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FG Okays Commercialisation of Federal Housing Authority
The National Council on Privatisation (NCP) has approved the commercialisation of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). Consequently, the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development had been appointed to chair the steering committee constituted to work out details of the exercise. This was one of the fallouts of a recent meeting of the Council, which was held in Abuja. The NCP said the ...
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Now Akwanga School in Shape
Lafia - An L-shaped structure housing two blocks of classrooms and an office accommodation for the Head Teacher, is now standing out in shape at the popular Akwanga Central Pilot Primary School in Nasarawa State, replacing a once ramshackle school where pupils and their teachers struggled under leaking roofs for years. The rehabilitation work was carried out under the Millennium Development ...
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Pharmacy Fellows Yet Unrecognised
Long after the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (WAPCP) secured approval for its graduates to be accorded status of consultants, pharmacists from the college are yet to get the recognition. One year after the approval went into effect for countries across West Africa, it is still awaiting "implementation to be completed in other states of Nigeria," said the chairman of ...
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NGF - Amaechi Floors Jonathan
The Governor of Rivers State, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, CON, was yesterday re-elected as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF."Amaechi, whose re-election was fiercely opposed by both President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, got 19 votes to beat his challenger, Jonah Jang of Plateau State who got 16 votes. "The ...
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Ondo Guber Poll - Oke Losses Again As Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal
Abuja - The Supreme Court, Friday, dismissed an interlocutory appeal that was filed against Governor Olusegun Mimiko by the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last governorship election in the state, Chief Olusola Oke. In a judgement it delivered yesterday, the apex court, maintained that the appeal lacked merit, even as it upheld the earlier decision of both ...
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Flying Eagles - NFF Backpedals On Five Dropped Players
The five Flying Eagles players Nigeria Football Federation, NFF officials dropped from the Germany training camp may still join their team mates in Europe. Lukman Dimiyo, Moses Epele, Bobby Ikpeazu, Ozioma Maduako and Ezeugo Samson were on the list coach John Obuh submitted for the training tour of Germany. But top officials of the Football Federation removed their names from the list without ...
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Cynthia Osokogus Mouth Was Stuffed - Pathologist
The Lagos State Chief Pathologist and Chief Examiner of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital LASUTH, Professor John Obafunwa, Friday told an Ikeja High Court that the late Cynthia Osokogu's mouth was stuffed with a black and yellow hair net, a white handkerchief and the attachment of the weave-on she fixed before her mouth was taped. He said this while showing slides of the autopsy ...
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Amosuns Wife Gives 500 ATM Cards to Senior Citizens
Wife of the Governor of Ogun State Mrs. Olufunso Amosun through her Upliftings the Aged Welfare Cards has given out 500 free ATMs to senior citizens drawn from across the 20 Local Government areas of the state as part of her desire to offer a helping hand to the elderly people who due to old age could not fend for themselves again. Speaking during the launching ceremony of the UPLIFTing the ...
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A Strategic Partnership Revived
The most important intervention in empowering people with disability is the provision of appropriate mobility aids and appliances. By so doing, they are equipped, encouraged and well motivated to 'test the waters of life'. This gesture bolsters their self esteem, and a sense of 'I can be' belief is born in them. Not only are they able to move about more freely and ...
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Three More Winners Emerge Two More Slots to Go
There is a saying that nothing makes a man more efficient as the 'last moment', I guess the saying was the defining denominator in the last week's voting. We thought there were just 5 men and women slugging it out but the outcome was something else. Before the last round of voting, Ejiro Ekurame, Yvonne Nelson, Benita Nzeribe, Omoni Oboli and Nuella Njubigbo were in the lead but ...
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Nigeria AU Endorses Country for UN Non-Permanent Seat
Addis Ababa - Nigeria yesterday recorded a major diplomatic victory at the on going conference of the African Union, AU, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as her candidacy for the non-permanent seat in the United Nations, UN, Security Council, was unanimously endorsed by member countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, who briefed newsmen on the development in Addis Ababa ...
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Nigeria How Amaechi Was Re-Elected
After many weeks of intrigues and horsetrading, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was re-elected as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF, beating his lone rival, Jonah Jang of Plateau State. It was even an anticlimax that Jang ended up as Amaechi's sole challenger, having not been in the frame throughout the preparations for the tensed vote. But Saturday ...
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Nigeria 18426 Youths From SSouth Employed Under Sure-P Scheme - Labour Minister
Asaba - OVER eighteen thousand youths have so far been recruited under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment (SURE-P) scheme from the South-South geopolitical zone of the country, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu has said. Wogu who stated this in Asaba yesterday during the sensitization and appraisal tour named the South- South states that benefited from the SURE-P ...
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Cameroon limits social media services
The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...
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Cameroon new gorillas need protection
A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living ...
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DBanj Plans to Shut Down Lagos With Another Five-Star Concert
Multiple award winning entertainer, D'banj has put plans in motion to shut Lagos down with another five-star concert, featuring live appearances from some of the finest stars from the continent and beyond as he marks his 33rd birthday anniversary in grand style. The MOBO and BET-winning hit-maker says, he's throwing a big, spectacular gig, at Eko Hotel in Lagos, on Sunday, June 23, to ...
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CBN Sells N277.9 Billion Worth of Treasury Bills
Lagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sold treasury bills worth N227.91 billion this week. The Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA) disclosed this on its Website on Friday. FMDA said that five categories of treasury bills were sold at the last biweekly auctions. It said the auctions included the Open Market Operation (OMO) which comprised the 139-day and 128-day tenor bills. FMDA ...
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France begins withdrawing from Mali
France began the first stage of a withdrawal from Mali Saturday in what it says is a plan to pull out most of its troops and equipment by the end of the year. A convoy carrying unneeded equipment and vehicles left a French base outside the capital, Bamako, headed for Abidjan ...
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The US has sent troops to Niger
President Barack Obama today informed the US Senate that he had ordered the stationing of around 100 soldiers in Niger to support the French military operation in neighbouring Mali. The Niger government had agreed to the move, Mr Obama ...
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Fear of post-election violence in Benin
Benin's Constitutional Court today started examining the opposition's claims of vote rigging after the elections had given a surprise outright win to the incumbent. Observers fear "Ivorian conditions" in ...
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Benin opposition denounces election fraud
Following a chaotic election process, Benin's government claims incumbent President Thomas Boni Yayi won the first round outright. Opposition leader Adrien Houngbedji cries ...
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Issoufou wins Niger model vote
The elections in Niger, gained by long-time opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou, are described as a "model" for Africa. Also the democratic transition process is ...
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Benin protesters won demanded vote delay
Benin last month saw mass protests, demanding a delay of the elections planned for 27 February as 1.4 million voters were missing in the electoral roll. Now, the Constitutional Court has given them ...
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Nigeria farmers double cassava yields
Nigerian farmers have more than doubled the yield of cassava, thanks to new varieties and a little bit of "juju" delivered to the Oyo state after a food crisis in ...
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Finally credible elections for Nigeria
Will the upcoming general elections in Nigeria become a repetition of the 2007 sham, or can the country finally organise a credible poll? There are both good and bad ...
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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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