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FCT probe: Senate disowns interim report on El-Rufai
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
he Senate Joint Committee, investigating the activities of past administration in the Federal Capital Territory, has disowned the content of an interim report published in some newspapers, saying it was only a draft submitted to its members for deliberation and adoption. ... more
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June 12 annulment: Hold IBB responsible, says Umar
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
ormer military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar said on Tuesday that former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida should be held responsible for the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election whose results were announced recently by Prof. Humphrey ... more
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NGE presidency: Akiotu receives acclaim
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
n aspirant for President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Mr. Tony Akiotu, has said he was humbled by the widespread commendation so far received as deputy president of the senior journalists’ ... more
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Drop your arms, Soyinka urges N’Delta youths
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
obel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called for a change in tactics from Niger Delta youths to actualize their demand for improved conditions of living in the ... more
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PPA warns against consequences of killing opposition
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
he Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) has warned against the tendency of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to kill the opposition, saying that such action would destroy ... more
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Suspend constitution amendment until ... –Kalu tells Senate
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
ormer governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Kalu, has advised the Senate to suspend its moves to amend the constitution until the Electoral Reform Committee (ERC) has completed its ... more
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Bank targets expose women to prostitution –Bishop
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
he Anglican Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Rt. Rev. (Dr.) Emmanuel Chukwuma has decried the current practice in Nigerian banks where female staff are given targets to meet or they are sacked, saying that it expose the young ladies to ... more
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Obasanjo ignored our advice on Ajaokuta, says monitoring team
OnlineNigeria.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
he failure of the Obasanjo presidency, to act on the 12 reports prepared by the committee, set up to monitor the implementation of concession agreement on the troubled Ajaokuta Steel Company and National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), was yesterday adduced as reasons why the companies ... more
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FG to Recruit 3,000 Civil Servants
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
he Federal government plans to recruit 3000 graduates this year into the Civil service to fill the shortfall in the ... more
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FOI Bill - Labour Party Wants Citizens Sensitised
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
ecretary of the Labour Party, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, yesterday in Abuja, called on the National Assembly to sensitise Nigerians to what the Freedom of Information bill ... more
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NDLEA Confiscates 350kg of Indian Hemp
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
obe State command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confiscated 350 kilograms of Indian hemps in January this year in Damaturu the State ... more
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Kaduna Records 1,200 TB Cases
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
aduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr Yari Everton Peter, has disclosed that about 1,200 cases of tuberculosis have so far been detected in the first quarter of 2008 across the ... more
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Lagos Closes 50 Illegal Health Facilities
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
n line with its Health Sector Reform Law of 2006, the Lagos State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, (HEFAAMA) has closed down no fewer than 50 illegal health facilities in the state for offences ranging from quackery practice, training of auxiliary nurses, existence of living room within the facilities,... more
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Strike - Chevron, Pengassan Talks Collapse
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
he country's oil sector which recently witnessed a major setback in its operations following a nationwide strike action by the nation's senior oil workers, otherwise known as Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) following a dispute with ExxonMobil over the sack of some of their members... more
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AfDB Approves $85 Million for Lekki Road Project
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
frican Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday in Tunis approved a senior loan of up to US$ 85 million to help finance the upgrade/rehabilitation of Lekki to Epe expressway, linking Victoria Island with the Lekki peninsula in Lagos, Nigeria's economic ... more
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Tension in Legislature Over Expenses
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
n uneasy calm now pervades the House of Representatives following the decision of Speaker Dimeji Bankole to call for a detailed list of all financial transactions by the House from when he assumed its leadership to the last date of the ... more
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Yar'Adua Explores Nuclear Power
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
resident Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is exploring the possibility of acquiring, in the long-term, an electro-nuclear programme to meet the huge energy demands in the ... more
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We Will Transform Jigawa - DR Taura
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
r Aminu Abdullahi Taura is the Secretary to the Jigawa State Government, who is considered by many as the thinking cap of the government. He has participated in almost all the programmes of the Sule Lamido populist administration. In this interview, he explained how the government is transforming the entire... more
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Understanding Our Leaders Past And Present (2)
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
gainst the background of the one-year anniversary of President Umar Musa Yar'adua's administration, many Nigerians have in the past few weeks been heard grumbling, murmuring and complaining that the man is irritatingly too slow. Some say that he appears too indecisive and clueless. Some even allege that he is not... more
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The Anti -Judicial Calls By Osunbor And Mark
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 19, 2008
t is important for the Nigerian people to be informed of the dangerous trend emerging from the mouths of high political office-holders of PDP affiliation whose elections have been nullified and whose appeals are pending before the different courts of appeal in ... more
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