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Thursday, August 27th, 2015
By Tom Garba, Yola – Fifty American medical personnel, including 23 doctors, nurses and medical photographers, have been engaged by District 9125 of Rotary Club International to train Nigerian doctors in two designated teaching hospitals of Ilorin and Abuja to offer expertise on surgery related issues. The District Governor of the Rotary Club,Dr Mike Omotosho […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By Yusuf Ozi-Usman – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has lamented that Nigeria is losing no fewer than 500,000 infants to malnutrition annually, which it described as silent health crisis. The international donor agency which began a two-day workshop today in Calabar, capital of Cross River state for media executives and health correspondents of […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State says the Appeal Court’s ruling which upheld the victory of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the last April governorship election was controversial. The party, in a statement issued by its Lagos Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani said by this development, the APC and governor Ambode could only celebrate a […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By Collins Amadi – Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has hit back at the former Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe on his recent verbal attack, describing him as a failure, noise maker and criminal who is supposed be in jail. Orubebe in a chat with journalists in Abuja Tuesday, yanked Oshiomhole and […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – The Police in Enugu has arrested a housewife, one Joy Umeh of No 13 Unubi Street, Achara layout, Enugu for allegedly stabbing the husband with a kitchen knife over feeding money. Our Correspondent gathered that the suspect stabbed the husband identified as one Sunday Umeh on the stomach over his […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
*Says Name Dropping Doesn’t Translate To Delegates In Primaries A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State and close aide of its leader and ex-governor, Timipre Sylva, has stated that a former chairman of Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe, can never become the party’s flag-bearer in the forthcoming elections despite dropping […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has again floored his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) contestant in the last governorship election as the Appeal Court on Wednesday upheld Ambode’s victory. The Lagos Division of the Court upheld the decision of the Electoral Tribunal which had ruled in favour of Ambode in July, declaring Ambode as […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – Two people have been feared dead in a bloody reprisal attack on a rival gang group on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Some gang of youths from Idumota area were said to have assaulted their counterpart from John Street on Lagos Island during a ceremonial gathering at Itafaji area of Lagos […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Multichoice Nigeria Limited, a pay-media company which owns the Digital Satellite Television (DStv) brand, has indicated its unpreparedness to continue with the investigation of the activities of the brand by the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), occasioned by complaints alleging consumer rights violations. However, a statement by the Head Media and Pubic […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), were on Wednesday sent out of the public hearing session of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition on N1trillion scam leveled against their Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde. This was even as the image of the agency they represented, was […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
From Agabus Pwanagba – Following the ongoing killings in some LGAs in Plateau State, some concerned citizens of State have taken opportunity of the visit of the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-Moon to Nigeria to stage a peaceful protest in Abuja, to draw his attention to the development. Specifically, the protest […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Lagos Nigeria, 25th August, 2015: FBN Capital Limited has announced the successful conclusion of the Series 1 Bond Issuance offer for the Cross River State Government, under its N40 billion bond issuance program. The 7-year tenured Bonds with maturity due in 2022 were issued via a Book Building process by FBN Capital Limited, following its […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Senate has described as baseless and unfounded allegations that the invitation of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions was masterminded by the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki. It also stated that contrary to reports […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
With about five months to the Bayelsa State governorship elections, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has expressed optimism that he would be re-elected, based on his record of concrete achievements and grace of God upon him. Speaking with journalists in an interview in Yenagoa, he stressed that the restoration support base was far more robust now […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The Enugu State Police Command has discovered another baby making factory where five pregnant girls and nine babies of less than one year were recovered. Our Correspondent gathered that the alleged illegal maternity home, known as “Daughters of Divine Home Pro-live” is located at Aria Road by cemetery axis of […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – Irked by the perpetual abysmal performance of the Rangers International FC of Enugu, its supporters club, Tuesday took to the street to express their feelings about the development. They called for the immediate dissolution of the club’s management so as to make the Flying Antelopes a force to reckon with […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
By Abdul Gaffar Bello – President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed past administrations for the current situation in which Nigeria is forced to spend billions of Naira annually on alleged subsidies for petroleum products. While speaking at a meeting with the Chairman and members of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Tuesday in Abuja […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi – The Acting Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr. Babatunde Fowler, pledged partnership with the relevant stakeholders to shore-up the tax revenue and improve on the country’s tax administration. Fowler made this known when he took over the mantle of leadership from the out-going Acting Executive Chairman of FIRS, Mr. Sunday Ogungbesan […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
A female member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Koku Obiyai has explained the reasons for the N25 billion loan approval that was given to the State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson to complete ongoing projects in the State. She said that although the timing of the Governor’s request and the approval may have […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin Nigeria – In a country beset by series of political and ethno-religious problems like we are currently witnessing in Nigeria it is often recommended to run a full scale National Reconciliation Process to ensure and achieve a “National Unity”. The President Buhari’s administration is currently seemingly concerned with fighting […]
