February 29, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• FG appoints General Electric to audit independent power plants
• Bank PHB, Akwa Ibom Partners on Workers’ Car Loan

Nigerian News

• 2007 WAEC Results: Nigerian orphan emerges best candidate in West Africa
• IMF predicts 9% GDP growth rate for Nigeria
• Yar’Adua canvasses foreign direct investment from China
• National food production drops, says minister
• Food poisoning: 4 die, 200 hospitalised in C-River
• FCT Lifts Embargo On Land Allocation
• NFA appoints its technical chief as Super Eagles caretaker coach

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February 28, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• God Used Attah to Bring Akpabio - Ekpu
• AKPF - Its many enemies and supporters
• Cult Crisis In Oron - 3 Feared Dead
• Okada Rider Commits Suicide In Eket
• Ibibio Leaders Council Affirms Support For Akpabio
• ALSCON To Provide 1,900 Jobs
• Eka Street: The Akwa Ibom Suya Home
• A New Executive Inaugurated for Pegasus All Stars F.C. Eket

Nigerian News

• Bread: Food for the masses going beyond reach
• Lagos: One of two fastest growing cities in the world
• Africa's largest computer plant for launch in April
• Yar'Adua's victory vindicates us — INEC
• Buhari, Atiku want to destroy democracy – Senate Majority Whip
• Yar’Adua’s victory: Military warns trouble makers
• Govt begins 'catch-them-young' ICT programme for kids
• Israel offers to end Nigeria’s electricity problems
• WAEC withholds results of 35,485 candidates
• Nigeria’s oil reserve to last 43 years
• Niger-Delta Youths State Position On Selection Of New Obong
• Akamkpa Seeks Investors In Solid Minerals
• Police battle visa racketeers
• This rain not safe for drinking, planting, experts warn

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February 27, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Governor Akpabio Signs 2008 Akwa Ibom Appropriation Bill
• Akpabio Signs N162bn Akwa Ibom Appropriation Bill
• Akpabio: Taking Akwa Ibom to next level
• Politics of Akpabio’s aide’s resignation

Nigerian News

• Yar'Adua wins
• Yar’Adua queries 78% increase in 2008 budget
• World Bank donates N21.24bn to Fed tertiary institutions
• Global rating agency weighs reforms, economy
• Cross River varsity begins strike
• Telecom workers celebrate, protest Transcorp’s further stake in NITEL
• Arochukwu native doctor dies from own charm

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February 26, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• The New Face Of Akwa Ibom
• Akpabio is Media Friendly - Census Ekpu
• What Yar’Adua must know about Akwa Ibom
• Mobil targets one million bpd crude production
• ALSCON: Re-Commissioning That Never Was
• ALSCON bounces back, resumes production
• Sports Minister to Watch Samuel Peters' Bout
• I Want To Be People’s Servant – Akpan

Nigerian News

• D-Day: Yar'Adua, Atiku, Buhari know fate today
• Tribunal sacks Abia Gov, declares Ugochukwu winner
• Tribunal ruling: I‘ll not be deterred – Mark
• FG will remove HND, varsity degree disparity – Minister
• FG Orders Massive Importation Of Cement
• Cement importation to last six months – Ugwu
• American embassy denies Dream Team IV visa

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February 25, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Jonathan, Akpabio Shun Commissioning of ALSCON Project
• Another Legal Victory For Akpabio
• Gunmen kill unionist
• Mobil lauds AKSG

Nigerian News

• Presidential Election Tribunal: Security Beefed Up Over Verdict
• FG returns Transcorp's 51% Nitel share
• Daar Communications' N13.9 billion public offer opens today
• LG chairmen, others to earn N593bn yearly
• Two PHCN’s workers jailed for receiving bribe
• Nigerians device new ways of spraying naira at parties
• How I wrote Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
• World Bank Proposes $2b Loan For Nigeria
• Obasanjo should be shot – Ojukwu

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February 24, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Okon takes charge of Eagles
• Re: Akwa Ibom’s Troubled Democracy
• Bouts should clear up heavyweight division
• UC RusAl launches Alscon smelter in Nigeria
• RUSAL restarts ALSCON

Nigerian News

• Gbenga Obasanjo again!
• Tribunal nullifies David Mark's election
• Anxiety as Yar’Adua awaits verdict
• Nigerian government is not fighting with CNN
• Nigeria, lowest fertilizer user in the world
• LASG Acquires World’s First Boat Hotel
• Rape: Ex-Eagles star, Okpara, bags jail term
• Police uncover another illegal detention camp

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February 23, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Russia's UC RusAl launches aluminum plant in Nigeria
• VP Commissions Alscon Today
• Akwa Ibom to support ExxonMobil gas project
• NFL slams fines, suspension on Akwa United, others
• Why we arrested two Dolphins’ players – Akwa United

Nigerian News

• Nigerian stabbed in Ukrainian racist attack
• Tuesday is judgment day for Yar’Adua
• NITEL: FG, Transcorp Settle For New Core Investor
• Why we reversed sale of NITEL — FG
• Court Strikes Out Virgin Nigeria Suit, Vacates Order Against FG
• Bankole weeps over rape, torture of children
• Why Cross River does not recognise NECO certificate, by commissioner
• Wife beats husband to death in Calabar
• NDLEA arrests 75-year old man for drug trafficking in Ekiti
• "No matter how we try to westernise our films, nobody will go stark naked..."

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February 22, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Samuel Peter to storm Mexico this weekend
• Ekpe cultural society demands remedy for destroyed statue
• PENGASSAN suspends strike at Qua Iboe oil terminal

Nigerian News

• Anxiety as Yar’Adua knows fate on Tuesday
• Doctors begin nationwide strike March 1
• British market welcomes Nigerian products
• FG explains low statutory allocations in January
• Govt denies plan to raise electricity tariff
• I didn’t order electricity tariff hike – Yar’Adua
• Chaos mars PDP congresses
• Nigeria - Annual Report 2008
• Council Poll Was For Ikang Not Bakassi People – Etene
• Cross River to pay UNICEF counterpart funds
• Out of 5, FIFA picks one!

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February 21, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• FCC Commissions Uyo Office
• Appeal Court Upholds Akpabio's Election
• Akpabio attributes N/Delta militancy to unemployment
• Sociologist wants traditional institutions phased out
• Nigeria shares poverty instead of wealth – Minister

Nigerian News

• Yar’Adua to get Budget 2008 today
• UNIBEN tops Nigerian Universities
• WAEC begins e-testing soon
• Gunmen abduct Agip chief in PH
• Transcorp: A lesson for investors
• MMA 2: Arik threatens to quit Nigeria
• US recession: Value of foreign reserve dips by 40%
• Bakers may go on strike over flour price
• Ita-Giwa: I Didn’t Use Bakassi to Secure Oil Block
• FG To Raise Electricity Tariff Next Month
• Finally, Vogts quits on his own!
• 300 imprisoned babies: Reps probe Nigerian prisons service
• The hunter who arrests robbers
• Wonder yam cures infertility in women
• One killed as robbers invade governor’s residence

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February 20, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom, Most Peaceful State – Mobil
• Akwa Ibom loses three corps members

Nigerian News

• Aviation fuel: Foreign airline abandons Nigerian route
• States reject dollar allocation, disagree with CBN
• Yar'Adua gives 18-month ultimatum on power
• Obong of Calabar dies
• Cross River To Construct 800km Rural Roads
• ICPC quizzes Duke, wife, again - Freezes wife's 12 bank accounts
• Igbinedion still stuck in EFCC cell
• Bayelsa, least industralised state in Nigeria – Governor

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February 19, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Appeal Court Upholds Akpabio’s Election
• Akpabio Wants More Federal Slots for Akwa Ibom Indigenes
• Akwa Ibom Youth Group Laments Unemployment Rate
• Exxon to add 45,000 bpd with Nigerian NGL 2 project
• Construction firm eyes bigger slice of power projects market
• Crisis Looms in Eastern Obolo Over Immposition of...
• Senator, House Member Clash over N100m Mansion
• Contractor Threatens to Abandon Job Over Attack

Nigerian News

• Obasanjo’s ex-ADC dies in road crash
• NSE freezes Transcorp’s shares
• Obama divides US-based Nigerians
• VP in darkness for five minutes at FRSC conference
• WAEC withholds 35,485 results
• ICPC quizzes Duke, wife
• Cement Scarcity Spreads As Prices Hit N2200
• 80 per cent of tyres in Nigeria are imported
• Police Chief Explains Low Crime Rate In Anambra
• No Work, No Pay, FG Tells Striking Lecturers
• MEND leader's extradition illegal — S-African Attorney
• Igbinedion Meets Bail Conditions
• Police Seal Off Bayelsa Assembly
• Vodacom, Telkom, 3 others bid for NITEL
• Man acquires LL.B at 76, says he’ll practise law until he dies
• Man acquires LL.B at 76, says he’ll practise law until he dies
• 28% of abortions in Nigeria done by married women

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February 18, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio Wants More Federal Slots for Akwa Ibom Indigenes
• N’Assembly caucus gives kudos to Akpabio
• Cynthia Uwak: Another Award For Amazon Of Nigerian Soccer
• Akwa Ibom Mourns Bassey, Akpabio
• Mobil contract staff suspend strike
• Eket Council Seeks More Statutory Allocation

Nigerian News

• ASUU begins warning strike
• MEND writes Bush
• U.S. names Nigeria, four others as potential world powers
• FG to spend N60bn on Senators, Reps annually
• FG considers privatisation of aviation sector
• N300bn Abacha loot still trapped in London
• T.Y. Danjuma: Obasanjo Is Running Third Term Through Yar'Adua
• Nigeria earns N1.36trn from crude oil in 2 months
• IMF Warns FG, States On Oil Windfall Sharing
• IMF says Nigeria’s economy is strong
• Sharing of $4bn Excess Crude revenue to wait—FG
• FIFA thumps down Warri Stadium
• New Telecom Act Coming With Tougher Measures For Operators
• Senate Faults Reversal Of NITEL/Mtel Sale
• Transcorp laments reversal of NITEL sale
• FG ’ll ensure Tinapa’s success—Custom boss
• Asokoro Hospital Performs Hip Replacement Surgeries
• Libya Deports 150 Nigerians
• Cross River, two other states to benefit from World Bank’s $18.1 interest -free credit
• Akamkpa Council Mediates In Mine Workers Crisis
• Imminent danger at Isolo bus stop
• Faith healer in whiff of controversy

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February 17, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom PDP Insists On Being Part Of CNPP
• Peter/Maskaev bout: Boxing president calls for support

Nigerian News

• FG revokes sale of NITEL, Mtel to Transcorp
• Obasanjo dares G-21: Nobody can remove me as PDP BOT chair
• Lagos impounds okadas
• In Accra, no Okadas, no rickety vehicles
• KSA challenges Soludo: Spraying is our culture, you can’t ban it!

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February 16, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Time to end gas flaring in Niger Delta

Nigerian News

• I gave Obasanjo PDP membership card, he later expelled me from the party
• Total locks out staff in Port Harcourt
• MEND Leader Deported, Police Uncover Illegal Detention Camp
• National Honours: Presidency sends three ministers to beg Bankole
• Onitsha: 76 Arrested Over Fake Drugs
• Igbinedion shuns food, remains in EFCC custody
• $16b Power Expenditure: Reps Give Imoke Two Weeks To Render Account
• Bakassi People Not Part Of Illegal Council Elections – Ita-giwa

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February 15, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Christy Essien-Igbokwe: The Making Of A Stateswoman
• Furore over council poll in Akwa Ibom
• Akwa Ibom PDP Caucus Denies Fracas During Primaries
• AKS Caucus Commends Akpabio On Dev Strides
• Why Akpabio, Attah Should Close Ranks
• Knocks, kudos for new gas blue print
• The brigandage in Akwa Ibom

Nigerian News

• Day-old baby rescued from collapsed building
• CNN expands operation in Africa
• Nigeria’s economy is robust, fast moving
• Reltel unveils dual-tech phones
• Nigeria To Build 3 Gas Processing Plants, Pipeline Grid
• Reps protest CFR award to Bankole
• Nigeria received N720bn from foreign donors under Obasanjo
• Shake-up in the army
• First Nigerian pilot returns home for pension
• NYSC records 13 deaths in five states
• Tuface: Paying the price of stardom

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February 14, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• AKS Caucus Commends Akpabio On Dev Strides
• Akwa Ibom Inaugurates Reform Committee
• Why Akpabio, Attah Should Close Ranks
• Akpabio: A friend or foe?
• Pirates paralyse economic activities in Ibeno

Nigerian News

• Nigeria received N720bn from foreign donors under Obasanjo
• 7 govs in secret meeting in Abuja
• Arik Air moves operations to old domestic terminal
• Reps Refuse Car Loan For Yar’Adua
• TOS Benson dies at 90

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February 13, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• AKS Airport runway ready in 6 months
• Akpabio decries progess of work at Ibom Science Park
• SSS boss advises journalists on national security
• Ibiono Indigenes Assure Contractors Of Security
• Oro Youths Warn Oil Firms Against Marginalisation

Nigerian News

• Presidential polls: Supreme Court decides Yar’Adua’s fate May 9
• WHO, INTERPOL uncover fake anti-malaria drugs syndicate in China
• Riding motorcycles can affect male fertility – Medical expert
• Banks, others jostle for Chevron Oil
• "Why public offers are over-subscribed"
• "Local petroleum consumption to hit 40million litres daily"
• Tinapa’s delay worries minister
• Ibori freed on bail
• IBB’s in-law stands surety for Ibori
• NASS Passes N2.9tr Budget
• Yar’Adua Launches N50b Micro Credit Development Fund
• Calls For Children’s Version Of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Mount
• Police to vet film scripts – IG
• 32 years after Murtala Muhammed
• Dimka’s planned second speech - February 1976

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February 12, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom’s troubled democracy
• ASCON commences production
• Maskaev vs. Peter - March 8, 2008
• Akwa Ibom flags off national anti-rabies campaign
• Communities donate land to Akwa Ibom varsity

Nigerian News

• PDP convention runs into crisis over venue
• 50 years of oil exploration unprofitable – Jonathan
• Federation Account - Oil States Get Highest Allocation in Jan
• Why Nigeria will continue to import fuels, by NNPC
• Shell to save $200m annually from restructuring
• NNPC directs Shell to stop retirement
• Finally, NASS to pass budget today
• Accreditation war: NBTE stops 8 polytechnics from admitting students
• Gun deal: 5 Army officers, 10 others face court martial
• Robbers attack EFCC officials, journalists
• Ibori, Igbinedion get bail
• U.S. Billionaire To Assist Repentant Bayelsa Militants
• No Nigerian in Nations Cup Team XI

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February 11, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• How PDP chairman ’ll emerge
• Who Will Save Akwa Ibom From Terrorism?
• My Governor Won't be Distracted by Blackmail
• Akwa Ibom petitions Yar’Adua, N/Assembly over oil wells
• Blame INEC, Not PDP Over April Polls – Udom
• Cultural group tasks Niger Delta youths on biz
• Bill on indecent dressing: Group faults Sen Ekaette
• Ibesikpo-Asutan Youths Embark On Bridge Project
• Niger Delta: NOA holds confab for non-state actors
• 8,044 dogs consumed in A’Ibom

Nigerian News

• Egypt wins African Nations soccer cup
• Nigeria loses Atomic Agency’s voting right
• Flights normalise as fuel scarcity eases
• INEC, PDP head for fresh showdown
• Higher Oil Price Raises External Reserves To $54.63b
• Dangote Group closes transport division
• NCC bans promos on mobile networks
• Dangote Plans $300m Power Plant In Uganda
• Odukpani Monarch Advises Group On Doctrine
• Fed Govt raises duty on used PCs to curb e-waste

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February 10, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Commissioner solicits support for Akpabio
• Akwa Ibom to commission airport project in September
• Lawmaker advocates Okada ban
• Christy Essien-Igbokwe the unsung hero
• NDDC to revoke abandoned contracts

Nigerian News

• Ghana Picks 'Golden Bronze,' Beat CIV 4-2
• Oil companies decline to return to Niger Delta
• Kaduna refinery resumes production
• Warri Refinery returns from the dead
• Imoke’s wife to empower women
• Bacteria-fermented milk offers remedy for hypertension
• Etteh: Reps in rowdy session
• Pro-Etteh Rep slumps in rowdy session, dies
• The Sun newspaper seeks court order against EFCC
• NITEL manager beaten to death by armed robbers in Ilorin
• Gbenga Obasanjo shuns brother’s wedding

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February 9, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Return 186 Oil Wells To Akwa Ibom
• Yar'Adua Petitioned Over Contract Award
• Guidelines to Check Oil Spill Out Soon
• Akpabio denies N5.5bn housing loan scam
• Home, Abuja politicians unite in Akwa Ibom

Nigerian News

• Reps apologise to Nigerians over budget delay
• EFCC raids Siemens office
• PDP chairmanship: Amaechi, Ndoma-Egba, Ebebi back Anyim
• Delay In Policy Rules Threatens TINAPA
• Airline Operators Ask Virgin Nigeria To Relocate To Local Airport
• Daniel Amokachi shows interest in coaching the Eagles

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February 8, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom Election Tribunal Erred Twice
• Democracy On Trial In Akwa Ibom
• Guidelines to Check Oil Spill Out Soon
• Fresh Facts And Freedom of Expression
• There’s no democracy in PDP – Udokpo

Nigerian News

• Umenyiora makes history with New York Giants
• US Embassy announces new service fees
• Chevron drills for oil, gas in Lagos
• Airlines raise fares on domestic routes
• Nigeria, agent of change – Obama, US presidential aspirant

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February 7, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Ibiono Ibom Should Decide Who Leads Them
• Akpabio demands increased allocation to Niger Delta
• Akpabio issues order on immunization
• Akpabio commended for promoting unity
• AKUTECH to buy houses for takeoff
• Akwa Ibom: No longer at ease
• Akwa Ibom and the rise of an "Adedibu"

Nigerian News

• Reps disagree with Senate on salaries for ministers
• Yar’Adua orders inauguration of speaker as Kogi governor
• Aviation Fuel Scarcity Hits Lagos
• Unsafe blood accounts for 15% of Nigeria’s HIV/AIDS transmission
• FG to pay off Nigeria Airways workers

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Akwa Ibom News

• LG Elections: AKISIEC assures credibility, fairness
• Female Politicians Are Victimised In Akwa Ibom
• Ibom Power Plant for inauguration April
• Peter promises to floor Maskaev
• Akpan, for Whom Excellence is Routine

Nigerian News

• Niger Delta: IMO may suspend crude exports
• "Non-oil exports grow by 46 per cent"
• Govt spends N540b on fuel subsidy
• Reps reject pay difference for ministers
• Nigerian computer rocks Europe
• Iwu declared Yar' Adua winner with results of 13 state, says Atiku
• Banks' interest rates set to crash
• Security fears for Nigerians in Ghana
• Scarcity of Sea Foods Loom As Pirates Sack Fishing Trawlers
• US Embassy Announces New Service Fees
• Chadian Refugees Flood Nigeria
• Our Road To Stardom, By P-Square
• London stops Ashimolowo’s N16bn church

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February 5, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• NUJ Demands Apology From Akpabio Over Arrest Of Journalist
• Akpabio Romances Media, Tasks It On Corruption
• Akpabio commends Yar'Adua over committee
• Government to compensate communal clash victims

Nigerian News

• Nigeria may record 500,000 cancer cases yearly
• Naira appreciates against US dollar in parallel market – CBN
• Refining capacity drops to 10.83%
• States to share 80 per cent of excess crude fund
• National Assembly again shifts date to pass budget
• Judicial workers' strike grounds courts nationwide
• Ambassadors get postings
• Court can‘t stop convention – PDP
• Nigeria prone to resistant TB – WHO
• Lecturer Appointed Supervisory Councillor In Cross River
• Branson Writes Yar’Adua Over Virgin Nigeria

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February 4, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Umoh wins Nigeria Tour, pockets $13,500
• Communal clash: 100 persons missing
• Government hospitals lament over abandoned corpses
• Environmental Court Jails Eight in Akwa Ibom
• Akwa Ibom to partner investors
• Akwa Ibom seeks assistance from USA
• The day Akpabio kept his promise to Ikot Ibekwe
• Akpabio threatens Ibom Science Park contractors
• Ooni prays for peace in the Niger Delta
• IOC Charged to Harmonise Policy With FG's Agenda

Nigerian News

• Naira dips against dollar
• States get $12b refund of deductions from Fed Govt
• Militants kill three Naval men, injure others
• Dimka coup: Obasanjo set me up, says Gowon
• Magistrate Bags Two-year Jail Term For Stealing
• Of PPA and Cross River politics

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February 3, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• N5.5bn scam: I have no deal with Ukachukwu - Akpabio
• Akpabio commissions Ultra-modern Renal Dialysis Centre
• Ini Edo receive award

Nigerian News

• 50 years after Things Fall Apart: ANA celebrates Achebe
• Convention: PDP’s real game begins
• PDP chairmanship: Reps move against Obasanjo
• Presidential ballot papers still in South Africa
• No Nigerian varsity can be in the top 200 in the next 10yrs
• MMIA: Virgin Nigeria’s refusal to leave raises dust
• American abandons children to marry Nigerian

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February 2, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio’s rule of the claw
• Akwa Ibom drops sedition charge against journalist
• Congresses hold in A’Ibom to nominate councillorship candidates
• Ikot Ekpene hospital gets incubator
• Mark berates oil companies for inhuman treatment of natives
• Senate tackles NIMASA, passes N34 billion budget

Nigerian News

• 8,521 persons killed in Nigeria
• EFCC withdraws money laundering charges against Dariye
• Car dealer held over Saula, NURTW chairman’s, death
• Tuface again, robbed
• Belgium destroys 3,000 bottles of fake Nigeria-bound Champagne
• When I started my airline my friends laughed at me
• Six Nigerian banks open branches in Ghana
• Govt, UNIDO to collaborate on 'Nigerian car'

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February 1, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• UC RusAl to launch aluminum plant in Nigeria in February
• Akwa Ibom teachers’ grouse against govt

Nigerian News

• Nigeria enters fresh N359bn external debt
• FG stops domestic flights from MMIA
• World Bank okays N1.2b to upgrade Nigeria's airports
• Reps probe $10bn power spending, N50bn Police fund
• Bad roads: Nigerians spend N450bn on vehicles
• Rivers to ban Okada operation
• 80% Nigerians can't afford imported furniture
• Why I Shunned Elections in Bakassi -Ita Giwa
• NDLEA arrests undergraduate with 13.5kg of cocaine
• Lagos regulates operations of fast food outlets

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