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President of Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engr Sani M. Ndanusa has hailed the Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan on his revolutionary strides in sports and said that the recent success of Team Nigeria at the just concluded African Youth Athletics Championship in Warri was a sign positive sign that Nigeria Athletics was back on track.
Nigerian junior athletes powered to victory in the African championship winning 13 Gold, 10 Silver and 10 medals to beat Egypt which came second with 8 Gold, 6
Silver and 2 Bronze medals while Ethiopia finished third with 6 Gold 13 Silver and 6 bronze medals.
The NOC President said that he was more excited with the junior athletes because they showed so much vim and vitality that Nigeria holds the future of Athletics in Africa.
Ndanusa who is also the President of Nigeria Tennis Federation also commended the facilities that were used at AYAC.
“The use of Electronic Distance Measurement devices made the work of officials easy. The acquisition of the devices will no doubt bring about an improvement in the performances of our country’s athletes”.
Also, the NOC President commended the President of Athletics Federation, Chief Solomon Ogba for his hardwork and predicted that Nigeria would bounce back to winning ways with the eloquent programs of AFN. “Chief Ogba has passion for athletics and has demonstrated his love for the sport.
I am indeed grateful having him as President’’, Ndanusa said praising Confederation of African Athletics for letting Nigeria be the host of AYAC.
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Chairman of the local organizing committee, (LOC) for the 2013 Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, international conference, Professor Adesola Aderounmu has disclosed that e-government and national security will take centre stage.
According to Aderounmu during the inauguration at College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Osun State University main campus recently, the forum will discuss how best automation or computerization of existing paper-based procedures to enhance access and delivery of government services to the citizens will drive economic growth.
Aderounmu assured that opther committee members including Dr. James Oladipo Folorunso, Director of ICT for Osun State College of Education, Ilesa, and Alhaja Peju Adigun of the Osun State University, Vice Chairman, NCS Osun State chapter would live up to their expectations to make the conference that will host the ICT community a success.
“The state was carefully selected because of the governor’s commitment as well as the capacity of IT professionals and stakeholders in the state to deliver and even surpass the achievements of previous conferences,” he said.
It would be recalled that the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola accepted to host the conference during the 2012 National Information Technology Merit Award (NITMA), when he said:
“The government and wonderful people of Osun State looks forward to hosting NCS members and other delegates/resource persons to the 2013 NCS International Conference and AGM in Oshogbo.”
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A 77-year-old woman, Madam Grace Agbonkpolor, has been rescued by men of the Edo State Police Command from her abductors after spending four days in captivity.
The septuagenarian who is the mother ofa Benin-based transporter was said to have been rescued by the anti-kidnap unit of the command following the arrest of one of the kidnappers who went to collect the ransom demanded from the family at Obarenti village along Benin-Sapele road.
Vanguard also gathered that Madam Agbonkpolor was alleged to have earlier been kidnapped on December 23, 2012 and was only released after the payment of ransom.
The traumatized septuagenarian while expressing gratitude to the police for rescuing her and arresting one of the kidnappers, appealed to the police for protection, saying that as long as other members of the gang were still at large, she remained unsafe.
Attempt to reach the Edo State Police Command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Moses Eguaveon, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, for confirmation of the story failed as several calls to his telephone were unanswered.
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In an apparent response to the International Monetary Fund, IMF, report, the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, Tuesday, said it has stopped buying bad loans from commercial banks in Nigeria.
The Chief Executive Officer of AMCON, Mr. Mustapha Chike-Obi, in a statement said the company decided to stop buying the loans so as to discourage excessive risk-taking by the banks.
Chike Obi noted that AMCON would no longer serve as a life line to banks with bad loan, adding that the banks now bear the risk of loans that turn bad.
He added that the banks must make provision on their balance sheets or sell bad loans to a third party.
He said, “we are not buying any more non-performing loans, and the bank had not done so for six months”.
He added that the company has cleaned up the banking system, saying that bad loans are now under five per cent.
“We want to make sure that everybody adheres to the prudential guidelines”.
Chike-Obi said the company’s aim was to gradually reduce its operations and cut staff in the next five years, as a full banking recovery makes it no longer needed.
Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, in its report commended Nigeria’s success in stabilising its banking sector but recommended AMCON wind down its operations to curb what it called ‘moral hazard’, whereby a party is more willing to take a risk, knowing that the potential costs of taking such a risk will be borne by others.
AMCON was set up in 2010 to clean up the banking system following a $4 billion rescue of nine lenders that came close to collapse.
Before AMCON took on the bad loans, they made up about half of all loans, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said, but have since fallen to within its target of five percent.
AMCON issued N1.7 trillion in bonds to buy non-performing loans which were valued at N2.2 trillion at the time of bank bailout in 2009.
In 2011, two months after it commenced operations, AMCON, acquired N1.036 trillion bad debts of 21 banks. It held a completion board meeting where it signed agreement with 21 banks to issue N1.036 trillion worth of bonds to purchase their bad debts.
The agreement covered purchase of all the bad debts of eight rescued banks and the margin loans of 13 non-rescued banks.
Among the rescued banks were Afribank, Bank PHB, Oceanic Bank, Union Bank, Intercontinental Bank, Finback, Equatorial Trust Bank and Spring Bank.
Chairman of AMCON, Alhaji Aliyu Kola Belgore said, the company is making history in the world, succeeding where many have failed, or not even dared to try.
He said the company has within record time, come up with a programme which would help in shoring confidence in banking system, re-invigorate the Nigerian capital market and improve the soundness of the financial system and Nigeria’s sovereign credit rating.
The N1.036 trillion bonds issued by AMCON to purchase the bad debts are known as consideration bonds and are for the purpose of purchasing margin loans of all the banks and the other non-performing loans of rescued banks.
In the second phase, the corporation would issued N3 trillion worth of bonds known as Proper Bonds, part of which would be used to replace the consideration donds issued in the first phase.
AMCON registered to issue up to N3 trillion in tradable bonds, although it used only between N2.4 trillion to N2.6 trillion in the recapitalization process.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has invoked a section of the Nigerian Communications Act, 2003, (Section 1 (h) ) which charges it to “ensure that the needs of the disabled and elderly persons are taken into consideration in the provision of communications services” .
Riding on the back of this section and others in support, the commission has said that it will cause a conscious effort to improving accessibility of persons living with disabilities to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) through supply of products with special features and services.
The commission made the commitment last week, at a one day conference on ‘Making Telecoms Services Accessible to Persons With Disability’, put together by Lagos Civil Society Disability Policy Partnership, LCSDPP and NCC at the Sheraton Hotels Ikeja, Lagos.
Addressing the audience, Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah who was represented by the Head of Public Relations, Mr Reuben Muoka said the agency had taken certain initiatives in line with its consumer centric approach to address some of the challenges of the people living with disabilities in the country.
Juwah also admitted that these special group of persons constituted 25 per cent of the total Nigerian population and therefore required special attention by the industry.
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President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, sent a strong message to former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, pleading with him to spearhead the campaign to persuade members of the Boko Haram sect to accept dialogue, as a means of ending the orgy of violence in the North.
Similarly, Jonathan asked Buhari to emulate the role he ( Jonathan) played by going to meet militants in their vast hideouts in the Niger Delta to plead with them to lay down their arms and accept the general amnesty granted by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 25, 2009.
Jonathan said he expected Buhari to lead the way in persuading the Boko Haram insurgents in the North to stop bombings and enter into dialogue with the Federal Government with a view to ending the violence in the region, which is threatening to disrupt the economy of the region and Nigeria.
The President, who sent the message to Buhari through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, accused the former head of state of making false allegations against him during his interview in London last week.
What Buhari told BBC in London
During the interview with the BBC, Buhari had said that the Federal Government should be held responsible for the worsening state of insecurity in Nigeria, accusing the leadership of not taking steps to halt the slide, which has claimed many lives and property in the region.
Buhari said: “The problem of terrorism is not confined to the North alone. Insecurity generally should be blamed on the Federal Government.
“The world is very much concerned about two things — the issue of security and economic wellbeing of a nation. Security is number one. A nation can only be economically viable if there is security. But how did all these crises start? How did the crises begin and assume this dimension?
“Until now, everyday, they abduct people and receive ransoms. How was the problem reduced? How did it start? What method was employed to convince them to mellow down?
“Similarly, what we should look at is, how did the Boko Haram start? We know all these. Security is the responsibility of the government.
“It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to know how this thing started and how to go about it.”
Jonathan takes on Buhari
But Okupe asked Nigerians to demand from Buhari what he had done as a leader in the North and a former head of state to halt the attacks by the sect.
He said: “Nigerians should ask him (Buhari) that as a former Head of state and as someone who wants to be president again, what he has done to end this insurgence in the country.
“Or is it when he becomes President, he will stop the insurgence? No, it does not work that way. He should emulate President Jonathan who went to the creeks of the Niger Delta canvassing peace and dialogue with the militants of the Niger Delta.
“Everybody knows that it was General Buhari, who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan if he loses the last presidential election. It was in Minna, that he said that once votes are countered and he loses that people should go for blood. He said in Hausa language. General Buhari is the person who sowed the wind that the nation is now reaping in whirlwind.
“He is not in any position to apportion blames on the issue of violence in the North or in Nigeria in general. He is a protagonist of violence. The only position he sees for not being the President is to call for violence. This government has tried as much as possible to contain some of Buhari’s unguarded statements. I don’t think anybody in Nigeria will take Buhari very serious when he makes such comments.
“If there is anybody to blame, General Buhari comes number one on that list. Have you ever seen General Buhari visit BornoState or condemn the acts of the Boko Haram or condole whether Christians or Muslims that have been killed?
“A man who can traverse the whole length and breadth of Nigeria, yet he cannot use that clout that he has and get leaders together to put an end to the insurgence in the country. And yet he finds it comfortable to blame other people. What has he done as a former Head of State to help Nigeria and Nigerians stop the militancy in the North or in other parts of the country?”
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A middle aged man, Mr. Ogbonna Nwibo, of Oburu Ida in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was weekend alleged to have raped his late in-law’s widow, Mrs. Agnes Nwonu, for allegedly resisting his sexual advances.
The alleged rapist, who is currently on the run, was said to have threatened his victim, a widow, with a cutlass before carrying out the act.
Narrating the incident at the Family Law Centre, a legal unit established by EbonyiState government to look into critical issues surrounding women and families in the state, kinsmen of Agnes’ deceased husband alleged that “unknown to us, one of our in-laws, Ogbonna Nwibo, was making advances to Agnes but she refused to give in.
“One night, Nwibo came to her with a cutlass and threatened to kill her if she did not allow him to sleep with her. He later raped her.”
They begged the centre’s management to effect the arrest of the fleeing rapist, as justice delayed was justice denied.
Responding, Chairman of the centre, Mrs. Elizabeth Nwali after listening to their plea, advised them not to take laws into their hands but rather alert security agencies nearest to them or the Family Law Centre in Abakaliki whenever the alleged rapist was within reach.
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THE Imo State Police Command has burst a child-stealing syndicate, believed to be responsible for the reported thefts and child-trafficking cases in the state.
Briefing newsmen in Owerri, state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Katsina, said the most pathetic was the case of a two-week-old baby boy, who was sold to a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Paulinus Ogugua of Umueji-Agha, Akokwa, Ideato North Local Government Area of the state.
Katsina said: “This is a pathetic story of an innocent, totally defenceless human being, whose only crime is that he has been brought into the world by people whose love for money and material things go beyond any human thinking.”
In a similar development, the Command said it arrested a 33-year old Amarachi Njoku, described as “the kingpin of a dreaded gang that specializes in child stealing.”
Vanguard gathered that on interrogation, Amarachi allegedly confessed to the crime and also added that his reason for being part of the gang was pecuniary.
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OSOGBO— A middle-aged woman, identified as Mummy Ajimo, and her son, Ajimo, were electrocuted in Abebi area of Oke Baale in Osogbo by a cable felled by the rain, Monday.
The rain we learnt was associated with lightning and thunder that wreaked havoc in some residential areas.
According to reports, the cables of an electric pole in Abebi area fell and sent shocks through the affected buildings during the torrential rain.
The Commissioner of Police in OsunState, Mrs Dorothy Gimba, confirmed the incident, saying the Police Area Commander informed her about the event.
She said that early yesterday, residents, who were scared, including Ajimo, scampered for safety as many of them relocated to avoid contact with the fallen electric cables.
Although the police report identified the deceased woman as Mummy Ajimo, some eyewitnesses identified her as Simiatu Rafiu, who had attempted to escape the danger with her son.
As residents hurried out of the area, Mummy Ajimo took her son, Ajimo, to leave the area but as they made their way out, they stepped on the live electric cable and were electrocuted.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Folashade Odoro, made available a report from one Ishmail Oyebode of Ile Balogun Abe Obi area of Osogbo.
The report read: “There was an electric spark a few hours ago and people living in that area started running out for safety and one Mummy Ajimo and her son ran into the wire and died immediately.”
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Abuja — Office of the First Lady, Monday, said Dame Patience Jonathan’s visit to Germany and other European countries was for routine medical check-up and to visit her ailing mother, saying there was no need for negative insinuations in the media.
A statement by the Special Assistant to the First Lady, Ayo Osinlu, urged Nigerians to develop the habit of praying for their leaders as done in other countries.
According to the statement, “it is unfortunate that again, some media houses have allowed themselves to be used by dedicated mischief makers against the basic tenet of professional journalism, which regards truth as sacred
“For the avoidance of doubts and ambiguities, we wish to state that the First Lady travelled to Dubai, after which she proceeded to Paris, France, to participate in the 1st Green Women Conference, which took place in Paris on March 17, where she received the 2013 Global Women Leaders’ Award for Peace.
“She, thereafter, proceeded to Italy from where she went to Germany to see her mother, Mama Sisi, who is currently receiving medical attention.
“The First Lady is spending sometime overseeing the management of her mother’s condition. She is also using the opportunity to spend quality time with her holidaying children before they return to school, as they are with her to see their grandmother.
“It is notable that Her Excellency has a history of visiting the hospital in Germany even before she became the First Lady, thus making her medical trips routine.
“It is also instructive to state that medical experts have recommended that every human being should undergo medical check-up every six months, even if not suffering ill health.
“Therefore, hospital visitations of our leaders should not become leading media issues or attract disrespectful comments, just as the current circumstances of former President Mandela and other African leaders in similar situations, and even those who died, have not attracted negative comments from their people.”
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