ANIETIE UDOBIT, ABUJA The Board and Management of Benthel Multimedia Ltd, publishers of UNITY TIMES, has announced the former Nigeria Vice president Alhaji Atiku as Keynote Speaker for 2017 UNITY TIMES Annual Lecture Series holding on Tuesday October 31. The announcement was made in a statement by the Company Chief Executive Officer,
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ANIETIE UDOBIT, ABUJA The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission,NERC has fined Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company plc, IEDC a sum of N50m, and directed the company to recover the sum of N5.7bn being the balance of the inappropriate loan of N6bn granted by the utility to IEDMG, the core investor in Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company
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PRESS RELEASE As part of activities lined up to mark this year’s World Post Day Celebration, NIPOST is launching new products which include the repackaged almost-extinct Postal and Money orders to be available on line for the use of the public. NIPOST in its renewed efforts at bringing the postal service at
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By JAMES EZEMA An amalgamation of coalition of civil society organisations has urged the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, to first finish his many defamation legal battles in courts before opening a new legal war front with Nigerian oil magnate, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Sir Emeka Offor. The groups, under the Joint
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By CHRIS EKEKE Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has countered the assertion that the state Chief Judges lack constitutional powers to pardon or grant amnesty to prisoners. Sebastine Hon (SAN) had stated on Monday that “The practice of chief judges, particularly of the states, granting pardon or amnesty to offenders has been going on for quite
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The Federal Government has issued another directive to the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government to immediately resume the conduct of the Focus Workshop on the Operationalization of the Executive Order No. 001, 2017 on the Promotion of Transparency and Efficiency in the Business Environment beginning from Wednesday 30th August 2017 or
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BY CHRIS EKEKE Senator Buruji Kashamu representing Ogun East Senatorial District, yesterday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee for Ogun State that was newly constituted by the national leadership of the party, will not stand. The senator, who described the setting up of the committee as illegal said there was a standing court order
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By NAN The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, says the whistleblower policy of the Federal Government is one of the current administration’s successful initiatives. She said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a seminar organised by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) on “The Whistleblower Policy and its Implication for
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NIGERIAN MARITIME ADMINISTRATION AND SAFETY AGENCY (NIMASA) August 13, 2017 Press Release The attention of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has been drawn to the misinformation making the round in media, particularly online platforms, that there is an ongoing recruitment exercise in the Agency. It is imperative to state, in the
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...PDP is Back, Says Okowa By JAMES EZEMA, STELLA UKWUOMA & IKWO UBANA Nigeria’s major opposition party, which still prides itself as the largest political party in Africa, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has held its national convention in Abuja, the country’s federal capital territory amid fanfare. Though it was not an
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