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Hijab ban in Lagos MPAC MURIC others hit back at govt
By Ishola Balogun Muslim Public Affairs Centre, MPAC, has said it will engage all lawful means to frustrate the decision of the Lagos State Ministry of Education with respect to the recent ban on hijab, adding that it will continue to actively work with other Islamic organizations and stakeholders towards expanding the coalition to achieve reversal of the ban in the quickest possible time. In ...
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Ebonyi House recalls impeached deputy speaker member
By PETER OKUTU ABAKALIKI -- Ebonyi State House of Assembly yesterday, recalled its suspended former deputy speaker, Valentine Okike, representing Onicha West constituency. Okike was impeached and suspended over alleged abuse of office about two months ago. Also, recalled was another member, Lillian Igwe, who represents Ivo constituency who was suspended for her alleged misconduct about one ...
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Jonathan Mahama Ekwueme Anyaoku Govs others bid Achebe farewell
By McPhilips Nwachukwu, Vincent Ujumadu &UDUMA KALU AWKA--The burial in Ogidi, Anambra State yesterday of the literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, was literally turned to a political gathering given the caliber of political figures and political insignias that coloured the five- star burial. Achebe's burial attracted President Goodluck Jonathan, Ghanaian counterpart, John Mahama, ...
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I don’t have AIDS – Cossy
By OPEOLUWANI OGUNJIMI IF you happen to be one of those people who are still spreading the old rumour that tiny-voiced actress-turned-singer, Cossy Orjiakor is HIV positive, this news is bound to disappoint you. The booby actress has refuted the rumour, insisting that she's free from the deadly ...
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Following up on last week’s topics
By Donu Kogbara Last week, I expressed reservations about President Jonathan's overall performance to date...but praised him wholeheartedly for courageously declaring a state of emergency in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states. I also complained about the fact that the American Embassy in Abuja recently rejected my assistant Mavis's visa application...on the grounds that she (allegedly) ...
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Anglican Communion frowns at same sex marriage
BY CHARLES KUMOLU DIOCESE of Ijebu South/West, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion has frowned at calls for the recognition of same sex marriage, saying that there should be no compromise with same sex community. It also called on Christians to go into politics and show themselves as the salt and light of Nigeria. Disclosing this in a communique issued at the end of its synod, the Diocese ...
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We’ll wrest power from ACN in S-West – PDP
BY OLA AJAYI IBADAN --PEOPLES Democratic Party in the South West has said it was battle ready to wrestle the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria for the control of the zone in the 2015 elections. As a result, it called on the national secretariat of the party to ensure that governorship candidates for the 2015 elections emerge within the next six months to enable the party unseat the ruling ACN ...
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Renewed communal clash claims cop in Lagos
BY BOSE ADELAJA LAGOS -- Renewed communal clash in Ikorodu area of Lagos State has reportedly claimed the life of a policeman and injured unspecified number of persons. The Policeman (names withheld) was said to be one of the officers posted to Mowonla area of Ikorodu to prevent further crisis in the town. Vanguard gathered that the issue degenerated, Tuesday night, when some members of ...
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Jonathan recovers Ajaokuta from Global Steel – Sen Adeyemi
By HENRY UMORU ABUJA -- CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi (PDP, Kogi West), yesterday, said President Goodluck Jonathan has recovered the dead Ajaokuta Steel Complex in Kogi State from Global Steel Holdings Limited. The move came six years after the company had remained non-functional. Adeyemi noted that the development and bringing ...
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NGF ELECTION Amaechi Yuguda Shema in final battle
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & Henry Umoru ABUJA--Uncertainty fired by a web of intrigues, last night, shadowed aspirations of three of the nation's governors ahead of today's election of a new chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum. Three governors- the incumbent, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State; Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State and Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State were the ...
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IPC urges NNPC IGP to probe oil firm
By ETOP EKANEM THE Ijaw Peoples Congress,IPC, yesterday, called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; the Inspector-General of Police; Director-General, Department of State Service, DSS, and Minister of Petroleum Resources to call Integrated Data Servicing Nigeria Limited, IDSL, to order, over its alleged manipulation of some communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta ...
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Karen’s BBA co-winner Wendall arrested over $25000 fraud
By IYABO AINA Ex-BBA winner, Wendall Parson during the week was arrested over false car insurance claims after he was involved in an accident with his car two months ago. The buzz is that Wendall allegedly insured his Ford Ranger car with Alliance Insurance Company on March 18, 2013, two days after he crashed the same car. He then allegedly lodged a false insurance claim of $25,000 for the ...
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NRC shops for private investors to drive rail transportation
BY JONAH NWOKPOKU Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is shopping for investors under a Public-Private Partnership initiative to drive railway operations in the country. Managing Director, NRC, Engr. Adeseyi Sijuade, who disclosed this in Lagos, said that the government has reached a conclusion that the corporation cannot be totally transformed without the participation of the private sector. ...
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Mass importation of CPO threat to FG’s ATA – POFON
BY DANIEL GUMM THE Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria, POFON has cautioned the Federal Government to be wary of some companies in Nigeria, which have begun trading in imported Crude Palm Oil, CPO, explaining that it had informed the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development about the threat that mass importation and dumping of CPO poses to the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, ATA of ...
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INSECURITY Why we must decentralize security now – Igini
BY CHARLES KUMOLU LAWYER, activist, Mike Igini is the Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner. In this interview, he called for the decentralization of the policing system in Nigeria as a way of assisting current efforts at fighting insecurity, frowns at illegal appropriation of funds by public officials among other issues. ...
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Oshodin and the UNIBEN VC appointment
FRANTZ FANON is reputed for his unassailable postulation that:"History will not forgive those men who have the exceptional privilege of speaking the words of truth, but have decided to take refuge in an attitude of captivity, mute indifference and sometime cold complicity". History will not forgive us if we fail to correct the wrong information encapsulated in pages 1 and 2 of a ...
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Emergency rule Borno Adamawa Yobe governors lose power
By OKEY NDIRIBE, EMMAN OVUAKPORIE, HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE …To receive monthly allocation "only for salaries," as instructed by Jonathan ABUJA -- The Senate and the House of Representatives, Thursday, formally blocked the governors of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states from having complete access to their states’ funds. The action by the two chambers of the National ...
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Effective e-payment system critical to banking services – Sanusi
By Babajide Komolafe Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, CON, has maintained that effective e-payment system was critical to banking services in the country. Speaking in Lagos during the keynote address at the CBN/Gartner event, Sanusi said that the CBN remains committed to realizing the vision of providing Nigeria with a secure, robust and accessible ...
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Why we’re where we are today
By Adisa Adeleye Today, everybody talks about corruption without any concrete suggestion as to how this common disease could be cured. The general impression is that every Nigerian is corrupt in one way or the other. It is like the ailment of malaria whose causes are well known, yet Nigerians prefer usage of drugs rather than the eradication of the causes of the disease, as an effective ...
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AGN set to host screen actors award
By BENJAMNIN NJOKU In the bid to recognise actors, individuals, corporate bodies, government and its agencies that have contributed immensely to the growth of the nation's motion picture industry, the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has concluded plans to organise its own award ceremony known as the Screen Actors Award. Already, the National President of the guild, Ms Ibinabo Fiberesima has ...
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Researcher urges FG to include date palm in ATA to combat desertification
Mr Chukwuemeka Eke has urged the Federal Government to include date palm in its Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) to ensure food security and combat desertification. Eke, a researcher with the Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research Institute (NIFOR) in an interview in Abuja said that it could earn farmers about N2 million per hectare in a year if included in the ATA. He said that for ...
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Fuel subsidy still fraught with abuse – Aig Imoukhuede
By BABAJIDE KOMOLAFE Managing Director/Chief Executive, Access Bank Plc, Mr Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, yesterday, said the fuel subsidy is still fraught with abuse. Speaking at the Risk Management Conference organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, he said despite the reform of the fuel subsidy, the system still allow for abuse and banks need to be wary of such abuses and the risk it poses ...
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Literature and the Nigerian-ness of AchebeSoyinka
Late Prof Chinua Achebe As voices, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka have achieved what a voice is meant to achieve- the command of listening ears, and millions and millions of them across the globe. To continue to competitively compare and contrast Soyinka with Achebe and vice-versa is to miss a very important point: that a diverse society not only can but ought to have not two but many different ...
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Beyond the Nasarawa massacre of Police
THE massacre this month of over 40 police officers and 10 Department of State Services, DSS, men by the Ombatse cult in Eggon area of Nasarawa State woke Nigeria to the reality of the danger of increased violence against our law enforcement agents, especially the Police. It brought home the determination of Boko Haram to destabilise this country, and that any evil we tolerate will turn round to ...
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Stakeholders oppose regulation of alternative dispute resolutions
By Babajide Komolafe Stakeholders in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) industry have opposed the establishment of a commission to regulate ADR practices in the country. Recently, the House of Representatives passed a Bill titled, 'National Alternative Dispute Regulatory Commission Bill, 2011. The Bill which has also passed the second reading at the Senate, seeks to establish ...
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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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