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Gunmen have abducted six female students and two staff of Engravers College, a boarding secondary school near Kaduna. The gunmen were reported to have attacked the school located at Kakau Daji village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State at about 3:10am on Thursday. Police spokesman in the state, DSP Yakubu Sabo, who confirmed the incident in a press statement, said for now, the whereabout of the abducted victims was unknown. Sabo however said the police had deployed its operatives to the area for possible rescue of the victims and arresting the perpetrators. It is an unfortunate incident, the…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja Bank Chief Executives (CEOs) under the auspices of the Nigeria Bankers’ Committee said they have increased lending to bank customers including retail finances and mortgage loans by N860 billion within the last eleven weeks. Briefing the media at the end of their meeting held at the corporate headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), in Abuja on Thursday, the CEOs also clarified that the N499 billion debited 12 banks which failed to meet the 60 percent lending deposit ratio at the end of September was not a fine. The Bank CEOs who briefed the media…
The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, GOCOP has re-elected the Dotun Oladipo-led executive committee. Oladipo, Publisher of The Eagle Online was returned unopposed as GOCOP President at the Guild’s annual general meeting on Thursday in Lagos through affirmation alongside other members of the executive committee elected in 2017. Sequel to a unanimous view that the Oladipo-led executive committee performed creditably well, Horatius Egua, Publisher of The BridgeNews moved a motion to return the exco members unopposed and was seconded by Yinka Aderibigbe, Publisher of Sunrise.ng L-R: GOCOP President Dotun Oladipo and other re-elected Exco members Other officers re-elected are Maureen…
As part of the several activities lined up for its third annual conference holding on Friday, October 4, the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) organised a pre-conference lunch and interactive session with leading lights in the marketing and communications sectors. Speaking at the event, the President of the Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria (PRCAN), Mr. Israel Jaiye Opayemi, while thanking GOCOP for hosting the robust interactive session, called on the association to distinguish itself from charlatans and quacks operating as journalists in the online space. According to Opayemi, who is also the MD/Chief Strategist, Chain Reactions Nigeria, GOCOP…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has met with Nigerians resident in South Africa. At the meeting held in Pretoria on Thursday, Mr. Buhari preached more tolerance, vigilance and heightened security in countries to ensure safety of citizens, noting that competition heralded by globalization, especially with ease in migration, will only get more intense for businesses. While fielding questions at the Union Building, alongside his host, President Cyril Ramaphosa, President Buhari said authorities should be more pro-active in detecting early signals of violence between competitors, while migrants and companies should adhere to the local laws of countries. “Police must be on alert not…
Celebrating the achievements of a great man in the context of an ongoing public concern, is to avoid the common sin of indulging in cheap and ordinary glorification of accomplishments without purpose. Greatness, exploits and good works are defined based on their impacts on the society, and history remembers them when they help real-time to enrich our knowledge and shape public conversations. Arguably, we cannot do justice to any debate in Nigeria concerning the impacts of leadership on public education, public health and even urban and rural infrastructure renewal in the last decades, without referencing Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, the immediate…
By Fredrick Nwabufo It is 9:10am, and former President Goodluck Jonathan arrives at the mouth of the aircraft at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. His hat gives away him too soon as he saunters into the waiting metal bird. I cast a piercing glimpse at him, and said to myself, ‘’that was once the most powerful man in Africa, and perhaps, the most misunderstood’’. We then journeyed on the wings of the bird from Abuja through Abidjan to Naimey. But wait. I was an irrepressible critic of Jonathan, yes, and I exercised this right as a citizen of Nigeria maximally under him. I…
An auto mechanic, Friday Udeh, was on Thursday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding his client of N50,000. Udeh, 40, who resides at No. 15, Sunday Akorajo St., Ikorodu, near Lagos, is facing charges of obtaining by false pretences, stealing and damages. The Prosecutor, Mr Raji Akeem, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on July 20 at Mende in Maryland, Lagos. Akeem said the defendant collected N50,000 from one Ifeanyi Mgbemena, to fix his damaged Toyota car, which he failed to do. “The defendant retuned the car without buying the new spare parts…
A total of 21 ships carrying various products are at Apapa and Tin-Can Island Ports waiting to berth, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said in its daily publication on Thursday in Lagos. It said that 10 of the vessels contained petrol, while the remaining 11 would berth with diesel, container and general cargo. The NPA also stated that 17 ships were carrying container, general cargo, buckwheat and frozen fish, bulk salt, general cargo, bulk gas, palmoline and bulk gypsum were expected at the ports between Oct. 3 and Oct. 20. NPA said that 17 ships were at present discharging buckwheat,…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja Professor Benedict Oramah, has urged Nigeria to set up a specialized agency to enable it take advantage of the opportunities offered by the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Oramah, who is the President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in his keynote address at the 2019 Independence Day Dinner and Gala Night organised by the Federal Government of Nigeria to mark the 59th anniversary of the country’s independence, Prof. Oramah said that such an agency should be the arrow-head for achieving Nigeria’s strategic objectives for its membership of the AfCFTA. According to him, Nigeria’s goal…