March 31, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Work Begins On New Akwa Ibom Governor’s Lodge Soon
• Contributory Pensions Bill to Be Passed Soon in Akwa Ibom
• Firm to begin oil drilling in Eket
• ANPP expels Ewang, six others
• Oil workers to decide on strike next week

Nigerian News

• Kogi election: Idris wins, Audu kicks
• Edo commissioner declared missing
• Judge’s daughters killed in Onitsha
• Bassey: Yar’Adua is getting things wrong
• FG May Convert Owerri To Cargo Airport
• Agip dumps 40 drums of suspected toxic waste in Emu-Unor
• Nigeria’s rice import bill may hit $1.7bn
• Police Detain Reporters Over Reports About Scam In FIRS
• Microsoft introduces applications in three Nigerian languages

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March 30, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom embarks on fly-over project

Nigerian News

• World Bank ranks Nigeria among world’s top 20 markets
• China to invest $50bn in Nigeria
• Naira credit card: Of consumer status and product security
• Missing plane: C-River asks FG to beam searchlight on Cameroun
• Camerounian refugees storm Nigeria
• Boy brutally murdered by police two weeks before his trip to the UK
• Football for the blind gets May date
• N‘Delta: Henry Okah‘s wife warns FG
• Making money from grass cutter business

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March 29, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio - Free to Square Akwa Ibom's Circles
• PENGASSAN shelves strike, reaches agreement with Mobil

Nigerian News

• Nigeria Renegotiates $2.5b Commercial Loan With China
• Nigerian pilots use GSM phones to contact Control Tower
• N300m Health Ministry Loot: EFCC recovers N106m
• Nigeria now Africa's largest telecom market
• Imoke commences construction of N4b urband roads in Calabar South
• Cuban govt to help Delta on malaria
• US donates $1m body scanners to NDLEA
• S’Africa employs 8 Nigerian doctors every month
• N150 That’s all this teenager got to kidnap a 4-yr-old
• Police arrest man with six decomposing heads, genitals

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March 28, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio Insists on Mainstream Development for Akwa Ibom
• MPN/NNPC Organises Party for Host Communities
• Addax Oil Donates Classroom Blocks to School in Oron
• Coy to begin oil drilling in Eket
• Etokebe wants Keshi to succeed Vogts

Nigerian News

• NDLEA burns 7,400 bags of marijuana
• The ‘Obasanjo women’: How they reigned
• EFCC begins probe of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo's 8-year rule, others
• Okonjo-Iweala: Obasanjo paid without due process
• N300m Scam: Obasanjo-Bello Chases Away Journalists With Security Men
• Bakassi People Can No Longer Enjoy Their Rights – Okon
• Man, 35, smashes pregnant wife‘s head
• Cameroon ends Super Sand Eagles’ World Cup dream
• Hollywood woos Nollywood for Obama in Black President

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March 27, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio vs. Christy Essien-Igbokwe
• Akpabio swears-in 4 judges
• Akpabio Charges Judges on Integrity
• Govt Reads Riot Act to IPMAN

Nigerian News

• Sosoliso crash victims' families get compensation this week
• Health ministers, Grange, Aduku resign over graft charges
• Nigeria’s tax earnings to decline, says Budget Office
• Over 30% of Nigerians now have phones – NCC
• How N100 excludes poorest children from basic education, by Action Aid
• Omoyeni, Wema Bank MD, Arrested Over N450m Fraud
• British High Commission Announces New Working Hours
• Missing plane: C-River asks FG to beam searchlight on Cameroun
• Robbers snatch N50m from bullion van in PH
• Ekiti State to its Civil Servants - "Sorry, you can’t watch television in your offices"

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March 26, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio Counsels Against Bickering, Jealousy
• Oil Spill: Akwa Ibom Monarchs Caution Against Violence
• Monarch advocates alternative sources of energy
• CEDPA graduates 540 trainees
• Scandal in Nollywood: Ini Edo snatched my husband from me – Ruth Okoro

Nigerian News

• Corruption Charges: Health Minister, Deputy Resign
• How the Health Ministry’s crisis began
• Nigeria launches International Year of Sanitation, targets one million latrines
• UK opens 50, 000 five -year visa window for Nigerian businessmen
• Curtail inflow of energy drink, experts plead
• Couple pours acid into baby’s mouth
• Policemen Grumble Over Salary Deductions
• LASU closes down cybercafés

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March 25, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akpabio Crosses The Hurdle
• Akwa Ibom governorship tussle: After the verdict
• Governorship Election: When The Fat Lady Sings...
• Mobil’s Contributions To Host Communities Not Appreciated – Official
• Addax completes appraisal in 60, 000 bpd oil well

Nigerian News

• Nigerian, others bag US citizenship for dying in Iraq
• Police new salary structure stirs controversy
• $15b excess crude windfall coming
• Soldiers’ invasion of Atekong
• FG Invites U.S. Investigators Over Missing Aircraft
• Obudu airstrip was last to contact missing plane
• Fashola, unveils plans to install surveillance cameras
• IMF Explains High Cost Of Business In Nigeria
• NAFDAC raises the alarm over killer mosquito coils
• Houston Port seeks partnership with Nigeria

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March 24, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom Assembly Suspends Postings In Councils
• House asks Mobil to employ indigenes
• Let Us Turn To Steel – Ekarika
• Mobil, experts assess impact of oil sheen
• Eket LG begins monthly physical exercise

Nigerian News

• Obama helps Nigerian kerosine victim procure visa
• Power probe: Why panel may not invite Obasanjo
• "I funded Obasanjo’s campaign, he turned round to ruin my business"
• Nigeria’s foreign reserves hit $60bn
• Nigeria's market demand for cement may hit 40 million tonnes a year
• Cement prices drop nationwide
• Infections account for 57 per cent of deaths in Nigeria
• Cross River automates internally generated revenue
• ‘There’s No Reason Why We Cannot Build With Red Bricks’
• China Donates Hospital To Abuja

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March 23, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Ibom Golf Resort set to host Tiger Wood
• I look up to my wife as my girlfriend – Ini Akpabio, Nanet boss
• ‘My life has changed for good’ - Frank Edoho
• Cynthia Uwak: A Scintillating Whacking Brace
• Nigerian Nightmare, Even You!
• Okon prays for Junior Jesus

Nigerian News

• ‘Why Tinapa must not die’
• Nigerian-Born American Footballers: Their Impressions, Expectations On Nigeria
• Oshiomhole’s victory can’t stand – S/South PDP
• $16b Power Probe: House Panel Members Get Death Threats
• Idahosa: 10 Years Gone, Already!
• Missing Plane: How Imoke Escaped Crash
• Nollywood Actresses Who Found Love Abroad
• NEMESIS! Robber aims @ editor, guns down gang member

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March 22, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Appeal Court Upholds Akpabio's Election
• Governor Akpabio Lauds Judiciary
• Publisher Commends Political Maturity Of Akwa Ibom Indigenes
• Lessons From Samuel Peters Victory
• Creating Akwa Ibom 'Character' Is Our Mission
• Uyo: Friend asked us to rob his Father
• Robbery Suspects Sing in Police Net, Finger Godfather

Nigerian News

• Oshiomhole: The return of the people’s president
• FG pledges care for refugees in Cross River
• 3-month-old baby, half eaten by pig, rescued from refuse dump
• Adults to pay N2,500 per annum tax in Lagos
• Calabar: Cultists Kill Soldier In A Beer Joint
• 5 Naval boats explode in Port Harcourt
• Son fingers dad as armed robber
• Drug suspect hides cocaine in garri

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March 21, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Foreign Firm Hired to Audit IPP
• Akwa Ibom Inaugurates Committee On Power Project
• Akwa Ibom Govt to Sign Anniversary Hospital Contract Soon
• Appeal Court Upholds Akpabio’s Election
• Beware! Obisia warns Samuel Peter against set up, and American women
• Oil Spill: Akpabio Orders Mobil To Replace Pipeline
• The N6.7 Billion Akwa Ibom Govt House

Nigerian News

• Tribunal Sacks Osunbor, Declares Oshiomhole Edo Gov
• 2008 Budget: N/Assembly may override Yar’Adua
• Judge grants Igbinedion leave to travel abroad
• Court orders two GSM operators to compensate subscribers
• Imo plans to build petroleum refinery
• Lagos lawmakers join Obama campaign
• Military destroyed police for leaking 1966 coup - Belgore
• Panic at ministry, PHCN over $13bn power probe
• African Heads of state knocked over in Libyan, Ugandan presidential guards fracas
• 62% of Africans have no access to toilets – WHO/UNICEF report

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March 20, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• We spend N450,000 in 4 days to generate electricity — MAN Rector
• NGO Trains Schools Drop-Out

Nigerian News

• Two-day nationwide darkness begins today
• PDP reform: Ogbulafor sacks Bode George’s committee
• U.S. deports 50,000 Nigerians
• Dangote Sugar declares 50k dividend per share, 1 for 5 bonus
• MTN Group Earns N1.46tr In 2007
• MTN posts N78bn profit
• NIPOST seizes N28bn fake currencies
• PENGASSAN calls off proposed nationwide strike
• Nigerians join US Army
• Footwear union clamours for high tariff
• Nasarawa Utd banished to Calabar

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March 19, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Last hurdle for Akpabio, Iniama
• ALSCON’s production hits 40,000 metric tonnes
• Senate commends Peter
• Lessons From Samuel Peter's Victory
• Peter's victory rekindles the passion for excellence in boxing
• Akpabio Concerned Only About Akwa Ibom’s Future – Ekpu
• Akwa Ibom To Re-Introduce School Sports, Sports Academy
• Govt Denies Revoking Non-Indigenes’ Certificates of Occupancy
• Motherhood is Awesome – Akide

Nigerian News

• Naira to appreciate by 5% against dollar – Goldman
• Cross River stops automatic promotions
• Search for missing airplane moves to Cameroon, 4 days after
• PDP convention dinner: Security men humiliate OBJ at Aso Rock
• Power probe: Contractors to refund N3.3bn
• Nigerian firm commissions power plant in Sierra Leone
• NIPOST intercepts fake N29.35bn in scam mails — PMG

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March 18, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom govt, foreign firm to build $5.2bn port
• ALSCON plants hum back to life after 8 years
• Oil Spill - Akpabio Sets Up Committee
• Immunisation exercise suffers setback
• Akwa Ibom PDP Inaugurates New Exco
• Essien Advises Gov Akpabio On Sports Development
• Akwa Ibom spends N500m on Uyo Stadium
• Peter's victory' ll end militancy - Akpabio
• How we fasted and prayed for Peter’s victory – Uncle
• Toast to Samuel Peter
• Emem Udeme - Latest Sun Girl

Nigerian News

• Nigeria ranks 20th on global hunger index
• TINAPA Is White Elephant Project, Say Economist, Others
• High Oil Price: External Reserves Hit $59.88b
• ‘90% Of Vehicles On Nigerian Roads Not Insured’
• Power Sector Scandal: N6.3b Contracts Awarded To 34 Illegal Firms
• Missing Plane Not Yet Found, Says Minister
• ‘Nigerian HIV patients killed in Libya’

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March 17, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akosa, Ekpo praise Peter, Akpabio

Nigerian News

• How Taylor ordered us to kill, eat Nigerian UN soldiers
• FG may ground Virgin Nigeria
• Nigeria consumed 14.13 billion litres of fuel in 2007
• How many Nigerians pay tax?
• Abuja airport road, a death zone – FRSC
• Wreckage Of Missing Plane Found
• PENGASSAN threatens strike
• Much Ado About Delta Airlines Direct Flight To Nigeria
• FCT Spends N35m Yearly On Tree Planting – Director
• Etung Monarch Protests Detention Of Subjects

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March 16, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Ibom dock arrives in Ikot Abasi
• Peter’s victory will form the fulcrum for our devt — Gov. Akpabio
• I contributed to Peter’s success - Obasanjo
• More Champions On The Way in Niger Delta, says Peter
• Uwak's Brace Takes Super Falcons To Third Olympics' Appearance
• Akwa Ibom: The Squandering Of Riches

Nigerian News

• Drama as Obasanjo, Atiku, Anenih, trade words
• Energy probe: Imoke faces Reps on Monday
• Obudu-bound aircraft missing
• Aircraft crash in Enugu
• World's fastest man, Olusoji Fasuba, threatens to dump Nigeria
• Doctors’ Strike Causes Five Deaths In Ebonyi
• Ojukwu: When age takes its toll on a former warlord
• Police chase 17 commuters to death
• Deadly smugglers attack: 11 bullets removed from Customs officer’s neck

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March 15, 2008

• Name Abuja Street After Peter - Ekpo
• Peter gets community’s highest chieftaincy title
• Peter’s kinsmen expect goodies
• The irony of Peter’s victory
• Ex-Senator’s firm got billions of naira for little job done
• Controversy Trails Revocation of Non-indigenes’ Property
• Some people are out to tarnish my image – Ini Edo

Nigerian News

• House May Order Okonjo-Iweala’s Arrest Over Power Probe
• I wasn’t summoned by Reps – Okonjo-Iweala
• Obasanjo, Imoke Awarded All Power Contracts – NIPP MD
• Obasanjo’s school shut over four-year-old pupil’s death
• AC Crisis: Atiku, Tinubu reconcile
• Security expert lauds Police IG on E-policing
• Nigerian Artists Stage Rally to Protest Attacks on Fellow Artists

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March 14, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Monarchs Condemn Attack On Oron Council
• Controversy Trails Revocation of Non-indigenes’ Property

Nigerian News

• First hotel opens at Lagos Airport
• Chike Obi, renowned mathematician, dies at 87
• Anti-graft war: EFCC targets Govs' aides, friends
• ‘Nigeria Got N300b Debt Relief From Japan In 2006’
• Awka: A City In Darkness for 3 months
• Police foil bank robbery, kill 3, arrest 6
• Stars Set To Twinkle At Hip Hop World Awards

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March 13, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• History Has Been Unfair To Akwa Ibom Indigenes – Udo
• Akwa Ibom Govt Descends On Contractors
• Youths Barricade AKS Liason Office
• Peter dedicates title to God, Gov Akpabio
• Why I found it hard to beat McCline - Peter
• The Unknown Samuel Peters
• Lessons From Samuel Peters Victory
• Council chair’s election upheld
• Ijaw group appeals to Akpabio over revocation
• Engr. (Dr.) Etim Udo Uye: A Patriot In The Service Of Father Land
• College Of Agriculture: Who Underdeveloped Her?
• A New Executive Inaugurated for Pegasus All Stars FC Eket
• Bada, Edet disagree with Igwe over Fasuba

Nigerian News

• Visiting American footballers survive auto crash
• Food shortage: FG opens strategic reserve
• Nigeria Increases Crude Oil Allocation To Ghana
• What did OBJ spend on PHCN?
• NASS cuts 2008 budget by N150.8bn
• Reps Ask PHCN To Return $142m To FG
• Bad fuel: Oando faces class action lawsuit
• 'FG should declare state of emergency in cement industry - Lafarge WAPCO
• WAPCO Cautions FG On Import Policy
• Akpabuyo Council Revokes Revenue Contracts
• Fake Beggars Invade Minna

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March 12, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Ikono Ibom Clan Seeks Council Status
• 2nd Round 2008 Immunization
• Akpabio Harps on Productivity
• Akwa Ibom monarchs appeal to Senate on oil spill
• DPR, NOSDRA Investigate Oil Spill
• Peter earns $1.4m for beating Maskaev
• Stand up for King Peter
• Peter - A Destiny Child
• Fashola, Oyinlola hail Samuel Peter
• AC Congratulates Samuel Peter
• Uniuyo Admits 2,791 Fresh Students
• Economists Laud ALSCON Privatisation
• Akwa Ibom to Decongest Uyo Prison
• 'We Never Knew Good Governance'

Nigerian News

• Lagos Assembly Launches Website For Obama
• Ali leaves N500m debts for new chair Ogbulafor
• Baby rescued from rats and pigs, struggles for survival
• Use of faeces as intoxicant worries governor
• Commission plans Nigeria's nuclear power plant
• Cyber cafés in the country closing at alarming rate
• The Nation pioneers national databank
• Local software vendors flex muscles with foreign brands
• Obasanjo awarded contract to blacklisted firm – House
• Govt may withdraw 100 telecom licences
• Bank PHB subsidiary to manage $200m diaspora investment fund
• Imoke’s Aide Tasks Old Obudu Youths On Development
• Male student sneaks into female hostel with hijab

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March 11, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Parents Complain Against Polio Vaccines In Akwa Ibom
• Governor Akpabio's Obsession With Immunity
• Reading the lips of immunity lovers
• Mobil Confirms Oil Spill
• Oil spill: Mobil allays Akwa Ibom communities’ fears
• Agitation for change of name tears Qua Iboe Church apart
• Peter’s victory inspires Akwa United
• 'I'm the world'
• Peter's victory will open doors for Nigerian boxers, says Oboh
• I’m Retired, But Not Tired – Irene Udoh

Nigerian News

• U.S. Proposes Law Against Corrupt Nigerian Officials
• OBJ, Anenih, Kingibe battle to control Ogbulafor
• Elders seek Obasanjo’s sack as PDP’s BOT chair
• Reps keep mum over plans to remove House leadership
• NANS protests HND holders’ exclusion from NYSC
• Petrol attendant turns varsity teacher
• Nigeria to earn N795b from crude oil in April
• Blatter blasts Vogts over Eagles
• NFL bans Onikan Stadium

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March 10, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Boxing: Gov Akpabio congratulates Nigerians
• Akpabio salutes Samuel Peter
• Uyo residents in wild jubilation
• Beyond Akpabio’s Support For Immunity
• Old school musicians storm AKS for Akpabio
• Ikot Abasi Churns Out Locally Manufactured Boats

Nigerian News

• American Footballers storm Nigeria
• Buhari Files 20 Additional Grounds At Supreme Court
• Rivers, Cross River ballot papers used to elect Ondo Speaker
• Yar'Adua sets agenda for Ogbulafor exco
• External Reserves Hit US$56.9b – CBN
• Nigeria plans to refine crude oil abroad
• Dangote’s success story
• Nigeria spends N6bn annually on wheat importation
• FG targets one million houses in 5 years
• Police ‘Desecration’ Of Efik Kingship Shrine

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March 9, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Samuel Peter hands Oleg Maskaev a TKO in round 6 to claim WBC heavyweight title
• Samuel Peters Fight Photos
• Funding has been epileptic – Edem

Nigerian News

• Bankole protests Ogbulafor‘s election
• How Ogbulafor Emerged PDP Chair
• The man Ogbulafor
• Kalu Joins Race For FCT Senatorial Seat
• Delegates disappointed as no ‘Ghana must go'
• Deadly smugglers attack: 11 bullets removed from Customs officer’s neck
• Arik may become national carrier to four nations
• In Nigeria, VVF is a case of heads you lose, tails you lose
• My children must not experience this kind of life — Victim
• VVF: A burden beyond pardon
• Kayode Oyedaji scores to beat Chelsea in FA Cup Quarter Finals
• Tussle Over Obong’s Throne Splits Efik Kingdom

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March 8, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• I’ll Whip Maskaev - Samuel Peter
• Peter's humble upbringing set foundation for hungry career as a fighter
• History Beckons!
• NAFDAC tasks media on fake products
• PENGASSAN, Mobil poise for showdown over sack of union leaders, others

Nigerian News

• IATA Okays MMA2, Virgin Nigeria Adamant
• N5bn leisure centre planned for oil workers in creeks
• Tribunal returns Ohakim as elected governor of Imo State
• Nine Nigerians jailed for forging Ghanaian president’s letterhead
• NCC reels out more sanctions against errant GSM operators
• I Am Ready To Be A Father – Basketmouth
• Pirating Software In Nigeria Is On The Increase – Microsoft Chief
• LA Galaxy dumps Babayaro

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March 7, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• ALSCON Re-commissioning: Presidency Queries UC RUSAL
• 600 million to watch Peter fight on TV
• Maskaev is dangerous, Okorodudu warns Peter
• Real test for the Nigerian Nightmare
• Akpabio Reassures Rural Dwellers
• AKSG Spearheads Mobil's Relocation
• Head of Service Gives Successful Retirement Tips
• ExxonMobil: Will Comply With Existing Qua Contracts
• Oil Communities Want NDDC Scrapped
• Police Intercept Lorry With 171 Bags of Indian Hemp

Nigerian News

• Aliko Dangote is richest Nigerian, worth $3.3bn
• President may drop nine ministers
• Military damns critics, restates loyalty to Yar‘Adua
• 26 PDP Govs Endorse Ogbulafor
• Celtel apologises to subscribers
• Arik becomes Niger’s flag carrier
• Ex-commissioner hides in court to evade arrest
• Cross River Rural Development Programme Commences Soon
• Bayelsa is warming up for AMAA '08

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March 6, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Nigerian boxers hold vigil for Peters
• Economic transformation, path to N’Delta peace – Edem
• Political Eclipse For Ita Toyo!
• Three is no Abuja Front - Ime Albert
• The Agonies of Exxonmobil Spy Policemen
• Armed Robbers Attack Two Banks
• Etim Udo Uye: A Patriot In The Service Of Father Land
• PDP And Nigeria's Babacracy

Nigerian News

• Want an intelligent kid? Pay attention to nutrition
• Okocha set to quit
• Nigeria’s External Debt To Hit $7.2b By 2012 – IMF
• Bankole stops bid to override Yar’Adua on 2008 budget
• Marine rates go up over pirates threat
• Two Army generals, four others face court martial
• FG lists treason offences against MEND leader
• President Shortlists Ministers For Sack
• Mali Shortlists Keshi For Coaching Job

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March 5, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• UNIUYO Tackles Accreditation of Courses
• Mobil Confirms Oil Spill in Akwa Ibom
• MOSEND gives Mobil Exxon 21-day ultimatum
• Governor Victor Attah Joins ExecutiveAction - ''The Problem Solving Company''
• Udoma: Lawmaker As An Activist
• Addax Petroleum Rescues 79-Year-Old School
• Peter vows to crush opponent
• Ntiero may drag NFA to court over unpaid salaries
• I feel Godwin Okpara‘s pains – Etim Esin
• Damning assault on the press

Nigerian News

• Day-old baby abandoned on rail line
• Contaminated fuel: Oando ordered to pay damages
• Obasanjo establishes 500,000 capacity snail farm
• Power outage as Yar’Adua attends PDP congress
• Yar'Adua lists criteria for PDP chairman
• Consensus reigns as PDP leaders emerge
• PHCN an albatross, says Yar’Adua
• Akamkpa: An Untapped Money Spinner
• We'll deliver democracy dividends—IMOKE
• US, UN body indict Nigeria for drug trafficking, money laundering
• How aircraft are converted into spoons and pots

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March 4, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Nigerian scientist shares Nobel peace price
• Juju scare in Akwa Ibom Assembly
• Speakers Condemn N/Delta Militants
• Akpabio decries marginalization of Akwa Ibom Indigenes in Federal Appointments
• Akwa Ibom Schools to get facelift
• Education Commissioner calls for partnership in education
• Government compensates families of robbery victims
• Commissioner stresses need for fisheries statistical data
• Group Warns Against Ethnic Sentiments
• Aya-Keffi - Difficult for Rescue - Nyanya Chief

Nigerian News

• FG Records N520b Deficit – CBN
• Market turnover nosedives by 67%
• Yar’Adua Moves Against Health Minister
• Health minister denies arrest
• Yar’Adua, PDP governors meet over convention
• Govt Makes Another U-turn On NITEL/Mtel
• NITEL: "FG, Transcorp have not agreed on equity proportion"
• FG, Transcorp strike deal on NITEL
• Repairs on vandalised electricity towers to take nine weeks
• Nigerian Teenager Wins British Parliamentary Debate

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March 3, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• 500 dropouts go back to school in Akwa Ibom
• Total gets approval to develop new oil field in Akwa Ibom
• Anietie Ebreso : Actualising the desire to earn money on a daily basis
• Peter, Punching Power!
• Dolphins drag Akwa Utd to NFL

Nigerian News

• Cabinet shake-up: Aondoakaa tops list - Three others to go, three to swap offices
• Govt raises fuel import, recalls bad products
• We’re not deterred by FG’s order — ASUU
• How Obasanjo’s pressure forced reversal of Nitel sale
• Cement price drops
• Banks are developing e-payment system
• Fifty years of Things Fall Apart: where is the original manuscript?
• Buhari files appeal at Supreme Court
• MTN, Celtel to refund N4.7bn to subscribers
• Three Calabar varsity unions seek removal of Vice-Chancellor
• 104 students arrested

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March 2, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Akwa Ibom AC ready for council polls-Ekanem

Nigerian News

• Koreans gang-rape Nigerian house girl...In Port Harcourt
• Militants blow up police station, burn ruler’s palace
• National Assembly bows to Yar'Adua
• Yar‘Adua promises metrolines for Abuja, Lagos, others
• Yar‘Adua orders Vice Chancellors to withhold striking lecturers’ salaries
• Senators jostle for David Mark’s job
• Nigeria’s economy records a success, says IMF chief
• Impact of FDI on lives of Nigerians

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March 1, 2008

Akwa Ibom News

• Boxing: Klitschko waits for Peter, Maskaev

Nigerian News

• How Aso Rock celebrated tribunal verdict
• Power supply will double by Mar 2009 – Yar’Adua
• Outages To End By 2011, Says Yar'Adua
• Prepare for blackout for 30 days
• Bankole set to dissolve House committees
• Police Arrest Fake Woman At Airport
• Why I’m not married – Blakky
• Babayaro joins Beckham at LA Galaxy

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