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LEADER of the People's Progressive Alliance (PPA) in Enugu State, Chief Okey Ezea, yesterday, challenged the recent statement by Governor Sullivan Chime, in which he claimed that opposition parties in the state have been silenced by his development programmes.
TWO Policemen were killed yesterday in Port Harcourt and two others sustained gun shot wounds during a fierce encounter between the Police and gunmen around Woji road area of the state capital.
Erstwhile chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George was yesterday listed among other notable Nigerians who got Federal Government houses at the expense of deserving civil servants.
Former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, has prescribed the restoration of a robust federal system and the building of an economy that is modernised and industrialised as the ultimate solution to the crisis in the Niger Delta.
Abia State Government says it plans to generate N1 billion next year, as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The government, meanwhile said it had recorded an improvement in its internally generated revenue for last month, which it put at N250 million.
Preparatory to the 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra State and the 2011 general elections in the country, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), says there is no going back on its resolve to instill party discipline in its members.
Former militant leader, Joshua Maciver, and over two hundred other aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the chairman-ship positions in the original eight local government areas in Bayelsa State were, yesterday, screened for the April local government poll in the state.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday gave debtors of recently bailed-out banks two weeks to pay up or face another round of action.
THE Niger State government has suspended 17 top government officials from office for conniving with contractors and politicians to defraud the state government of billions of naira.
GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has offered automatic employment to graduates of Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, who emerged overall best in their various departments.
A PDP chieftain in Abia State, Chief Benjamin Apugo has dismissed the idea of the National Assembly creating new states. He admonished the federal lawmakers to stop deceiving Nigerians with the promise of creating new states.
IT was a comedy of some sort as mairuwa (commercial water vendors) busied themselves trying to satisfy the water needs of the residents of the expansive barracks allocated to a detachment of anti-riot policemen, MOPOL 20, in the Lagos State Command.
AT least four members of a kidnap gang were arrested by the Police at Ovwian, Aladja, near Warri, Delta State, while attempting to kidnap a five-year-old nursery two child on her way to school in the early hours of yesterday.
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has debunked claims by Action Congress (AC) that the former Chairman of the party's Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, ordered the vice-chairmen of the local government areas where their chairmen decamped to Action Congress to take over the councils.
Worried about the shortness of time given for the public hearing on the Petroleum Industries Bill (PIB), a non-governmental organisation, Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action), in collaboration with Stakeholders Democracy Network (SDN), is organising a communities and civil society consultative meeting to critically look at possible ways to improve it.
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has cut short his foreign trip and returned to the state following the killing of a former member of the State Assembly, Mr. Charles Nsiegbe, by some persons alleged to be policemen, weekend, in Port Harcourt.
Nigeria's former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has again called for the abolition of "federal character", describing it as no longer fashionable in the country's socio-economic and political system.
The World Food Program (WFP) has called for more contribution to urgently assist about twenty million individuals in Africa who may be affected by erratic rain fall.
SABMILLER 's two main competitors in Nigeria, Guinness and Heineken, make nearly as much in that market as SA's brewing giant makes in 24 other African countries, excluding SA.
President Umaru Yar'Adua has summoned the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives - David Mark and Oladimeji Bankole - over the 2010 budget presentation row which has pitched the two legislative chambers against each other.
The postponement of the 2010 budget presentation to the National Assembly by President Umaru Yar'Adua over disagreement on the venue by the Senate and House of Representatives is unfortunate and wholly unacceptable.
A court in Switzerland had yesterday, ordered the seizure of $350m, roughly about N53.2bn, worth of assets from the son of Nigeria's former military ruler, late General Sani Abacha.
Unless urgent arrangements are made to release funds to continue the demining and detonation of bombs and dangerous explosives as well as the detonation of several weapons already exposed by the Ministry of Defense, the project may be abandoned.
A report on the nature of convergence of Nigeria's financial reporting to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will be released next month, Executive Secretary and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Accounting Standards Board (NASB), Mr Godson Nnadi, has said.
When bankers steal it is sad. When bankers steal, the whole concept of banking becomes meaningless. The 2008 Annual Report of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has revealed that 313 bank staff of various categories stole a staggering N53 billion in the year 2008.
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