From the monthly archives: July 2011

Nwaebili vows to wreck Coton Sport

On July 29, 2011 · In Sports

Pepsi Most Valuable Player in the CAF Champions League between Enyimba F.C of Aba and Al Hilal of Sudan ,Valentine Nwaebili has vowed to wreck Coton Sport Garoua , Cameroun this weekend as both of them clash in the second match of Group B at Garua.

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Tourism Village: Ambassador seeks replicate in Brazil

On July 29, 2011 · In Travel & Tourism

Nigerian Ambassador designate to Brazil, Vincent Okoredion, has appealed to the Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe to replicate the tourism village in Abuja in his new station in Brazil.

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Single six-year term is another joke

On July 29, 2011 · In Politics

THe plan to introduce a single six-year term for the offices of the President and Governors is another joke being conceived to further confuse the masses. Such plan is anti-democratic, regressive, defeatist, and will worsen corruption.

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Anambra lawmakers disagree on single-term tenure proposal

On July 29, 2011 · In News

Lawmakers in Anambra State House of Assembly, yesterday, differed on President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed bill for a single tenure for president and governors from 2015.

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Deloitte survey shows improved adoption of enterprise risk management

On July 29, 2011 · In Business

Adoption of enterprise risk management (ERM) programmes has continued to grow as 79 percent of respondents said they were currently implementing an integrated ERM programme as against 59 percent two years ago, according to a survey conducted by Deloitte.

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Union Bank has come to stay, will meet deadline

On July 29, 2011 · In Business

In the heat of the deadline set by the CBN for rescued banks to recapitalise, the Managing Director of Union Bank, Mrs. Funke Osibodu, had an interactive session with journalists. She answered probing questions from the media. Excerpts:

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Oceanic Bank wins Top Communication award

On July 29, 2011 · In Business

Oceanic Bank International Plc has been awarded with a marketing and communications award by the Marketing World Magazine.

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FG cautioned on deployment of military to resolve internal crisis

On July 29, 2011 · In News

Stakeholders, yesterday, rose from the national summit on security and public awareness, with a call on the Federal Government to be cautious in deploying military personnel to resolve internal crisis

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Kano House: The elite club of Kwankwasiyya

On July 29, 2011 · In Politics

IN the beginning, Kano State House of Assembly was not designed to play the role of check and balances in a democracy going by the number of ‘yes men’, and quality of individual elected into the hallow chamber as legislators.

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Okpala hails NFF for Argentina match

On July 29, 2011 · In Sports

Sylvanus Okpala, the ex international who warned that Nigeria Football Federation would be doing a stupid thing to cancel the contract to play Argentina has commended them for toeing the part of reason.

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Maryam Babangida tennis serves off in Minna

On July 29, 2011 · In Sports

The 1st Maryam Babangida Memorial junior tennis tournament serves off tomorrow on the courts of the Minna Tennis Club, Niger State. It climaxes on August 6 at the same venue.

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Catering for 12,000 legislators, a huge burden – Omakor

On July 29, 2011 · In Politics

FORMER Chairman of Lagos State chapter of Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), Mr. Ben Omakor has decried the situation where the Federal Government spends over 70 per cent f its resources on recurrent expenditure leaving little or nothing for capital projects which are necessary for job creation.

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How Akingbola siphoned £8.5m from Intercontinental, by bank official

On July 29, 2011 · In Business

An Ikeja High Court in Lagos has heard how former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, allegedly transferred the bank’s 8.5 million pounds into his domiciliary account.

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FDI to Nigeria declines by 29% in 2010 – UN report

On July 29, 2011 · In Business

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to Nigeria declined by 29 percent in 2010 amidst regulatory concerns in the nation’s oil industry.

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