President resumes work, visits crash victims’ families

PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday paid condolence visits to some families of victims of the Bellview airliner which crashed last Saturday killing 117 persons.

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Tradegy: Don't give up Obasanjo urges Nigerians

PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo has implored all Nigerians wherever they may be, to stop whatever they are doing at mid-day today, and observe one-minute silence and pray for the repose of the souls of the victims of last Saturday plane crash as well as his late wife, Stella.

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S.East legislators tackle Enugu caucus over attack on Nnamani

SOUTH East Legislators Forum (SELF), a union of South East federal lawmakers in the National Assembly has joined issues with Enugu State caucus in the House of Representatives over the latter’s attack on Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani.

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Fire guts residence of Anambra NUT chairman

PROPERTY worth N5 million were destroyed, Wednesday, when fire gutted residence of Anambra State Chairman, of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Anthony Ugozor.

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Nigeria Has World's Third-Highest Number of HIV-Positive People, USAID Says

USAID last week at a public hearing by the Nigeria House of Representatives Committee on Health said Nigeria has four million people living with HIV/AIDS, the third-highest in the world.
According to the Deputy Director, USAID-Nigeria, Natalie Freeman, Nigeria needs to adopt a multi-sectoral approach to fighting the disease.

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Panic in Lagos over pollution

RESIDENTS of Ikeja, Maryland, Ojodu and Ojota were confronted yesterday by an unusual thick smelling smoke which engulfed the areas and raised fear of a major environmental disaster in Lagos.

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Election petition: Gov Ngige declares tribunal incompetent

Governor Chris Ngige of Anambra State has told the Appeal Court sitting in Enugu, that the election petitions tribunal, which last August 10, voided his election, lacked the jurisdiction to entertain and enter judgment in the petition filed by All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the 2003 gubernatorial elections, Mr. Peter Obi.

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Apo 6: Detained cop freed

AN Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday discharged Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Lawal Ado, the police officer accused of aiding the escape of DPO Abdulsalam Othman.

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Ojumah beckons on foreign investors

by Remmy Nweke

CONSULTANT-representative for West and South Africa at Inno Concept Gmbh Germany, Chief Fidel Ojumah has called on foreign investors to use the current opportunity in Nigeria to invest in the country.

Chief Ojumah who spoke to Business Champion at a recent anniversary of Nigeria’s 45th years of independence held at Ludwig-Berlin, said Federal Government has continued to open up the Nigerian society through its actions with the hope of revamping the economy.

These steps, he said, were very encouraging considering several years of military rule in the country, which he described as difficult time in the nation’s history.

“At the momenet, we’re working on things that would bring peaceamong us in Germany, but also for Nigeria as a nation,” he enthused

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With the last five years marking the end of military, he expressed confident that Nigeria has come to rest and work along with her peers in global development.

“We’re looking forward to using this opportunity to open our borders to all those who have been by our side to come and have interaction with us through investment,” he said.

Presently, Chief Ojumah, who has lived in Germany for 25 years said, Nigeria businesses have continued to attract required positive attention.

“In fact, fortnight ago, we had investors meeting with the Nigerianambassador here in Berlin, Prof. Tunde Adeniran,” he asserted.

Chief Ojumah stressed that federal government is not merely changing
people’s perception on Nigeria, but also the industrialists precisely.

He pointed out that several sectors of the economy are now ready to accept foreign investors beyond the oil sector.

Just as he tasked the Nigerian media to be consistent in positive reporting of happenings as it affects nationals in Germany.

“This would help the Nigerian government in polishing our image,” he said.

3 died in Soldiers, Police clash in Lagos

AT least three persons were killed and several others wounded yesterday, during a bloody clash between soldiers and policemen at a police barracks near Ojuelegba, in Surulere, Lagos.
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Akunyili bags human rights award

DIRECTOR-General of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Dora Akunyili has been named sole recipient of the 2005 Grassroot Human Rights Campaigner award by a London-based Human Rights Defense Organization. She thus becomes the first African to win the award.
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