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Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Ban Ki- Moon , UN Scribe ByTokunbo Adedoja in New York United Nations Security Council has recommended the re-appointment of Mr. Ban Ki-moon as UN Secretary General for a second consecutive term. At a closed-door meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, the Council adopted a resolution that Ki-Moon should serve a second-term beginning from […]
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Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Nigeria has signed an in-flight security agreement with the United States of America to fortify its borders in the wake of renewed terrorist attacks. The pact involves the deployment of in-flight security officers/Air Marshals, especially on the Lagos-U.S. route. Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Dr Harold Demuren, signed on behalf of Nigeria, […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
Berlin—The Nigerian embassy in Germany is awaiting the outcome of the German authorities’ investigation on the killing of a Nigerian, Mrs Christy Schnudeck, allegedly shot by a policewoman, an official has said. The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that Schnudeck, who hailed from Edo, was shot at a job centre in Frankfurt by a policewoman […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
UNTIL you encounter the erstwhile Special Adviser to the President on Niger-Delta and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Committee and one of the foremost Niger-Delta activists, Hon Kingsley Kuku, you may possibly not recognize why President Goodluck Jonathan found the Niger-Delta activist a robust person to handle the tactical agency after the exit of the […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
Nigerian Diaspora groups in the United States have berated former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his comments, that the current administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan lacks the will and consistency to fight corruption. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, Comrade Femi Soneye, director of Projects and Planning of the Alliance of Nigerians In […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
FROM Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, came an assertion yesterday that the Libyan leader is willing to hold elections and would step aside if he lost, agency report stated. The offer was made as Mikhail Margelov, the envoy leading Russia’s efforts to end the conflict, arrived in Tripoli for talks with Gaddafi’s government. The Kremlin […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
AN Indian firm, Wilmar International, is set to boost palm oil production in Nigeria with a N32 billion investent in Rivers State. Already, the company had acquired the land for the enterprise. It has also opened a corprate office in the state. Just as it has started recruiting the required manpower needed for the […]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
A United States federal jury has convicted a Nigerian, Bidemi Bello, of forced labour, trafficking for forced labour, document servitude, and alien harbouring A statement by the US Department of Justice said Bello, formerly a resident of Suwanee, near Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted of eight counts late Friday. According to federal prosecutors, the 41-year-old forced […]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Geneva – The Federal Government has explained why Nigeria lost her position on the Governing Council of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Nigeria lost to Congo. in an election held on June 6 to elect those who will represent Africa on the Board of the UN body. Mr Anthony Ozodinobi, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of […]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Lagos – Five persons were on Tuesday arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding an American of 27,000 dollars (N4.2 million). The accused persons, Olagoke Uthman, 30, Innocent Angiu, 23, Ugba Martins, 26, Maduka Joy, 26 and Jane Awhin, 51 are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and unlawfully […]