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Bold Steps to End Religious Crises
Lagos — Federal Government Monday last week, took a bold step towards finding a lasting peace to the recurring crisis in Jos, the Plateau State Capital, setting up a special 15-member Committee ...

Yuguda's 1,000 Aides [editorial]
editorial Lagos — The recent appointment of 1000 personal aides by Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State and the controversies surrounding it have brought to the fore again the high cost of the N...

Yar'Adua Debacle Puts Senate On Edge
Lagos — The prolonged medical vacation of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua without transmitting a letter to the National Assembly has now made the senate to be acutely sensitive, while the m...

The Offer From Al-Qaeda [editorial]
editorial Lagos — We were shocked and alarmed that an al Qaeda group has offered to train and arm Nigerian muslim groups to fight perceived enemies in the country. We are, however, comforted by...

'For National Growth, Empower Women'
Lagos — Women's empowerment is an integral part of a nation's greatness and this realisation has propelled a body to empower as many women as possible. Designed as a forum to teach women skills ...

Uba Accepts Defeat, Visits Obi
Onitsha/Abuja/Awka — In the spirit of sportsmanship, Labour Party (LP) candidate in the just-concluded governorship election in Anambra state, Chief Andy Uba, has paid a visit to Governor Peter ...

Yar'Adua - Why House Killed Vacation Letter Motion
Abuja — The promise of sundry political carrots including automatic tickets in the 2011 parliamentary elections has been fingered as the real reason behind the rejection of last Wednesday's moti...

Senate, House Move to Empower VP
Abuja/Lagos — The two chambers of the National Assembly have perfected plans to pass a resolution to begin to receive executive communications from Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as acting Pre...

Tinubu - Tomorrow's Cabinet Meeting, Our Defining Moment
Lagos — Former Governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday asked the Executive Council of the Federation (ExCof) to accept Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan as acting president, saying to...

Amodu to Lead Eagles Against Paraguay, Japan
Lagos — Despite his demotion to coach the Super Eagles Team B, consisting of home-based players, Shaibu Amodu will be in charge of the Super Eagles for a friendly against Paraguay or Japan on Ma...

Oteh Promises Tougher Sanctions Against Market Manipulators
Lagos — The new Director General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Ms Arunma Oteh, last Friday said tougher penalties await anyone who infringes on capital market regulations. She spo...

Delta Awaits Approval For U.S. Airways Slot Swap
Lagos — Executive management at Delta Air Lines expects to receive regulatory approval for its slot swap with US Airways in New York and Washington by the end of January. In August of 2009 the ...

Ovu Foundation Advocates Support for Uduaghan
All ethnic and sociopolitical pressure groups in Delta State have been called upon to support Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in 2011 election to enable him complete the projects embarked upon by his admin...

Obey Court Ruling on Edsopadec - Orbih
Benin — THE Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo state, Chief Dan Orbih, has described the alleged refusal by the Edo State government to allow members of Edo state Oil and Gas ...

Govt Finally Approves Fuel Importation By Marketers
Lagos — Hope for an enduring solution to the protracted fuel crisis in the country has been rekindled as the Federal Government has released the First Quarter 2010 Import Permit for Premium Moto...

Yar'Adua - Reps Back Jonathan Today
Abuja — The House of Representatives will today pass a resolution empowering the Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to assume full presidential powers. House Committee Chairman on Education, Hon....

Yar'Adua - Senate Mulls Impeachment
The Senate may consider the invocation of section 143 of the 1999 Constitution which empowers it to impeach ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'adua when it resumes sitting today, Daily Trust gathered las...

Jonathan Locks Out Maduekwe, Babalola
Abuja — Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday demonstrated that he will not condone any form of laxity in administering the affairs of the country, when he locked out two ministers for comi...

160 Senators, Reps Give Yar'Adua Thursday Deadline
Abuja — AHEAD of the meeting between the Governors Forum and senators this morning, 160 senators and members of the House of Representatives have signified intention to compel President Umaru Ya...

Ndukwe Takes ICT Gospel Home
FOR the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, penultimate weekend was an ample opportunity to forcefully take the Information and Communication Technolo...

NATCOMS Knock NCC over Interconnect Rate
National Association of Telecommunication Subscribers (NATCOMS) of Nigeria has described the recent interconnect rates arrived at through asymmetric method by the Nigerian Communications Commission (N...

ICANN Made Huge Strides - Beckstrom
Chief executive officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Mr. Rod Beckstrom, has declared the just ended 2009 as a year of huge strides for the ICANN community. Mr. Beckstro...

'Why We Enjoy Religious Harmony'
The governor, who thanked the religious leaders for ensuring that his over six years on the mantle of leadership of the state was crisis- free, made the remark when he received the state chairman of t...

IYC Urges Federal Govt to Collect Outstanding Arms from Militants
Benin — EDO, Delta and Ondo Vice-chairman of the Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Mr. Andrew Igiri, has advised the Federal Government against the refusal of the Committee on its amnesty programme to s...

Nigeria To Open Bidding For Telecom Privatization
-(Dow Jones)- Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises, or BPE, said Monday it would open the bidding for the privatization of Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd., or Nitel, and its mobile arm M-TEL, on

Nigerian Lawmakers to Consider Making Vice President Acting Leader
Threats, Violence Compound Nigeria's Leadership Crisis Nigeria's National Assembly meets Tuesday in a session that will consider a request by state governors to make the vice president the country's a...

Foreign Bank Buys Into 3 Troubled Banks
Abuja — THE European Investment Bank, EIB, is to buy into some of the nation's troubled banks, Vice President of the Bank, Mr. Plutarchos Sakellaris has said.

PIB - NNPC, Nupeng Resolve to Work Together
Abuja — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers have resolved to work together to ensure the smooth passage of the Petroleum...

UCF Urges Cooperation from Wards
Ughelli — CHAIRMAN, Elders Council of the Urhobo Consultative Forum, UCF, Chief G.N.O. Sefia has charged ward executives to work in harmony with all members of the group to achieve the aims and ...

Oshiomhole Carpets Country's Leadership
Lagos — GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said that leadership in Nigeria is characterised by culture of indiscipline, indecency and corruption among other vices, adding that the countr...

Ndokwa East Alleges Marginalisation
Asaba — THE people of Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, weekend, expressed regret over alleged marginalisation. They called on the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and the m...

Amodu Nigeria sacking down to public pressure
The president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) insists his organisation were forced to sack coach Shaibu Amodu because of public pressure for a more high-profile appointment.

Van Gaal snubs Nigeria job
(CNN) -- Nigeria's short-list of targets for the vacant national manager's job has been cut by one after Bayern Munich coach Louis Van Gaal distanced himself from the role.

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
(AP) JOS, Nigeria - A Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month. A reverend wi...

Mimiko Congratulates Obi, Salutes Anambrarians
Akure — Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, on Sunday, congratulated Peter Obi on his re-election as the governor of Anambra State, describing the victory as a huge step forward towards an end...

The Best by INEC - Fayose
Lagos — Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has described the conduct of Saturday's governorship election in Anambra State as the best ever conducted by the Independent National Electoral C...

Poll Free, Fair, Says Obi
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, who was re-elected on Saturday for another four-year term, has described the election as free, fair and transparent. Obi, who made the declaration while reacting ...

IMB Piracy Reports and Implications for Nigerian Shipping [analysis]
analysis The managing director of Genesis Worldwide Shipping, Emmanuel Iheanacho, is worried. His worry stems from the branding of Nigeria as a sea pirate-prone country, a situation, which has made b...

Invading the Drug Raiders in Kura
Kano — But for providence, the Kano command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) could have witnessed a repeat of the massacre of some of its personnel sometime ago in Kabo Local ...

An Appeal to MEND
"Thirty days after our people surrendered our arms we have not seen any progress. We are tired of having these meetings. Today you call this group, tomorrow you call another group and nothing is being...

Chaotic Nigeria vote shows little progress on reforms
A chaotic election in a volatile Nigerian state has highlighted the dire need for electoral reforms in the African giant a year ahead of presidential polls, analysts and observers said Monday. Former ...

Benin fire coach and players
Dussuyer, who has been in charge since June 2008, saw his team suffer two defeats against Nigeria and Egypt and a 2-2 draw against Mozambique seeing them finish third in Group C. "A decision h...

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
A Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month.

Project Monitoring Team Lauds Oron LG Boss
Lagos — The project monitoring team of the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs has commenced its 2010 projects inspection and evaluation in the state with a visi...

Gradually, Amnesty Runs Into Hitches, As Consultants Emerge Prime Beneficiaries [opinion]
opinion Lagos — When the Federal Government initiated the amnesty deal for repentant militants in the oil rich Niger Delta area, many Nigerians hailed the move as a welcome development in addre...

Jonathan, Ex-Militants for Holland Parley
Lagos — VICE President Goodluck Jonathan and Governors Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa), Rotimi Amaechi, Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), and Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta) are expected to grace Niger Delta peac...

Jos Crisis - OPC Wants Yoruba to Defend Themselves
Lagos — Against the backdrop of the recent sectarian crisis in Jos, the Plateau state capital, the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) has called on Yoruba people of the south-west of Nigeria to take ...

FG Realises N2.2 Trillion From Tax
Abuja — The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has announced that the federal government collected N2.2 trillion in tax earnings in the 2009 fiscal year. The Executive Chairman, FIRS, Mrs If...

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
A Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month.

Nigeria's firing of Amodu was inevitable
(Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images) Nigerian national team coach Shaibu Amodu was fired Saturday in the wake of the team's disappointing performance in last month's African Cup of Nations, leav...

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
JOS, Nigeria — A Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month. A reverend with the C...

The Murderers in CAF
The ANC ended on an even sadder note again for Togo when the Confederation of African Football (CAF), organizers of the tournament, slammed a ban on the country from participating in the next two edit...

Nigeria's Fuel of Pains
Why is the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) Effurun, Delta state, not being pursued with the same speed that PTDF is doing in the Kaduna College? Why is the Kaduna College being founded from the cof...

Oteh Reads the Riot Act to Capital Market Operators
Lagos — Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Ms Arunma Oteh has said that the era of sharp practices is over as the commission under her leadership would not tolerate any f...

Militants Destroy Shell Facility in Rivers
Port Harcourt — A coalition of militant groups in the Niger Delta, the Joint Revolutinary Council said its affiliates have sabotaged a major oil facility in the region. In an online message sig...

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
JOS, Nigeria (AP) - A Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month. A reverend with the Chu...

South Africa 2010 - 'Group B' Focus [analysis]
Angel Di Maria This week the experts focused on the players representing teams in 'Group B,' who can be considered the secret weapon of their squad going into the World Cup. 'Group B' consists of Arge...

Obaje, Ujah At Lillestrom for Trials
Norwegian club, Lillestrom, has taken some players from the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) on a month-long trials to beef up its squad for the campaign in that country's league, Naijaligue.blogspot.com ...

Fashola Commissions Six Major Projects in One Day
Lagos — Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Thursday commissioned six different projects in various spheres like housing, healthcare, potable water and transportation with a prom...

2011 - Oba Akiolu of Lagos Tips Fashola For Second Term
Lagos — Oba Rilwanu Akiolu of Lagos has said that the incumbent Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State would be given a second term under Action Congress (AC) in Lagos like his immediate pred...

SEC to Implement Zero Tolerance Policy, Warns Market Operators
Lagos — The newly appointed Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Arunma Oteh , said yesterday that the Commission would implement zero tolerance policy and warned...

Reckless Use of Fire Arms! [analysis]
analysis PERHAPS, it may not be too inappropriate to describe the ill-fate that befell the Balogun family in Ikorodu, a suburb in Lagos as a generational curse. For the past six years, death has rema...

Yakasai Quits Arewa Consultative Forum Over Yar'Adua
Kano — Elder Statesman, and founding father of Arewa Consultative Forum, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai has withdrawn his membership of the Northern Socio-cultural political organization over the body's r...

Jos - Senators' Wives Donate Relief Materials to Victims
Abuja — Wives of the Senators' have condoled victims of the sectarian crisis in Jos, Plateau State expressing their disavowal to the spate of violence in the town. Led by the wife of the Presid...

Of Anenih, Patriotism and Loyalty [opinion]
opinion IN Nigeria, genuine patriotism is as difficult to come by as sustained political loyalty. If anything, Nigerians are loyal only to their own interests, especially in political circles. Maybe...

Task Systems Achieves ISO - 9001 - 2000
Leading value-added integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions company, Task Systems Limited, has achieved much elevated International Standard Organisation (ISO-9001:2000). ...

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
JOS, Nigeria A Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month. A reverend with t...

Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
The leader of North Africa's al-Qaida branch offered training and weapons to Nigeria's Muslims to fight the Christians there following an outbreak of sectarian violence. Abdelmalek Droukdel, leader o...

Benin dismiss boss and players after ANC failure
Benin coach Michel Dussuyer has been sacked along with his technical and playing staff following their failure at the recently-concluded African Nations Cup.

Power Sector - Country Needs N600 Billion Annually
Abuja — As power generation drops by 1000MW (from the 3700MW in December 2009 to 2700MW as at February 2010), Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola, has said Nigeria will need to invest N 600bn ...

The Missing 90 Million Litres of Fuel
editorial Lagos — It is surprising that several weeks after the Federal Government announced that a probe was being conducted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into the 90 ...

Tracking Vandals of PHCN Installations
Kaduna — Nigeria is full of ingenious and creative young men, no doubt, such that if given the opportunity, they can propel the nation into the technological dreamland. Unfortunately, very littl...

Fashola Commissions 265 Housing Units in Ikorodu
Lagos — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state yesterday commisioned a N1.024billion 265 housing units at Igbogbo in Ikorodu area of the state. Aside this, he also delivered N45 million micr...

Big Wigs Work for Soludo
Lagos — In a move to ensure that Professor Chukwuma Soludo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wins today's election, some business cum political heavyweights in the state have come together t...

Skye Bank Appoints Durosinmi-Etti Gmd Designate
Lagos — Following the recent Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) policy directive stipulating a 10- year maximum tenure for Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of banks, the Board of Directors, Skye Bank ...

Candidates, Leaders Call for Peaceful, Fair Poll
Onitsha — As the people of Anambra State go to poll today for the much talked governorship election, some candidates, politicians and prominent opinion leaders have stressed the need for peacefu...

Anambra - No Going Back On Election Today - INEC
Abuja — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, insisted that the Anambra State governorship election will take place today, despite declaration by a Federal High Court ...

Editors Reject Govt Regulated Press Council
Lagos — The Nigeria Guild of Editors ended its one-day Standing Committee Meeting in Lagos, yesterday, with an outright rejection of any effort to have a government-regulated Press Council, alth...

Anambra Election, Test Case for 2011, Says Anyaoku
Lagos — Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku yesterday said that today's governorship election in Anambra would be a test case for the 2011 elections. Anyaoku said this Lagos at...

Police, Ekweremadu Warn Trouble Makers
Awka — The police, yesterday, warned of dire consequences to people perceived as plotting to derail today's gubernatorial elections in Anambra state, even as it effectively deployed over 25,000 ...

Police to Release Report On Laundering
The police authorities have decided to release the official report on their investigation into the case of money laundering involving top officials of the Anambra State government. According to Police...

Deforestation - British High Commission Recycles Paper
Lagos — THE British High Commission in Abuja is to recycle its waste paper as part of its efforts to become carbon neutral by 2012. The scheme is being operated by a local company, Green Concep...

Nigerian drug peddler passes out last capsule
The last of the three cocaine capsules, which were swallowed by a Nigerian drug peddler, was extracted on Saturday. The other two had been recovered on Friday. The third capsule, which was stuck bet...

Bankers Examine Issues of Credit Administration, Debt Recovery
Lagos — As the Central Bank of Nigeria is currently addressing the critical issues of increased defaults in loans by borrowing customers which led to the escalated volume of bad, doubtful debts ...

Election Peaceful, Successful --INEC
Lagos — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Sunday said last Saturday's Anambra State governorship election was peaceful and successful. In a statement issued by Steve Osemeke,...

Jonathan - Anambra Poll Victory For Democracy
"Peter Obi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), having satisfied all requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes, is hereby declared the winner." These were the exact wor...

Ebonyi And Nigercem [editorial]
editorial Lagos — The on-going bickering between the Ebonyi State Government and Eastern Bulkcem Company Limited over ownership and control of Nigeria Cement Company Plc, Nkalagu, (NIGERCEM), h...

Obi Provisionally Declared Winner of Anambra Poll
The returning officer for the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday provisionally declared the incumbent governor of Anambra state Dr. Peter Obi, candidate of the All Progressives Grand Al...

Rivers State - the Bill On Illegal Development Levy [opinion]
opinion Over the years, communities who are development-conscious have devised ways to enrich their revenue base through the collection of one form of levy or the other to provide town halls, borehol...

Akunyili's Memo And Yar'Adua's Ticking Time
Lagos — Dora Akunyili was almost passing for a strong pro-establishment personality with her rebranding message until last week when she surprised her fellow members of the Federal Cabinet, and ...

Yar'Adua - Discordant Tunes From Presidential Aides [opinion]
opinion Today, Nigeria is at crossroads over the seeming power vacuum in the Presidency. Since November 23, Nigeria has had no substantive President in Aso Rock. On that day, rather than present the...

Senators Are Worried About Yar'Adua, Jos Mayhem - Arise [interview]
AYO ARISE is a Senator of the Federal Republic, representing Ekiti North on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He first came to limelight when he sought the governorship ticket of the...

Giving Hope to the Hopeless [opinion]
opinion Recently, Gov Godswill Akpabio visited the Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), Ikot Afaha, Eket Local Government Area, where some 201 children abandoned by their parents and ward...

The Quorum Question At INEC
Lagos — A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday delivered a judgment that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as currently constituted lacks the required quorum to conduct ele...

Imoke Signs 2010 Appropriation Bill
Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has assented to the 2010 appropriation bill. While signing the bill into law, Monday, Imoke said the 2010 budget size has been raised by 30 percent over the 2...

EFCC, Microsoft to Fight Cybercrime
Lagos — THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) in partnership with Microsoft has identified music as a veritable tool to tackle the menace of cybercrime in Nigeria. The partnershi...

Beyond Success Story of Telecoms Sector
The recent revelation by the Vice Chairman/C.E.O. of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Ernest Ndukwe, that the nation has attracted a whopping N2.7 trillion ($18bn) from direct and forei...

SMC Launches POS E-Tax Solution
Lagos — Signals Mega Concept (SMC) Limited, an information and communication (ICT) marketing company, has introduced Point-of-Sales electronic tax (POS e-TAX) into the market. Speaking to Champ...