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The Punch Newspaper Archive for October 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

More Nigerians deported from Spain arrive

Drogba, Essien, Eto‘o on shortlist of World Player of the Year award

Tutu criticises world leaders on climate change

Bolt plans to move up to the 400 metres

Armed villagers kill 47 Policemen in Congo ethnic clashes

NLC vows to continue resistance to deregulation

Truck Drivers Block Enugu – Onitsha Expressway, Burn Down Police ‘Shrine’

FG to install radars along Akwa Ibom maritime borders

Oronsaye clarifies appointment of career officers

Cameroon blames cholera death on Nigeria

Court fixes November 9 for Bode George‘s bail application

Skyway Aviation Handling Coy acquires SAHCOL

Yar’Adua worried over delay in pension payment

Woman seeks divorce after a week of marriage

Pressure mounts on Tsvangirai to end cabinet boycott

AIDS activists back Zuma

Somali man, 112, weds girl, 17

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Man in police net for defrauding footballers

‘85,000 pilgrims to be airlifted to Saudi Arabia’

N20m theft, zero FG support mar NAFEST 2009

Alleged unhygienic conditions: NAFDAC closes Sweet Sensation outlet

Nigeria ’09: FIFA partners denied accreditation

Larsson says tearful goodbye

How to own a house with N480,000

Lagos eyes economic benefits from tourism, others

‘Quoted companies‘ fundamentals remain strong’

Apari Group expands to meet customers’ needs

Skye Bank’s Q4 earnings rise by 36%

Former ANAN registrar advises on policy consistency

Deloitte reports $26.1bn global revenue

Argentina to rest stars against Eaglets

Atletico Madrid calm over Aguero

Lagos completes centres to reduce high mortality

AMAA lures young filmmakers into its competition

Why HIV/AIDS prevalence persists – Turai

Nestle introduces Maggi Mix’py in Enugu, Onitsha

Firm recommends brand distinction for corporate excellence

‘How to make Abuja aviation hub for West Africa’

Subject deregulation to referendum, nlc tells fg

AC asks Omisore to refund salaries, allowances

Senate queries FG on mismanagement of ecological funds

Abule Egba cries for help

LASG, have mercy on Ayobo/Ipaja residents

AMC to redistribute bank losses, facilitate stock market recovery – Sanusi

The Desperate Wife

K1 to return soon

Diplomas too difficult for pupils, says survey

Winners emerge in Lagos science quiz competition

Proprietor identifies bane of educational development

Appeal Court nullifies Omisore’s election

Still on the Super Eagles

Arrears of monetisation benefits

Fire guts engineering section of MMA2

Elected officials have no moral right to criticise Iwu – Mark

Power: PHCN, Shell differ on weak transmission system

FG confirms Agha as DPR director, retires Chukwueke

Enact policies to revitalise manufacturing sector – MAN

Vision 2020: Nigeria explores cassava processing technologies

Ogun health workers give conditions for suspending strike

Baptist College of Theology to raise N1.5bn on Saturday

Agassi gets mixed reactions

Brazil coach wary of Swiss threat

NIA goes tough on fraudulent claims, industry irregularities

Uduaghan assures World Bank of transparency

78 foreign athletes for Obudu race

3SC, Gateway to honour Ogedegbe

Yar’Adua to attend climate change conference in Denmark

Hong Kong extends loan scheme to help SMEs

Customs officers advised on responsibility

‘Lack of compliance, bane of public procurement’

NCP ratifies SAHCOL‘s sale to Skyway Aviation

‘PDP governorship ticket doesn’t translate to electoral victory’

Strike: NBA cautions judiciary workers

Re: Discrimination

For education minister

Agagu’s administration operated 668 bank accounts —Commissioner

Judge highlights remedy for decadence in education

Why Ribadu is being persecuted —Ex-ICPC boss

Curbing kidnapping

Save Ajao Estate residents

Sunborn Yacht: Afikuyomi presents documents to Lagos Assembly

Court dismisses PDP suit to stop inauguration of LP lawmaker

Government, agencies urged to patronise local printers

‘Govt should compensate manufacturing sector for using generator’

LG boss urges regular medical check-ups

Lewis backs Hayes to beat Valuev

Heartland ’ll beat TP Mazembe – Okeahialam

Kwara wins LUBCON baseball

AC meeting ends in crisis

Cashew exports fall by 10 per cent

Lucky Fibres, carpet dealers bicker over product‘s boycott

Anti-graft war

Nigerian sports

Kidnappers risk life imprisonment — Reps

Reps move to halt looting of Ajaokuta Steel Company equipment

Education sector

Still on Benin-Ore road

Fayemi detects more discrepancies in Ido-Osi poll result

Don canvasses adherence to code of practice

Environmental nuisance

Deregulation

Huge budgetary allocation to health care not justified - Niemeth boss

Wanted: Genuine tears for Benin-Ore road users

Re: FRSC and truck driver

Don advocates development of road map for education sector

Nigeria set for 2010 science Olympiad – Minister

Big clash at NMVA!

Omawunmi set to debut

We are not behind your father’s kidnapping, aspirants tell Soludo

Television is 50!

When gangsters are in charge

Anambra: Confusion deepens over Soludo’s father

PHCN, Orile Iganmu Undertaking

Before the deregulation

Official convoys and traffic rules

NigeriaSat-1, the journey so far

Ogun lawmakers are half-baked, ill informed – Daniel

NDIC: Regulators cannot stop bank failure

Shell to fight Chinese interest in Nigeria’s oil sector

LCCI accuses govt of marginalising indigenous construction firms

Adopt real time production process, manufacturers urged

Ghana refinery‘s debt woes over

Shell vows to fight Chinese interest in Nigeria’s oil

Why Ribadu is being persecuted-Ex ICPC boss

MTN third quarter subscribers up by 5 percent

Somali pirates say UK couple taken to container ship

Kenya moves to count homosexuals

Eritrea dismisses new border violence accusation

UK Border Agency frees suicide-bid Nigerian asylum seeker

Jigawa approves N13.2 bn contracts for township roads

Hajj: Yobe Govt spends N239m

Amnesty: PHCN reports improvement in power generation

UN Security Council condemns attack on UN facility in Kabul

Robbers kill two in bank robbery in Kogi

Edo first lady makes case for cancer patients

Police nab 3 suspected ritualists with human head

FRSC cautions motorists on Minna-Suleja road on overspeeding

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Placing lawmakers above the law?

Vision 2020 and the making of the Nigerian dream

Lakers, Celtics win season openers

Beyond fighting malaria with drugs and treated nets

Drug combo may prevent heart attacks, strokes

Nigeria crude oil exports to drop by 0.8%

Use of kerosene as aviation fuel: NNPC sets up special task force

Lull in privatisation impedes N1.09tn 2009 budget deficit

HIV/AIDS: Over four million people now have access to ART —Report

IMF predicts recovery for Nigerian economy

CBN issues new guidelines on banks’ financial statements

Reform: Bank chiefs move to sell private jets

Yar’Adua’s government has failed — Buhari

Bears sustain hold as indicators close lower

Demolition: Court orders FCDA to pay construction firm N150m

Foreign trip abuses: Yar’Adua approves centralised desk

Three or four ex-bank chiefs may go to jail – Sanusi

Akingbola: Judge sets aside ruling on court process

Ondo inaugurates smart-card project for residents

Pandemonium as soldier kills trader in Lagos

6,000 megawatts: Chevron ready to supply 200 million standard cubic feet of gas daily

Bakassi returnees allege harassment, torture

Portfolio, business diversification as lifelines for troubled shareholders

South-West govs absent from Awolowo centennial

Constitution Review: NBA recommends gradual approach, state police

INEC: N600m personalised voters’ cards contract raises dust

JTF raises the alarm over rising piracy, oil theft

Senior Advocates trade insults at Ekiti tribunal

Subsidy: Corruption is oil sector’s problem – NLC

NSE approves N19bn new issues

Senate committee harps on sound fiscal management

Building indigenous capacity in Nigeria’s oil industry

Sanity has returned to oil industry in N‘ Delta – Chevron

Hope dims for Customs N50bn target

Pre-pregnancy weight linked to babies’ heart problems

Serena to play Fed Cup final

LASG, decentralise issuance of C-of-O

PHCN’s shameful performance

Indigent Lagosians gain free access to justice

Nigeria, others to observe security council meeting next month

Egyptian refs for Heartland, Mazembe clash

Odigie tips Eaglets to defend title

Fix Ihioma Umuhu Okabia Eke Ututu road

Development in Kwara

Pompey hit by player embargo

Assembly begins debate on Bill for Reserved Fund

‘FG’s 10% JV offer to N’Delta’ll stop crisis’

6,000MW target: PHCN, NNPC disagree on gas supply

S’South receives N360m World Bank, Fadama project funds

Shareholders fault CBN‘s policy on margin loans security

Osun govt, Aregbesola row on destroyed billboards

‘How Pa Soludo was kidnapped’

Amnesty programme key to deregulation – Barkindo

NURTW members clash at Ibadan court

Niger donates N1m each to families of dead corps members

Cultism: C’River probes council officials

AC lawmakers warn Oni against varsity relocation

Rainstorm destroys 100 houses in Kwara

Soludo’s kidnappers demand N500m ransom

Edo PDP council chairmen, lawmakers decamp to AC

Benue seeks collaboration with Oceanic Bank

Angola to open new bid round for oil licences

Valencia could sell Villa, Silva

Ronaldo to miss Milan clash

Fashola, save Ayobo/Ipaja residents

FRSC men on the LASU-Iba road

FG, fix this road

Liu strips after 110m win

Empty stands: Ogun lawmakers plead with fans

N50bn bond: Bayelsa Assembly passes loan bill

FEC votes N179bn for N’Delta’s infrastructural development

CCT orders Ribadu to appear on Nov 20

Otegbeye‘s death stalls divorce suit

Soludo wants governorship to get immunity — Uba

We’d not recognise Soludo — INEC

Reps raise new panel on NPA’s property

Bode George may be moved out of Lagos

Agassi admits lying about drug use

Gambia loses to Holland

Rain disrupts matches in Enugu, Calabar

B’ball: DSTV Final Eight dunks off

Atuche, Ojo arraigned for N80bn loans, remanded in EFCC custody

VC, lawmakers disagree over admission

‘Conformism, bane of NGOs’

Senator seeks resettlement of militants in Imo, Abia

Over 30,000 Nigerian pilgrims arrive in S’Arabia

Evans praises Michael Owen

Golden Eaglets technically deficient

Mosquitoes take over UPTH —Former CMD

Ogun Assembly faults Daniel on priorities

Two die in Rivers oil royalty clash

Senate tackles Gombe on SUBEB funds

Health ministry graduates 29 pharmacists

Diplomatic row: UN, AU plead with Nigeria, as Sudan apologises

Obuh laments missed chances

Guinea forces planned crackdown

‘Craters’ on Oshodi-Apapa highway worry road users

PHCN and the World Cup

LASG, complete this project

Spain deports 53 Nigerians

NAS insists on arrest of al-Bashir during visit to Nigeria

Ibru: Court rejects SIP report

Group accuses PDP Leadership of Pa Soludo‘s kidnap

FG to supplyone million tonnes of fertiliser every January

Inventor pledges to make machine replacements for human parts

Ekiti Assembly declares state of emergency on federal roads

Car bomb kills over 80 in Pakistan ‘s Peshawar

UNICEF calls for training, re-training of health workers

FG to establish aircraft maintenance centre

Scientists say curry compound kills cancer cells

Aliyu wants 30 per cent allocation to education

Rainstorm destroys 100 houses

Man charged with killing Internet date girl

UN outlines ways to achieve `green‘ economy

Osun, Cuba sign pacts on culture, health

High turnout in Mozambique poll

Zimbabwe MDC raises alarm over increased ‘violent attacks‘ on mambers

‘Government should diversify ways of generating energy’

ICPC probes LASU VC

I’ve never aimed too high in life – Olu Falomo, chairman, Reckitt Benckiser

Can’t stick these habits any longer

Idanre in mini carnival for Mare Festival

PHCN’s 60MVA transformers raise hope amid horrid darkness

Expansion in telecoms heavily dependent on debt/borrowing – SWAP COO

Challenges produce champions in marketing – Curtis

Immortalising Prof. Ayodele Awojobi

US declares swine flu ‘emergency’

World Black Mayors visit Osun next year

Private school owners demand review of UBE Act

The taste of tiny bubbles

6,000 students benefit from Kwara’s bursary award

Tales of the whiskers

Orphans, poor pupils get relief from school owner

Pakistani army takes Taliban chief’s hometown

Claims: Getting faster relief from insurance companies

Commitment to actualisation of Deep Sea Port project unwavering – FG

Aged fake footballers caught in the act

This adoption is not working

Amnesty was suggested to Obasanjo but he rejected it – Bayelsa Gov’s aide

Dangote introduces new noodles, distribution fleet into market

NBC introduces new Ultra Glass Coke bottles

Abrogation of onshore/offshore oil dichotomy

Peter Obi: The Sam Mbakwe of Anambra State?

Deregulation, not price increases

Nigerian teachers for South African schools?

Researchers create artificial memories in the brain of a fruit fly

‘Our schools are now better than we met them’

Acetaminophen reduces potency of some vaccines, study finds

Research is crucial to events marketing – Connect Marketing MD

Nigerian tertiary institutions need online library for research, advancement of knowledge – DG, WAI

‘Bible, late Bimbo Odukoya’s books being pirated’

Japan pushes for East Asia bloc

Young boy shows all is not lost for Nigeria

Funds drive: Banks, governments, bodies carve niche in revenue collection

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Lagos march against PHCN

ASUU Ilorin: In learning and character

Save commuters on Lagos-Benin road

Pharmaceutical shops sealed off for operating illegally

Fire service dept gets eight new water tankers

Oyepitan tips Freeman for 2012 glory

200 companies for West Africa Corporate Games

2011: PDP vows to take over Lagos, Kano

Anambra crisis: Kidnappers seize Soludo’s father

Nigerians as unwelcome visitors

Ohu: Two suspects in police custody –Onovo

Jang vows to implement Jos crisis report

2010 Budget: Reps threaten NNPC with zero allocation

Senate seeks national policy on drought

Bank shares’ll no longer be used to secure margin loans –Sanusi

Development: World Bank, others set aside $5.7bn for Nigeria

NASB calls for uniform accounting standards

Irregularities stall hearing on Exxon Mobil affidavit

Why you need Internet service at home

Lagos Assembly fails to sanction Afikuyomi

Yar’Adua appoints new Perm Secs

Bode George, others get prison uniforms, numbers

Anambra: Aspirant writes INEC, calls for Soludo’s disqualification

Onigbinde slams African teams

Bolton players have swine flu

NYSC and its death toll

Secret police detention at Onikan?

Ajagun lifts Eaglets over Honduras

Aliero donates bus to NUGA

AC tasks Bayelsa, Oyo on prudent use of funds

PHCN reshuffles top managers

Anyone found guilty of corruption must be punished — Yar’Adua

Ogun explains sacking of 1,630 teachers

Fuel price hike: Yar’Adua insensitive to masses’ plight – NLC

UK’s aid to Nigeria to hit N35bn in 2010

‘No more floodlight failure’

Power, gas wasting at Shell facilities – Investigation

Librarians lament poor state of school libraries

Drogba targets Chelsea goalscoring record

Nigeria’s roads worse than those in war-torn countries — Anyaoku

Facilities excite Spanish ambassador

Abia govt, check these policemen

‘How Ugokwe was fired’

Messi, others not good enough for Real – Ronaldo

Bribery: Reps to probe alleged NNPC fuel importation racket

Kenyan coaches want Oliech to face Eagles

Deregulation: UAD set for showdown with FG

Armed robbers killed Abayomi Ogundeji – Coroner

Reps propose life imprisonment for chemical weapon offences

ANPP wants five justices off Niger election appeal

FG, oil industry set up special post-amnesty committee

BREAKING NEWS: Soludo’s father kidnapped

UN tribunal sentences former Sierra Leone rebel leaders

Saudi king pardons reporter sentenced to 60 lashes

Reps to ensure better funding of missions

Naira up on interbank, dips at forex auction

US offers Uganda $246m in new aid

Somali pirates abduct British couple

EU moves to sanction Guinea over crackdown on opposition

Zanu-PF hardliners ‘seek Zimbabwe split‘

Sokoto fights hunger with subsidised rice

Nigeria tasks UN on proper funding of AU peacekeeping operations

UN envoy lauds provision of treated mosquito nets to Nigeria

UK fails to make top 10

‘Locally made products enhance ICT penetration’

COMBIT Africa to focus on ICTs in recession

‘Africa heading for 2009 growth due to China’

Difference between an agenda and a programme

Obuh promises victory over Honduras

Nigeria risks future illiterate population —UNICEF

There will be adequate gas for 6,000MW – NNPC

Banks: Our investments intact, shareholders tell Sanusi

INEC excludes Soludo from stakeholders’ forum

Don’t involve governors in post-amnesty trust fund —Tompolo

‘Short-term capital market recovery not in sight’

Nigeria begins process to pick nuclear power sites

ECOWAS health ministers advocate special funding of maternal, neonatal health

AU tips Nigeria to lead African sports revolution

Stockbroker tackles CBN on FG debts

Consumer Vibe, First Bank collaborate on scholarship portal

Glo extends ‘text 4 millions’ promo

Minister preaches religious tolerance

Conviction, wake up call for corrupt leaders —CD

WDAS: Naira slides to N149.14

PDP asks members to shun Awka rally

Capacity development: Chams reiterates public sector commitment

No plans to license more telecoms operators –NCC

Nigerians are not criminals – Team USA official

Two Afghan helicopter crashes kill 14 Americans

Power: Energy commission plans to conserve 40MW

UBA begins operations in Tanzania

N’Delta leaders protest ministry’s inefficiency

Jos crisis: Anxiety as Ajibola submits report today

‘Nigeria accounts for 60% of West African seaborne trade’

Death toll rises to 160 in Baghdad

Brazil, Mexico set for showdown

‘ICTs have changed travel, tourism globally’

Labour leader stresses quality policing

Sagay decries corruption level

Strike: Daniel fails to persuade Ogun workers

FG shares N127m among universities

‘Many players are overage’

Opposition parties walk out of Sudan parliament

Road concession: Transporters give conditions for support

388 million will die of non-communicable diseases by 2020 — Osotimehin

Tax deductions: AC calls for commissioner‘s sack

Tunisian president wins fifth term

Tyson not sorry for ‘savage’ life

Group tasks govt on 15% health allocation

PDP suspends Ogun ex-commissioner, 21 others

Bishop dismisses re-branding project

UNAD students oppose deregulation

Ejigbo LCDA grades 38 roads in one year

El-Rufai lied against Yar’Adua – Presidency

Rivers received N503bn from FG in two years – Amaechi

Sunborn Yacht: Lagos Assembly may sanction Afikuyomi

Electoral reform: Osunbor seeks support for N’Assembly

Intel boss attests to CANi’s success

Bode George jailed

Ogun banks on bond, agric for 2010 budget

Transcorp‘s Q3 profit rises to N1.28bn

N166m loan: We’re still in court with Okiro’s firm – NDIC boss

FG, China sign $875m contract for Abuja-Minna railway line

FG earmarks N33bn for water, aquaculture management

Niger Suspension: AC commends ECOWAS for standing up for democracy

Africa: Looming postgraduate studies crisis

Olufemi warns Eaglets about Honduras threat

Ogunjobi pleads for Eaglets

Growing your investment through entrepreneurial knowledge

Before teachers relocate to S’Africa

Criminalise religious riot also

Signal Alliance, CA build platform for Galaxy Backbone

David Mark barred from Sudan

Karadzic shuns war crimes trial

Why Bode George is guilty on many counts – Court

NGO urges sensitisation on 3rd Mainland Bridge repair

UNIPORT CSO’s murder sparks anxiety

WimBiz brings ‘Fortune 500’ mentoring project to Nigeria

Expert charges HR practitioners on best practice

African leaders and Mo Ibrahim’s red card

Nigeria and Mo Ibrahim rating

A sickly, dependent nation?

Judge to hear Akingbola’s suit with Sanusi’s objection

Ugbo chieftaincy tussle lands three in court

Commotion as Bode George, others bag jail term

Ribadu lauds judgment

FIRS arraigns four suspects for tax certificate forgery

Skills gap: Experts list challenges, point way forward

Mother of seven dies during sex with neighbour

2009 Christian Pilgrimage: Israeli Ambassador promises adequate security