Year: 2018

North Central Service Awards,Summit Hold November 2018

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The organisers of the North Central service Awards said the first of the Award will hold in Abuja by the last quarter of this year. According to the Project Coordinator for the event, Mr Cletus Akhimien, the North Central service Awards was set up to honour individuals, group and institutions whose outstanding selfless service and contributions are helping to change the socio-economic landscape of North Central state and Nigeria. Akhimien said that Award is a platform to recognize patriotic individuals or companies who have served and improved the lives of the…

BEN TV UK Partners Customer Service Awards Ltd for 2018 Customer Experience Management Conference.

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Following the impact achieved from the past editions of customer experience management conference, BEN TV, UK. in its quest to encourage companies to deliver excellent service to customers has resolved to partner the organisers of the Customer Experience Conference and Masterclass, Nigeria Customer Service Awards Limited, for the 6th edition of the conference slated to hold during the Customer Service week from 3rd – 4thof October, 2018 at the prestigious Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) behind MKO Abiola Gardens, Alausa Ikeja, Lagos State. BEN TV a London UK based…

ELECTIONS: NYSC Promises Adequate Security For Corps Members

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The National Youth Service Corps has reiterated its readiness to provide adequate protection for its Corps Members that would participate in the forthcoming elections across the country.   The Director-General, Brigadier General Suleiman Kazaure stated this today while addressing the Corps Members deployed to Delta, Edo and Bayelsa States for the 2018 Batch “B” Stream Two service year.   He said the NYSC Scheme has partnered all security agencies in the country towards ensuring maximum protection for all Corps Members before, during and after the elections.   He however warned…

How the phones transmit virus, Germs

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A Public Health Physician, Dr Michael Oguntoye, has warned that mobile phones could transmit diseases and infections if it comes in contact with body fluids of an infected person. Oguntoye told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that phones are “fomites” which could serve as medium of transmitting viral organism, causing diseases and infections on people. He described fomites as any non-living object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms, such as viruses or bacteria. “Taking a cell phone into the bathroom and then leaving with it, can carry diseases…

Osun Guber: INEC vows to prosecute vote buyers

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will arrest and prosecute anyone that engages in vote-buying in the Sept. 22 governorship election in Osun. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this known at the commission’s quarterly consultative meeting with political parties on Friday in Abuja. He said that the commission would no longer take lightly, issue of vote-buying which had become a recurring decimal in the country’s elections. “We are witnessing an ugly trend of vote-buying in recent elections in the country; this is giving our democracy a…

FG to recover $7bn bailout from commercial banks

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The Special Presidential Panel for the Recovery of Public Property is to recover the seven billion dollars bailout fund granted commercial banks between 2006 and 2008. The panel Chairman, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, said in Abuja on Friday that the banks had yet to refund the money over a decade after. Obono-Obla said that the bailout fund was not a gift to the commercial banks and so must be recovered and returned to government’s coffers. “We are currently doing a lot of investigations to recover monies that have been taken away…

The Ifeanyi Ubah And Bianca Ojukwu Senate Tango By Law Mefor

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Like bolt from the blue, the widow of the late Emeka Ojukwu joined the race for the senate. Set to upset the applecart, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah before then, had only Prince Nickolas Ukachukwu, a veteran politician, to contend. Those who know the ex-beauty queen and former Nigerian ambassador to Spain are aware she is no small fry. She is equally a go-getter in her own right. Compared to Ifeanyi Ubah, a bulldozer in business, politics and power play, many rightly believe the contest will be a battle royal. As…

Adamawa, Gombe PDP Promise Level Playing Field for Saraki, Others

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Adamawa and Gombe states chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have promised to provide a level playing field for all the party’s presidential aspirants during the forthcoming primary elections.   The pledge is a booster to the presidential aspiration of the Senate President considering that two of the aspirants vying for the same ticket; Atiku Abubakar and Ibrahim Dankwambo hail from the two states respectively.   Receiving an advance team of the Senate President that visited them separately on Thursday, the PDP delegates, officials and other stakeholders in the…

FLOOD DISASTER: Gov Sani-Bello Donates N60M worth Relief Materials …. As he orders resettlement of affected communities

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has directed the immediate distribution of relief items worth over N 60 million to flood victims of Kede community in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state.   The Governor gave the directive, when he received traditional leaders of the community led by Hakimin Wuya, Alh Ibrahim Yawa at the Government House, Minna, the state capital.   Concerned by the state of hunger faced by the communities as a result of the submerging of their houses, livestock and farms, the Governor directed the release…

EDWIN CLARK : ASP Suspended, 3 Inspectors Dismissed for Illegal Raid

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The Inspector General of Police, ibrahim Idris has approved the dismissal from the service of the Nigeria Police Force, three (3) Inspectors namely: (i) AP/No. 18858 Inspr Godwin Musa (ii) AP/No. 225812 Inspr Sada Abubakar and (iii) AP/No. 225828 Inspr Yabo Paul, and the immediate interdiction of AP. No 158460 ASP David Dominic who were involved in the unauthorized, illegal and unprofessional misconduct in the search of the residence of Elder Statesman, Chief Edwin Clark in Asokoro, Abuja on 4th September, 2018. Ap. No. 158460 ASP David Dominic who led…