Appoint Credible People With Integrity As Ministers, Don Urges Buhari
PRESIDENT Muhammad Buhari has been urged to appointment credible people with integrity as ministers into his next cabinet. The President was also advised to woo foreign investors in order to boost the economy. In a release made available to The Guardian, a Senior Lecturer at Sokoto State Polytechnic, Bello Mohammed said the President must base appointments to his new cabinet on merit and competence.
He said: “There is need to cut down the cost of run- ning government so that all the loopholes that enable corruption will be blocked. The money saved should be used to empower our people through training and job creation. This will drastically reduce the level of poverty, begging and idleness in the country.”
THE Federal Government yesterday began a crackdown on oil marketers sealing more than 10 pumps at Dan Oil and Forte Oil filling stations in Abuja for fraudulent charges.
Their sales permits were also revoked pending rectification of all anomalies by the marketers.
The Weight and Measures Department of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment carried out the exercise to ensure that all commercial transactions are accurately measured in line with laid down legally acceptable procedure.
Briefing newsmen yesterday after inspection of selected filling stations in Abuja, the department’ s Acting Director, Engineer Muhammed S. Sidi said 10 pumps at Dan Oil and Forte Oil filling stations in Maitama and Lugbe Airport road were found cheating customers.
He said: “We discovered that for every 40 litres of fuel customers buys, they were overbilled by a litre. This kind of transactions translate to cheating the Nigerian customers of N193, 875 for every truck of 33,000 litres sold.
THE three-month long Gotv “Top Up” Campaign has entered its final phase and the promo will end on April 25.
The campaign, launched by Multichoice on 15 January, gives subscribers on Gotv Plus, Gotv Value and Gotv Lite packages the opportunity of getting an upgrade to Gotv Max by paying a reduced fee of N2, 500 instead of N3, 200, while the company ‘tops up’ with N700.
In a release made available to The Guardian, MultiChoice Nigeria’s Chief Customer Officer, Martin Mabutho said the outstanding one-month provides an opportunity for customers on lower Gotv packages to renew their subscription by paying N2, 500.
According to him, the upgrade will give customers access to a wide range of exciting contents on Gotv MAX including football matches of the La Liga, Serie A, Emirates FA Cup, select matches of the Premier League and UFC; the world’s premier mixed martial arts (MMA) organisation. It also gives access to entertainment content on BET, Fox Entertainment, Starlife, ROK 2, and CBS Reality.