Daniel Kanu | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010THE ANAMBRA State Governorship ballot scheduled for February 6 may be stopped today when the Abuja Federal High Court delivers judgment in the suit filed by National Democratic Party (NDP) Governorship aspirant, Donatus Okonkwo.
Okonkw...
Joe Nwankwo | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010PFIZER has agreed to pay N26 million to each family of the victims of its Trovan vaccine trials in Kano in 2006, provided there is proof of death or permanent incapacitation.
About 200 people took part in the trials which resulted in t...
Adetutu Folasade-Koyi | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010On Monday, both the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Abdurahman Dambazau, warned military personnel not to plot a coup d’etat against President Umaru Yar’Adua, whose health condition Senat...
John Ofikhenua | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Microfinance Banks (MFBs) in Nigeria at the weekend urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to compel Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) to clear all cheques emanating from MFBs.
The MFBs also sought the use of short codes to replace the names...
Kelvin Osa-Okunbor | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010The Chairman of the Contract Compliance Committee (CCC), Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Jeo Gadzama (SAN), has said that the committee will look at knotty issues in the contracts and concession agreements entered into between...
Our Reporter | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010The volume of trade between Nigeria and Spain hit more than three billion euros in 2009, Mr Obed Waziri, the Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, has said in Madrid.
Waziri told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday at the ongoing Feri...
Franca Ochigbo | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010The Executive Director,/Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Export Promotion Council, (NEPC), Mr. David Adulugba, has disclosed that Nigerian entrepreneurs are yet to fully maximise the benefits of the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA).
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John Ofikhenua | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010THE Managing Direc-tor, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Mr. Abdulsalam Ahmed, at the weekend said the bank had so far collected N52billion under the National Housing Fund.
The Executive Director, Organisational Resources, Mr. ...
Emeka Ugwuanyi | Friday, January 22nd, 2010The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), has said it paid the major oil marketers over N300 billion between August last year and January, this year, being subsidy for petroleum products the marketers imported into the country.
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Dele Anofi | Friday, January 22nd, 2010The Federal Government has allayed fears that the proposed 10 percent equity share of offshore proceeds intended for oil producing communities may be hijacked, denying the beneficiaries and frustrating its empowerment plan for the people .
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