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Headlines, INEC Politics, Kogi, State News
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says all political parties must educate eligible voters ahead of the 2012 governorship election in the state to avoid the low turnout witnessed in the last general elections. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mallam Muhammed Abubakar gave the charge yesterday during a stakeholders’ meeting at the INEC office, Lokoja. […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC), yesterday intercepted cloned drugs valued at N20 million in the commercial city of Onitsha during their routine raid in the area. Addressing journalists on the outcome of the raid, the Deputy Zonal Director of NAFDAC, Mr. Benson Kine said they acted on a […]
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Headlines, Religion
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
The approval given by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the operation of Islamic banking in the country is generating disquiet in the polity. Reasons for this are not difficult to fathom. Until now, Islamic banking, also known as Sharia banking, was a little known non-interest mode of banking alien to the conventional banking […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Residents of Atu Street in Calabar, Cross River State, have been thrown into confusion, as unknown assassins invaded the area, killing one Mr. Edet Udo. The remains of Mr. Udo had since been taken home to his village for interment, but tension and panic had continued to pervade the street as scores of people had […]
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Headlines, State News, Yobe
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State had before May 29 dissolved his council and relieved all the special advisers and special assistants. He even released N124 million as severance packages for them. Many of the dropped commissioners and other aides are cracking kernels, scrubbing floors and loosening knots in a bid to be or reappointed. […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Aggrieved ex-militants in the Niger Delta are preparing for a show- down with the Federal Government over its decision to commence the third phase of the amnesty programme. The coordinator of the programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku had recently declared that those nursing the hope of a third phase of the amnesty programme should forget about […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday explained why it might be difficult for the state government to immediately commence the payment of the N18, 000 minimum wage. Addressing over 100 paramount and traditional rulers yesterday at the Obas’ complex, Abeokuta, the state capital, Amosun lamented the financial position of the state, adding that the […]
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Headlines
Monday, June 27th, 2011
WHEN on July 12, 2009, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, bombed Atlas Cove, a sprawling Federal Government owned oil facility in the heart of Lagos, it was a shocked nation that suddenly woke up to the realisation that the country as a whole was no longer safe from attack by the […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Monday, June 27th, 2011
The Nigerian Army, yesterday, dismissed from service, Lance Corporal Sunday Ayode, the soldier who clashed with men of the Lagos task force on BRT last week at Obanikoro, Lagos. The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division, Major-General Kenneth Minimah, disclosed this to Vanguard, yesterday, at his Victoria Island, Lagos office. Minimah said the Nigeria Army […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday, kicked against the on-going payment of taxes to Lagos State government by the Ogun indigenes working in Lagos state. Amosun said this in a brief interview with airport journalists at the residential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, where he had gone to receive President Goodluck Jonathan […]
