Year: 2017

Omokore’s $1.6bn Oil Fraud Trial Stalled

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The trial of Jide Omokore, an ally of Diezani Alison-Madueke, for a $1.6billion fraud could not continue on Friday, December 8, 2017, due to the absence of defence counsel, Tayo Oyetibo, SAN. Omokore, Chairman of Atlantic Energy Brass Development limited, Atlantic Energy Drlling Concept Limited, is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Victor Briggs, former managing director of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited; Abiye Membere, former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; David Mbanefo, manager Planning and Commercial of…

Gwarzo’s Suspension: I cannot be blackmailed – Adeosun

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The Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun has said that she would not be intimidated by reactions trailing the suspension of the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir Gwarzo. Mrs Kemi Adeosun said this in a statement signed by her Media Adviser, Oluyinka Akntunde and made available to Economic Confidential in Abuja, she said the decision to suspend Gwarzo was in order. The statement reads : “The attention of the Honourable Minister of Finance has been drawn to some misleading and mischievous media reports regarding the suspension…

Gov. Gaidam Charges Media, Social media Users on Fairness, Objectivity

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Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam has declared open a training workshop on the effective use of social media for public information dissemination organized for information officers in government ministries, departments and agencies and local government councils.       While declaring open the ceremony, the governor described social media as a welcome development as tools of information dissemination. “Social media which are the sum total of online communication channels that promote community interaction, content sharing, and collaboration are new innovations brought about by information and communication technologies and should…

POLICIES ON TRADE AND INVESTMENT ARE YIELDING RESULTS – President Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday said that current changes to trade and investment policies by the government since it took office in May 2015 will help the nation to diversify the economy, attracted more foreign investments and speed up the country’s industrialization. Speaking at the commissioning of two newly-established agro-based industries, shortly before he ended his highly successful two-day State Visit to Kano State , the President noted that the overall effect of these achievements will lead to jobs creation and better living conditions for citizens as promised by the governing…

Lai Mohammed Congratulates Onobrakpeya … Says Award A Boost For Creative Industry

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has congratulated Mr. Bruce Onobrakpeya over his conferment with the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) Award, said the award to the octogenarian artist was a great boost for the Creative Industry. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the recognition and honour accorded Mr. Onobrakpeya by the Federal Government will go a long way to inspire young artists in particular and the entire Creative Industry in general. He said the conferment of the great…

THE MEAN ONES By Abdulfattah Adeyemi

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We meet people who are mean every day! They seem to be everywhere: at work, as neighbours, in the streets, at the airports, even in places of worship. It is worse when this meanness is perpetuated in the family! One would even be astonished on how some marriages are so awkwardly put together: a nice guy marrying a nasty lady, a jovial woman married to a malicious piece of work, called a husband. How do we explain a butterfly living under the same roof with a cockroach? How did we…

PRESIDENT BUHARI STRESSES NEED TO REFORM,DECONGEST PRISONS,

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday reaffirmed that prison reforms and decongestion will be pursued with greater vigor by his administration. Speaking at a ceremony in Kurmawa Central Prison Kano, at which 500 inmates were either pardoned or set free upon the payment of fines by the State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, President Buhari lamented that some of the freed inmates were young and charged prison authorities to make every effort to make better citizens of prisoners. President Buhari pledged that prisons reforms and decongestion would continue to receive prompt…

INSECURITY: GOV SANI-BELLO CHARGES TRADITIONAL RULERS ON COMMUNITY POLICING …Settles Medical bills of Injured Victims

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has stressed the need for the traditional rulers to mobilise their subjects for effective community policing for a secured and crime-free nation. The Governor stated this when he paid a condolence visit to the Etsu Lapai, Alhaji Umar Bago Tafida and the people of Lapai Emirate over last week armed robbery attack on the two commercial banks and a police station in Lapai, headquarters of Lapai Local Government, which claimed three lives and left seven people seriously injured.   Governor Sani-Bello noted that the…

PAN AFRICAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT REJOICES WITH ACP ADEOYE

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The leadership of Pan African Youth Parliament has expressed their excitement for the appointment of the group’s mentor and 2017 African Leadership Award recipient, ACP Remi Adeoye who was recently elevated to the position of Police Coordinator, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Youth organisation in a statement signed by Ambassador Obinna Sixtus Nwoke, Global Presiden, and Najma Abdi Ahmed, Global Deputy President, said it has benefited from mentorship and support services rendered by ACP Adeoye. “We are grateful to Nigeria Police Force for the confidence it reposed in…

ADESINA NOMINATED FOR CHIEFTAINCY AWARD

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Igwe Cyprian Nevobasi, the Igwe Omeluenyi 1 of Aguneese, Ezeani 111 of Nmaku Kingdom, Enugu State, has nominated Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari for a chieftaincy title, as part of the 1st Grand Ofala to mark his 14 years on the throne, next month. The Igwe was personally at the State House, Abuja, yesterday to present the nomination letter to the presidential spokesman . He disclosed that his traditional cabinet chose Adesina “because of the good work you have been doing for the…