All posts tagged "government area"

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  Oil Spill: Shell offers to pay N7.5bn to claimants

  The Shell Petroleum Development Company has offered to pay N7.5 billion to the indigenes of Bodo community, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers, who were affected by an oil spill in 2008. A competent source close to...

  • Posted September 13, 2013
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  Airtel partners Nigerian Police to boost security in Lagos

  In line with its corporate vision of becoming the most loved brand in the daily lives of Nigerians, leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has partnered with the Lagos State Police Command to beef up the security...

  • Posted June 20, 2013
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  Pipeline explodes in Lagos

  A pipeline explosion occurred on Saturday at Ijeododo in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. Panic-stricken residents, who said they initially thought it was an attack on the community, blamed the explosion on activities of vandals...

  • Posted June 2, 2013
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  Dangote to invest $600million in three states for sugar production

  President, Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Muhammed Aliko Dangote, has pledged that his company will invest over $600m in the production of sugar in Kwara, Kebbi and Sokoto States. Dangote stated this on Tuesday during a courtesy...

  • Posted May 23, 2013
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  Jonathan orders MDAs to complete on-going projects

  AHEAD of the second anniversary of the present federal administration, President Goodluck Jonathan has given a marching order to all Federal ministries, departments and agencies to complete ongoing and abandoned projects that are viable and of economic...

  • Posted May 22, 2013
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  Akinjide empowers farmers, women, youths in Oyo State

  The Honourable Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, has empowered farmers, women and youths in Oyo State in the area of agriculture. The minister through her pet programme known as Olajumoke Akinjide Foundation...

  • Posted April 24, 2013
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  Security agencies discover 23 illegal refineries in Anambra

  Security agencies have discovered 23 illegal petroleum refineries in Atani, Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra. The Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in the state, Mr. Michael Ochogwu, announced the discovery in...

  • Posted April 19, 2013
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  Ebonyi State to construct Turbine Power Plant to improve electricity

  To compliment the efforts of Federal Government in power generation, the Ebonyi State government has concluded plans to construct an independent turbine power plant that will generate electricity to serve the State and some other States of...

  • Posted April 16, 2013
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  Soku oil field/boundary dispute: Bayelsa accuses Rivers of abuse of judicial process

  Bayelsa State Government has accused its Rivers State counterpart of abuse of judicial process over the disputed Soku Oil Fields/Boundary. The chiefs and principal members of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area in Rivers State had in a suit...

  • Posted April 6, 2013
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  Niger government to spend N17bn on rice project

  The Niger Government said on Wednesday that it had entered into agreement with some commercial banks to inject N17 billion over the next three years on rice cultivation in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Ahmed ...

  • Posted March 21, 2013
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