusing him of “inciting a riot” as the crowd rushed to the stage, injuring several people. In the latest such incident for the 25-year-old, an enthusiastic crowd pushed through barricades to move closer to him at the arena concert Saturday night. Video footage posted online shows Scott energetically dancing and revving up the crowd but later asking fans to step back...

http://ift.tt/2qqaMlT President Muhammadu Buhari’s indefinite medical travel to London, United Kingdom is ill-advised, the latest Guardian Poll has shown. Fifty-seven per cent of respondents to a poll on The Guardian website between May 12 and May 14, said it was inappropriate for the President to travel indefinitely. Forty-three per cent, however, backed Buhari’s latest medical travel, noting that there was nothing to worry about. Buhari left Nigeria for London on May 7, 2017 for a “medical follow-up” and the length of his stay will only “be determined by the doctors.” He was also in the same location between January 19 and March 10 this year to “undergo routine medical check-ups” during a short holiday. On his return, he hinted at the possibility of his going back for more treatment and acknowledged that he was terribly sick but did not disclose the nature of his ailment. But the presidency insisted there was nothing to worry about in spite of his absence from the Federal ...

http://ift.tt/2oO97rt England's Anthony Joshua. PHOTO: Paul ELLIS / AFP In my mind’s eyes we are now rushing into the boxing ring at Wembley Stadium in England trying to touch the boxing gloves of Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua so that we may be healed of our sports inertia and or slumber. This is patriotic opportunism. Joshua is the “tear-rubber” world heavyweight boxing champion with three broad and shiny belts, WBA, IBO and IBF, courtesy of the 11th round knockout of the Ukrainian legend, Wladimir Klitschko, on April 29, 2017. Joshua boxes under the canopy of the British flag but he is as Nigerian as they come. His name is Nigerian, his mother is a Nigerian, his father is an Irish Nigerian while his grandfather, Daniel Adebambo Joshua of Sagamu, Ogun State, is very Nigerian. But Anthony Joshua (AJ) was born in Watford, England, and went to King’s Langley Secondary School. At school, he was good in football and athletics, but somehow he found his way into the boxing ring. ...