A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday suspended hearing on an application for the advertisement of a winding up petition filed on behalf of a firm, Omamo Investments Corporation, by wife of the late businessman and Publisher of The Guardian, Alex Ibru, Maiden, against another firm, Tourist
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The UN says it has evidence that a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being fuelled by recruits and support from neighbouring Rwanda.
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The Managing Director of Coleman cables, Mr. George Onafowonkan, has lamented the high cost of generating alternative electricity supply by manufacturing industries, adding that his company alone has within the last two years of its operations spent over N60 million on generator expenses.
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The House of Representatives Wednesday resolved to send the report of its Ad Hoc Committee on Monitoring Subsidy Regime to President Goodluck Jonathan for “his information and necessary action”.
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The Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Joy Emodi, has said President Goodluck Jonathan will not spare anybody indicted in the fuel subsidy investigation by the House of Representatives.
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Following the resurgence of threats to security in parts of Plateau State, three unnamed, but high profile community leaders in Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas of the state have been arrested for interrogation by the police.
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Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, made a major seizure of 16 kilogrammes of high grade heroin worth about N160 million by a suspected drug syndicate at the National Aviation Handling Company, NAHCO, shed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
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Independent National Electoral Commission has rejected an application by the founding Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Allaince, Chief Chekwas Okorie, to register a new political party, the United Peoples Grand Alliance.
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A FORMER director with Afribank Nigeria Plc (now Mainstreet Bank), Chinedu Onyia, has urged a Federal High Court, Lagos, presided by Justice John Tsoho, to quash a criminal charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
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THE National Assembly has expressed dissatisfaction at the deteriorating state of the nation’s agriculture sector, saying that worsening nature of the sector portends danger to the survival of the country.
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