The Punch Newspaper Archive for September 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
FG makes N5.44bn from sale of cement companies
At Eid-el-fitri, Yar’Adua, Ajibola, others urge sincerity, love
N’Delta: South-South senators back force against militants
Bank manager, four others die in auto crashes
Court-martialled soldiers accuse COAS of bias
Nigeria needs $30bn investment in gas by 2010 – NGA
Biafran agitators disrupt Igbo day in Enugu
Ominous cloud hangs over economy – BCI
… Stocks, oil prices, US dollar slump
House votes down bail-out package
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Hope not lost, say Jonathan, Gowon, others
Ogun lawmakers collect N512m in five months
Yar’Adua promises to speed up governance
Why we arrested MASSOB leader — Police
Benin jailbreak: FG goes tough on prison officials
MDGs: Nigeria, Congo, biggest obstacles to eliminating malaria — World Bank
How I was set up — suspended NDDC chairman
Nigeria‘ll lead global anti-bunkering war — Yar’Adua
Troops kill Soboma George’s aides
Things Fall Apart now a US bestseller
Saturday, September 27, 2008
...JTF arrests 23 militants
SSS set to crackdown on kidnappers
Militants go into hiding as CDS issues fresh order
3rd Mainland Bridge: FG to commence Phase 2 in 2009
Corruption is bane of Nigeria –Aniagolu
ICPC probes NAN
Ondo commissioner, four others to face EFCC interrogators
Nigerians deserve more than cabinet reshuffle –Utomi
JTF opens up N’Delta creeks to foreign journalists
Friday, September 26, 2008
Bank PHB, consultant trade claims over multi-billion naira intellectual property
Henry donated one of his kidneys to our mother, the other is diseased – Brother of MEND leader
WAEC releases results, 83% of candidates fail
Yar’Adua probes aides
Corruption index: EFCC targets 50th place for Nigeria
INEC collates delineation reports, asks parties to produce addresses
Chris Uba’s men take over Anambra PDP
ASUP ready to end internal rift
NSCIA dispels confusion about end of Ramadan fast
Lagos coroner’s amendment bill report ready soon
Council poll: PDP to field candidates in 20 Lagos LGs, 37 LCDAs
FG reopens Third Mainland Bridge on Sunday
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Soyinka warns against loss of ‘great minds’ to N’Delta crisis
Hearing of Buhari, Atiku’s cases begins Oct. 23
Gas: FG to impose stiff penalties on oil majors
We’re ready to screen ministerial nominees – Senate
$10bn spent globally on HIV/AIDS in 2007
Daniel’s aides ‘feeding fat’ on rumour
Nigerian boy wins Russian award
S’African parliament elects Motlanthe as president
Court orders prison authorities to produce man with 86 wives
Ajaokuta: FG moves to retrieve looted equipment, cash
Niger Delta committee begins plenary next week
Major shake-up in SSS, as directors move out of Abuja
UNESCO has no centre in Obasanjo library — Soyinka
FOI bill: Senate committee introduces stiff terms for access to information
Yar’Adua delays cabinet reshuffle
Police arrest two men with nine human skulls
Niger Delta: Military may launch fresh attacks on militant camps
SANs, others flay Presidency
2nd Niger Bridge: Senate to summon Obi, Uduaghan, Alison-Madueke
Kerosene must sell at N43.70, DPR tells marketers
2009 budget: FG raises crude benchmark to $62.5 per barrel
Hoodlums raid Ogun Assembly
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
NLC calls for electoral crimes commission
Corruption: Nigeria is making progress — TI
65% of N’Delta costal communities host illegal refineries – JTF
Yar’Adua, VP’s aides take secrecy oath
Drug control: Nigeria receives US certification
Militants hand over recovered police weapons
Appeal court to hear Edo governorship tussle on Thursday
Ministers: Reps insist on technocrats to head key ministries
Time to halt cancer epidemic
FG slates PPMC, NGC, others for sale 2009
Ace broadcaster, Yinka Craig, dies at 60
Monday, September 22, 2008
NNPC complies with court order, pays $22.6m debt
Varsities employ half-baked dons, says NUC
Presidential poll: Supreme Court to clear hurdles on Thursday
Form your own party, ANPP tells Buhari
ICPC recovers N7bn loot
MEND’s ceasefire unnecessary —Defence HQ
EFCC quizzes Rivers LG bosses
Protest: Court martialled soldier slumps
Moves to reconcile Oyo PDP elders flop
Plateau panel summons Dariye, Bot-Mang, Alli, others
Nigeria needs $17.5bn to modernise railways –World Bank
NUPENG threatens fresh nationwide strike
Inflation rate decreases to 12.4 per cent
N6bn aviation fund:Borishade, Iyayi won’t appear in court today
DPR intercepts contaminated fuel in Lagos, Maiduguri
Why Yar’Adua may not attend UN summit
Man arrested with box of bank cheques
Man with 86 wives has not insulted Islam — MLAN president
I’ll be sworn in before December —Mimiko
MEND declares ceasefire in N’Delta
Israeli PM offers formal resignation
British police officer applauds The Punch’s anti-corruption stance
Mbeki resigns as president
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Changes in Armed Forces: More generals to go
Cabinet shake-up: Governors on revenge mission
87 lawyers set to secure release of man with 86 wives
Stray bullet killing: Hunters’ bullets found in villages –Army
ICPC probes UNTH contracts
Clark, JTF trade blame over N’Delta clash
Reps: Activities grounded over absence of House committees
Mbeki to step down as S’African president
Friday, September 19, 2008
Kidney problem: Court orders FG to move Henry Okah to hospital
NBC lifts Channels TV’s suspension
Cabinet reshuffle: Yar’Adua shops for technocrats
Ibori urges JTF, militants to cease hostilities
World Bank extends $180m lifeline to polytechnics
Ekiti governor files cross-appeal on tribunal judgment
Yar’Adua will be in New York on Monday – UN
FG seeks accelerated trial of corruption cases
Militants blow up another pipeline, free South African hostages
Paracetamol can trigger asthma in babies – New study
Thursday, September 18, 2008
PDP seeks Senators, Reps? support for Yar?Adua
CDS okays military operation in N?Delta
Two detained journalists released, Momoh meets SSS
Principals levy JSS 1 students illegally in Oyo
Pay pensioners from excess crude oil funds ? Olubadan
Channels? closure is illegal, Fashola tells FG
Experts investigate source of ‘killer beans? in Plateau
Rape scandal rocks Delta Police command
Education personnel gulped N472bn in six years, says World Bank report
Ogun to develop shrine with N170m
Fighting stalls Ateke Tom?s appearance at Eso panel
FG under fire over Channels TV closure
Cancer: Patients prefer spiritual solution to medicare ? Expert
Defence chief in Rivers as JTF, militants continue clashes
MEND promises to secure abducted VC?s release
Screening: Shonekan?s absence causes stir at Senate
John Momoh returns, station wins UNICEF award
NBA, Gani, others say action undemocratic
PUNCH NIGERIA HACKED
Court sets aside sack of Ekiti LG chairmen
Screening: Shonekan's absence causes stir at Senate
MEND promises to secure abducted VC's release
Release us, reopen Channels, detained journalists tell FG
PUNCH NIGERIA HACKED
Closure of Channels TV: A letter to the President
Between closure and the rule of law
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Reps to seek return of armed personnel to ports
Another Shell facility attacked, JTF repels MEND ‘fighters’
Yar’Adua denies resignation plan
Missing aircraft: Army yet to handover black box to investigators
FCC asks Yar’Adua, MDAs to submit staff list
Ondo Assembly removes Speaker
NITEL accuses PTOs, GSM operators of sabotage
Niger-Delta: Senate considers anti-terrorism bill
CBN allays fears over global financial turbulence
SSS seals Channels TV
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
27,630 pupils pass 2008 NECO
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Fresh troops from North to take over in JTF
I was deceived into taking Yar’Adua to court — Buhari
FG creates N’Delta ministry
I’m not insane, man with 86 wives replies Bida emirate
No big deal over Kingibe’s removal
Ekiti commissioners, LG chairmen sacked
OPEC cuts production by 520,000bpd
Third Mainland Bridge for total closure again on Sunday
Ibru: Prosecution witnesses’ve been compromised — Lagos govt
Nigeria slides on Doing Business index – World Bank
Senate to pass FOI bill in three weeks
Delta deputy governor, Clark, AC, welcome new ministry
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
‘Nigerian children shun schools’
Kingibe hands over, says ‘I knew I would vacate SGF office’
N100m bribe: Reps insist on probe of Elumelu committee
PDP members wish Yar’Adua dead, says Abia governor
Constituency delineation complex, expensive — Iwu
Nigeria requires $127.55m for polio eradication in 2008 — GPEI
NDLEA arrests undergraduate, two others
Alleged N6.5bn fraud: Ladoja, two others get bail
PEF saga, an embarrassment —Bamanga Tukur
Dike, new CDS, orders overhaul of JTF
Constitutional review committee to be inaugurated next week —Mark
Obasanjo, Daniel not fighting over Bankole – Ogun Speaker
FOI bill: Delay threat to democracy
Security vital to Vision 2020 — IG
Monday, September 08, 2008
... decorates new service chiefs, calls for national transformation
Yar’Adua removes Kingibe, names Yayale new SGF
Govt insensitive to poor health indices — NMA
Yar’Adua’s return slows down govt machinery in Katsina
Anxiety at Federal Secretariat over SGF’s sack
No hiding place for corrupt govs, council chairmen — NEPAD
FG earmarks N30bn to train 10,000 farmers, youths
Aso Rock Villa alive as governors, Ogbulafor visit Yar’Adua
Sunday, September 07, 2008
FG approves N251.2m to fight quelea birds
Reps may summon Kingibe, Pepple over study leave circular
Yar’Adua: Illness should not stall 2009 budget – Reps
We lack power to increase salary — Reps
British International School impounds helicopter, demands $100,000
Aso Rock Villa calm, access to President still restricted
Recovery of missing plane’s wreckage stalled
Nigeria’s foreign reserves drops to $60bn
Power probe: We have not betrayed Nigerians — Elumelu
Saturday, September 06, 2008
NLC silent over Yar’Adua as PDP warns opposition
Nnamani tasks Chime on looted public properties
Yar’Adua’s return: Suspense all over
NMA sheds light on kidney transplant
N’Delta summit: S’South Reps back Idika Kalu’s choice to lead talks
How Nigerian twins set new world record in mathematics
Four Customs officials in trouble over N1m bribe scam
Cyber crime: How defective laws aid criminals’ escape –Rep
Shoot-out at party primaries in Lagos
Friday, September 05, 2008
Board, MD in legal tango over ownership of Global Gas Limited
N6.5bn fraud: Court grants Ladoja, two others bail
Aviation fund scam: EFCC arraign Borishade, others Sept 22
Why Jonathan shelved Saudi trip
FG loses N11.3bn to duty waiver on rice importation
NAFDAC parades producers of fake margarine, fruit juice
Nigeria to spend N200m on visual arts exhibition
Niger probe:Firm admits demanding for N5m ‘debt’ in error
Prospective army, police recruits should pay only N500 – Federal Character Commission
Delta State can become Nigeria’s Singapore – Report
70m Nigerians are poor – Kpakol
Wema Bank GMD rearrested, sacked
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Okah’s arrest: Nigerians in S’Africa blame Angola over N’Delta crisis
Presidency remains uncertain on Yar’Adua’s return
Missing plane: Remains of pilot, others for DNA test
‘Why public office holders are not accountable’
Modibbo asks FG to increase tariff on tobacco
NAFDAC, NSCDC seal off fake wine producing plant in Abuja
Stranded relations of patients live like refugees at UCH
Muslims tackle Alao-Akala over return of mission schools
Why recalled police officers are yet to be paid — Okiro
Ogundeji: NUJ asks IG to take over investigation
Police nab 27 suspects from Niger Republic
Commotion as Virgin aircraft makes air return
Ladoja, others refunded N500m Oyo funds – EFCC
Oba of Benin‘s son quits Osunbor’s cabinet
Again, Yar’Adua fails to return
Cultists disrupt activities at OOU, robbers kill UNAAB student
Niger govt to determine Bello’s fate in two days
Federal controller of works slumps in office, dies
Abacha loot: Swiss govt adopts new measures
Visafone hits 1m subscriber base
Income growth undermined as inflation gallops, says World Bank
Telecom executive jailed in US for bribing NITEL official
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Police storm Wema Bank headquarters
Hunters found missing plane – C’River
Transition task forces under way for NNPC, DPR, others
Daniel walks out on Obasanjo
Landlord beats tenant to death over toilet
Ramadan: Hangers-on desert Adedibu’s house
Flood renders 1,000 homeless in Delta
Stop funding political parties, CNPP tells INEC
More births, despite high contraceptive knowledge – Investigations
Nigeria regains African oil producer top spot
Treatment: Yar’Adua’s wife insists on German hospital — Agency
Monday, September 01, 2008
CNPP faults INEC on consensus candidates
Defence Hq refutes MEND’s claim over killings
Police, other security agencies move to search Ribadu, El-Rufai’s homes
Confusion over Yar’Adua’s return
Murder: Police quiz management staff of UNIBEN
Owner of collapsed building on the run —Official
Rep, Bayelsa assembly battle over N150m contract awarded by VP
Man with 86 wives may seek court order to restrain Emir, others
ANPP, Aliyu disagree over N500m rent allegation
JAMB to release results on examination day
Wreckage of missing aircraft found in C’River
JTF, MEND differ over alleged killing of 29 soldiers
EFCC recovers N74m from Okereke-Onyiuke’s group
Yar’Adua: Apprehension persists
FG will not bend the rules on Nigerians involved in crime abroad – Kaura
Fake baby food: NAFDAC, company begin investigation
‘Most medical graduates unfit for practice’
Appointment of service chiefs: Yar’Adua erred — Keyamo
Communal clash: Two feared killed in A’Ibom
President’s office can only be declared vacant if… — Lawyers
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