Ghanaian President, John Mills, died on Tuesday, few hours after announcing to Parliament that he was leaving for Nigeria.
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Olufemi Atoyebi examines the race for Olympic Games prized gold in London with Usain Bolt showing signs of weakness in 100 and 200 meters Olympics sprint champion, Jamaican’s Usain Bolt will always be in the news, even if he flops in London. The 100 and 200 meters titles holder in the Olympics was offered a glimpse of what to come in London when fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake beat him in the Jamaican trials.
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Nigeria's Excess Crude Account (ECA) increased to 6.9 billion dollars in July from 5.8 billion dollars in June, Dr Yerima Ngama, the Minister of State, Finance said on Thursday.
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The summary of the final report of the Presidential Task Force on Aviation Industry submitted by the Task Force team headed by Air Vice Marshal Paul Dike (rtd) on March 2006 Continues from yesterday (iv) The Fire services at most of the airports were below standard and the firemen lacked training in modern fire fighting techniques. (v) The staff strength in the technical departments was not comensurate with the maintenance task that had to be done. Consequently, most maintenance tasks of FAAN were either left undone or contracted out.
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Another tragedy struck Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital Friday, as multiple fire incidents and explosion wrecked havoc in four different locations in the city. A vessel went up in flames at the Abuloma Jetty. The resultant explosion sent shivers down the spine of residents of the area as about 30 persons onboard were feared dead.
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The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has justified her acceptance of the promotion to the office of a permanent secretary in the civil service of the Bayelsa State government saying that besides her role as the wife of the president she deserves and reserves the right to pursue her career to its height.
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The Federal Government has offered to provide N85 billion to make up for the shortfall in the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in-house pension scheme account codenamed “superannuation fund”. It also denied allegations by Power Holding Company Staff who staged a protest against privatisation of Transmission facilities in the country saying that there were no plans to privatise the company but brought in eight staff from a managing company for the staff to understudy for three years.
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The current insecurity, occasioned by terrorists and suicide bombings, has led to a drop in the nation’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow by 19.24 percent from US$2.13billion in the fourth quarter (Q4), 2011 to US$1.72billion in Q1, 2012.
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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Friday said 90 ships carrying various goods were expected to berth at the Lagos ports between July and the first week of August. The cargo situation report made available in Lagos was contained in the NPA daily publication known as “Shipping Position ”.
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Convener, Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to resign. Bakare made the call while delivering a speech at the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, on Sunday. Speaking on the theme, ‘How to Change Government Peacefully and Make Society Better’, Bakare told the President that resignation was not “a sign of weakness but a sign of patriotic truthfulness”. The Serving Overseer of Latter Rain and vice-presidential candidate for Congress for Democratic Change in the 2011 presidential election, said Jonathan should not wait to be impeached or disgraced out of office.
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