Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, May 13, 2015
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Remi Oladoye
Group Managing Director/Chief Executive of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mr. Ladi Balogun; the Onigando of Igando, Oba Lasisi Gbadamosi; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN and Managing Director of Lagos Waste Management Authority, Mr. Ola Oresanya at the commissioning of Solous 1 Material Recovery Facility held in Lagos… on Tuesday
APC’ll ask looters to refund money – el-Rufai ÏÏÏ
Kaduna State Governor-elect and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, said, on Tuesday, that the incoming administration of President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, would inherit huge debt from the President Goodluck Jonathan government. He said Buhari would ask politicians both at the state and federal levels, who had dipped their hands into the nation’s coffers illegally to refund such money. El-Rufai, who spoke to executive members of the National Union of Textile Garments and Tailoring
Buhari, Atiku eulogise Chukwuma Azikiwe ÏÏÏ
The President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has described the death of Ambassador Chukwuma Bamidele Azikiwe as a sad development and an exit of a great Nigerian, who was brought up in the best tradition of national unity and genuine African values. Also, former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, expressed shock at the death
Workers of Nigeria, who paid him a courtesy visit in Kaduna, believed such politicians must be ready to refund ill-gotten money after May 29. He specifically said those who had clean hands, had no cause to fear. He said the measure had become necessary, since it was obvious that the All Progressive Congress-led government would be in dire financial strait on assumption of office. El-Rufai said: “We will politely ask those who stole government money to return them. “This is because people,
of Ambassador Azikiwe. Atiku said in a press statement issued by his media office, in Abuja, on Tuesday that "Chukwuma Bamidele Azikiwe epitomised the very best of the late Zik's zeal and passion for a united Nigeria: he gave him a Yoruba name despite being of Igbo bacground and supported his pursuit of a career in Nigeria’s Foreign Service."
Azikiwe
who are in government now are there not to work for themselves, but the APC government is made up of people who are ready to work for the masses and the betterment of the country. “We will work with the textile union to ensure that the life of the average Nigerian gets better.” The ex-minister also decried the parlous state of the textile industry, in Kaduna State, noting that his administration would revamp the industry. He lamented the current employment figure of 1,600 employees in the textile sector, describing the situation
as unacceptable, adding that the textile industries in Kaduna used to employ about 33,000 workers. According to El-Rufai, the APC government would revive the textile industries, saying the sector would generate employment and impact on the lives of the people. He said: “We have met at a forum of northern governors-elect and we decided to ensure the revival of the textile industries. “It is a shame that the largest economy in Africa imports textile materials from Senegal and other countries.”
ÏÏÏAn average Nigerian loses about N325, 092 yearly to low level of productivity in the country. The Director, Productivity Measurement and Statistics, National Productivity Centre, (NPC), Abuja, Alhaji Jubril Yelwa, made this revelation while delivering his paper titled: “Computing Productivity in the Nigerian Economy: Issues and Challenges.” He said that it was unfortunate that achieved productivity of an average Nigerian was N430, 560, as against the expected N782, 652 annually as he puts the target productivity level at N838, 720. Yelwa, while speaking
Average Nigerian loses N325,092 yearly –NPC during the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), monthly lecture series, for May 2015, on Tuesday, in Ibadan, argued that “by normal distribution, 60 percent of total population was supposed to be the working arm and the expected productivity level would have been $5,017 per head or N782, 652 per head in naira term.”
NIMC staff shut headquarters over planned retrenchment Mathew Dadiya Abuja
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of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), on Tuesday, took to the streets, in Abuja, in protest against an alleged plan by the agency to retrench over 1,000 staff members. The aggrieved workers shut down the headquarters of the commission in Abuja, barring people who either wanted to collect their National Identity Cards, or register from ac-
cessing the office. The workers vowed to keep the place under lock and key, until the retrenchment exercise is reversed. The Secretary of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Isaac Ojemhenke, criticized the management of the commission for the planned exercise, while the FCT chairman of the Trade Union Congress, Aliyu Musa, bemoaned the working conditions of workers in the commission.
First Lady denies scheming Aisha Buhari out of AFLPM leadership Monday Agu, Jnr
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Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has denied plans to rig out the incoming First Lady, Hajia Aisha Buhari from the leadership of the Africa First Ladies Peace Mission. Patience was reacting to reports that her decision to host the 8th Summit of the AFLPM, in Abuja, on Friday, was a grand design to stop Hajiya Aisha from succeeding her as President of the mission. Her statement read in part: “It would be recalled
that Nigeria’s Hajia Turai Yar’Adua was elected President of the African First Ladies Peace Mission during the 6th Summit in February 2008, in Congo Brazzaville, for a term of two years. Her tenure ought to have come to an end in 2010 when she should have organised a summit to elect a successor and hand over accordingly. The unfortunate incident that led to her sudden exit from office is well known and need not be mentioned here. “This inability of the
former President to officially hand over created a leadership vacuum in the African First Ladies Peace Mission for some time until Her Excellency, Dame Patience Jonathan was prevailed upon by her colleagues, the African First Ladies to convene the Summit in July 2012 at which she was subsequently elected her to serve for two years. “For the avoidance of doubt, according to its internal regulation, the tenure of office of President of African First Ladies Peace Mission is for
a period of two years only. This therefore implies that the tenure of office of the incumbent President ought to have ended in 2014, when a fresh election should have held for a new executive council. “This emergency summit, therefore, is to forestall a misunderstanding that Nigeria intentionally desires to remain in office as President, having held the position for the past seven years, instead of the two year tenure assigned to each country in the internal regulations of the Peace Mission.”