Day: April 11, 2021

Again, Kenya, Ethiopia Win 2021 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon

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At the end of Saturday’s Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, Kenya’s Emmanuel Naibei and Meseret Dinke emerged as the winners of the 2021 edition of the bank’s City Marathon, which holds in Lagos State every year. Nabei returned a time of 2hrs 15 mins 01 sec (official) to claim the top prize of $30,000. While the winning time falls short of the course record of 2:10:23 set last year, it is the second fastest ever in the history of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. A runner-up at the 2019…

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UN Condemns Boko Haram Attack On International Aid Partners’ Facilities In Borno Community

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The United Nations has condemned the incessant attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram in the North-east, saying that three international aid partners’ facilities were directly targeted and set ablaze on at the weekend by the terrorist group in Damasak, Borno State. On Sunday the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, in a statement said that the attack in Damasak will affect support to 8,800 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 76,000 people in the host community receiving humanitarian assistance and protection. Kallon said: “I am deeply concerned about…

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Debt Recovery: AMCON Will Not Abandon Its Aviation Assets Over Media Attacks By Obligors

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By Jude Nwauzor Recently some individuals have made themselves available tools to assist desperate debtors of Asset Management of Nigeria (AMCON) who are trying to change the narrative of how their businesses ended up in the books of AMCON. These distorted narrations are increasingly paying more attention to the intervention of AMCON in the aviation sector. This plethora of new attacks started since AMCON approached the aviation authorities in the country to indicate interest in establishing a holding company to warehouse all of its aviation portfolio. Following AMCON’s heavy intervention…

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Court Rules On Voluntariness Of Residents’ Associations On Payment Of Dues, Levies

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In Nigeria, especially in Lagos, developers of residential estates are known to make purchasers in the completed estate to become members of an ‘estate association’. The developers posit that the association put in place oversees in the estate the provision of shared services such as security, waste management, streetlights, among others. Developers coordinate such facility services issues on a group basis and collect dues/levies in form of an annual service charge from members of the Estate’s Residential Association. Residential communities have also adopted the same strategy by forming similar associations…

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Kwankwaso Left Over N50bn Liability For LGS 5km Projects Says Kano State Commissioner

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Former Governor of Kano State Rabi’u Kwankwaso (left) and the current Governor of Kano State, Abdulahi Ganduje Kano State government has said that the administration of Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso left a liability of N54, 408, 259, 638.05 billion for the five-kilometre road projects across the 44 local government areas of the state. This was disclosed in a Press Release by Malam Muhammad Garba, the Hon. Commissioner, Information, Kano State He said the council received the report of the Technical Committee to assess the 5 km road projects all of…

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Private Car Owners Don’t Need VIO Roadworthiness Certificate Appeal Court Rules

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The Court of Appeal sitting at Asaba division has affirmed the judgment of the Federal High Court, Ughelli, declaring that the Delta State government lacks the power to authorise and demand the payment of levy and issuance of Roadworthiness Certificate (RC) issued by the notorious Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) in respect of private vehicles. Justice Joseph Eyo Ekanem on March 12, 2021 delivered the judgment in appeal NO: CA/B/333/2017. He stated that he found no merit in the appeal and therefore affirmed the decision of the trial court. According to…

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TRIBUTE: Mbaise Nation Mourns Human Right Activist, Innocent Chukwuma

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File photograph of the late Chukwuma By Carl Azudibia Mbaise People’s Congress (MPC) has been thrown into deep mourning following the death on Saturday April 3, 2021 of our distinguished founding member and past Deputy National President, Mr. Innocent Chukwuma. We are indeed mourning; Mbaise is indeed mourning; the nation is mourning as well as all who came in contact with him. According to his wife, Mrs. Josephine Chukwuma, Innocent was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia on Friday April 2, 2021 and was to begin chemotherapy next day when he…

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The Current Security Arrangement For Southeast Is Unconstitutional

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By Aloy Ejimakor The ‘expanded’ security meeting on Southeast held recently with SE Governors had an interesting posse of security chiefs in attendance, including the following: 1. Maj-Gen Abubakar Maikobi (GOC, 82 Division, Nigerian Army). 2. Air Vice-Marshall Idi Amin (Air Officer Commanding). 3. Yusuf Ishaku (Director, DSS Anambra). 4. A. J. Ibrahim (Director, DSS Abia State). 5. H. E. Abdullah (Director, DSS Ebonyi). 6. B. Likinyo (Director, DSS Enugu). 7. Baba Tijani (AIG, Zone 9, Umuahia). 8. Awosola Awotinde (CP, Ebonyi State). 9. Ahmadu Abdulrahman (CP, Enugu State). 10.Rabiu…

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Tinubu: A Presidential Disaster Waiting to Happen?

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Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu whom many believe made it possible for President Muhammadu Buhari to win elections in Nigeria By Farooq A. Kperogi Anyone who has watched Bola Ahmed Tinubu closely and dispassionately can’t help but notice that the man is not well. He is a walking psychedelic calamity. His endless verbal miscues and nonverbal cues constantly conspire to construct the profile of a man who is battling a troubling internal turmoil, who is held hostage by disablingly malefic inner demons. He appears to revel in his own self-created alternate…

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