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Yar'Adua calls off budget session over N' Assembly rift
From Alifa Daniel and Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Abuja
THE planned budget presentation by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives did not hold yesterday after all. Two separate Army Bands had, in fact, set up their separate bands at the two chambers of the two houses.
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CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (left); Ogun State Deputy Governor, Salmat Badru; Prof. Akin Oyebode, Prof. Attahiru Jega, the book presenter, Sir Kessington Adebutu and the author, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, during the launch of the book: Nigeria: "Africa's Failed Asset?" at the MUSON Centre, Lagos ... yesterday.
PHOTO: GABRIEL IKHAHON
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Capital Market |
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NSE rejigs hierarchical structure, lists GT Assurance shares
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The Nigerian child
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Estate residents, oil firm, DRP in court over Lagos tank farm dispute
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Yar'Adua pledges support for Nigeria's Copenhagen team
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Nigeria loses 2.3m bpd of oil in three months
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Gaslink hinges gas price hike on standard pricing model
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Nigeria remains investors' preferred destination, say minister, NCC boss
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Global ICT regulator shares vision of tomorrow's networks, services
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Troubled banks: AMC to the rescue?
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Johnson Toritsemotse: A Tribute
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Bancassurance facilitates insurance penetration in emerging markets, says Adejumo
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Restoring passengers' confidence in air travel
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At 20, APCON strategises for future, confers honorary fellowship on Babangida, others
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No court sits on appeal over its judgement
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Fresh concerns over safety of herbal preparations
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Trade fair as a boost to industrial performance
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Mass sack of non-teaching staff looms in universities
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Between Olumo and Aso: Can culture humanise power?
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NUC defends action on Lead City University
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How scholars rose to save history in Brazil
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Absence of infrastructure threatens N1.2 trillion Lekki port project
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'Lamido Sanusi Should Stop Behaving Like Dictator'
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Amnesty: Is Government Stuck?
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Members Of Adelaja Church Write Obama Over His Persecution
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Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) in perspective (2)
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Industrialists decry budget hitches, seek role in execution
By Bola Olajuwon and Roseline Okere
MEMBERS of the Organised Private Sector (OPS), under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), have called for an overhaul in the preparation and implementation of the federal budget.
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Mark tasks security agencies on cartels, NNPC chief urges support for reforms
From Azimazi Momoh Jimoh and Collins Olayinka, Abuja
SENATE President David Mark has charged security operatives to put necessary measures in place to dismantle all kinds of cartels in the oil, energy and transportation sectors.
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AFRICA
ICC member-states summit opens, agrees on work format
By Francis Obinor
THE eighth session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ("the Assembly") has opened at the World Forum Convention Centre in The Hague. The Assembly of States Parties has also agreed on the organisation of work.
Report implicates Mozambique's ruling party in corruption
TESTIMONY in the highest-level corruption trial in Mozambique's history has implicated ruling party, Frelimo, as a beneficiary of embezzled funds.
WORLD
U.S. warns Iran of consequences over nuclear standoff
SHOWING impatience with Iranian foot-dragging tactics, United States President Barack Obama yesterday said that Washington and its allies were discussing possible new penalties to bring fresh pressure on Iran for defying international attempts to halt its contested nuclear programme.
Karzai seeks unity, pledges war on corruption
AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has vowed to combat corruption, inviting his chief rival to join the government after he was sworn in for a second term in the face of mounting Western pressure to restore legitimacy as a United States (U.S.)-led war stretches into a ninth year.
POLICY & POLITICS
PDP dominance of polls will spell doom, says Obioha
In this interview with LAWRENCE NJOKU in Enugu, National Chairman of the Justice Party (JP), Chief Ralph Obioha spoke on some national issues. Excerpts.
ARTS
ION Film Festival to rev up Rivers
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By Chuks Nwanne
MOBILE telecommunication company, Zain has thrown its weight behind the up coming Ion International Film Festival, holding in Port Harcourt, River State capital. The festival, which will be taking place on an African soil for the first time since inception, will open on December 9 through 12, with notable filmmakers from different parts of the world expected in the Garden City.
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