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Headlines
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
BY EVELYN USMAN & BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE A LAGOS Magistrate Court sitting at Tinubu Square, yesterday, remanded Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, 42, and seven other management staff of his company in police custody for 14 days over their alleged involvement in the fuel subsidy scam. The seven other […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
BY DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA – The Ogun State Gover- nor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun was said to be confused over the report of one-man panel set up to try the two warring Obas who threw caution into the wind last week. Governor Amosun who hails from Owu extraction was reported- ly receiving pressure from both Egba […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
By Dayo Johnson THE Peoples Democratic Party PDP yesterday said that it would be sacrilegious for any member of the party either within or outside Ondo State to work against Chief Olusola Oke, its governorship candidate in the October 20 election. National Vice Chairman of the party in the South West Chief Segun Oni said […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
ONE of the parents of the slain UNIPORT students, Mr. Steven Biringa, has insisted that his son, Chiadika, was labelled a thief by his assailants so that they could find a reason to kill him. Biringa told our correspondent in Port Harcour, Rivers State on Thursday that his son had a good upbringing. He said […]
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Headlines
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
The attention of the world would literally shift to Lagos, Nigeria from Tuesday, October 30, to Friday, November 2, 2012 as the international tennis champions, Serena and Venus Williams visit Nigeria’s economic capital as part of a planned two-nation African Tour for this year. The Lagos visit is the Nigerian leg of the African tour […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said 50 to 70 per cent of many states in the country had been submerged by floods. He said since the compilation of data on the victims were still ongoing and there was a strong possibility that the figure might be more than that. Jonathan spoke at the Presidential Villa, […]
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Headlines
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Some suspects arrested for alleged oil bunkering, have said they made millions of naira from the illegitimate business. The suspects, were on their way to deliver petrol to a Chinese-owned rubber processing and manufacturing company in Ikorodu, Lagos State when they were nabbed by operatives of the Police Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit, […]
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Budget, Latest Politics
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Economic and budgeting experts have expressed worries over the ability of the Federal Government to successfully implement the 2013 budget, which was presented to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday, saying its performance on the current fiscal year leaves room for concern. According to the experts, the government must ensure that it […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
October 11, 2012 by Abimbola Adelakun (aa_adelakun@utexas.edu) Since the news broke that Mrs. Patience Jonathan was hospitalised, there has been a systematic repetition of history. I take that back, history doesn’t repeat itself; such linguistic constructions in the intransitive mode shrewdly obscure the oft-unpleasant reality that the actors of history are active agents of concomitant […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
The Federal Government is insisting on the benchmark price of $75 per barrel of crude oil in order to shore up the economy and make for macroeconomic stability, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said. Okonjo-Iweala, who spoke to journalists shortly after the presentation of the 2013 budget proposals to the National Assembly […]