By Matthew Mahmood
The purpose of this letter is to recall you from your leave and to caution that you must henceforth endeavour to diligently observe all extant rules and administrative procedures in the conduct of all official transactions.”
—Business News
OMG! The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Arunma Oteh is back with a bang! She was reinstated last Wednesday by the Presidency via a circular ‘signed’ by the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim. Ms Oteh was initially suspended by the SEC board last month.
Some legislators are unlikely to allow Oteh to resume without a clash or controversy since the leader of a committee to probe Oteh, Honourable Ibrahim El-Sudi claimed that, “As at the time Oteh was appointed as the DG SEC, she was not registered with the SEC as required by the Investments and Securities Act. She didn’t have 15 years cognate experience as a Capital Market operator and so, I want to say here today that Oteh is not qualified to be the DG of SEC.”
Why did it take the House of Representatives committee years to investigate and file these allegations against Oteh? Were members of the committee ‘suffering’ from amnesia before and after Oteh became the Director General of SEC in 2010? Would the Federal Government of Nigeria be able to absolve Oteh of another round of allegations? What would be Ms Oteh’s response?
House Calls Presidency to Order on Oteh’s Reinstatement
Protest Mars Arunma Oteh's Reinstatement
The Voice will celebrate 30 years of publication (1982 – 2012) in August. It is ‘the oldest and biggest black newspaper’ in Britain. A Nollywood actor and actresses, Afro hip-hop star D’banj, producer Don Jazzy, music legend Maxi Priest and Omarion et al are on the front page of the July 12-18 issue. Some copies of the issue were given away by the ‘promoters’ of the weekly newspaper, which is sold for 90p.
The sports feature article is on Nigeria’s basketball team that will play in the London Olympic Games. Apart from news, features, interviews and book reviews, there are interesting blogs by writers like Dotun Adebayo, Ella Henderson and Nelson Abbey.
The Voice was initially denied accreditation to the London Olympic stadium, in a city with vast cultural diversity. The British Olympic Association went too far. The Voice was later granted press accreditation after the radical 'intervention' of the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Olympics minister Tessa Jowell et al.
The Voice wins its Olympics accreditation
London Olympics 2012: the Voice wins victory after stadium snub
London 2012: the Voice denied accreditation to the Olympic stadium
D'banj on Vox Africa
James Sherwood, the presenter of Afrobuzz (Vox Africa – Sky Channel 218) saw D’banj at the Wireless Festival 2012 and told him to apologize to the people of Vox Africa, for taking too long to appear on Vox Africa. D’banj humbly apologized. He said he was busy performing his song, 'Oliver Twist'. D'banj also performed at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend aka pre-Olympic concert, which was a free two-day event.
