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Why I accepted the job –Okonjo-Iweala

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday assumed office as Minister of Finance, saying that she accepted to serve Nigeria again because of the passion she has for the country. Addressing the directors of the ministry on assumption of office, she told them that she came to implement the president’s agenda of creating jobs. To this effect, she […]

Disturbing Picture: Pregnant wife, mother of man murdered by cop beg police – Please give us Onyeka’s corpse for burial

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

• Late Onyeka Photo: THE SUN PUBLISHING More Stories on This Section The sudden death of Mr. Onyeka Agupugo, a brick layer and mason, who was allegedly killed by a trigger-happy policeman last Saturday has left the family devastated. More devastating is that the corpse of the murdered man has been deposited at an unknown […]

Hard times hit N’Assembly as banks recover election loans

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, Senate Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Hard times have hit returnee members of the National Assembly, as senators and members of the House of Representatives, are groaning under the yoke of heavy bank loans taken to prosecute the April poll. The National Assembly poll was shifted from April 2 to April 9 when it was eventually conducted by the Independent National […]

No dollar salary for ministers –Jonathan

Posted by admin Headlines, Ministries Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan was excited yesterday as he swore in he Minister of Finance and the Coordinator of the National Economic Management Team (NEMT), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The president announced that she and her colleagues from the Diaspora in the cabinet had agreed to be paid in naira and not dollar as reported in the […]

In Picture: Breaking Nigeria into Five Countries

Posted by admin Headlines, National Politics Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

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Minimum wage: FG to pay N18,900 as labour, govt finally sign agreement •Govs finding solution to pay N18,000 minimum wage – Oshiomhole

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

THE prolonged negotiation between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended on a happy note late, on Tuesday, when the Federal Government announced that the minimum pay in the federal civil service and public service will be N18, 900, even as it signed what it hoped will be the final agreement with labour on […]

IBB: Vatsa’s Execution, My Most Traumatic Decision

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency, Raw Politics Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Signing the death warrant of a childhood friend is not exactly a position anyone would like to be — especially when that friend had become more like a blood brother. As former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, marks his 70th birthday Wednesday, he looks back in pain, revealing that the execution of Major-General Mamman […]

History as Nigeria Finally Launches Two Satellites

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Determined to firm up its drive towards technological advancement, especially in relation to Information Communications Technology (ICT), Nigeria will Wednesday launch two satellites in faraway Russia after several postponements. The launch was earlier scheduled for July 7. Although THISDAY gathered that the construction and launch of the satellites cost Nigeria N17.42 billion, the Head of […]

Man bags 6-month imprisonment for having sex with goat

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

A middle-aged man, Nasiru Ishaku, was, on Tuesday, sentenced to a six-month jail by a Bauchi chief magistrates’ court, for having sexual intercourse with a she-goat. Ishaku, who resides at Nassarawa quarters of Bauchi metroplis, was charged before chief magistrate, Isa Mohammed, by the police, for committing unnatural offence and mischief, by maiming an animal, […]

Jos mayhem: Hoodlums kill post-JAMB exam candidates

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

An unspecified number of candidates who were in Jos, the Plateau State capital, for the post-UTME examination organised by the University of Jos were alleged to have been killed by hoodlums in the wake of fresh violence in the state. Vanguard learnt that some of the candidates unaware of the fresh hostilities were attacked as […]