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Country as Private Estate
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
NE of the growing nuisances of our politics is the tendency for people in authority to personalise their offices. The dangers in these moves include the collapse of all activities related to that office if the individual so ... more
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PHCN Workers Threaten Solidarity Strike With Teachers
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
ORKERS of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), have condemned alleged government insensitivity to ongoing teachers' strike which has forced our pupils of both public primary and secondary out of schools for over two weeks, and threatened to embark on solidarity strike in support of the teachers should government... more
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Tribunal Upholds Governor Saraki's Election
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
HE Kwara State Election petition Tribunal sitting in Ilorin yesterday upheld the election of the governor of the state, Dr Bukola Saraki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the last governorship election held in the ... more
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Legislators Act on Job Seekers' Deaths
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
HE House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Interior, Major-Gen. Godwin Abbe (rtd), and the executive members of the Civil Defence, Immigration and Prisons Board over last weekend's deaths of job seekers in the Immigration and Prisons recruitment ... more
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Flood Destroys 90 Houses, Farmlands
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
FLOOD wreaked havoc in Santar Na-Kellu village in Ingawa Local Government of Katsina according to an eye witness ... more
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Erediauwa Gives NSCDC Land to Build Training School
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
he Oba of Benin, Oba Erediauwa, Wednesday assured the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) of a site to build its zonal headquarters and training school in ... more
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Rivers Begins Door to Door Refuse Collection
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
O make Port Harcourt cleaner the Rivers state government is to begin house to house collection of refuse. The state Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Kingsley Chinda flagged off the new project with an appeal to residents to ensure the success of the ... more
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Out With the Report
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
ny hope that the Power Sector probe will see the light of the day soon may be totally misplaced because even though the committee wound up sitting more than two months ago its report has still not been presented to the ... more
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Strike - Season of Pains, Joy for Teachers
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
eginning from May this year when the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) called out its members on a three-day warning strike and the commencement of a full-blown strike from June 30, teaching and learning activities have been put on hold in all public primary and secondary schools throughout the ... more
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Checking Road Carnage
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
or mainly man-made reasons, road accidents have become constant news items in Nigeria. Considering the fact that most of them are avoidable, it would be unfortunate indeed for the country to continue to harvest more casualties and other ... more
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Blame Fertilizer Cartel for Food Crisis, Says Govt
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
ederal Government said yesterday that it had uncovered a cartel that hijacked and diverted fertilizer distribution, thus raising the spectre of food crisis in the ... more
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Shell, Agip Oil Field Lease Agreement Faulty, Says Senate
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
enate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream Sector) has kicked against the agreement entered into by Shell and Agip over leasing of some oil ... more
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Britain Offers Training to Quell Delta Violence
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
ritain is to help Nigeria crack down on violence which has disrupted oil supplies in the troubled Niger Delta through a security training force, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said ... more
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Ex-MTN Top Guns Launch Bid for Nitel
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
consortium promoted by ex-MTN Nigeria top executives has launched a bid for stakes to be unbundled by Transnational Corporation (Transcorp) in Nigeria's pioneer national operator, the Nigeria Telecomm-unications Limited ... more
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Saraki Wins at Tribunal
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
he Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State yesterday upheld the election of Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki and declared him winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election by striking out the consolidated petitions filed before it by the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Accord Party and their candidates in... more
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I Was Caught Unawares, Says Imoke
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
enator Liyel Imoke, who was sacked as Governor of Cross River State by the Appeal Court on Monday has opened up on the judgement, saying that he was caught unawares and shocked as he least expected the verdict but expressed optimism at regaining his seat at the re-run election ordered... more
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Governor Says No to Teachers Salary Scale
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
OVERNOR Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has described the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) being demanded by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) as unrealizable and impracticable and cannot therefore be implemented in his ... more
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Youths in Despair
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
he trouble with Nigerian youths has been highlighted by the death of a dozen or more applicants for jobs at the Nigeria Immigration Service last ... more
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Women Protest Naked, 8 Shot in Renewed Inter-Ethnic Crisis
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
OMEN of Obodogugu-Ogume community in Ndokwa area of Delta State protested naked, yesterday, while no fewer than eight persons, including a policeman have been shot by armed youths in a renewed orgy of violence between the community and the people of Emu-Ebendo over negotiations with an oil ... more
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Violation of Women's Right - Director Wants Offenders Punished
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 17, 2008
irector, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, yesterday called for strict punishment by the government for the violation of the rights of women and ... more
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