Edeson Online News: 12/19/12

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Finally, banks in Lagos stop N100 charge on use of ATMs

Banks in Lagos have cancelled the N100 charge on customers’ use of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) withdrawal from other banks, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
NAN visit to some banks on Tuesday showed that the banks had since Monday complied with the new trend.

Ikogosi-Ekiti, (Ekiti) – The location in Ikogosi in Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti where the first plane crash was recorded in 1942, is to be converted to tourist centre. The Special Adviser to the state Governor on Tourism Development, Mr. Segun Ologunleko, who inspected the crash site on Wednesday in Ikogosi-Ekiti, said the decision was to turn the state into attractive tourism destination in West Africa.

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The remains of the Late Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, and that of his aide and friend, Dauda Tsoho, arrived in Kaduna airport aboard a Nigerian Air Force cargo plane at 2.45pm on Tuesday.

The bodies were received by hundreds of wailing sympathisers who thronged the airport.

Ondo State Government said on Tuesday that necessary arrangements had been made to promulgate a law banning the sale of coffins near hospitals.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, stated this in Akure during the inauguration of a programme tagged, ‘Working Together for Health’.

The family of Lt. Adeyemi Sowole, the co-pilot of the Navy helicopter which crashed on Saturday in Bayelsa State have expressed disappointment that authorities have only reckoned with the dignitaries that died on the flight.

There have been several criticisms against the amnesty programme especially by ex- militants who may not have made the list. The approval of N63.281 billion by the National Assembly for inclusion of victims of oil pollution and training of 3,642 ex-militants granted amnesty did not stop the grumblings in the Niger Delta region.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka said on Tuesday that slavery and colonialism were two vital historical elements in Africa which the continent’s leaders still grapple with.

He said the leaders had had to continually show resistance towards these two past events.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday insisted that despite the calls for the division of the country, Nigeria must remain as one.

Jonathan spoke at the Emblem Appeal Launch for the 2013 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday said his administration would not allow retirees of the state government to suffer over their pension.

The governor spoke at the presentation of retirement bond certificates worth N3.58bn to 604 retirees in Lagos.

A former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar

Former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Tuesday lamented that insecurity in the country had been having a serious effect on the nation’s economy, especially the North, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.