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Militants Bomb Pipeline as Protest Against Niger Delta Summit
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
JAW militants from Egbema in Edo State, yesterday, said they bombed an NNPC pipeline, supplying crude oil to the Kaduna Refinery in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, weekend, because of the insistence of the Federal Government to go ahead with the planned summit on the Niger-Delta... more
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FG Probes DPR, Sends Director on Forced Leave
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
n a bid to clear the air on speculations and counter speculations over the handling of investigations into the conduct of the 2007 oil and gas blocks licensing round, the Federal Government has ordered the Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to proceed on an indefinite ... more
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Yar'Adua Opens World Desertification Summit in Bauchi Today
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
resident Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will lead a high-powered government delegation and other environmental stakeholders, including 19 northern state governors, nine ministers, legislators, members of the diplomatic community and others to this years World Desertification Summit holding in Bauchi state ... more
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Era of Coups Over in Country -Coas
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
he era of military intervention in political affairs of the country is over, Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Luka Yusuf has ... more
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Court Dismisses Suit Against Chair of Electoral Body
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday dismissed the suit by the Action Congress (AC) seeking to remove Professor Maurice Iwu as chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), that he holds dual ... more
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Shake-up at EFCC, 257 for Redeployment
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
BOUT 257 operatives have been penciled in for re-deployment in a major shake-up of both the senior and junior cadre at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the new leadership under retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mrs Farida Waziri, settles down for ... more
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Isiaku Rabiu, 5 Others Get Cement Licences
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
he Federal Government yesterday granted six firms new permits to import and produce cement ... more
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Court Orders Arrest of Former Governor
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
N Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu, yesterday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chinwoke ... more
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Yar'Adua Probes 2005 Oil Licensing Round
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
resident Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has directed the Director of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr. Tony Chukwueke, to proceed on compulsory leave to avoid interference with the ongoing investigation into the award of oil blocks by the regulatory ... more
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I was the first person contacted to abduct Dikko from UK – Capt Sagir Mohammed (retd)
OnlineNigeria.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
lhaji Sagir Mohammed, Wazirin Ringim, is a man who mostly speaks the mind of the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. Apart from being an aide to the ex-president, Mohammed, at different times, served as a commissioner in Kano and Jigawa States respectively and was a one-time permanent secretary... more
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Dissonance in Sports
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
HE shambolic state of our sports was brought to the fore penultimate week with the claim by Minister and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Abdulrahman Gimba, that the body must be reorganised for sports to make the expected ... more
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Restore Mission in Belgrade
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
igeria's mission in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, was among the several diplomatic missions that were closed on the orders of former president Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003. He had cited lack of funds, mismanagement and non-viability as reasons for the closure that also affected Prague in Czechoslovakia, Asmara in Eritrea and... more
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Senate Panel Indicts el-Rufai
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
he Joint Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Housing, co-chaired by Senator Abubakar Sodangi and Senator Ikechukwu Obiorah respectively, has slammed former FCT Minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, for abuse of office in the purchase of the guest houses belonging to the Vice ... more
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Fishermen Seek Assistance On Food Scarcity
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
ishermen in Akwa Ibom have appealed to the state and the federal government to assist them in their efforts to combat food ... more
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Vodacom Regrets Pulling Out of Country
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
hief Executive Officer of Vodacom, Mr. Alan Knott-Craig, has expressed regrets over pulling out of an opportunity that would have given Vodacom a piece of Nigeria, Africa's largest telecoms ... more
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Controversy Over N25m Allowances to Former Senator
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
ontroversy is brewing in the Senate over alleged payment of N25.3 million allowances for first and second quarters of this year to Senator Jibrin Usman Wowo who lost his seat in the April 5 re-run election into the Federal Capital Territory ... more
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Ijaw Youth Dumps Govt's Peace Committee
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
HE Ijaw Youth Leadership Forum (IYLF), weekend, pulled out for the second time in five months, from the Federal Government packaged peace process in the ... more
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UN Supports EFCC With N3.4 Billion
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
he United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has promised to release over $30 million (N3.480 billion) as technical assistance to the new chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida ... more
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Firm Partners Google, Yahoo to Brand Nigerians
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
Nigerian based Internet branding services provider, TodaysNigerians.com, has entered into strategic partnership deals with global search engines, Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN, aimed at branding successful Nigerians and icons on the ... more
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Niger Delta Summit - Movement, Mulade Differ on Gambari's Choice
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 16, 2008
IGER-DELTA Riverine Peace Campaign Movement (NDPRCM), yesterday, called on the Federal Government to reverse its choice of the former External Affairs Minister and Under-Secretary for Political Affairs at the United Nations, Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari as the chairman of the proposed summit on the Niger-Delta, but, a Niger-Delta youth activist, Mr.... more
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