The multinational companies should be compelled to be listed in Nigerian Capital Markets instead of allowing them to take their excess profits back to their countries. There should a law backing it up.[quote author=]
Nice one.I hope the gate fee will not be too much for common man to pay
GistVillage: American pop star Chris Brown is set to storm Lagos on the 22nd of December 2012 for a pre-christmas show. On Saturday Dec22, Chris Brown will be performing live at Eko Hotel Hall in Victoria Island, Lagos.
After his Barbados tour with his girlfriend, Rihanna, he is set to fly to Nigeria for the performance of his life.
bizgynbala: The All Africa Students Union (AASU) has disowned a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Party, Olabode George, saying it has no plan to confer any award on him.
Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES from AASU headquarters in Accra, Ghana, the Secretary General of the organization, Fred Awah, said reports of the award on Mr. George, an ex-convict, who recently served jail terms for corruption, was “absolutely untrue, misleading and fraudulent.”
“It is clear there are elements dragging the name of our organization in the mud,” Mr. Awah said. “The Kwame Nkrumah African Leadership Award is a prestigious one and there are criteria for awarding it. At no time did we consider him (Bode George) for any award.”
Mr. Awah, who sounded livid on the telephone, said he was already planning to travel to Nigeria to meet with officials of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, with a view to identifying “the fraudulent elements” using AASU’s name to offer dubious awards to individuals for percuniary gains.
“What they have done is criminal,” he said. “We must expose and disgrace them so that others will learn.”
There have been reports in the media (not PREMIUM TIMES) that AASU, on the recommendation of NANS, had nominated the PDP chieftain as winner of its 15th edition of the Africa Leadership Award.
A certain Olufemi Lawson, described as the Nigerian representative at AASU and Project Co-ordinator of the award, reportedly announced Mr. Bode’s selection, saying the award would be conferred on him on December 12 at an elaborate ceremony that would feature “a distinguished leadership lecture”.
He was quoted as saying Mr. George was selected from among the many nominees for the 2012 award based on his commitment to youth development and his defence of democratic institutions.
AASU is a regional students organisation, headquartered in Accra, Ghana with over 54 African countries as members.
When contacted by PREMIUM TIMES Friday, Mr. Lawson insisted there was no going back on the conferment of the award on Mr. George. He said the award ceremony would hold in Lagos as planned.
Mr. Lawson said the President of AASU, Mohammed Bashir, a Sudanese, is aware of the arrangement, and that the organisation’s secretary general, Mr. Awah, was not in the loop because he had been busy with the Ghanaian elections.
Mr. Lawson said in selecting Mr. George for the award, he and his group “looked beyond the politics of Nigeria” and were impressed by his effort in youth development and education.
“This is a man who has awarded over 1000 scholarships and grants to indigent students,” Mr. Lawson said. “He deserves to be honoured.”
But shortly after Mr. Lawson spoke to us, we called Secretary General Amah again who insisted “there is no such award for Bode George from AASU.”
“Lawson is not an official of AASU,” Mr. Amah said. “He contested for the position of deputy secretary general and lost. He was defeated by a Liberian. Since then, he has been pursuing a fraudulent scheme, using the name of the organization to hand out dubious awards.”
A former President of AASU, Oludare Ogunlana, also explained that his investigation indicated the organization and its secretariat had no knowledge of the purported award.
He said there is no Nigerian on the executive of AASU at this time, meaning Mr. Lawson could not be speaking for the organization.
Many Nigerians have widely criticized the plan to honour Mr. George, who was imprisoned for mismanaging public funds.
The PDP chieftain could not be reached for comments Friday morning. He did not answer or return calls made to his telephone.
Past recipients of the AASU bi-annual Africa Leadership Award include former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Anan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai among others
That is the attitude of nigerian students.They give awards to those people who are running around with our common wealth.Why would somebody will single handedly given out an award where he/she is even an executive member? This is just the of extorting money from these politicians.
kingingkinging: ANNA OKON writes that the life of actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde outside the cameras is about to be unveiled in a reality TV show tagged Omotola, The Real Me AS the award-winning actress is set to air her much-talked about reality show, she has expressed anxiety over its implication to her personality. Jalade-Ekeinde says about the programme to start on DSTV “Before now I thought people who got into reality TV shows were those who reached the end of their careers as entertainers. When the producers approached me, I thought perhaps my career was over. But they told me they had done a lot of research and found out that people wanted to know about me.’’ She adds, “If I sit down and tell you that I am confident about this I would be lying to you. I am very nervous about the show because everything about me is going to be in the public domain now. I cannot talk myself out of the show. As it is common with reality shows, you are going to see everything because already there are parts in the show when I forgot and just let some ugly aspects of my life show. If I tell the producers to edit those parts out, they would refuse and say they want everything to be as real as possible. “So it is a project that may make or mar me. But life is all about risks. I would rather try and fail than not try at all.” The actress also says she has signed a contract with UK-based Television network, OH TV, for the first 13 episodes of the show. Stating that the producers have agreed to allow the content to reflect only 10 per cent of her life with her husband and the rest of her family, she adds that the remaining 90 per cent will dwell on her at work with friends and colleagues. Chief Executive Officer of OH TV, Akin Salami, describes the actress as a ‘‘quintessential African woman,’’ noting that there are many women in Nollywood who would have produced the drama needed for the show but they went instead for her.
That's wrong. It means she is just a mere friend to him and nothing more
OCTAVO: They were in the midst of his friends and he introduced her(his girlfriend) this way: “meet my friend....“ Now, i want you to respond accordingly... 1.If your boyfriend introduces you as a friend, how would you feel? 2.If your girlfriend introduces you as a friend, how would you feel?
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Nigerian Airforce Direct Short Service Course (DSSC) 2013 by mdyo99: 7:16pm On Oct 15, 2013