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Plane on the runway for takeoff The new Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) Act 2019, and implications for the air travel industry, will take the centre stage of discussions when aviation stakeholders meet in Lagos on Tuesday, March 26. The forum, an initiative of Starklegal law firm, aims to create awareness, interactions and resolutions around the provisions of the FCCPC Act. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari in February signed the FCCPC bill into law, to override the erstwhile Consumer Protection Council, and superintend all consumer rights’ issues in the country. The FCCPC Act states that the Commission has jurisdiction over every consumer issue in Nigeria, even where there is industry specific regulator. While many stakeholders are still unaware of the new Act, its implications are far reaching for more technical sub-sectors like aviation – already governed by specific rules and conventions. Managing partner at Starklegal, Mojisola Olu

Residents on Thursday waited at the Lagos Island General Hospital to donate blood voluntarily for victims of the three-storey building that collapsed at Ita Faaji. Lagos residents wait patiently to donate their blood voluntarily for victims of building collapse at Ifa Faji, on Thursday. Photos: Jesusegun Alagbe. See More Photos Below; source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/nice-one-residents-donate-blood-for.html

Most Nigerians suffer and most times die on ailments they shouldn’t ordinarily have suffered if they had adequate information about. Apparently to address this information challenge, Managing Director, First Katalyst Marketing, Mr Soji Odedina, has unveiled a health-based website aimed at disseminating health information in a democratic manner that the rich and the poor can access. Odedina, with the website, aims at solving the problem and forestalling the challenge that led to the loss of his wife, Mrs Busola Odedina during surgery, last year. The website, Nigeriaehealth.org.ng. according to him, will help share relevant information that will reduce the number of patients who die in Nigerian hospitals through negligence and sub-standard medical practices. Odedina said the platform is expected to help citizens have a better understanding of issues when they occur, the right procedures and processes in managing various health challenges. He also said the launching of the si

*Deity forbids devotees from coming to shrine on Sundays By Rotimi Ojomoyela TO visitors, the various rocky mountains that dot the landscape of Ekiti State may be another natural aesthetics, nothing more. However, indigenes of the state would readily tell you that most of the mountains are not only sacred but also served as natural buffer and defence against enemy attacks in the days of their ancestors. Members of the Nigerian Armed Forces Sniper Unit wearing ghillie suits take part in an exercise during the African Land Forces Summit (ALFS) military demonstration held at General Ao Azazi barracks in Gwagwalada on April 17, 2018. The African Land Forces Summit (ALFS) is a weeklong seminar held in Nigeria, bringing together land forces from across Africa to discuss and develop cooperative solutions and improve transregional security and stability. / AFP PHOTO / The Rocky Mountains neatly inter-twined by unseen giant hands, encircle most of Ekiti towns in such a way that wo

Director of Department of State Services, DSS, in Delta State has been urged to seal all orphanages in the state, pending the conclusion of the investigation against some Delta State officials allegedly behind illegal sales of children in the homes to adopters. DSS A child rights activist, Mr. Aghogho Ighorhiohwunu, in a petition he wrote on the alleged shady deals by some officials in the Delta State Ministry of Women Affairs, said the DSS boss should take the children in the orphanages into emergency protection custodies. Ighorhiohwunu said: “We are urging DSS now to seal off all orphanages in the state, take all children therein into emergency protection as the lives of children in orphanages are very much in danger during this ongoing investigation and confiscate all adoption forms meant for sale under the custody of the Delta Women Commissioner. “Every year, 300,000 children are taken all around the world and sold by human traffickers as slaves and 17,000 of those childr

The Federal Government has inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Presidential Inauguration Committee for the swearing-in ceremony of President Muhamadu Buhari as he begins his second term on May 29. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, who is the chairman of the committee, performed the inauguration on Thursday in his office in Abuja. Addressing the members, Mr Mustapha stressed the need for the committee to ensure strong collaboration with other sub-committees. He explained that the sub-committees would emerge from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its support groups, with a view to guaranteeing the success of the presidential swearing-in ceremony. The inauguration ceremony took place two days after President Buhari approved the constitution of the committee, with the mandate to plan, organise and execute all approved activities for the 2019 Presidential Inauguration. It is also to co-opt persons and organisations relevant towards the succ

By Naomi Uzor The Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, NACC, said it is set to embark on a 5-day trade mission to Silicon Valley in the USA themed, ‘Turning Promises to Action’, from   April 28th – 3rd May, 2019. In a statement, Communications Executive, NACC, Mr. Ebuka Ugochukwu, said the trade mission is in keeping with an annual commitment of the Chamber in promoting the development of trade, commerce, investment and industrial technological relationships between the public and private sectors of Nigeria and the United States to further drive socio-economic growth and development He stated: “The 5-day period will see delegates hosted by the Silicon Valley Nigeria Economic Development Inc,   meetings with Silicon Valley Top Executives, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalist in Information Technology; Silicon Valley Organizations (Chambers of Commerce; Silicon Valley Tech Companies; the Mayor of San Jose amongst others. This is a time when delegates leverage on the Chamber’