Secret recruitment: withdraw job offers now or we’ll sue, SERAP warns CBN
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Mr Godwin Emefiele,Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), requesting him to “immediately withdraw hundreds of letters of employment issued following a seriously flawed recruitment process and to put in place a system of recruitment and hiring based on the principles of non-discrimination, transparency, participation and objective criteria such as merit, equity and aptitude.”
Man arrested with 50kg Indian hemp
bia State Police Command’s Anti-Robbery Squad’s operatives have arrested a 27-year-old man identified as Mr. Tochukwu Nna with a substance suspected to be Indian hemp, weighing 50kg.
2 electrocuted in Nsukka
The university town of Nsukka was thrown into mourning, weekend, as a paint manufacturer in Umunkashi Uwani Ugwu community, Samuel Ezema, and an electrician were electrocuted.
3 injured, as fire guts biscuit firm
Three persons, yesterday, suffered severe burns, when fire razed Niger Biscuits Company on Creek Road, Apapa Local Government Area, destroying property worth several millions of naira.
RIVERS RERUN: Facts of Mile 1 police incident— Semenitari
Commenting on yesterday’s clash at Mile 1 Police Divisional headquarters, Mrs Ibim Semenitari faulted Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in a statement by her Special Adviser on Media, Bekee Anyalewechi.
‘FCT minister wrongly advised on Centenary City project’
As controversy over the status of the Centenary City Project lingers, there are strong indications that the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Mallam Muhammad Bello, may have been delibera-tely misled by certain officials of the ministry into making his recent statements before the National Assembly concerning the ongoing project.
Is N6trn “ghost budget” still defensible?
It is regrettable, that the absence of a more salutary impact from partial implementation of earlier budgets, has seriously eroded public expectation to make Nigerians, nonchalant about this annual constitutional requirement. Unfortunately, the unfolding drama surrounding the 2016 version of this critical annual event, may not also inspire public confidence that this year’s plan will positively touch our lives.
Edo landlord/tenant fracas: My husband not responsible for fire outbreak —Wife
VISION impaired Mrs. Nekpen Obasohan, wife of Mr. Jeff Obasohan, the tenant who was alleged to have set his landlord, Pa Joseph Iyen, aged 83, ablaze in his residence on Uwa Street, Benin City, in Oredo Local Government Area, Edo State, weekend, has said that her husband was not responsible for the fire incident that occured in the house.
Re-run polls: Shootings continue in Rivers
THE orgy of violence, which characterised Saturday’s re-run polls for some federal and state legislative seats in Rivers State continued, yesterday, as the results were being collated.
Experts link infrastructure failure to shortage of specification in procurement
A FORMER Chief Process Engineer in Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company, WRPC, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Mark Williams, has stressed the need for specification in procurement, insisting that shortage of specification was responsible for building and other infrastructure failure in Nigeria.
Enyimba vow to defend Nigeria’s pride in Africa
They are the only surviving Nigerian club on the continent, and now face the task of defending the pride of the country as the journey becomes tougher following the summary crashing of Warri Wolves and Nasarawa at the weekend. This is the story of Enyimba, whose coach,
