General Electric has has appointed Mohammed Mijindadi as President of GE Nigeria. Mijindadi will focus on strengthening GE’s impact in Nigeria, building strong stakeholder relationships across Power, Healthcare, Aviation and Renewable Energy sectors, and supporting the businesses to develop and execute the market strategy. Mijindadi, who has been with GE for 13 years in various commercial country and regional leadership business roles, brings over 20 years of deep domain experience as well as global and regional leadership expertise. A graduate of the GE Experienced Commercial Leadership Program (ECLP), he has progressed through varied, complex assignments, including Commercial Excellence Leader, Strategic…
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The fastest way to create the greatest misery for the highest number of Nigerians is to try to break-up the country. For this reason, I always re-read the quote from one of the best historians we ever had that: “There is no easy way to pull this country apart. The problems arising from such an exercise will be far bigger than the problem of trying to keep it going. The value of the size, the market, and the varieties of cultures etc. are important and should not be neglected.” Professor Ade Ajayi We should always remember this. Nonetheless, there is…
Senators who challenged President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Mr Lamido Yuguda as the Director-General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have withdrawn their petition. Sen. Ayo Akinyelure, Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, said this while presenting the report of the committee at plenary on Thursday. Akinyelure explained that Senators- Bassey Akpan (PDP – Akwa-Ibom); Christopher Ekpenyong (PDP – Akwa-Ibom); and Akon Eyakenyi (PDP – Akwa-Ibom) withdrew the petition following the intervention of the committee. The lawmakers had challenged the nomination of Yuguda saying that Mrs Mary Uduk an indigene of Akwa-Ibom should have been nominated for…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for more effective engagements in the international community to develop a better understanding of the challenges involved in the attainment of Net Zero emissions. Net Zero entails the removal of emissions, such as those from aviation or manufacturing. The vice president said that such engagements were envisaged under The Paris Agreement regarding Climate Change expectations and commitments. A statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by Laolu Akande, the spokesman of the vice president, quotes Osinbajo as making the call when he received the British Member of Parliament and Climate Change Conference of the Parties…
The 36 Nigerian governors have agreed to adoot modern systems of animal husbandry that would replace open, night and underage grazing. This is contained in a communique issued at the end of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, 25th teleconference meeting held on Wednesday in Abuja, signed by its Chairman and Governor of Ekiti state, Dr Kayode Fayemi and obtained by ASHENEWS on Thursday. The governors agreed on the model after NGF members gave updates on various initiatives taken by states, to address the rising insecurity as a result of activities of herdsmen. The communique stated that state governments were encouraged…
The United Nations International Children’s Education Fund, UNICEF, on Thursday disclosed that 16 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX initiative, would arrive in Nigeria very soon. Mr Peter Hawkins, UNICEF country representative to Nigeria, made this known in Akure during a courtesy visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. Hawkins explained that more doses of the vaccine would arrive over the next few months, which would ensure that the vaccine covered 20 per cent of the population of the country. “In the meantime, we are exploring how else to bring vaccines in with a view to …
By Tina George, Minna Niger State House of Assembly has declared that the suspension of the chairman of Shiroro local government council, Suleman Chukuba is illegal. They also faulted the state governor, Abubakar Sani-Bello for failing to constitute a committee to investigate the allegations levelled against Chukuba. According to the House, failure of the state governor to constitute a committee to investigate allegations levelled against the suspended council chairman of within seven days of the receipt of such petition in accordance with section 31 (2) of the local government law, rendered the suspension null and void. The member representing Bosso…
Europe’s oldest person, Sister Andre, aged 117 years, who is a nun. has survived the coronavirus, after living through two world wars, as well as the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Born in 1904, the French nun had tested positive for the virus on Jan. 16, according to David Tavella, communications director at the Sainte Catherine Laboure nursing home in Toulon, southern France, where she lives. The CNN reported that Sister Andre, earlier known as Lucille Randon, became a nun in 1944 and shifted to the nursing home in Toulon in 2009. She had shown no symptoms of coronavirus, the CNN…
Kano Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has confirmed two persons dead and 16 others injured in an auto crash which occurred on Wednesday at Tasharkofa village along Kano-Zaria road. The FRSC Sector Commander, Zubairu Mato disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Kano. “We received a call at about 07:05 a.m on the Feb. 10, 2021. “On receiving the information, we quickly dispatched our personnel and vehicle to the scene of the incident to rescue the victims at about 07:15a.m,” Mato said. He said that the accident occurred as a result of over speeding which…
The Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi on Thursday, revalidated his membership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying that the party was consolidating its support base in Sokoto state. The minister revalidated his membership at Runfar Assibiti 003, Shiyyar Magaji, Dingyadi / Badawa Ward, Bodinga local government of the state and issued with a new card No. 001, by the Chairman of the National Registration and Revalidation exercise deployed from Abuja, Professor Saleh Galadima Kanam. Speaking shortly after, Dingyadi described the exercise as very encouraging and successful. “The people are trooping en masse and participating in the exerise,…