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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Doctor said he was treating me for malaria—Victim By Sharonrose Robert L AGOS— Two medical doctors and two nurses have been arrested for allegedly procuring abortions on a teenager, who was impregnated by a man that has been parading himself as a pastor at the Agodo-Egbe branch of a popular Pentecostal church. The victim, who was discharged from the hospital weekend, after being treated of an incomplete abortion, alleged that the main suspect had been sexually violating her since she started living with him at age 10. She further disclosed that he impregnated her four times, alleging that with the connivance of a doctor, her guardian procured four abortions on her without her consent. The bubble burst last Tuesday after the victim, who had just returned from a lab where the fourth pregnancy was illegally terminated, slumped while packing her belongings out of her guardian’s house. She was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered that the pregnancy was ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Alternative Securities Market, ASeM, of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, a window for Small and Medium Enterprises to access the stock market has been marked by inactivity. Over the years, the companies listed under the sector hardly enjoy investors’ patronage as ASeM index lacks history of movement. In this interview, Mallam Garba Kurfi, Managing Director/CEO, APT Securities & Funds Ltd, provided an insight to lack of activity in the sector. Excerpts: By Nkiruka Nnorom T HE Alternative Securities Market, ASeM, of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has been marked by inactivity as the ASeM index that measures performance in the sector is always stagnated. What in your opinion is the reason for the inactivity in the sector? The truth of the matter is that those companies that are listed in the ASeM are more like moribund. They are not active in terms of releasing their results. What the alternative market is supposed to be is the stepping stone to the ma...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Nkiruka Nnorom THE chairman of Nestle Nigeria Plc, Mr.David Ifezulike, has enjoined the shareholders of the company to complement the effort of Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, to reduce the quantum of unclaimed dividend in the nation’s capital market by enrolling in the on-going e-dividend. Speaking at the company’s 48th Annual General Meeting, AGM, in Lagos, Ifezulike called on the shareholders to open account with the Central Securities Clearing System, CSCS, for the e-dividend, e-bonus and dematrialisation of their share certificates. Highlighting the benefits of the e-dividend registration, he said that once the registration is successfully completed, all outstanding dividends would be credited to the designated bank account of the shareholder. “We appeal to you to support our effort and that of SEC to reduce the magnitude of unclaimed dividends b y subscribing to the e-Dividend Mandate Management System, EDMMS. Your participation in EDMMS will ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lancelot, last week raised an alarm following the pirating of  his movie, which is yet to be release on DVD. In a chat with HVP, the D’Gvnor as he’s fondly called by his colleagues and fans insisted that he would not reverse the curses he heaped on the pirates. He, however, asked  Nigerians not to patronize anyone who is hawking his movie on the streets, as he’s planning to release the original copies soon. On heaping curses on the pirates, via his Instragam page, the celebrated director wrote, “The  tears on my eyes as I write this piece cannot be compared to the pains and bitterness I carry right now inside of my heart. The crass inhumanity of these flesh eaters called pirates graves my soul so deep. That I pronounce death, pain and anguish upon them and their entire generations yet unborn. They may have survived others. But with my sweat and blood, I curse their roots.I stand on God ‘s word to declare that no man will eat my labour and sweat and...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Speaks on Gov. Willie Obano, Anambra Guber election By Emeka Mamah T oday, we conclude the interview with former APGA chairman, Chief Victor Umeh. Excerpts: Willie Obiano was among the governors who won Governor of the Year award because of what he has done for the people like freeing Anambra state from kidnappers and other violent crimes but his efforts are not being recognised in some areas of the state This is politics for you. Governor Willie Obiano has done exceedingly well in three years in office. I am in a position to give you the history because I have been involved in the politics of that state for the past 18 years since 1998 till now going to 19 years. So, I can tell you how things were at various times since 1999 in Anambra State. There is no governor the state has had from 1999 that has done half of what Obiano has done in three years in of his first term in office. Obi’s first four years were marred by great political instability. He was impea...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Nigerian Film & Video Censors Board (NFVCB) and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which forms the quartet for the Nigerian film industry have jointly endorsed the establishment of the National Film Development Fund (NFDF) to enable the nation deal, urgently with the dearth of funding for film production activities, and investment opportunities yet untapped in the Nigerian film industry. According to the four federal government agencies whose mandates and activities directly and remotely rob on the Nigerian creative economy, the nation’s film industry was in dire need of access to funding, support and assistance to enable it up its contribution to the GDP of Nigeria from just over 1.5% to between 10% – 15% within five years. To achieve this feat, the industry which has thrived on the resilience and private windows of funding would require the institutionalisation of a funding re...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emmanuel Ovuakporie ABUJA —THE House of Representatives, yesterday,  summoned Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the N12 billion virtual currency scheme involving 60,000 Nigerian investors. Chairman, House Committee on Public Petition, Mr Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, who issued the directive at the end of the investigative hearing on the petition instituted by Philemon Gora, promoter of the virtual currency scheme,  also directed Mr Ibrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police, to appear in person before the committee on  May 30, 2017. The petitioner alleged that Diamond Bank unlawfully closed the scheme’s account and withheld fund deposited in the account worth N12 billion. Gora, who assured the committee of paying all the depositors as soon as the account was unfrozen, lamented that he was informed that the bank account of the scheme h...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA —THE Federal Government, yesterday, endorsed and signed three Executive Orders expected to give boost to the Nigeria’s concept of ease of doing business. The signing was performed by Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The development will increase patronage for locally manufactured goods. It will also remove all bureaucratic  bottlenecks that stifled growth of businesses in Nigeria. The three executive orders, according to a statement from the Office of the acting president, touched on specific instructions on a number of policy issues. The issues include “the promotion of transparency and efficiency in the business environment designed to facilitate the ease of doing business in the country; timely submission of annual budgetary estimates by all statutory and non-statutory agencies, including companies owned by the Federal Government; and support for local contents in public procurement b...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Kingsley Omonobi Abuja —The Nigerian Air Force, yesterday,  immortalised two of its Alpha Jet fighter pilots, late Squadron Leader BB Ado, and Flying Officer AJ Layelmenson, who lost their lives during a military operation to stop terrorists backed-rebels from over running the administration of Mali in 2013. The Alpha jets they flew were said to have crashed during the African-led International Support Mission to Mali, AFISMA. Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar,  who immortalised the officers by naming newly constructed Transit and Married Officers blocks of flats after them at NAF Base, Abuja, said: “The two blocks of flats have been appropriately named after our two gallant officers,  who died while on active duty during AFISMA in 2013.” Sadique said: “Two young officers paid the supreme sacrifice while carrying out the noble task of projecting our nation’s interest, hence the need to immortalize them.” This is in consonance ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Dr Qasim Akinreti, London The Tahir hall Baitul Futuh mosque London the largest mosque in Western Europe was filled to the brim. The event was the celebration of 25 progressive years of satellite broadcast of the true Islam from the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, owner of the Muslim Television Ahmadiyya MTA International. The world head of the Ahmadiyya community Hazrat Masroor Ahmad Khalifatul Masih V walked in at 6.30pm local time for the commencement of the celebration. Ali Munhanda Sahib read from the glorious Qur’an Suratul Al- Fatih chapter 26 verse 29-30.Brother Shamir Coordinator MTA Mauritius translated the passage. Sonorous poem in Urdu followed and the entire hall was spiritually moved to ecstasy for another journey of international broadcast in the coming years. MTA which started broadcast in 1994 at the Morden mosque with a mobile studio now transmit across 10 satellites around the world on Galaxy19, SES 2 in the Americas , Astra 2G, Hotbird 13A, Astr...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Peter Okutu A BAKALIKI — DEPUTY Inspector General of police, South East zone, DIG Valentine Ntomchukwu yesterday warned officers and men of Ebonyi state police command to shun all forms of corrupt practices, crimes and unlawful indulgences during the discharge of their constitutional responsibilities. Ntomchukwu handed down the warning while addressing policemen during his one day official visit to the state police command headquarters, Abakaliki. He reiterated the readiness of the Inspector General of police, IGP Ibrahim Idris to make available welfare packages to the command as a way of uplifting their standard of living, adding that all police corporals and sergeants in Ebonyi will soon be promoted. The DIG assured the command that the IGP was aware of all the boundary disputes between Ebonyi state and Cross River as well as other neighbouring states in the south east zone. Ntomchukwu however revealed the preparedness of the IGP to establish police PMF...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Austin Ogwuda BIAFRAN warlord, Chief Joe Achuzia, yesterday counseled the IPOB helmsman, Nnamdi Kanu that on no account should violence be employed in the ongoing fight for self determination. Speaking with Vanguard shortly after Kanu’s visit to his country home in Asaba, Achuzia said, “I took the opportunity to tell him about our way forward. He is our son and consequently  is in our nature as fathers to give advice to the sons. “There is a native saying that there is no son that tells the father, this is where we were living before I was born. We have seen war before and we know what it is all about.  I have told him that now that he is out of the clutches of the Federal Government, that both himself, his well wishers, his followers and even his enemies should continue to pursue peace. “Our mind is at rest now because  he is out. I have told him that while  we will not give up on the struggle, let us choose a peaceful manner of pursin...