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Sylva Plans Smedan Too Hoist Economy
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
ayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva has said government would set up the state's version of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) to drive the local ... more
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Obi Blasts Governors Over Reckless Spending
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
overnor Peter Obi of Anambra State has taken a swipe at his colleagues who, he said, spend hundreds of millions of naira to buy bullet proof jeeps after causing social problems of arming political thugs to gag the electorate during elections, saying that Nigerians deserve better than they are getting... more
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NNPC Nets $77.031 Billion in Three Yrs
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
HE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said, yesterday, it made a total revenue of $77.031billion and N3.930 trillion between January 2003 and March 2008 and remitted to the Federation Account a total of $56.221 billion and N 3.930 trillion within the same ... more
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Digital Disaster - Roadmap to 21st Century Digital Economic Security (11)
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
IGITAL Disasters come in shape and sizes. The entire nation may be plunged into a national emergency if her Central Bank Data is wiped off or infected by incurable worms and ... more
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'NNPC Pays Niger Delta Militants $6 Million Monthly'
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
he Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pays $6 million to Niger Delta militants as "protection fee' monthly, the House of Representatives Committee on Finance investigating the alleged non remittance of revenue collected by government agencies from 1999 to March 2008 heard ... more
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Presidential Panel Indicts Officials
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
he Presidential Committee that investigated the affairs of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) yesterday submitted its report to government and recommended sanctions against officials who participated in the setting up and funding of the ... more
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Ekiti Crisis - Oni, Lawmakers Disagree Over New Speaker
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
fresh bid at resolving the crisis rocking the Ekiti State House of Assembly has again hit the rock, as the lawmakers, yesterday, refused to agree with the governor's choice of the ... more
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Gunmen Attack Governor's Convoy
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
NKNOWN gunmen snatched, yesterday, the official spare car, a 4X4 Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State in an attack on his aides on the Aba-Port Harcourt ... more
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MPs Shout Down Abolition Bill
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
opes of a reprieve for hundreds of death row inmates in Nigeria were dashed when MPs threw out a bill which would have commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment and down-graded robbery with violence to a non-capital ... more
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Presidency Rules Out UK Military Support in Niger Delta
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
he idea of securing military assistance from the United Kingdom and other foreign interests as the next option for the troubled Niger Delta has been described as "unfounded" and "definitely not on the agenda" of President Umaru Musa ... more
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Senate Fails to Broker Truce With Teachers' Union
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
he Senate Committee on Education has failed to broker a truce between the Federal Government and striking members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers ... more
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Nigeria bulldozes slums to polish capital
Topix - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
p>Scavenging through mounds of rubble in Nigeria's capital Abuja, Usman Landam plucks out the biggest mud blocks he can find, determined to rebuild his two-bedroom hut after government bulldozers knocked it down. ... more
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Nigeria: Much ado about nudity
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
p>Fadekemi at ConnectAfrica comments on a recent bill proposal to prohibit and punish nudity in Nigeria, among other offences: “Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation […] faced with so many issues ranging from the Niger-Delta crisis to the high rate of infant mortality. According to Senator... more
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NUT leaders blame FG for lingering strike
Topix - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
p>LEADERS of the striking members of Nigeria Union of Teachers , have decried the rigid attitude of government in issuing enabling circular for the implementation of Teachers' Salary Structure for the lingering ... ... more
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Lawmaker faults INEC delineation execise
OnlineNigeria.com - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
hairman, House of Representatives Committee on Defence representing Ijesha North Federal Constituency, Hon. Wole Oke has faulted what he called lopsidedsness in the delieneation of wards in his ... more
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Oni, INEC urge tribunal to dismiss fayemi’s petition
OnlineNigeria.com - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
ounsel to Ekiti State governor, Segun Oni, Mr Adebayo Olanipekun, (SAN) and his Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) counterpart Mr. Adebayo and Mr. Roland Otaru (SAN) has prayed the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ado-Ekiti to dismiss the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the... more
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Strike: Teachers resort to prayers
OnlineNigeria.com - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
he on-going nationwide teachers’ strike action last weekend took a new dimension as the infuriated and angered teachers in Gombe State have resorted to ... more
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5 Corpses of missing soldiers, civilians found
OnlineNigeria.com - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
hree soldiers and four civilians declared missing last Friday in Bayelsa State may have been killed by sea pirates terrorizing the Nembe ... more
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Why we stopped N37bn health centres - FG
OnlineNigeria.com - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
he Federal Government on Monday gave reasons for the revocation of the N37 billion health centres project awarded by the past administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying it did not follow due ... more
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Mr big stuff: Ex-dep. Gov builds biggest hotel in Akwa Ibom
OnlineNigeria.com - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
hen Obong Chris Ekpenyong was impeached and later resigned as the deputy governor of Akwa Ibom state in 2005, many who knew him said it was just a matter of time before he would bounce ... more
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