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Nigeria: House Wants Special Court to Adjudicate Bank Cases

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Following presentations by several managing directors of recapitalised banks on the issue of setting up a special court by the Federal Government to handle bank cases and recover debts, the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency investigating unethical


Nigeria: Bayelsa SSG Sworn-in Amidst Militants' N600 Million Demand For Wife's Release

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Governor Timipre Sylva yesterday listed fiscal responsibility, due process and accountability as the renewed principles entrenched by his administration in order to achieve sustainable development in the state.

Sierra Leone: Moyamba Poised to Fight Hunger

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
As the price of rice continues to soar in the market Vaama village in the Songbo section, Upper Banta chiefdom, Moyamba district has started mechanized farming in a bid to combat hunger.

Nigeria: Wahab Folawiyo Dies At 79

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
The nation's was yesterday thrown into grief with the death of Alhaji Abdulwahab Iyanda Folawiyo, a business icon, industrialist and philanthropist. Family sources said he died in the early hours of Friday morning in a hospital.


Sierra Leone: SLPP Proud of Stewardship

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Former finance minister in the Sierra Leone Peoples Party government has dismissed claims by the All Peoples Congress government that they inherited a battered economy and presently working on a 'cash budget.'

Liberia: House Holds Budget Retreat In Bassa County

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Members of the House of Representatives will today leave for the port city of Buchanan, GrandBassa County to begin a three-day budget retreat under theme, "Strengthening Budget Making and Oversight."

Nigeria: Leadership, the Root of Our Problems - Mallama Zainab

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Mallama Zainab Goggo Bayero has been a human capacity builder, educationist, researcher, trainer and consultant with some United Nations agencies such as UNICEF, UNAID, UNDP, and the British Council and the BBC World Trust, for about 20 years on.

Nigeria: On Nigeria's 20-20-20 Blues

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
My memory seems to miss the fuller details of how, and when the technocrats and gurus within the thick bureaucracies of the last administration invented the 20-20 -20 slogan.

Nigeria: Nama, Faan Acts Due for Review

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
The Acts establishing the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) are due for review.

Nigeria: No Fuel Price Hike Till 2009 - Yar'Adua

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has agreed to leave the pump price of fuel as it is, despite the high price of crude oil at the international market with its consequent effects on food, transportation and other energy-related services. This was

Nigeria: Banks' Credit to SMEs Hits N204 Billion - Soludo

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Banks credit available for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the country has risen by 600 % from N35billion in 2003 to about N204billion in 2007, according to the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo.

Nigeria: Government to Raise Petrol Price

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
The Federal Government yesterday disclosed that the current pump price of petrol would be adjusted upwards with effect from January 1, 2009.

Nigeria: Government Inks $700 Million Gas Exploration Deal

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
The federal government and Kingdom of Bahrainâ€" based M/S Remington International Resources Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding {M.O.U] on gas gathering in the Niger Delta region.

Nigeria: New East-West Rail Line Project to Gulp $5 Billion

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Construction of the new East-West rail line, which is expected to link major states in the eastern part of the country, including the Niger Delta region to the West, is to gulp a staggering sum of 5 billion US dollars.

Nigeria: Icon of Industry Dies

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Alhaji Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, business mogul, philanthropist and the Baba Adinni of Nigeria, died in the early hours of today, family sources told the News Agency of Nigeria..

Nigeria: Leaders Mourn Wahab Folawiyo

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Prominent business mogul and Baba Adinni of Nigeria, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, is dead. He died yesterday at his 17 Oyinkan Abayomi Street , Ikoyi, Lagos residence. He died 11 days short of his 80th birthday.

Nigeria: Power - Prosecute Failed Contractors - Onoja

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
As the House of Representatives awaits the report of the investigation into the $16 Billion expended on power by the Obasanjo adminsitartion, a former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Chief Mike Onoja has called for the out right

Stars Set to Blind Eagles' Eyes

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Darling Leone Stars are set to shine and blind the eyes of Nigeria's Super Eagles on Saturday in their second match of the 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifiers.

Super Eagles Battle Sierra Leone

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Super Eagles of Nigeria will today face the Sierra Leone in their campaign to qualify for the forth coming world cup in South Africa. The Sierra Leonian side is certainly a lowly team that may trouble the Super Eagles more

Big Blow Kallon Out of Nigeria Encounter

07.06.2008 17:19    allafrica.com
Leone Stars captain, Mohamed Kallon will miss Saturday's World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifying encounter against the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Freetown.

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