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Company Registrars:
How They Can Help You

Every public company appoints
a registrar that maintains the register of shareholders. Some set this up in-house, but most out-source it so as to focus on their core business interests, while professional hands manage functions relating to the register of the company.
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International

S//Africa Backs Mbeki As Zimbabwe Mediator

 

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s new leader Thursday backed former president Thabo Mbeki as the mediator in Zimbabwe, saying he would revive a stalled key power sharing deal he brokered last month.

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Bombs Kill 24 In Baghdad

BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers targeted Shiite worshippers as they left morning prayers Thursday at two Baghdad mosques, killing 24 people and wounding more than 50 others, police said.

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India Ban Smoking In Public Places

NEW DELHI - India banned smoking in public places on Thursday, leaving public health officials with a much tougher task: get the nation’s estimated 120 million smokers to stub out their cigarettes.

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Al Qaeda Claims Algeria Bombing

DUBAI - Al Qaeda’s north Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the Internet yesterday.
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Spanish Police Arrest 121 In Child Porn Raids

MADRID - Spanish police arrested 121 people in the country’s biggest-ever crackdown on child pornography, seizing discs containing millions of video and photo files shared by a network that distributed them in 75 countries, authorities said yesterday.
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EU Ceasefire Monitors Begin Patrols In Georgia

KARALETI - European Union monitors began patrolling Georgian territory yesterday and Russian troops allowed some of them into a buffer zone around the breakaway region of South Ossetia despite earlier warnings from Moscow they would be blocked.

 

 

Scarcity Of Petroleum Products: EDSG launches war against hoarding

By ANDY EGBON

BENIN CITY ––Worried by the rising cost of Petroleum products in Edo State, the state government has threatened to invoke the relevant sections of the law against marketers who engage in sharp practices.

Govt to look into multiple taxation

By THOMPSON ERHOMONSELE

BENIN CITY- Edo State Government has given the assurance that it will look into the issue of multiple taxation being experienced by private medical practitioners and other small scale businesses in the state.

 


Osunbor assures c’ttee on Awolowo’s centenary

By THOMPSON ERHOMONSELE
BENIN CITY ––Edo State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor has declared his readiness to support any effort towards the centenary activities of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

Egor Vice Chairmanship: Court restrains EDHA, Speaker

BENIN CITY ––A Benin High Court, presided over by Hon. Justice H. A. Courage-Ogbebor, has granted an interim injunction, restraining the Edo State House of Assembly, its Speaker (who are 1st and 2nd defendants), their agents,


Lady Osunbor appeals for mass support to curb HIV/AIDS

By CLIFFORD AGBAJOR
BENIN CITY – Wife of Edo State Governor and Chairman, Edo State Action Committee on AIDS (SACA), Lady Ussieh Osunbor has stressed the need for all hands to be on deck, in the fight against HIV/AIDS just as she reiterated the

EDSG targets schools to preserve cultural values

By JAMES TAKPE

 

BENIN CITY- In a bid to reverse some of the negative trends and near annihilation of our cherished cultural values, the Edo State government is set to use schools as a starting point.


Pools betting: Govt approves 20 pools promoters

By KEN ABU
BENIN CITY – Edo State Government through the Board of Internal Revenue, has approved 20 pools promoters to operate pools betting business this week in the state.
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OBSERVER GM assures book launch c’ttee

Oredo LG chairman promises staff welfare

Work resumes in Edo after holidays

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National

CSR: Owo High School Alumini To Finance Development Projects

Communal Clash: Samuel Ukokheunmon Runs Over Threat To Life

Oyo Blessed With Vast Tourism Resources-Alao-Akala

Mayhem: LG Boss Alleges Threat To Life

FRSC Embarks On Workshops On ‘Ember Months’

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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
 

Symbols In Cultural Contexts And Traditions

With AMBROSE .0. EKHOSUEHI
Symbols are a species of sign, and a sign is anything which points beyond its own visible reality. Symbols in culture and tradition are a conscious collaboration of what is more or less unconscious. They include myths and belong to the first order language, that think themselves in people. The meaning of symbols depend on particular cultural contexts and traditions.

Nigerian Women Should Be Given More Recognition - Madam Lagos

Lion Omuwa Elegon (Aka Madam Lagos) is one Nigerian woman whom you cannot easily ignore. Despite her limited education, Madam Lagos stands tall in the midst of both men and women. Bold, vocal and very friendly, Lion Elegon in this interview, relieves her experience on Nigeria’s Independence day and pontificates on the way forward for the nation. She spoke with MATTHEW OKAGHA

COURTESY VISIT: Edo State Governor, Prof Oserheimen Osunbor (right), With Otunba Mohammed Jobi-Fele, leader of the Committee on Awolowo's Centenary celebration, during a courtesy visit to Government House, Benin City yesterday. Photo: LUCKY AGIE.


Edo South PDP endorses Chief Edosa as leader in Egor

BENIN CITY – The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Edo South, has endorsed Chief Godwin Edosa, as the leader of the party in Egor Local Government Area.

WCCM vows to change youths

By VICTOR OMOALU
BENIN CITY – A group of young people under the auspices of the Changers Christian Movement (WCCM), has identified the need to raise young generations that will change the nation, 10 ways in 10 years.

Lagos. - Guaranty Trust Bank has emerged the 2008 Best Bank in Mobile Banking at the Nigerian Telecom Awards. The Bank finished ahead of First Inland Bank and Diamond Bank.


Virgin Nigeria Acquires New Aircraft

IKEJA- The fleet renewal programme in the nation’s aviation industry has received a boost as Virgin Nigeria took delivery of its first EMBRAER 190 aircraft from Brazil.

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DESOPADEC Set To Industrialise Delta

By EUBALDUS ENAHORO

WARRI-The Executive Chairman of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Chief Wellington Okirika has reaffirmed the readiness of the oil agency to actualize its industrialization intention of its mandate areas as this remain one of the surest ways of creating employment and discouraging youths restiveness in the Niger-Delta region.

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Coca-cola Acquires China’s Coy

The Coca-Cola Company has agreed to pay $2.5 billion for Chinese juice maker Huiyuan, three times its value, in China’s biggest takeover by a foreign company.
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Mortgage Banks Target Informal Sector

ABUJA- The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) has said its new mortgage policy is targeted at the non-salaried informal sector.
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NLC Advises Imo Govt On Tax

OWERRI- NLC has advised Imo against imposing heavy taxes on the proposed 15 per cent salary increase for workers in the state.
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NB Plc Declares N7.6b Interim Dividend

Lagos - Nigerian Breweries Plc has declared an interim dividend of N7, 562,562,340, that is N1.00 per ordinary share of 50 kobo each in the share capital of the Company.
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Flag Of Victory

SIXTY — three years have passed since the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea (October 10, 1945). Its history can be said to be the one of its advancing with victory and glory under its flag with a hammer, a sickle and a brush printed on it.

We Are Moving Away From The Crude Politics Of The Past- Hon Agbabi

By MATTHEW OKAGHA
Hon Anslem Agbabi represents the new generation politicians with a more pragmatic ideological philosophy . In this interview with THE NIGERIAN OBSERVER, the Lawmaker representing Akoko-Edo 11 constituency

 

Judicial Independence: A Fillip For The Rule Of Law

By Tanko Dada/Agency Reports

On his inauguration on May 29, 2007, President Umaru Yar’Adua stated that the philosophy of his administration would be anchored on the principle of the rule of law.

 

Our Economy Is On A Strong Footing - Yar’Adua

 

Fellow Nigerians, As we mark forty eight years of nationhood today, I wish to thank God Almighty for the bountiful blessings he has continually bestowed on us as a people, in spite of the many challenges that we have had to face.

Editorial

Killer Mosquito Coils

NIGERIANS woke up sometime ago, to read in the National Dailies, of the circulation of killer mosquito coils in our markets.

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