Curator

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J ‘I’ve lost my only source of joy’ By Monsuru Olowoopejo Lagos —Tears flowed freely in Badagry Local Government, Lagos State, when the two victims of Otodo-Gbame Community demolition, 45-year-old, Elijah Avonda and Daniel Aya, 20, were buried. The burial of the two victims came barely two months after Lagos State Government allegedly demolished the community said to have lived  in Lekki, Eti-Osa Local Government area for more than 50 years. At the burial over the weekend, hundreds of residents from slum communities in the state and friends of the victims paid their last respect to both men who were allegedly killed by  stray-bullets during a two-day demolition of structures in the community. While Aya was buried at Muwo, Badagry West at about 1:30 pm, Avonda was buried at about 4:30 pm at Apa Kingdom. Some of the mourners, who accompanied the corpse to their separate home towns, broke down in tears when their corpses  were finally lowered. I ha...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J L agos —A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has described his late mother, Alhaja Wasilat Obanikoro, as a disciplinarian who made great impact on the lives of her children and the people around her. Alhaja Wasilat Obanikoro died in the early hours of Saturday at her residence in Lagos. She was aged 95 and had since been buried according to Islamic rites. The former senator speaking on the life and times of the deceased in Lagos yesterday, said Alhaja Wasilat Obanikoro was a firm believer in education as a tool for liberation, adding that he had always known his mother to be a hard working woman, who touched several lives through her generosity. The former Nigerian Ambassador to Ghana said that his late mother was a devout Muslim. Obanikoro said she would be sorely missed by her children and the people whose lives she touched. He, however, said that his consolation was that she lived a good life and left good legacies for her ch...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Bose Adelaja Lagos —The Lagos State government yesterday, said, it has arrested the different warring factional leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, allegedly  fomenting  trouble around Oshodi and its environs in the past few days. The crises at Oshodi erupted after the death of Rasaq Bello, popularly known as Hamburger, which resulted into the attack on innocent citizens. Bello, a prominent member of NURTW, was allegedly shot dead in Shogunle area of Lagos State during the local council primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The death has been generating fear in the area as area boys have seized the occasion to attack innocent members of the public. The Chairman Lagos State Task Force,  Superintendent of Police, Olayinka Egbeyemi, who disclosed the arrest in a statement, assured i members of the public of safety of lives and properties around Maf...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J T he Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has introduced six key electronic solutions (e-Services) to enhance convenience, transparency and round the clock processing and payment of taxes. Some of the e-Services, which could now be accessed online, are taxpayer registration (through e-Registration); payment of Stamp Duties (through e-Stamp Duty); payment of taxes (through online payment: e-TaxPay, Remita). Others are; receiving of electronic receipt after payment of taxes (through e-Receipt); filing tax returns online (through e-filing) and online Tax Clearance Certificates (TCC) through electronic Tax Clearance Certificate (e-TCC solution). The Executive Chairman, Tunde Fowler, who explained this in Abuja, said the e-Services innovation represented “a revolution in tax administration in Nigeria. “The idea behind the six ICT solutions is to make tax payment as easy as ABC, to bring convenience to our taxpayers.  ‘The ICT solutions which we are bringing t...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Favour Nnabugwu AFRICA Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) has tasked Ambassadors and High Commissioners in Nigeria to support the needy and less privilege in the country. The Deputy Managing Director of Africa Re, Mr Ken Aghoghovbia, told Vanguard Insurance during the celebration of the 54th Africa Day in Abuja this should form major part of their corporate social responsibility. “This action by the African Group of   Ambassadors and High Commissioners is all the more laudable as the   assistance will help lift the needy out of their desperate conditions and will provide comfort and hope to these underprivileged in the country and the Federal Capital Territory.” Aghoghovbia said the pan-African  reinsurer with predominantly African shareholders, provides  reinsurance capacity to over 60 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle-East and Brazil. “Africa Re is always pleased to be part  of such commendable actions that promote the we...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J .Okay 6 kobo dividend SHAREHOLDERS of May   & Baker Nigeria Plc have commended its Board of Directors for the remarkable achievement in resuming the manufacture of vaccines in the country as Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council had ratified the 12-year old agreement between it and the company. The shareholders also commended the Board for an improved financial performance and declaring dividend despite the harsh operating environment. Managing Director/CEO of May & Baker Nigeria Plc, Mr. Nnamdi Okafor, who announced the good news while addressing shareholders at the 66th annual general meeting of the company held in Lagos said “with the action of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the partners will immediately take steps to reconstitute the board of Biovaccines Nigeria Limited, the company set up for the purpose of vaccine manufacturing in Nigeria through the May & Baker partnership with the Federal Government.” In 2005, May & Baker e...

via Blogger http://ift.tt/2srapbs

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Jimitota Onoyume P ORT HAR-COURT —  RIVERS State Government has released $4 million to upgrade the state’s  Braithwaite Memorial Hospital, BMH. The governor, Mr.  Nyesom Wike, disclosed this yesterday, when he played host to the National President, Nigerian Medical Association, NMA,  Prof Mike Ogirima, saying that the government had also concluded plans to build an international hospital to cater for cancer, kidney and other related challenges. Wike said that the hospital will have a helipad,  adding that it would reduce medical tourism overseas as it will take care of the rich and others. He said: “The new specialist hospital that we are working on will stem foreign trips by Nigerians  for healthcare services. We want to conserve foreign exchange for the country.” The governor added that his administration will soon complete an ultra-modern mother and child hospital in Port Harcourt, adding that doctors and other medical worke...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Requires N3m lifeline for eye surgery in Kaduna Swindlers hit peasant family By Cletus Opukeme KIAGBODO — FOR fine-looking 27-year-old Miss Blessing Barda, an indigene of Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, who is slowly going blind due to ulcer infection in her eyes, what is standing between her life and death is the sum of N3 million. She requires it urgently to undergo operation at a specialist institution, Relish Eye Hospital, Kaduna, operated by Indians, but neither she nor her peasant family, has the money. Her appeal to the governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Burutu local government council and kind-hearted Nigerians is to raise the funds to enable her undergo an operation at the hospital to save her from completely going blind. Miss Brada, who spoke to NDV, said she had earlier undergone a cornea transplant operation sponsored by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, following the intervention of a prominent Deltan,...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Grace Udofia A  Nigerian student from Bayelsa State, Perewari Pere, has stunned the academic world by emerging the best graduating student at the prestigious Lincoln University in the USA. By this feat, Pere also takes the honour of rendering the Valedictory speech at the graduation ceremony to the admiration of fellow Nigerians and black students in the institution, bestowing honour on Nigeria and the African continent. An excited governor of Bayelsa State, Mr Seriake Dickson, in a congratulatory message to the student, described him as a worthy ambassador of the state and urged him to keep the flag flying. The governor also described the 21 students of the state origin studying at Lincoln University as worthy ambassadors, and pride to the state and their families. He said that the 21 graduates had made the state proud, having successfully concluded their studies in flying colours and having been found worthy in character and learning. The governor p...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Simon Ebegbulem B ENIN —South- South zone of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has told governors in the zone to intensify efforts to revive the BRACED Commission with a view to accelerating the economic growth of the zone. In a communiqué at the end of the quarterly meeting of the Zone F, comprising the six states in the South-South, read by the Vice President of the zone, Edward Ogwude,  it also called on the state governors to check the excesses of Fulani herdsmen, who have caused havoc in some states in the region. The communiqué, while commending the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, for the ban on Community Development Associations, CDAs, in Edo State, said that the recent legislation backing the ban on CDAs will help bring peace and order in communities in the state. The communiqué said: “We believe that reviving the BRACED Commission will go a long way in ensuring togetherness, peace and accelerated development in the region. The Zone, in consid...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Monsuru Olowoopejo L agos —Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, yesterday, presented cheques totalling N55 million to the families of security officers who lost their lives in the Ishawo area of Ikorodu after an ambush  by militants. The families of four police officers that died during the operation got N10 million each, while an officer who sustained injury during the attack and still recuperating in the hospital, Sgt. Alexandra Ugadu got N5 million. Also, a cheque of N10 million was presented to the family of a military officer, Capt. A Mohammed, who also lost his life during the attack. The  officers were killed after successfully rescuing kidnapped victims kept in the riverine area by the militants. The police officers’ whose families benefited from the death insurance scheme of the State Government are late Insp. Godwin Iroagbalahi, Insp. Francis Pemi, Sgt. Mamuda Dembo and Sgt. Idor Ekoro. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Govern...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Innocent Anaba Lagos —The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, re-arraigned former Ministers of Aviation and Finance, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and Senator Nenadi Usman for alleged N4.6 billion fraud. They pleaded not guilty to the 17-count charge of laundering. They were charge along with former Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON and ex-Chairman of Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State Mr. Yusuf Danjuma and a company, Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Limited. Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Nenadi Usman, Femi Fani-Kayode, Danjuman Yusuf And Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd on or about January 8, 2015, within the jurisdiction of this court conspired amongst yourselves to indirectly retain the sum of N1,500, 000,000.00 which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: stealing.” They were also accused of indirectly retaining N300 million, N400 mi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A buja —Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Mr Muhuyi Magaji, has said the agency has achieved 80 per cent success into the investigation of alleged misapplication of N6 billion by the Kano Emirate Council. Magaji said yesterday in Abuja that the commission had also recorded a “water tight case against the emirate council” over the allegations of financial misappropriation. “We have also identified our primary suspect in the course of the investigation,” he said, but declined to name the suspect. However, he said that the commission suspended the probe to avoid a “crisis of concurrent investigation with the state House of Assembly and possible litigation by interested parties.” The chairman explained that the state legislature had taken over the case by constituting an eight-man committee to conduct a similar probe when the commission was on top of the situation. According to him, Section 16 of the law establishing the commi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange has won the Most Innovative in Financial Markets Award at the first BusinessDay Top 25 Most Innovative Companies & Institutions in Nigeria Awards 2017, in recognition of its contribution to the development of the country’s financial markets. FMDQ said in a statement that the award was a validation of its effort of transforming the Nigeria debt capital market. According to the statement, “the Nigerian financial markets have undergone significant changes in recent years and FMDQ, having risen to its commitment to transform the markets, by, among others, bringing them to par with the global markets, has continued to lead the pace through timely service, product and market development innovations. “From its visionary stride in successfully facilitating the Naira-settled OTC FX Futures Market, launching the short-term bonds product initiative, pioneering a Nigerian securities exchange learning institution, the FMDQ Academy, to cham-p...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Eric Teniola A S a nation, Nigeria has neither been blessed with charismatic leadership universally acclaimed or generally acceptable to all. Nor has Nigerians been fortunate enough to have such a great leadership imposed. A charismatic leader must fire the imagination of the people and reflect their collective ego with pride. There is no historical necessity for this to happen in a heterogeneous society such as Nigeria, but if it did, it will assist the process of restoring national self-confidence and arresting further decline of the nation. The handicap of inappropriate training, orientation and motivation is not peculiar to the military. It is difficult to imagine the fate of the nation if it were handed over to the Civil Service or a group of private companies to manage as the new ruling class accountable to no one. On the one hand, the experience of January 15, 1966 when permanent secretaries had to run their ministries without commissioners for over a...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT—A medical doctor, Dr. Florence Onua, has been shot dead by gunmen around Government Area in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State. Onua, a consultant and family physician at the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, BMSH, Port Harcourt, was reportedly shot while returning from work on Friday by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers. She later died, yesterday, at a medical centre where she was rushed to. The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Rivers State chapter has condemned the killing, describing it as regrettable. The Public Relations Officer of NMA in the state, Dr. Justice Ohaka, who confirmed the incident to Vanguard, noted that the victim sustained several bullet wounds and later died at the emergency ward of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. Ohaka also expressed worries over the whereabouts of one Doctor Bob-Emmanuel Clark, who was kidnapped last month, and is still believed to be in the hands...