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At New York Summit, Govt States Reasons for Increased Take in Oil Blocks

15Mar

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At New York Summit, Govt States Reasons for Increased Take in Oil Blocks

- Proposed Fiscal Regime to Finance to Support Gas Master Plan PETROLEUM resources minister Diezani Alison-Madueke on Wednesday explained (more…)

Police IG Moves to Oversee Lagos Murder of Newly-Wed Man

15Mar

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Police IG Moves to Oversee Lagos Murder of Newly-Wed Man

IN the wake of the attention generated over the killing of a newly-wed man in Lagos, the police (more…)

Former NYTimes Publisher and Journalism Icon Sulzberger Dead at 86

15Mar

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Former NYTimes Publisher and Journalism Icon Sulzberger Dead at 86

Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided the newspaper to unprecedented (more…)

Kofi Annan Resigns as UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy to Syria

15Mar

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Kofi Annan Resigns as UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy to Syria

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday announced the resignation of the UN-League of Arab States Joint (more…)

Experts Urge National Assembly to Defer Budget 2012 Assessment

15Mar

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Experts Urge National Assembly to Defer Budget 2012 Assessment

Financial experts have urged the National Assembly (NASS) to properly assess the performance of the 2012 budget (more…)

Debt Office Resume Issuance of Sovereign Debt Notes

15Mar

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Debt Office Resume Issuance of Sovereign Debt Notes

The Debt Management Office (DMO) said it has resumed the issuance of sovereign debt notes for payment of subsidy (more…)

Joint NAFDAC, Custom Operations Locate N6m Fakes Drugs in Onitsha

15Mar

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Joint NAFDAC, Custom Operations Locate N6m Fakes Drugs in Onitsha

NAFDAC tracked down a bus loaded with fake drugs valued at N6million on Onitsha-Owerri highway in Anambra on Thursday. (more…)

UN Names Okonjo-Iweala Member to Panel on Global Development

15Mar

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UN Names Okonjo-Iweala Member to Panel on Global Development

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon has named the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as member of the (more…)

FEC Adopts Second Stanza of National Anthem as Official Prayer

15Mar

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FEC Adopts Second Stanza of National Anthem as Official Prayer

NIGERIA’s Federal Executive Council adopted on Wednesday the second stanza of the National Anthem as the official prayer (more…)

Rehabilitation of Refineries Will End Fuel Supply Woes – PEF

15Mar

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Rehabilitation of Refineries Will End Fuel Supply Woes – PEF

NIGERIA’s Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) on Thursday in Abuja said the ongoing rehabilitation of the refineries in (more…)

Nigeria Taxpayers Now Entitled to N200,000 Relief Allowance – FIRS

15Mar

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Nigeria Taxpayers Now Entitled to N200,000 Relief Allowance – FIRS

Taxpayers in Nigeria are now entitled to a Consolidated Relief Allowance (CRA) of N200,000, a top official of the Federal (more…)

Okonjo-Iweala Pleads with Lawmakers for Time to Implement Budget

15Mar

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Okonjo-Iweala Pleads with Lawmakers for Time to Implement Budget

AMIDST controversy over the level of implementation of the 2012 budget, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of Finance and (more…)

President Jonathan in Jamaica: ‘The destiny of the Black Person is in the Hands of the Black People’

15Mar

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President Jonathan in Jamaica: ‘The destiny of the Black Person is in the Hands of the Black People’

-Text of President Goodluck E. Jonathan’s address to a Joint Session of the Jamaican Houses of Parliament in commemoration of Jamaica’s 50th Independence in Kingston, Jamaica, on Thursday, August 2, 2012. I consider it a great honour to be invited by the Prime Minister, the Most Honourable (more…)