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  Police Officer wins N10m, as MTN @ 10 promo ends

  As the MTN at 10 years celebration comes to an end, a Benue State-born police officer and clergyman, James Orkuma,  emerged one of the lucky winners of 10 million naira  at the grand finale of the MTN...

  • Posted February 20, 2012
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  Student jailed for “extensive” Facebook hack

  A student, who hacked into Facebook’s internal network risking “disastrous” consequences for the website, was jailed for eight months on Friday in what prosecutors described as the most serious case of its kind they had seen. Glenn...

  • Posted February 18, 2012
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• ASUU Strike: End of the dark ages?

  Another ASUU strike has ended and the students are excited as they resume from another forced holiday. I remember when I was in University we used to joke that apart from the regular holidays scheduled by the...

  • Posted February 18, 2012
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  NNPC Fails to Defend Budget

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation failed to respond to the queries raised over the the execution of its 2011 budget, as it was unable to give relevant  answers on how it spent the $8.722bn (about N1.35tn) approved...

  • Posted February 16, 2012
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  Reps faults DAPPMAN on high price of kerosene

  The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on the Subsidy Regime had  on Wednesday faulted the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers’ Association of Nigeria for creating untold hardship for Nigerians who buy Kerosene. The committee had observed that...

  • Posted February 9, 2012
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  Ayetoro Shoreline protection project is on course-Contractor

  The Construction Company handling Ayetoro shoreline protection in the Ilaje riverine area of Ondo State, Dredging Atlantics Limited today reacted to newspapers reports on the alleged poor handling of NDDC projects in the State. The Ugbo Kingdom...

  • Posted February 7, 2012
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  First Bank is number one bank in Nigeria

  Brand Finance in London, United Kingdom has ranked the FIRST BANK of Nigeria as number one best bank in Nigeria among its current top 500 World Bank Brands Ranking as published in the February edition of The...

  • Posted February 7, 2012
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  Union Bank Sues PAN over N9bn Loan

  Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has dragged foremost automobile plant, Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) Limited, before a Federal High Court in Kaduna for refusing to re-pay the sum of N9 billion credit facilities it availed it to...

  • Posted February 6, 2012
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  NairaTweets offers FREE Advertising Credit to Businesses

  As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility and our passion to support Nigerian Businesses through our existing web platform – www.nairatweets.net – a crowd sourcing, social engagement service available to Nigerian Businesses and Twitter Users – NairaTweets...

  • Posted February 2, 2012
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  Blackberry CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis Step Down

  Research In Motions’s co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepping down as CEOs, and COO Thorsten Heins will take over. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Heins said of RIM, “It’s a fantastic growth story and it’s not coming...

  • Posted January 23, 2012
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