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Baby Friendly And Its Benefits
By Gladys Osemwegie
Breast milk offer the best and most complete food for the infant. Since it also provides the infant with antibodies, breast milk helps to ward off the risk of illness, while the early introduction of other liquids and solids,
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Unity Kapital Assurance Shops For N14b
LAGOS- Mr. Mohammed Kari, the Managing Director of Unity Kapital Assurance Plc, says the company plans to raise N14 billion from the capital market.
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Union Homes To Raise Funds From Capital Market
LAGOS- The Chairman of Union Homes Savings and Loans Plc, Mr Barth Ebong, has said that the company will be going to the capital market to raise funds through a public offering.
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FG Eyes 9% GDP Growth
LAGOS- The Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, says the country is to increase Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate to 9 per cent. Full Story
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Virgin Nigeria Resists Order, Describes it As Subjudice
IKEJA- Virgin Nigeria says the fresh directive handed down to it to relocate its domestic operations from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) within seven days is sub judicial.
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Expenditure:EDHA may raise LG
limit to N10m
By Friday Obanor
AUCHI - The Edo State House of Assembly may likely increase the spending limit of council chairmen in the state from its initial-N2 million to-N10 million per month by the time it reconvenes this week.
Oloi Esther Erediauwa Foundation launched
By Thompson Erhomonsele/Moday Oise
BENIN CITY- Activities marking the 70th birthday celebration of Queen Esther Erediauwa, Eson N'Erie of Benin kingdom came to a climax weekend with a grand royal
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Somali militants hold Nigerians hostage
LAGOS- Somali militants have highjacked a Nigerian merchant ship, holding its captain, Graham Egbegi, and its crew hostage.
Fingerprints:
American scientists make breakthrough
NEW YORK- Scientists in the U.S. have developed a technology that can detect or trace amount of explosives, drugs and many other substances through fingerprints.
Chieftaincy Dispute:Emai communities threaten secession
EMAI – As the Chieftaincy dispute in Emai clan continues unabated, the Chiefs and Elders of Ovbiomu and Evbiamen, two of the three communities that make up Emai clan, have penultimate Thursday, threatened to secede if any of the two communities is not made to produce the next Oleije of Emai clan.
Suspected cultists: Police lambast parents
By MIKE OSAROGIAGBON
BENIN CITY - The Edo State Police Command has admonished parents of suspected cultists in the state to go and bury their heads in shame rather than stampede the command into releasing their wards and children.
Lawmaker makes case for local administration
for the scrapping of local government as a third tier administration continue to gather momentum, a member of the Edo State House of Assembly has described such calls as selfish, unreasonable and myopic.
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RETREAT: Edo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Lucky Imasuen (right) and Chief Edwin Clark, at the 'One Voice' South-South Legislative Retreat held at the Presidential Hotel in Port-Harcourt Photo: JAMES OMOREBOKHAI.
Adhere to tenets, Anglican Bishop tells members
By CLIFFORD AGBAJOR
BENIN CITY- The Bishop of Benin Diocese, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. Peter Imasuen, has said that the Benin Diocese of the church will adhere strictly to the tenets of the church as laid down by the authority of the church (church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion).
EDHA committee ends tour
IGARRA- The newly re-constituted Edo State House of Assembly Standing Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, has concluded its familiarization tour to Edo North Senatorial District of the state.
Zain Brand'll Bring Benefits To Nigerians -Ligali
LAGOS- Following the rebranding of Celtel Nigeria to Zain, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Adebayo Ligali, has explained that all Zain customers will experience and enjoy a similar and consistent quality of service, reliability and standards of excellence wherever they live, work and travel in the Middle East, Africa and globally.
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Investors Lament Effect Of Third Mainland Bridge Closure
LAGOS- A cross-section of players in the country's economy on Tuesday lamented the negative effects the closure of the Third Mainland Bridge was having on the movement of goods and services in Lagos, the nation's commercial nerve centre.
Lull In Capital Mkt May Continue -Expert
LAGOS- A capital market expert says that the country's bourse may not have met the expectations of investors with penchant for short-term investments in the first half of the year.
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Political Insincerity And Poverty Alleviation
By EKAIWE IGINUA OSEMWEKHA
The slogan called poverty alleviation has become an enjoyable way by which the people in the corridor of power employ in misleading the downtrodden masses of this country. There are no evidences of its reduction but a mane ting in the official circles by the very forces that perpetuate the scourge.
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Commerce Ministry Braces For Vision 2020
By GRACE YUSSUF
One of the cardinal programmes of the Yar'Adua administration is to make Nigeria one of the top 20 global economies by 2020.
Tagged Vision 2020, the programme is being pursued with vigour as the government and its agencies brace to attain the target.
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Reviving Bendel Insurance
EDO state Sports Commissioner, Hon. Brown Ebewele is a man who matches words with action. When last week, he hinted of plans to put strong structures in place to revamp sports in the state, those who have been associated with the sports technocrat, applauded.
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MUGABE TURNS 84, BATTLING TO HOLD ONTO POWER
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Okay now! Leaf wey dey sweet goat na him dey kill am, since na him sabi rule pass.
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