From the monthly archives: January 2011

Warri South presents N2.7bn estimate for 2011

On January 26, 2011 · In News

THE Chairman of Warri South Local Government, Hon. Mofe Edema has presented a budget estimate of two billion, seven hundred and eleven million, nine hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred and sixty five naira (N2,711,950,465.00) for the year 2011.

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Airline operators insists on increase in air fare

On January 26, 2011 · In Business

Airline operators of Nigeria (AON) have said that there is no going back on airfare increase unless the authorities concerned and oil markets are ready to maintain stability in the prices of aviation fuel .

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Senate as old Peoples Home

On January 26, 2011 · In Owei Lakemfa

SENATOR Saminu Turaki was a promising politician in 1999 when he became governor of Jigawa State. He later claimed to have transformed the state into a digital revolution.

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Tunisian Turmoil – People’s Power Works

On January 26, 2011 · In Editorial

STREET protests evicted the 23-year-old government of Ben Ali in Tunisia and are continuing as the people demand fundamental changes in the way their government treats them. It is left for scholars to situate this manner of change, but the fact remains that people’s power still works much to the fright of oppressive governments.

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Skye Bank introduces Nigeria’s first MasterCard Verve

On January 26, 2011 · In Business

Skye Bank Plc has launched into the Nigerian financial market the first naira denominated Master-card Verve which can be used to make payments across multiple channels like the Automated Teller Machines, Point of Sales terminals, internet, telephones, among others.

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PDP presidential primaries: Vote for Yar’Adua, against OBJ

On January 26, 2011 · In Viewpoint

THE scoreboard between OBJ/Atiku and Yar’dua/Jonathan’s regimes is what was loudly presented to the PDP presidential primaries delegates at the Eagles Square on January 13, 14, 2011. It is heart-warming that Nigerian politicians are learning gradually and in no distant time may no more be taken for a ride. The Yar’Adua/Goodluck government may be far from the best we had hoped for but in comparison with those very sickening eight years of OBJ/Atiku, it is better. And those delegates said so with their votes.

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How Kano celebrated Shekarau’s victory

On January 26, 2011 · In Politics

IT was a story of a man who came, saw and conquered. Indeed not everyone is that lucky on first attempt. But Shekarau did, as majority of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP delegates elected him as their presidential flagbearer at the party’s National Convention and primaries at the Eagle Square in Abuja, penultimate week.

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Etisalat gives Easy Cliq new face

On January 26, 2011 · In News

Etisalat Nigeria, last week formally unveiled a repackaged and reloaded Easy Cliq into the Nigerian telecommunication market. The Easy Cliq package, according to Etisalat, is specially designed to cater for the needs and lifestyle of youth market segment.

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Airtel launches Easy Recharge

On January 26, 2011 · In News

As competition continues to dictate the pace of tariff billings for operators in the Nigeria telecom sector, Airtel Nigeria has ones again announced another innovative package aimed at reducing cost and time spent in recharging GSM phones.

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16 benefit from MTN medical intervention scheme

On January 26, 2011 · In Technology

About 11 indigent Nigerians who benefitted from MTN intervention scheme were last week presented to the public by MTN Foundation.

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eTranzact sets pace for improved mobile banking

On January 26, 2011 · In Technology

Considering that anywhere in the world where mobile banking or mobile money is to be launched, the major headache is always how to get all the users key into a compatible mobile phone to carry it on, Nigeria may also break another ground in mobile money when it is finally launched here.

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VOTERS REGISTRATION: Reps okay 4 weeks extension

On January 26, 2011 · In Headlines

WITH the concurrence of the Senate, the ongoing voters’ compilation exercise, which began on January 15 and initially scheduled to terminate on January 29 would be extended for four weeks.

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Lagos State CCTV surveillance camera project: How sustainable?(2)

On January 26, 2011 · In Technology

Effectiveness and Cost Advantage of IP Surveillance SolutionsNetworked IP camera systems have cost advantages, as the required wiring is less expensive. Especially the fact that IP networks can be used for purposes of other data transmission, such as email, file transfers etc.

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Alaibe alleges importation of mercenaries

On January 25, 2011 · In News

The campaign organisation of Labour Party’s governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Mr. Timi Alaibe, Tuesday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies to beef security to check what it described as the importation of mercenaries who neither reside in communities in the state nor are qualified to vote but are being registered amidst protests from the locals.

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