Vanguard (Nigeria) articles from April 2010, page 17

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Ex-Lagos Commissioner Advocates Autonomy for LGs.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Dapo Akinrefon & James Ezema Former Commissioner for Environment in Lagos State, Mr Tunji Bello, has advocated local government autonomy in Nigeria, arguing that there is need to resolve thorny issues in the local council...

FG Probes Calabar Airport Car Crash.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Daniel Idonor & John Ighodaro The presidency Thursday directed that detailed investigations be promptly carried out to unravel the circumstances/factors that led to a driver ramming his car into an Arik Air plane in Calabar on...

Heartland Declare War On Tiko.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Jacob Ajom Nigeria's only surviving club in the 2010 CAF Champions League Heartland Football Club of Owerri have declared war on youthful Cameroonian side, Tiko Football Club, who they face this weekend. A fortnight ago, the Naze...

Opening of Tourist Office in Belgrade.
April 1, 2010... Nigeria has finally opened a tourism promotion and marketing office in Europe to sell the vast tourism potential of the country, just as an agreement has been entered into with a renowned university for the training of manpower in the industry....

How 38 Ministerial Nominees Scaled Senate's Screening.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Emmanuel Aziken The screening of the thirty-eight ministerial nominees proposed by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan by the Senate may have been an improvement in the unmelodious praise singing ritual associated with past Senate...

Constitution Review - the Birth of a New Inec?
April 1, 2010... Byline: Okey Ndiribe If the amendments so far effected by the Senate are enshrined in the proposed Constitution, the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) is likely to emerge from the exercise as a far more autonomous body than...

Yar'Adua - FEC Should Be Courageous to Invoke Section 144, Says Lai Mohammed.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Dapo Akinrefon Alhaji Lai Mohammed is the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress, AC. In this interview with Vanguard, he expressed optimism that the new Federal Executive Council, FEC, will be courageous enough to invoke...

NOA and the Need for National Integration.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Dapo Akinrefon In a move aimed at examining performance and meeting future challenges in 2010, the National Orientation Agency, NOA, has concluded plans, to improve attitudinal change among citizens in the building of a better...

Underscoring Tanko Yakassai's Patriotism.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Hugo Odiogor There is no doubt that as an elder statesman in his mid eighties, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, deserves our respect both as a political activist, in the same class with the likes of Chief Anthony Enahoro, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo...

2011 is Opportunity for INEC to Redeem Self, Says Akpatason.
April 1, 2010... Byline: James Ezema Comrade Peter Akpatason relinquished power last December as president of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, after eight years of exemplary leadership. He is currently aspiring to clinch the Edo...

Lagos Boasts - We're Battle Ready for High Rise Fires.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Olasunkanmi Akoni Fire, according to a popular saying, is a good servant and a bad master. And when it chooses to be a bad master, there are usually tears and wailing on account of lives or property lost or both. Such has been the...

Senate and Constitutional Amendment - the Real Issues.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Festus Okoye The Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has concluded its assignment and the Bill for An Act to Alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of...

Violent Clashes And the Future of Plateau State.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Istifanus Pam Gyang Plateau State has been in the news since 2001 for the wrong reasons. Following the Jos crisis on the 7th of September of that year and subsequent events that culminated in the killings at Yelwa-Shendam and the...

Law On Domestic Violence, How Far Can It Bite ?
April 1, 2010... Byline: Abdulwahab Abdulah Over the years, there have been agitations on how to stop domestic violence against children and women in Nigeria which have yielded no result. Recently however, the Lagos State House of Assembly took a giant...

Governor Jang - How Not to Govern a Volatile State.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Chris Agbiti Of all the multiple failings of the Nigerian leaders, especially the political class, their refusal to bind themselves to the dictates of the social forces that underpin their commitments to the leadership cause, sticks...

Garlands for the Judiciary.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Akin Daniels Of all the three tiers of government and institutions that underpin our democracy, none has safeguarded Nigeria"s political system like the judiciary. As it is often said, an independent judiciary is the soul of every...

Convicted Lastma Official Seeks Bail Pending Appeal.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Abdulwahab Abdulah Convicted former official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, LASTMA, Andrew Bodukale has file motion before an Ikeja High Court to secure his bail pending appeal. In the application by the ex...

Firm Sues Bank over Unlawful Sale of Property.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Innocent Anaba A construction company, Buebe Ventures Limited and its Managing Director, have sued Skye Bank Plc before a Lagos High Court, challenging the sale of a property the company used as collateral for a loan facility. The...

Irrigation Farmers Advocate Establishment of Markets, Processing Companies.
April 1, 2010... Irrigation farmers in Katsina State have urged the federal and state governments to facilitate the establishment of markets and processing companies for agricultural produce in the area. The state Chairman of irrigation farmers, Alhaji Salisu...

Acman Set to Revolutionise Cash Handling Services.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Michael Eboh The Association of Cash Managers of Nigeria (ACMAN) has expressed its readiness to transform cash handling and cash movement activities in Nigeria by using advanced security and world class facilities. Speaking in...

Bayelsa Accountant-General, 2 Others Get Bail for N300 Million.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Ise-Oluwa Ige A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday granted Bayelsa State Accountant General, Francis Okokuro, and two others bail in the sum of N300 million. Okokuro and the two others are facing trial before the court...

NFA Drags Amodu Before Disciplinary Committee.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Ben Efe Nigeria Football Association may drag estranged Eagles' coach, Shaibu Amodu, before its disciplinary committee after he failed to resume work yesterday. Amodu took a one week leave of absence shortly after the 2010 Nations...

Rights Group Sues Yar'Adua's Doctor over Non-Disclosure of the President's Health Status.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Innocent Anaba A civil rights organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, to compel the personal physician of ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, Dr Salisu...

Standard Chartered Bags 'Best Emerging Market Bank' in Continent.
April 1, 2010... Standard Chartered Bank has been named Best Emerging Market Bank in Africa in Global Finance magazine's annual awards. This is the second consecutive year that Standard Chartered Bank Africa has topped the tables with Global Finance. Winners...

Miners Commend World Bank on Project Extension.
April 1, 2010... The Miners Association of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja commended the World Bank for extending its programme on the Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources Project. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the 20 million dollars (N3...

Skye Bank Unveils Promo for Visa Card Customers.
April 1, 2010... Skye Bank Plc has commenced a promotion for its existing and prospective Visa card customers. The promotion is expected to produce 10 winners who will have the opportunity of going to South Africa for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. The lucky...

Sokoto Guber Petition - Useni Urges Tribunal to Deliver Judgment.
April 1, 2010... Byline: Henry Umoru THE National Chairman of Democratic Peoples' Party, DPP, General Jeremiah Useni has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, to as a matter of urgency put in place a panel that would...