Author: Saint Augustine

The attention of Media Ethics and Rights Initiative has been drawn to a fabricated story from a faceless mischief maker on Facebook who hides under the title of Fact Finders to spew poisonous gossips aimed at creating disaffection between prominent people in Anambra State. The latest story in the devilish scheme of this paid rumour merchant is a post titled: “PDP is full of Mad People like Arthur Eze and Chris Uba – Obiano,” which made a failed attempt to pitch His Excellency Governor Willie Obiano against some illustrious sons of Anambra State. This tall tale from an itinerant reporter…

Ahead of marking his one year in office, the governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has expressed his deepest gratitude to prominent indigenes of the state whose unflinching support has helped to stabilize the state, making it possible for him to record massive achievements in the past one year. Speaking in Awka on Tuesday, Governor Obiano noted that but for the enormous support his administration had enjoyed from many illustrious citizens of the state, it would have been an uphill task to expand the frontiers of development with so much result in such a short time. The governor pointedly…

As many Nigerians continued to react on the rescheduling of the election dates, the former Public Relations Officer, Save Nigeria Freight Forwarders, Importers and Exporters Coalition (SNIFFIEC), Mr. David Pius has okayed the shift in the dates describing it as a welcomed development. It will be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last Saturday rescheduled the Presidential and the National Assembly polls from the 14th of February, 2015 to the 28th of March, 2015 and the Governorship and the State Houses of Assembly polls from the 28th of February, 2015 to the 11th of April, 2015. David who…

The National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has said that it lacked the basic information that would enable it to properly assess the performance of the maritime sector in the last one year. Speaking in an interview with Primetime Reporters in his office on Monday, the National President of NAGAFF, Dr. Eugene Nweke stated that for one to effectively assess the performance of the sector, such a person may require information such as the Gross Registered Tonnage as well as the number of ship calls at the nation’s ports in the last one year. Nweke said,” we want…

The Principal Partner, Akabogu and Associates, Mr. Emeka Akabogu has called on the Federal government to make a provision that would enable the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have power of prosecution so as to effectively wage war on pirates and sea robbers operating on the nation’s waterways. Akabogu who was reacting to the recent lamentation by the Director-General of NIMASA, Dr. Ziakede Patrick Akpobolokemi over the agency’s inability to prosecute suspected pirates and other criminal elements on the nation’s waterways stated that this was a big challenge which should be overcome. He noted that because NIMASA was…

As Nigerians are still grappling with the shift in the dates for the 2015 general elections, the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has called on Nigerians to give the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) all the necessary supports it may need to deliver on its mandate of free, fair and credible elections on the new dates announced by the Commission. The National Chairman of the Party, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam who made this known in a Press release he issued in Lagos, a copy of which was made available to Primetime Reporters however reminded INEC that it owed it as a…

The Igbo Christian Traders and Gospel Ministers’ Association has given reasons why it has adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as its preferred candidate in the forth-coming 2015 Presidential election rescheduled to hold on March 28, 2015. Speaking with newsmen in Lagos, the National Chairman of the Association, Evang. Emmanuel Ezeani stated that some years back, the Naira was pegged at N80 per Dollar and Nigeria could not attract any foreign investment arguing that today when the same Dollar was traded at N165 and above, Nigeria had attracted well over $286 billion foreign investment. Ezeani recalled that prior to this administration, the…

The Principal Partner, Olisa Agbakoba Legal Chambers, Barr. Olisa Agbakobi (SAN) has called for the unbundling of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to enable it become more productive and efficient. Agbakoba who made this call in Lagos said the call became necessary considering the dwindling performance of NIMASA as a result of numerous maritime administrative functions. Barr. Agbakoba who is the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said NIMASA being the first Nigerian Maritime Agency swallowed the Government Inspector of Shipping functions stressing that even in its operational law, there were too many things, such…

The Nigeria Customs Service PTML Area Command has assured the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) that its proposed Chapter Secretariat at the PTML had received the maximum attention and approval of the Command’s management. The Customs Area Controller of the Command (CAC), Comptroller Talatu Isa who disclosed this when the National Officers of the association led by its National President, Prince Olayiwola Shittu paid her courtesy visit at the command also said that the design had been forwarded to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Isa emphasized that as soon as approval was granted by NPA, no stone would…

The growing apprehension in some quarters over the possibility of removing the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Atahiru Jega before the rescheduled election dates has been laid to rest, as his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Kayode Idowu, today, debunked speculations that his principal would proceed on terminal leave before the conduct of the March 28 presidential election. Idowu, who made this known on Tuesday when he featured in a TV programme monitored in Lagos, explained that Professor Jega’s appointment was not guided by civil service rules and as such, he would serve until his tenure expires…