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Kwara locks out workers for lateness

Posted by admin Headlines, Kwara, State News Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

Starnded workers | credits: Success Nwogu No fewer than 85 workers and visitors were locked out at the Governor’s Office in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday. The governor’s office complex is made up of offices of workers under the office of the Secretary to the State Government, the Head of Service, the Ministry of […]

Dangote bags Clinton’s business leadership award

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote The President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has been honoured with the 2015 Clinton Global Citizen Award for leadership in the private sector for his contributions to the development of the African society and the world at large. According to a statement by the group, the award ceremony was […]

Buyers stop loading Nigerian crude

Posted by admin Headlines, Oil Politics Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu The measures introduced by the Federal Government to monitor crude transit and check oil theft are said to be threatening income lifeline, compounding the damage the crude price fall has done to Nigeria’s finances, access to dollars and imports. Oil traders and shipping brokers said a newly […]

Opinion: Buhari is not a Nigerian

Posted by admin Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Saturday, September 26th, 2015

Kayode Soremekun aertisement TOP HEADLINES As I contemplate the Nigerian condition or non-condition, I continue to marvel at contemporary happenings. The nirvana is certainly not here yet. Still, it is possible to discern new ozone in public life. Suddenly, public officials are more responsive. The refineries appear to be working. […]

‘PG Arab states to blame for potential Morsi execution’

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

A leading figure of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement has condemned the position of certain Arab states of the Persian Gulf on the potential execution of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. Yehia Hamed, who worked as investment minister in Morsi’s administration, and was the youngest minister in his democratically elected government, specifically pointed fingers at Saudi Arabia, a […]

World leaders adopt ambitious UN goals to end extreme poverty in 15 years

Posted by admin Headlines, United Nations Saturday, September 26th, 2015

Teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks at a press conference during the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2015 in New York. She urged leaders to zero in on promoting education even as world leaders pledged to end extreme poverty within 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by […]

Zambian president gives death row inmates life sentences

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu on Thursday reduced the sentence of 332 prisoners awaiting death by hanging to life imprisonment to ease maximum security prison congestion. Crimes that could be punishable by death include murder, treason and robbery with a deadly weapon, although Zambia has not executed any prisoners since 1997. During a […]

Germany-based businessman shot dead in Lagos

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

■ Police hold two suspects BY CHIOMA IGBOKWE It happened in Iyana Ishashi, along the Lagos-Badagry expressway. Mr. Barry Ndulue, a middle-aged man was coming back from a business trip to Ghana on Sunday, September 20, 2015. Unknown to him, he was being trailed, according to police accounts. Once he got to that […]

Lady, 24 nabbed for child theft in Calabar

Posted by admin Cross River, Headlines, State News Saturday, September 26th, 2015

By Ike Uchechukwu Luck ran out, yesterday, on an alleged syndicate that specializes in buying children in the Calabar metropolis as one of their members a 24 -year old lady known as Nkechi was apprehended by neighbours of the “supposed “victim before she was arrested by the police. Saturday Vanguard learned that the incident,which […]

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala offer two international jobs

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has accepted two key international positions. The first is to serve as Chair of the 28-member Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI, (http://www.gavi.org/about/), an international public-private partnership committed to saving the lives of children and protecting people’s […]