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CONFEDERATIONS CUP Uruguay will be different
African champions Nigeria, in upbeat mood, arrived Salvador, north-eastern Brazil Tuesday afternoon ahead of their much-hyped clash with South American champions Uruguay on Thursday. The Eagles are majestically perched at the top of Group B of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup following a 6-1 trouncing of Tahiti in Belo Horizonte on Monday evening. Spain's Furia Roja (Red Fury) who edged ...
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Constitutional role for civil society-media organisations
THIRDLY, the challenge of Nigeria is not so much the lack of good laws, policies, rules and regulations. The implementation of these ordinances is the problem. The CCS will support other government arms by mobilising its CSOs, their members and volunteers to engage the MDAs. The proposed recognition of CCS is compelling for other reasons. CSOs have played a significant role in the current ...
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Dad remanded for allegedly poisoning own son
BY PETER DURU MAKURDI -- A 21-year-old man, John Terver, has been arrested andremanded in Makurdi for allegedly poisoning the food of his three-year-old son, Aondoyima Terver, which led to the death of the toddler. Terver, an automobile panel beater, hails from Zaki Biam in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. Arraigning the suspect at a Makurdi Magistrate’s Court, the police ...
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There ‘ll be adequate funds for Lagos-Ibadan Apapa-Oshodi roads – Tambuwal
By CLIFFORD NDUJIHE SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, has assured that lawmakers would ensure adequate funds for the fixing of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the 2014 budget. He also promised to liaise with other Federal lawmakers to find solutions to the deteriorating Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the gateway to the nation's major seaports that had become an eyesore ...
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Industrial hub Why more companies are moving to Ogun
IT began as an innocent question but soon degenerated into a heated argument. And what is this question, one might? Between Lagos and Ogun, which has more industries? The Lagos fans would not imagine any state in the country taking the lead in terms of commerce and industrialisation. They were ready to put their last kobo on the line. They readily cited the ports and some industries around the ...
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Ubah tackles Gov Obi over car gifts to traditional rulers
BY ENYIM ENYIM ONITSHA--The face-off between Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and a governorship aspirant for the 2014 governorship election in the state, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, deepened yesterday as Obi's recent distribution of vehicles to traditional rulers came under attack by Ubah. Governor Obi gave vehicles to each of the traditional rulers in the state to assist them. But Ubah in a ...
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Vanguard’s Publisher decries child abuse
LAGOS--Publisher of Vanguard newspaper, Mr. Sam Amuka, yesterday, reaffirmed his organisation's commitment to fight child sex abuse in the country, even as Mrs. Kuburat Okoya, wife of industrialist, Razaq Okoya, said the trend had become a silent epidemic. Addressing participants during the 5th edition of Vanguard's Children's Annual Conference that attracted over 40 schools in ...
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Rape The reign of randy men
One of the minors (name withheld) had allegedly showed up at school in March with blood dripping down her legs. When questioned by school officials, the minor claimed that Atunde had sex with her. "Daddy has been having sex with at least 10 of us. We are mostly between the ages of eight and 14. I reported to Aunty Hannah and when she challenged daddy, he laid a curse on me," she said. ...
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CBN extends deadline on Know Your Customer
By Babajide Komolafe & Peter Egwuatu Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, extended, by eight months, the deadline for banks and other financial institutions to comply with Know-Your-Customer, KYC, requirements. Meanwhile, value of shares listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange, NSE, fell by N19.4 billion yesterday due to decline in the share price of 33 companies. Additional KYC ...
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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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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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