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•PROMO…(L-r) Director, customer care,
Globacom, Ms Marie Svensson, a Nollywood actor, Mr. Jim Iyke, Glo
executive director, human resources, Mr. Adewale Sangowawa and a
Glo Ambassador, actress Rita Dominic at the media briefing on "Glo
text 4 million" a new promo by Globacom held in Lagos…yesterday.
PHOTO: KINGSTON DANIEL
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COSMAS EKPUNOBI, Assist.Pol. Editor
Senate caucus of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) have formally made a joint demand from the
leadership of the party for automatic return tickets to the
National Assembly in 2011, for themselves.
The demand may have
confirmed renewed speculations that the PDP senators may have
sealed such deal with the national leadership of the party.
National Chairman of the
party, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, had at a recent meeting with the
party caucus in the House of Representatives said that the high
turn over of lawmakers at the National Assembly was no longer
acceptable to the party ...>>more |
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No gratuity for Yar’Adua,
Jonathan—RMAFC
The Revenue
Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC),
yesterday said President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and his Vice,
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan are to forfeit the 300 per cent
severance gratuity allowance built in the annual take home
package...>> More
Gov. Obi’s
wife empowers 1,700 disabled persons
ODOGWU EMEKA
ODOGWU, Awka
OVER 1,700 persons
with disability were empowered by the wife of the Anambra
State governor, Mrs. Margaret Peter-Obi, during this year’s
International day of the persons with disabilities in
Anambra State ...>>More
Onoh to be
buried today
Chukwudi Achife,
Enugu
All is set for the
burial today of elder statesman and former Governor of old
Anambra State Chief Christian Onoh, who passed away in May
at the age of 82 ... >>More
Arewa flays proposed fee hike in Law
School
JOHN SHIKLAM, Kaduna
The Arewa Consultative
Forum (ACF) yesterday raised alarm over a proposed increase
in fees payable by undergraduate students in Nigerian
universities and the Nigerian Law School.
The ACF said in a
communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive
Council (NEC) meeting in Kaduna claimed that the government
planned to increase fees payable at the Law School to a
minimum of N250,000 per session, while undergraduate
students may be required to pay N150,000 per session, if the
proposal is adopted. .
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Biafran passport: I’m
ready for arrest —Uwazuruike
•We’re not after him —Police
FROM EMMA OGU,
Owerri
Leader of the Movement
for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB),
Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday debunked rumours of his
purported arrest by the police shortly after launching Biafran
travelling document entitled United States of Biafra Passport
in his country home Okwe. The police have also denied
arresting him. .. >>More
Reps begin
1999 constitution review
ABIODUN ADELAJA and
ADEKUNLE ADESUJI, Abuja
Amid dissenting voices,
the House of Representatives yesterday commenced moves to
amend the 1999 Constitution
Specifically the
initiative which seeks to amend Sections 8 and 9 of the
Constitution, relating to creation of states and boundary
adjustment, was however endorsed after a heated debate by the
federal lawmakers ...>More
Burnt policemen: 15
suspects arrested
STEVE OKO,
Umuahia
A combined team of
soldiers and policemen drafted from Port Harcourt, Rivers
State, have stormed a hideout of a gang of kidnappers at
Umuchuchi, Aba and arrested about 15 suspects believed to be
behind the killing and roasting of four policemen last Tuesday
in Aba ... >>More
FG: rehabilitates 300
militants
ERASMUS ALANEME,
Abuja
Ahead of the amnesty
granted by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to end hostility in
the Niger Delta region, Federal Government yesterday said it
already has over 300 militants who declined militancy and have
benefited from retraining programmes aimed at reintegrating
them back into the society ... >> More
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