A LECTURER OF KEN SARO WIWA POLYTECHNIC WAS SHOOT DEAD.

KEN SARO WIWA POLY LECTURER SHOT DEAD
Reports reaching us few hours ago confirms that a former Commissioner Rivers State House of Assembly Service Commission and currently a
Principal Lecturer of the Ken Saro-Wiwa
Polytechnic Bori Doctor VYNCENT EEEBEE has
been killed by gun men in Yeghe Gokana Local
Government Area of Rivers state.
Doctor VYNCENT before his death was the Director of
Industrial Training of the Polytechnic.
An eye witness, who witnessed the brutal
assassination, told our correspondent that the
gun men who drove in 2 sport utility vehicle
ambushed the Lecturer while he was returning
from campus after delivering his lecture.
A female student of the institutions mass communications Department was also shot in the attack
Yeghe and Bori towns as well as other parts of
Ogoni has been in the news in recent time for
the wrong reasons since the military and some
cultists engaged in a shoot-out, that axis of
Ogoni has not known peace.
All efforts to speak with the Polytechnic
authority proved abortive as at the time of filing
in this report.

uniport protest

STUDENTS of the University of Port Harcourt, Monday morning, staged a protest to expressed their displeasure over increase in tuition as they also accused the school management of deliberately ignoring the problems confronting them. The students said they are against the school’s new policy of ‘no fee, no examination.

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UNIPORT STUDENT PROTEST

the slain student of Uniport who was allegedly killed by Police SARS Peter Ofurum today during a peaceful students protest

  university of port Harcourt (uniport) protest over tuition fees early this morning the PRO of uniport was called for interview base on the incident that is happening so far  PRO said''the school management said that only 98% of student has not paid the tuition fee that the people that is causing this protest is just 20% of the student that is protesting out there.
and also the school management said that any student  that did not pay his/her fees will carry the semester over. UNIPORT STUDENT SLAIN  brightnlere.blogspot.com

STUDENTS of the University of Port Harcourt, Monday morning, staged a protest to expressed their displeasure over increase in tuition as they also accused the school management of deliberately ignoring the problems confronting them. The students said they are against the school’s new policy of ‘no fee, no examination.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/breaking-uniport-student-protest-tuition/uniport protest

virtually 100 dead in Indian temple blaze

A massive fire swept through a temple in India’s southern Kerala state on Sunday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than 200 who had gathered for a fireworks display to mark the start of the local Hindu new year.

Thousands of devotees had packed into the Puttingal Devi temple in the coastal district of Kollam.

The fireworks display began at midnight and went on for hours.

The fire started when one of the crackers fell onto a shed where the fireworks were stored, said residents near the temple site, about 70 km from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew to Kollam with a team of doctors to help state authorities cope with the large number of injured people, moving swiftly to pre-empt criticism over lack of public safety.

“The fire at the temple in Kollam is heart-rending and shocking beyond words,” he said in a Twitter post.

“My thoughts are with families of the deceased and prayers with the injured.”

Modi has faced public criticism in the past for failing to respond quickly to disasters such as the floods in Chennai late last year.

Large parts of the metropolis were under water for days before government help arrived.

Kerala’s Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said 97 people were dead in the temple fire, many of whom were trapped by flames in the temple building, adding that 245 were injured.

Television images showed people, some clutching children with burn injuries, being taken to hospitals.

The federal government also ordered the military to help the Kerala state authorities with two navy ships sailing to Kollam with medical supplies.

With Kerala in the midst of an election for a new state assembly, the temple fire quickly turned into a political issue as local leaders demanded an investigation into the fireworks display.

In Kerala, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party trails its rivals the Congress party and the communists.

Kerala’s Chief Minister Chandy said the Kollam district administration had denied the temple authorities permission to carry out the fireworks display, and that the government would investigate how they went ahead.

“There was no permission to even store the fireworks,” he said.

Police has registered a case against the temple authorities for negligence. The temple trust was not immediately available for comment.

Kerala is studded with temples, managed by rich and powerful trusts that often flout local regulations.

Each year temples carry out fireworks displays, often competing to stage the most spectacular ones. There are judges who decide the winners.

Kollam district magistrate A. Shainamol said people living in the neighbourhood of the temple had complained about the danger of these fireworks in the past.

The explosion from the fireworks was so strong that some parts of the temple roof caved in.
Local media showed bulldozers trying to clear the area of the debris.

The Puttingal temple is one of the oldest in the state. It was built on the site of an ant hill where locals believe a goddess appeared centuries ago.
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virtually 100 dead in Indian temple blaze

A massive fire swept through a temple in India’s southern Kerala state on Sunday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than 200 who had gathered for a fireworks display to mark the start of the local Hindu new year.

Thousands of devotees had packed into the Puttingal Devi temple in the coastal district of Kollam.

The fireworks display began at midnight and went on for hours.

The fire started when one of the crackers fell onto a shed where the fireworks were stored, said residents near the temple site, about 70 km from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew to Kollam with a team of doctors to help state authorities cope with the large number of injured people, moving swiftly to pre-empt criticism over lack of public safety.

“The fire at the temple in Kollam is heart-rending and shocking beyond words,” he said in a Twitter post.

“My thoughts are with families of the deceased and prayers with the injured.”

Modi has faced public criticism in the past for failing to respond quickly to disasters such as the floods in Chennai late last year.

Large parts of the metropolis were under water for days before government help arrived.

Kerala’s Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said 97 people were dead in the temple fire, many of whom were trapped by flames in the temple building, adding that 245 were injured.

Television images showed people, some clutching children with burn injuries, being taken to hospitals.

The federal government also ordered the military to help the Kerala state authorities with two navy ships sailing to Kollam with medical supplies.

With Kerala in the midst of an election for a new state assembly, the temple fire quickly turned into a political issue as local leaders demanded an investigation into the fireworks display.

In Kerala, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party trails its rivals the Congress party and the communists.

Kerala’s Chief Minister Chandy said the Kollam district administration had denied the temple authorities permission to carry out the fireworks display, and that the government would investigate how they went ahead.

“There was no permission to even store the fireworks,” he said.

Police has registered a case against the temple authorities for negligence. The temple trust was not immediately available for comment.

Kerala is studded with temples, managed by rich and powerful trusts that often flout local regulations.

Each year temples carry out fireworks displays, often competing to stage the most spectacular ones. There are judges who decide the winners.

Kollam district magistrate A. Shainamol said people living in the neighbourhood of the temple had complained about the danger of these fireworks in the past.

The explosion from the fireworks was so strong that some parts of the temple roof caved in.
Local media showed bulldozers trying to clear the area of the debris.

The Puttingal temple is one of the oldest in the state. It was built on the site of an ant hill where locals believe a goddess appeared centuries ago.

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Mr Musa Dikko, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship candidate for Bwari Area Council in Saturday’s council elections in the Federal Capital Territory, has been declared winner of contest.

Mr Abubakar Abba, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer for the election in the council area, who announced the result in Bwari on Sunday, said that Dikko polled 18,066 votes to win the election.

According to him, Dikko defeated his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Andrew Gwani, who scored 13,279 votes.

Other contestants in the election in which 32,662 voters participated, Abba announced, included Mr Wada Abdu of Action Alliance and Kenneth Olabaniji of Citizens Popular Party (CPP), who garnered 93 votes and 72 votes, respectively.

He said that the area council had a total of 162,786 registered voters, but that only 33,162 voters were accredited for the election.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that collation of the results started at 12.15 a.m. and ended at 8.36 a.m. on Sunday. Brightnlere.blogspot.com

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Mr Musa Dikko, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship candidate for Bwari Area Council in Saturday’s council elections in the Federal Capital Territory, has been declared winner of contest.

Mr Abubakar Abba, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer for the election in the council area, who announced the result in Bwari on Sunday, said that Dikko polled 18,066 votes to win the election.

According to him, Dikko defeated his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Andrew Gwani, who scored 13,279 votes.

Other contestants in the election in which 32,662 voters participated, Abba announced, included Mr Wada Abdu of Action Alliance and Kenneth Olabaniji of Citizens Popular Party (CPP), who garnered 93 votes and 72 votes, respectively.

He said that the area council had a total of 162,786 registered voters, but that only 33,162 voters were accredited for the election.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that collation of the results started at 12.15 a.m. and ended at 8.36 a.m. on Sunday. Brightnlere.blogspot.com

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Mr Musa Dikko, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship candidate for Bwari Area Council in Saturday’s council elections in the Federal Capital Territory, has been declared winner of contest.

Mr Abubakar Abba, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer for the election in the council area, who announced the result in Bwari on Sunday, said that Dikko polled 18,066 votes to win the election.

According to him, Dikko defeated his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Andrew Gwani, who scored 13,279 votes.

Other contestants in the election in which 32,662 voters participated, Abba announced, included Mr Wada Abdu of Action Alliance and Kenneth Olabaniji of Citizens Popular Party (CPP), who garnered 93 votes and 72 votes, respectively.

He said that the area council had a total of 162,786 registered voters, but that only 33,162 voters were accredited for the election.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that collation of the results started at 12.15 a.m. and ended at 8.36 a.m. on Sunday. Brightnlere.blogspot.com

Fulani herdsmen kill university staff, farmer in Delta

Perez Brisibe
ABRAKA – MEMBER representing Ethiope East constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Evans Iwhurie, weekend, said suspected Fulani herdsmen shot dead a staff of the Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka and a farmer at their farms in cold blood at Abraka.

The lawmaker while lamenting the menace of some Fulani herdsmen in the area said one of the victims, Mr. Francis Okotie, 52 and father of 8 was a senior staff of the university attached to the university library.

Giving details on the incident, Iwhurie explained that, Mr. Okotie was shot twice, on his arm and on the back of his head in an execution style at his plantain and palm oil plantation farm where he had gone to fumigate.

“It is easy to identify the culprits because they always leave behind trails of cattle excreta, and damaged crops by their herds,” he stated.

According to him, the killing of the university staff is coming on the heels of a similar incident involving an indigene of Abraka, Philip Obayendo who was shot and matcheted in pieces by his assailants at his farm at Oria-Abraka.

Speaking further, he said: “The decomposed corpse of Philip, a farmer, was discovered 5days after he was last seen going to his farm.

“Though this is a menace that has been occurring around the country, these two cases are a few of many that have befallen the people of my constituency especially at the Abraka area” brightnlere.blogspot.com

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Dangote commences construction of Cote d’Ivoire cement plant

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Dangote Cement Plc has announced the commencement of the construction of a new three million metric tonnes per annum capacity cement grinding plant in Cote d’Ivoire.

The project is coming just as the company announced the ground-breaking of a new six million metric tonnes per annum Greenfield cement plant in Okpella, Edo State, and commencement of works on another six million mtpa capacity plant in Itori, Ogun state.

The Group Executive Director, Strategy, Projects and Portfolio Management, Dangote Group, Mr. Devakumar Edwin, said in Lagos that the Cote d’Ivoire project would cost the company $200m and would be completed in 18 months.

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The project, which the he said had aroused a lot of interest from both the government and people of the country, according to a statement by the firm, is sitting on over 60 hectares of land, next to the New Industrial Park in Yongbon, outside of Abidjan, the nation’s capital.

Enterpreneurship will solve economic problems, says BoI

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The Bank of Industry (BoI) has identified entrepreneurship as one of the ways to take the economy out of the woods.
Its Acting Managing Director, Waheed Olagunju in a presentation at the second day of the first National Forum on the Economy organised by Vintage Press Limited, titled National Economy: The Way Forward, said the time has come for action having been speaking about challenges and pains.
Represented by the GM, Joseph Babatunde, Olagunju said if the SMEs are encouraged, more jobs will be created.
He said research by SMEDAN had shown that there are 37m SMEs in the country, adding that if they are encouraged and each of them employs one person, its multiplier effect would be tremendous.
He said Nigeria is number 3 next to US and India in the movie industry, adding that if the strength of the country is explored in the area of the production of goods and services for which the country has comparative advantage, the economy would prosper.
He said BoI is working with the CBN and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to develop credit bureau and collateral registry to ease access to funds to SMEs.
According to him, the bank is also working towards the building of industrial parks, adding that the bank also has cottage agrofund, fashion fund, Nolly fund and the N5m microfinance fund.
He urged governments at all levels to address the issue of multiple taxation.

Court sacks NFF president, recognises Giwa as President

A Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State has sacked the Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick.
The Court also ordered Chris Giwa to resume office as president of the football federation.
The duo of Adama Yahaya and Obinna Ogba had approached the court to re-list the suit against Pinnick which they withdrew after the intervention of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Another hearing has been fixed for Saturday, April 30 but Pinnick has been asked by the court to vacate the office of the NFF president pending the final hearing.
Pinnick and Giwa on Wednesday, January 20 almost exchanged fisticuffs at the National Stadium Package B where a peace meeting was called by Youth and Sports Minister Solomon Dalung

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Buhari receives 2016 Budget details

President Muhammadu Buhari formally received the details of the 2016 Appropriation Bill from the National Assembly, on Thursday. ‎

President’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang; and the Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Samaila Kawu, handed over the 1,800-page document to ‎the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.

The presentation took place inside the Office of the Chief of Staff.

Kyari signed and collected on behalf of the President.

Kyari shortly after the submission led Enang and Kawu to the President’s Office where they met briefly.

The three of them emerged from the meeting a few minutes after with Enang still holding on to the document.

Enang told State House correspondents when cornered that with the formal submission, the constitutional procedure would now follow.

He said, “The budget details has been transmitted to His Excellency, Mr. President today, the constitutional process begins thereafter.

“We have transmitted it to the Office of the President and the constitutional process of timing starts.”

Oil Subsidy Scam: How I arrived at $32bn figure – oil-subsidy-scam-how-i-arrived-at-32bn-figure-saraki/

ABUJA – FORWARD o the expected judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, following yesterday’s commencement of his trial over false assets declaration when he held sway as governor of Kwara State, Senate President, Bukola Saraki may throw in the towel by resigning from his position any movement from now, Vanguard learnt. Senator Bokola Saraki In other not to be humiliated while on the throne, some senators including those who had vowed to remain with him to the end of his trial at the anti-graft court, yesterday, asked the Senate President to consider the resignation option so as to save the Senate, as an institution. Vanguard gathered that the option was thrown to him at a special meeting held by a group of some loyal senators, who followed him to his Maitama residence, shortly after the end of yesterday’s trial at the court. But as Saraki is considering the option, senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, appeared to be at loggerhead with their counterparts in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over the Senate President’s successor. While the APC senators are insisting on producing Saraki’s successor, those of the PDP are favorably disposed to anointing one of their own, a development that has further polarized the Red Chamber. A senator of the PDP fold, who spoke to Vanguard late yesterday, but on condition that his identity would not be mentioned, said Saraki was given the option of resigning basically to save the institution of the legislature. ‘”I can confirm to you that at a special meeting held yesterday, we asked the Senate President to consider the option of resignation. “We believe that doing so would preserve the institution of the Senate, “he said, refusing to speak further. Asked whether the Senate President was considering the resignation option, the lawmaker said ‘” this was just thrown at him this evening. We believe that he would do the right thing.'”. Meanwhile, names of senators Abdullahi Adamu, representing Nasarawa West from the APC and Suleiman Adokwe of the PDP were being touted as possible replacements of the Senate President to press time.

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