BEHIND the lingering fight between the Executive and the House of Representatives over the 2012 budget implementation are ministers and other heads of government agencies and departments, investigation by The PUNCHhas revealed.
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Barring any last minute change, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other- related offences Commission will in the next few days file criminal charges against former Chairman, House of Represensatives, Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Management, Farouk Lawan, and a civil servant, Boniface Emenalo.
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LAGOS — MEMBERS of the Senate Committee on Aviation, yesterday, distanced themselves from the Aviation Road Show organized by the Ministry of Aviation after one of the senators(name withheld) had allegedly collected $7,000 estacode for the controversial trip.
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AKURE—The General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, yesterday, dissociated himself from an anti-Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s message being circulated in the state by one of the opposition political parties. The party was said to be circulating a message/prophesy it claimed to have been made by the cleric against the second term ambition of the governor.
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The Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, Lagos of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the month of June made 267 seizures worth N107, 029, 420 ( One hundred and seven million, twenty nine thousand , four hundred twenty naira), just as a total of N6, 942, 917 was made also in the month.
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After suffering delays caused by the January protests over the fuel subsidy removal, the Federal Government Monday announced that it has commenced the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on the clean-up of Ogoniland, damaged by years of oil exploration.
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The United Nations Thursday drew the attention of heads of government around the world to the yawning gaps in youth employment and participation in democratic process. Against the background of concerns over rising crime in the country, the UN agency, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said many youths were excluded from the economic and political process and made to become tools for propagating negative agenda.
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The Federal Government has subsidised the building of 150 base stations in different rural communities with the Universal Service Provision Fund. This, it said, was aimed at boosting Information and Communications Technology access in the areas. The Federal Government had set up the USPF under the National Communications Act 2003 to provide telecommunications and ICT services to rural areas, the underserved and deprived groups in the country.
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The Ghanaian government has rescinded its policy compelling Nigerian businessmen and traders to pay a minimum capital of $300,000 or have their businesses shut down. The defunct policy had also mandated Nigerian businessmen and traders to employ at least five Ghanaians as condition to operate their offices and shops.
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Deshraj reaches out for his mother's breast as she balances him on her knees, sitting outside her low, mud-walled home. The little boy cries, but with no strength. Deshraj is two years old but barely larger than a newborn and crazed by hunger.
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