Breaking News in Nigeria Today Monday 3rd February 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Monday 3rd February 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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Abaribe puts Buhari on the spot
Call for Buhari’s resignation: How feasible? FELIX NWANERI reports on how Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has either been tagged agent provocateur or conscience of the people by the respective divides in the polity since his call for President Muhammadu’s resignation H as the euphoria, which greeted the Muhammadu Buhari administration after 16 years of unbroken rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), waned? This is the question on the lips of most Nigerians given the belief in some quarters that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government is…
Call for Buhari’s resignation: Adebanjo, Yakasai, Sani , Ojikutu, others speak
In this interview, some Nigerians speak on the call for President Muhammadu to resign. Temitope Ogunbanke and Baba Negedu report Adebanjo: I warned against re-electing Buhari Chief Ayo Adebanjo is a chieftain of Afenifere It is only in this country that Buhari will last so long. He shouldn’t have spent more than two years in his first term before people sent him away. But because people are so fanatical about what is wrong, they refused to listen. Didn’t I warn people in 2015 not to…
Anambra, Ohanaeze mourn Arthur Nwankwo
P an-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Anambra State Government, yesterday expressed shock over the death of Dr. Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo, founder of Forth Dimension Publishing Company and pro-democracy activist. In a statement by Deputy National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Mazi Chuks Ibegbu and made available to journalists in Enugu yesterday said the passing on of Nwankwo was “a devastating incident to Ndigbo, Nigeria, Africa and the world.” The statement also described chieftain of the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) as “an intellectual giant, writer, activist statesman and…
Group blames Buhari for U.S. visa ban
F ollowing imposition of travel ban on holders of Nigerian passport by the United States of America (USA), a pan-Yoruba group, Yoruba Youth Forum (YYF), yesterday blamed President Muhammadu Buhari’s laxity for the ban, urging him to take a cue from former President Olusegun Obasanjo leadership styles on how best to preside over affairs of the country. Its President-General, Comrade Abiodun Bolarinwa, while speaking on the ban and the unimpressive reaction of Presidency, said the country was at crossroads as only experience of ex-presidents especially President Olusegun Obasanjo would be…
Pension assets: NAICOM consolidates plans to increase control
B esides introducing various reforms to reinforce the insurance sector, the National insurance commission (NAICOM) is also looking forward to life underwriters controlling a higher chunk of the fast growing pension assets under its annuity programme. This fact was disclosed recently in Lagos by the Acting Commissioner of Insurance, Mr. Sunday Thomas while speaking on the need to have more actuarists in the country’s insurance sector. Thomas, who said NAICOM was working assiduously to put in place measures to protect the expected funds, expressed optimism that substantial part of…
Coronavirus: Lagos unveils plans to quarantine Chinese returnees
D etermined to contain Coronavirus in the state, the Lagos State Government yesterday told travelers returning from China or exposed to a traveler from China or any country where cases of novel Corona virus had been reported to observe self-quarantine on arrival in Lagos. With the self-quarantined strategy, the government explained that persons observing self-quarantine must stay at home during the whole duration of the self-quarantine, and must avoid workplace, minimize contact with family members, ensure no contact with visitors, refrain from attending or going to public or…
BEDC hinges signing of Ossiomo bilateral deals on safety
T he delay in signing the bilateral agreement on the Edo State and Ossiomo Power project was due to refusal of the former to agree to the process for the operations, maintenance and management of the project in line with licensing and safety standard in order to ensure safety of lives and property. Chief State Head, Edo of BEDC Electricity PLC, (BEDC), Mr. Abel Enechaziam, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen over the weekend. Enechaziam maintained that the procurement process for the proposed new line,…
Rabiu: We are targeting South East, offshore markets
Kabiru Rabiu is the Group Executive Director of Nigeria’s leading conglomerate, BUA Group. In this interview with journalists in Lagos, he highlights BUA’s future outlook on cement, sugar and others in line with its strategic growth plan. Taiwo Hassan was there. Excerpts What is BUA doing to boost its cement market expansion in the country? I must commend this administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for the role it played in repositioning the Nigeria’s economy mostly; for giving people like us (investors) opportunity to contribute our…
Portland Paints: Cost pressure hurts earnings
High operational cost has continued to weigh down on Portland Paints and Products Plc’s earnings. Chris Ugwu writes T he business environment has continued to be more turbulent in Nigeria especially for the manufacturing sector due largely to effects of forex fluctuations and yet to be resolved infrastructural challenges, multiple taxation and high cost of operation. Again, the security landscape remains a major concern particularly in the northern part of the country making free enterprise increasingly complicated in the affected states. The cheaper price of…
CPS: Asset growth reinforcing public trust
With the pension assets peaking at almost N10 trillion, there is ample evidence to ensure sustainability, confidence and need to expand contributors’ net. Sunday Ojeme reports T he anguish, pains and disillusionment that hallmarked the nation’s pension atmosphere in the past have continued to change for good as more Nigerian workers key into the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). While more workers are still being enrolled by the Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs), the steady rise in the asset under management is also reinforcing public confidence in the scheme…
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