• Malaria’s New ‘Bio-Weapon'- Sea cucumber Discovered

• Thai Parties To Form Coalition Government

• Nepal To Abolish Monarchy 

2/1/2008

• Benazir Bhutto Buried In Home Town

• Bhutto Killed After Suicide Attack

• Expelled diplomats leave Afghanistan 

• Dozens buried in Indonesia landslides  

• Turkey On Rampage In Kurdish Enclave Of Iraq

• Fun Seeker Besiege Amusement Parks

3/1/2008

• Nigeria: 211 For National Honours
• Lagos Pipeline Explosion Victims Get Mass Burial
• Nigeria Goes Tough On Failed Community Banks

• UN Hails Regrouping of Ex-Fighters in Ivory Coast

• Chad: Zoe's Ark Jail Term Changes Need Consent

• Egypt To Copyright Antiquities 

• Kenya : Electoral Commission Assures Opposition On Rigging Plans

4-1-2008

• Kaka Crowned FIFA World Player 2007

• Nations Cup Draws

• EFCC’s Ribadu Goes On Elite Course
• Nigeria, World, Condole Bhutto’s Family and Pakistan.
• New Satellites Raise Hope For Cheaper Internet Access
• Things Fall Apart Igbo Translation Out Soon

• Kibaki Sworn In Amidst Protests

• Kenyan Elections Result-Upset 

• Chad: 6 French Aid Workers Serve Jail Term In France 

• Kenyans Vote In General Elections

• Colombia Hostage Release Delayed Again

• UN Takes Over Peace-Keeping In Darfur

• US Accuses North Korea On Nuclear Deal

9-1-2008

• Nigeria Hajj Commission Fines 2 Airlines

• Nigerians Usher In 2008 With Prayers and Celebrations

• Pressure Mount On Nigerian Government Over Ribadu

• US Host Libyan Foreign Minister

• Kenya: UK Tasks AU, Commonwealth on Polls crisis

• Republic of Benin Trades Salary Debts For Securities

• American diplomat killed in Sudan

• Stranded Palestinian Pilgrims Protest In Egypt

• Pakistan:  Election Delayed as PPP Names Bhutto’s son leader.

10-01-2008

• Nigeria: Civil Societies, Government Disagree on Ribadu

• Nigeria: Bad Weather Delay Flights

• Review of 1999 Constitution Begins In January

• Kenya Attorney General Calls For Election Probe

• Pakistan: UK To Assist In Bhutto Investigation

• Pakistan Delays Elections

• Cyprus, Malta adopt the Euro

• SexScandal Malaysia Health Minister quits

11-1-2008

• Nigeria:480,000 Fake Cigarettes Intercepted

• Nigeria EFCC Boss Accepts Study Leave

• UN Seat: African Countries Support Nigeria

• Kenya: Kibaki Ready For Election Re- Run If

• Zimbabwe To Get Food Aid From China

• Somalia: UN Warns, Food Security At Risk In Somali Region

• Race for White House: Obama and Huckabee Wins

14-01-2008

• Nigeria To Probe Former President If…

• Nigeria, Norway Seal Deal on Gas Flaring, Oil Spill

• Nigeria: Government, Labour, Decide New Fuel Price

• AU Chairman To Visit Kenya

• Amputee Victim Confront Taylor At Trial

• Kenya : Kibaki- Odinga Talks For Friday

• ANC says confident in Zuma despite graft charges
   

• Burma Marks Independence Day, Committed To Democracy.

• Climate Change On Focus As Japan Heads G8 

15/1/2008

• Tata Unveils World’s Cheapest Car

• Foreign investment reached $1.5 trillion in 2007, Says UNCTAD

• Bush Middle East Tour Begins, Sue For  Peace

• US 2008: Clinton and McCain Win In New Hampshire

• Suharto’s Condition Worsen

• Israeli, Palestinian leaders Prepare For Bush Tour

• Nigerian Bank Listed on London Stock Exchange

• Nigeria: EFCC Declares Igbinedion Wanted

• World Bank Predicts Robust Growth For Nigeria’s Economy

16/1/2008

• Nigeria Approves Framework For Vision 2020

• China to build $61 AU Centre In Addis Ababa

• EU Peacekeeping Troops For Chad In February

• Kenya: AU On Salvage Mission

• Liberia Truth Commission Opens

• Ghana Court Delays Sentencing of UK girls

• EU Peacekeeping Troops For Chad In February

• Kenya: AU On Salvage Mission

• Liberia Truth Commission Opens

• Ghana Court Delays Sentencing of UK girls

• UK Push for New Nuclear Power

• Bomb blast in Pakistan kills 20

17/01/2008

• Bird flu: Nigeria Compensate Poultry Farmers 

• Nigeria Approves Framework For Vision 2020

• China to build $61 AU Centre In Addis Ababa

• Ghana’s Abedi Pele Arrives Nigeria for Nations Cup Road Show

• Annan To Broker Peace Deal In Kenya

• UK Push for New Nuclear Power

• Bomb blast in Pakistan kills 20

18-1-2008

• EU approves N7.26 micro projects for Niger Delta

• Monetisation: Purchase Of Official Vehicles For Ministers Cancelled

• Kenya – Political Dispute Shifted To Parliament

• South Africa Invites Bid For Nuclear Power Station

• UN To Investigate Algeria Killings

• Kenya Faces Humanitarian Crisis

• Cameroon: Journalists Set Up Local Watchdog

• Bush Middle East Tour: Next Stop-Gulf States

• Sir Edmund Hillary, First Climber To Mount Everest, Died At 88.

21/01/08

• Nigerian Government To Appoint Corruption Monitors

• Indian High Commission Presents Computers To Nigeria  police 

• Nigeria Honour Fallen Soldiers 

• Nigeria Anti Graft Agency To Monitor Local Council Accounts 

• EU firms To Build N1.2 trillion Gas Plant in Nigeria

• Nigeria Disburses 18 billion Naira For MDGs

• Nigerian National Legislators Probes ECOWAS, E-Passport Deal

• Annan Postpones Kenya Mediation Trip

• ECOWAS To Adopt Poverty Reduction Strategy

• Liberia Can Appoint Local Mayor Court

• Bahamas Host Commonwealth Media Managers

• U.S. Researchers Record Breakthrough in Human Stem Cell

• Israeli-Palestinian Begins Crucial Talks

• Bush Middle East Tour: Nest Stop Saudi Arabia

24/1/2008

• 136 Cheated Death At Heathrow Plane Crash

• Australia To Mediate In Whaling Row

• Bush in Egypt,  Committed To Peace Process 

• UN Hopeful On Afghanistan- Ban Ki-moon

• Bush Woo Arab Investors,Appeal To OPEC

• Sudan Releases Eight Darfur Rebels Into UN Custody

• UN Launched Humanitarian Appeal For Kenya

• Somali Government Condemned Over Journalists Arrest

• Timber Exports Banned In Sierra Leone.

• Nigeria President Set Up Committee On Electoral Malpractices

• Nigeria’s Civil Society Map Out Strategy For Electoral Reforms

• Nigeria Deploy Telecom Technology

25/1/2008

• Nigeria Launches Telemedicine Project

• India To Invest in Abuja Technology Village

• Nigerian Policemen Renewed Commitment To Defend Democracy

• Kenya: Nigeria Ready to Evacuate Nationals

• Gabon Offer New Lease of Life To 22 NGO’s

• Australia Transfers Anti-Whaling Protesters

• Hollywood Directors Agree Studio Deal

27/1/2008

• Nigeria To Make 850-yr-old Canoe National Monument

• EFCC, NIPOST Intercept N14.21bn Fake Currencies

• Nigeria Plans New Strategy To Tackle HIV/AIDS

• AU Pays Tribute To Ugandan Peacekeepers In Somalia

• Kofi Annan Due In Kenya On Tuesday

• UN Secretary General To Visit Rwanda

• South Korea To Provide Jobs For Foreigners

• EU-US React To Britain - Russia Row Over Closure Of Culture Offices

• Hope Rises For US- Iran Relationship.

29/01/2008  

• Zambia Flood Crisis-Army, Air Force To The Rescue

• DRC Rebels To Sign Peace Deal

• Kenya: Rival Groups' Terms for Talks

• Russia to test-fire missiles in Atlantic 

30/1/2008

• Nigeria Adopts New Industrialisation Strategy

• France, US To Support Nigeria’s Zuma film festival

• Lucky Igbinedion Ex-governor Charged, Remanded

• Nigeria Senate Approves Pay Rise for President, Others 

• Kenya- Hope Rises  For Resolution of Crisis

• DRC Rebels Sign Peace Deal

• UK Drug Girls Jailed In Ghana 

• Africa- Fight Against Aids Get A boost By Dell and Microsoft 

• Israel Plans To Severe Ties With Gaza

• Iran To Press On With Nuclear Plant

• Virgin Galactic To Embark On Private Space Travels

• Palestinian Arrives Egypt In Droves

• NATO Joins Russia Test-Fire Missiles In Atlantic 

• Israel Bow To Pressures, Ease Gaza Restrictions

1/2/2008

• UK Commends Nigeria’s Anti-corruption War

• Nigeria President Supports Removal Of Immunity Clause 

• Nollywood Establishes Business Forum

• Nigeria: World Bank Pledges To Help Reform Power Sector

• Gates Gives 306 Million Dollars For African Farming

• Kenya: Kofi Annan‘s Mediation Constructive

• Zimbabwe Hold Elections In March 

• Indonesia’s Suharto Buried In State Funeral 

• Satellite Could Plummet To Earth 

• Japanese Firm Offers "heartache leave" For Staff

• Avian Influenza Virus Remains A Global Threat

• Crisis Talks Begins as Italy’s Romano Prodi quits

04/02/2008

• Nigeria Meets OPEC Quota, To cut Fuel Imports

• Nigerians Condemn Attempt To Create Hybrid Embryos

• Guinea Bissau’s Electricity For Upgrade

• Kenya Poised For Political Crisis Settlement

• US Lauds Nigeria's Sacrifice For Africa 

05/04/2008

• Nigerian Doctor Advises HIV /AIDS Patients To Consume Vegetables

• Nigeria For Peer Review Ahead AU Summit

• Nigerian President Sets Performance Target For Ministers

• Kenyans Unite Against More bloodshed

• Nigeria Re-Elected To Lead Commonwealth Broadcasters.

• Bush Allays Fears Over US Economy

• UN Graft Meeting Seeks New Ways To Trace Stolen Money

06-02-08  

• Nigeria Recovers 1Billion US Dollars from Oil Sector

• Nigeria For Peer Review Ahead AU Summit

• Uganda: Lasting Peace Beckons As  Talks  Resumes  

• New Journalism Union Established In Tunis

07/02/2008

• Foreign Investment Hits 33 Billion Dollars

• Airports Get 10 Million Dollars World Bank Facility

• UN Intervenes In Niger Delta

• No Plan To Site AFRICOM In Nigeria

• Population Commission On Track

• African Leaders Challenged On Partnership

• Africa Contributes To Arctic Seed Vault

• Chinese Troops To Aid Snow Relief

11-02-08

• Government Revokes Incentives For Oil Firms

• Winners Chapel Makes Guinness Book of Records

• Ban Calls For Sanctions Over Child Soldiers

Sports

• Ghana 2008: Officials To Probe 'match-fixing' Attempt

• Super Eagles begin Nations Cup Campaign

• Ghana 2008 -Nigeria's Insurance Company Named Insurer

• Nations Cup Draws

12/2/2008

• UNDP To Strengthen Framework For Nigeria's Development

• Nigeria  Licenced New  Telecoms Provider

• Over N4 Billion Excess Crude Fund For Sharing

• Interfaith Groups Advocate For Women’s Rights

13-02-08

• Nigerian Stock Market Records Highest Yield In Africa

• New Gubernatorial Election For Kogi State 

• Chad Rebels Pushed From Capital 

• Deadly Quakes Hit Great Lakes

• AU Chairman To Make Conflict Resolution A Priority

• AU-UN Peace Building Partnership Hailed

• Africa’s Sub-Marine Optical Fibre Cable Takes Off

• UN Seeks Support For Chadian Government

• Kenya’s Peace Talks Resume, Key Mediator Out

• Egypt Tightens Grip On Border

• Italy Moves Toward Interim Rule 

• Race For White House: Giuliani, Edwards Quit

• Climate Change Could Devastate Crops - Study

• Microsoft Offers 44.6 Billion Dollars For Yahoo

18/2/2008

• World Bank Commends NDDC's Poverty Alleviation Programme

• Oil Firms Ordered To Return To Niger Delta

• Nigeria To Intervene In Chadian Crisis

• Egyptians Celebrate 6th Nations’ Cup Laurel

• ECOWAS Donate Towards Guinea’s Election 

• ECOWAS Agency Partners China On Energy

• Italy Resorts To Snap Election 

• US Presidential Primaries: Clinton, Obama Draw; McCain Leads 

• Republican Primaries: Mitt Romney Quits

• Shuttle Lifts Off, Gives Space Library Foothold

19/2/08

• Nigeria Redefines Foreign Policy

• HIV Prevalence In Nigeria Drops - Report

• Nigeria Dispatches Delegation To Chad

• Coalition Government

• EU peace keepers deployment resumes in Chad

• Kenya: Hope Rises For Political Solution

• Six People Killed In Another US University Shooting

• Singaporeans Live Longer

• UN Ban Ki Moon TO Meet US President

• Australian troops Arrive East Timor To Boost Security

• Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Approach

• East Timor President Wounded In Attack

• Fire Ravages South Korea Landmark

20-02-08

• New Dinosaur Identified In Africa

• South Africa To Scrap Elite Investigation Unit

• Kenya: Annan Advocates

22-02-08

• FIFA Inspection Team Arrives In Nigeria

• Nigeria Assumes Leadership Of IFAD

• Yar'Adua Halts Dollar Payments to States

• National Assembly Passes Over 2.8 Trillion Naira Budget

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25/2/0/08

• Nigeria Calls For Safety On African Roads 

• Britain Reiterates Commitment To Nigerian Economy

• 8.3 Billion Research Grants For Science Education

• Yar'Adua Tasks Award Recipients

• 50 Billion Naira Police Equipment Fund for Investigation

• US Africom HQ Moved To Germany

• Kenya- Rice In Nairobi To Support Peace Moves

• Uganda- Government, LRA Peace Talks Resume 

• SADC Region On Alert Prepares For More Flooding

• Annan To Unveil Kenya Deal

• Chad Declares State Of Emergency 

• SADC Region On High Alert

• Voting Ended In Pakistan-Results Awaited

• Kosovo Declares Independence, Serbia, Russia Protests

• Canada Extradites Ex-SS Guard Life Sentence

• Voting Ended In Pakistan-Results Awaited

• Gloom Hangs Over HIV Vaccine Research

26/02/2008

• Nigerians Waiting For Tribunal Verdicts

29/02/2008

• Committee On Power Infrastructure Comes On Stream
• Senate Organise Public Hearing On Super Eagles

• Ghana’s Websites Win UN Award
• Hope Rises For Ugandan Peace Deal
• Kenyan Government Agrees In Principle To PM Post

• Bush Visits Liberia, Last Stop Of Tour

• Comoros Secures Military Support

• Ugandans Reach War Crimes Accord

• Kenya Negotiation: Hope Rises For Peaceful End

• Madagascar, Mozambique Hit By Cyclone

• Fidel Castro Announces Retirement 

• Major EU Nations Recognises Kosovo Independence 

10/03/08

• Nigeria, U.S To Make Local HIV/AIDS, TB Drugs
• Nigerian University Hosts UN Centre
• Nigeria, U.S. Hold Joint Military Exercise
• Nigeria, Critical To Africa’s Growth – APRM Chief
• WHO Commends Nigeria’s Immunisation Programme
• Oil Exports Fetched Nigeria 55 billion Dollars In 2007

11/03/08

• Nigeria Seeks China's Help On Energy

• IMF Commends Nigeria Fiscal Management

• E- Dividend Payment Launched

• Nigeria Contributes 2 Million Dollars To APRM

• Yar ‘Adua Celebrates As Rivals Go To Supreme Court 
• Court Upholds Yar’ Adua's Election

• Berti Vogts Resigns

• Ghana tops Africa in FIFA rankings

• 2010 World Cup Draw: Africa Zone

• Egypt On Record List

13/03/08

• Nigerian Peacekeepers Donate Workshop To Liberia.

• AU Countries Urged To Identify With Afro-Americans

• Government Liberalises Importation Of Cement 

• Nigeria’s Economy  Is Growing-US Envoy.

• Nigerian Pupil Wins Competition on Global Debate

• High Rating for Nigeria Economy.

• Nigeria Seeks China’s Assistance For Metro Line Project

• Nigeria’s Premier Film Festival –ZUMA Opens

• 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Nigerian Don Hailed

•  Nigeria Says No More Foreign Coach

14/03/08

• Kenya: New Round Of Talks Resume
• Rwanda: Blair Pledges To Help Achieve Vision
• Niger Republic President Extends   State of Emergency
• UN Renews Authority For AU Force In Somalia

17/03/08

• YabaTech, British Council Sign MOU On Power Project

• Reps Summon Yar'Adua, Bankole Over 16 Billion Naira Power Fund

• Nigeria And Singapore Opens Talks On Cooperation

• Government Approves 5 Billion Naira For Agric Sector.

• Nigerian Emerges Best Candidate In WAEC
• South Africa Mining Union Strike Looms
• Nigeria Committed To Peace In Chad
• Egypt Appoints First Women Registrar
• AU Chairman Joins Annan To Salvage Kenya Talks

• NEWS COMMENTARY ON COMMONWEALTH DAY CELEBRATIONS 10^TH MARCH, 2008

18/03/08

• Blatter Seeks Life Bans For Bad Tackles

• FIFA Boss Blast Berti Vogts

21/03/08

• Bauchi government To build housing estate

• Arms Cache, illegal Oil Pipeline Uncovered In Ateke Tom's Hide-out

• Nigeria- Sao Tome Cooperation Meeting Underway

• Police Set To Establish Anti Terrorism Squad 

• Nigeria To Establish Industrial Parks In Six Zones

• 1 Billion Naira Insurance Cover For Public Transportation In Lagos.

• “Nigerian Nightmare” Sam Peter Wins WBC Title 

• Nigeria’s Arik Airline Becomes Niger’s Flag Carrier

• Yar’Adua Approves Ogun Free Trade Zone

• Firm Shuts For Altering Product's Expiry Date

• Exclusive Interview with King (DR) Edmund Daukoru, Former Boss of NNPC.

• Another Rwanda Genocide Suspect In France 
• Kenya:Kibaki, Odinga  Consolidates Peace Deal
• IMF, Ivory Coast Agree On Economic Programme
• Annan Leaves Kenya With Message Of Hope

• Pakistan: Opposition Parties Agree To Coalition
• Burma’s Rulers Agree To Meet U.N. Envoy
• Musharaff Rules Out Resignation
• Earthquake Hits Indonesia
• NATO Troops Secure Kosovo Border
• Pakistan- Government Party Concedes Defea

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4-4-08

• 17 Parties To Participate in FCT Bye-Elections

• EU Partners Nigeria In The Fight Against Graft

• Power Probe: Government To Prosecute Indicted Persons

• Energy Probe Opens Can Of Worms- Obasanjo Awarded Contract To Blacklisted Companies.

• Nigeria Government To Check Abandoned Projects Syndrome

• Securities Market In West Africa To Be Integrated.

• Japan Gives Grants For Schools Renovation In Abuja

• Nigeria’s PTDF Introduces Research Grant

• Reps Orders Energy Company To Refund 54Billion Naira To Government

• Government Releases Food Items At subsidised Prices

• Nigeria To Present 5 Billion Dollars Project At Investment Summit

• Tribunal Upheld Oyo State Governor’s Election

• Former Electoral Boss Recommend Open Ballot System

• Drug Baron Jailed For 20-years

• Nigeria, Cameroon Agree Over Bakassi Transfer

• Kaduna Refinery Begins Operation

• Anambra State Signs Agreement With UNICEF

• Anambra Establish Breast Cancer Centre

• Nigeria, Ukraine Move To Strengthen Ties

• Government Plans kidney Infection Test For Children

• Tourists Commends Argungu Fishing Festival

• FCT Begins Sale Of 102 Houses

• Egypt Hosts Gaza Ceasefire Talks 

• Meningitis Vaccine Trial Successful in West Africa.

• Rwandan Jail For Genocide Convicts

• Kenya: A New Era Begins As Parliament Opens.

• Vietnamese Tourists Attacked In South Africa

• Uganda, Rwanda Sign Oil Deal

• Liberia Conducts First Census in 24 Years

• Saudi Opens Hotel For Women Only

• Over 30 US Companies For Probe

• OPEC Retains 32 million Barrels Daily Output

• Nigerian UN Envoy In Burma For Talks 

• Russia Cuts Further Gas Supply To Ukraine

• Iran Gets New U.N Sanctions 

• Cuba “Formalises” Human Rights Pledges

• Tobacco: Women At Risk In Developing World

• EU Fines Microsoft

• Earthquake hits England

• Raul Castro Replaces Fidel Castro As Cuban President

• U.S. Governor Spitzer fall by Sex Scandal

• Pentagon Bans Google Map-Makers

• Zapatero’s Socialist Party wins Spanish elections

07-04-08

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08-04-08

• Ambassadors-Designate Get letters Of Credence
• Christians Celebrate Good Friday

·         Nigeria Wants UN Posts To Reflect Contribution To Peace Missions

·         Swiss Company ,Others To Appear In Court 

·         Muslims Celebrate Birthday Of Prophet Muhammad

·         Energy Probe: 10billion Naira Inflated Contracts Uncovered

 

·         Malawi: Birth Certificates Now Compulsory.

·         Ethiopia Seeks Relief For 88,000 Drought Victims

·         French Army Helicopter Crashes In Ivory Coast

·         Chad’s ‘Orphans’ To Reunites With Families

·         World Bank Agrees To Cancel Togo's Debt

·         Rwanda: Best African Tourism Center 

 

·         66 Years After, Sunk WW2 Warship Located 

·         Serbian General Election To Hold May 11

·         Popcorn Ingredient Causes Lung Disease- Study

·         Cyprus leaders to meet next week

·         China Offers Free Breast Cancer Exams for 530,000 women

 

09/04/08

• Nigeria Restates Commitment On Guinea Worm Eradication

• Nigeria's former Army Chief General Bamaiyi Regains Freedom 

• Nigerian Government Revokes Sale of Steel Firm

• Kogi governor-elect pledges fairness, equity

• 2 Day World Bank capacity building programme Opens in Calabar

• Oshiomole Wins At the Edo State Tribunal

• Nigerian Kerosene Victim Gets Visa Through Barack Obama

10/04/08

Business

• Nigerian Bank, UBA Gets ISO Certification

Sports

• Ahmadiyya Organises International Taekwondo Championship

• Siasia Assures On Nigeria’s Dream Team.

Other Stories

• Corruption: Nobody above the law—Yar’Adua

• France Pledges Support For Nigerian Legislature

• Nigerian Navy Builds First Indigenous Warship 

• World’s Biggest Library Set To Honour Nigerian Writer  Chinua Achebe

• Kogi State Governor Sworn-In

• FCT Polls: Modibbo Calls for Peaceful Conduct

• Kogi State Government Reinstates Eri As Chief Judge

• Employment Generation: Goverment to Establish Job Placement Agency

• World Bank Honours Ribadu

• Air Traffic: Government to Expand Murtala Mohammed International Airport

• Niger-Delta: US Envoy Reiterates Commitment To Peace

• Niger State Governor Aliyu signs Appropriation Bill into law

• FG, Gombe Government To Spend N1.6billionn On Water and Sanitation

11/04/08

Business

Chinese Firm Injects N1bn In Osun Gold mines

 

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22-04-2008

• Ruling Party PDP wins bye election in Kebbi State, Abuja

• African Development Bank To Aid Oyo State Water Scheme

• Gadaffi On Tour Of Uganda

• AU, UN Envoys Hold Consultations on Darfur Peace Process

• Kibaki, Raila Seek Donor Aid

• OIC Cancels Poor Countries’ Debt

• Senegal Takes Over Mantle of OIC

• EU To Assist ECOWAS

• Somali Pirates Free Russian Ship

• Uganda: Museveni Rejects LRA Trial in The Hague

• Kenyan MPs Unite To Begin Healing Process

• Equatorial Guinea: Briton Admits Involvement In Coup Plot

• NATO denies Georgia And Ukraine Membership

• Gulf War Illness Has ‘Chemical Link’

• US House Speaker Visits Dalai Lama

• New Parliament Opens In Pakistan

• Pakistan's Parliament Elects First Female Speaker

• US Criticise Israeli and Palestinian Over Settlement Building

• Pain Lingers 'Long After Trauma'

• No Regrets On Iraq War

• UN Warns On Food Price Inflation

25/04/08

• Nigerian Government To Revive Automobile Industry

• Power Projects: RMAFC Demands Refund Of $3.97b From FG

• FG Explores Tariff Options For EPA Negotiations

• Nigeria To Partner US In The Fight Against Corruption

• Nitel Workers Call Of Strike

• Nigerian Government InauguratesCommittee on Vision 2020

• Nigerian Government Moves To Sovereign World Fund

• Nigerian GovernmentSeeks Chinese Investment in Free Trade Zones

• Delta Assembly Removes Speaker, Deputy

28/04/08

• HIV/AIDS: NACA To Reviews Anti Retroviral Use

• INEC suspends Adamawa Governorship Election

• Corruption: Nigerian Ex-president's Daughter, Two Others Faces Graft Charges

• Yar’Adua To Sign 2008 Budget

• Infrastructural Development: Lagos Seeks N7 Trillion

• Nigerian Government Spends N10b On Erosion Menace

• Kano Earmarks N1.6 billion For Road Project

• President rejects report on oil sector reforms

• Nigerian Government Will Sack Corrupt Ministers- Aondoakaa

• Water Supply: Government Releases N2.54b To Ekiti State

• Corruption: Nigerian Ex-president's Daughter, Two Others Faces Graft Charges

• Nigeria government meet with stakeholders to decide, faith of refugees in the country

• Corruption: ICPC May Probe Contracts In States, Local Councils Since 1999

• Nigerian Firm Commission Power Plant In Sierra Leone

• ECOWAS Trade Fair Rallying Point For Regional Integration Ben Shemang, Burkinafaso

• 7 Killed In Kenyan Gang Protest

• Zimbabwe Polls : Court Rejects Opposition Demand

• Mugabe Ready To Face Peers Over Zimbabwe Crisis

• Ethiopia Severes Relations With Qatar

• UN Chief In Liberia As Part West Africa Tour

• UN Council Angered At Eritrea Over Border Force

• Iraqi PM Freezes Raids Targeting Militia

• Russia To Allow NATO Afghan Transit

• 11 Policemen Killed in Afghanistan 

• Berlusconi Seen Narrowly Ahead In Italy Vote

• Pope Ends Visit To US

• China Condemns French Government Honour For Tibetan Leader

• US Official To Assess North Korea’s Nuclear Facilities

29-04-08

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• Zamfara, Chinese Firm Sign Pact On Solid Minerals Development

• Ahmadiyya World Leader Tour West Africa For Centenary Khilafat

• Appeal Court President Sacks Ogun State Election Petition Tribunal

• Ekiti State House Assembly Reconvenes

• Ondo Spends N6b On Primary Schools

• Yobe Spends N1.2b On Abandoned Projects

• FG To Protect Vulnerable Sectors From Liberalisation

• High Commission Protests Harassment of Nigerians In South Africa

• Poverty Alleviation: NAPEP To Empower 7,500 Women Farmers

02/05/08

• NFA Names Amodu As Eagles Coach
• Nigeria Moves Up In FIFA Rankings
• Beijing Olympics: Fasuba, Siasia Target Olympics Gold
• Nigerians Assure Of Falcons Good Outing In China

• Olympic Games: Protests Trail Olympic Touch Relay

• WTO, USAID Back Nigeria On Trade

• Iran Begins Installing More Centrifuges

• Iraqi Army, Mahdi Clash: Al-Sadr Threatens To End Cease-fire

• Olympic Games: China Condemns Olympic Relay Protest;Torch Arrives San Fransisco

• Olympic Games :IOC Chief expresses Concern over Tibet

• UN Agency Calls For Investigation On Journalists' Murder

• Poor Decisions Created Food Crisis: FAO

• IAEA To Probe Syrian Nuclear Reactor Report

• African Ministers Move To Check Rising Food Prices

• Polls Open In Egypts Amid Protests

• UN Wants Africa To Strengthen Weather Monitoring

• Zimbabwe Polls: Zimbabwe Opposition Decries Violence

• Zimbabwe: Makoni Denies "Puppet" Tag

• Zimbabwe Selects 47 Friendly Election Observers

• Zimbabwe’s Ruling Zanu-PF Meets,want Presidential Election Run-Off

• Opposition Wins Zimbabwe Parliamentary Results: Mugabe Says Ready For Run -Off

• Angola To Launch Civilian Disarmament Campaign

• ECOWAS Plans Regional Airline

• UN Calls For An End To Malaria Deaths In Africa

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• Energy: NNPC To Raise $7billion Power

6/05/08

• Corruption: Representatives Okay 26-man Probe Panel On Oil Sector

• Nigerian Government To Set Up Mineral Resources Management Committee

• Corruption: Nigerian House of Representatives To Probe Oil Industry

• World Bank, ADB To Spend N35b On Anti-poverty War

• ITU, Stakeholders Pledge $55b To Spread Internet In Africa

• FG Moves To Sanitise Maritime Sector

• A Nigerian Court on Friday dismissed the charges against Major Hamza Al-Mustafa for lack of diligent prosecution

• Gulf of Guinea: Yar’Adua Seeks Improved Security

• INEC Fixes Adamawa Poll For April 26

• EFCC Probes Past Governments On $500bn Oil Revenue 

• Yar’Adua Reverses $10million Abuja Airport Concession

• Nigerian Government To End Importation Of Agricultural Raw Materials

• Food Security: Nigeria moves to Ensure Sufficient Fertilizer

• Power Probe: Elumelu Alleges Threat To Life

• Yar’Adua To Sign 2008 Budget On Monday

• Tanzanian Minister resigns amid bribery allegations

• Somali Millitants Kill Two Britons, Two Kenyans

• Zimbabwe’s Court To Rule On Vote Results

• Uganda Officials Quit Peace Talks After Delays

• Zimbabwe Polls: Zambia calls for regional summit

• FBI Arrests Suspect In Slaying Of Marine

• Eight Killed Ahead Of Nepal Polls

• 54 Myanmar Migrant Die in Thailand

• Conservatives Win South Korean Vote

• France to boost Afghan mission

• 7 Die In Baghdad On Anniversary

09-05-2008

• Nigeria To Sanction British Airways Over Assault On Nigerian Passengers

• Ahmadiyya Leader Begins Tour Of Nigeria; Call On African Leaders To Invest In Education 

• President Yar’Adua Orders Investigation Of Maltreatment Of Nigerians By Foreign Airlines

• Nigerian Government To Unveil New Solid Minerals Policy

• Senate Cautions Nigerians Against Traveling To South Africa

• Nigerian Government Procures 650 Tons Of Fertiliser For Sale To Farmer

• Nigerian Government To Invest N1 trillion In Agriculture

12/05/08

• U.S. Disburses $30m Agricultural Loans To Nigerians

• Cross River Govt Plans To Establish Rural Empowerment Scheme

• Government To Review Operations Of Free Trade Zones

• Nigeria To Contribute N120m To Boost African Aviation

• NBA Sues British Airways For Maltreatment Of Nigerian

• Ruling Party PDP Wins Adamawa Governorship Polls

• Hajj 2008: Nigeria Preparations To Begin

• Elder Statesmen Adesanya Dies At 85

• Nigerian Government To Set Up 6 Economic Zones

• House To Probe N1.38 Trillion Roads Fund

• House of Representatives Okay Constitution Amendment

15-05-2008

• Lagos Pledges Job Opportunities

• Yar'Adua Tasks Media On Vision 2020

• Constitution Amendment: Review May Exclude President’s Tenure

• Hajia Yar'Adua Calls For Human Capital Development

• Yar'Adua Signs 2008 Appropriation Bill Today

• ASCON HOSTS NIGERIA JOURNALISTS

• Food Crisis: FG Releases More Grains

• Government Will End  Anti-Labour Policies- Yar’Adua

• Ill Treatment: British Airways Apologises To Nigeria

• Japan To Spend N11billion On Yar’Adua’s 7-Point Agenda

• We'll Produce A People's Constitution, Mark

• UNICEF Votes N960million To Fight Guinea

• Zimbabwe: Britain To Push For Arms Embargo

• China Says Arms Bound For Zimbabwe To Be Recalled

• Zimbabwe: Brown, Zuma Call For Release Of Election Results

• Spanish fishing boat seized by pirates off Somalia Coast

• Iran Ready To Discuss Nuclear Dispute: Ahmadinejad

• George Bush To Meet Canada And Mexico Leaders Over Trade And Immigration

• Opposition Wins Election in Paraguay

• Olympic Torch arrives Malaysia

• Russian president, Putin to Visit Libya

• France Signals Further Boost To Afghan Force

16/05/08

• ITU Endorses Nigeria For Telecom Investment

• Banks Target $5bn Investment On Nigerian Infrastructure

20/05/08

 

NEWS COMMENTARY

Tuesday April 29, 2008 

CELEBRATING WORLD DANCE DAY

 

Ben Shemang Speaking With EU/ECOWAS Adviser At The 5th ECOWAS Tradefair In BurkinaFaso

• NIGERIA TO HOST ECOWAS CHEMICAL WORKSHOP.

• NIGERIA TO DEVELOP MINERAL RESOURCES

• NIGER DELTA SUMMIT STAKEHOLDERS WOOS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY.

• NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN NIGERIA INVITES FORMER PRESIDENT AND HIS DEPUTY.

• NIGERIAN SENATE SETS UP COMMITTEE ON FOOD CRISIS

• NIGERIANS IN THE DIASPORA URGED TO HELP IN AGRICULTURE.

• NIGERIAN PRESIDENT ADVOCATES FOR NEW SECURITY NETWORK 

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PLEDGE TO STRENGTHEN VOICE OF NIGERIA

• NAFDAC BOSS BAGS INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENT 

• NIGERIAN BANKS RATES HIGH IN EMERGING ECONOMIES

• NIGERIA SEEKS U.K’S ASSISTANCE IN OIL AND GAS

• NIGERIA TO FIND ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF POWER

• U.S. ROTARY GROUP SATISFY WITH SITUATION IN NIGERIA

• SPEAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AGAINST RICE IMPORTATION

• NOLLYWOOD NETS 42.2 BILLION NAIRA

• Nigerian Government To Harness Culture For Development

• Niger Delta Development Commission to Stay 

• U.N STEPS INTO ZIMBABWE ELECTION CRISIS 

• West African Leaders Adopt N990 Billion Plan On Niger River

• SOUTH AFRICA DISBAND ELITE CRIME-FIGHTING UNIT

• ZIMBABWE TEACHERS THREATEN STRIKE

• Zimbabwe: Opposition  Rejects Election Results

• Somali Rebels Defiant

• Global Court Seeks Arrest Of Fourth Congo Suspect

• Explosion, Gunfire Kill 6 In Somalia

• Zimbabwe Awaits Presidential Vote Result

• Pope Appeals For Peace In Somalia, Darfur, Burundi

• Zimbabwe: Riot Police Raid Opposition HQ

• Zimbabwe: Candidates To Vet Presidential Poll Result

• South Africa Moves To Curb Attacks On Nigerians

• Japan Announces $50 Million In Africa Emergency Food Aid

• Food Crisis: ECOWAS Ministers Meet In Abuja

• Donors Unblock $43 Million For Ivory Coast Polls

• BURMA OPEN WAY FOR AID

• ISRAEL MARKS 60 YEARS OF STATEHOOD

• RUSSIAN NEW PM PUTIN VOWS TO CURB INFLATION

• IRAN ARRESTS  MOSQUE BLAST GANG

• DONOR COUNTRIES GIVE SUDAN 4.8 BILLION DOLLARS AID

• OBAMA WINS TUESDAY PRIMARIES

• NEW RUSSIAN   PRESIDENT TAKES OATH OF OFFICER

• CHINA AND JAPAN TO MEET ANNUALLY

• HOPE RISES FOR CYCLONE VICTIMS IN BURMA

• Mideast Quartet Presses Israel Over Settlements, Gaza Blockade

• Britain's Brown Suffers Major Defeats In Local Polls

• BURMA CYCLONE VICTIMS RECEIVED AID

• Eight Killed, 45 Wounded In Yemen Mosque Blast

• U.N., World Bank Pledge Action On Food Crisis

• Iraq’s Tariq Aziz On Trial For Execution

• China Jails 17 For Tibetan Riots

• Incest: Austrian Man Appears In Court

• British Foreign Secretary Visits Iraqi

• U.N. Official To Visit Iran Again For Nuclear Talks

• China To Meet Dalai Lama Aides Amid Tibet Tension

• China Train Crash Kills 70, Injures Hundreds

• 19 Dead In Ukrainian Helicopter Crash

• 38 Die In Fierce Clashes In Baghdad's Sadr City

• Bush Seeks Boost For Abbas, Mideast Peace Bid

• Clinton Clinches key Pennsylvania Primary

26-05-08

• PDP WOOS INVESTOR TO NIGERIA AS OPPOSITION PARTY SUPPORTS YAR’ADUA

• NEW HOUSING LAWS FOR NIGERIA

• NIGERIA TO FIND NEW WAYS TO CURB ANIMAL DISEASES

• NIGERIA SUSPENDS TARIFF ON RICE IMPORTATION - BY ALIYU OTHMAN

NEWS COMMENTARY FOR 19^TH MAY 2008

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

BY GLORIA ESSIEN.

 

27/05/08

• Nigerian Government Targets 100m Metric Tonnes Of Cassava Yearly 

• Nigeria Moves To Tackle Food Crisis

• 280,000 Get Free Health Services In Lagos

• Nigeria, EU Strengthen Anti-Graft War

• Nigeria Has Capacity To Tackle Food Crisis – Okonjo-Iweala

• Nigeria Imposes Penalty For Gas Flaring

• Nigerian Government To Re-Negotiate BASA With S’Africa

• OIL FROM COCOA REPLACES GROUNDNUT OIL

• NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION FOR REVIEW

• LABOUR UNIONS IN NIGERIA CALL FOR JUDICIAL ENQUIRY INTO CORRUPT CASES

29/05/08

• Steel Sector: Government May Sack Non-Performing Firms

• Power Probe Panel: We‘Re Satisfied With Obasanjo’s Response

• NIGCOMSAT Pledges Wider, Cheaper Internet Services

• Germany Abolishes Airport Transit Visa For Nigerians

• Lagos Bans Street Parties

• Ekiti Fixes Council Polls For July 19

• Yar'Adua Orders Arrest Of Aviation Chiefs Over Missing Plane

• UNFPA To Spend N7.4billion On Health In Nigeria

• NEWSPAPER EDITOR ARRESTED BY POLICE IN ZIMBABWE

• SOMALIA CLASHES CLAIMS MORE LIVES

• MOZAMBIQUE TO HOST UN RISK PROGRAMME.

• OPPOSITION ENDS BOYCOTT IN MALAWI 

• SOUTH AFRICAN APPOINTED INTO WORLD BANK ANTI-CORRUPTION DEPARTMENT

• BURMA CYCLONE VICTIMS RECEIVED AID

• Eight Killed, 45 Wounded In Yemen Mosque Blast

• U.N., World Bank Pledge Action On Food Crisis

• Iraq’s Tariq Aziz On Trial For Execution

• China Jails 17 For Tibetan Riots

• Incest: Austrian Man Appears In Court

NEWS COMMENTARY  27TH MAY, 2008
FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA AND THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
 

NEWS COMMENTARY 26TH MAY 2008
REVITALIZING THE POWER SECTOR IN NIGERIA

 

05/06/08

NEWS COMMENTARY  29TH MAY, 2008
ONE YEAR OF YAR’ADUA ADMINISTRATION
 

NEWS COMMENTARY 28TH MAY, 2008

FOSTERING COHESIVE NATIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA 

• Food Crisis: There Is No Food Shortage In Nigeria —MINISTER

• US Fines Willbros $32m For Bribing Nigerian Officials 

• Nigerian Senate Passes Health Bill

• National Assembly Set To Slash 2008 Budget

• Economic Experts Task Nigerian Government On Foreign Reserve Management

• International Financiers Seek More Stakes In Nigeria

• Bakassi: Nigeria Gained $300billionn Oil Fields

• Nigeria Halts Use Of Unscreened Blood By Hospitals

• Students Die in Pipeline Fire

• Lagos Earns N8 Billion From Land

• AFDB Predicts Accelerated Economy For Nigeria

• Nigerians extol the good qualities of Late Senator Adesanya

• Anti- Corruption Agencies; EFCC, ICPC, Restructured

• Oil Sector: Government To Commence Reforms

• N25billion Second Benue Bridge Project Takes Off

• Abraham Adesanya: Rites Of Passage Begins

• Taraba, Foreign Firms To Partner On Tourism

• Ogun Employs 371 Medical Personnel

• Nigeran Bank Acquires 3 Banks Across Africa

• Mobil To Establish Gas Plant In Akwa Ibom

• Nigeria Unveils $30bn Gas Investment Opportunity

• Pipeline Explosion Curtailed: Emergency Agencies Mop Up

• EFCC Gets First Female Chairman

• Nigerian Government Moves To Check Rising Shipping Charges

• Zimbabwe Violence Could Reach Crisis Proportions: UN

• Chad Shuts Border After Sudan Cuts Diplomatic

• TiesUganda And Congo To Re-Mark Their Border

• Rebel Leader In Darfur Vows To Attack Khartoum

• Zimbabwe: Western Election Observers Rejected

• Floods Kill Seven People In Algeria

• MBEKI IN ZIMBABWE DISCUSSES DISPUTED POLLS

• ERITREA SAYS NO WAR WITH DJIBOUTI

• FOOD CRISIS: GAMBIA THREATENS TRADERS

• ISRAEL MARKS 60 YEARS OF STATEHOOD

• RUSSIAN NEW PM PUTIN VOWS TO CURB INFLATION

• IRAN ARRESTS  MOSQUE BLAST GANG

• DONOR COUNTRIES GIVE SUDAN 4.8 BILLION DOLLARS AID

• OBAMA WINS TUESDAY PRIMARIES

• NEW RUSSIAN   PRESIDENT TAKES OATH OF OFFICER

• CHINA AND JAPAN TO MEET ANNUALLY

• HOPE RISES FOR CYCLONE VICTIMS IN BURMA

• Mideast Quartet Presses Israel Over Settlements, Gaza Blockade

• Britain's Brown Suffers Major Defeats In Local Polls

• ITU Endorses Nigeria For Telecom Investment

• Banks Target $5bn Investment On Nigerian Infrastructure

• NFA To Negotiate Wages With Eagles’ Coaches
• NFA Rules Obi Out of Olympics
• Nigeria’s National U-23 team head coach Samson Siasia has named players

11/06/08

• Nigeria Calls For ECOWAS Integration

• Nigeria’s Foremost Musician, Sonny Okosuns Dies At 61

• Seminar On Internet Job Initiative Begins

• 300 Million Naira Scam: Court Grants Obasanjo-Bello Bail

• Government Orders Shell, Exxon Mobil To Refund 2 Billion Dollars

• Provision Of Power Is Government’s Priority:Yar'Adua

• Government Orders Shell, Exxon Mobil To Refund 2 Billion Dollars

• Nigeria Marks World Culture Day

• 1billion Africans To Get Satellite Connectivity

• Chad Cannot Handle Darfur Refugee Overflow: Minister

• Thousands Flee North-South Sudan Clashes In Abyei

• UN Council Condemns Darfur Rebel Attack On Khartoum

• Add Darfur Rebels To Terror List: Sudan

• US Aid Flight Arrives Cyclone-Hit Myanmar

• Powerful Quake Rattles Southwest China

• UN HOLTS FLIGHTS AND FOOD AID TO BURMA

• ISRAEL CORRUPTION PROBE: PRIME MINISTER DENIES ALLEGATIONS

• BURMA OPEN WAY FOR AID

NEWS COMMENTARY  30TH MAY, 2008

STRENGTHENING ANTI-CORRUPTION WAR, DUE PROCESS AND RULE OF LAW IN NIGERIA

 

Backs NOC On 2018 C'Wealth Games

NFA Unveils Eagles' Coaches

 

17/6/08  

• Children Task Gombe Government on Welfare

• Senate Screens New EFCC Boss 

• Minister applauds Voice of Nigeria –Duetshe Welle Collaboration

• Nigeria’s President gives assurance on the Niger Delta Master Plan

• Nigeria Calls For the Implementation of Child Rights Acts

• State Burial For  Sonny Okosuns

• Nigerian Student Invents Satellite Rocket Launcher

• Sylva, Wammako Wins Re –Run Guber Race

• Nigeria Needs 1.6 Billion Naira For MDG’s

• 46 Soldiers Buried As The Nation Mourns

19/06/08

• John Edwards Backs Obama As Top Democrats Rally Round

• Death Toll In China Quake Hits 15,000

• Bush Kicks Off Mideast Tour Amid Regional Turmoil

• Clinton Wins West Virginia, Vows Not To Quit

• ECOWAS GDP Projected at $232.7bn in 2008

• Death Toll In China Quake Rises To Nearly 12,000

• 12 Militants Killed In Southern Afghanistan

• South Africa Government Promise To Protect Foreign Immigrants

• Yar'Adua To Meet Mbeki On Violence Against Nigerians

• 1,200 Chadian Refugees Repatriated, as 50 Liberians Set For Home

• 1,200 Chadian Refugees Repatriated, as 50 Liberians Set For Home

• Zimbabwe: Presidential Runoff On June 27

• UN Refugee Agency Curbs Activities In Eastern Chad

• AfDB Grants $200m Loans to Nigerian Banks

WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR: “EDUCATION- THE RIGHT RESPONSE TO CHILD LABOUR”

JUNE 12, 2008
 

XENOPH OBIC VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND AFRICAN UNITY
FOR 11^th JUNE, 2008. 

 

23/06/08

• Food Security: Nigeria Targets 5.6 Million Metric Tonnes Of Rice Annually

• Nigeria Deserves Better Reward From UN: Olusola

• Lagos: New Police Commissioner Assumes Duty

• Lagos: Governor Tasks Private Sector On Corporate Social Responsibility

• New Heights Products To Curb Unemployment in Nigeria.

• Nigeria  Earmarks 500 Billion  Naira  For Oil Subsidy

• Entertainment: More Award Hit Songs Coming

1/07/08

• FA Cup: NFA Fines Pillars, Bans 2 Players

• FIFA  Inspection Team Tours Nigeria

3/07/08

• Government Signs MOU With Russian Firm

• Tributes For Late Folawiyo

• U.S., France Step Up Ties With Nigeria

• Jigawa Distributes N1.7m To Storm Victims

• Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Offers Nigeria N7b Loan

• Nigeria Begins Reform Of Mortgage System

• Senate Confirms Farida Waziri, New EFCC  Boss

• South Africans Investors Shows Interest in Nigerian Film Industry

• New Oil Operator Takes Over Shell’s Interests In Niger Delta

• Ogun To Host Nigerian Stock Exchange Trading Branch

• VON Sweeps Medals At Iran Radio Festival

• Nigeria Launches New Nine-Year Basic Education Curriculum

• Vice President’s Wife Commends Women On Poverty Reduction And Empowerment.

• FG Scraps Tenders Board, Introduces Procurement Department

• Zamfara To Boost Power Supply

• Nigeria Calls For Socio-Economic Integration Of Africa

• Yar’adua In South Africa; Addresses Parliament On Tuesday

• Nigeria Gets Higher Rating For Currency Management - By Acheme Jack, Lagos

• Nigeria Senate Holds Public Hearing On FOI Bill

• Ekiti Tribunal Admits Foreign Newspapers As Exhibits

• Ogun Step Up Efforts On Food Security

• 10 Nigerian Children For Dubai Camp

• Sonny Okosuns For Burial, Steve Rhodes Joins Him

• YAR Adu’a In South Africa, To Address Parliament

• Nigeria/ UNESCO Develop 90 Curricular For Technical Education

• New Chief Of Staff Takes Over

• Government Appoints New Board For Power Company

• Nigeria Celebrates Democracy Day

• New Customs Boss Takes Over

• Confab On Africa's Growth Opens In Japan

• African Development Conference Opens In Japan

• Burundi and Rebel Signs Ceasefire

• Confab On Africa's Growth Opens In Japan

• African Development Conference Opens In Japan

• Burundi and Rebel Signs Ceasefire

• Mozambique Set Up Transit Camp For Victims Of Foreign Attack

• South Africa: Displaced Nigerians to benefit from Red Cross Aid

• Guinea government urges Nigeria to resuscitate MOU with it, On Products Supply

• Asia: Media Experts Converge On Malaysia

• Bush Asks Saudis To Increase Oil Production

• Bin Laden Slams West Over Israel, Vows To Fight On

• China: Aftershocks Spark Landslides At Quake Epicenter

• Groups, Scientists Campaign Against Genetically Engineered Trees

• Earthquake: Death Toll Could Hit 50,000-State Media

• Bush Vows To Support Israel Against 'Terror'

• Iraqi Forces On Al-Qaeda Hunt In Mosul

• South Africa: FIFA Expresses Concerns On Xenophobia

• Olympics: Nigeria Grabs Three Weightlifting Slots

• NFA Throws Glo Premier League OpenYar'Adua

04/07/08

• Energy, Trade Top Yar Adua’s Visit To France 

• Nigeria Curbs Child Labour and Human Trafficking

• Abuja Hospital Introduces Plastic Surgery Facilities 

• Tribunal Affirms Niger State Governor’s Election

• Power: Government Assures Private Sector Of Adequate Incentives

• African Leaders Acknowledges Progress On The Continent

• Sudan Bars US Firms From Darfur Contracts

• UN Security Council Envoys In Darfur 

• Uganda, Sudan And Congo Agree To Fight LRA Rebels

• Nigeria-Cameroun Commission On Course –UN

• Nigeria & 8 African Countries Sign Multilateral Agreement

08/07/08

• Nigerian Government Approves Five Billion Dollars For Power Emergency

• Vision 2020 To Gulp 12 Trillion Naira

• Nigeria’s Electoral Reforms Begins December 2009

• 15 Years After: Nwosu Declares Abiola Winner of June 12 1993 Annulled Election

• UCH Begins Kidney Transplant

• Kogi State Indigenes Gets Free Malaria Treatment

• Adedibu, PDP Chieftain Buried

• Nigerian Youth Reviews Policy

• Enugu Inaugurates Committees On MDG’s

• Government To Rehabilitate 3 Highways in the country

Gas Flaring: Senate Insists On December 2008 Deadline

 

10/07/08

• ECOWAS Summit Opens In Abuja

• Kenya approves Biofuel Project.

• US Condemn  Renewed Fighting In  Chad

• China Trade Mission on Tour of West Africa

• South African Youths Urged To Protect Foreigners

• Commonwealth, ECOWAS Urge Government, Opposition To Complement Each other

• Africa To Give More Attention To Culture

• Zambia Grants Political Asylum To Zimbabwean Opposition

• Nigerians Flee Bakassi Peninsula Fearing Reprisals

• Lagos: Fasola Commends Egyptian Consulate

• Nigeria Repatriates Liberia, Sierra Leone Refugees

• 12 Die In Algeria Bomb Blast

• Robbers Attack Pele - The Soccer Legend

• Fashola Flags Off 2008 Mtn Street Soccer

• Eagles Regroup For Sierra Leone Mat

 

NEWS COMMENTARYFOR JUNE 17, 2008

WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT: THE AFRICAN CHALLENGE

 

11/07/08

• Malaysia Blacklists 16 Institutions

• Global Warming- G8 Urge To Pledge Commitments

• Tornadoes, Storms Kills 8 In US

• India To Launch Satellite Imaging Service Online

• Sherpa Guide Scales Mount Everest For Record 18th Time

• Liberian Refugees In Nigeria Set For Home

• Zimbabwe: International Pressure Mounts On Mugabe

• South Africa Police Commissioner Wants Case Struck Out

• Zimbabwe: UN Condemns Intimidation Of Opposition

• ECOWAS Leaders Urged To Redouble Efforts

• UN Re-states it Commitment to Nigeria-Cameroun Border Resolution

• Yar Adua To Receive Report On Oil Field Attack

• House Speaker Raises Hope On FOI Bill

• Niger Delta Militant Announces Ceasefire

• Japan Donates $8 Million To Nigeria

• Yar ‘Adua And Fashola Commend Gains At Nigeria Ports

• Kano State Government Calls for the Review Of INEC Funding

• N50Billion Boulevards Project For Abuja

• ADB Approves US$ 85 Million for Lekki Toll Road Project

• Niger Delta Elders To Participate In Peace Summit

• Another Woman – Ama Pepple Becomes Head Of Service

• Nigeria Re Launches E-Dividend Payment

• Government Sets Up Housing $ Census Tribunal

SUBDUING POVERTY AND MATERNAL DEATH IN NIGERIA:July 11, 2008

 

18/07/08

• Union Bank Partners Lagos State In The Construction Of Fourth Mainland Bridge

• Government FG Earmarks N1.5b For Transport Institute

• Nigerian Senate Frowns At Ex-Ministers Arrests At The National Assembly

• Chairman Kano State Pilgrims Board Promises to Consolidate Gains

• Lagos State Governor Pleads With Striking Teachers

• EFCC Arrests Ex Aviation Ministers

• Yar Adua Calls For Pursuit Of Science Education

• Nigeria, Venezuela Meet On Global Energy Issues

• Intercontinental Bank To Commence Operations In UK

• USAID Donates $7.6m To HIV/ AIDS Orphans In Nigeria

• Poverty Alleviation: Lagos Endorses Partnership With Federal Government

• International Community Tasks On Peace Building In Niger Delta

• Government Plans N178b Subsidy For New Electricity Tariffs

• FG Acquires N1.7 Billion Facility For Artisanal Miners

• Zamfara Buys N500m Vehicles For Police

• Government Offers Skills acquisition To 2 Million Unemployed Nigerians

• Nigerian Food Company Hit UK & US

• Nigeria Needs $2.6 Billion For MDG’s

• Nigerian Muslims Advocates Open Ballot System

• Kaduna Partner With World Bank On Transportation

• Fashola Call For Increased Revenue Allocation To States, Councils.

• Lagos Legislators To Initiate Feedback Mechanism

• Gambari Offers 90 Days Truce In Niger Delta

• Odemwingie blames Chelsea over Mikels’s form

• African Athletic Training Center For Nigeria

• NNPC/Mobil Athletics Begins In Abuja

24/07/08

• World Waits For Nepal Deposed King

• World Leaders Urge To Boost Productivity

• ILO Launches Gender Equality Campaign

• Clinton, Obama Meet To Enhance Democratic Party Unity

• World Environment Day: UN Calls For End To CO2 Addiction

• China Launches Quake Zone Reconstruction

• Clinton Promises To "Strongly Support" Obama

• Obama Make History as the First African-American to win Democratic Primaries

• Global Warming- G8 Urge To Pledge Commitments

• Malaysia Blacklists 16 Institutions

• Nepal: New Parliamentarians Take Oath Of Office

• Malaysian PM Says New Media Crucial To Stability

• Tornadoes, Storms Kills 8 In US

• Nepal: New Parliamentarians Take Oath Of Office

• Yar’Adua In Japan For G8 Summit

• G-8 Leaders, Pledge Support For  Climate Change

• Benue Government Awards N300m Road Contract

• Nigeria Government To Encourage Agricultural Development

• Senate Gets Bill On Public Funds Management

• Yar Adua Optimistic On Niger Delta Summit

• Representatives Wants Resettlement Of Bakassi People Sorted Out

• Lagos Seeks For Delineation Of Constituencies

• Civil Defence Corps: Anti Vandal Squad Commissioned

• Nigerians Mobilised to Pay Tax

• Yar Adua Cut 2008 Budget, Sends Amendment To National Assembly

• Nigeria Gets $450 Million From World Banks To Tackle Poverty

• N19.5b Fraud: Court Remands Borishade, Fani-Kayode In Custody

25/07/08

 

BANKING CONSOLIDATION IN NIGERIA : TUESDAY JULY 15, 2008

 

28/7/08

 

Nigeria Government To Create 10 Million Jobs, Plans Double Digit GDP Growth

 

30/7/08

• First Generation Diplomat Urges Nigerians to Have Faith In Their Country

• Kogi State Government to Establishment A New Technical College

• Senate Call For Intervention In Kerosene/Diesel Prices  

• Industrial Training Fund Release 10 Year Plan

• EU approves N7.7b for Niger Delta

• Nigeria Drug Agency Boss Advocates Stiffer Penalty For Drug Offences

• Rice Milling Factory begins Operations in September

• Nigerians Urged to Emulate the Courage of MKO Abiola

• Government To Implement National Policy On Population

• Corruption: Ex Aviation Ministers Get Bail

• President Yar'Adua Calls For Global Clampdown On Stolen Crude Oil

• Government To Unfold New Economic Plan 

• F.G To Fund 7-Point Agenda Through Capital Market

• Mann Sentenced For Equatorial Guinea Plot

• Sudan Accuses Ethiopia Of  Attack On Military Base

• Ghana To Understudy Nigeria's Open University

• Unspent EU Farm Aid To Go To Africa

• Nigeria Leads African Telecom

• Zambian President Well And Alive

• U.N. Vote on Zimbabwe Sanctions Next Week

• Ban On Big Brother Africa Reality Show Stays

• Nigeria’s Former UN Envoy Cautions On Zimbabwe

• 12 Die In Algeria Bomb Blast

• AU Calls For Unity Government In Zimbabwe

• African Housing Ministers To Deliberate On Urbanisation

• Zimbabwe; Italy Recalls Envoy

• Ban Ki Moon Reminds G8 On Africa’s Promise

• The South African Government Expresses Dissatisfaction Over Crime Level

• Zimbabwe: SADC Proposes a Power Sharing  Arrangement

• African Summit To Press Mugabe To Negotiate With Opposition

• Food Crisis: AfDB Raises Investment In African Agriculture By $1b

NEWS COMMENT For 26th July 2008

THE G8 AND THE REALIZATION OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN AFRICA

01/08/2008

• Government Drops Niger Delta Summit, Opts For Discussions

• Nigeria Goes Tough On Fiscal Indiscipline

• Nigeria, Japan Sign Agreement On Mathematics

• Election Petition Tribunal Affirms Saraki’s Election

• Niger Delta: Government Beefs Up Security

• Arik- National Carrier Flies To UK

• Kano Approves N5.5 Billion For Road Projects

• Nigerian - German Business Group Meets On Infrastructural Development And Foreign Investment

• Britain To Spend N2.8b On Girl-Child Education

• Government approves Five-year Strategic Plan for NASSI

• Kogi State Government Stops Its Councils from Obtaining Bank Loans

• Federal Government Assures Full Implementation Of Vision 2020 Set Targets

05/08/08

• Zamfara State To Open Eye Care Centre

• Police Order To Made Recruitment Forms Available

• Nigerian Movies Screened For International Film Festival

• Fashola Assures On Third Mainland Bridge

• NCC: Inaugurate Anti-piracy Committee and Task Force

• Nigerian Musicians Pay Tribute To Late Sunny Okosuns

• Nigeria Airports Rehabilitation Begins

• Nigeria, Britain Seal Military Training Deal

• 29 African Countries, US, Sweden, Participates In Military Exercise In Nigeria

• UN Sanctions Could Start Civil War-Zimbabwe

• US-AFRICA ECONOMIC FORUM SCHEDULED FOR WASHINGTON

• Prince Harry In Lesotho

• France To Implement EU’s-Africa Strategic Partnership

• Maitama Sule Counsel African Leaders On Zimbabwe Crisis

• Kenya Government Accused of Attempting To Raise Prices of Food Stuff

• Zimbabwe Talks To Resume Under Mbeki Mediation - Government

• Afghanistan Terror Attack: Indian Embassy Record Deaths 

• Film on Riots Debuts In Indonesia

• 33 Militants Killed In Afghanistan

• Japan Quake Death Toll Rises To 10

• Sri Lanka Suicide Blast Kills 12-Military

• Experts’ Proffer Solutions To Climate Change

• Taliban Makes $100m From Opium

• Vietnam Bans Street Vendors

• Nigeria Assume Leadership Of UN Human Rights Council 

• ILO Appoints New Regional Director For Africa

• Nigeria Hosts African Military Sports Tournament

• Nigeria To Host The 2^nd  African Military Games In 2009

Nigeria Government To Create 10 Million Jobs, Plans Double Digit GDP Growth

 

07/08/08

• Yar’ Adua Orders Immediate Release of N59 Billion For Energy Sector

• Nigeria Canadian work Traffic Framework

• Teachers Strike: Government, Labour Adamant

• Communal Unrest: Imo State Sets Up Peace Committee

• Teachers Strike: Nigerians Appeal To Government

• Police Seek Clearance To Bug Mobile Phones Of Criminals

• Virtues Of Late Muslim Cleric Extolled

• Government Unfolds Plans For Food Security

• ECOWAS To Reform Regional Mining Codes

• Zimbabweans Welcome Peace DEAL

• Sudanese President In Surprise Visit To Darfur

• UN Warn On Food Crisis In East Africa

• Jhpiego Malaria Specialist Receives African Public Health Award

• Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Agrees Modalities For Talks

• Mugabe Lashes Out At Britain As Inflation Soars

• Sudan's Bashir Could Escape ICC Indictment – Diplomats

• Racism On The Rise In Ukraine   

• Iran tests more missiles as U.S. vows to defend allies

• UAE Cancels Iraq Debts

• Gaza In Sewage Crisis

• World Environment Day: UN Calls For End To CO2 Addiction

• North Korea Nuclear Talks To Resume

• US Democrats Invite Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President To Convention

• Argentina Senate Rejects Tax Increase

• Un Awards Funding to 7 Youth organisations

• World Food Crisis Drives Up UN Aid Funding Need

• Malaysia's Anwar Freed On Bail

• 9 British soldiers hurt by friendly fire in Afghanista

ATTAINING FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA AMID GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

August 01 2008

SEVEN YEARS OF GLOBAL SYSTEM OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION IN NIGERIA

August 7, 2008

 

12/08/08

• Government Set To Declare Power Sector Emergency

• Nigeria, India Partner On 1,200 Megawatts

• Nigeria To Get Crude Oil Testing Laboratories

• Nigerian Assumes Duty As UN Peacekeeping Adviser

• China To Invest N386 Billion In Hydropower Sector

• Nigeria Plans New Productivity Policy

• First Northern Agriculture Summit Begins  

• Ondo Election Tribunal Declares Mimiko Governor Elect

• FIFA Out To Clarify Olympics Rules On Over-Age Players

• Nigeria Football Association Denies Sourcing For Foreign Coach

15/08/08

 

• Yar Adua Harp On Leadership Challenge

• U.N. Lauds Nigeria's Peacekeeping Role

• Federal Government To Set Up Fund For Science & Tech Development

• Federal Government Releases 75% Of 2008 Budget Votes

• Government Committed To IRON AND METAL Resources

• Zamfara State Gives Scholarships To 8,000 Orphans

• Vanguard Editor, Adefaye, Emerges Nigerian Guild Of Editors President

• Nigeria Union Of Teachers Suspends Strike

• Northern Governors Pledge To Reposition Agriculture 

• Nigeria To Adopt Tough Reservation On Visa Issuance

• Government To Check Diversion Of Public Funds

• Housing: Yar’ Adua Challenge African Ministers

• Government Boosts Auto Sector With N1.3 Billion

• Kwara State Assembly Passes UBE Bill

• Kano State Moves To Achieve Food Sufficiency

• Electoral Body Promises Equitable Delineation Of Wards  

• COURT Orders Nigeria Not To Handover Of BAKASSI To Cameroon

• UN Council Set To Renew Darfur Peacekeeping Mandate

• Burundi Seeks Nigeria's Assistance

• Zimbabwe Mediation Talks: Mbeki Meet Mugabe

• UN Council Split On Sudan Genocide Indictment

• Sixteen Dead In Angola Army Truck Collision

• Gulf Of Guinea: Nigeria, Cameroun Plan Joint Force

• UN Peacekeeping Chief Worry Over Somalia Mission

• Tanzania To Triple HIV Therapy Patients

• Nigeria host First African Solidarity Campaign For Obama 

• Zimbabweans Hope On Peace Talks

• Sudan: Salva Kir Cautions ICC

• UK Prisoners Sleeps In Toilets

• Iraq Offers Cash To Encourage Refugees

• Asian nations rebuke Myanmar

• Karadzic Transferred   To The Hague

• US To Overturn HIV Travel Ban

• Japan Boosts Team Nigeria With Sportwear

• Nigeria’s Dream Team Earn Confidence Booster Ahead Flight Into China

• New Police Soccer Tournament Debut

21/8/2008

• Government To Implement Oil And Gas Reform

• Security: Federal & State Governments To  Deploy Joint Military Patrol On Lagos

• Tributes For Late Babatunde Jose

• Government To Support Freedom Of Information Bill- Odey

• Nigeria Set To Generate Power From Coal

• UN Trains Chadian Policemen For Refugees' Safety

• Benin Envoy Seeks Security Council Seat For Nigeria

• South Africa's Zuma In Court For Graft Trial

• Flood Togo Call On Donor Countries For Assistance

• Gambia seeks Nigeria’s success in telecom regulation  

• Morocco Commend Relations With Nigeria

• Nigeria, Ghana To Establish Chamber Of Commerce

• Nigeria, South Africa To Upscale Investments

• SOUTH AFRICA’S HIGHEST COURT DISMISSES ZUMA APPLICATION

26-08-08

NEWS COMMMENTARY

RESTORING DEMOCRACY IN MAURITANIA; THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

• Nigeria Condemns Coup In Mauritania

• Religious Leaders Promises To Fight Against Homosexuality

• Nigeria Approves Data bank For Space Center

• Ogun Offset N1.1 Billion Council Loans To Banks

• Nigerian Police Commission Downgrades 140 Police Officers

• Daily Times Management Urge To Preserve Jose's Legacies

• Nigeria Canvasses Free Trade Zone For ECOWAS

• Bakassi Handover: Government Inaugurates Committee On Relocation

• Botswana Deports Zimbabwean Journalist

• African Iron Ore And Steel Organisation Seek Special Fund

• South African Company To Build Jabi Lakefront

• Gorilla Bonanza In Congo

• Eritrea Solicits Oils Supply From  Nigeria

• UNICEF Plans Additional Support For Mozambican Children

• Darfur: Sudan, UN-AU discuss deployment of Peace Mission

• Suicide Attack Targets Iraqi Police, Kills 3

• Karadzic In Hague To Face Genocide

• TrialChina To Censor Internet During Games

• US, Iraqi military offensive under way in Diyala

• Bombers Kill 50 In Iraq, Wound Nearly 250

• Ten Unexploded Bombs Found In Western Indian City

• Floods Kill 22 In Ukraine, 4 In Romania

• Karadic Prepares For Trial At The Hague

• Scientists Hail New Cancer Drug

3/9/08

• Mass Immunisation For Nigerian Children Under 5 Years

• Nigerian Journalists Indispensable To Development

• NDIC Set To Protect Depositors

• Nigeria keep its promise, Handed over Bakassi Peninulas to Cameroon

• Nigeria Urge To Tackle Niger Delta Underdevelopment

• Nigeria’s Universities Matriculation Exam Results Now On the Website -- Registrar

• Beautification Of Lokoja Begins

• Nigeria To Hand Over Bakassi On Thursday

• Yar Adua Approves More Time For Electoral Reform Committee

• Spanish Company To Invest In Nigeria

• UN Receives Niger Delta Development Master Plan

• Turkey To Support Nigeria On Vision 2020

• Government Denies Contact With MEND

• Nigeria’s Ruling Party Scribe Predicts Lower   Price Of diesel

• Ministry Plans 6 Youth Centres

• Lawmakers Approve N8.3b For Adamawa Power Plant

• UNILAG's Mass Communication Dept seeks assistance for Multimedia Equipment

• Niger State Seek Assistance Of the UN

• Summer Olympics Opens In China

• Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission Best In Africa

• Nigeria To Develop Economic Base Through Science & Technology

• Rivers State To Develop Tourism Village

• Nigeria’s Radio and Television Workers Optimistic of Payment of Monetisation

• UN Envoy In Liberia Commends Nigeria

• Condolence Pours In As Zambian President Dies

• SADC Launches Free Trade Area

• Niger Rebels Lay Down Arms Ready for Negotiation

• Oxfam Sees Climate Change Role For East Africa Nomads

• Libya, US Agrees On Compensation Lockerbie victims

• Nigerian Troops For Somalia On Peacekeeping Operations

• Afro- Turkish Summit Holds Next Week

• Nigerian First Lady To Address SADC First Ladies

• Angola Rejects Human Rights Watch Accusation

• Zimbabwean Authorities Release Opposition Leaders Passport

• Zimbabwe Power Sharing Deal On Course, As Splinter Group Opposition Signs Agreement

• AU Expresses Concern Over Peace Deal In Burundi

• South Africa Investigates Application Of Tuberculosis Drugs

• World Bank Discover Loopholes In West African Gas Pipeline Project

• KARADZIC At The U.N TRIBUNAL 

• Killed By US Air Strike Kill  Al-Qaida AL-QAIDA Commander

• Karadzic To Appear Before UN War Crimes Tribunal

09/09/2008

 

NEWS COMMMENTARY:FOR TUESDAY 26TH AUGUST, 2008 LESSONS OF THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES - BY AHAZIAH SULEIMAN

• Lagos Reactivate 767 Distress

• Women troop to hospital for Minimal Assess Surgery

• Nigeria’s President Appoints New Service Chiefs

• Government Approves Gas Master Plan

• President Challenges The Civil Service

• Nigeria Partner With Germany On Energy

• Yar Adua Cancels Chief Of Staff Office At The Presidency

• Special Duties Minister Begins Tour Of Prisons

• UN Ranks Nigeria 5^th Contributor To Global Peace

• Former Nigerian Leader-Yakubu Gowon Counsel Youths

• Olympics: Nigeria’s Gold Hull Dim

• Liyel Imoke Takes Oath As Governor of  Cross Rivers State

• Nigerian Judiciary Rated Best Independent Arm  In The World

• NIS Apprehends E-Passport Fraudsters

• Cross Rivers Sate Gubernatorial Re-run, Imoke Wins