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88 sickle-cell patients died in Bauchi
By Suzan Edeh Bauchi-No fewer than 88 sickle-cell sufferers in Bauchi State have died between January and June this year alone. The Chairman of Sickle Cell Anaemia Association of Nigeria, Bauchi Chapter, Hajara Sani disclosed this to newsmen Tuesday in Bauchi. Hajara Sani lamented that the disease was claiming lives at an alarming rate in the state, calling the urgent attention of government ...
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Islamic militants drive 19000 rice farmers off land in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday. Food shortages would add immeasurably to the misery in northeast Nigeria. The area abandoned by farmers is a fertile one in the semi-arid ...
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Sure-P to Provide Internet Service to Rural Areas in Adamawa
The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) is to provide Internet facilities in all the 266 wards in Adamawa. This is to enable people at the grassroots have access to its various empowerment programmes. Alhaji Yunusa Belel, Adamawa Coordinator of SURE-P, disclosed this to newsmen in Yola on Tuesday. He said talks were on with GSM providers on ways SURE-P would collaborate ...
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Bauchi Lawmaker Worries Over Harassment of Residents By Horses
A member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Ilyasu Zwall, has called for the enforcement of the law regulating the use of horses in major cities of the state, to end the harassment of residents by horse riders. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the "Ceremonial Horse Riding (Restriction) Law 2012", was assented to by Gov. Isa Yuguda on August 28, 2012. Zwall, who ...
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NE Nigeria Insecurity Sees Refugee Outflows Spreading to Cameroon
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 18 June 2013, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. With the on-going crisis in north-eastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe States, UNHCR offices are reporting refugee arrivals in Niger, and now in Cameroon too. In Cameroon, a UNHCR team visited ...
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UPDATE 1-Chevron selling three more Nigerian oil blocks
Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:43am EDT * Chevron selling five Nigerian blocks in total * Stake in reserves around 200-250 million oil barrels * Nigerian firms, partnered with foreign firms, to bid ABUJA, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firm Chevron is selling three more Nigerian oil blocks, the company said on Tuesday, taking to five the number of assets it is selling in Africa's biggest oil ...
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UPDATE 2-Chevron is latest oil major to scale back in Nigeria
Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:31am EDT * Chevron selling five Nigerian blocks in total * Stake in reserves around 200-250 million oil barrels * Nigerian firms, partnered with foreign firms, to bid By Joe Brock ABUJA, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Chevron Corp is selling five Nigerian shallow-water oil blocks, the company said on Tuesday, the latest oil major seeking to dispose of assets in Africa's ...
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Vanguard Confab Teachers urged to report abuse cases in children
By Charles Mgbolu Mr Dosunmi Akeem, Officer, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Lagos State has urged teachers in the state to report every case of abuse in children to relevant authorities as soon as it is revealed by victims. Mr Akeem who addressed teachers at the on-going Vanguard Children’s conference lashed out at teachers who do not take prompt action despite seeing visible ...
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Vanguard holds annual child confab
Vanguard Media Limited holds her 5th annual Children’s Conference, Tuesday, in Lagos with the theme Role of Teachers in Curbing Child ...
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BNP Paribas to broker Chevron Nigeria oil sales -sources
ABUJA, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:12am EDT ABUJA, June 18 (Reuters) - French bank BNP Paribas is brokering the sale of five oil blocks that U.S. energy firm Chevron is selling in Nigeria, banking and oil industry sources told Reuters. BNP Paribas did not immediately respond to request for comment. Chevron is selling its 40 percent stake in oil mining leases 83, 85, 52, 53 and 55 to ...
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President of the Nigerian Senate to visit China
President of the Nigerian Senate David Mark will pay an official goodwill visit to China from June 19 to 22, according to a press release issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature.Mark is making the visit at the invitation of Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the ...
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Protest rocks Delta community
By Godwin Oghre Saple -It was pandemoniumTuesday in Oghara, headquarters of Ethiope West Local Government Area, as youths numbering over 1000 went on rampage, protesting the arrest of one of their members, who they identified as Favour Ededdey, and who they refered to as a vibrant youth leader in the area. The protest which lasted for over 2 hours led to heavy traffic jam along major streets, ...
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Lab Scientists Seek Legislation On Workplace Safety
Nigerian laboratory scientists have called for adequate legislation to regulate the practice of health and safety in the general working environment in the country. The scientists, under the aegis of Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, Lagos State Branch, called for creation of robust safety measures and consciousness in work places with a view to reducing work ...
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Death Penalty Wont Stop Kidnapping - AjuyahDelta Attorney-General
Wednesday April 17, 2013, has gone down as the day members of the 29-member Delta State House of Assembly took the bull by the horns to override the veto of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan on the bill stipulating death penalty for kidnappers. The governor had since November 2012 when the bill was passed and sent to him refused to assent to the bill. The State Attorney-General and Commissioner for ...
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NGF Crisis - Jang Fails to Win New Convert
Abuja - STRONG indications emerged yesterday that the reconciliation move by governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State to bring pro- Chibuike Amaechi to his camp may have failed. At the well publicised meeting of Jonah Jang led faction of the faction of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF, the statuesque was maintained as fifteen governors and one deputy governor in attendance. Answering ...
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Months After Chiedubem Thanks Gov Orji Vanguard Others
IT is said that when a person shows gratitude for a good deed, he or she is likely to obtain another. This may have moved Abochi and Ngozi Tom to show gratitude for the good deed done to their son, Chiedubem - who was once a hole- in- the- heart patient, but has been completely cured. In a thank you message to Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji, all well-meaning Nigerians and Vanguard, the ...
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Skye Bank Penya Barca in Strategic Partnership
As part of its corporate social responsibility programme, Skye Bank Plc has partnered Penya Barca De Lagos Club, the official FC Barcelona Fans' Club in Nigeria and is now the official strategic partner of the club. Speaking at the inauguration of the club in Lagos recently, the bank's Executive Director, South South/Retail Banking, Mrs Ibiye Ekong, said the bank and the Barca ...
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The Challenge of Gas Flaring
Gas flaring harms the environment and increases the misery of humans Whereas the nation reaps huge revenue from oil exploration, the converse side of it is that gas flaring, a concomitant effect of exploration activities, does a lot of damage to the environment. It involves burning off gas released by oil extraction-which sends plumes of toxic smoke into the air. It has been established beyond ...
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Three Olympic Finalists Storm Calabar for Championships
As many as three finalists from last year's 30th Olympic Games in London will be on parade this week at the 67th Cross River State/All Nigeria Open Athletics Championships scheduled to begin at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar Wednesday. Top on the list of the finalists is reigning national 100m queen, Blessing Okagbare, who made it to the finals of the blue ribband event at the ...
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Hardship Mounts As Poorly-Fed Nigerian Troop in Mali Are Unpaid for Three Months
Five months after the deployment of Nigerian troops as part of the Africa-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) to fight Islamic insurgents, there is no respite in sight for soldiers who have suffered untold hardship and total neglect of the contingent. PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report that the 873-man contingent is still making do with poor nutrition, and unpaid allowances of ...
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Boko Haram Attack 11 Killed as Scores Others Left Injured in Northern Eastern Nigeria Africa News
Local reporters in Nigeria have said that 11 people were killed in a terrific attack on a local Secondary school by the pursuant militant group, Boko Haram in the northeastern town of Damaturu over the ...
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Grandson takes up Mandela challenge to serve
MVEZO -Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla wanted to be a disc jockey but his illustrious grandfather had other ideas for him — passing down a lesson on the responsibility that South Africa’s most famous surname carries. The anti-apartheid hero chose his 38-year-old grandson as the first Mandela in decades to be chief of his rural birthplace Mvezo in the Eastern Cape six years ...
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Seven Students Two Teachers Killed in Yobe Attack
Damaturu - Seven students, two teachers and two Boko Haram insurgents have been killed in night attacks on Sunday in Damaturu, Yobe State. Daily Trust gathered that the attacks, which took place when the curfew hour was about to set in at 9pm, were launched by suspected Boko Haram members at Government Secondary School Damaturu and a military check point located several metres away from the ...
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Nigeria Federal Court Receives Gambias Thumbs Up
The government of The Gambia has applauded the Nigeria Federal Court in Lagos for what it called "abiding by the letter of the law" in deciding to put away individuals bent on aggravating problems, following the court's May sentencing of Iran and Nigeria nationals for illegal shipment of firearms and explosives into Africa's most populous nation. A press release from the ...
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Freeing Trade Between South Africa and Nigeria
Johannesburg - If a Free Trade Area were to be negotiated between Africa's two largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, it would have a powerful effect on trade across the sub-continent and would challenge other countries to respond. "In my view it would bring substantial economic benefits to both sides in terms of exports, investment, competition enhancement and, ultimately, ...
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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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