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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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Pope Urges Pilgrims At Lourdes To Remain Hopeful
LOURDES- Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass yesterday at the Lourdes shrine renowned for miracles, telling tens of thousands of faithful they should hold onto hope in a world full of evil, torture, suffering and injustice.
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Zimbabwe Opposition To Get Majority In Cabinet
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s opposition will get more Cabinet posts than President Robert Mugabe’s party in the long-sought unity government, state radio reported yesterday.
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Darfur Villages, Clinic Destroyed In Fighting - Rebels
KHARTOUM - Rebel fighters accused government forces yesterday of burning three villages and destroying a health clinic in north Darfur during heavy clashes involving more than 100 vehicles.
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Mbeki Faces Pressure To Resign
JOHANNESBURG-South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki has come under renewed pressure to resign after a High Court judgement.
It has been suggested he used his political influence to prosecute his rival Jacob Zuma.
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Car Government, Rebels Begin
Talks Today
LIBREVILLE - Peace talks between the government of the Central African Republic and a leading rebel group are set to resume in Gabon Monday after collapsing in August, the group’s leader told AFP on Saturday. Full Story
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A court in Senegal has sentenced a newspaper publisher to three years in prison for printing “false reports” in an article claiming the president and his son had stolen government funds
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No room for corruption in Edo -Osunbor
By THOMPSON ERHOMONSELE
BENIN CITY ––Edo State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor has again declared that his administration has zero-tolerance for corruption.
Anenih is my political leader
By THOMPSON ERHOMONSELE
BENIN CITY- Edo State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor has reiterated that Chief Tony Anenih is his leader who has helped him politically.
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Lawmaker defends motions
BENIN CITY – One time Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly and presently Chairman, House Committee on Works and Transport, Hon. (Prince) Fred Omoigberai, has declared that his motions on the floor of the House are targeted at good governance, order, peace and general development of Edo State, and not at certain individuals.
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RECENT FUNCTION: Edo State Deputy Governor Mr. Lucky Imasuen (right) and Olorogun Felix Ibru at a recent function in Port-Harcourt. Photo:JAMES OMOREBOKHAI
New Benin Rotary Club Installs Idubor as President
By CLIFFORD AGBAJOR
BENIN CITY - Rotary Club of New Benin, District 9140 Nigeria, at the weekend, installed Rotarian (Rtn) Agharese Idubor, as its 1st president.
Women dominate Lagos Judiciary - Statistics
LAGOS- Women now dominate the Lagos State Judiciary, numbering 128 of the 184 judicial officers in the state.
Lagos - As part of strategies to strengthen its depth and skill in micro finance banking and poverty alleviation, Oceanic Bank International Plc is partnering with Grameen Bank of Bangladesh on the training of its staff.
Diamond Bank Shareholders’ Fund Hits N120b
ABUJA - Dr. Yerima Ngama, the Executive Director of Diamond Bank, in Abuja said that the bank’s shareholders’ fund had risen to about N120 billion since its re-capitalisation in 2005.
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DICON DG Harps On Eco Advancement
KADUNA - Maj. Gen. Nnaemeka Maduegbunam, the Director-General of the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), Kaduna, has identified economic advancement as the outfit’s main concern.
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Glo Launches Profitmax In Key Cities
LAGOS - Still savouring its success story within five years of its roll-out of services in Nigeria , National Telecommunications operator, Globacom has crashed call rates for commercial phone operators.
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BAGCO Invests N837M On Plants, Machinery
LAGOS - The Nigerian Bag Manufacturing Company Plc says that it has invested N837 million on plants and machinery in the last six months..
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FG Ban On Edible Oil Still In Force
LAGOS - The Federal Government has assured that it will continue to enforce the ban on the importation of edible oil to encourage local production.
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LG Disburses N2.1M Loan To Entrepreneurs
FASKARI(Katsina State) - Faskari Local Government in Katsina State, has distributed N2.1 million as loans to “grassroots entrepreneurs,’’ the Council Chairman, Alhaji Nafi’u Garba, has said.
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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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Sokoto Govt And The War Against Poverty
By AMINU GARKO (NAN)
How to tackle the abject penury that is the lot of millions of people in the North has been the major concern of the 19 state governors lately.
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Reward For Our Worthy Heroes
NIGERIANS presently await the announcement of rewards for our great athletes who did the nation proud in last month’s Beijing Olympic Games.
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SHake-up in fec now inevitable
- says Yar’Adua

Okay now!
I think them been pray make the man die...who si! Magana don come now.
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