Monday, 12 November 2012 11:38
No Deliberate Attempt by Police to Cover Up – Frank Mbah, CSP and police public relations officer
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No Deliberate Attempt by Police to Cover Up – Frank Mbah, CSP and police public relations officer By TORLUMUN SAMUEL What is the state of Farouk Lawan’s investigation so far? We have gone really very far with Farouk Lawan’s case. If you are following the case, you will understand that at a stage we did bait and take Farouk Lawan and one other staff of the National Assembly into custody. Subsequently, they were granted bail, but the investigation continued. Now we have done our preliminary reports on that case, but there are still some t’s to cross and some…
Monday, 12 November 2012 11:28
LAWANGATE: The Big Cover Up
Investigations into the bribery scandal involving Farouk Lawan, the federal legislator whose committee probed the fuel subsidy scam, may have gone the way of others in the corruption cases against members of the National Assembly “The name of Cassius honours this corruption And chastisement doth therefore hide its head.” – William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar Caught in the web of intrigues surrounding the Farouk Lawan corruption case, the Nigeria Police appear to be having professional migraine over the investigation of the $620,000 bribe scandal involving Lawan, Boniface Emenalo, clerk of the committee who is a civil servant, and Femi…
President Barack Obama gets a sweeping endorsement to remain in the White House for four more years, after a keenly contested battle with Republican candidate Mitt Romney, which reminded Americans of their ugly past After a long and bitter electoral contest, the United States 2012 presidential election has reached a climax with the re-election of President Barack Obama, who went past the 270 electoral votes required, even with results from the swing state of Florida yet to come in. Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger, conceded defeat after emocrats secured the key swing state of Ohio, pushing Obama’s Electoral College…
Tuesday, 06 November 2012 15:07
Union Bank: The Stallion Gallops Again
From a negative position in 2009, the CBN-appointed interim management of Union Bank of Nigeria, headed by Funke Osibodu, has successfully transformed the bank and restored it to profitability When Funke Osibodu was appointed managing director, MD, by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in October 2009 to engineer the turnaround of Union Bank of Nigeria, UBN, the task appeared seemingly insurmountable. Indeed, many people did not give her a chance because the bank was weighed down by a burden of non-performing loans which stood at 40 per cent, illiquidity, un-reconciled accounts to the tune of N3 trillion and…
Monday, 05 November 2012 12:23
At the Mercy of Hurricane Sandy
There are growing apprehensions over what impact the hurricane sweeping across the Northeastern coast may have on the November 6 presidential election in the United States The storm currently sweeping across the Northeastern end of the United States, US, is introducing a fresh element of uncertainty into the closely contested 2012 presidential election. The storm, which paralysed the East Coast just when President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney had planned to launch their final push for votes in the November 6 election, swept into the region with powerful winds, bringing flooding, cutting power supply and claiming…
Monday, 05 November 2012 11:43
Graduates Adapt to Changing Times
Nigerian graduates, many of them tired of searching for paid jobs and others increasingly by choice, are changing their career paths by acquiring practical skills and training in response to changing demands of the labour market Most of his peers are probably still ruing their long and fruitless search for paid employment, but Johnson Chukwuma, 38, a graduate of History/International Relations, is already an employer of labour. Chukwuma, who is the managing director, Amazing Grace Cleaners, a laundry and dry cleaning firm, currently has 27 people on his payroll. With two branches at Okota and Adeniran Ogunsanya, Surulere, Lagos,…
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 10:17
Danger Signals for the Economy
The flood sweeping through many parts of the country leaves in its wake a devastating effect on the productive sector, raising fears that the sizeable growth recorded by the economy in recent times may soon be eroded Among the internally displaced persons at the St. Michael College camp in Oleh, Isoko South Local Government, LG, area of Delta State was Paul Upemu, a centenarian. Bent over with age and decades of tilling the land, Upemu should be having a deserved rest especially since he has long taken a break from farming. But he was a man greatly troubled as…
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