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Pensioners’ complaints top commission’s petitions in Edo

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EDO State Commissioner in the Public Complaints Commission (PCC), Oladele Bankole-Balogun, has said that petitions from pensioners top the over 600 petitions the body received from the state in the last one year.

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Okwu sets up APGA peace panel

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APGA-Logo• Umeh anchors reconciliation on court ruling

AWAY from the rancour and mudslinging that had characterised relationship within its leadership so far, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) looks set for stability, as its court-validated...
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Archbishop of Canterbury honours Idowu-Fearon

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THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev. Justin Welby, will on Thursday, June 20, bestow on the Anglican Archbishop of the Province of Kaduna, Most Rev. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, the Cross of St. Augustine.

In a letter informing Idowu-Fearon of the...
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Reps may declare salaries on resumption

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WHEN they return from their ongoing recess, members of the House of Representatives may publicly declare their salaries and emoluments.

The move, according to the Chairman, Committee on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Zakari Mohammed, will help in...
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Tinubu hopeful of free, fair poll in 2015

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NATIONAL Leader, Action Congress of Nigeria and former governor of Lagos State and one of the leaders of the June 12 struggle says the spirit of June 12 is alive and thriving and it will propel the process that will produce free and fair elections...
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Process for registration of APC has begun, says Ikimi

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APC-LOGO• INEC stresses need to meet requirements

THE process for formal registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced, according to Chief Tom Ikimi.

Ikimi, who is a chieftain...
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Five feared killed by herdsmen in Benue

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NO fewer than five people are feared killed in a fresh attack by people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on farmers in Ichama community of Okpokwu council of Benue State.

The Guardian learnt that herdsmen invaded the area in   a truck, killed...
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Amanyanabo wants Jonathan, Amaechi reconciled

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CONCERNED by the festering relationship between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi, the Amanyanabo of Kalabari Kingdom, Prof. Theophilus  Princewill, has called for reconciliation.

The monarch who...
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Experts seek private procurement of meters

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•DG lists gains of sustainable energy

STAKEHOLDERS in the nation’s energy sector, specifically metering subsector, have urged  the Federal Government to develop a framework that will give consumers the right to procure pre-paid...
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NMA wants governing council to intervene in UNIABUJA crisis

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AS part of efforts to address the persistent accreditation crises confronting the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) and most importantly the recent protest by the medical students of the College of Health Sciences of the institution, the Nigerian...
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New immigration chief, Paradang, takes over

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AFTER more than four months of uncertainty, a substantive Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has being appointed, as five deputies are to proceed on retirement.

The new CG, David Paradang, after being decorated by...
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JTF, youths arrest 30 suspected Boko Haram members

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Sagir-Musa• Task force explains roads closure in Borno

IN a joint action, the military Joint Task Force (JTF) and youth associations in Hausari, Fezzan and Bulabulin Gwange areas of Maiduguri have arrested 30 suspected Boko Haram members in various...
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South Africa strengthens security at Mandela’s hospital

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FRONT_PIX___11_6_13No progress in health, family moves to bedside

SOUTH AFRICA has stepped up security at the hospital where former President Nelson Mandela is hospitalised.

On Tuesday, armed security operatives stood guard outside and incoming vehicles and...
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Lessons of June 12, by Soyinka, Abiola-Constello, NLC, others

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Abiola• Date embodies unity, equity, justice, says Nobel laureate

• ‘Those who signed away victory’

LIKE a festering wound that defies treatment and sticks out implacably, June 12  re-awakens sore memories of the nation’s political...
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Absence of defence counsel stalls subsidy scam trial

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THE absence of the defence counsel, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) and Adebayo Adenipekun (SAN),  on Monday meant that proceedings at the on-going trial of two oil marketers implicated in subsidy scam, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and Habila Theck, at the Lagos...
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