Author: Saint Augustine

Counsel to the Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), Mr. Femi Atoyebi SAN has advised his client STOAN as well as the general public to ignore the illegal directives or any other directive of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) premised on the judgment of the Federal High Court Lagos as delivered by Justice Ibrahim Buba last year. In a letter titled,” Re: Nigerian Shippers’ Council Notice To All Port Users (Notice NO: NSC/LN-PU/2015/001) Atoyebi reminded his clients and the general public that they were not bound to follow the directives as issued by the NSC until his client’s pending…

Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Malam Habib Abdullahi has urged all the parties involved in the Gas Industrial Park Project at Ogidigben Ports, Warri, Delta State to ensure the success of the project in the national interest. According to the Managing Director, the project should be of great interest to the nation, considering the tremendous economic and social benefit that would be derived from it when it is successfully completed. Malam Abdullahi made the assertion while speaking at a meeting with officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the progress so far made on the project in…

Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has said that the development of skilled manpower was a priority for his administration to ensure availability of skilled work-force that would support and service the state’s area of needs in the labour market. The governor spoke on Saturday at an interactive session with the Catholic Women Organization (CWO), Onitsha Archdiocese held at Bethany House, Onitsha. Governor Obiano who attended the CWO event with his wife, Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano, explained that the reason behind the inauguration of the State Youth Skills and Empowerment Scheme was not just to ensure that the youths were…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the “sickening and outlandish” claim by the Jonathan campaign Organization that a leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, plans to become Vice President through the back door, was designed to divert attention from the runaway success of the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, at the Chatham House in London Thursday. In a statement issued in London on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP and the Jonathan Administration still do not have any answer to what has now become an epochal moment that has separated the wheat…

The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday Challenged the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to explicitly explain to Nigerians why it is overtly interested in the continued stay in office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega. The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, who gave this challenge in a statement issued on Saturday stated that there wass the need for Nigerians to question why the APC had continued to invent stories and show undue interest on Prof. Jega that such disposition suggested a bond between the main opposition party and the INEC…

Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has likened the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, to a crawling baby that has nothing to offer the nation. She made the remark at the Benue State edition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Women Campaign Rally held at the IBB Square, Makurdi, on Friday. According to Mrs Jonathan, “a child that is still crawling at age 72 does not have anything new to offer the people of Nigeria”. Patience Jonathan described the APC as a sinking ship that would drown and remain under forever. She also lambasted Buhari and the APC…

Barr. Osuala Emmanuel Nwagbara is the Principal Partner of the Maritime and Commercial Law Chambers based in Lagos and the Secretary of the 2015 NIMAREX Planning Committee. In this interview with our Correspondent, he bared his mind on the preparation for the 2015 NIMAREX edition, the achievements of the NIMAREX in the past four years, development in NISA and other matters connected thereto. Excerpts; You are the Secretary of the NIMAREX 2015 Planning Committee. Can you let us know your preparations so far for this year’s event? NIMAREX 2015 is the 5th edition in the series of NIMAREX event in…

Effective enforcement of the Demolition Law by the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has stemmed incidents of kidnapping in the state. This assessment was made by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Joseph Agugoesi on Thursday when he led a detachment of Police and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives to execute the demolition of two bungalows used as kidnap den in Azigbo, Nnewi South Local Government Area. The first bungalow, a four bedroom house adjoining the main building owned by one Eugene who resides outside the state is located at Iruokpala village Azigbo. The building was used by a…

The wife of the Governor of Anambra State Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano on Tuesday attended the Special Funeral Service for nine departed wives, daughters and a brother of Bayelsa who lost their lives in a fatal accident on Saturday February 14, 2015. The Service held at Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre Yenagoa was attended by President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr.Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, as well as the host Governor Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson and many Bayelsans. Speaking on the tragic incident, Chief Mrs. Obiano who represented her husband…

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Cowry Asset Management Limited, Mr. Johnson Chukwu has cleared the Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBNC), Mr. Godwin Emefiele of any blame in the present dwindling of the nation’s exchange rate. Chukwu who spoke in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos recently stated that under the present circumstances, there was not much anybody could have done differently other than what had been done so far. While admitting that some policy issues brought about by the…