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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 12:12
Maina: Victory for a Fugitive
An Abuja federal high court quashes the warrant issued by the Senate to the inspector general of police to arrest Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team on technical ground Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, who has been on the run following Senate’s resolution asking the inspector general of police, IGP, to arrest him, got his victory from the court last Wednesday in Abuja. A federal high court in the nation’s capital set aside the warrant and gave an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Senate, IGP or any…
Tuesday, 02 April 2013 11:44
Succession Battle Rocks Ivory Tower
The festering crisis at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, suggests that ethnic and sectional interests are becoming the basis for choice of vice chancellors in federal universities Lydia Legbo, image-maker, Federal University of Technology, FUT, Minna, Niger State, has a tough job on her hands at the moment. She is finding it difficult trying to persuade stakeholders, particularly the Minna Emirate and the public in general, that there is nothing irregular with the appointment of Musbau Akanji, a professor of Biochemistry, as the new vice chancellor, VC, of the university. “The university went through due process in selecting…
Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:03
TELL Visits City FM
It was more like the beginning of a partnership that works on Wednesday, March 27, when a high-powered team from TELL Communications Limited, publishers of TELL magazine and Broad Street Journal paid a courtesy visit to City 105.1 FM radio station at its corporate headquarters on Billings Way, Oregun, Lagos. During the meeting, Adedoja Allen, managing director/CEO, City FM, who has been at the helms of affairs since February 2012, commended TELL for its intelligent, interesting and creative news contents. “I make sure that I read TELL regularly,” said Allen, who added that the radio station was…
Tuesday, 26 March 2013 15:33
A People Tired of Waiting for Godot
Residents of UniLag Estate, Magodo–Isheri, Lagos, apparently tired of waiting for government’s presence for so long, embark on a multi-million naira self-help project that may exhaust their wallet unless government intervenes in a big way On a cursory look it seems the fear of the coming rains this year, as predicted by the meteorological services, has worked up the residents of UniLag Estate, located in Magodo–Isheri, Lagos, into a sort of maniacal frenzy. Earth movers, graders, concrete mixers, foremen, journeymen, artisans and general workmen have engaged frantically in getting the roads transformed in the past few weeks. As the…
A survivor recounts his ordeal after a wooden boat ferrying him and other economic migrants to Gabon developed engine problem on international waters and sank near Malabo, with about 100 passengers feared dead Nigeria experienced one of the worst boat tragedies in recent times, when a wooden boat with 128 persons on board, mostly women and children, capsized about 40 nautical miles off the coast of Calabar, Cross River State, South-eastern part of the country, two Fridays ago. But rescue operations did not start until last week Sunday when workers of Addax Petroleum operating in the area stumbled on the…
Tuesday, 26 March 2013 14:44
Boko Haram: No Respite Yet
Since President Goodluck Jonathan’s refusal to grant amnesty to Boko Haram, the insurgents and their brothers-in-crime have unleashed mayhem in Kano and some northern towns For many Lagosians, the events of Thursday, last week, was a rude reawakening to the danger posed by the Boko Haram sect. Although terrorists activities as it concerns the sect had so far been restricted to the Northern part of the country, not a few residents of Lagos, including northerners who ran to Lagos away from the state of insecurity in the region, now fear for their safety. This followed the arrest of a northerner and a…
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