OGUN State government has faulted insinuations that unspecified number of new born babies were stolen at one of the government hospitals, Oba Ademola Hospital, Ijemo, Abeokuta.
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ward congress in Ogun State was marred Tuesday as the two factions of the party held separate congresses at some designated areas.
Plateau United Olaniyi Olayinka is currently undergoing surgery at the Bilham University Teaching Hospital (BUTH), Jos following injuries he sustained in the aftermath of the horrific bombings in Jos last Friday. Olaniyi was among the casualties at the scene of the blast.
FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, Tuesday, faulted the call by some Nigerians that a new voter’s register should be used for the forthcoming gubernatorial re-run election in Delta State.
SENATE President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, have been called upon to save the Itsekiri ethnic nation from what is perceived as an orchestrated marginalisation by the minister in charge of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs.
In a bid to tackle the housing shortfall in the Coastal Communities in Delta State, Chevron-created Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC, has awarded contract for the construction of 70 housing units for 23 oil and gas producing and impacted communities.
Ccandidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, in next month’s governorship re-run election in Delta State, Mr. Emmanuel Igbini, Tuesday, said he was in support of the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to hold the poll on January 6 and also use the 2006 voters’ register.
RUNNING mate to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the Delta State gubernatorial re-run election, Prof. Amos Utuama, Tuesday, said the PDP was the only party that holds the future for the people of the state.
PEOPLES Progressive Party, PPP, has condemned Christmas eve’s bomb blasts in Jos, which reportedly claimed several lives. Calling on the Federal Government to bring those behind the blasts to book, national leader of the party, Mr Solomon Edebiri, who spoke in Port Harcourt, described the blasts as an act of terrorism.
The Federal Government has voluntarily contributed $150,000 (about N22,500,000) to Amsterdam-based Common Fund for Commodities to implement various projects in the country and within West Africa.
Federal Government has been charged to eliminate identifiable man_made bottle_necks at the ports as a means of smoothing cargo trade in the country in line with the World Trade Organization (WTO) drive for trade facilitation.
Guinea Insurance Plc has grown its gross premium income by 61 percent at the end of the financial year ended December 31, 2009. The figure moved from a low N665 million in 2008 to N1.07 billion in the review year, while the underwriting profit increased by 86 percent from N284 million to N529 million in 2009.
First Guarantee Pensions Limited is closing the year on a positive note having witnessed huge strides in growth fundamentals, with net asset value up by 42.4 percent to close at N35.6 billion as against N25 billion in 2009.
National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has approved a total of 15 new products for Capital Express Assurance Limited for deployment into the market in 2011.
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