Harvard Business School: Nigeria’s reputation at stake – Peter Obi
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The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has lamented that Nigeria’s reputation and attractiveness to international institutions and investors has recently been severely impacted by major obvious drawbacks.
Obi said this on Wednesday via his X while reacting to the omission of Nigeria from the Harvard Business School class of 2025 program, which selected sixteen countries for its global immersion course.
He said the omission of Nigeria, despite the program leader being a Nigerian professor, is particularly striking given the country’s potential and capabilities.
LP fumes as court jails member in Enugu
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The Enugu State chapter of the Labour Party has denounced what it termed the politically-motivated detention of its candidate for Enugu South Urban State Constituency, Bright Ngene, saying he was tried on trumped-up charges.
Ngene was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Enugu South Magisterial District on June 28, 2024.
The party condemned the judgment in a statement issued and signed by the State Chairman, Casimir Agbo, and the Publicity Secretary, Onuora Odo, in Enugu, on Tuesday.
It asked the National Judicial Commission to intervene and prevent further disgrace to the legal profession by officials compromised by political pressures.
It alleged that the magistrate, E. D. Onwu, acted under external influences to expedite the long-pending case.
FCT: Kugbo bus terminal will reduce insecurity – Wike
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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has highlighted the importance of the recently flagged-off taxi and bus terminal in Abuja.
Wike spoke during the flag-off of the construction of the Kugbo Bus and Taxi Terminal in the Karu District of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
The FCT Minister, while also noting the discomfort experienced by commuters in the FCT, especially during the rainy season and the attendant loss of man hours, due to the absence of public transportation infrastructure, said the provision of the bus terminal will make commuting in the FCT a more pleasurable experience and will also improve security.
Nnamdi Kanu: Shehu Sani applauds Southeast govs’ planned meeting with Tinubu
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Former Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani has commended the Southeast over plans to visit President Bola Tinubu to discuss the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Southeast governors met on Tuesday in Enugu.
During the meeting, it was agreed that they would visit Tinubu to discuss Kanu’s incarceration. This was part of the resolutions reached at the meeting and made public by the chairman of the forum, Governor Hope Uzodinma.
Reacting, Sani posted in X: “The South East governors’ visit to the President over Kanu’s matter is a good and commendable step. It’s an opportunity to explore a political solution.