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Aug202019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

KIDNAP KINGPIN REARRESTED IN KANO

The operatives of the Nigeria Police have re-arrested the notorious kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume. He was re-arrested in the today in his hideout at Layin Mai Allo Hotoro area of Kano State. It would be recalled that the Police had been on the massive manhunt for the suspect, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume since 6th August, 2019 following the unfortunate incident in Ibi, Taraba State which resulted in the brutal murder of three (3) Police Officers and two (2) civilians, and injury to five (5) others. In a statement disclosed by the Frank Mba, force public relations officer, the suspect, who was appropriately restrained at the time of the incident, was subsequently released by his “rescuers” after they had destroyed the restraining handcuffs. Meanwhile, the Inspector Gen...

Aug202019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Six Chinese companies operating and Constructing Railways Projects in Nigeria blacklisted by the World Bank over alleged corruption

Breaking News, Business

August 20, 2019 Six Chinese companies operating in Nigeria have incurred the wrath of the World Bank as they have been blacklisted over alleged fraud and corruption. A publication on the the website of the bank listed the companies as CCECC Nigeria Railway Company Limited, CRCC Petroleum and Gas Company Limited and CCECC Nigeria Company Limited. Others are China Railway Construction (International) Nigeria Company Limited, China Railway 18th Bureau Nigeria Engineering Company Limited and CCECC Nigeria Lekki (FTA) Company Limited. They are part of several companies blacklisted from different parts of the world by the procurement unit of the bank, in a publication titled ‘Procurement – World Bank Listing of Ineligible Firms and Individuals’. They were accused of violating the ...

Aug192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Nigerian Maritime University VC, Prof Etebu joins Bayelsa Governorship Race?

Breaking News, Maritime, News Feature, Politics

BREAKING NEWS : Barring any last minute change in plan, the Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria's Premier Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State, Prof Maureen Ongoebi Etebu, may today pick up the nomination form for the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa State. She would be contesting under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC. It could not be confirmed as at press time if she had resigned from her position as Vice Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University. Prof Etebu had both served under Late Governor DSP and Chief Chief Timipre Sylva as Commissioner. Further details in our subsequent editions. By Asu Beks

Aug192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

COMPT. KAYODE OLUSEMIRE : MARITIME LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK.

Breaking News, Maritime, Profile

The story of Nigeria Customs Service anti-smuggling operations cannot be conclusively told without the mention of Comptroller Kayode Olusemire. Those whose business it is to know believe that Olusemire is one the dreaded anti-smuggling elements, who takes on smugglers in hurricane like approach, often with a blind fury. Regarded as an old horse, Olusemire has served in the service nationwide and in various departments and capacities. Even though it would appear that he has cut his teeth more enforcement, Olusemire is an oracle in revenue and tariff reading, a strategist and uncommon administrator, who has a record of uncanny excellence in utilizing scarce human and material resources to achieving significant results. He is the incumbent Controller, Federal Operations ...

Aug192019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

BAYELSA GUBER:GOV DICKSON TO PICK HIS “ANOINTED” CHOICE BEFORE SEPT 3 PRIMARY

Breaking News, Politics

Ahead of the Bayelsa Peoples Democratic Governorship primaries scheduled for September 3, 2019, Governor Seriake Dickson has insisted that he would not support any candidate outside the Restoration Restoration Group òf the party. The Governor also disclosed that the leadership òf the Restoration Caucus would decided on an aspirant to support in the primaries before the September 3, 2019 elections. A statement by the Special Adviser, Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, quoted the Governor as having made the remarks while inaugurating the Restoration Governorship Primary Election Committee in Government House, Yenagoa on Monday. The Governor said supporting any aspirant of the PDP outside the Restoration Group was one heavy moral burden that he was not prepared to carry. He s...

Aug182019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

Digging Up Wealth In The South Burying Them In The North

Breaking News, Opinion

By Dele Sobowale That was how Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of America and a former Treasury Secretary (equivalent to our Minister of Finance) described some of the nations of Europe when they were going through social, political and economic upheavals similar to what we are now experiencing in Nigeria. Invariably, the tensions were heightened by poor leadership and prolonged by lack of compromise on the part of the contending forces for supremacy. When a leader announces that he is by nature combative, he has simply forgotten that nobody has a monopoly on that attribute. One person’s perpetual aggression invited a similar response from others. Both the thirty years and hundred years wars in Europe started in one day and outlasted most of those who got them started...

Aug182019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

FOREIGN INVESTMENT INTO NIGERIA DROPS BY 43% – UN REPORT

Breaking News, Business, Politics

Foreign direct investment in Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, plunged by 43 per cent to $2bn, according to a United Nations report. Reuters reported on Thursday that investors were put off by a dispute between the government and South African telecom giant MTN over repatriated profits. Banks HSBC and UBS both closed representative offices there in 2018. That left Ghana, which is in the midst of an oil and gas boom and saw inflows of $3bn, as West Africa’s leading destination for foreign investment. Italy’s Eni Group was behind Ghana’s largest greenfield investment project. It said the development of new mining and oil projects, a new US development-finance institution and the ratification of an agreement to create a continent-wide free-trade area could further boost ...

Aug182019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

No End To Zoning Until South/North East Produce President in 2023 – Orji Kalu

Breaking News, Opinion, Politics

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has cautioned the northern political elite against canvassing an end to rotational presidency as from 2023. Kalu, a two-term governor of Abia State, stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja following the call by the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, for an end to power shift in the country. He maintained that nobody should canvass an end to power shift until the South-East and the North-East geopolitical zones had produced the President of Nigeria. The principal officer of the senate noted that the agreement at the end of the 1978 national conference was that all the major ethnic groups in Nigeria must produce the President on a rotational basis. He said, “Calling for an end to the zoning arran...

Aug182019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

ALIYU GALADIMA SAIDU IS MARITIME INDUSTRY LIVING LEGEND OF THE WEEK

Breaking News, Maritime, Profile

Perhaps, if Comptroller Aliyu Galadima Saidu had ended up a career educator, he would have made no less impact in the educational sector than he has already in tax management and revenue collection industry. Without exaggeration, it can also be said that his destiny appear intertwined with impacting knowledge, a fact that has continually attracted him to the training grounds, building and moulding manpower, training, directing, instructing, evaluating, and carrying out project researches and development analysis. It is not surprising therefore, that the Customs Area Controller of Onne, the one and only essential Comptroller Galadima Saidu is about one of the most widely in today’s Nigeria Customs Service. Even though he is not a P.hd holder, his scholarship has a swagger that ultimatel...

Aug172019 by Asu BeksNo Comments

PDP TICKET: DICKSON, ALAIBE DRAW BATTLE LINE

Breaking News, News Feature, Politics

The Nation - cold war between the Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson and a former Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 16 election deepened on Wednesday. Dickson in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei, accused the former NDDC boss of circulating video and audio messages to blackmail him. The governor called on well-meaning Nigerians to disregard what he described as a sinister blackmail orchestrated by Alaibe. The statement insisted that Alaibe was circulating a cynically manipulated version of addresses he delivered during political meetings and other fora with the intent to blackmail him for some political benefits. He said A...