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Daily Archives: Jan 8, 2012

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Fuel Smuggling Persists Along Nigeria Border

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

In spite of the removal of petrol subsidy by the Nigerian Government, smuggling of the product into neighboring Benin Republic persists because of price differential. It was investigation at the border towns of Owode and Kpogidi in the Seme-Badagr...

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Subsidy Can’t Finance Sustainable Consumption – Obi

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:Business/News

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State believes that federal government’s recent removal of the 25-year old fuel subsidy regime will benefit Nigeria in the long run. In this interview with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s LOUIS ACHI, he marshals his reason...

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Corruption Will Gulp Subsidy Savings – Sen Sirika

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:Business/News

In this interview with SHUAIB SHUAIB, Senator Hadi Sirika who, recently, through the  Supreme Court got a certificate of return from INEC to claim his seat as a Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Senator from Katsina, carpets government for rem...

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I Was Branded A Bookworm Because I Was The Best In My Class

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:Business/News

Mr. Collins Onuegbu, is Group Managing Director, Signal Alliance Limited, one of the leading ICT companies in the country. He is passionate about taking Nigeria into the digital age. In this interview, CHIMA AKWAJA looks into his humble beginnings. &n...

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Peeping Into The World Of 2012

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News

As the world waits with bated breath to see what 2012 holds, EZRA IJIOMA in this article, hazards the likely events and where they might occur across the world. Arab Spring – Work In Progress Life is a continuum. No event exists in isolation. Som...

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Kogi: Playing Politics In Lord’s Vineyard

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

The battle of supremacy between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kogi State, and the state’s chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), from all indication, cannot end now. This is even after the conduct of the governorship ele...

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Jonathan’s Address On Deregulation Of Downstream Petroleum Sector

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON THE DEREGULATION OF THE DOWNSTREAM PETROLEUM SECTOR SATURDAY,  JANUARY  7, 2012 Dear Compatriots, A week ago, I had cause to address Nigerians on the security challenges we are...

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Subsidy Removal: FG Pitched Against The Masses

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

Barring any last minute volte-face by President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerians may be poising for a total show down with the federal government tomorrow; what has been aptly dubbed, the mother-of-all-battles, over the president’s New Year ‘Gi...

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Fear Of EFCC Makes School Principal Slump To Death

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:Crime/News

The principal of God’s Time Acaedmy, Pius Ayubi, a private school located in Ngwan doka in Karu Local Government  Area of Nasarawa State slumped and died hours after the graduation ceremony of the school LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered. According...

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Zero-Subsidy, Boko Haram And Other Forces That’ll Shape 2012

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

2011 was a year defined by crises but 2012 does not appear to promise a paradise as the iron-fisted policies pushed by the presidency pose more challenges for a nation in the throes of change. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis giv...

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Appraising The Politics Of Emergency Rule

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

Following the Christmas day bombing at St Theresa’s Catholic Church Madalla, Niger State, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in 15 local councils in the north – perceived hotbeds of anti-state insurrection. LEADERSHIP...

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Nyako Declares Curfew In Adamawa Over Killings

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News

Adamawa State governor Admiral Murtala Nyako Rtd yesterday declared a dusk to dawn curfew in the state following Friday’s attack which left no fewer than 12 persons dead. The action, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, sources said,was to forestall an escalation ...

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National Assembly Won’t Reverse Subsidy Removal—Sen. Gemade

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

Ahead of an emergency session of the House of Representatives today, former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and a serving Senator, Chief Barnabas Gemade has advised Nigerians not to expect the lawmakers to reverse government&rs...

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We Are Not Aware Of Court Order – TUC

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has denied being aware of any court order restraining the organised labour from going ahead with its planned nationwide strike scheduled to commence on Monday, January 9, 2012. The National Industrial Court (NI...

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Adamawa Killings Politically Motivated – CPC

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 8, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa State has said that the killings in the state in recent times are politically motivated even as the party has been accused of sponsoring the killings. A press statement signed by chairman of the part...

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