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MAN OF THE YEAR
THE most influential people on earth are ordinary dreamers. They see beyond the immediate; they construct, in their mind's eye, a future - seemingly farfetched, but festooned with possibilities.
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Vice President Goodluck Jonathan (right) with his family members during the first thanksgiving service of the new year at Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Central Parish, Wuse II, Abuja... yesterday.
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Govt set to unbundle NNPC, scrap DPR
From John-Abba Ogbodo, Abuja
THE Presidency has taken its drive to unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and scrap the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to the National Assembly.
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No new projects for aviation agencies till 2011
By Wole Shadare
AVIATION agencies have been restrained from embarking on new projects by the Presidency.
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How Bank PHB acquired Spring Bank
By Gbenga Agbana
MORE details on the acquisition of Spring Bank Plc by Bank PHB emerged at the weekend.
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AFRICA
Division among rebels slows Darfur's peace plan
International mediators pushing for new negotiations on Darfur are being hampered by divisions among Darfur's rebels and by some rebels' hopes that genocide charges will bring down Sudan's president.
South Africa's anti-apartheid activist, Helen Suzman buried
Hundreds of mourners gathered yesterday for the funeral of anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman, who for decades was South Africa's most famous white crusader against segregation.
WORLD
Middle East nations condemn Israel's Gaza invasion
Israel's ground offensive in the Gaza Strip was roundly condemned across the Middle East yesterday, with Egypt also accusing the UN Security Council of failing to act quickly to resolve the crisis.
Female bomber kills 38 in Baghdad
A female suicide bomber blew herself up yesterday among a crowd of pilgrims worshipping at a revered Shiite shrine in northern Baghdad, killing at least 38 people and wounding about 72, the Iraqi army and police said.
POLICY & POLITICS
'What to expect from 2009 budget'
After several months of waiting, the Federal Executive Council has now been constituted. Yet, critics see the cabinet as a recycling of old people, some former governors and other Ministers.
ARTS
Every Day is for the Thief... one day
By Tolu Ogunlesi
LAGOS is a marketplace, bigger and more exciting than the open-air Samarkand bazaar immortalized by Wole Soyinka in his most recent collection of poems. Samarkand might offer the 'bric a brac' and an electrifying wedlock of philosophers and poets, but Lagos' most marketable offerings are its stories.
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