Ready to Wear meets Zoom Zoom in 2012 at the Pretaport Week & Ghini Auto Fair – Register Today

On Friday 20th April 2012, Lagos, Nigeria will experience the launch of a new concept – “Pretaport” 

Pretaport will feature ready to wear pieces by leading African designers. All efforts have been made to ensure that all fashion brands featured in the Pretaport event produce high quality clothing sold in standardized sizes. According to the organizers, “It is well known that in the fashion industry, designers produce ready-to-wear pieces intended to be worn without significant alteration, because outfits made to standard sizes fits most people. They use standard patterns, factory equipment, and faster construction techniques to keep costs low, compared to a custom-sewn version of the same item. The whole essence of Pretaport is give leverage to Africa’s emerging designers to display their ready to wear collections to top fashion buyers.“

If you are a fashion designer and you would like to showcase your pieces at Pretaport Week 2012 or media organization (photographers, reporters, newspapers, magazines etc…) seeking a media pass, simply register by click on the flier below.

During the 2012 PretaPort Week, a fair featuring the best brands in automobile industry with quality representation of their latest models of cars - Ghini Auto Fair will run concurrently with PretaPort Week 2012. To find out more about the Ghini Auto Fair Call 08023038017 | 08095478699 | 07087476864 and E-mail info@pretaportweek.com | press@pretaportweek.com

Date: Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd April 2012
Venue:  The Lamboghini Event Centre, Lekki, Lagos
Contact:For more info and general enquiries

• Call 08023038017 | 08095478699 | 07087476864
• E-mail info@pretaportweek.com | press@pretaportweek.com
• Log on to the Official Website of Pre ta port Week 2012

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An Evening With Sound Sultan At Deuces This Saturday

This weekend, Deuces Lounge is hosting one of the most talented Nigerian Artistes, Sound Sultan. Date: Saturday February 4th, Time: 9pm, Venue: Deuces Bar and Lounge, 19 Ademola Adetokunbo Str., VI.

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LASTMA official push bus conductor to his death

A bus conductor this morning fell to his death after he was pulled down from a moving bus by a LASTMA official. Eyewitnesses say another vehicle ran over the conductor as he fell from his bus, killing him instantly. The incident happened around 11 am this morning at Motorways, Ikeja on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The people at the bus stop where it happened turned mob action and beat the LASTMA official to unconsciousness but was rescued by the police before they could kill him. I hear a few of the people who beat the LASTMA guy were arrested at the scene. Photo of the dead conductor when you continue. I said dead, so viewers discretion advised...

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Residents lament deplorable condition of Ikotun-Ejigbo-Cele road

By Charles Kumolu

LAGOS — Residents of Ikotun in Alimosho Local Government Area in Lagos State have appealed to the state government and the local government to reconstruct the Ikotun-Cele road to give them a sense of belonging.

The residents who spoke under the aegis of Alimosho Residents Association, ARA, said they had been experiencing excruciating pains travelling through the road in the last five years without government doing anything to alleviate their pains, pointing out that the state government had been busy providing good roads for the rich in the mainland, leaving those that gave them bulk vote to win their elections.

Spokesman for the residents, Chief Idowu Temitope, who spoke in an interview with Vanguard said: ‘’We appeal to Governor Babtunde Fashola to reconstruct this road that government had promised us times without number that it would rehabilitate.

“The millions of voters living in Ikotun are also stakeholders in Lagos. It is not only when the government needs our votes that politicians come to make empty promises to us.

‘’The Ijegun-Jakande Estate Road which the government started had been abadoned by the contractors for some years now.

’’Apart from the Ikotun–Cele road or the Ijegun-Jakande Estate Road, there are several roads in the area which the local government has not rehabilitated for over 10 years now.”

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2012 Budget: FG to spend N27m on each DPR staff

LAGOS — A proposal by the Federal Government to expend an annual average of N27 million on each staff of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, as personnel cost caused a stir at the National Assembly, yesterday.

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, who led the DPR team and other agencies of the Ministry of Petroleum to the Senate defence hearing, however, assured that the government in a bid to curtail the burgeoning personnel cost was set to embark on a rationalization of its staff and agencies.

An estimated N30 billion of a total budget of N35 billion proposed for the DPR is earmarked for the department’s 1,100 staff.

A breakdown of the budget presentation tabled before the six committees of the National Assembly showed that of DPR’s N35, 997,149,841 budget, capital expenditure is only N4,786,302,790 while N31,210,847,051 will go to personnel costs and overheads.  The budget estimate also indicated that personnel costs for DPR in 2012 is put at N30,399,182,331 while the remaining N811,664,720 is for overhead costs.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Senator Paulker Emmanuel, while noting that the huge overhead costs in the petroleum sector was worrisome, stressed that the budgetary proposals of the agencies in the sector must focus towards the capital side as a way of enhancing value.

“I feel so worried as a Nigerian because if our budget is tailored towards that style, then, we are not creating hopes for investing in infrastructure and I hope you have noted that. I think there’s need for us to have a change and the oil industry is assumed to be a capital intensive industry.”

Addressing the Committees, Director of the DPR, Mr. Austin Olorunshola, however, said the department was about to recruit more staff within the next two weeks. It was, however, not clear if the new staff were factored into the 1,100 staff projected for in the budget.

Speaking further, Allison-Madueke told the joint committee that the executive branch was already working on rationalisation in all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

According to her, the purpose of the rationalisation was to merge some agencies and scrap others, adding that in the process, some members of staff would be laid off to reduce personnel and overhead cost of governance.

We ‘ll scale down staff – Minister

The Minister who said the situation with the recurrent expenditure profile of the DPR was symptomatic of the entire civil service in Nigeria.

“This is symptomatic of the entire federal civil service. It’s not solely in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, it goes across the civil service but that is why Mr. President has called for a critical rationalization of the ministries, departments and agencies with a view to reducing the recurrent expenditure and overheads.”

Continuing, she said “the slight increase in DPR’s recurrent budget represents provisions for anticipated recruitment of new staff to improve the overall effectiveness of the department,” adding, “You will also notice that the PPPRA is cap

By Henry Umoru & Inalegwu Shaibu

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Atuche’s trial: Bank officials not liable for customers — EFCC witness

LAGOS — Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s, EFCC,  witness, Mr. Alex Ojukwu, yesterday, told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, at the on-going trial of former Managing Director of Keystone Bank (formerly Bank PHB), Mr. Francis Atuche, his wife and the former Chief Operating Officer of the bank, Ugo Anyanwu, that no official  of the bank was liable for customers’ default on account opening.

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