Following the meeting of the Bureau of Public Enterprise’s bid deadline for energy plants in the country, the Transcorp/Woodrock/Symbion consortium of local and international technical partners, has said it is committed to Nigeria’s power reform.
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LAGOS — MINISTER of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji, yesterday, challenged workers of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to demand from their leaders, the whereabouts of their pension funds. Nnaji in a statement by his Special Assistant on Power (Media), Ogbuagu Anikwe, said the workers should find out from the three trade unions in the power sector, how hundreds of billions of dollars purportedly contributed over the decades by them towards their pension scheme disappeared.
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Former presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) at the weekend recalled his days as head of state, when things worked in the oil sector and how successive regimes destroyed all that.
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It is bad enough that they have lost their ancient homeland, but it is even worse that they have also now lost their king. And the residents of Makoko are kitting up for whatever war they can manage to wage against the Lagos State Government for making them lose both their kingdom and their king. The displaced residents of Makoko community are billed today to march on Alausa, the seat of government, to display their displeasure against their displacement.
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THE arrest Tuesday of two military personnel who were plying lanes dedicated to the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, is another pointer to the disdain some have for traffic laws, often with devastating consequences.
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Damaturu — Residents of Nasarawa ward of Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, yesterday, woke up to the shocking news of the slaughter of twin teenagers by yet to be identified persons.
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When NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, reaches Mars in about three weeks, it will not be the first to set its wheels on the Red Planet, but it will be the largest and most advanced robotic explorer that has ever been sent to our planetary neighbor.
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The Federal Government says it is currently engaging the government of Ghana on the issue of a $300,000 fee demanded as capital base for people wishing to do business in Ghana. The discrimination of Nigerian businessmen and women in Ghana has been reported increasingly in the past weeks with the Ghanaian side largely unapologetic for decisions made though claiming to be in tandem with free trade laws of the West African sub-region.
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The Federal Government’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a U.S.-Nigerian joint venture to build six modular refineries with a combined capacity of 180,000 barrels a day is raising doubts among analysts who question the nature of the deal.
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A federal High Court sitting in Enugu Friday struck out the suit challenging the emergence of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Enugu West senatorial zone in the April 2011 general elections.
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