Nigeria's most innovative and customer-centric telecommunications company, 9mobile, has announced the appointment of Juergen Peschel as new Chief Technical Officer (CTO); Baqi Salihu,  as Deputy Chief Technical Officer, and Karn Gulati as Director of Strategy, within its Senior Management team. Peschel, serving as CTO, is an experienced professional with an international executive track record within the IT, Managed Services & Telecommunications Industry, including expertise in a wide variety of industry verticals and markets, will oversee the evolution and integration of the company's technical functions. Peschel has over 25 years of...

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has congratulated Professor George Obiozor on his election as the President-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo. According to the former Anambra State Governor, Ndigbo could not have made a better choice than “a diplomat of very high pedigree and intellectual background, who is imbued with vast experience in the public service.” A statement from the minister’s media office in Abuja on Monday, described Obiozor’s election as a new dawn for Ndigbo in the Nigerian...

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Federal Government in its bid to link the whole country by rail, has signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Mota-Engil Group on the construction of US$1.959 billion Kano-Maradi Standard Gauge Railway lines. The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, January 11, 2021, in Abuja signed on behalf of the Federal Government while the Managing Director, Mota-Engil, Antonio Gvoea signed on behalf of the contracting firm. The new railway corridor which is to be located in northern Nigeria will run through...

By, Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   Troops of the newly launched Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO a subsidiary Operation of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in the North East continue to obliterate elements of Boko Haram/Islamic State's West Africa Province criminals with uncommon ferocity. Latest encounter with the marauding Boko Haram criminals occurred on January 9, 2021 at Gujba LGA of Yobe State where the Gallant troops identified and encycled a Boko Haram criminals Ambush site. This was contained in a press statement by Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, Acting Director Defence Media Operations. According to...

By, Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the commissioning of the Lagos-Ibadan rail line would be put on hold due to the upsurge of COVID-19 in the country. Amaechi disclosed this at a Television Interview in Abuja. According to him, over 60 staff on project site have been infected by COVID-19 while trying to complete the project. “First let us admit that over 60 of our staff, not ministry of transport staff, but the staff working on the rail project have...

...says unsafe, dangerous By Okosun Dennis   The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has advised  fleet operators, other commercial drivers and patronisers of night trips, including private vehicle owners to desist from night trips. He noted that arising from the dangers, the risks and the rising cases of fatalities occasioned by road traffic crashes recorded at night, such trip which is often characterised by poor visibility, fatigue, sleeping on wheels, excessive speed among others is not only unsafe, but utterly dangerous. According to Bisi Kazeem, the...

By Okosun Dennis   As the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Interdenominational Church Service held at the Chapel of Christ the Light, Alausa on Sunday, Venerable Olufeyisanjo Ojelabi has called on Nigerian leaders to show love to all without discrimination and do what is right at all times. Speaking as the Guest Speaker on the topic titled: "Love and Sacrifice" which was taken from the Book of John Chapter 15 verse 13, Venerable Ojelabi enjoined the leaders not to discriminate against one another. Earlier, during the Juma'at Prayers held at...

...Arrest two traffic robbers By Okosun Dennis   Owners of unregistered vehicles, vehicles with covered number plates, fake number plates and unauthorised use of siren in the state are in for a difficult time as the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), has been mandated to go after them for arrest. As a result, RRS, a unit of the Lagos State Police Command, on Friday impounded three vehicles for covering their number plates and 43 motorcycles for plying prohibited routes in Alausa Business District, Ikeja. The Commissioner of Police,...

Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has said that rather than join issues with his political opponents and critics, he will allow his projects and achievements do the talking for him. Ikpeazu stated this on Sunday in a series of tweets via his official Twitter handle @GovernorIkpeazu. In the tweets, Ikpeazu said, "In our continuing bid to totally reclaim Aba through the delivery of top class road infrastructure and development of SMEs in the state's commercial nerve centre, we have completed work on Milverton, Ojike and Eziukwu roads. Those who...

...Restates commitment to safer, secured Lagos By Okosun Dennis   Achievements is not determined by how best one shouted or the greatest number of people subjected to inhuman treatment or tongue lashed but orchestrated by dent of hard work in a cordial environment that brings transcendental transformation and progress. In recognition of these facts and coupled with his enviable and exemplary leadership style, professionalism and excellence in the discharge of his duties, a statue security management, tactical and strategic police operations, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State Command, CP...