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Plateau State police command has warned members of the public against remembering their loved ones who died during last year's November 27 Jos crisis.
Sports Minister/ Chairman National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa said yesterday that he is ready to offer himself for probe for the action during the just ended FIFA U-17 World Cup.
The government of the Republic of China, following another diplomatic representation by the Nigerian Embassy in Beijing, has extended the deadline when the remains of all foreigners still lying in the various mortuaries in that country must be claimed or they will be cremated according to Chinese laws. The new date is now December 15, 2009.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has announced that a Presidential Task Force on Tariffs and Fiscal Incentives would soon be established to help implement a new tariff and incentive regime that would support the productive sector. He also appealed to the National Assembly to give the budget accelerated passage to facilitate the implementation of his Seven-Point Agenda.
The All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Monday in Abuja elected a new chairman to lead the affairs of the party. He is Idris Moriki.The election of Moriki brings an end to the leadership problem that has bedeviled the party in the area council. Speaking to LEADERSHIP immediately after his emergence, Moriki said the party is ready to face any challenge as ...
A new UN report says more than a quarter of the global population, or 1.5 billion people live without electricity.
In line with its objective of increasing exploration and production of hydrocarbon resources with a view to growing the nation's oil reserves to 40million barrels of crude, the federal government has renewed the leases of OLS 67, 68 & 70 shallow waters with Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, under the NNPC / Mobil Producing Nigeria Joint Venture operation.
Globacom Limited, the Official Sponsor of the National Teams of Nigeria, has rejected claims by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), that it has defaulted in the payment of the sponsorship fee for 2009 and says it may seek redress in court if the federation fails to retract the statement.
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has directed that Rosalind Sumner, an Australian love scam victim be paid the sum of N514, 212.10 and another $5900 recovered from a Nigerian fraudster.
The federal government has gotten six million euros as grant, to boost cassava production from Netherlands, while the World Bank has approved a $30 million credit to strengthen agricultural productivity and growth in Uganda.
As efforts to reconcile members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State continue the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has said that the treasury of Anambra State is not negotiable.
The re-branding Nigeria campaign was boosted yesterday with the donation of a brand new website to support the initiative.
Deep-water operations in the Gulf of Guinea is set for a boost by the activities of the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), which recently established the Sub-saharan Africa branch with headquarters in Lagos.
First indigenous computer company to be quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Omatek, has declared its intention to pay N174 million dividend to shareholders of the company for the year ended June 31, 2008.
Two infant eagles, suspected to be male and a female and believed to have migrated from a zoo in Finland, were last week trapped separately by two young fishermen in a river called Thaton in Karim-Lamido Local Government Area in Taraba State.Confirming the discovery to newsmen yesterday in his office, the state Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Godwin Nyame, said a young man ...
The minister of state for FCT, Chief Chuka Odom, continued his tour of FCT area councils to assess infrastructural development carried out in the last nine months.
Richard Eromoigbe has joined Nigeria Premier League club, Warri Wolves after being released by Russian club FC Khimki in September.Wolves Media Officer Azuka Chiemeka confirmed the move, but said the player will only start playing from next weekend.
The hit television programme; "Big Brother Africa Revolution" and African private sector companies are supporting the Global Fund's fight against malaria by contributing funds from a high-profile awareness raising campaign, undertaken as part of the United Against Malaria campaign.
Ministries of Works, Education, Defence and Police would be taking a huge portion of the proposed 2010 Appropriation Bill presented to both the Senate and the House of Representatives yesterday by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been accused of deliberately destroying the structures of the Peoples Democratic Party during his years as president so as not to be dictated to by the party on policy and agenda.
Kwara state Commissioner of Sports, Dr. Abubakar Kallike Amuda has said the aim of Kwara United this season is to be part of the teams that will play continental match at the end of the Globacom Premier league. He said this in Kaduna after playing Kaduna United.
Given the increase in the number of death on the nation's roads, coupled with the impact of bad roads on trucks, the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO), at a joint press briefing with the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) unit of NUPENG, yesterday in Abuja, threatened to withdraw their trucks if the federal government fails to fix the nation's roads before the next raining season.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has laid the blame for perennial poor budgetary performance at the door step of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) who he accused of frustrating the execution of projects under them.
An application filed by the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko seeking to set aside the court order that the Police should investigate his alleged forged certificates has been denied him.
In its effort to help Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) reduce job losses, support manufacturing continuity and trigger expansion of the company, the Kaduna State government plans to embark on massive patronage of the company's cars as it has made a policy to buy all its official vehicles from PAN.
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