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Archive for May, 2010

‘Unrepentant’ Israel slammed for deadly raid

May. 31 | Dailymail news - The United Nations Security Council today condemned Israel’s bloody commando raid on the Gaza flotilla and which left up to 19 dead and called for an impartial investigation into the incident. In a statement released...

France-Africa summit: Africa is our future, says Sarkozy

May. 31 | Times Live - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said it was time for Africa to have a stronger voice in global affairs as he opened a summit with 38 leaders in the Riviera city of Nice. France is seeking to renew its ties with Africa at the two-day...

Lagerback announces World Cup squad, drops Anichebe

May. 31 | NFF - 1996 Olympics gold –winning team captain, Nwankwo Kanu will attend his third World Cup after being named among Nigeria’s final cut of 23 for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The list was released Monday morning by Technical Adviser...

Our democratic enterprise

May. 31 | Address to the Nation by His Excellency, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCON, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria at the occasion of Nigeria’s Democracy Day Celebration, May 29, 2010 My dear country men and...

Nigerian Pidgin 101: Mirakul senta plenti

May. 27 | By Edwin Eriata Oribhabor, Abuja - Nigeria Sometime ago, I wrote of a woman who openly expressed unhappiness over her husband’s ova kwayet (reticent) attitude. Specifically, she complained that the husband was used to haus to wok, wok to...

How to build a global brand

May. 26 | Forty years ago, there were only a handful of truly “global brands” and they were made up of only the biggest corporations — Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, IBM, Shell. Then a rash of upstarts came along, such as Nike, Microsoft,...

FG to keep Seven-Point Agenda

May. 26 | The Federal Executive Council (FEC) says it has no intention to discard the Seven-Point Agenda initiated by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. Minister of State for Information and Communications Labaran Maku gave the stance of FEC after Wednesday’s...

Niger junta leader in Aso-Rock Villa on first post-coup trip

May. 26 | Niger’s military ruler Lieutenant-General Salou Djibo held talks with Nigeria’s new leader Goodluck Jonathan on his first foreign trip since taking to power in a coup in February. Djibo paid his condolences over the death of late president...

Committee on Diaspora condemns killing of Nigerian in Poland

May. 26 | THE House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora on Tuesday condemned the killing of a Nigerian in Poland. Committee  chairman, Honourable Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement issued in Abuja, expressed the concerns of the committee over the incident....

FG moves to improve stock-market transparency

May. 26 | PRESS RELEASE: The Honourable Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, will on Thursday inaugurate a Committee to design code of corporate governance for capital market regulators as part of renewed efforts by the Federal Government to ensure...
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