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Customs issues 2 months ultimatum to DTI operators
By Godfrey BIVBERE Comptroller- General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko, has issued two months ultimatum to Direct Traders Input (DTI) operators to get operating license or face the full weight of the law....
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Nigeria’s critical assets under terrorists’ threat – Jonathan
Nigeria’s substantial investments and critical infrastructure are under threat of the actions of terrorists, vandals and saboteurs, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Jonathan expressed the concern...
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By EMMA ELEBEKE ABUJA—The newly elected executive members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, have commended President Goodluck Jonathan for upholding mandate of his election by sacking...
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Punishing Political Rascals
OVER the past few months, governments across the country have been giving out cheques to victims of the political riots that followed the results of the 2011 presidential election. It is instructive...
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Offa poll: Olanipekun sworn in, APC intensifies protests
A large crowd of members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress in Offa Local Government Area on Tuesday continued the party’s planned six-day protest against the result of the Offa LG rerun...
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Group calls on Jonathan’s critics to support transformation agenda
By FESTUS AHON UGHELLI—NATIONAL Coordinator of Campaign for Good Governance, Prince Obaro Unuafe, yesterday said the spate of criticisms over President Goodluck Jonathan’s policies were subjective,...
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Dana crash: Lagos compensates land owners with N20m
Five landlords, whose buildings were destroyed and later demolished in the aftermath of the June 3, 2012 Dana plane crash at the Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State, have been compensated. It was gathered...
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Suntai drags Taraba Speaker, lawmakers to court
BY Soni Daniel, Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abdulwahab Abdulah & John Mkom ABUJA — Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, yesterday, commenced a legal action against the Speaker and members of the State...
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Pension Scam: Court freezes Attang, Kigo’s assets
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has received an interim order to take possession of the assets and properties of Atiku Abubakar Kigo and Mrs. Uzoma Cyril Attang,pending the determination of...
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Sue NSCDC, Fashola orders OPD
BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI & ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH LAGOS — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Tuesday gave a marching order to the Office of the Public Defender, OPD, to take legal action against...
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Suntai: Sagay, Falana back NMA’s probe offer
Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Prof. Itse Sagay and Mr. Femi Falana, on Tuesday backed the offer by the Nigerian Medical Association to set up a board to ascertain the health status of Governor Dambaba...
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Jonathan promises cheaper loans for farmers, targets rice sufficiency by 2015
BY Babajide Komolafe & Emmanuel Elebeke ABUJA—President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, promised to provide very low interest loans to farmers. He made the promise while declaring open the 19th...
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Etsako monarchs beg for Ozekhome’s release
BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE & BY EMMA ARUBI AUCHI—CLOSE to two weeks after Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, was kidnapped on the Benin–Auchi highway, his people in Iviukwe community, Agenebode, in Wepa Wano...
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Fraud: EFCC opposes Ajudua’s fourth bail application
SUSPECTED advance-fee fraud scammer, Fred Ajudua, on Wednesday sought bail afresh from a Lagos High Court in Ikeja. The fresh bail application was the fourth since his trial started in 2003. Ajudua...
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Imo’s abortion law still in force despite Okorocha’s apology – CLERIC
By CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI — Despite Governor Rochas Okorocha’s recant on the Imo State’s abortion law, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Dr. Anthony J. V. Obinna, said...
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President Jonathan rejects govs demand on EFCC probe
President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the demand made by aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party governors for an end to their harassment by anti-graft agencies. It was gathered on Wednesday that the...
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SPLINTER PDP: Tukur is a joker; unfit as party chairman
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday declared war against the breakaway faction of the party led by Abubakar Baraje and other members including...
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President Jonathan is too weak, and unassertive as a leader – Asari Dokubo
The President of the defunct Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahedeen Asari- Dokubo, once again took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, stating that the Nigerian leader is a...
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Customs seals up SAHCOL, NAHCo for unwholesome practices
BY LAWANI MIKAIRU & DANIEL ETEGHE Lagos — Comptroller -General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Dikko Inde Abdullahi, Wednesday, ordered the closure of two cargo warehouses operated by Skyway...
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PDP: Taraba declares for Baraje, Ekiti supports Tukur
The crisis in the ruling Peoples Party deepend on Wednesday as state chapters of the party continued to declare loyalty to different factions. While a faction in the Taraba chapter of the PDP on...
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