1. ESUT
Vice Chancellor RELEASED:
Reports just reaching EDESON
Online News say the kidnapped vice chancellor of Enugu State University of
Science and Technology-ESUT, Professor Cyprian Onyeji has been released. His
wife told our correspondents this morning that he was freed by his abductors
yesterday. It would be recalled that
Prof. Onyeji was abducted earlier this
month by heavily armed young men
suspected to be kidnappers after ambushing him and his police escort at the
main gate of the university in Agbani, Nkanu West Local Government Area of
Enugu State.
2. The
TRUE STORY of 5000 Naira Note:
The Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday announced that it will
introduce the N5, 000 note into the system, but contrary to speculations that
CBN planned to use Nigeria's late former president, Umar Musa Yar'adua's face
on the note, it has now been announced that the faces of three late prominent
Nigerian female activists will be used on the new notes which will be launched
next year!
The women are:
The women are:
i. Margaret Ekpo:
late politician and social mobilizer (1914 - 2006)
ii. Hajia Gambo Sawaba: late politician and activist (1933 - 2001)
iii. Funmilayo Kuti: lte politician and women's right activist (1900 -1978)
ii. Hajia Gambo Sawaba: late politician and activist (1933 - 2001)
iii. Funmilayo Kuti: lte politician and women's right activist (1900 -1978)
3. NUPENG
Suspends Strike::
Another News just coming out
says the 9 days old strike embarked by NUPENG over fuel subsidy arrears
payment has been called off after the union had talks with federal government.
AND NOW, Entertainment News
HEADLINES:
4. TONTO DIKE The NOLLYWOOD Bad Girl Is
Now A GOOD GIRL:
Erotic
and romantic Nollywood actress Tonto Dike is in the news
again, but this time on a positive side. Our sources say the ‘dirty secret’
star Tonto Dike donated One Million
Naira to a cancer
patient and UNILAG law graduate, Funmi Lawal . The
donation was made through the Tonto Dike Foundation. It would be
recalled that Nigeria’s veteran music producer Don Jazzy also donated N2 million l to the same cancer
patient to save her life.
5. Former MISS NIGERIA is DEAD!
She actually died a while back but EDESON NEWS
just heard about it. Helen Anyamelune was Miss Nigeria in 1958. She
was the second woman to be so crowned in the history of beauty pageants in
Nigeria. Our correspondent learnt that she died on Saturday July 28 2012, after
a protracted illness. She was 75 years old. She will be buried in October.
AND NOW, OTHER NEWS HEADLINES:
6. ADAMAWA The POOREST State IN
NIGERIA: Nigeria’s
Adamawa State, home of Nigeria’s former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, ranks
lowest on the country’s human development index in education, economic growth
and human capacity among others, a development expert, Dr Solomon Mamuru, has
said. Mamuru, Deputy Director, Academic Planning at the Adamawa State
University, spoke in Abuja on Wednesday, adding that unless drastic measures
were taken to address the dwindling fortunes of education in the state, the
state would continue to decline.
7. BANKING SCHOOL soon in OGUN State:
Ogun State government is planning to
establish a Banking School in the State before the end of this year. Governor
Ibukunle Amosun told NEWSMEN that the Banking School will later be upgraded to
a University status. Governor Ibukun also added that he will ensure that the suspended ‘banking & finance’ course
at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic will be reaccredited.
8. TRANSCORP HILTON Hotel is In BIG TROUBLE:
One of Nigeria’s biggest hotels, Transcorp
Hilton Abuja, has been dragged to court by Copyright Society of Nigeria
(COSON), the nation’s sole government approved Collective Management
Organization for musical works and sound recordings. In the
copyright infringement action filed by the Abuja based law firm of Ifeanyi
Opara & Co, COSON is also suing the American company, Hilton International
Manage LLC, which manages hundreds of hotels in several countries across the
globe.
9. TRAGEDY!
Italian MAN kills Nigerian PROSTITUTE:
An Italian man has been arrested over the murder
of a Nigerian prostitute after police searching her apartment found a short
story he wrote with close similarities to the killing. Police in the northern
Italian city of Turin discovered the nine-page story entitled "The Rose
and the Lion" among the belongings of Anthonia Egbuna, whose body was
fished out of the river Po in February. Anthonia had been stabbed to death.
10. LAFIA
Courts Shut DOWN:
Magistrate courts in Lafia,
Nasarawa State were shut down on Wednesday as the state’s chapter of the
Magistrates Association of Nigeria (MAN) embarked on an indefinite strike
action. There were also reports of some magistrate courts in other parts of the
state suffering the same fate. Magistrates were seen formed in groups
discussing the strike in many of the courts.
FOREIGN NEWS
11. Universities Shut
Down In Sri Lankan (Asia)
About 2,000
teachers and students held a mass rally in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, a
day after the government shut down most universities. Academics have been on
strike since the beginning of July, demanding more money for education and less
of what they see as government interference. Strikers oppose plans for
private-sector involvement in universities, which have always had state
funding.
NEWS EDITOR: ENDY EDESON.
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