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dre11:
I just dey know now

dre11:
You are soo mean

In a statement by the Commissioner, Ikorodu Road from Maryland through Funsho Williams Avenue to Teslim Balogun Stadium would be closed between the hours of 8am and 2pm owing to the Mass On Street Rally organised by the Buhari Osinbajo Campaign Organisation.

He said that about 200 officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), have been deployed to manage the traffic situation and other incidences in the state.

The statement reads, “This is to inform the general public that due to the planned Mass On Street Rally by the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Org. onBuhari Saturday 7/3/2015 from Maryland along Ikorodu Road through Funsho Williams Ave. to Teslim Balogun Stadium, from 8am to 2pm, various sections of the road will be closed.

“Service lanes and unoccupied sections of the express lane corridor inward TBS will be available to motorists during the procession.

“Motorists are advised to use the service lanes of Ikorodu rd and Funso Williams Ave., Agege Motor Rd or Third Mainland bridge.

“‎Let’s be guided by these for-warning advice please.”‎

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, is expected in Lagos for a mega rally as campaign towards the March 28 presidential election continues.

General Muhamadu Buhari returned from his two weeks travel to the United Kingdom on Friday amidst tight security presence and a large crowd of party supporters at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja.

He denied claims that his absence from the country was because the PDP was allegedly having the upper hand in the campaign.

Clerverly:
....And they just called press conference to reject the Card reader!

Yet people are calling this alarm a propaganda?

lalasticlala, Seun, Obinoscopy and Ishilove!

Redoil:
@op what about E-coli

Abuja — FEDERAL Government, Monday, disclosed that it had concluded plan to establish a bank for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), just as it assured civil servants of prompt payment of February salary.

The bank tagged; 'Development Bank of Nigeria' will assist the small scale business owners to access fund for a long period of time.

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who stated this at a Stakeholders' Conversation on Communicating Government Policies, Programmes and Activities to Traditional Rulers, Market Men/Women organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), in Abuja, said the bank would be launched next month.

Her words; "There are many people who has business ideas here, and they are unable to access funds, and it always taken two to three years to establish. But when you go for a loan if you are lucky what do they tell you? They will start telling you to pay after a year, you are not able to march the timing of the loan you get with the timing of your investment.

"This administration is creating a bank called 'Development Bank of Nigeria' that would allow people borrow from five to seven years.

"This bank will be launched next month, and when it's on ground, it will help Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) to access funding for a longer period of time, something they have never being able to do. That is another achievement this administration has been able to put in place."

Speaking on the several achievements of the present administration, the minister noted that the government was diversifying the economy to improve the well being of Nigerians, adding that, the country's economy would grows at 40 percent oil and 60 percent non-oil.

According to her, "We need to diversify our economy, we don't want to depend on oil anymore, we want our economy to be 40 percent oil and 60 percent non oil economy, and we have started that work.

"Last year, we said we should try and get additional N75 billion from non oil, do you know how much we got? N110 billion. So, it means the potential is there for us to get more and diversify our source of revenue. This government has worked hard to make economy very diversed."

The minister of power, Prof Chinedu Nebo, at the weekend, commissioned a 25 kilowatt (kw) Hybrid solar PV/wind demonstration power plant located at the National Power Training institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN), Regional Training Centre, Kainji, New Bussa, Niger State.

The project is an achievement of Nigeria-Germany Energy partnership under the Nigeria Energy Support Programme (NESP), an initiative signed between President Goodluck Jonathan and German chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Commissioning the project, the minister, who was represented by the permanent secretary in the ministry, Godknows Igali, said the project was the first of its kind in the West African sub-region as the plant combines more than one source of renewable energy and is able to operate off-grid as well as on-grid.

The plant, according to the minister consists of a 10kw solar PV and three wind turbines of 5kw each, making 25kw power plant. The minister, in a statement, yesterday, by the ministry’s deputy director, press, Ibrahim Haruna, said the plant, in addition to generating clean energy, is a demonstration and training facility for students being trained by the NAPTIN. According to Nebo, the project is helping to provide an urgent solution to power supply shortages associated with pipeline vandalism as gas is not required for the smooth operation of the renewable energy plant.

Nebo commended the German government for their role in the NESP, a programme implemented by the German Agency for International Co-operation (GIZ), in partnership with the Ministry of Power and other public institutions.

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Wednesday, arraigned a Chinese national at the Federal High Court, Awka, over the import and sales of unregistered and counterfeit diapers.

The accused, Lu Pengqing, was arraigned on a five-count charge before Justice Gafa’i Bature.

The charge included: sales of counterfeit product; possession of counterfeit product; importation of counterfeit product; importation of product without registration and distribution of product without registration.

Responding to the charges, the accused person pleaded not guilty.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Mr Umar Shamaki, said Pengqing was arrested with the unregistered and counterfeit diapers at 9, Awka Road, Onitsha, Anambra, on February 10, while he was busy distributing the counterfeit and unregistered diaper products to unsuspecting members of the public.

“NAFDAC prays that the accused be remanded in prison custody, his international passports confiscated even as he faces his trial,’’ the counsel to the prosecutor said.

The counsel to the accused, Mr Emeka Nathaniel, argued that his client was not importing or selling counterfeit and unregistered products as alleged.

“Our prayer is an order to this honourable court to grant the accused lenient and favourable bail as we have submitted in our 11-page affidavit,’’ Nathaniel said.

In his ruling, Justice Bature, granted the accused bail on three conditions; while adjourning the hearing of the case to May 6.

“First, the accused must produce two sureties, who are civil servant, serving and working in Anambra State either with the Federal Government or Anambra State; and secondly, the court would have to verify the residence of the accused in Onitsha.

“Thirdly, the accused shall deposit his international passport and other travel documents with the court.’’

wisehuman156:
Bomb scare at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Please we need more update and photos

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, will Saturday assess the capacity of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to respond to a bomb attack.

According to a statement signed the coordinating spokesperson of the Aviation agencies‎, Yakubu Datti, on Friday, the assessment will be conducted with Bomb Simulated Exercise 10 am and 11 am.

This, according Mr. Datti, who is also FAAN’s General Manager, Corporate Affairs, is an essential requirement that has to be fulfilled for certification by the International Civil Aviation Organisation‎.

While appealing to passengers not to panic in the course of the exercise, he added that the drill is intended to assess the Airport’s response procedures should real bomb explosion happen at the Terminal Building.

He said, “FAAN hereby appeals to passengers and the general public not to panic as adequate arrangements have been put in place to ensure as safe an environment as possible while the exercise lasts.”

In addition, he assured there would be no disruption to flight operations as a result of the exercise.

uboma:
So would you respect my opinion when I say that I blame our govt for allowing them to continue running their businesses here in Nigeria?

uboma:
Are the courts not part of the government?

uboma:
The US govt don't act on assumptions or mere feelings. They have facts against the owners of Amigo supermarket. I wonder why our govt still allows them to run their businesses here.

nduchucks:
You've been reported and will be banned shortly.

Iluv:
@OP, poor formatting of a very long post makes it uninteresting to read.

kowema:
For all we know, she could just be a bait....On ur being in a haste, My thoughts exactly..... I totally suggest a group of people do a proper visit, a mixed team of both males and females.....I am so sure this whole drama was planned...You saw the payment papers for today, cool..Which was predrafted before ur arrival...... She coughed blood indeed!!!
....All of a sudden, she has a husband, something the Kingolaola fraudster never mentioned from beginning.......
Ola Greenmou or Kingolaola is a Thief and Fraudster.... Everyone open ur eyes oh!!!!!

MizMyColi:
^^^ Lalasticlala, what have I done to him to deserve this kind of insult

Seun