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Thursday, 9 April 2015
"I want to die in the Lagoon" shirt trending in Lagos
After the Oba of Lagos outburst and threat to the Igbo community in Lagos last week, it seems some Igbo guys has gotten another business inspiration as they now make and sell a branded shirt with "I want to die in the Lagoon" vote JK on it. Some of them even said they will wear the shirt to the polling unit on saturday.
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
18 fake/scam companies to be wary of (II)
HR Talk
with
Moruf Kolawole Nasir(Experienced Human Resource Personnel
8. Health Stream Alliance
healthenlist@gmail.com - Toyin Street, Ikeja
They
are a health management and development outfit. They are into GNLD/ Multilevel
marketing looking for candidates to swindle to sell drugs.
9. Starline Consult
Nigeria Ltd
starlineconsult2@yahoo.com - Obigbo Road, Aba Road,
Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
They
are into GNLD/ Multilevel marketing looking for candidates to swindle to sell
drugs.
crystalitecareventurecruitment@gmail.com - Ibadan Road, Ibadan
South-West, Oyo, Nigeria.
They
claim to be a company in collaboration with world health organization, ASSAP and
other multinational companies. However, they are into GNLD/ Multilevel
marketing looking for candidates to swindle to sell drugs.
Court orders DSTV to suspend increase in subcription fee
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained Multi Choice Nigeria Limited, operators of the Digital Satellite Television, popularly known as DStv, from implementing its new rates and increase in tariffs payable by its subscribers across board.
The restraining order was given by Justice C.J. Aneke sequel to a suit filed by two Lagos-based legal practitioners, Osasuyi Adebayo and Oluyinka Oyeniji.
In the class action suit, with number FHC/L/CS/404/2015, Justice Aneke granted the interim orders till the hearing of the motion on notice for injunction on April 16, 2015.
He also ordered for the suit and the Interim injunction to be published in national newspapers.
Messrs. Adebayo and Adeniji are challenging the arbitrary increase in tariffs.
The legal practitioners urged the court to order the second defendant, the National Broadcasting Commission, to also implement Pay Per View where subscribers choose the programmes they want and pay as they watch, which is being implemented in some other parts of the world.
In the order given on Thursday, Mr. Aneke ruled: “That an order of interim injunction is hereby granted to the parties to maintain the status quo restraining the 1st defendant (Multichoice/DSTV) from giving effect or enforcing its planned increase in cost of the different classes of viewing or programmes bouquet, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
“That an order is hereby granted certifying the plaintiffs’ claim as a class action for themselves as individual subscribers, other corporate subscribers, distributors and retailers of the 1st defendants’ services.
“That an order is hereby granted restraining any other person whether individual or corporate from instituting any other action as may be related to the action against the defendant to prevent multiplicity of lawsuits pursuant to the appointment of the plaintiffs in the class action but may instead opt in or out of this action.”
In March, MultiChoice, owners of DStv and GOtv, announced a 20 per cent price increase for all its satellite pay TV bouquets in Nigeria to take effect from April 1, 2015.
Thus, the subscription fee of DStv’s Premium, Compact plus, compact, access, Family and extra view bouquets were all set to increase, as is the price for GOtv Plus and GOtv bouquet.
MultiChoice explained that the price increase was necessary for it to continue offering the best in local and international entertainment to its subscribers.
Premium times news
Akiolu gaffe: Obasanjo apologises to Ndigbo
Following the public outcry that has so far greeted Sunday
night’s outburst against the Igbo ethnic stock and non-indigenes by the
Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on
Monday night met with leaders of Igbo and non-indigenes in the state at
his Hill Top residence, Abeokuta.
Obasanjo was said to have apologised for the outburst of the Oba, who asked non indigenes in Lagos to leave if they fail to vote for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Akinwumi Ambode on Saturday.
Coordinator of the Amalgamation of Lagos State NGOs and Civil Societies, a group of Igbo traders and non indigenes non-governmental organisations resident in Lagos, Chief Oliver Akubueze, told newsmen on Tuesday that the former President was full of apologies, promising that the interest of non indigenes will be protected by the party with the victory of Ambode in the forthcoming election.
Akubueze however added that Igbo leaders like Prof Anya O Anya, Pascal Dozie and Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, will meet later in the day on Tuesday to deliberate on the outburst of the Lagos monarch and come out with a final decision on it.
Obasanjo was said to have apologised for the outburst of the Oba, who asked non indigenes in Lagos to leave if they fail to vote for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Akinwumi Ambode on Saturday.
Coordinator of the Amalgamation of Lagos State NGOs and Civil Societies, a group of Igbo traders and non indigenes non-governmental organisations resident in Lagos, Chief Oliver Akubueze, told newsmen on Tuesday that the former President was full of apologies, promising that the interest of non indigenes will be protected by the party with the victory of Ambode in the forthcoming election.
Akubueze however added that Igbo leaders like Prof Anya O Anya, Pascal Dozie and Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, will meet later in the day on Tuesday to deliberate on the outburst of the Lagos monarch and come out with a final decision on it.
Oba is right, APC will make life difficult for Igbos in Lagos, says Okorocha
Okorocha while speaking to journalists
in Imo state capital, Owerri, following the visit by president-elect,
Muhammadu Buhari, defended the Oba of Lagos and pointed out that the Oba of Lagos was not totally wrong in insisting that Igbos must vote Ambode.
Okorocha went as far as depicting the Igbos as ungrateful during the castigations on the Igbo people.
He said: “Igbos should not portray
themselves as ungrateful people, the only way they can show appreciation
is by massively voting for APC the party that has protected their lives
and properties over these years.”
Governor Okorocha further in a rather
more subtle way reiterated the threats by the Oba of Lagos, Retired
Policeman AIG Rilwan Akiolu, saying that the APC could make life
unbearable for all Igbo traders and resident in Lagos should the Igbos
transgress.
Okorocha said: “The Lagos state
government led by APC has the capacity to make life unbearable for all
Igbo traders and resident in Lagos if they so wish.
“So you see, the Oba was figurative in his speech not necessarily that Igbos will be drowned in Lagoons” the governor added.
Elombah news
Buhari and Tinubu disagree on ministers and transition team
After a private meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, the President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari may have constitute its transition team which will consist of politicians and private sector players.
Buhari’s transition team, which is expected to be announced soon is expected to commence work with the presidency after the governorship and state assembly elections to ensure will focus on the smooth handover from the Jonathan
administration to his administration to ensure continuity in governance.
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
Oba Akinolu is not APC spokesman, says Tinubu
A former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said the Oba
of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, is not a member of the All Progressives
Congress and cannot speak on behalf of the party.
Tinubu said this at a rally in Iganmu, Lagos, while reacting to the controversial comments of the monarch on Tuesday.
The APC National Leader, who noted that he was the first Yoruba governor to ever appoint an Igbo commissioner, said the Peoples Democratic Party, having failed to win last week’s presidential elections, were desperately trying to pull the APC into the Akiolu controversy.
He said the Coordinator of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, Ifeanyi Ubah, and the PDP leader, Bode George, were only making baseless accusations against the APC.
Tinubu said, “The oba is not a politician. His job is to accommodate all political parties, whether PDP, APC or SDP. So, what did he (Ubah) go and do at the palace?
“To you Igbos, don’t we pay your children’s school fees like others? Or is it the palace that pays for it? When we conducted an exam and a spelling competition, an Igbo boy, Ebuka, from Anambra, came first and he became the governor for one day.
“Those that won the competition three times in a row were Igbo. Ebuka was sent to Switzerland computer school and then Obafemi Awolowo University. We did not say he was an Igbo boy and he would not enjoy. He became an executive in Oando and he is now in Canada.
“Another boy, Felix, won and went to Switzerland and OAU. We paid his scholarship; we did not deny him because he is Igbo.”
In a separate statement, the Lagos State APC Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said the monarch spoke out of anger.
He urged his kinsmen not to take out their anger on the APC governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who knew nothing about the incident.
The statement read, “Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos is not a card-carrying member of APC. He is not a leader in the APC. He does not speak for the APC. He did not speak for Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state.
“He did not speak for our national leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He did not speak for the incoming governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. His Royal Highness is at liberty to speak for himself and he spoke for himself only.
“Lagos APC appeals to Ndigbo not to take the statement as the position of the party in Lagos. We passionately appeal to Ndigbo not to carry the statement credited to Oba Akiolu too far so as not to put a knife on things that have held us together for more than 50 years now.
“If out of annoyance, you throw your cap away, a mad man will take it and use it forever.”
Nairaland
Tinubu said this at a rally in Iganmu, Lagos, while reacting to the controversial comments of the monarch on Tuesday.
The APC National Leader, who noted that he was the first Yoruba governor to ever appoint an Igbo commissioner, said the Peoples Democratic Party, having failed to win last week’s presidential elections, were desperately trying to pull the APC into the Akiolu controversy.
He said the Coordinator of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, Ifeanyi Ubah, and the PDP leader, Bode George, were only making baseless accusations against the APC.
Tinubu said, “The oba is not a politician. His job is to accommodate all political parties, whether PDP, APC or SDP. So, what did he (Ubah) go and do at the palace?
“To you Igbos, don’t we pay your children’s school fees like others? Or is it the palace that pays for it? When we conducted an exam and a spelling competition, an Igbo boy, Ebuka, from Anambra, came first and he became the governor for one day.
“Those that won the competition three times in a row were Igbo. Ebuka was sent to Switzerland computer school and then Obafemi Awolowo University. We did not say he was an Igbo boy and he would not enjoy. He became an executive in Oando and he is now in Canada.
“Another boy, Felix, won and went to Switzerland and OAU. We paid his scholarship; we did not deny him because he is Igbo.”
In a separate statement, the Lagos State APC Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said the monarch spoke out of anger.
He urged his kinsmen not to take out their anger on the APC governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who knew nothing about the incident.
The statement read, “Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos is not a card-carrying member of APC. He is not a leader in the APC. He does not speak for the APC. He did not speak for Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state.
“He did not speak for our national leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He did not speak for the incoming governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. His Royal Highness is at liberty to speak for himself and he spoke for himself only.
“Lagos APC appeals to Ndigbo not to take the statement as the position of the party in Lagos. We passionately appeal to Ndigbo not to carry the statement credited to Oba Akiolu too far so as not to put a knife on things that have held us together for more than 50 years now.
“If out of annoyance, you throw your cap away, a mad man will take it and use it forever.”
Nairaland
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