All posts tagged "head"

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  Committee face-off: The ball is in Jonathan’s court – Ribadu

  The Chairman, Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, Nuhu Ribadu, and his deputy, Steve Orosanye openly exchanged words at the presidential villa, during the presentation of the Special Task Force committee’s report. The confrontation began when Ribadu attacked...

  • Posted November 3, 2012
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  FG Tells Indicted Oil Marketers to Face Trial as Police Tender Hard Evidence

  The Federal Government has urged indicted Oil Marketers to Face trial rather than resort to propaganda. In the face of the propaganda, the Police Special Anti-Fraud Unit is said to have confronted the suspects with hard evidence....

  • Posted November 2, 2012
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  Ribadu report: Group calls on the President to Fire Petroleum, Finance ministers

  President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to sack the Petroleum Resources and Finance Ministers, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala respectively, following the controversy generated by disclosures from the Nuhu Ribadu led Petroleum Revenue...

  • Posted November 1, 2012
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  Presidency Accuses Amaechi of ‘School-boy’ style protest over Disputed Oil Wells

  The Presidency and the government of Bayelsa state are in the middle of a cold war with the Rivers State government over the potential ceding of some oil producing communities to Bayelsa state. The oil wells are...

  • Posted October 31, 2012
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  PHCN Assets Sale: 14 Companies Progress to the Next Stage

  The 14 preferred bidders for the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) were approved on Monday by the National Council on Privatization (NCP) in the ongoing privatization programme.   After the sixth meeting for the year, the NCP, in Abuja named...

  • Posted October 30, 2012
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  NAPEP to Slash Poverty Rate 15% by 2015

    In respect to current efforts by the Federal Government, the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), has projected that the overall global poverty rate will fall below fifteen per cent by 2015. This declaration was made by...

  • Posted October 29, 2012
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  Demand for Food in Africa will Double by 2020 – World Bank

  A World Bank report indicates that Africa is capable of growing enough food to feed the continent and averting future food crisis, if cross border restrictions are removed. The report also states that, Africa could generate in excess...

  • Posted October 27, 2012
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  Ribadu Report: Presidency Embarrassed by Report Details Leaked to Media

    Presidential Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati has said the leakage of the Ribadu report to the media was an attempt to embarrass the Federal Government. Abati avoided the pertinent issues contained in the document...

  • Posted October 26, 2012
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  Ribadu Report Indicts FG, Shell, Eni, Total and NLNG of Grand Corruption, $183 billion Fraud

  Former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman and ACN presidential aspirant, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has released his report on the sleaze in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. Just after the fuel subsidy riots in January, Ribadu...

  • Posted October 25, 2012
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  Forbes Africa 2012 Person Award: Dangote vs. Elumelu

    As the 2012 edition of the Forbes Africa Person of the year award draws near, the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and former Managing Director, United Bank for Africa Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu, have...

  • Posted October 24, 2012
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