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FIRS to pay taxpayers N200,000 relief allowance

Posted by admin Latest Politics Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

Abuja – Taxpayers in Nigeria are now entitled to a Consolidated Relief Allowance (CRA) of N200,000, a top official of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has said. Mr Samuel Ogungbesan, Coordinating Director, Field Operations of FIRS, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a workshop organised for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on the […]

Fashola signs Lagos Road Traffic Bill into law

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

Ikeja – Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Thursday in Ikeja signed the Lagos State Road Traffic Bill into law. The governor assented to the bill at a ceremony attended by members of the executive council, top officials of the police and those of other traffic management agencies. Fashola said the new law was […]

Canadian firm, Niger Govt to raise 26m chickens yearly

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Niger, State News Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

Minna – The Niger Government has completed a partnership arrangement with a Canadian firm to produce 26 million chickens annually, the state Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr Mustapha Lemu, has said. Briefing newsmen on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting on Thursday in Minna, Lemu said that the collaborative arrangement followed discussions between […]

Farmer, 20, remanded for robbing police officer

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered a 20-year old farmer, Mtomga Atem, to be remanded at the Federal Prisons Benue, for robbing a police officer. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Dan Ogo, gave the order shortly after the accused was arraigned for trial at the court. Prosecutor Michael Ewoh told the court that the […]

Condemn Boko Haram, Clark dares IBB, Buhari

Posted by admin Boko Haram, General Politics, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Top Stories Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— Elder statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, yesterday, declared that some highly placed individuals from the Northern part of the country were behind the increasing spate of violence in Nigeria to actualize their vow of “making the nation ungovernable for President Jonathan.” Speaking as a guest lecturer at […]

Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said. Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide […]

Pictures: Gov. Obi in Toronto admonishes Nigerians to be good ambassadors

Posted by admin Anambra, Governors, Headlines, NNP News, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

Filed by New Nigerian Politics (Toronto Bureau) Governor Peter Obi addressing members of the Anambra State Progressive Association (ASPA) at its annual convention in Toronto over the weekend, urged Nigerians to be good ambassadors in their adopted country, to be selfless and assist their fatherland at every opportunity. The two-term governor elated at the immense contributions of […]

NNP’s statement on the brutalization of its columnist by soldiers

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, NNP News, Oyo, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

By New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics categorically and unreservedly condemns the unprovoked brutalization of one of its columnists, Mr. Akintokunbo Adejumo, on July 22, 2012 in Ibadan, Oyo State by six miscreants of the Nigerian army attached to the PHCN building on Ring Road. This uncivilized, cowardly and sordid act visited on an innocent […]

Wooing Nigerians in Diaspora – By Arnold Alalibo

Posted by admin Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

By Arnold Alalibo | NNP | July 2012 – For the better part of his four years (199-2003), former President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the world wooing investors to come to Nigeria, most of whom fled the country during the tumultuous military regimes. Now, it is the turn of the current administration to woo the many […]

Ending the Debate on Akpabio’s Successor – By Ini-Abasi Mboho

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Articles, Columnists, Ini-Abasi Mboho, NNP Columnists, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

By Ini-Abasi Mboho | Uyo, Nigeria | July 31, 2012 – In recent media outings, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio has been inundated with concerns of who his successor would be or where he would come from. Firstly, in his pre-award interview as Silverbird Man of the Year on Silverbird Television, […]