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Group Flays Neglect of Communities by Oil Firms

- Akwa Ibom Women give Oil Firm 7-day Ultimatum to Implement MOU The Oron Nation Oil and Environmental Committee (ONOEC), has decried the neglect of oil-bearing communities in five local government areas in Oron Federal Constituency by oil firms operating in the areas. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Ojukwu’s Burial to Hold in Enugu on February 2

* APGA Assures Nigerians of Active Participation Governors of states in the South-East on Sunday in Enugu resolved that the burial of former Biafran warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will hold on February 2, 2012. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Senate Raises Alarm over Neglect, Insecurity in Border Communities

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and State Governments, Sen. Kabiru Gaya, has raised alarm over the increasing cases of insecurity in the nation’s border communities. Gaya who was fielding questions from the (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Former Brazil Captain Socrates Dies at 57

Brazil's 1982 World Cup captain Socrates, the "Golden Heel", died in hospital on Sunday of septic shock at the age of 57, his doctors said in a statement. A smoker and drinker even in his playing (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Adamawa Assembly Speaker, Abubakar Sadiq, Deputy, Impeached

THE week started on a rather embarrassing note for the Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, and his deputy Mrs. Wale Fwa, who both lost their (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Benue Election Tribunal to Rule on December 8

Chairman of the Benue State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, Justices Halima Mohammed, has fixed December 8 for the ruling in the application brought before the panel by Governor Gabriel Suswam (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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INEC, Continuing Reforms, Swears-In New Commissioners

IN apparent pursuit of stated goals to effect reforms at the Independent National Electoral Commission, eight new commissioners were administered the oath of office on Monday by the Chairman (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Ecobank Seeks Merger With Oceanic Bank

After last September’s total acquisition of the struggling Oceanic Bank by its parent firm Ecobank Transnational Incorporation, Ecobank Nigeria Plc said on Monday that it would seek shareholders’ (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Jonathan Woos Foreign Manufacturers to Nigeria

Efforts to create more jobs in the country got a shot of encouragement from the presidency on Monday in Abuja, where President Goodluck Jonathan mentioned that the federal government was (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Federal Government Files Fresh Terrorism Charges Against Mohammed Ndume

THE Nigerian Senator who was arrested and docked before an Abuja Magistrate Court recently, Mohammed Ali Ndume, on Monday got what was to be a reprieve that all but lasted a few minutes, before (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Former President Obasanjo Warns of Massive Protests in Nigeria

The unrest that happened in the Arab world this earlier year is likely to repeat itself in Nigeria if jobs remain out of the reach of the young people and the disconnect between the government and the (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Northern Leaders Snub ACF Meeting Attended by Vice-President Sambo

MONDAY’s meeting, convened at the instance of the prominent northern socio-political group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, was largely ignored by the political bigwigs in (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Okonjo-Iweala, Others, Named ‘Global Thinkers’

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named one of 100 Global Thinkers by a respected Washington-based journal, Foreign Policy magazine. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Former Nigerian Beauty Queen, Helen Anyamelune, Abandoned in Illness

She was once the most beautiful girl in Nigeria but one would hardly believe this on seeing her. Age and sickness have ravaged that beauty, leaving a shell of that stunning beauty. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Election Tribunal to Entertain Petition Against Remi Tinubu

Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the national leader of former Governor of Lagos State and now Senator representing Lagos in the National Assembly, still has some hurdles to cross as the new panel of the National Assembly (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Northern Nigeria in Search of Peace – By Haruna Salami

Efforts by Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), Northern Nigeria umbrella organization to find lasting solution to insecurity in the region, which has become a serious problem for the entire country, raises more questions than answers. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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‘Orders from Above’: In Adamawa, Police Seal Assembly Complex

A DAY after the Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin and his Deputy, Mrs Wale Fwa, was impeached, stern-looking policemen arrived to deny the state’s lawmakers access (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Akure Daredevil Robbery: 3 Suspects, Erroneously Apprehended, Released

- 1 Robbery Gang Member in Police Custody THE three persons apprehended by the police in Akure after the robbery of a local branch of Diamond Bank two weeks ago had nothing to do with the robbery. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Ojukwu’s Widow, Bianca, Returns to Nigeria from London

WIDOW of the former leader of the defunct Biafran Republic, Bianca Ojukwu, arrived returned to Nigeria on Tuesday, about 10 days after the death of her husband, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Agriculture Minister, Adewunmi Adesina, Trashes ‘Fertilizer Subsidy’

Fertilizer subsidy in Nigeria may be just as plagued by corruption and general lack of accountability as it is with petroleum subsidy, if the words of the country’s agriculture minister are anything to go by. (more…)

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