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As FG Dumps Niger Delta Confab...
Ex-Gov Insists On Summit
• Militants Kill 3 Soldiers, 4 Civilians
• Dialogue Central To Peace Process - VP
Before the presidency decided to replace its proposed Niger Delta summit with a committee to articulate the stakeholders' positions, on Thursday, there was at least one elder from the region that supported the convening of a conference by whatever name: Obong Victor Attah, the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State. In a statement sent to media houses early last week, but embargoed for publication until today (see page 22), he however suggests three stages of the "summit", including what the presidency's fresh proposal turned out to be. The "distillation and collation of the disparate views contained in [the existing] reports," he says, will be "the first thing that needs to happen". ....more
Buhari, Governors Boycott ANPP BOT Meeting
The hope of peace returning to the crisis-ridden All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) further dimmed during the week when the presidential candidate of the party in the April 2007 general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, boycotted the Board of Trustee (BOT) meeting of the party. The meeting, which was held on Thursday in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, was also boycotted by the three ANPP governors, namely Senator Modu Sheriff (Borno), Senator Mamman Ali (Yobe) and Mallam Isa Yuguda (Bauchi). Neither Buhari nor any of the governors sent representatives nor gave reasons for their absence. Also conspicuously absent was former Zamfara State ...more
Plateau Rerun Polls: Reject Mantu, Dariye Tells Voters
Ahead of this weekend's rerun senatorial elections in Plateau central senatorial zone, former Plateau State governor, Chief Joshua Dariye, has called on people of the zone to "reject Senator Ibrahim Mantu resoundingly." Mantu, one-time deputy Senate President, represented the zone in the Senate between 1999 and 2007, but failed to return to the Senate for a third term in the last general elections when he was defeated by Senator Satty Gogwin of the Action Congress (AC). Following the nullification of Gogwin's election on June 16, 2008, by the Jos High Court in a petition brought before it by the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) candidate in the elections, ...more
LEADERSHIP INVESTIGATION: How Hospitals Are Killing Nigerians
Complaints of sharp practices and inefficiency now dog most government hospitals. Patients lament that the hospitals, rather than play their statutory role of finding solution to the health problems of the people, have turned to institutions which bring faster death and worsened the health conditions of the people. A LEADERSHIP Sunday investigation discovered that some of the government hospitals, including the National Hospital, general and teaching hospitals and, indeed, most government hospitals have become mere preliminary consulting rooms. Nigerians who can afford it either proceed to very expensive private ...more
Cadbury Pays N21.2m Fine To SEC
Cadbury Nigeria has paid N21.2 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as fine for misleading the investing public through overstated accounts. It would be recalled that Akintola Williams and Deloitte, Cadbury's auditor for more than 20 years, and Union Registrars, both implicated in the company's overstated accounts saga, had earlier paid N20 million and N5 million respectively as fines to the commission for their complicity. Sources close to the apex capital market regulatory authority said that "the cheque was presented early Friday morning to the commission's head office in Abuja." ...more
Two Years After: Knocks And Kudos For Banking Consolidation
…Ex-Bank MD Says Five Banks Are Sick
More than two years after the banking consolidation programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a Leadership Sunday survey has revealed that some players in the industry still doubt the success of the scheme. Former managing director of Liberty Bank (now in liquidation), Mr. Lawson Omokhodion, told LEADERSHIP Sunday in a lengthy telephone interview that "banking consolidation is superficially successful. It has created so-called big banks, but we know that five banks are currently ill and their problem is more than that of the 11 sick banks in 2004. If five big banks fail, the effect would be more than that of 11 smaller banks. Omokhodion argued that, ...more
NDLEA Nabs Woman With Heroin In Chocolate Packs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday announced the arrest of a 30-year-old Oshodi trader, Mrs. Folashade Andoyi, for alleged drug trafficking. NDLEA spokesman, Mitchell Afoyeju, who broke the news to newsmen, said the suspect was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) on Thursday on arrival from Bombay, India, aboard an Ethiopian Airline. Folashade, a textile trader, was said to have packed the substance in 142 wraps of chocolate wrappers in two containers which she put in her hand luggage. ...more
Court Vacates Warrant Of Arrest On LEADERSHIP Staff
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has vacated the warrant of arrest on the management staff and some editors of LEADERSHIP Newspapers issued by a Minna magistrate court in the case between Mallam Tanko Mohammed and leadership Newspapers Group Limited. A Minna chief magistrate court presided over by Alh. Salihu Attahiru had last Thursday issued a bench warrant on the leadership staff. The applicants, comprising, Rabi Gambari, Hussaini Abdurahman, Douglas Ejembi, Saidu Sarki Usman and ten others approached the Federal High Court Abuja with a prayer that an order granting leave to the applicant to apply ....more
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