LETTER TO MR PRESIDENT

Dear President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,

Firstly, a very warm welcome from your week long trip to Switzerland and Ethiopia. How did your parley with the group of ‘Eminent Persons’ go? I hope the same you had with the leaders of Netherlands, Norway and Costa Rica; as well bosses of Huawei, Total and Coca-Cola will yield some interesting results.

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SKIN SHADES RIVALRY WITHIN AFRICAN RAINBOW

Africans everywhere must count their blessings for a unique gift in their variety of colors that occur naturally by genetics and celebrate it. While African Americans championed “black and proud” era in the sixties to reclaim their beauty, we seems to have forgotten what it took and have neglected beauty of different hair styles. Africans have become so complacent, they even bleach to heighten their skin and hair that grow naturally. 
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Govt, General Electric seal N160bn investment deal

The Federal Government on Thursday signed an investment deal of $1bn (about N160bn) with General Electric of the United States.
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Senate To Probe Corpses Dumped In Ezu River

The Senate on Thursday mandated its Committees on Police Affairs and Security and Intelligence to carry out a thorough investigation into the discovery of over 30 dead bodies that comprised mostly of males.
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BRIBERY SCANDAL: FG ARRAIGNS FAROUK LAWAN TODAY

The federal government will today arraign the former chairman of the House of Representative Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Hon. Farouk Lawan, and the secretary of the committee, Mr. Boniface Emenalo, before an Abuja High Court for allegedly receiving $620, 000 bribe from a businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola, to remove his two oil firms, Zenon Petroleum and Forte Gas Ltd, from the list of companies indicted in the fuel subsidy scam. 
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TOOTHLESS LAWS, FASHOLA LEAVE OKADA RIDERS AND TRADERS ALONE

The recent ban on motorcyclists popularly known as Okada by the Lagos State Government on 475 roads in the metropolis indicated another infamous creation of armed robbers in the state. The enforcement of its new traffic law restricting the operations of commercial motorcycles a.k.a Okada on the some of the restricted routes could add another round of congested traffic hold ups in state. Over 3000 motorcyclists have been seized by the law enforcement officials, yet Okada riders still ply some of the restricted routes in the state.
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First Bank opens banking lounges for the affluent

First Bank of Nigeria Limited has opened lounges in Lagos and Abuja, designed to provide priority services, comfort, security, luxury, as well as access to financial advisory services to customers.
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AfDB to invest $150m in Nigeria's rice production

Nigeria's quest for self-sufficient status in rice production by the year 2015 has received a boost, as African Development Bank (AfDB) unfolded plans to invest $150 million (N23.7 billion) in the country's rice value chain under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA).

According to the Chief Operations Officer, AfDB, Dr. Patrick Agboma who disclosed this yesterday at the opening of a two-day stakeholders workshop of the Bank Pre-Appraisal Mission on Rice Value Chain Development Programme (RVCP) in Abuja, the support is also part of the scheme.

Farouk Lawan, Emenalo Remanded In Prison Custody

SAN FRANCISCO, February 01, – An Abuja High Court Friday afternoon remanded the former chairman of the House of Representative Ad-hoc Committee on fuel subsidy regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan and the secretary of the committee, Mr. Emenalo Boniface, in prison custody till February 08, 2013 when their bail application is expected to be determined.

NOT ALL POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT - ANENIH

 Former Board of Trustee (BOT) Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih has stated that although there are corrupt persons in every society not all Nigerian politicians are corrupt as some people think. 

An Open Letter To The Federal Republic Of Germany: Africa Is Not A Country

How can the German Federal Cultural Foundation believe that 2 million Euros will promote cultural relations with the whole continent of Africa (and not even involve the Africans in the process)?

K-NET Launches New Ultrafast Unlimited Broadband Internet Services Anywhere Across Sub-Saharan Africa ...Broadband Internet speeds of up to 8Mbps and retail prices starting from $30 per month

ACCRA, Ghana, February 1, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- K-NET (http://www.knetgh.com), a leading African telecommunications company offering triple-play voice, data and video services across sub-Saharan Africa, is pleased to announce the launch a new range of broadband Internet service packages which offer businesses and consumers unrivalled levels of performance and value for money.

Tell Magazine's Apology To Akpabio Insincere - Lawyer

 
 GOVERNOR GODSWILL AKPABIO

In san Francisco,   A leading legal practitioner in Akwa Ibom State, Barrister Uwemedimo Nwoko, has described as mischievous and half-hearted the apology tendered by the management of Tell Magazine in its last edition to the Governor, the Government and people of Akwa Ibom State on the malicious, defamatory and derogatory cover story it published on Governor Akpabio in the wake of the 2011 governorship elections wherein the governor was painted as a murderer and cultist.