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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Kayode Ogundamisi, slams the idea of barring AIT
A staunch supporter of Gen Buhari, social and political analyst, Kayode Ogundamisi took to twitter toward the beginning of today to talk against the president-elect choice to ban AIT from covering his exercises. He censured AIT for the way they aimed to get Buhari amid the race and said they ought to be made responsible for what they did yet says banning them is not the best approach. See what he composed bellow.
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All accredited media, including AIT, free to cover President-elect’s activities – APC
APC just released a statement saying all accredited media, including AIT, are free to cover President-elect’s activities. Read below…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that all accredited media organizations in the country, including the African Independent Television (AIT), are free to cover the activities of the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the incoming Buhari Administration will not discriminate against any media organization, irrespective of its role during the electioneering campaign leading up to the recent polls.
It however enjoined all media organizations to observe the highest level of professional standards in carrying out their duties.
”There is a Code of Ethics guiding the practice of journalism in Nigeria, and this demands every journalist to ensure a strict adherence to the highest levels of ethics and professionalism in carrying out their duties.
”There must be repercussions, within the realms of the law, for media organizations which have wantonly breached the Code of Ethics of the journalism profession and turned themselves to partisans instead of professionals. But such repercussions will not include barring any accredited media organization from covering the activities of the President-elect,” APC said.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Abuja, April 28th 2015
Ondo Commissioner for Agriculture appointed new deputy governor
Taking after the impeachment of Ondo state deputy governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi today, the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Lasisi Oluboyo has been named the new delegate senator.
Pics: Nigerian chicks rock Kim K's famous Balmain VMAs dre
Kim K rocked her Balmain beaded scaled down dress at the VMAs in 2014 – Nigerian chicks have turned into somewhat fixated on the dress, purchasing knockoff variants of it and as yet looking fabulous in it!
Back in the day Photos of Late Ojukwu with 2 of his Kids while in exile
This photograph was taken in Ivory Coast amid his exile years.
Chukwuemeka Odimegu Ojukwu (r) with his senior sister and younger brother.
Well known Writer/Radio personality, Naana De Souza dies of cancer
Well known TV/Radio character, Naana De Souza has kicked the bucket. She passed on at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana on April 20th after a 6 year fight with cancer.
Naana worked as a colunmist for Punch, City People and a few different daily papers and magazines. She likewise worked with Silverbird TV where she helped compose numerous MBGN expos.
She will be buried on June 5th in Accra. A service of melodies will be organized for her in Lagos on June 10th. She is survived by her spouse Magnus De Souza and four kids.
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Collapsed bridge: Contractor must compensate victims, says Kwankwaso
The Kano State Police Command said that it had started investigation into the cause of the collapsed bridge that killed seven persons in Kano on Sunday.
Also, the state Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, said the government would force the contractor handling the project to pay for the medical bills of the injured victims.
The contractor, the governor added, would also be forced to pay compensation to families of those who died in the incident.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Magaji Majiya, who spoke with our correspondent on Monday, said that the police was interested in knowing the cause of the collapse in order to stop recurrence of such a tragic incident.
He explained that initial reports showed that the driver of the ill-fated cab driver’s disobedience to an instruction by workers at the site not to drive under the bridge was responsible for the tragedy.
Asked whether the contractor handling the project would be invited for questioning, the PPRO said further probe would determine that.
While sympathising with the families of those who lost their lives, the state governor also prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured, who were receiving medical attention at the hospital.
In a press statement, signed by Ibrahim Dantiye, who is the Director of Press to the Governor, Kwankwaso, vowed to ensure that the company handling the project adequately compensated the victims and their immediate families.
The governor also called on the public to be patient and continue to obey law and order so as to avoid disasters.
Kwankwaso also called on other companies handling construction works in the state to execute their projects in such a manner that would ensure minimum discomfort to road users.
The Kano Police Command had on Sunday confirmed the death of not less than seven persons, following the collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Dorayi quarters in Kano metropolis.
Majiya, who confirmed the collapse of the pedestrian bridge, disclosed that the incident happened around 4.45 pm on Sunday when the bridge, still under construction, caved in and collapsed on the ill-fated taxi.
“It should be noted that the workers on site forewarned motorists not to use the bridge as construction work was ongoing but the driver of the taxi was said to have ignored the warning,” he said.
B’Haram is a fraud, says President-Elect Buhari
The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has said the case by the Boko Haram group that it is a religious group is a fraud. He additionally said the sect would be denied an recruitment base the minute individuals in local communities understood that its claim of being a religious gathering was only a fraud. Buhari said this while receiving a delegation from Nasarawa State which was driven by the state Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, at the Defense House, on Monday.