Year: 2016
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Ebonyi: EFCC’s Futile Misadventure vs Governor Umahi’s Financial Wizardry
By Miss Monica ADA C. EZE Agha Hasan Abedi also known as Agha Sahab a Pakistani banker and philanthropist who founded the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in 1972 may have had Engr Dave Umahi the action Governor of Ebonyi State in mind when he stated and I quote, “The conventional definition of management…
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AUN SBE To Host Boot Camp For High Senior School In 2017
By Aaron Ossai The School of Entrepreneurship of the American University of Nigeria, AUN is set to launch a weeklong youth entrepreneurship boot camp in conjunction with secondary schools in Yola/Jimeta area. The boot camp which kicks off in January 2017 is open to high students in SS1-3. The selected students will gain business training…
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AUN Celebrates An Icon, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar @ 70
By Aaron Ossai People sometimes wonder why an institution like the American University of Nigeria, AUN was established in the small town of Yola, Adamawa state. Many would have preferred to establish it in Abuja, the Federal Capital and center of political power, or in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub. But the founder of this university,…
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Adnom Communications Names Omolara Olaosebikan New Business Director
By Joseph Inokotong Adnom Communications Limited, a foremost media and marketing communications company has appointed Omolara Olaosebikan as the new Director, Business Development and Client Services In a statement issued by the management, Omolara is responsible for the day-to-day running of the company’s communications and marketing activities across all the subsidiaries within and outside Nigeria.…
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Ex Reps Speaker Nwuche Raises Alarm Over EFCC Seige
Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudom Nwuche has alerted of moves by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to arrest him on camera and embarrass him by laying siege on his Abuja residence portraying him as a criminal. Nwuche said EFCC operatives had in a Gestapo style invaded his Abuja residence…
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Tribute to Atiku Abubakar @ 70
By Aaron Ossai In the words of the American Peace Corps Association when awarding him their Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award; “No private businessman in Africa has worked harder for democracy or contributed more to the progress of higher education than Atiku Abubakar.” Atiku Abubakar’s aspirations for the American University of Nigeria reflect his personal…
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AUN Students Fight Violent Extremism Via Social Media
By Aaron Ossai As the world over expresses worry over increasing activities of terrorists, students of the American University of Nigeria, AUN have devised an initiative aimed at fighting violent extremism via social media. The interim Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Science, Mr. Jacob Jacob who disclosed this while fielding questions from…
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NUJ Wants BRACED Commission Resuscitated
By Our Correspondent Worried by incessant security breaches in the Niger Delta region, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has demanded the resuscitation of the BRACED commission; an economic block comprising the South-South States of Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Edo and Delta, in order to deliberate on issues of common interest confronting the region,…
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Recession: Investment inflow shrinks by N642bn
By Joseph Inokotong Nigeria’s economy recorded a total decline of $2.1bn in investment inflow in the first 12 months of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The amount when converted based on the N305.5 per dollar official exchange rate of the Central Bank of Nigeria, translates to about N642bn. Investigations showed that since July 2015,…
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REPs, FG May Clash Over Poor Implementation Of 2016 Budget
To summon CBN Gov, Finance Minister *Orders release of N500bn Social Intervention Funds By Aaron Ossai Worried by the current economic recession and the accompanying hardship on Nigerians, the House of Representatives will on resumption from its recess on Tuesday September 20 summon the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele and the…