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Flood stalls court’s proceeding in Imo
BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI--Activities at Owerri Urban Customary Court, situated inside Imo Hotels, Owerri, were yesterday, stalled, following the submerging of the building by flood. The flood came on the heels of a torrential rain experienced which lasted for several hours on Monday. Vanguard observed that court officials and litigants clustered in groups to discuss the flood. A staff of the ...
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Imo 2015 Will PDP prevail
By Nnamdi Ojiego The race for 2015 Imo State governorship election has begun, and no political party in the state is leaving anything to chance towards occupying the Government House. The battle for now, is mainly between the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, which is part of the yet to be registered All Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. ...
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NITDA powers Senators on ICT-driven legislation
BY EMMA ELEBEKE In a move to digitalize the Nigerian law making process, the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has begun an ICT training programme for the Senate in Abuja. This followed the successful conclusion of similar training for the House of Representatives in 2012. The ICT training scheme is an initiative of NITDA aimed at arming the legislative arm of ...
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Nasarawa killings Maku Ewuga others shun peace meeting
By Abel Daniel Lafia--A peace meeting called by Governor Tanko Almakura of Nasarawa State to find an end to the protracted crisis which has led to the killing of hundreds of people, including 103 security men recently, flopped yesterday as major stakeholders from Eggon clan boycotted the parley. The summit was supposed to feature major stakeholders like the former Governor Aliyu Akwe Doma; ...
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The opposition will return GEJ to power
By Ebele Orakpo What's with some people anyway?" hissed Joshua, a commuter in the Apapa-bound bus as the bus crawled through the usual maddening traffic. Another commuter, Tayo had made a scathing remark on President Goodluck Jonathan's government being rudderless. "I get really pissed off when people criticize for criticism sake." "But is that not true? Is this ...
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Dabiri-Erewa condemns killing of 2 Nigerians in US
BY UJU MBANUSI Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has condemned the gruesome murder of two Nigerian cab drivers in Washington D.C. and New York, the United States of America and challenged the American authorities to fish out their killers. Dabiri-Erewa in a statement, recalled the events that led to the death of the two Nigerians who she said were ...
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Late Abibatu Mogaji Mixed feelings over closure of markets
By Bose Adelaja FOR the past few days, Adigun Street in the Ikeja area of Lagos has become a Mecca of sorts as people throng the place to mourn with the family of the departed President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, who died last Saturday at the age of 96. The late Mogaji was mother of former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. ...
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Fayemi seeks 10-yr-ban for election riggers
BY Innocent Anaba Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has called for a 10-year-ban or more on public office holders found by the courts to have rigged themselves into power, noting that until same was done, cheats will continue to find themselves in power. Governor Fayemi spoke at the ongoing Nigerian Bar Association, Section on Business Law, NBA-SBL, 7th Annual Business Law Conference, in ...
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Oil workers protest failed Eleme-Onne link road
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT--Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN have handed both the federal and the Rivers State Governments, a seven-day ultimatum to commence work on the deplorable Eleme-Onne link road in the state. The two unions, which stormed the road to protest its deplorable ...
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Can Lagos be a smart city
Equally interesting are the programmes launched by some of the world's leading ICT firms, in living xperience is digitalized when fully functional. I speak of Cisco's Internet of Things, SAP's Enterprise Asset Management, and IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge, as examples. If here, we could adopt one or all of these programmes and bring them to impact on our infrastructure ...
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Pillars first round champions
Kano Pillars on Sunday held on to top spot in the Nigeria league to end the first round champions after a 2-0 win over El Kanemi. Champions Pillars now have 36 points from 19 games. Kabiru Umar opened scoring for the home team in the 33rd minute for his fourth goal of the campaign, before Mustapha Musa made it two on the stroke of half time. Kabiru Umar said that he is delighted that he is ...
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Knotty cassava tubers can change Nigeria
Nigeria's cassava bread initiative is among an ambitious set of programmes designed to transform agriculture and rural livelihoods in this country of 170 million, the most populous of Africa's 55 nations. The sweeping plans include cutting corruption, rebuilding crumbling infrastructure, facilitating agro-processing industries and recapturing once-robust export ...
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Lagos Special Offences Court
Residents of Lagos must understand that most of the purported offences created under the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Law are under our criminal jurisprudence known as infractions (not arrestable offences). It is therefore a breach of fundamental human rights of the accused persons to convict them without giving them a reasonable time to prepare for their defence. It should be noted that ...
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Shell uses sabotage claims to avoid blame for Nigeria oil spills
Shell's persistent claims that theft and sabotage are responsible for almost all the oil spills at its operation in Nigeria could have been exaggerated, an international watchdog has ...
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CPN accredits 10 varsities 22 polytechnics
By Emeka Aginam Registrar of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, (CPN) Mohammed Sikiru Shehu has disclosed that the regulatory agency as part of its mandate has accredited no fewer than 10 universities across the country and 22 Polytechnics respectively this year. Shehu who disclosed this last week at a press conference to announce the 2013 IT Assembly and 2013 Annual ...
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Symantec advocates data protection law against smartphone boom
By Prince Osuagwu From available statistics, the use of smartphones would continue to increase globally in the coming years and Nigeria is one of the emerging ICT economies where the boom would pitch and apparently make more impact. However, there is also rapid increase in cyber attacks from the mobilephone, giving experts concern that good as the boom may become for the economy, if adequate ...
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Ministry of Commtech to hold stakeholders forum
The Ministry of Communication Technology has concluded arrangements to hold a Stakeholders Forum tagged ''Connected for Growth'' The forum according to Efem Nkanga, SA (Media) to the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson will hold at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Kuramo Waters on Thursday this week. The event which serves as an avenue for interaction between ...
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Nwosu dubs Eagles selfish
Former Golden Eaglets coach, Henry Nwosu has said Super Eagles were wasteful at goal in their first group game against Tahiti at the ongoing 2013 FIFA Confederation Cup in Brazil. Eagles got off to a good start in their title quest at the global football competition with an emphatic 6-1 win against the Oceania champions in Belo Horozonte on Monday. Nigeria lead Group B on three points the same ...
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Marketer cargo surveyor arraigned over subsidy fraud
LAGOS -- Managing Director of Stonebridge Oil Limited, Samuel Owa was, Tuesday, arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos by the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, of the Police over alleged economic crime and fraudulent collection of N1.7 billion fuel subsidy from the Federal Government. Owa and his company were arraigned alongside Vibrant Ventures Limited and a cargo surveyor with the firm, Olori ...
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20 killed in another attack in Nigeria
/enpproperty--> MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Hospital and local residents on Tuesday said 20 people may have been killed in another attack on students and fishermen by the Boko Haram insurgents in the Nigeria northeast Maiduguri city currently under a state of emergency. "Thirteen fishermen and tea sellers have been killed at Alau River. Gunmen numbering about five stormed the river area and ...
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Nigeria Islamists kill nine students in school attack - medic
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants opened fire on a school in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing nine students, witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom at Ansarudeen School when gunmen stormed the building, opening fire at random. ...
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Oduamadi gets Milan recall
Nnamdi Oduamadi described his hat-trick against Tahiti at the Fifa Confederations Cup as 'massive' and says it is the reward of hard work. The goals have also earned him an immediate recall to his parent club AC Milan. "I am very happy. I really worked hard and getting three goals in the Confederations Cup is massive for me," he ...
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Navy arrests 6 alleged fake personnel in Lagos
BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS -- The Nigerian Navy has arrested six persons, among them, a student of the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, FCFMT, who were allegedly parading themselves as naval personnel, in Apapa area of Lagos. Also, the navy has described as untrue, reports that its personnel shot students of FCFMT during a recent clash in Victoria Island. The suspects, clad in ...
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WITSA Vice-Chair for Africa to speak at AfICTS 2013
WITSA Vice-Chair, Mr Roger Latchman of the Information Technology Association of South Africa will be speaking at the opening ceremony of AfICTS 2013. Mr Latchman who will be leading the South African delegation to AfICTS 2013 is also expected to facilitate business talks as the CEO of the South African International Help Desk. Rajendran (Roger) Latchman is the Managing Director - PKF BEE ...
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Oduamadi believes ‘best yet to come’
Super Eagles winger, Nnamdi Oduamadi believes he is yet to achieve the peak of his powers playing for the African champions. Oduamadi capped a brilliant performance with a hattrick as Nigeria trounced minnows, Tahiti 6-1 in the Confederations Cup on ...
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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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