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FG Moves to Douse Budget Tension with N’Assembly

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature Friday, December 24th, 2010

The row over 2011 budget between the Federal Government and National Assembly may be nipped in the bud following moves by key parastatals to submit their proposals to the federal legislature. Senate President David Mark had warned on Wednesday that the budget would not be approved until government’s budgetary proposals for federal parastatals, departments and […]

Atiku promises coastal guards, relocation of Niger Delta Ministry

Posted by admin Headlines, Ministries, Niger Delta Friday, December 24th, 2010

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Monday night, took his bid to clinch the presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the business community in Lagos as part of his tour of the South-West geo-political zone with a promise to raise, via legislation, a coastal guard, to be dominated by ex-militants, to protect the […]

Imo launches onslaught against cancer

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Friday, December 24th, 2010

PLANS are afoot in Imo State to halt the advances of cancer, one of the deadly diseases ravaging the world. The state is focusing on women with a view to reducing its prevalence among them. The wife of the governor, Mrs Chioma Ohakim disclosed this while declaring open a sensitisation and advocacy workshop on early […]

How Yakubu’s miss changed Nigerian football

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, December 24th, 2010

On June 22, 2010, the Nigerian and South Korean international football teams met at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban in the final group stage match of Group B. So far in the World Cup, Nigeria was a major disappointment, losing 1-0 to Argentina and 2-1 to Greece, and could have only advanced onto the […]

MEND warns of further attacks

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Friday, December 24th, 2010

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has denied that a militant leader, Tamunotonye Kuna, aka Commander Obesel, and four others allegedly escaped from prison. MEND said the militants were “secretly removed from the prison facility under the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan for possible execution”. In a statement by its spokesman, […]

Opinion: Just Before IBB switches camp

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, December 24th, 2010

It shall be well with the consensus outcome, and it shall manifestly be well for all Nigerians” —IBB It has, over the years, become somewhat of a problem understanding former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida. It is even more difficult for anyone not to input ulterior motives to his statements or his political moves. But […]

Xmas: Taraba senator donates 1,000 bags of rice

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Friday, December 24th, 2010

AS part of his magnanimity to people of the state, especially at this festivity period, the senator representing Taraba North senatorial zone, Dr Anthony George Manzo, on Thursday, distributed over 1,000 bags of rice to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) offices in the zone. Performing the distribution exercise on behalf of the senator, the director […]

Mass failure recorded in WASCE •As 80% of candidates fail English, Maths

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Friday, December 24th, 2010

THIS Christmas may not be the best period for most candidates who wrote the October/November 2010 West African Senior School Examination (WASCE) as 80 per cent of them failed. The Head of National Office (HNO) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mr Iyi Uwadiae, said at a news conference on Thursday in Lagos that […]

Plateau women protest arrest of 19 youth

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Friday, December 24th, 2010

Piqued by the arrest of 19 youths in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State by men of the Special Task Force (STF) in connection with the recent Fulani invasion of the area, women and youths of the affected council, on Thursday, staged a protest to condemn the arrest and the operations of the […]

10 die in Bauchi auto crash

Posted by admin Bauchi, Headlines, State News Friday, December 24th, 2010

TEN persons were confirmed dead, while 10 others were critically injured in an auto crash which occured in the early hours of Thursday on the Darazo-Bauchi road. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the victims were members of a cultural troupe. Head of Operations, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Bauchi sector command, Haruna […]