OUR attention has been drawn to the controversy over allegations that the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, described Nigeria as “an Islamic country with the largest Christian population.”
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Jay-Z brought out heavy hitters to support him at the "Budweiser Made In America" festival: Kanye West and President Barack Obama.
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Nigeria’s Falconets who are primed to take on USA Tuesday in one of the semi finals of the on-going FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in Japan were at the weekend rewarded with a Samsung Galaxy Tab and IPAD each for their splendid run at the competition so far.
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Says PRofessor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and one-time national leader of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, alongside senior officials of the INEC were in Lagos last week for an in-house strategic retreat.
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The recent pronouncement of the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of the intention of the CBN to redesign the nation’s currency, has provoked lots of argument from both the informed and the not so well informed. The CBN has proposed to issue a N5,000 note and to coin N5, N10, N20 etc.
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Barring any last minute hitches, the Ministry of Finance will this week announce a new board for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), THISDAY’s checks have revealed. The commission’s board was dissolved on June 15 and capital market operators have since called on the Federal Government to constitute a new board.
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There were speculation on Sunday night that the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, might be undergoing treatment in Germany for food poisoning.
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Sources within the six companies that constitute the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) and NIPCO Plc, whose depots are located in Apapa, Lagos, told THISDAY that the seven companies had a two-day stock level as at last Wednesday, which was largely exhausted by Friday.
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Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has called for Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha’s impeachment by the state House of Assembly. Gulak made the call for Okorocha’s removal after the 27 local government chairmen sacked by Okorocha submitted a letter of protest through him to the President in Abuja on Monday. Okorocha fired the chairmen elected under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party during the Ikedi Ohakim administration on the grounds that their tenure had expired.
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Nigeria's Falconets will go head-to-head with their USA counterparts on Tuesday in one of the semi-finals of the 2012 FIFA Women's Under20 World Cup.
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