ABAKALIKI— Ebonyi State Police Command, has arrested a middle-aged woman, Mrs Elizabeth Elom, for alleged theft and sale of her nephew, little Favour Onwe. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ebonyi State command, Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Sylvester Igbo, said the suspect who hailed from Umuoru village in Ohaukwu Local government area of the state, was arrested alongside one Mr. Izuchukwu Okeke alleged to have linked the suspect to the buyer, Mrs. Nkiruka Okonkwo.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has opposed the proposed introduction of N5000 note and coining of Nigeria’s lower denominations next year as announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) because it would affect the psychology of the Nigerian workers.
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The Vice-Chancellor of Sokoto State University, Prof. Nuhu Yakub, has attributed the decay in the education sector in the country to corruption. Yakub, who made the remark at the weekend, during a chat with journalists in Sokoto, said corruption had hindered government from providing facilities and equipping laboratories in tertiary institutions, to enable students conduct serious research like their counterparts abroad.
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Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media, Dr. Reuben Abati, has debunked insinuations that Jonathan is a drunk and a glutton. In an opinion article in The Guardian on Sunday, Abati said the piece was to “correct” some of the myths about Jonathan, underline the achievements of the administration and equip the “twittering, pinging, Facebook crowd of the new age” with facts that should guide social commentaries.
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The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Hajiya Rabi Sha’aibu Jimeta, yesterday in Zaria urged Nigerian scientists to be more creative for the country to achieve its science and technology objectives.
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The 36 state governors may have reached a dead end in their search for consensus over the clamour for the decentralisation of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). After about two hours meeting in Abuja late on Wednesday, the governors, once again, failed to harmonise their differences over the clamour for state police which has split their ranks along the North-South divide.
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Making Tracks on Mars; Curiosity does it
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Efforts by the Federal Government to recover the over N400billion misappropriated by the 25 Oil Marketing and Trading Companies have started yielding result, as some of the indicted oil marketers have started paying back the stolen funds.
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AS an adjective satellite, “Olympian” means, among other things, “great” or “majestic” in bearing—which makes it perfectly applicable to the national psychology, our self-deception as the Giant of Africa prior to Nigeria’s dismal performance at the recent London Olympics.
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Ryan Giggs believes the arrival of striker Robin van Persie at Manchester United sends out a big message to the club’s rivals. Netherlands striker Van Persie joined United from Arsenal in a deal potentially worth as much as £24m pounds, and made his debut as a substitute in a 1-0 defeat at Everton on Monday.
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