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APGA crisis deepens

Crash: Bellview forged pilots’

training papers – AIB

ANTHONY OMOH

CHAMPION Newspapers 2012 Man of the Year

award will hold tomorrow at Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja.

Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, is the recipient of the award.

This was as Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State Mr. Peter Obi has congratulated Princess Oduah for her selection, noting that the Award is a call to greater service

and dedication towards the sanitization of the Aviation industry in Nigeria

Oduah was picked by the top echelon of the media organisation after careful consideration of all the feats she has been able to achieve in the 18 months while steering the aviation industry.

The aviation minister is the third recipient of the award after Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos and Edo state

Governor, Adams Oshiomhole and like the previous two awardees; she went through a thorough process against stiff competition.

The event will have the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State Professor Oye Ibidapo-Obe as the guest lecturer.

Professor Ibidapo-Obe who was the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) will

deliver the lecture with the theme: “Value-Driven Leadership as the Key to National Development”.

In a congratulatory message to the Honourable Minister dated February 4, 2013 Obi urged Oduah to, on behalf of the government and good people of Anambra state accept my ‘’hearty congratulations on the occasion of your selection as the Champion Man of the Year 2012’’, stressing that being selected ‘’amidst

Champion 2012 Man of the Year Award holds tomorrow

•Gov. Obi congratulates Oduah

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•Okwu, Shinkafi named National Chairman, Secretary

Jonathan: No deal was struck

with S/West ACN – PDP

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ANTHONY OMOH

THE accident investigation Bureau (AIB) at the

weekend released the report of eight air accidents on its website putting to rest speculations that the body

MALACHY UZENDU,Abuja Bureau Chief

THERE was confusion over the announcement

yesterday that Chief Maxi Okwu, founder and National Chairman of defunct

Citizens Popular Party (CPP) has emerged as the new Acting National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

The announcement made by Dr. Tim Menakaya, at the end of the party’s

National Caucus which was convened by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state, witnessed the dislodging of the two former gladiators to the post, Chief Victor Umeh and Alhaji Sadeeq Masalla.

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THANKSGIVING… President Goodluck Jonathan and First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan during fi rst Lady thanksgiving ceremony at the presidential villa in Abuja weekend. PHOTO: ANAYO OPARA