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Hokkaido, Japan – Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua said on Monday i n Hokkaido, Japan, that the Federal Government would soon present a proposal to t he United Nations for urgent action to be taken by the international community to clampdown on the illicit trade in stolen crude oil.
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The Presidency may have bowed to pressure from some powerful Niger Delta forces by seeking a replacement for the embattled chairman of the Niger Delta Summit billed to take place soon.
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President Umar Musa Yar'Adua yesterday arrived in Japan to join the Group of Eight (G8) wealthiest nations in the world, as they seek consensus on soaring oil prices that have had a debilitating effect on the world economy. Also on the agenda is the rising food prices that have pushed more than 100 million people into poverty and global warming, among others at this year's G8 Summit, which begins in...
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Indications emerged yesterday that President Umaru Musa Yar'adua may have finally succumbed to the Niger Delta elders' demand that Professor Ibrahim Gambari be dropped as the chairman of the proposed Niger Delta Summit.
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As the nation-wide strike by primary and secondary school teachers entered its second week, the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has appealed to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, to consider the plight of millions of school children in the country and direct relevant authorities to take urgent action to resolve the impasse.
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President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has charged the new emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman to use his new status to advance peace and stability in Nigeria.
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Rising from the just concluded National Working Committee retreat held in Calabar, yesterday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reiterated its pledge to support the government of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua even as they expressed their resolve to bring back those that left the party in grievance.
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For one year, critics have pointedly accused our president, Umar Musa Yar'Adua, of an irritating go-slow-attitude of governance and still today, the former governor of the rural state of Katsina is not bothered or ready to change gear. Not that this sluggish or snail speed approach has helped in any way to avoid policy mistakes, it has rather produced several policy summersaults to the continued discomfort...
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There are famous statements which in the course of their continual usage by different people lose their proper and original identities and affiliations.
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The deplorable state of the nation's power sector was brought to the fore on Tuesday, June 24, when the Presidential Committee on Power Sector Reform submitted its report to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
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The House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel probing the $16 billion power funds yesterday failed to submit its report.
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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned private and unity schools to join the ongoing nationwide teachers strike embarked upon for the payment of the new Teachers Salary Structure (TSS).
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Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan on July 7 in the State House Abuja inaugurated the National Council on Population Management that is to implement the National Policy on Population.
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African leaders attending the 34th Group of Eight(G8) Summit, including Nigeria's President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua , were yesterday unanimous in their condemnation of the events in Zimbabwe .
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Despite an all time increase in the world oil prices, Nigeria has lost 30% projected revenue for the 2008 budget because of the Niger Delta crisis, President Umaru Musa Yar'adua said at a conference in Abuja aimed at raising funds to finance key development programmes.
