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The House of Representatives yesterday endorsed the imposition of sanctions on undemocratic governments in the West African sub-region, saying African leaders must summon the moral authority to caution leaders whose actions continue to undermine the continent's strives for an enduring democratic culture.
The Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday said that the global economy's recovery from the effects of the global economic crisis still remains highly vulnerable to shocks and policy missteps.
The Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria (NPAN), has condemned the strange Press Council Bill now circulating at the National Assembly which seeks to impose government control on the Nigerian press.
SPECIAL assistant to the president for Press and public relations, Dickson Jere has said insinuations that President Rupiah Banda played a role in second Republican president, Frederick Chiluba's trip to Nigeria, are erroneous.
NIGERIA has played itself to her favourite position in global matters - irrelevance. We used the FIFA U-17 World Cup to display national ethos of playing of skewed standards.
Super Eagles´Head Coach, Shuaibu Amodu, just back from the 2010 African Nations Cup Draw in Angola , will today lead his technical crew to a meeting with the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation at the NFF Secretariat in Abuja .
Contrary to calls from Nigerians for the sack of the Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu, and the recruitment of a world class coach to tinker the team to Angola 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and South Africa 2010 World Cup, an appeal has been made to Nigerians to allow the coach continue with his job.
Aftermath of the draws that have grouped African champions, Egypt alongside Nigeria, Mozambique and Benin Republic in Group C, of the 2010 African Nations Cup to be hosted by Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has began frantic moves to arrange first class friendly matches for the Super Eagles.
The U-17 World Cup football championship has ended and contrary to expectations that Nigeria would win the championship for a record fourth time, the country's team failed to live up to this last-minute dream.
Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in Anambra State has concluded its ward sensitization campaign tour round the state in preparation for next year's gubernatorial election so as to ensure that Awka Government House is taken over by the party come 2010.
CHIEFS and people of Otuasega community in Ogbia Local Government Area (LGA), Bayelsa State have raised alarm over the continued use of soldiers by three multinational companies in the area to intimidate the people in the course of of carrying out mining and exploration activities there.
Office automation and telecommunication solutions provider, Panabiz International Limited has said that it would continue to improve on its effective response time to customers, knowing that it contributes to the business efficiency of any Organization.
Resourcery Plc, Nigeria's foremost ICT Company, Resourcery Plc last week, won Cisco's prestigious Partner of the Year, West English Africa award, at the recently concluded Cisco Emerging Africa & Nigeria Partner Summit 2009 in Senegal.
At the just concluded 8th edition of the Nigerian Information Technology and Telecom Awards (NITTA) 2009 held last weekend at the Grand Ballroom, Eko Hotel, Lagos, indigenous smart phone maker, Anabel mobile has won the Best Indigenous Mobile Innovator of the Year.
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ogbonna Onovo has announced a new welfare package for the rank and file of the police from January next year. Mr Onovo broke the cheering news yesterday while addressing men and officers of the Police at Zone 11 headqauters of the force, Osogbo during a two-day working visit to Osun State.
Mrs. Ejueyitichie Oroye's family has petitioned the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5, Benin over alleged illegal invasion of a property on 6, Boyo Road, Sapele, Delta State, by one Joseph Atsenyi-ku.
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.
FOR the past two weeks, artificial shortage of fuel has been a recurring trend in Ibadan with vehicles remaining on queues for days.
SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole has said his plans to build three hostel and administrative projects at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) has no political undertone.
The threat by the consultants locating and destroying landmines and explosives abandoned in the South East and South-South after the Nigerian civil war, to stop work if the Federal Government fails to provide them with funds, has continued to attract angry reactions.
The Lagos State House of Assembly has recommended the reopening of the crisis-ridden Lagos State University (LASU), for academic activities within a week from today pending the decision of the visitation panel's investigation.
A 76 year-old woman has been kidnapped at Ibusa, Delta State, even as kidnappers of the Oceanic Bank manager have dropped their ransom from N110 million to half a million naira.
THE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said from December 1, it would clampdown on commercial vehicles plying intercity routes without passengers' manifest.
THE Naval Training Command (NAVTRAC) has said it is stepping up its training strategies to meet with the operational dynamics of the time.
Worried by the declining use of indigenous languages, especially the Yoruba, D.O Fagunwa Foundation, has announced its commitment to promote the use of indigenous languages in schools in line with the National Policy on Education, especially in the South West.
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