PHOTOS AS PRETTY ACTRESS ALABA OLATUNDE CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY IN LONDON WITH PASUMA,DORIS SIMEON

Uk- based Actress, Alaba Olatunde celebrated her birthday with friends and colleagues from the entertainment industry.

The party was graced by top fuji artist, Pasuma, Actress Dorris Simeon, Kayode Peters, Mofe Duncan and many others. The celebrant, who looked stunning for her birthday took to her instagram page to share lovely pictures from the party.

Nice cancels jazz festival after Bastille Day killings

Nice (France), July 16, 2016 (Reuters/NAN) A five-day jazz festival in Nice has been cancelled following the killing of no fewer than 84 people in the city by a truck, organisers said.

The organisers announced the cancellation in the festival’s website but did not give further details.

The driver of the truck, identified as a 31-year-old French citizen of Tunisian origin, had rammed the vehicle into a crowd marching on French National Day in Nice.

French police shot dead the driver and recovered arms and grenades inside the vehicle.

The jazz festival, which had lined up artistes such as Senegalese singer, Youssou N'Dour and British trip hop act, Massive Attack, was scheduled to run from Saturday to Wednesday.

``Cancellation of the Nice Jazz Festival after the terrible attack which hit Nice on July 14 is inevitable," the organisers said. (Reuters/NAN)

POLICE DISLODGE MORE KIDNAP GANGS IN KOGI, RESCUE VICTIMS · As kidnappers suffer fatality

The Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has again smashed more notorious kidnap gangs that have terrorized Kogi State and its environs and rescued four kidnapped victims at different locations in Kogi State.

In a special intelligence led operation conducted by the operatives of the Intelligence Response Team of the IGP’s Monitoring Unit at different black spots in Kogi State, three members of a notorious kidnap gang that has for a while operated in major cities in Kogi and neighbouring States were trailed and arrested at their hideouts in the outskirt of Egume and Anyimgba Towns in Kogi State.

NSCDC DESTROYS 250 ILLEGAL REFINERIES, ARREST 118, CONVICTS 40 SUSPECTS SAYS-GANA

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in its bid to secure the lives, properties and government Critical Infrastructures have made over 118 arrest within one year of the incumbent Commandant General Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu's regime secured over convictions and destroyed over 250 illegal refineries between July 2015 to date.

TROOPS INTENSIFY ARMED BANDITS CLEARANCE OPERATION IN ZAMFARA STATE

As part of the activities marking the Nigerian Army Day Celebrations (NADCEL) 2016, troops involved in live field training exercise code named "Exercise HARBIN KUNAMA", have intensified patrol of the various forests in Zamfara State. It is in line with that troops of 223 Battalion while on patrol  encountered armed bandits at Madaka village,

Fitch Affirms GTBank’s rating at B+ with Stable Outlook

Guaranty Trust Bank remains one of the top two rated Banks in Nigeria as shown by the recently released Rating Report by Fitch, a global rating agency.

Fitch revised the Outlook on the Bank’s Long term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) from Negative to Stable citing the Bank’s continuing strong earnings, and stronger-than-expected liquidity as the reasons for the revised outlook.

ENTRIES FLOOD IN FOR AFRIMA 3.0 …As AFRIMA maintains July 30 Deadline for Entries Submission

Going by the enthusiastic response of African music artistes, music
professionals and journalists who have flooded the AFRIMA website with
entries from across the continent and from Africans in the Diaspora for
the 2016 All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA tagged “AFRIMA 3.0”, the
International Committee of AFRIMA has reiterated that there will be no
extension after the deadline in July 30, 2016.

NCC Issues Clarification on N1.4tr to GDP

Our attention has been drawn to media reports quoting  the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar GarbaDanbatta, as saying that the NCC “has realised over N1.4 trillion in the first quarter of 2016”, and “the funds generated was part of their contribution to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).” 

The ECV was reported to have made the disclosure during a courtesy call to Kano State Governor on Wednesday, July 13, 2016.

SOCIETY MUST RISE AGAINST DOMESTIC, SEXUAL VIOLENCE - AMBODE'S WIFE

...Urges Community Elders To Spread Prevention Message
Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Wednesday urged community leaders and members of the society to rise up against domestic and sexual violence, just as she said that people must be made to be aware of the heavy punishment for perpetrators of such crime.

NEVACO is here to correct the abnormality in the country –DG

 

Dr. Emmanuel Adeoye, is the Director General, National Ethics and Values Compliance Office (NEVACO). In this interview with EDWIN USOBOH, he sheds more light on the duties and objective of the commission and his plans to make impact on Nigerians

 

What are the aims and objective of the agency (NEVACO)

National Ethics and Values Compliance Office (NEVACO) is established to correct the wrong, the evil vices ongoing in our country and society today. It is to make sure we do things the right way which we have not been doing in the country.  Even the little child in Nigeria today wants to make money through wrong means.