ABUJA – President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, charged Justice Aloma Mukhtar, the new Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, to tackle delay in the dispensation of justice, cases of corruption and engender the much-needed judicial reform in Nigeria.
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After operating for several years without a board of directors, President Goodluck Jonathan Monday approved a new board for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
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Multiple award winning singer D’banj has released his first single titled ‘Oyato’ since he and ace producer Don jazzy parted ways, March this year. The new single Oyato produced by Jay Sleek who has been signed on as a producer for D’banj maintains a lot that fans have always known D’banj for.
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IT is certainly a new beginning in Edo State. Against the old order, the outcome of last Saturday’s polls has broken down all the ethnic and political cleavages. So, songs of victory filled the air yesterday as well as pains of defeat as the results of the governorship polls were released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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Fuel marketers in Katsina have begun importing refined petroleum products from the newly-built refinery in neighbouring Niger Republic, investigations by Daily Trust show. Niger-refined diesel is already available in many filling stations in Katsina State, and marketers say plans are on to begin importing petrol from the Soraz refinery.
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IT was again a weekend of sorrow in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, as a downpour, which started late on Saturday evening, sacked some communities. But unlike the August 26, 2011 flood disaster where about 300 persons were killed and property worth millions of naira destroyed, only bridges and property were washed away.
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Yola — Although hippos are herbivores, they are extremely aggressive and unpredictable, fighting rival creatures and each other to defend their territories or offsprings. This was witnessed in Shelleng, a riverine community in Adamawa State last week. It is not only in Shelleng. Rampaging herds of hippopotami are terrorising farmers and fishermen along river Benue, and, at least, two fishermen have been killed in their encounters with the mountainous beasts.
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Benin City, the capital of Edo State went agog on Sunday as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Adams Oshiomhole winner of the governorship election held on Saturday. Residents of all political, ethnic and religious divides thronged out in thousand brandishing brooms to celebrate the re-election of the governor.
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Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services (S&A) at the weekend assigned a 'B+' rating to the proposed senior unsecured notes to be issued by Access Bank Plc. THISDAY had exclusively reported that the commercial bank was considering issuing a Eurobond on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to enable it raise funds for its operations.
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Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, savouring his victory at the poll, on Sunday described President Goodluck Jonahan as a statesman and a man of honour, while dedicating the success to the people of the state. Oshiomhole, who made the statement at a world press conference in Benin, attributed the peaceful conduct of the governorship election in Edo on Saturday, to Jonathan’s determination to enthrone credible democracy in Nigeria.
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