Graphic photos from Okada accident in Apapa this afternoon
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Dettol storms market with new 175g and 55g soap sizes (photos)
The new introduction includes the family pack size of 175g and the economy pack of 55g which is readily available in the market alongside the 70g and 120g soap.
(Photo above - Marketing Director, RB West Africa, Oguzhan Silivrili championing the Dettol Market Storm for the new 55g and 175g Soap sizes)
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From Right: Brand Manager, Dettol Personal Care,
Monyei Aurora and Marketing Director, RB West Africa, Oguzhan Silivrili
engaging a trader at Oke-Arin Market
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‘As a brand, we
place priority on our consumers’ needs and we constantly seek innovative
solutions that will make their lives easier and safer. From a recent feedback
session engaging our consumers, they shared with us the need to have more handy
sizes as well as sizes that can be enjoyed by the whole family. This is the
reason we went back internally and produced the 55g and 175g Dettol soap
sizes”.
While espousing
the benefits of the new soap sizesat one of the market storms, Brand Manager,
Dettol Personal Care, Aurora Monyei stated ‘The Dettol 55g economy pack is handy;
providing affordable hygiene solution for consumers. It can be used by children
to easily wash their hands; it can also be slotted into travel packs and taken
for vacation. The Dettol 175g Family pack on the other hand gives our consumers
value for money, it is a bigger size and fit for usage by the whole family’.
“The 55g and
175g soap sizes are available in various variants ranging from Dettol Original
to Dettol Cool, Dettol Skin Care and Dettol Re-Energize and it’s equally as
potent as the 70g and 120g soap sizes” Aurora stated while reiterating the
potency of the new variants.
While commending
RB Nigeria limited, winner of grand prize at Dettol market storm at Agege
Market; Ebun Fatila expressed gratitude to Dettol for the innovative soap size
especially as she it believes it will make lifeeasierfor traders and consumers
alike.
“Dettol is a
good product; the family size and economy pack meets the exact need of our
customers. They keep asking if there are smaller or bigger sizes other than the
70g and 120g which has been in the market over the years. With these new sizes,
our customers can finally get soap to meet their exact needs” Ebun stated.
Expressing her
excitement about the market storm, a trader at Oke-arin Market; Mrs. Simi
Oyedele stated that the new Dettol sizes are good initiatives as they meet the
requests of customers at the market and it is easier to use for children.
Prof. Jega bows out of office...Nigerians celebrate him on Twitter!
Nigerians have taken to twitter to celebrate him. #CelebrateJega is the No.1 trending topic in Nigeria this morning. See some tweets after the cut...
Monday, 29 June 2015
Buhari may not name ministers until Sept
President Muhammadu Buhari
FOR those that are eager to hear
President Muhammadu Buhari name his cabinet members, they will have to
tarry awhile because the President’s cabinet members may not be
announced untill the end of August or early September.
A source very close to the President confided in The PUNCH on Sunday that Buhari would not form any cabinet until the “rot left behind by the past administration” is cleared.
“Mr. President is reluctant to build on a
rotten foundation he inherited from the Peoples Democratic Party
administration. You cannot even begin to imagine the situation we have
met on the ground; almost everything is in a state of decay.
“There is absolutely no way the new
government can hope to achieve anything long-lasting without first
building a new foundation,” the source said.
The source added that clearing the PDP
rot was not a month’s job and said those that had been heckling the
President over lack of cabinet were politicians looking for jobs.
“They have tried doing it other ways and
those haven’t worked. They only want their cronies appointed to
ministerial posts anyhow and they are fuelling the agitation,” the
source said.
He also said Buhari was taking his time
to know the ministries that would survive government’s planned pruning
and the desire to cut cost of governance.
The source likened President Buhari’s
plan of action to that of a doctor, who first has to break a poorly set
bone afresh, before resetting it to allow for smooth and proper growth.
Over the past week, Buhari has come
under criticism because he had yet to appoint his cabinet members,
despite having more than three months since his election, including a
month since his inauguration.
The President was sworn in on May 29, exactly one month ago today.
Responding to the criticism, the source
pointed out that it would be impossible to appoint ministers to
portfolios without first knowing which portfolios exist and which will
be abolished.
He said, “The President plans to cut
down the number of ministries and parastatals. He wants to cut down the
cost of running government. He wants to make sure that all the loopholes
that enable corruption to thrive are blocked. All these are procedures
that require time and careful planning. You cannot do it in a rush.
“Remember that he has to make sure that
all this is done without any job losses or mass retrenchments. All this
is not a day’s or one-month job.”
He added that Buhari could not have
realistically commenced the process of forming a cabinet without first
receiving the full report of the transition committee and ascertaining
exactly the situation his government faced.
The source also denied news reports
which stated that President Buhari’s lack of cabinet appointments had
grounded the government, insisting that civil servants had been
supervising the day-to-day running of ministries and that Permanent
Secretaries of the various ministries all have full access to the
President.
The source concluded by referring to the
current crisis in the National Assembly as one more reason why forming a
cabinet would be impossible until further notice.
“Look at how they are fighting among
themselves. The Senate has now adjourned till July 21. That means no one
to scrutinise or approve any ministerial list until the end of July,”
he submitted.
But when reminded that the Senate had
agreed to reconvene to consider the President’s ministerial nominees as
soon as such list was ready, the source asked our correspondent to await
the President’s intervention in the crisis between the party and the
National Assembly. “The President wants to walk his talk on stable
politics and being a leader for all. He has a plan for the National
Assembly,” he said.
When contacted on Sunday, the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba
Shehu, said the information at the disposal of The PUNCH was “not far
from the truth.”
“This narrative is the nearest to the
truth than all others that are being peddled around. It is not far from
the truth,” Shehu said.
Meanwhile, our correspondents learnt in
Abuja on Sunday that Buhari would adopt the recommendation of the Ahmed
Joda-led transition committee of the All Progressives Congress to prune
down the number of ministries to 19.
The PUNCH learnt that the President would appoint 19 senior ministers and 17 ministers of state as recommended by the Joda committee.
It was also learnt that besides adopting
the recommendation, the administration would place emphasis on the
appointment of technocrats to man some ministries, including education,
finance, works, housing and environment
The
18-man committee inaugurated on April 27, 2015 to prepare the ground
for Buhari’s inauguration on May 29, 2015 submitted its report on June
12.
There were 28 ministries and
corresponding number of ministers manning them under the immediate past
administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The Jonathan administration also appointed 14 ministers of state.
A reliable source, who is familiar with
the activities of the new administration, said the President, no doubt,
had accepted and had been working on the recommendations of the Joda
committee on the number of ministries to remain.
The source, who did not want to be named
as he was not authorised to speak on the issue, said though the
President had not made his proposed ministerial list open, the President
had not hidden it from top presidency officers, including the Vice
President, Yemi Osinbajo, that “the President will be guided by the Joda
committee’s report.”
The source said, “I can confirm that the
President is going to work with the recommendation of the Joda
committee, which means he will operate only 19 ministries to be manned
by 19 ministers.
“There will also be 17 ministers of
state so that the President will not run afoul of constitutional
requirement, which expects him to appoint ministers from all the 36
states of the federation.
“Top officers in the Presidency,
including Vice President Osinbajo, are aware that President Buhari is
going to adopt the 19-ministry recommendation.”
The Joda-led committee had recommended
that the new Buhari administration should operate only 19 ministries in
the spirit of cutting down the cost of governance.
The committee recommended that the
President should appoint only 19 senior ministers and 17 ministers of
state to fulfil the constitutional requirement that the ministers
constituting the Federal Executive Council must be drawn from the 36
states of the federation.
The Joda committee recommended 19 ministries, some of which would be products of merging of some of the existing ministries.
Those to be retained in their present
form are just nine- Trade, Industry and investment; Education; Defence;
Federal Capital Territory; Labour and Employment; Finance; Justice;
Foreign Affairs; and Budget and National Planning.
Others would either me merged or subsumed under others.
Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan's ex-security aide murdered
Igbomie’s corpse was found in his Honda Accord car last Friday along the Airport Road, Abuja. The former PSO, who was married with two children, was believed to have been killed by assassins who shot him at close range in his car and left the engine running.
A source said the body of the DSP was found early in the morning with
all his phones, wallet and other personal effects in tact in the car.
“We believe Tamuno was killed by hired assassins because they did not take away anything in his car. His phones and wallets were still with him when his body was found in the car with the engine steaming.“He was shot in the night and his body was found early in the morning; we don’t know if he was killed over a business transaction or disagreement with someone,” the source who served with the deceased at the villa stated.
It was gathered that the deceased, who hailed from Okrika, Bayelsa
State, was serving at the Federal Capital Territory Police Command
before he was deployed to the Presidential Villa as Aide-De-Camp to
Patience when her husband was the Vice President.
He was later appointed as the PSO to Patience when her husband became the President in 2011.
Findings indicate that the late policeman had just been redeployed back
to his former position at the FCT Police Command, where he was in
charge of posting of junior officers.
The Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, confirmed the
killing of the policeman, noting that investigation had started to
unravel the assailants.
“Yes, a DSP attached to the villa was killed last week Friday, investigation has started to find out the people behind the murder. No arrest has been made yet,” he said over the phone on Sunday.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Anjuguri Manzah, said the FCT
Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, had ordered an investigation
into the incident.
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Photo: 18 year old SA teen burnt to death by boyfriend's ex-girlfriend & her friends
Boitumelo's boyfriend's ex-girlfriend and three of her friends have been arrested for the crime and are facing murder charges and kidnapping.
Buhari reportedly orders arrest of wife's younger brother for extorting N300m from a businessman
According to a report by Sahara Reporters, President Buhari
last Monday June 22nd ordered the arrest of one Musa Yola (
pictured above), said to be the immediate younger brother of his wife,
Aisha, for
extorting N300 million from an unnamed businessman with a promise to
secure an oil bloc for him through his brother-in-law, President Buhari.
After finding out what happened, President Buhari reportedly ordered
that Musa be
brought to him in handcuffs along with the said businessman he duped.
ISIS responds to US legalizing gay marriage by killing four gay men
As was reported by a Syrian Twitter user on a tweet posted on the #LoveWins hashtag and picked up by Gateway Pundit, the men were thrown off the roof of a highrise building in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor as a crowd gathered to watch below.
Friday, 26 June 2015
Rowdy session over leadership tussle at the National Asbasasembly in Abuja ...
FEDERAL lawmakers in the House of
Representatives on Thursday engaged in a free-for-all over the sharing
of principal offices by the majority All Progressives Congress.
Reacting to the development, the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party slammed President Muhammadu Buhari,
saying “the disgraceful act” in the House was a direct consequence of
President Buhari’s lack of democratic credentials and lack of respect
for the independence and sanctity of the legislative arm of government.
But the Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, insisted on
Thursday that Buhari would not intervene in the leadership crisis
currently rocking the National Assembly until the APC state governors
asked him to do so.
Shehu said this while featuring on Sunrise, a programme on a Lagos-based private television station, Channels TV.
He said, “When the governors met with
the President, they told him that ‘we are the leaders in our states and
we have influence over all of these senators. They come from our places
and from us and we can handle it.’
“The President will step into the crisis at the point when the governors say they can no longer fix it.”
Angry APC members on the floor of the
House tore each other’s clothes, threw punches, upturned tables, threw
bound copies of law books, kicked chairs and shouted on top of their
voices for about 105 minutes the rowdy session lasted.
Some daring members, led by a lawmaker
from Sokoto State, Mr. Balarabe Salame, actually made to snatch the
mace, but the Sergeant-at-Arms and other lawmakers quickly rescued the
authority symbol of the legislative House and deposited same in the
Speaker’s office.
Directly behind Saleme was a member from Kano State, Mr. Ali Madaki.
Salame also made to attack the Speaker,
Mr. Yakubu Dogara, but he retreated as Dogara loyalists rushed at him
and threatened to throw him out of the chamber.
Amid the shoving and punching, shouts of
“Dogara”, “Dogara”, “Give us our leaders”, “Party is supreme’’, “PDP,
power”, “APC, change” and “APC, shame”, were heard in a discordant
manner.
The bone of contention, The PUNCH learnt, was the non-announcement of the names of principal officers of the House as directed by the leadership of the APC.
The party, had in a letter dated June
23, asked the Speaker to announce Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila (Lagos State) as
the Majority Leader; Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa (Kano State) as his
deputy; Mr. Mohammed Monguno (Borno State) as the Chief Whip; and Mr.
Pally Iriase (Edo State) as his deputy.
The party had explained that it took the decision following “consultations” with the various caucuses.
There had been tension in the House over the matter even before the Thursday’s sitting.
For example, the North-Central and South-East caucuses had protested their exclusion from the sharing of the positions.
They had protested against giving the
South-West and the North-East additional positions, having produced the
deputy speaker and speaker respectively already.
Thursday’s fracas was fallout of the
lingering dispute in the APC following the emergence of Senator Bukola
Saraki as President of the Senate and Dogara as the Speaker on June 9.
How Speaker ignited ‘riot’
Trouble started on Thursday when
contrary to the expectations of many APC lawmakers, Dogara did not
announce the names of the principal officers. Rather, he opted to call
for an executive session soon after his procession entered the chambers.
The Speaker had beckoned to a member from Benue State, Mr. Orker Jev, to move a motion for the executive session.
But several hands promptly went up, with
members shouting, “point of order, “point of order”, but Dogara ignored
them and directed Jev to continue.
The Speaker’s action apparently infuriated some members hence the pandemonium that followed.
Ado-Doguwa climbed onto a desk right in
front of Dogara and attempted to incite members, but he was chased down
by those backing Dogara. The Speaker’s backers threw hard copies of law
books they picked from the desk at Ado-Doguwa.
Also, some members suddenly produced and carried placards with an inscription, “Nigerians voted party; party is supreme.”
Some members of the APC, who were not
favourably disposed to the decision of the party, as well as the Peoples
Democratic Party members in the House, were also seen forming a
protective human shield around Dogara.
The PDP members claimed that they were
out to protect the House as an institution, not that they were part of
the crisis in the APC. They were led by a member from Delta State, Mr.
Leo Ogor.
All the while, Gbajabiamila sat quietly at a corner, watching the unfolding drama.
But, after sensing that the matter was
getting out of hands, he rose to meet and discuss with Dogara briefly at
the Chair. At 12pm, he tried to address the rowdy members but his
efforts failed.
It was not until 12.31pm that calm began
to return gradually as Gbajabiamila and Ogor appealed to the warring
members to return to their seats.
We’ll resolve our conflict, Dogara says
Dogara thereafter addressed the House, expressing disappointment over the conduct of the members.
He said the 360 members should consider themselves “fortunate” to be elected as representatives out of 170 million Nigerians.
Dogara noted that the members were sent to Abuja to promote national interest and not personal or sectional interests.
He said, “To be candid, we have promised
so much in the course of our electioneering and even the very party I
belong to, the APC, we have promised change and Nigerians expect us to
really talk about those matters, those issues that bother them most.
“They want to hear us talk about
unemployment, poverty; in my region, they want us to address insecurity
and as long as this House is divided and not united, we cannot achieve
that.”
On the issue that led to the fracas, Dogara said all available channels would be explored to resolve it.
“As to the issues that led to the fracas
today, we will sit down as leaders and resolve whatever caused the
fight. We have to ensure that this matter, as quickly as possible, is
resolved and that is what we will do by the grace of God,” he stated.
The Speaker quickly adjourned the House till July 21, apparently to douse tension.
‘Action breached legislative proceedings’
In its official position, the House
expressed regrets over the conduct of the members, accusing them of
breaching legislative proceedings.
The Chairman, House Ad Hoc Committee on
Media, Mr. Sani Zoro, said, “It was obvious from the action of these
members that they were acting on a premeditated script, as some of them
even carried placards with inscriptions on them.
“These members attempted to seize the
mace, which is the symbol of authority of the House, and other sundry
acts of fighting, fracas, misconduct, disruption and committed
unparliamentarily actions unbecoming of the status of honourable
members.
“The conduct of these members amounts to
contempt of the House and is in clear violation of the Standing Orders
of the House and Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act and the
customs and traditions of Parliament.”
But, the majority of the APC members,
who took sides with the party, described as “illegal” the refusal of
Dogara to announce the names of the principal officers as directed by
the party.
Mr. Nasir Zango-Daura, who spoke for the
APC Caucus, argued that the positions in question were party positions
and not House positions, hence Dogara could not dictate who occupied
them.
“That is the responsibility that lies
with the party and its caucuses. If I may ask, can he appoint principal
officers for the PDP? His action will truncate our democracy”,
Zango-Daura said.
He vowed that the members would continue to fight, “come rain, come shine”, until the matter was resolved in their favour.
On its part, the PDP caucus took the same position as the official position of the House.
Its leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, told a news
conference that the APC members disrupted the House proceedings because
of an issue that was “purely the internal affair of the APC.”
He added, “We ruled this country for 16 years, but now we are starting on a very bad note.
“We apologise to Nigerians for the
conduct of the APC members and we appeal to the members that if they
have a crisis in their party, they should resolve it within their party
and not take the entire country hostage.”
Meanwhile, the APC caucus resolved at a late night meeting on Wednesday that Monguno should swap positions with Iraise.
Iriase is now to be the Chief Whip, while Monguno will be his deputy.
Iriase announced the switch at the same news conference where the APC members gave their reactions to the fracas.
It was a disgraceful act–PDP
The PDP condemned the fracas in the House, describing it as a show of shame and national embarrassment.
It said that the ugly development questioned Buhari and APC’s commitment to democracy, unity and the stability of the country.
The opposition party’s reaction was
contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Thursday.
“The barbaric attempt to physically
assault a duly elected Speaker, seize the mace, the authority of the
House, is a direct attack on the Nigerian parliament, which embodies the
supremacy of the people and our freedom as a democratic nation,” it
said.
The PDP said what Nigerians witnessed in
the House on Thursday clearly underscored the fact that the APC had
exhausted its excuses and had imported “its internal contradictions”
into an independent arm of government as a way to further cover its lack
of ideas for governance.
“We state unequivocally that the onus
lies on President Buhari to ensure that all democratic institutions are
harnessed for effectiveness, a responsibility he has apparently
abdicated by allowing his personal interest to instigate division in the
parliament, a tendency that poses great threat to the survival of our
democracy and the stability of the nation,” the party added.
USA Pres. Obama to host Pres. Buhari at the White House
On Monday, July 20, President Obama will host Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House. The visit will underscore the United States’ longstanding friendship with Nigeria, our commitment to strengthening and expanding our partnership with Nigeria’s new government, and our support for the Nigerian people following their historic democratic elections and peaceful transfer of power.
President Obama looks forward to discussing with President Buhari our many shared priorities including U.S.-Nigeria cooperation to advance a holistic, regional approach to combating Boko Haram, as well as Nigeria’s efforts to advance important economic and political reforms that will help unlock its full potential as a regional and global leader. In addition to hosting President Buhari at the White House, the United States will welcome President Buhari’s senior advisors for consultations with U.S. counterparts and other events aimed at building on the strong U.S.-Nigeria relationship.
Popular beach hotel in Tunisia attacked by terrorists, at least 27 tourists killed
Foreign tourists who were relaxing on the El Mouradi Palm Marina near the hotel were first targeted and killed before gunmen stormed the nearby hotel which is in a quiet remote beach.
Police in Tunisia is currently engaging the gunmen in a fierce gun battle. Just one gunman has so far been killed. Many bodies are said to be lying on the beach. Most of the people killed are believed to be foreigners as the hotel is said to be popular amongst European holiday makers.
Le Paris Continental Hotel opens tomorrow - See inside! (photos)
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