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NEWS HEADLINES AND ARCHIVES |
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Amending the constitution should be taken piecemeal |
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The Chairman, Senate Committee on Works, Julius Ali Ucha, recently spoke to newsmen in Abakaliki on constitution review and the activities of his committee. LEO SOBECHI was there. Excerpts: |
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Constitution review process frustrating, says Senate leader |
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FOR the first time since the constitution review process began, a principal officer of the National Assembly has admitted that the process has been frustrating due to the long delay that has slowed down the entire exercise in the last two years |
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NIPC: Why Nigeria is Investors’ Haven |
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Executive Secretary and Chief Executive of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Mr. Mustafa Bello, has advanced reasons why Nigeria is increasingly becoming a haven for foreign investors within and outside the African continent. |
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CBN Dep Gov Restates Likely Emergence of 15 Banks |
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Deputy Governor, Opera-tions, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Babatunde Lemo, yesterday confirmed THISDAY’s story to the effect that 15 out of the current 24 banks might emerge after the banking watchdog’s ongoing reform in the banking sector. |
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2011: EFCC Seeks Psychiatric Test for Aspirants |
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Chairman of the Econo-mic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Mrs. Waziri Farida, appears to have found her voice and she is using it strongly |
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Violence, Confusion Mar PDP Congress in Anambra |
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ward congress which began yesterday in Anambra State was marred by widespread violence, thuggery, rigging and snatching of ballot boxes and election materials in most of the 21 local government areas of the state where the exercise took place. |
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Constitution amendment: N/Assembly to simplify process of state creation |
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AS a way of warding off the endless agitation against the planned creation of states through the ongoing constitutional amendment, the National Assembly has decided to simplify the state creation process as highlighted in the 1999 Constitution, as the first step towards actualising state creation. |
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Nigeria’s economy is very sick at 49 - Kumuyi |
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THE General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, on Sunday, said since Nigeria got independence in 1960, its economy had been oscillating between numbing distress and fatal anaemia. |
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UN Assembly: Yar’Adua’s absence causes ripples in presidency |
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EVEN as President Umaru Yar’Adua has returned to the country from Saudi Arabia, where he was said to have gone for an official tour, instead of attending the United Nations General Assembly in the United States, there has been growing resentment over the decision of the president not to attend the meeting, even in the presidency. |
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'Opposition is in shambles... who will fight PDP?' |
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MR. Mark Jacob, former National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and erstwhile Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice of Kaduna State, spoke to SAXONE AKHAINE in Kaduna. Excerpts: |
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UN, Ghana's electorial chief may partner Nigeria on constitution review |
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NIGERIA's efforts to review its 1999-constitution may receive the support of the United Nations (UN) and the head of Ghana's electoral body, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan. |
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Amnesty: Don’t Keep Arms Beyond Oct 4, Uduaghan Warns |
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Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has warned any community, group or individual who continues to be in possession of illegal arms and ammunition after the October 4, 2009 deadline |
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Mbadinuju Predicts Stalemate in PDP Primaries |
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With the large number of aspirants now jostling to pick the governorship ticket of the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former governor of the state, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, |
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Groups Renew Call for Passage of FoI Bill |
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As the world celebrates the International Right to Know Day today, two civil society organisations, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and Right to Know Movement Initiative Nigeria (R2K Nigeria), have renewed the need to pass the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill. |
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Death Row: Nigerians in Libya Seek FG’s Intervention |
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Barely two weeks after a request came from the African Commission on Human Rights (ACHR) urging the Chairman of the African Union (AU) President Muamar Ghadafi to release Nigerians on death row in his country Libya, some others on death row in Tripoli have called on the Federal Government to help save their lives. |
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