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Who Owns Your Salary?
By AMADASUN ESE
If you are a employee like I am, then you probably look forward to the end of the month when you’ll get paid your salary. Depending on where you work, what you do and what post you occupy, your salary will vary from several thousands to several hundreds of thousands and possibly several millions. Yeah, some are that lucky, but everyone still falls into the same category.
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Darfur Rebels Spurn Arab Peace Initiative
KHARTOUM - Darfur rebel groups dismissed on Thursday an Arab League initiative aimed at bringing peace to the war-ravaged western Sudanese region, saying the move came five years too late.
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Robbers Target Obama Family In Kenya
NAIROBI - Suspected thieves tried to break into the home of Barack Obama’s elderly step-grandmother in Kenya, the U.S. presidential candidate’s uncle said Thursday.
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Obama Calls On US To Renew 9/11 Spirit Of Service
CHAMPION - On the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called on Americans to renew “that spirit of service and that sense of common purpose” that followed the terrorist assaults that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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Israeli Leaders To Resign “Immediately” After Vote
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will step down immediately after his party chooses a successor this month, a confidant said Thursday, shooting down speculation the Israeli leader would try to linger in office for months.
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N/Korea Leader May Have Partial Paralysis
SEOUL - North Korea’s Kim Jong Il had brain surgery after a stroke last month and could have partial paralysis on one side, media reports said Thursday, after the South Korean government said the communist leader remained in control of his country.
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‘Vote-Rigging’ Mars Angola Poll
LUANDA-An EU observer has told the BBC there was vote-rigging in Angola, where the ruling MPLA is expected to win a landslide election victory.
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Kero scarcity to linger- Minister
By JOSES SEDE
ABUJA – If startling revelations at the on-going Senate probe into the increasing rise in the prices of kerosene and diesel are anything to go by, peasant Nigerians are in for more trouble.
Yar’ Adua gives reasons for N-Delta Ministry
By JOSES SEDE/MIKE ODIAKOSE
ABUJA- President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has underscored his administration’s resolve to integrate the hitherto neglected Niger Delta Region into Nigerian National Development Programme when he promised religious implementation of policies that will fast track recovery of that region from poverty.
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Gas Project: Oben community warns NGC
BENIN CITY – Elders and Youths of Oben Community in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State have vowed to resist further attempts by the Nigeria Gas Company (NGC) to continue its operations in their land without an acceptable Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and agreement with the community.
... Tasks EITI on ‘blood oil’
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SOUTH-SOUTH ZONAL CONSULTATIVE AND SENSITISATION FORUM: Edo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Lucky Imasuen (right), and his Rivers State counterpart, Engineer Tele Ikuru at a South-South Zonal Consultative adn Sensitisation Forum on inclusive National Budgeting in Nigeria, organised in Port-Harcourt by the Implementation Committee, UNDP/National Assembly Support Programme. Photo: FRED EBEREMU.
Etsako East LG Council employs 250 primary school staff
By JAMES TAKPE
AGENEBODE – Over 250 teaching and non-teaching staff have been employed for the various primary schools by authorities of Etsako East Local Government Council.
Council Chairman lauds GHAIN
ABUDU – The Chairman of Orhionmwon Local Government Council, Hon. Patrick Aisien has said that his administration will give the family Health International (FHI) and the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria, (GHAIN) the necessary support to realize its objective in the area.
LAGOS - Leading mobile phone Company in Africa and the Middle East, Zain, is finalising several acquisition deals in Africa, its chief executive for the continent, Chris Gabriel has said.
Ecobank Nigeria To Benefit From ETI Offer -Aboderin
LAGOS: Ecobank Nigeria Plc, will at the long run be the greatest beneficiary of the on-going Public offer and Rights Issue of Ecobank Transnational Incoporated (ETI), its parent company.
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Ekiti To Resuscitate Moribund Industries
DO-EKITI - Ekiti State government has commenced the resuscitation of the state owned moribund Ekunderi Milk processing firm.
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WEMA Bank Gets New Acting MD
LAGOS - Mr. Mahmoud Lai Alabi, who was last week appointed the Acting Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Wema Bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has formally assuumed office at the Bank’s head office in Lagos.
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Lucky Fibre Ready For Stock Market
LAGOS - Lucky Fibres Nigeria Plc, makers of Noel carpets and Rugs has concluded plans to raise from the capital market N8.3 billion to enhance its operations.
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Shoprite Eyes 50 New Stores
Katsina - The Katsina
State Government has spent N107 million on the establishment of 48 paint and chalk cottage industries in the state.
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Institute To Enforce Regulation On Printing
Lagos - The Chartered Institute of Professional Printers (CIPPON) says it would soon put in place a law to enforce the regulation of printing in Nigeria. The President of the institute, Mr. Muhammad Lawal, stated this in Lagos at an interactive session with printers.
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Lady Ussieh Osunbor: Sowing The Seed
Of Change
By SYLVESTER EGIE AKHIDIME
In my essay of the 7th February, 2008 (The Nigerian Observer; page 10), I tried to focus the attention of readers on the efforts of the amiable First Lady, Lady Ussieh Osunbor, at confronting some of those problems that have kept the larger part of the African continent perpetually at the developing stage, but never really developed.
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The Immorality In Child Trafficking
By AKPESIRI
OGBENERHABOKE
Regardless of the united Nations, UN, convention on the right of the child, it is an incontrovertible truism that children all over the world have continued to contend with crisis of
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Life Jail For Fake Drug Dealers
THE frightening crave for material wealth has driven some Nigerians into satanic acts, like ritual killings, armed banditry, kidnappings and adulteration of products made for human consumption.
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Dad drags son to police over alleged robbery in Ibadan
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You see!
Na God go bless that man. How many fathers go fit do that kind thing today?
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