Barcelona will be looking to restore their battered pride when they face a ruthless Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou tonight in the second leg semi final clash of the UEFA Champions League.
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For the first time in a decade, the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, successfully performed open-heart surgeries on four patients. The feat was due to the reactivation of the UNTH cardiovascular surgery centre, abandoned on account of its relocation from its temporary site in Enugu to its permanent site at Ituku-Ozalla, a mere 15-minute drive away. For this length of time, the Federal Government ‘designated centre’ for open heart surgery lay prostrate for lack of facilities.
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The tales they tell are scary. Some sound fairy-like. The military believe the stories cannot be true. Survivors in the bloodbath in Baga, Borno State relive their experience of the black weekend to New York Times
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Another picture of the bloodshed in Baga, the Borno State town that was the scene of fighting between soldiers and Boko Haram insurgents, appeared yesterday.
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After two unsuccessful attempts, the federal government Tuesday finally arraigned two journalists with Leadership Newspapers, Tony Amokeodo and Chibuzor Ukaibe, before a Federal High Court on a six-count charge of felony and conspiracy against the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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According to the result, gross earnings income rose 31 per cent from N273.8 billion to N359.8 billion, on the back of a 35 per cent increase in interest income, which stood at N287.3 billion, while net interest income was N225.2 billion and non interest income, N73.1 billion. The group also reported operating income of N298.3 billion, 26 per cent better than the previous N237 billion, while impairment charge for credit losses dropped by a significant 68 per cent from N38 to N12.3 billion. Profit before tax soared by 158 per cent to N92.7 billion, as against N35.9 billion in 2011, while after tax profit increased by 306 per cent to N75.7 billion from N18.6 billion, translating to earnings per share of N2.33, compared with the previous 60 kobo.
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The directive of the Federal Government banning the importation of telephone recharge cards and vouchers into the country might have started paying off as some of the foreign firms involved in the business have started divesting from the country while the indigenous card manufacturers are thriving.
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Despite the pledge by the federal government to protect local rice farmers by discouraging importation of rice, the smuggling of imported rice is yet a booming business across the nation’s borders. This has prompted the local rice farmers to now cry out for help from government.
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Support for Nigeria’s proposed reforms in her oil and gas industry through the enactment of the much-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be advanced on a global platform by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
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The Union Bank of Nigeria Plc said it recorded a profit after tax of N7.9 billion in its 2012 audited accounts and reports, as against a loss of N76.7 billion in 2011.
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