Gov’s wife welcomes first 2015 baby in LIMH

 

Baby of the Year 2015, Baby Ogechukwu, weighing 2.5kg, was born at 12.01am at the Isolo General Hospital, Isolo, Lagos... on Thursday

The wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, has welcomed the first baby born in the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, in 2015.

Fashola presented to the child a wooden cot, a mattress and pillows donated by Vitafoam at the LIMH on Thursday.

Fashola urges continuity at Lagos Countdown

 

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged Lagosians to ensure the sustenance of many innovative projects that his administration created.

He explained that it could be done if the residents vote in the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, in the general elections.

Boko Haram Kills 15 In Northeast Nigerian Town: Witnesses

 

Suspected Islamist militants opened fire in a town in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, witnesses and a security source said.

The attack on Monday night targeted Kautikari, near the Cameroon border, just 10 km (6 miles) from the village of Chibok, where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in April. They remain captives.

'You are dirty betrayers' – Lamido lambasts Buhari, Kwankwaso, El-Rufai, others

 

Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has described members of the opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), particularly Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State and El-Rufa'i as deceivers, irresponsible, dirty betrayers and corrupted people whose image is irredeemable.

Army to court-martial Brig-Gen, 21 others in Lagos

 

The Nigeria Army will on January 16, 2015 arraign one brigadier-general and 21 other officers before a General Court Martial in Lagos, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, who is a defence lawyer to some of the soldiers confirmed on Wednesday.

While the army authorities have yet to release the charges preferred against the accused, it was learnt that the officers would go on trial for offences they allegedly committed in line of duty while battling insurgents in the North-East zone of the country.

Due diligence: Why Unity Bank shunned power assets -Semenitari

 

The Managing Director, Unity Bank Plc, Mr. James Semenitari, said the lender did not participate in the financing of the power assets privatisation.

He said the bank analysed the power assets against its strategy and discovered that it would not be viable for it to invest in the firms.

He spoke in Lagos during a news briefing recently

2015: Jonathan names Anenih as campaign adviser

 

The Presidency has constituted a Campaign Organisation for the 2015 presidential elections.

A statement from the office of the Senior Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali announced  former Works Minister and chairman, PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Tony Anenih as  the national campaign adviser and former national chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali as  director-general of the campaign organisation.