The Nation: Dialy Nigerian News [March ‘11 Diet]

Started by TheNation, Mar 01, 2011, 12:05 PM

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Facts emerged yesterday on why talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) collapsed last Friday. The stalemate was attributed

Source: Why Ciroma's, others' meeting with Jonathan was deadlocked

TheNation

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission chair Mrs. Farida Waziri, has advised developed countries to stop serving as safe havens for looted funds from developing nations. She

Source: EFCC recovers $9b in three years

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WOMAN has foiled a robbery attempt at her home in Apapa, Lagos.  The woman was reported to have pushed down a member of a three-man gang,

Source: One injured as woman foils  robbery

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Five Customs officers in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, have been arrested by the Police in connection with last month’s killing of a middle-aged man

Source: Five Customs officers detained over Ibadan killing

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Former Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has charged candidates to go into the National Assembly and make laws for fiscal federalism. “Go ahead,” he told

Source: Ex-governor to ACN candidates: tackle fiscal federalism

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Shrewd entrepreneur and frontline development strategist Tosin Akerele proved a reliable ambassador of youths in the country when, in December, she shone at the Bring Back the Book launched by President Goodluck Jonathan. Now, her interest is in the forthcoming elections. She discussed it in an encounter with Assistant Editor DADA ALADELOKUN

Source: 'The youth will decide April polls'

TheNation

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has said vigilance during the polls was the first step to good governance. Mimiko spoke when he and Labour

Source: Electoral vigilance antidote to bad governance, says Mimiko

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Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday held that Senator Grace Folasade Bent is not the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Adamawa South Senatorial District

Source: Court stops Bent

TheNation

Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has condemned the directive of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Hafiz Ringim restraining citizens from using cell phones and cameras

Source: Soyinka criticises IGP on use of cell phones at polling stations

TheNation

Stung by the passage of the N18,000 minimum wage bill by the National Assembly and recent threat by the Nigeria Labour Congress for its immediate

Source: Minimum Wage: Fed Govt begins employee audit