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Nigeria-Pakistani Joint Commission to review agreements in 3 sectors

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Pakistan Dauda Danladi on Tuesday said that the resuscitated Nigeria-Pakistan Joint Commission would review moribund agreements in three key economic sectors.

Danladi, who made this known when he addressed newsmen in Abuja, said the sectors include agriculture, textile and pharmaceutical.

He said the joint ministerial committee meeting of the commission would hold…

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Market Watch: UAC, Total post profit

In a filing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday, conglomerate UAC and oil marketer Total Nigeria post a rise in their respective 2013 full year pretax profit.

In its audited resulted, Total Nigeria , a unit of France’s Total, posted a 14 percent increase in 2013 full year pre-tax profit to N8.12 billion ($49.23 million), compared with N7.09 billion in the previous year.

Total revenue…

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Founding members of hitmakers UB40 reunite

li Campbell and Astro, founding members of hitmakers UB40, explain why they’ve reunited to compete with their old (and highly unimpressed) bandmates

Controversy remains king in the land of UB40 – or, to put it more accurately – the UB40s.

In January, three founding members from the veteran British reggae band (lead singer Ali Campbell, trumpeter and singer Astro and keyboardist Mickey Virtue)…

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Okomu Oil profit drops by 95.25% in 2013

Okomu Oil Palm has announced drop in all the performance indicators of the company for the year ended December 31, 2013.

The company’s profit after tax dipped to N425.09 million against the N8.95 billion posted in 2012.

The result was contained in the company’s audited result released by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday in Lagos.

The profit represented a decrease of 95.25 per cent…

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Fashola writes Ghanaian Parliament over killing of Nigerian student

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, on Monday, said he had e-mailed the Ghanaian Parliament, requesting it to investigate the recent killing of a Nigerian student, Godwin Ayogu, a 300-level Nigerian student of the Gold Coast University.

The governor made the statement in Ikeja, while addressing some students who had come to protest against the hike in Lagos State University (LASU) fees.

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Nigerian uprising kills 1,500 in 2014 - Amnesty

Nigerian uprising kills 1,500 in 2014 – Amnesty

The extent of the atrocities committed by insurgents and the reprisals by the security forces commissioned to quell the attacks was brought to the fore by an Amnesty International (AI) report on Monday which stressed that about 1,500 people were killed this year by both sides.

Netsanet Belay, the group’s advocacy director for Africa, called for an international investigation explaining that “the…

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Jonathan goes to Brussels for 4th EU-Aftica Summit

President Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Brussels on Tuesday at the head of Nigeria’s delegation to the Fourth European Union-Africa Summit, a statement from the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, has said.

The summit, scheduled to open in the Belgian capital on Wednesday, had ” Investing in People, Prosperity and Peace” as its theme.

Abati said that…

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Ogun releases N1.5 billion for pensioners, ex- political office holders

Ogun State Government has released N1.5 billion for payment of gratuities of pensioners and severance package of former political office-holders.

The Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated this in a statement in Abeokuta on Monday.

According to the commissioner, the money is meant for the 561 former civil servants and political office-holders who served the state in…

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1,500 delegates to participate in Osun PDP governorship primary

About 1,500 delegates would participate in the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Saturday governorship primary in Osun, Bola Ajao, the publicity secretary of the party said on Monday in Osogbo.

The PDP in the state fixed April 2 for its ward delegates election which would produce three delegates from each ward that would take part in the April 5 primary.

The delegates that emerge victorious will…

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Nigeria gets tough draw for Thomas Cup

Nigeria has been handed a tough draw in the Thomas Cup at the Li-Ning BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals draws on Monday in New Delhi, India, landing Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand in Group A.

Nigeria’s biggest opponent at the competition is Indonesia, which has won 13 Thomas Cup titles – the most by any nation.

Group B has Denmark, England, Hong Kong and Japan, Group C has Germany, India, Korea…

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FG to retire 1,050 civil servants

Alhaji Bukar Aji, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), says 1,050 civil servants that are in the service illegally will be retired in the next three weeks.

Speaking at the ongoing 60th anniversary celebration of the Nigeria Public Service Commission in Abuja, Aji said that the screening done by Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) discovered that the…

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Court restrains defecting Reps members from changing House leadership

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, gave an order of perpetual injunction restraining the lawmakers who defected from the PDP to the APC from effecting any leadership change.

Delivering judgment, Justice Adeniyi Ademola held that the defected lawmakers no longer had any business, morally and legally, to stay in the House of Reps.

He said they should honourably resign from their seats as…

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Foreign exchange reserves fall to $37.8 billion

A latest data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed, on Monday, that the country’s foreign exchange reserves dropped 5.76 percent month-on-month to $37.80 billion as of March 28.

The reserves stood at $40.11 billion on February 28. They have fallen 22.17 percent since this time last year, when they were $48.57 billion.

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11.7 million children will face stunted growth by 2025

11.7 million children will be affected by stunting (permanent effect of malnutrition) on the mental and physical development of a child by 2025, a statement signed by Jasmine Whitbread, Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children International, said on Monday.

In Africa, two in five children are affected by stunting, the permanent effect of malnutrition, on the mental and physical development of…

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Confab delegates adopt 70% majority on decision taking

Delegates at the ongoing National Conference, on Monday, adopted 70 per cent majority as the voting mode to be used in arriving at decisions at the conference.

This followed a motion by Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, representing the Former Senators Forum, seconded by former Akwa Ibom Governor, Obong Victor Attah, representing the Former Governors’ Forum.

The delegates adopted the resolution at the…

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Commonwealth Games: Makanjuola, Edem to fine tune skills at Spain Open

Two national senior table tennis players, Kazeem Makanjuola and Effiong Edem, said that the GAC Group 2014 ITTF World Tour Open would prepare them for the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

Makanjuola is seeded number one in Nigeria.

The World Tour is to hold in Spain from April 2 to April 6, while the Commonwealth Games is to hold in Glasgow, Scotland from July 23 to August 3.

The two players said in…

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NFF blasts Sylvanus Okpala

The Nigeria Football Federation has blasted former Super Eagles’ Assistant Coach, Sylvanus Okpala for dragging the name of His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR into the small matter of his retrenchment by the Federation.

Okpala at the weekend issued a statement claiming that NFF President, Aminu Maigari had boasted that not even President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR can compel him…

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