The Pipeline Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on Friday said that normalcy had returned to its System 2B Pipeline damaged by an explosion. The Manager, Media Relations and External Affairs, PPMC, Mr Nasir Imodagbe, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos ...
Pipeline vandalism: Normalcy returns at Atlas Cove, pumping resumes – PPMC
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Nigeria ready to defend execution of 4 convicts before UN, says Minister
The Federal Government is ready to defend the recent execution of four convicts in Edo, which ended a seven-year moratorium on death penalty in the country, an official said. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olugbenga Ashiru gave the indication in Abuja on Friday at a Consultative Forum on the forthcoming review of human rights in ...
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Another look at Abuja’s new transport policy
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed may have redefined every aspect of the city’s development but the chaotic transport system in the nation’s capital was a major deficit. That was before Monday June 3, 2013 when the Minister who fancies the city getting into the World’s top 20 in the near future, ...
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UN fears attacks from Liberia on I. Coast
UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday raised fears that followers of ousted Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo could step up attacks on the country from neighboring Liberia. Ban said in a report to the UN Security Council that the United Nations has indications that cross-border attacks are being planned with the help of Liberian mercenaries. ...
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Mandela family in court fight over burial locations
As Nelson Mandela fights for his life in hospital, his relatives are pitted against each other in a legal battle, reportedly over where members of the family should be buried. On Friday, sixteen members of the Mandela family brought an urgent application to a regional court, reportedly to force Mandela’s grandson Mandla to return remains ...
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Air passenger traffic rises by 230%
The Federal Government on Thursday said domestic air passenger traffic increased in the country last year by 230 per cent.
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Nigerian Army Marks 150th Anniversary
Activities marking the 150th anniversary of the Nigerian Army kicked off Friday with Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Onyeabo Azubuike saying that the Army is poised to ensure that Nigerians live without the fear of security challenges lurking in their minds.
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Presidential dinner saga: Governor lacks respect for President –Gulak …There’s hidden agenda against Amaechi –Rivers
The face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, worsened on Friday, with the presidency accusing the governor of disrespecting the President.
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Anambra 2014: Ifeanyi Uba pots in Labour Party
After several attempts to join the ruling party in Anambra State failed, a governorship aspirant and a businessman, Mr Ifeanyi Ubah yesterday finally pitched his political tent with the Labour Party for the 2014 governorship polls in Anambra state.
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Villagers desert homes, as STF confirms 48 people killed in Thursday’s Plateau fresh attack
The Special Task Force (STF) Friday came with a statement that suspected Fulani gunmen stormed the villages of Langtang South Local Council Area of Plateau State on Thursday, June 27, killing about 28 persons. The attacked villages, according to the statement, are Magama, Bongong and Karkashi.
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Prostitutes beat, injure security men in Akure
SOME prostitutes Saturday beat security personnel attached to the Ondo State Task Force on Environment during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Akure, the state capital. Their uniforms were torn into shreds while they sustained injuries due to the beating they received when they tried to enforce the environmental laws where their brothel was located. ...
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23 remanded in prison for sanitation offences in Ogun
…Amosun Inspects First Ijebu Ode Flyover Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Saturday inspected the flyovers under construction in Ijebu Ode and urged the construction firm to redouble its efforts in order to complete the projects in a record time. The governor also monitored the monthly environmental sanitation where he urged law enforcement officers to ...
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Nigerian Leaders Have No Respect For Due Process – Nda-Isaiah
The Chairman LEADERSHIP Group, Mr Sam Nda-Isaiah yesterday in Sokoto lamented that governance and politicking in Nigeria are constantly done without regard for the rule of law. To keep the country’s leaders in check and to make the desired impact in governance, Nda-Isaiah urged Nigerian youths to shun money politics and collectively work for corrupt-free ...
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2015 Guber Race: Maku, Rufa’i, Shagari, Others Warm Up
Governorship aspirants for the 2015 elections are already mobilising their followers and resources to clinch the tickets of their political parties at the primaries. Their behind-the-scenes activities are expected to peak at the end of the year or the first quarter of next year, LEADERSHIP Weekend has learnt. Prominent among politicians alleged to have shown ...
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Widowhood: Women Narrate Ordeal
In Nigeria, widowhood is becoming a painful moment in the life of a woman, whose husband dies. In addition to certain harmful practices against widows, more socio-economic challenges are forcing them to imbibe some unethical and immoral strategies to survive. Ruth Choji takes a look at the plight of widows in Nigeria. When a woman ...
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PDP NWC: Jonathan’s Men At War Over Party Positions
The recent resignation of most members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) and the ongoing behind-the-scenes scheming of notable leaders of the party have thrown President Goodluck Jonathan’s men into a supremacy contest. In the contest aimed at getting Jonathan’s favourite into the NWC, a former minister and a Second Republic ...
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Gunmen abduct three corps members in Rivers
THREE corps members were in the early hours of Saturday kidnapped by gunmen in Ogonokom Community Secondary School, Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The corps members (two males and one female) were taken away by their abductors from the Corpers’ Lodge around 12am. It was gathered that the hoodlums had gained entrance into ...
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Jonathan, Amaechi meet in Rivers
BARELY 72 hours after the Rivers State Governor and the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, was barred from exchanging pleasantries with President Goodluck Jonathan, the duo met at the Port Harcourt International Airport on Saturday and embraced each other. Jonathan met and shook hands with Amaechi at the airport before departing ...
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AMCON will recoup investments in Enterprise, Mainstreet, Keystone banks – Lemo
Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Tunde Lemo, in this interview, speaks on the performance of the economy, the exchange rate in the last two years and Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON. Excerpts: Some critics allege that the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, is lumping performing loans together with ...
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Amaechi vs Police Chief: The politics and intrigues of a battle
The inside story of the feud in Rivers State between the governor and the state police commissioner, who is believed in some quarters to be fighting the cause of the authorities in Abuja. Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, has been having a running battle with the state government since he assumed ...
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