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Twice Beaten... Kingibe Eased Out Of Aso Rock

By JOSES SEDE
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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International

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.
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Dakar

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

 

 

Yar’Adua won’t resign - Presidency

By JOSES SEDE

ABUJA - The presidency yesterday described as absolute rubbish, the news flash alleged to have emanated from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua will resign after cabinet reshuffle on health grounds.

EDSG calls for fight against Lassa Fever

By THOMPSON ERHOMONSELE

BENNIN CITY - Edo State Government has called for collective effort towards banishing Lassa Fever from Edo State.

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Help reduce crime, Gov Osunbor urges military

By THOMPSON ERHOMONSELE
BENIN CITY- Edo State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor has requested the Nigeria Army to continuously render its assistance in the control of crime in the state.

EDHA, Oredo Legislative Arm condemn killing at Mega station

By FRIDAY OBANOR

BENIN CITY ––The leadership of the Edo State House of Assembly has condemned in strong terms, the alleged barbaric killing of one Mr. Ebenezer Aisien by a trigger-happy Mobile Police Officer, attached to the NNPC Mega filling station in Benin City on Monday.

Breast cancer:Govt sets up c’ttee

By THOMPSON ERHOMONSELE 

BENIN CITY-The Edo State Head of Service, Dr. Simon Imuekemhe has said that the state government is focused on the treatment of breast cancer among women while a committee has been set up to screen women with the disease.

EDHA confirms appointment of Auditor-General

By FRIDAY OBANOR 

BENIN CITY- Edo State House of Assembly has considered and confirmed the appointment of Mr. Bernard Erharuyi Aigbe as the substantive Auditor-General of the state.

EDSG commends NYSC scheme

By KEN ABU
OKADA- Edo State government has acknowledge the relevance of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme in the attainment of the yearnings and aspirations of the generality of the people of the country in all aspects of human endeavour.
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Inside Edo

Oredo set to decongest King’s Square

NULGE lauds Ikpoba-Okha LG chairman

Edo Govt Tasked On Boundary
Re-Demarcation

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National

Muslim Clerics Move To Salvage Niger-Delta Crisis

Niger-Delta Ministry: Group Wants Appointment On Merit

Authority Bans New Building In Parts Of Bayelsa

Senate Transport Probe Panel Begins Round 2

Bankole Expresses Shock Over Rep’s Death

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Focus

Decongesting King’s Square:

The Nosa Ehima Initiative

By O’RAY OSAWE
Benin City, popularly called the Ring Road because of the ‘ring’ nature of the road which circles the National Museums and Monument, is a boisterous beehive of activities.
Thoughts And Tips

Let’s Entrench A New Social Order

By MONDAY ESON
To keep Nigeria as one country united in purpose, is a task that must be done by all Nigerians. There is hunger, despair, looting, cheating, violence, vandalism and other vices in the land.

COURTESY VISIT: Edo State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor (right), welcoming Prof. George Akpede, National Chairman, Lassa Fever Stakeholders Forum and Chief Medical Director, Irrua Special Teaching Hospital, Irrua, during a courtesy visit to Government House, Benin City yesterday. Photo: LUCKY AGIE.

Owners of broken down vehicles get govt deadline

By thompson erhomonsele
BENIN CITY- Edo State Government has advised owners of unserviceable and broken-down vehicles on the roads to remove them on or before Wednesday, October 15, 2008.

C’ttee of Vice Chancellors appeals for release of RSUST VC

BENIN CITY- The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities (CVC) as well as the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU) have pleaded for the early and unconditional release of their colleague, Professor Barineme Fakae, Vice-Chancellor, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, (RSUST), Port- Harcourt.

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.

Analysis

FOI Bill: Matters Arising

By ANDY EGBON

To self governing societies, a major test of a nation’s freedom is the degree of liberty people have in speaking, writing and publishing. 17th and 18th century thought in much of Western Europe and America turned to faith in man’s reason as the safest basic for government, and if man was rational, indeed, he needed access to a maximum flow of information and opinion as a basis for making decision.

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Education

Falling Standard Of Education In Nigeria:
Who Bears The Blame?

Asks IMONOFI MOMODU

Before we can adequately and meaningfully contribute to this topic above, we must first and foremost understand the key words of the topic before tracing who is responsible for the “falling standard of education in Nigeria”.

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Editorial

Increase In Bank Fraud

A recent report of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) indicates that a total of 741 cases of attempted fraud and forgery, involving N5.4 billion, $35,406 and 150 Euros, were reported by banks to regulatory authorities during the first six months of 2007.

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OKUTA (LAST -O-)

POLICEMAN KILLS 34-YR-OLD MAN IN BENIN MEGA STATION - News

 


Oh my God!
Assassins dey kill, police dey kill innocently, na who come kill pass now?

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