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Ogba commends coach Osagie
President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Solomon Ogba has commended grassroots athletics coach, Isaac Osagie who has been fishing out budding talents from primary and secondary schools to train. Coach Osagie and his wife, Edem, a former Nigerian international were spotted at the Kermbo Group of Schools Annual Inter House Sports competition where they stayed the entire duration of the ...
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Maiduguri is safe Irabor tells Sharks
Chairman of the League Management Company, Honourable Nduka Irabor has said that the alarm being raised by Sharks Football Club of Port Harcourt over the security situation in Maiduguri was unfounded. Speaking with Sports Vanguard Tuesday, Honourable Irabor said that he had been in touch with the Sharks management and had told them that they had no excuse not to honour the mid-week fixture. ...
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Presidential Intervention Ikeja Police College wears new look
By Evelyn Usman Few months ago, Nigerians woke up to receive with shock and disbelief, news of the decrepit level of decay at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos coupled with its deplorable state. The college located on Oba Akinjobi way, close to Arch Bishop V inning Cathedral never gave any passer-by the slightest inkling of its real state, until it was revealed by a television station in ...
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Jonathan the fire fighter
By Rotimi Fasan NOW it looks like President Goodluck Jonathan has decided to take on the beast of religious terrorists ravaging different parts of Northern Nigeria, particularly the North-Eastern part, with his imposition of emergency rule on the three states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa last Wednesday. The President had in a national broadcast made the announcement after his hurried return to ...
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Benin youths issue 7-day ultimatum to RCC over sacked workers
BY SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN--Bini Development Union, BDU, a socio-cultural organisation in Edo State, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, operating in the state, to reconsider its decision to suspend some Bini natives working in the company in order not to face the wrath of host community. BDU threatened that after the expiration of the ultimatum, youths of the ...
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Fidelity Bank grows profit after tax by 604
*Declares 21 kobo dividend per share By Favour Nnabugwu ABUJA--Fidelity Bank plc yesterday declared a profit after tax of N18.2 billion for its financial year ended December 31, 2012, just as it approved a dividend of 21 kobo per share to its shareholders. The bank's profit after tax for the year under review rose significantly by 604 per cent, compared to the N2.6 billion it posted in ...
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Insecurity on the high seas troubles ECOWAS nations
If there is one thing the managers of Nigeria's Maritime Security would want the world to believe, it is the fact that they have been up to their charge in combating acts of terrorism in the high seas and coast lines, but Foreign Affairs Editor .Hugo Odiogor, argues that security personnel are also part of the security breaches on the West African high seas. The Chief of Naval Staff Vice ...
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Ebonyi ‘ll soon overtake other SEast states – Sen Ogbuoji
By Peter Okutu Senator Sonni Ogbuoji representing Ebonyi South senatorial district in the Senate in this interview bares his mind on the imperative of the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, on the welfare of the Niger Delta region, the dilapidated state of the Abakaliki-Afikpo expressway despite the huge funds ploughed into the project and the need for the Peoples Democratic Party, ...
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Why the Post is failing by ex-PDP chair Alli
By Emma Elebeke Former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sen. Ahmadu Alli has identified poor funding performance as the major factor militating against the growth and survival of the Nigerian Postal Service. Sen. Alli stated this at the weekend during the public presentation of the book "Reforming the Post in Nigeria: The Story of the Nigerian Postal Service", in Abuja. ...
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Why it is necessary to be insured
By RITA OBODOECHINA The uncertainty in life is what makes insurance so important. Although we can never predict what will happen to us, with the right insurance policies we can recover from our financial losses. This is because the insurance company will share the risk with us, to provide us enough security. Before things really go wrong in our lives, especially in the areas of health, and ...
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$500m AfDB loan FG commences withdrawal sets up c’ttee
By NOEL ONOJA The federal government has activated and commenced access to a $500 million African Development Bank (AfDB) loan with the setting up of a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) committee in Abuja. The loan aimed solely as intervention for the power sector is to be released in tranches of $100 million. The setting up of the committee is one of the pre-conditions for drawing on the ...
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Advertising contributes over N300bn to economy
By Princewill Ekwujuru THe Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN), has said that the advertising industry contributes over $2 billion (over N300 billion) to Nigeria's economy as it rolls out red carpets in celebration of the Association's 40 years anniversary. The president of AAAN, Bunmi Oke, said while announcing the association's achievements in the last 40 ...
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2015 Dokubo vows to fight opposition bullet for bullet
BY Emma Amaize & Akpokona Omafuaire WARRI--FOUNDER of Niger Delta People Volunteer Front, NPDVF, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has said that he was ready, bullet for bullet, for those who want to stop President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general elections. He spoke in Warri, Delta State, weekend, just as the founder of Oodua People's Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, said nobody ...
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Anambra to flush out hoodlums from motor parks
BY ENYIM ENYIM ONITSHA--Anambra State government, yesterday, moved to flush out hoodlums in motor parks in Onitsha, following a recent clash between two factions of the miscreants that allegedly resulted in the killing of four persons. Addressing newsmen, the Commissioner for Transport, Dr Chike Ohamobi, said security agents, comprising the military and the police, had been engaged and ...
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Controversy Caesarian Section the rule or option
THE joy of every woman is to deliver her baby normally. This is in spite of the many travails associated with pregnancy and delivery. Before now, the most available or preferred option for most women is natural birth. As the world recorded countless maternal deaths due to this process, scientists sought an alternative and came up with the Caesarean Section, CS. Today, many babies have been ...
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NGF crisis Two chairmen may emerge
By SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH There were indications, Tuesday, that the subterranean moves being made by the Presidency to edge out Governor Rotimi Amaechi from the leadership position of the Nigerian Governors' Forum, NGF, might lead to the emergence of two rival chairmen. Vanguard learnt from reliable sources that the subtle attempt by the pro-Jonathan camp to coax some ...
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Sterling Bank Intel partner on Laptop acquisition scheme
BY PRINCE OSUAGWU Sterling Bank Plc and Westgate Computers have synchronized plans with Intel Corporation (Nigeria) to increase effortless access to technology and improve the quality of living for its teaming customers and youths in general through the Sterling Bank-Intel new Laptop acquisition scheme. The New PC acquisition scheme is a scale-up on the 'Create Your Tomorrow' ...
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Keep children away from criminality with postive values – Agberebi
By UJU MBANUSI LAGOS -- Executive producer, Crime Fighters- ‘the Police and You,’ Mrs. Aisha Tosan Agberebi, yesterday, in Lagos, stressed the need to inculcate positive values in school children to keep them away from the criminality and self-destruction. At a pre-event briefing on Crime Fighters Security Awareness Day, Agberebi explained that the event billed for May 27, with the ...
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Need to empower PenCom to deal with pension defaulters
By ROSEMARY ONUOHA Last year, only 74 companies out of the lot operating in Nigeria got the National Pension Commission, PenCom, certificate of compliance to the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS. Statistics from PenCom shows that about 15,760 employers are defaulters of the CPS. Accordingly, over N2.5 billion of employees' monies are being withheld by these employers. Unfortunately, the ...
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IBTC Pensions opens Warri office
Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers has opened a new office in Warri. Mr Eric Fajemisin, Executive Director, Administrator, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers, said the opening of its Warri office informs its focus on taking pension services closer to Nigerians, availing them the opportunity of interacting directly with its staff on any issue relating to their pensions, planning for retirement, investment ...
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Revisiting NCC’s draft wiretap regulation
RECENTLY, a draft piece of regulation by the telecommunications regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission, titled Draft Lawful Interception of Communications Regulations has become the focus of attention. Taken with an allegation that the Federal Government has engaged a foreign firm in a $40 million contract to monitor electronic communication here, we can no longer carry on as if it is ...
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Fake drugs NAFDAC records big haul
By Chioma Obinna Last week in Lagos, it was the end of the road for a suspected representative of a cartel of drug counterfeiters based in China when operatives of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, succeeded in arresting one Olisaemeka Osefor, alleged to be one of their kingpins in Nigeria. The drug cartel specializes in the production and shipment of ...
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Lagos commences implementation of land use law July 31
By ABDWAHAB ABDULAH LAGOS -- Lagos State Government, yesterday, said it would commence full implementation of the new Land Use Law in the state from July 31, 2013. The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, who spoke on behalf of the government advised property owners to validate their title documents before the date. Ipaye at a Stakeholders' Meeting on Land Use ...
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Anambra govt urges workers to attend Achebe’s burial
BY VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA--ATTENDANCE of today's ceremonies in Awka for the burial of the late Professor Chinua Achebe is mandatory for civil servants in Anambra State, the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Mr. Oseloka Obaze, has said. Obaze, who briefed newsmen yesterday on the preparations for the burial, said though there would be no work free day, workers were to be at Ekwueme ...
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CBN sustains MPR at 12
By NOEL ONOJA ABUJA--The Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, met to review the conditions and challenges confronting the country's domestic economy for the first five months of 2013, with a view to reassessing short term monetary policy option against global conditions. Consequently, the committee has left the Monetary Policy Rate unchanged at ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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