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Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu

FG’ll intervene in Lagos, doctors’ row –Minister

...as court halts eviction from govt quarters
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Fire: INEC assures public on its operation

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The Electoral Institute of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday reassured the public that the fire that damaged its office on Tuesday in Abuja did not affect its main operations....
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N44m alleged fraud: EFCC arraigns Hembe today

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The suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market, Hon. Herman Hembe, will today appear before an Abuja High Court for alleged corruption and diversion of public funds. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had on April 10 sought and got the leave of an Abuja High Court presided over by Justice Sadiq Umar to arraign Hembe and his deputy, Azubuogu Ifeanyi, today. ...
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TUC may go on strike over new electricity tariff

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The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has rejected the Federal Government’s plans to hike electricity tariff, saying the plan will bring untold hardship on Nigerians. Speaking while reacting to the planned increase, which takes effect from June 1, the President of TUC, Mr. Peter Esele, described the decision as “unjustifiable and absurd from any right thinking government.” Esele said the new tariff would jerk up electricity bill by over 90 per cent, describing the development as grossly unfair, against the backdrop of the current poor power supply in the country. ...
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Lagos donates relief materials to rainstorm victims

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The Lagos Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, yesterday donated relief materials worth to 603 victims of the February 13, 2012 windstorm in Itire – Ikate Local Council Development Council Area of the state. Speaking during the presentation of the materials at the Local Government Secretariat Complex, Itire, LASEMA General Manager, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu said the gestures was meant to alleviate the pains of those badly affected by the violent storm. ...
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Police arrest seven suspected kidnappers

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The Lagos State Police Command yesterday said it has arrested seven people suspected to have masterminded the kidnapping of Ayodele Olaye, who was kidnapped on April 22, 2012 but was released after the payment of N5 million ransom on April 25. The suspects, five males and two females include: Kinsley Okonwa aka Dragon, Osita Adigbe aka OC, Uzochukwu Ezioha aka Black, Jude Sunday aka Bulldozer, Olanrewaju Michael aka Mike, Patricia Inna and Esther Philip. ...
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FRSC arrests 679 traffic offenders

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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ekiti State yesterday said it has apprehended 679 traffic violators in the first quarter of the year. FRSC Ekiti Sector Commander, Rindom Kumven, said no fewer than 651 vehicles were arrested within the period. He said the arrests were a demonstration of the corps’ determination to improve safety of lives and vehicles on Ekiti roads. ...
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Senate increases Federal High Court Judges to 100

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The Senate yesterday passed a bill increasing the number of judges of the Federal High Court in the country to 100. The new bill, which amended the Federal High Court Act 2005, makes provision for the increase of the judges from the present 70 to 100. While some senators favoured the increase in the number of the judges to 120, others proposed 100. ...
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Daily Times: Jonathan urged to sack Justice Minister

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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been called upon to sack the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister for Justice, Alhaji Mohammed Adoke, for misleading the Federal Government and the general public on the privatisation of Daily Times of Nigeria as well as taking actions that have militated against efforts at gainful operations of the organisation. ...
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Bicourtney Aviation Services get image maker

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As part of its bid to reposition itself to face the challenges of the 21st Century in the provision and management of aviation infrastructure, operators of the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA) Terminal Two, Ikeja, Lagos, Bicourtney Aviation Services Limited, has appointed a new Public Relations Officer/Head of Communications. He is Steve Omolale-Ajulo. Omolale-Ajulo, a 1989 graduate of the University of Lagos is joining the company with over two decades of experience in media practice. ...
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Developing local content to stimulate broadband demand

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As Nigeria grapples with the challenge of low broadband inter-net penetration and demand, the need for the country to focus on digital local contents creation on the web (e-services) has been identified as a key frontier to spur demand for Internet services, which could deepen broadband Internet penetration. KUNLE AZEEZ reports....
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Editorial

As planned mass protests’ ultimatum expires

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The two-week ultimatum issued over two weeks ago by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), in conjunction with other prominent civil society activists, for the Federal Government to take decisive action on the recent subsidy fraud expositions, and which may be the right tonic for the country at this critical period of lame official responses, so far, on the matter, has eventually come and gone. Some have shrugged off the ultimatum as another civil society grandstanding, or ranting; but going by the success of the organized protests earlier in the year against fuel subsidy removal, it appears that popular outcries against mismanagement of the public sphere are no longer all bark and no bite.
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Community Mirror

Crime Watch

Man arrested over death threats

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The police has opened investigations into allegation of multiple death threats to one Ademola Samuel Sonibare by arresting one of the suspects. It was leant that Sonibare has been hiding his identity in the last few days after he allegedly received death threats from a four-man gang.
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Insight

What is cardiac arrest?

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Experts say that sudden death is often caused by heart disease. The Chief Medical Director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. David Oke, a cardiologist, likens the heart to a pump, which pumps water to the home.
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Kayode Ketefe

Yekini: Time to root out mafia from the nation’s football

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The revelation was first made by the former captain of the Super Eagles (now the coach of the team), Stepen Keshi, in an interview hosted by the DSTV Supersport last year in which he co-starred with Clemens Westerhof, another former Super Eagles coach. Keshi had declared in that interview that during the USA 94 World Cup, a group of players in the then star-studded Eagles decided to frustrate Rashidi Yekini, who recently passed on, by not passing the ball to him. Another member of that team, Tijani Babangida, in an interview with the National Mirror after the demise of Yekini, said the gangling striker was so distraught by the petty and unpatriotic gang up that he went on his kneels to beg his teammates for a change of heart.
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EXISTENTIAL HUMANISM

The fear of 2015

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Perturbed by what he sees as unhealthy conjecture and politicking over 2015 election, President Good-luck Jonathan recently warned against the danger of overheating the polity, amidst the security challenges rampaging the entire country. Articulating this position, his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Dr Reuben Abati, noted the ex-tent of pain and anguish Mr. President has shown in “the growing furore in political circles and media over his alleged plans to seek re-election in 2015”. Going further, Dr Abati noted that President Jonathan’s primary concern now was how to deliver on his election promises encapsulated in his Transformation Agenda.
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