Day: March 13, 2019

Five-year-old Nigerian girl molested in Dubai hotel

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A cleaner stood trial in the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday on charges of sexually abusing and performing an indecent act with a five-year-old girl. The Nigerian girl was lying down on a sofa at a hotel apartment in Deira where she lives with her family. Her parents had left her with her grandmother, when the Pakistani cleaner sought permission to clean the apartment. The girl’s grandmother took her two siblings into another room. By the time, she returned to check on the girl, the cleaner had left…

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Inconclusive elections: CISLAC calls for electoral justice

Sunday Ojeme

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has expressed concern over outcome of last week’s gubernatorial elections in some states of the federation. CISLAC is particularly worried that elections in some states including Sokoto, Bauchi, Adamawa, Pleateau and Kano were declared inconclusive. In a statement signed by the Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani), and made available to New Telegraph, the civil society group said the apparent disproportionate declaration of the state electoral outcomes by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), especially across states whose results were declared inconclusive,…

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Waste to Wealth: Firm engages 400 people in recycling

Dayo Ayeyemi

In order to turn urban waste to wealth, a manufacturing firm, Lexsz Plastic, has engaged over 400 employees for the collection of various beverage pet bottles and classification of plastic waste for recycling. Besides, the company said it has invested in four production lines refining and processing the entire West African region’s plastic recycling. According to the Executive Director of the company, His Royal Highness, Oba Olufemi Akowe, the firm had taken the lead in waste to wealth management by empowering both the public and private sector operators in clearing…

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Elumelu decries growing joblessness in Africa

Sunday Ojeme

Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has flayed the growing joblessness with the African continent. Delivering a keynote address at the AfricaNow Summit 19 in Kampala, Uganda, Elumelu, who also the Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA), said it was time development partners teamed up in the 21st Century in a manner that is different to curb joblessness since government per se does not even create the kind of employment to check the menace. According to him, “the joblessness we have in Africa cannot be fixed by government alone.…

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