From the monthly archives: October 2010

How do you stop a fifteen year old girl from marrying a man thrice her age

On October 30, 2010 · In Is It Beyond Pardon?

Mary was obviously going to be the star in her family, even when she was just a baby; her parents knew that she was special. Her growth was no different; she was so fast that at age thirteen she was all grown up with all the features. She was beautiful, an exact opposite of her parents plainness with intelligence beyond her age. Truly she was meant to make her family proud.

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FG ponders National Guard

On October 30, 2010 · In Headlines, News

NIGERIA may have a national guard under a new security system being considered by the Federal Government to deal with security lapses in the country.

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WOULD CONSENSUS WORK?It ‘ll defeat Jonathan – Kaita

On October 30, 2010 · In Politics

Consensus candidacy will achieve the one objective we set out to achieve: to get the Presidency back to the North. We are not going to do it by force but with the strategy we have begun, we want to ensure the North West finishes its tenure of eight years which started with late President Yar’Adua, before the Presidency returns to the South.

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Court sentences police corporal to death

On October 30, 2010 · In News

It was end of the road for Corporal Gad Barminals yesterday as an Abuja high court sitting in Maitama, sentenced him to death following his involvement in an armed robbery attack that resulted in the death of an Abuja based taxi driver, Mr Paul Ojo.

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Elections, handover date: Shift, change and legal implications

On October 30, 2010 · In Viewpoint

Election is the deliberate exercise of the citizenry in selecting a person or persons by the process casting of votes on a day legally established to determine the winner of a political office so entitled for a specified tenure.

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Akpabio and potency of Afang soup

On October 30, 2010 · In Viewpoint

There was no foreboding, whatsoever, for the pleasant surprise this Monday morning. The flight from Lagos to the new Akwa Ibom International Airport in Uyo was painless. The jerky landing associated with most local flights was absent.

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Oyo PDP crisis: Court fixes Nov 29 for ruling

On October 30, 2010 · In News

An Abuja high court yesterday, fixed November 29, to deliver ruling on a suit praying it to sack all the executive members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo state from office.

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Confusion as police invade palace, shoot one, maim others

On October 30, 2010 · In Crime Guard

CONFUSION, dejection and perhaps, frustration all best captured the state of mind of an embattled traditional ruler, Oba Gbolahan Akanbi Timson, the Jagunmolu of Shomolu\Bariga communities in Lagos state as Crime Guard arrived his palace strategically located on Ayoka Street in the area.

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WOULD CONSENSUS WORK? Consensus not a threat, says Gemade

On October 30, 2010 · In Politics

Chief Barnabas Gemade, former national chairman of PDP, in this encounter talks about the North and the search for a consensus presidential aspirant that would defeat the incumbent President Jonathan in the PDP primaries.

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I laboured, gave birth in the flood – Flood victim

On October 30, 2010 · In Just Human

Precious Ikechukwu, 20, is one of the hundreds of victims of the ravaging floods at Ajegunle, Ikosi-Isheri, Lagos State. She is really not strange to the occasional flooding in the area, but this latest incident is likely to live with her for a long time to come.

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FIFA: Credibility crisis continues as former scribe affirms body’s corrupt

On October 30, 2010 · In Sports

As world’s football governing body, FIFA tries to get over the cash for vote bribe allegation which hit it a fortnight ago and has temporarily consumed two of its Executive Committee members, Dr Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Tahitian, Reynald Temarii, the body seems not to have heard the last of such stench of sleaze.

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Day I cried at Ports Authority, says Senator Muse

On October 30, 2010 · In Interview

Life said to be in stages. Let’s look at yours as a case study.You want me to go into history but I will be very brief? My name is Senator Munirudeen Adekunle Muse. I was born in Lagos, precisely on the 7th of May 1939.

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The Ben Bruce story

On October 30, 2010 · In Showtime People

As the group celebrates thirty years of business we asked the Akassa, Bayelsa born business administration graduate of University of Southern California if he has realised his dream to be number one in the world.

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Government policies affect potentialities in courier industry Oladapo

On October 30, 2010 · In Business

Siyanbola A. Oladapo, MD/CEO, Bowill Group of companies, and General Secretary, Association of Nigeria Courier Operators (ANCO) in this interview with Saturday Vanguard Business suggests ways courier services can help boost Nigeria’s economy . He also proffers solutions to the numerous challenges facing the operations in the industry.

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