February 05, 2007
Terror, as Ladoja/Akala clashes continue
Security was tightened in Ibadan Oyo State on Sunday, following weekend’s bloody clash between supporters of the State Governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja and his estranged deputy, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala in Akure, Ondo State. Many lives were lost.
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NBA wants Adedibu arrested, tried
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Peoples Democratic Party stalwart in Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu over the alleged discovery of six Direct Data Capture Machines property of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in his residence in Ibadan.
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HURRAY, THE LADY OF GOLF IS 40!
Her Royal Majesty, (Dr) Lady Josephine Diete-Spiff (BA, LLB Hons) JP, wife of the old governor of Rivers State, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, has just clocked 40 years.
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Kalu holds talks at White House
Abia State governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has held talks at the seat of the United States government, the White House, a rare honour usually reserved for heads of state and governments.
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National Assembly burgled, 4 arrested
Barely 24 hours after the discovery of hidden cameras in the Senate, the National Assembly has been burgled by a yet-to-be identified gang. Following this, the police have arrested four persons.
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Lagos rejects population commission’s figures. Announces state’s population as 17.5m
The Lagos State Government on Monday faulted the provisional figures recently released by the National Population Commission, which put the population of Lagos at 9.2 million.
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Onokpasa, PDP chieftain, murdered
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State, Chief Lawson Onokpasa, was on Friday night assassinated by unknown gunmen.
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INEC seeks legal advice on Atiku
Indications emerged on Sunday that the Independent National Electoral Commission had started consulting some legal experts on the fate of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
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No bugging device at N’ Assembly — Security chief
The Sergeant-at-Arms to the National Assembly, Col. Emeka Okere, on Sunday debunked claims that the cameras found inside the Senate chamber were bugging devices.
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Judiciary has sustained democracy– Belgore
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Salihu Moddibo Alfa Belgore, has said that the judiciary is the pillar that has prevented the collapse of democracy in the country.
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INEC explains verificatin of candidates today ... As substitution of aspirants list begins
INEC will today start to receive substitution of governorship candidates list from political parties, News Agency of Nigeria reports.
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Buhari Vs Yar’adua: Police assure equal treatment in Katsina
Katsina state commissioner of police Muhammad Abbas has promised to give equal treatment to all presidential candidates during their campaigns.
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Elections: Kano police to lay emphasis on Public Order Act
Kano state commissioner of police Muhammad-Dikko Abubakar says that in a bid to facilitate the smooth conduct of the 2007 general elections, the police will lay emphasis on the Public Order Act.
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Media tasked on professional ethics
Media managers in the country have been charged to adhere strictly to their professional ethics.
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FG wasted $500bn on power plants rehabilitation - Atiku
VICE President Atiku Abubakar has accused federal government of wasting about $500 billion US dollars on rehabilitation of the Nigeria’s power sector over the last seven years.
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Airline operators lose N630 million to bird strikes
Domestic airline operators have lost N630 million to the incessant menace of bird strikes in major airports in the country.
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Tension in Ibadan: Fear of reprisal attacks heightens - How Ladoja, Akala were held hostage in Akure
PALPABLE tension has enveloped Ibadan, Oyo State, following the violence in Akure, Ondo State, on Saturday.
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North in confusion over Yar’Adua, Atiku, Buhari
THE three geopolitical zones of Northern Nigeria are now in a dilemma over the choice of a presidential candidate for the April polls with the trio of Umar Yar’Adua, Atiku Abubakar and Muhammadu Buhari at the centre of the controversy.
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April polls: FG places security agencies on red alert
THE Federal Government has placed all its security agencies on red alert nationwide while it has also ordered immediate embargo on annual leave of all security personnel in the various services.
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Lagos ANPP threatens to sue Tinubu - Over plan to borrow N14bn
CRISIS is imminent between Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the state over plans by the state government to borrow N14 billion for local governments in the state.
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ANPP, AC will stop PDP – Atiku
VICE President Atiku Abubakar yesterday in Kano shed light on the troubled alliance between his party, the Action Congress (AC) and All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), saying its cardinal goals were to achieve free and fair general elections in April as well as stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from turning the country into a one party state.
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Total blackout looms •PHCN workers threaten strike
Nigeria may be heading towards a major energy crisis as the National Union of Electricty Employees (NUEE) at the weekend ordered workers of the Power Holding Company Nigeria in all its branches nationwide to prepare to down their tools this month in protest against the continuing moves by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to sell the company without reaching agreement with the union on the fate of the workers.
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Poverty reduction: World Bank approves $25m for Nigeria
The poverty reduction scheme in Nigeria has received a big boost following World Bank’s approval of US$25 million to support the project.
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N/Delta: Army, militants negotiate •9 Chinese hostages freed
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Andrew Azazi has explained why he is holding meeting with militants in the Niger Delta Region
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Zimbabwe: Editor sent bullet in mail over cartoon critical of the army
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the authorities in Zimbabwe to fully investigate a threat against veteran editor Bill Saidi who received a bullet in an envelope over a cartoon critical of the army.
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Fatal Rally: Soldiers take-over Ibadan •2 arrested
BARELY 24 hours after a clash between supporters of Oyo State governor, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja and his deputy, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala claimed three lives, armed soldiers were drafted to major streets of Ibadan yesterday to forestall possible reprisal attacks by supporters.
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APGA crisis: Okorie wants Ojukwu’s nomination quashed
Chekwas Okorie Thursday urged the Federal High Court to nullify the nomination of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu as the party’s presidential flag-bearer.
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Oil nears $60 as cold weather grips U.S.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil touched a fresh one-month high on Monday near $60 a barrel as cold weather gripped the United States and forecasters said temperatures would stay below normal for at least the next ten days, boosting heating demand.
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Nigeria militants claim to free leader
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - The main militant group in Nigeria's restive, oil-rich south said dozens of its heavily armed forces raided a prison Sunday and freed one of their leaders.
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Oil workers targeted as Nigeria violence grows
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Lolo Oluchi has painted over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in this Nigerian oil city, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil workers last August, but the regulars haven't come back.
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Nigeria confirms the release of nine Chinese workers by Joel Olatunde Agoi
LAGOS (AFP) - Nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped last month in the restive southern Nigerian state of Bayelsa, have been freed, a senior government official has told AFP.
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Militants free 9 Chinese oil workers in Nigeria
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nine Chinese oil workers abducted last month by militants in an armed attack in Nigeria's southern delta were released on Sunday, officials said.
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Activists report on Nigeria corruption
LAGOS, Nigeria - A human rights group said Wednesday its study of one of Nigeria's oil-producing states found that officials squandered or stole public money, some hospitals required patients to bring their own beds, and schools were running out of chalk.
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Floods kill 29, displace 340,000 in Indonesia; Between 40 and 70 percent of Jakarta inundated; more rain expected
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Horse-drawn carts rescued residents from flood-stricken districts in the Indonesian capital on Monday after flooding burst riverbanks, killing at least 29 people and forcing some 340,000 to flee their homes in recent days.
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Letter bomb explodes in London office; At least one employee injured in small blast in center of capital, police say
LONDON - A letter bomb exploded at an office in the heart of central London on Monday, injuring one woman employee, officials said.
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New charges filed for jailed Russian oil tycoon; Prosecutors accuse Mikhail Khodorkovsky of money laundering
MOSCOW - Prosecutors filed new charges Monday against the jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner in an apparent move to head off any political threat from the nation’s once-richest man before parliamentary and presidential elections.
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Hyundai chairman convicted of embezzlement; Chung sentenced to three years in prison over slush fund scandal
SEOUL, South Korea - Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong-koo was convicted Monday of embezzlement and other charges and sentenced to three years in prison over a slush fund scandal that has weighed on South Korea’s largest automaker.
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Pakistan arrests 6 suspected of al-Qaida links; Sunni Muslims may have ties to group that plotted attacks on Shiite festival
LAHORE, Pakistan - Pakistani police arrested six suspected members of an al-Qaida-linked Sunni Muslim militant group who were plotting attacks on a major Shiite festival, officials said Sunday.
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Report: Russian official laments ties with U.S.; Foreign minister quoted saying United States may be ‘most difficult’ partner
MOSCOW - Russia’s foreign minister said the United States was perhaps Moscow’s “most difficult” partner and urged Washington to learn from its mistakes on the world stage, according to a news report on Sunday.
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Somali reconciliation meeting opens amid attacks
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi opened a reconciliation workshop in Mogadishu on Monday designed to foster peace amid an escalating spate of guerrilla-style attacks in the volatile Horn of Africa nation.
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Zim farmers relieved as eviction date passes
Zimbabwe's white commercial farmers expressed relief on Monday after the government made good on its pledge to allow them to harvest their crops before evicting them.
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Prosecutors want Nigerian militant barred from trial
Nigerian militia leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, whose release is demanded by armed groups causing havoc in the oil-producing Niger Delta, should be barred from his own trial because of bad behaviour, prosecutors said on Monday.
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Captors release nine Chinese oil workers in Nigeria
Hostage takers in Nigeria released nine Chinese oil-worker captives, officials said on Sunday, amid rising violence in Africa's biggest petroleum producer.
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Côte d'Ivoire foes look to restart peace process
Representatives of Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo and New Forces rebel leader Guillaume Soro started holding face-to-face talks on Monday in a bid to promote a stalled peace process.
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South Africa tries to curb Asia's abalone cravings
Story Highlights
• South Africa's abalone is a desired commodity for entrepreneurs and criminals
• The amount of illegal abalone confiscated in South Africa has skyrocketed recently
• Abalone farming accounts for 60 percent of the country's aquaculture revenues
• The government has drastically reduced the total allowable catch in the wild
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China's Hu takes eight-nation tour to Namibia
Story Highlights
• Hu has used the tour to cement China's economic and political ties with Africa
• China was early backer of Namibian independence
• Namibia hopes to benefit from an influx of Chinese investment and tourists
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Ivory Coast toxic waste case to be tried in Britain
Story Highlights
• Britain's biggest-ever class action suit; against international oil trader Trafigura
• Company denies dumping toxic waste in sites around Abidjan
• Ten people died, thousands fell ill, hundreds of tons of chemical slops dumped
• Trafigura's headquarters in Holland; operations coordinated from London
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100 die in clashes between protesters, police in Congo
Story Highlights
• Protesters alleging electoral fraud rampaged through several towns this week
• Security forces called in to restore order, humanitarian organizations said
• Dead include security forces, but most were demonstrators
• Protesters support Jean-Pierre Bemba, who lost election to Joseph Kabila
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Liberians welcome Chinese leader
Story Highlights
• President Hu Jintao's nation wants resources, Liberia needs investment funds
• West wants China to tie aid to reforms, but China won't set conditions
• China offering low interest loans, debt relief to increase its influence in Africa
• Trade between China and Africa jumped 40 percent last year to $55.5 billion
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Leave me alone, IBB tells Ribadu; Tasks EFCC on corruption under the Obasanjo administration
Former military President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida has decried what he said was the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission's continued campaign of calumny and blackmail against him, saying, it is becoming diversionary in view of the lack of objectivity in the attack".
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Bugs found in Senate chamber; Nnamani orders probe
Big Brother may have been watching over the Senate, it has been discovered.
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Hilda Willams set to dump PDP; May run with AC's Fashola
Indications emerged yesterday that the wife of the slain Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Engineer Funsho Williams and PDP governorship aspirant, Mrs. Hilda Williams is set to dump the PDP for the Action Congress (AC).
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Senate rejects ambassadorial list
For perceived marginalization of the South South geo-political zone, the Senate yesterday stood down consideration of a list of career ambassadorial nominees sent to it for clearance by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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PDPs last act and Lagosians
On Saturday, January 27 2007, the PDP still suffering from the hangover of its failure all these years, to add Lagos to its conquered territory, decided to flag off its rally in Lagos.
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AC, ANPP alliance intact, says Atiku; It has collapsed - Gov Sheriff
Action Congress (AC) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has denied speculations that the alliance between the AC and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), may collapse because he refuses to step down as presidential candidate in favour of the ANPP flagbearer, retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
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EDITORIAL: Lesson of Tochi&rsquo's execution
Once again, the authorities of the small island nation of Singapore have made it clear to the whole world that they are in no mood to accept pleas for clemency for any one caught infringing against the laws of their country.
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Why we lost PDP tickets - Kwankwaso, Baido
Former Kano state governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday said that he voluntarily stepped down from the contest of Kano governorship.
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SSS denies knowledge of cameras in Senate
The State Security Service (SSS), weekend claimed ignorance of how Close Circuit Television (CCTV), cameras were installed in the senate chambers.
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Atiku condoles Garo&rsquo's family
Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday described the death of Alhaji Sule Galadima Garo as a great loss not only to his family but to Nigeria as a whole.
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Bush to unveil budget dominated by military, Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush is expected on Monday to estimate the costs for the Iraq war at nearly $300 billion over the next 2 1/2 years and propose limiting domestic spending for fiscal year 2008.
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Manning seals legacy with Super Bowl win
MIAMI (Reuters) - Peyton Manning added the missing ingredient to his Hall of Fame credentials by leading the Indianapolis Colts to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI on Sunday.
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Iran installs 328 centrifuges at atomic site: sources
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has installed two cascades of 164 centrifuges each in its underground nuclear plant, laying a basis for full-scale enrichment of uranium and upping the stakes in a standoff with the West, European diplomats said on Monday.
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Optimism as North Korea readies for nuclear talks
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea heads into talks with the region's main powers this week with signs the impoverished state may be ready to agree to an initial deal over demands it stop building a nuclear arsenal in exchange for aid.
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Hamas PM urges unity deal with Abbas as truce holds
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said on Monday he hoped a meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas would result in an agreement on a unity government to end a crippling Western embargo.
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NIGERIA: Surveillance efforts to increase after reported bird flu death
ABUJA, 1 Feb 2007 (IRIN) - Health authorities in Nigeria were redoubling surveillance efforts on Thursday to track the deadly H5N1 virus in birds and humans after the first human death from avian flu was reported in the country.
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Development suffers as corruption thrives, rights group says
PORT HARCOURT, 31 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - The states of Nigeria’s southern, oil-rich delta region are receiving more money than ever before thanks to booming world oil prices and constitutional reform. But corruption has undermined prospects for development there, leaving schools without books and desks, clinics without medicine and running water, and youths lacking hope other than through violence.
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Lagos pays the price of population surge
LAGOS, 26 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - For Iyabo Aduni, a 29-year-old mother of three, home in Lagos, Africa’s biggest city, is a wooden shack next to a huge, burning garbage dump.
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Bird flu re-emerges, culling underway
ABUJA, 12 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - Nigerian veterinary teams were killing thousands of birds in two northern Nigerian states on Friday to halt the spread of fresh cases of the deadly H5N1 virus.
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Emergency response to pipeline blast mostly a national affair
LAGOS, 28 Dec 2006 (IRIN) - The Nigerian Red Cross has taken the lead in responding to the latest pipeline blast in Lagos on Tuesday that killed at least 269 people and left scores of others severely burned.
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NIGER DELTA CRISES: Army chief denies plan to import $2bn arms
PORT HARcourt—THE Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Owoye Azazi said, weekend, that he was not aware of any plan by the Federal Government to import arms worth $2 billion for the purpose of crushing militants in the Niger Delta.
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Judiciary saved democracy from collapse —Belgore
ABUJA— IMMEDIATE past Chief Justice, Justice Salihu Moddibo Alfa Belgore, reviewed, weekend, the political situation in the country in the last 12 months and declared that the nation’s democracy would have collapsed by now but for the intervention of the judiciary.
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First Vanguard Banking Awards criteria unveiled; Tomorrow: Awards Panel revealed
LAGOS—THE criteria that were used in choosing the banks that won the 1st Vanguard Banking Awards are being made public today for the first time. It was part of Vanguard’s decision to keep the criteria away from the public until the work of the panel of judges was concluded.
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Uduaghan dedicates party flag to God, sues for peace
WARRI—Less than 24 hours after the ruling party, PDP, handed their flag for gubernatorial race in Delta State to Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the former scribe of the state government was in the church in Warri to dedicate the party’s flagship to God.
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FG begins certification inspection of airports nationwide
LAGOS—THE Federal government has commenced the certification inspection of airports across the country to prepare them for audit by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
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Governors meet on Yar'Adua, Jonathan ticket
GOVERNORS of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the weekend converged in Abuja to discuss the roles they could play to garner support for the candidature of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who have emerged the presidential candidate and running mate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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Officials apologise over cameras in Senate
WITH the National Assembly's Sergeant-at-Arms in tow, the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Nasir Arab, has apologised to the Senate for the inadvertent inclusion of the Senate Chamber among the areas of the National Assembly Complex to have closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
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Govt issues fresh warnings on bird flu
FRESH warnings on the bird flu have been issued by the Minister of Information, Frank Nweke (Jnr). This development follows the confirmation of a human casualty from the avian influenza by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as reported by Nigerian doctors. The victim of the virus, a 22-year-old lady, died on January 17 this y ear.
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ECOWAS gets new structure, scraps secretariat
A NEW structure of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) aimed at enhancing its operations took off in Abuja at the weekend.
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Militants free nine Chinese oil workers
NINE Chinese oil workers who were kidnapped last month in the Niger Delta have been released unharmed by their abductors, China's Foreign Ministry announced yesterday.
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Maduekwe: PDP Flag is No Guarantee for Guber Ticket; Some may still be dropped
It may be too early for the governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were presented the party's flags at the zonal presidential rallies last week to heave a sigh of relief.
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...FG Deploys Soldiers to Akure to Quell Rally Fracas
The Federal Government has deployed armed soldiers to Akure, Ondo State, following weekend fracas between supporters of rival political parties - Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP).
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Why We Visited Nigeria, By US Journalists; Presidency clarifies meeting with Obasanjo
The twelve American journalists who were until last week in Nigeria for a fact-finding mission have said their visit was not in any way initiated or organised by the federal government.
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Atiku Dissociates Self from Obasanjo’s Govt
Apparently absolving himself from whatever may be the scorecard of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President Atiku Abubakar has disclaimed the government, saying he has been out of the administration since three years ago.
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Niger Delta: 90% Indigenes to Lose Jobs – PENGASSAN
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has disclosed that 90 per cent of Niger Delta indigenes stand to lose their jobs in the region if the current insecurity and hostage taking persist.
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They Planned to Kill Ladoja in Akure, Says Aide
Special Adviser on Media to Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State, Prince Ade Adekanmbi yesterday disclosed that but for providence, the weekend violent clash in Akure, Ondo State, between Ladoja’s supporters and that of his estranged godfather, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, would have claimed the governor’s life.
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Rows over Nigeria treason trial
The start of the treason trial of Nigerian oil militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari has again been delayed after angry rows in court.
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Nigeria threaten Premiership duo
Nigeria have threatened to report Newcastle and Chelsea to Fifa if they do not release their players for Tuesday's friendly against Ghana.
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Chinese workers freed in Nigeria
Nine Chinese oil workers abducted in Nigeria's Delta region have been freed after 11 days in captivity.
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Nigeria bird flu death confirmed
Nigeria's first human fatality from bird flu has been confirmed by the World Health Organisation.
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