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Gun men abduct former deputy governor’s daughter
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
ampaging kidnappers have again jolted the relative security in Owerri, the Imo State capital, by abducting the daughter of the immediate past governor of the state, Chief Ebere ... more
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Chevron says pipeline breached in Nigeria
Topix - Saturday, June 21, 2008
p>Chevron Corp. said Saturday that a breached Nigerian pipeline has prompted the company to shut down its onshore oil production. Nigerian media reported that militants had sabotaged the pipeline in the southern Niger Delta late Thursday. But the region's most-potent armed group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the... more
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U.S. lawmakers want Mandela off terror list
OnlineNigeria.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
ome U.S. lawmakers are trying to pass legislation to remove former South African President Nelson Mandela from a U.S. list of terrorists by his 90th birthday next month, officials said on ... more
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Man Divorced Four Wives For Having An Affair With His Electrician
OnlineNigeria.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
businessman living in Sabon Gari area of Gusau metropolis of Zamfara State, (name withheld) sent his four wives packing from their matrimonial home when he discovered that they were having an affair with his ... more
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From the Street to Prophet of Nations
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
e hawked firewood and pap (ogi) in his difficult childhood so much so that he was nicknamed 'Sunday ... more
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Rainstorm Kills Four, Displaces Others in Kano
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
ainstorm has killed four people in Kanwa Village of Madobi local government area of Kano State over the ... more
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Shinkafi Wrestles Yarima's Ideology
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
The Shinkafi dispensation has thrown a different kind of challenge to the people of Zamfara state. Imam Imam in this report explores the widening gap between the ideologies of former governor Ahmed Sani Yarima and that of his successor, Mahmud Aliu ... more
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Kidnappers of Bayelsa SSG's Wife Finger His Cousin
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
HE Police in Abuja yesterday paraded three teenagers who kidnapped Mrs. Augustina Ekeuwei, wife of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State government and demanded a ransom of N1billion with two of the suspects, Omi Fubara Allaputa and Manasseh Ignatius saying the kidnap plot was hatched by a cousin of the... more
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Return All PEF Vehicles, Monies, EFCC Warns
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
n connection with the ongoing investigation into the activities of the defunct Police Equipment Fund, PEF, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has issued a 7-day ultimatum to individuals who received vehicles and money from the foundation to return ... more
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Civil Servants Are More Corrupt - SSG
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
HE Secretary to Bayelsa State Government (SSG), Mr. Gideon Ekeuwei yesterday lamented the inherent rot in the state civil service with particular emphasis on the Local Government Administration saying civil servants in the predominantly riverine state are more corrupt than political ... more
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Ruling On $40bn Suit Against Mobil Now July 22
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
uling in the lingering $40 billion suit between inventor of the anti-corrosive special paint and founder of Comandclem Nigeria Ltd, King Clement J. Uwenedimo and Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Unlimited, earlier fixed for yesterday has been adjourned till July 22, ... more
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Get-Rich-Quick, Bane of Coutry - Cleric
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
he spiritual head of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, the Most Rev. Samuel Adefila Abidoye, has charged Nigerians to shun the get-rich quick syndrome and learn to work and live on their wages if the nation should move to the right ... more
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Robbery - IG Parades 6 Suspects
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
he Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro yesterday paraded six crime suspects three of whom were arrested for allegedly being part of an armed gang that robbed a bullion van conveying cash and the rest for kidnapping the wife of a politician and demanding N1bn ... more
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This Road Sucks Blood
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
esearch has shown that Africa has four percent of the total cars in the world, but accounts for more than eleven percent of the world's auto accident casualties. Nigeria has about the highest rate of vehicle mishaps on the ... more
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Taxes - States, LGs Owe N83.4bn, Says Firs Boss
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
he Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, yesterday told the House of Representatives Committee on Finance that the 36 states of the federation and the 774 Local Governments have refused to pay N83.4 billion owed in taxes including Value Added Tax ... more
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I Didn't Exonerate Anybody in My Book - Nwosu
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
he former Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) and the author of the latest controversial book on June 12, 1993 Presidential Election, Professor Humphery Nwosu yesterday reacted to the barrage of criticisms that greeted his book launched on June 12 declaring that he did not exonerate anybody in his... more
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Oil Thieves Blow Up Pipeline
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
LLEGAL oil bunkerers in Delta State, who are angry that the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta has stopped their means of livelihood, Thursday night, blew up Chevron and Texaco oil pipeline between Olero Creek and Abiteye Flow Station in the ... more
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Yar'Adua Boosts Security in Niger Delta
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
resident Umaru Yar'Adua has directed that security around oil facilities in the Niger Delta region be beefed up while the nation's armed forces and other security agencies take all necessary action to bring to book, perpetrators of last Thursday's attack on the Bonga oil facilities by Niger Delta ... more
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NRC Partners States to Provide Rail Services
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
anaging Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mazi Jetteson Nwankwo, yesterday said the Corporation was collaborating with states to provide rail transport in the ... more
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NEC Backs State of Emergency in Power Sector
allAfrica.com - Saturday, June 21, 2008
he National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday June 19 gave support and approved financial backing for President Umar Musa Yar'Adua's plan to declare a state of emergency in the power ... more
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