Lafarge Wapco enhances logistics system with new trucks
In line with its commitment to satisfy its numerous customers through the availability of its products nationwide, Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc, one of the leading cement manufacturing company and a quoted entity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has flagged off its logistics project with the planned acquisition of over 1000 state-of-the-art trucks to enhance its logistic system.
$25,000 placed on Nigerian wanted for manslaughter
A Nigerian living in the United State, Jessica Rene Tata, has been declared wanted by the U.S. Marshals over allegation of committing offences ranging from manslaughter, injury and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
331 firms apply to buy PHCN
The Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has harvested a total of 331 Expressions of Interest, EOIs, in the privatisation of the successor companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN.
Salami, NJC, FJSC sued over constitution of election tribunals
With barely 26 days to the impending general elections, a constitutional lawyer, Mr Austine Afolabi, has dragged the National Judicial Council, NJC; the Federal Judicial Service Commission, FJSC and the Attorney-General of the Federation before a Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging the locus of the embattled President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, to set-up Election Petition Appeal Tribunals for the purposes of adjudicating over
electoral disputes that may arise after the forthcoming polls.
Govs, threat to democracy-Eyiboh
House of Representatives’ spokesman, Eseme Eyiboh, has described state governors in Nigeria as ‘democratic monarch’s’ who are threat to free, fair and credible elections in the country.
I thought it was fertilizer, says suspected female drug trafficker
A female suspect who was arrested yesterday with 13 kilogrammes of methamphetamine by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, claimed she thought the substances were fertilizers.
Tech C’ttee on N-Delta faults implementation of report
The Independent Working Group on the Technical Committee on Niger Delta,TCND, has warned that selective and ad-hoc implementation of the committee’s recommendations will undermine the peace, development, security and stability of the Niger Delta.
Support Jonathan now, Omoruyi begs Oshiomhole
FORMER Director-General of the Center for Democratic Studies, CDS, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, weekend, advised Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State to back the presidential ambition of Dr Goodluck Jonathan for Edo people to survive in the federation
April polls: Army chief reads riot act to soldiers
THE Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has warned officers and men of Nigerian Army to be wary of inducement from politicians as the 2011 general election approaches, saying any officer or soldier found wanting during the period of the general election would be severely punished.
Education: Rights group asks Ecowas court to execute judgment against FG
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has been asked to “urgently issue a writ of execution against the Nigerian government and the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, to secure the full and effective implementation of the ECOWAS Court judgment requiring the government to provide free and compulsory basic education to every Nigerian child.”
Ex-militants’ training:Beneficiaries urged to be upright
As the first set of ex-militants for undergraduate studies in Malaysia traveled out of the country yesterday, High Commissioner to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, and Senator David Brigidi, have charged the beneficiaries against dragging Nigeria’s name in the mud.
