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Chevron Appeals to Niger-Deltans for Peace
allAfrica.com - Monday, July 21, 2008
OR Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU), a new initiative of multi-nationals to stem conflicts in their areas of operation to be very effective, an appeal has gone to people of the the Niger Delta to promote peaceful ... more
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Squandered oil wealth leaves Nigeria in dark age
Topix - Monday, July 21, 2008
p>By Tume Ahemba LAGOS (Reuters) - With oil prices at record highs, government coffers in the world's eighth biggest oil exporter are swollen to unprecedented levels. Yet the vast majority of Nigeria's 140 million people live in no better conditions than their neighbors in West Africa, the least... more
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Diesel is killing Nigeria -Oscar Ibru
Topix - Monday, July 21, 2008
p>THE vice chairman, Ibru Organisation, Oscar Ibru, has called on responsible institutions and individuals to commit their resources to better their immediate environment. ... more
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Women dry tapioca beside flames from Shell's Utorogu flow station in the Niger Delta March 5, 2006
Topix - Sunday, July 20, 2008
p>Assaults on foreign workers that threaten to shut down one of the world's biggest suppliers reveal the struggle for power between the army and shady militia gangs Women dry tapioca beside flames from Shell's ... ... more
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Nigeria: Scandal Over Grain Amid Food Crisis
Topix - Sunday, July 20, 2008
p>NIGERIANS may be in for endless wait for the amelioration of the pains of the rising cost of food in the country in response to global food crisis, as some state governments officials now sell allocations from ... ... more
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Scandal Over Grain Amid Food Crisis
allAfrica.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
IGERIANS may be in for endless wait for the amelioration of the pains of the rising cost of food in the country in response to global food crisis, as some state governments officials now sell allocations from strategic grains reserve to a cartel of commodity traders, instead of releasing same... more
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Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Body Charges Former Governor
Topix - Sunday, July 20, 2008
p>A Former governor of Plateau State, Mr. Michael Botmang, was yesterdays arraigned before an Abuja Federal High Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly misappropriating over N1.3 ... ... more
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Illegal Bunkering: JTF Parades 14 Filipinos
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
ourteen nationals of Philippines allegedly arrested while engaged in illegal oil bunkering off the Bayelsa coast in the Niger Delta were yesterday paraded by the security Joint Task Force (JTF) at its headquarters in Warri, Delta ... more
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Strike: NECO Postpones Another Examination
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
he nationwide industrial action embarked upon by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has again taken its toll on vital activities in the education ... more
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FG to Remove N1.5tr Petroleum Subsidy
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
he Federal Government has suggested a systematic removal of the huge sum of N1.5 trillion being paid as subsidy for petroleum products on yearly basis, saying the money will be channelled into local production to increase local capacity utilisation in the petroleum sector of the ... more
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House Cautions MDAs on Online Recruitment
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
ouse of Representatives yesterday directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies(MDAs) to henceforth make available hard copies of their recruitment forms to prospective applicants in the states and local governments, noting that online applications tend to cut off job seekers living in areas without internet ... more
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Appeal Court Releases Ibori’s Passports
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
he Kaduna Division of the Court of Appeal has ordered the release of the diplomatic and international passports of former Delta State governor, James Ibori, to enable him travel abroad to see to his health and other personal ... more
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Budget 2009: Govt to Cut Cost of Project Funding
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
he Federal Government has stated that in its bid to save cost, the 2009 Budget President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua will present to the National Assembly in October will reduce a number of projects for which resources will be ... more
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Yar’Adua: Nullification of Election Good for Democracy
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
resident Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday expressed support for court rulings that overturned the election of some state governors, despite the fact that the governors were elected on the platform of his party, the Peoples Democratic ... more
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THISDAY Driver Battered, Detained by Lagos Agents
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
hile some people were greeted with good morning at 6.20am on Sunday 14 July, for Mr. Lanre Akande, 35, it was a different story. ... more
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‘How Emirs, Lawmakers Shared Strategic Grains Reserve’
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
enate Ad-hoc Committee probing food crisis in the country yesterday revealed how state governments, some northern emirs, federal legislators and other prominent Nigerians shared the 65.755 metric tonnes of grains in the strategic reserve for the year ... more
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AD Decries Slow Pace of Election Petition Cases
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
lliance for Democracy (AD) in Abia State has expressed great concern over election petitions still pending at the tribunals more than a year after the 2007 general ... more
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Teachers’ Strike: Mark Calls for Dialogue
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
enate President David Mark has called on government and the striking teachers to embrace dialogue as a way out of the dispute over implementation of teachers’ new salary scale. ... more
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‘FG Must Rehabilitate Militants Now’
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
recommendation has been made to the federal government to create a fund for the demobilisation and rehabilitation of militants in the region and accelerated infrastructural ... more
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Senate C’ttee Indicts Tukur, Others over £11.4m Abandoned Silos
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, July 20, 2008
he senate ad-hoc committee probing food crisis in the country, yesterday implicated former Minister of Industry and Chairman of Africa Business Roundtable, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, former Police Commissioner and Yobe State Administrator, Dabo Lere and former Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Asheik Jarma in the abandonment of over £11.4 million... more
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