All posts tagged "headline"

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  Sanusi’s CBN spent N20.26b on legal fees in 2011 – FG

  Hours after announcing the suspension of Lamido Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Federal Government, on evening released what may be “the many sins” of the governor, whose tenure ends in May. The...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  Jonathan meets NNPC chiefs over missing funds

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday met top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in a meeting behind closed-door inside the Presidential Villa. A source said the meeting, which was also attended by the Chairman of the...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  Three Nigerians make Google’s `Africa Connected’ top 10 list

  Foremost search engine, Google, on Friday announced that three Nigerians had made it to the top 10 finalists in its Google “Africa Connected“ Competition. In a statement made available  in Lagos, Google said that the three Nigerian...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  FG boosts agric mechanization with N3.6b

  The Federal Ministry of Agriculture has released N3.6 Billion as an intervention scheme towards financing the establishment of the Agricultural Equipment Hiring Enterprise meant to encourage poor level of Nigeria agricultural mechanization. “The funds in the first...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  FG targets 460,000 jobs through employment project

  The Federal Government has said it is targeting 460,000 jobs at the minimum in the next four years through the Growth and Employment Project. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, stated this on...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  Ibadan Disco to stop estimated billing

  The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company has assured the people of Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Kwara and parts of Ekiti, Kogi and Niger states that it will soon eradicate the practice of estimated billing and energy theft with its...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  Fuel shortage will get worse – Marketers

  The current scarcity of petrol at filling stations across the country will worsen in the coming weeks because the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency has failed to release the import allocation to oil marketing and trading companies...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  FG won’t ban tokunboh cars – Aganga

  The Federal Government said it has no intention to ban the importation of fairly used vehicles, also known as tokunbo, into the country. The Minister of Industry,  Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, stated this on Friday during a...

  • Posted February 22, 2014
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  Okonjo-Iweala challenges accountants on wastages, leakages in govt. revenue

  The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Friday, challenged accountants to address leakages in government revenue and wastages in expenditure pattern. Okonjo-Iweala, represented by her Permanent Secretary, Mrs Nwobia Daniel,...

  • Posted February 21, 2014
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  Senate orders committee to conclude work on PIB

  One year after mandating the Joint Committee on Petroleum (Upstream, Downstream) and Gas to carry out further legislation on the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Senate yesterday ordered the committees to henceforth conclude work on the...

  • Posted February 21, 2014
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