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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Director-General, NOTAP, Dr. Buba Bindir File copy The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion says that Nigeria loses N500 billion annually on the importation of ICT-based technologies. A statement in Abuja on Wednesday by the Assistant Director of Corporate Affairs, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, Mr. Levi Anyikwa, […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
A generating set File copy An Area Court in Karmo, Abuja on Thursday sentenced a 20-year old man, Salisu Mohammed, to two months imprisonment for stealing four generators. The police prosecutor, Corporal Simon Emmanuel, said the suspect committed the offence of conspiracy and theft contrary to Sections 79 and 287 of the […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said for the country to achieve the desired development, Nigerians must be ready to tame their “exotic taste” that makes them prefer imported goods to the ones made locally. Jonathan spoke when the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, formally presented to him a loaf of bread made from cassava […]
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General Politics, Legislature, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Senate
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
OPPOSITION lawmakers in the Senate on Wednesday asked for sanction to imposed on ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo for lapses in the Federal Government’s privatisation exercise in the past 12 years. The Senators argued that sanctions recommended by the senate ad hoc committee that probed the exercise for the former heads of the Bureau […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
National Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh newafricanpress.com The National Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, in this interview with Ozioma Ubakukoh, says extensive consultations will be made before the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will be buried and other issues When is the burial of the […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
iPhone 4 engadget.com An iPhone user narrowly escaped being burnt in the face after his iPhone exploded on a bedside table in Brazil, a few days after another iPhone exploded on a plane. The phone short circuited and started to burn 15 inches from a man’s face as he slept, the online […]
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Articles, Columnists, Niger Delta, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

By Odimegwu Onwumere, Rivers State, Nigeria – Nov. 30, 2011 – Crying Out Loud (COL), Rivers State is falling into a serious environmental chaos, even though that the residents are calm and peace loving. The state is falling into chaos because utopia has been refused to be achieved. What’s happening with the Ada-George Wimpey road? […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
By Henry Umoru & Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA — THE Federal Government disclosed, yesterday, that it has resolved to stop ecological grants to state governments, giving lack of proper accountability and mismanagement as reason for the action. Speaking in Abuja when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Special Duties, Permanent Secretary in charge of Ecological […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
By Tony Ubani in Morocco The legends of Nigerian football are here in Morocco at the on-going U-23 Olympic soccer qualifier. Current coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, Peter Rufai as co-ordinator of the U-23 team, Austin Eguavoen, coach of the U-23 team, Ben Iroha, assistant coach of the team and Aloy Agu who is the goalkeeper’s […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
BY ABDULWAHAB ABDULLAH LAGOS—A Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere was yesterday told that it lacked the jurisdiction to compel the appearance of the former Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Dr (Mrs.) Ndi Okereke-Onyuike, before it to answer for alleged conspiracy and stealing. Okereke-Onyuike, who was expected to appear before Justice Christopher Balogun […]