Adeboye storms Vanguard again

GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has  accepted to be the Guest of Honour at Vanguard Newspapers Media Fellowship’s  end of the year thanksgiving service.

The programme holds on Thursday, December 18, 2014, less than one week after the RCCG’s Holy Ghost Congress.

A statement by the Fellowship said  Adeboye will speak on the theme, ‘Divine Success and Prophetic Breakthrough,’ with inspiration from II Chronicles 20:20.

The General Overseer’s first visit to Vanguard Media Limited, Apapa was four years ago, precisely  December 2010.

At that occasion, he preached on the topic, ‘The Storm Is Over’, charging the media to be at the vanguard of re-branding the nation. He said: “It is not the government who will re-brand Nigeria, it is the media.”

Adeboye, who said Vanguard was one of three newspapers he read daily, lauded the media house for excellence.

He said: “Somebody asked me the other day, ‘how many Nigerian newspapers do you read?’ I replied, ‘I read three Nigerian newspapers and Vanguard is one of them.’

This is because if there is any news worth reading at all, you find it in the Vanguard. Thank God for Vanguard Newspapers. Vanguard will continue to grow from strength to strength.”

 

GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has  accepted to be the Guest of Honour at Vanguard Newspapers Media Fellowship’s  end of the year thanksgiving service.

The programme holds on Thursday, December 18, 2014, less than one week after the RCCG’s Holy Ghost Congress.

A statement by the Fellowship said  Adeboye will speak on the theme, ‘Divine Success and Prophetic Breakthrough,’ with inspiration from II Chronicles 20:20.

The General Overseer’s first visit to Vanguard Media Limited, Apapa was four years ago, precisely  December 2010.

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GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has  accepted to be the Guest of Honour at Vanguard Newspapers Media Fellowship’s  end of the year thanksgiving service.

The programme holds on Thursday, December 18, 2014, less than one week after the RCCG’s Holy Ghost Congress.

A statement by the Fellowship said  Adeboye will speak on the theme, ‘Divine Success and Prophetic Breakthrough,’ with inspiration from II Chronicles 20:20.

The General Overseer’s first visit to Vanguard Media Limited, Apapa was four years ago, precisely  December 2010.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/adeboye-storms-vanguard/#sthash.Obn6Wdz7.dpuf

59 passengers, 4 crew members escape plane crash

Fifty-nine passengers and four crew members of Overland Airways flight ATR 72 escaped a plane crash on Saturday as the aircraft veered off the runway after landing at the Ilorin Airport in Kwara State.

It was learnt that the airline took off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja and the incident occurred at about 5pm.

No casualty was recorded as the passengers disembarked safely from the plane.

The General Manager Public Affairs, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, Mr. Fan Ndubuoke, said the Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau commenced investigation after the incident.

He said, “An Overland flight 1186, an ATR 72 aircraft with registration number 5N-BPG from Abuja airport to Ilorin carrying 59 passengers and four crew veered off the runway at low speed after a normal landing at the Ilorin Airport.

“The incident, which occurred today Saturday November 29, at 4.45pm has no casualty recorded. However, the Accident and Prevention Bureau in conjunction with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has launched an investigation into the cause of the incident.”

A good marketer must understand its consumers- Onubogu

Kachi Onubogu

The Executive Director (Commercial) of Promassidor Nigeria Limited, Mr. Kachi Onubogu has said that marketers who are willing to succeed in their profession must understand their consumers.

Onubogu made this known while delivering a lecture on the topic ‘The Role of Advertising in Brand Building’ at the 2014 edition of ‘Mike Agbakoba’s Memorial Lecture’ held recently at Planet One Marry-Land, Lagos.

The MARKETING EDGE marketing personality of the decade described the consumers as the most important people in the journey of marketing, stating that their importance is second to none.

In his word, “if marketers don’t understand consumer needs they won’t gain anything. Marketers need to understand the present and the future need of their customers.”

He stated that marketing is about creativity, adding that when you detach creativity from marketing, the value will be lost.

The former Marketing Manager of Guinness Nigeria PLC described marketing as taking risk and added that it is the most interesting part of any organization.    

                                          

Airtel Unveils Trybe for Nigerian Youths

Vice President, Segments, Airtel Nigeria, Dinesh Balsingh; Chief Commercial Officer, Airtel, Maurice Newa with Head, Youth Segment, Airtel, Segun Aderinokun at the media launch of Airtel Trybe in Lagos on Thursday.

Leading telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria, has unveiled yet another innovative offering; ‘Airtel Trybe’ specially designed to cater for the needs and lifestyle of the youth market segment.

Airtel Trybe is enhanced with features which offer youths the experience and benefits of staying connected to families, friends and their loved ones at all times and it also offers additional opportunities to customers for deriving maximum benefits from voice calls, SMS and data for social media platforms at affordable rates.  In addition to these there are also other amazing bonuses for new and existing customers who subscribe.

Speaking at the launch of the product in Lagos today, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Maurice Newa, said that the Telco has again demonstrated its passion for the youth, stressing that Airtel will continue to create innovative products and services as well as convenient platforms for customers to experience world-class telecoms services on the network.

He said: “Airtel realises the yearning of customers, especially the youths, to always stay online and remain connected to their loved ones, families, friends and associates. So with Airtel Trybe, a platform which not only offers affordable call and SMS rates, but also comes with huge attractive data plans , we have shown that we clearly and deeply care about providing opportunities for our customers to enjoy every moment on our network,”.

Speaking further, he noted that the Telco fully understands that communication and internet connectivity have become indispensable components of the 21^st century enabling business, education, entertainment, information, governance and other activities and is committed to becoming the leading internet company in Nigeria.

Customers can get on the Airtel Trybe package by dialing *312# or through SMS by sending YES to 312. To begin to enjoy the freebies, customers simply need to use up to N48 in a day with the first 2 minutes charged at N40k per/sec while other calls are charged at N20k/sec for on-net and N30k/sec for off-net calls.

Customers who make international calls will enjoy N30k/sec from the very first minute on calls to the United States of America, India, China, Canada and the United Kingdom (landlines).

They will also enjoy freebies after the first 120 seconds. The freebies include free 10 minutes Trybe-to-Trybe calls for each subscriber per day and another free voice calls offer from 11 pm to 4.30am to other Airtel subscribers. In addition, subscribers get daily freebies to chat with unlimited access to Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger (WFTB) valid for 2 days.

As part of the offering, Airtel Trybe comes with a special Campus Zone rate of 11k/sec for all local calls made to every network. This rate applies to calls made only in the campus of any Nigerian higher institution and it is designed to help students stay connected to their families, friends and loved ones.

Another interesting addition is that customers can also enjoy megabyte bonuses. There is free 5MB weekly bonus on N100 recharge and 15MB instant bonus every week upon cumulative recharge of N200 per week to browse the internet, while new prepaid subscribers on Trybe enjoy additional bonus of up to 200 per cent on every recharge for calls or SMS to local networks.

A recharge of N500 and above attracts 200 per cent bonus, while N200 and N100 recharge attract 100 per cent and 50 per cent respectively. In addition, 50 per cent bonus on total week’s recharge (Monday to Friday) is given for Airtel-to-Airtel calls on Saturday and Sunday. The bonus is given instantly and valid for 7days.

As one of Airtel’s latest products designed to create unparalleled experience for customers, Trybe gives a boost to the vision of the Telco to be Nigeria’s no 1 internet company.

Sanusi visits Kano mosque, says attack was planned for 2 months

The Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, on Saturday visited the city’s bloodstained central mosque, 24 hours after coordinated bomb and gun attacks there that left at least 120 people dead.

During the 20-minute-visit to the mosque, which adjoins his palace in the city, the emir directed the place be washed and cleaned, an AFP correspondent at the scene reported.

Sanusi was out of Nigeria on Friday, when the deadly assault on the mosque occurred. Last week, the emir — who is the country’s second most senior Muslim cleric — made a call at the same mosque urging civilians to take up arms against the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.

“From all indications, they (attackers) have been planning this for at least two months,” Sanusi said as he arrived at the mosque straight from the airport. He did not give details on what information supported that assertion.

“I have directed that the mosque be washed and cleaned and prayers should continue here,” he said.
“We will never be intimidated into abandoning our religion, which is the intention of the attackers.”

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan vowed Saturday to hunt down those behind the “heinous” attack.

A senior rescue official late Friday gave AFP the preliminary death toll of 120. The official also said that at least 270 people were wounded in the attack, which saw two suicide bombers blow themselves up and gunmen opened fire during weekly prayers at the Grand Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim north of the country.

Egypt court dismisses murder charges against Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak

An Egyptian court has thrown out a case against former President Hosni Mubarak for conspiring to murder protesters during the 2011 Egyptian revolution due to a technicality and lack of jurisdiction.

Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal were also cleared by Chief Judge Mahmoud Kamel al-Rashidi of corruption charges related to exporting gas to Israel.

The same Cairo court acquitted Habib al-Adli, former Mubarak-era interior minister, and six senior security commanders of conspiracy to murder protesters.

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said the trial was highly politicised and the verdict was “stunning”.

“I am speechless,” he said. “Because the judge has told us not to discuss his verdict until we have examined the 1,430 page document.”

“This is an arrogant attempt to make the Egyptian people feel sorry for coming out to the streets,” he added.

“This is trying to retrieve the old Egypt and basically clear three decades of dictatorship. Basically we have everyone that has been in charge of the violence and corruption cleared of all charges, while in prison we have thousands of peaceful civil rights activists.”

Mubarak, 86, had been accused along with the former police commanders of involvement in the killing of 846 demonstrators during the 2011 revolt that ended his three-decade rule. Only 239 of the deaths were considered by the court, the presiding judge said.

An appeals court had overturned an initial life sentence for Mubarak in 2012 on a technicality.

The new verdict was initially scheduled for September 27, but Judge Rashidi postponed it, saying he had not finished writing the reasoning after a retrial that saw thousands of case files presented.

UNN Student emerges 2014 NIMN Best Marketing Student

Ugwoke Peace, a final year marketing student of University of Nigeria was grin like a Cheshire cat when her named was announced as the winner of 2014 National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) Best Marketing Student of the year recently held at Planet One, Marry-Land, Lagos.

Peace leapfrogged other four students and went home with a whopping sum of N100,000 cheque, a certificate and  marketing textbook.  

The award is an initiative of NIMN to indentify and nurture talents offering marketing and business administration in higher institution in order to focus their attention of pursuing a professional.

While speaking about the award, the assistant director of examination NIMN, Mr. Sidney Ogodo said the Unilever sponsored award is a deliberate strategy to create a competitive synergy between various schools offering marketing and business administration.

Besides, he added, it was also designed to identify and nurture marketing talents in the nation’s tertiary institutions from the cradle, in order to promote the profession and expose students in tertiary institutions to the reality of professionalism in marketing practice.

In an exclusive interview with TOTALNEWS247, Peace described her victory as a reward to hardwork, stating that she has been looking forward to a day her academic effort will be bountifully crown.

She acknowledged that the award will add to her curriculum vita (CV) and give her an edge over her compatriot. She also said that, “I am optimistic that better things are on my way. I am looking forward to be the best marketing student in the world.” 

Before the grand finale, 42 students of various higher institutions in the country were subjected to three hours writing exams and an oral interview. It will be recalled that Constance Nkechi Atueyi, a 400-level student in the Marketing Department of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, emerged the winner of the 2013 edition of the award.