Peace Ambassadors Unveil this Year's Charity Week Logo, OTA 2015

The Society for Peace and Mutual Coexistence, SPMC has launched the 2015 Charity Week Logo to mark the official count down to OTA 2015 (Ogun State, Nigeria).Charity Week is an annual event of SPMC involving care-giving and numerous charity works. The event proper which will hold from July 20 – July 26, 2015 has earlier editions as Enugu 2014 and Lagos 2013.During the Charity Week, Peace Ambassadors will utilize the funds generated to change the lives of the hungry, the needy and the less privileged.Here is a short message from the President of SPMC, Amb Ifeanyi Ifeadinmesi Aniagoh at the unveiling of the OTA 2015 Logo:

CLEANER GETS ₦7,200 SALARY INCREMENT FOR RETURNING ₦12 MILLION

Josephine Ugwu, the airport cleaner who returned a passenger’s luggage containing local and foreign currencies to the tune of N12m has been rewarded with a N7,200 salary increment. Ugwu, who works for Patovilki Cleaning Services, a concessionaire engaged by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to keep the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos clean, was on a monthly salary of



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Atiku Dissociates Self From Defecting Supporters To PDP

A former Vice President and chieftain of the All progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar, has denied knowledge of the groups of politicians who announced their defection to the PDP from the APC.Atiku said in a statement by his media office in Abuja that he remains a committed member of the APC and urged that the purported defections of these groups be discountenanced.A total of 120



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FEC APPROVES FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF CONFAB REPORT.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) wednesday formally approved for the full implementation of the recommendations contained in the 2014 National Conference Report. The immediate past supervising Minister of Information, Chief Edem Duke disclosed this to newsmen after the FEC meeting. Chief Edem Duke who was joined by the Secretary to the government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius



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JONATHAN SWEARS IN MINISTERS, NAMES OBANIKORO FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday swore in the new set of ministers cleared by the Senate. Embattled former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, (Lagos) was sworn in as the Minister of State Foreign Affairs II, while Nicholas Ada (Benue) is now the Minister of State Foreign Affairs I. Mr. Obanikoro had resigned his appointment to run for the Lagos governorship ticket



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PHOTOS: PEOPLE IN BUHARI'S VILLAGE WASH THEIR ROADS AFTER GEJ PAYS A VISIT

According to an instagram user who shared this collage of pictures; this is Daura, the home town of Gen Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina state.
Apparently, President Goodluck Jonathan went there yesterday to campaign for re-election and the people hilariously began to wash their village roads soon after he left the town

ELECTING BUHARI AS PRESIDENT, DISASTER FOR AFRICA –EX US ENVOY

A former spokesman for four United States Ambassadors to the United Nations, Richard Grenell, has said that if former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, emerges as the next president of Nigeria in next Saturday’s elections, it would be a disaster for the entire African continent.
Grenell, who made the declaration in a piece titled: Nigeria on the brink, and which was published in the Washington Times, a US based publication, of Thursday, March 19, 2015, described Buhari as working tirelessly to enthrone Sharia law across the country, which he said would further pose a major challenge to the fight against terrorism in Nigeria and the continent at large.
He said, “Western foreign policy observers pre-occupied with the rise of ISIS in the Middle East should wake up to the reality unfolding in Nigeria. Opposition candidate General Buhari wants Sharia law throughout Nigeria. In fact, he wants it everywhere.

JONATHAN INAUGURATES KANO BRIDGE, NAMES IT AFTER LATE EMIR

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday inaugurated a multi-million naira bridge in Kano and named it after the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the bridge was constructed by the Federal Government at Kundila Roundabout on the ever busy Zaria Road to ensure smooth traffic flow.
Speaking at the ceremony, Jonathan said that the project was in line with the road resuscitation programme of his administration’s transformation agenda.
He said that the new flyover would help to improve commercial activities in the ancient city, adding that the Federal Government was poised to restore the lost glory of Kano as a commercial nerve centre.
According to him, the flyover will also ease traffic congestion and promote socio-economic activities between the state and other parts of the country.

GOWON: OJUKWU MISINFORMED NIGERIANS ON ABURI

Nigeria’s wartime leader, Yakubu Gowon, a retired general, has accused Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who led eastern Nigeria in an unsuccessful secession bid in 1967, of misrepresenting the Aburi Accord to Nigerians. The accord was reached at a meeting held between January 4-5, 1967, in Aburi, a Ghanaian town, between delegates of the federal military government and the now defunct eastern region as part of efforts to prevent the looming civil war in the aftermath of the 1966 military coups. Ojukwu, then a colonel and governor of the eastern region, had returned from Aburi announcing that it had been agreed that the country should adopt confederalism — a political system in which

SIXTEEN YEARS OF IGBO SUPPORT FOR PDP USELESS –BUHARI

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, has warned against the continued support of the South-East for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He argued that they had nothing to show for the support they had given to the party in the last sixteen years.
General Buhari who made this remark when leaders of the 19 northern state Igbo delegates assembly and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), declared their support for him ahead of March 28 presidential election.