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By Jamiu Yisa
A troubled tailor, Bolanle Ogunsanya, was full of tears yesterday as she narrated her ordeal in the hands of her husband to an Alimosho Grade ‘B’ Customary Court, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos.
She said her husband, Yekini Ogunsanya suddenly became her enemy when she told him she was pregnant, adding that he abandoned her after [...]
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The last may not have been heard of the Valentine’s Day’s strong wind that swept over a dozen vessels ashore at the Lagos beach as the Indigenous Shipowners Association Of Nigeria (ISAN) has threatened to drag the Federal Government to court over the incident.
ISAN has threatened to seek redress over government’s failure to issue weather [...]
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By Esther Komolafe
The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Malam Abdulsalam Mohammed says the organisation recorded 66 million tonnes of cargo in 2009, compared to 65 million tonnes in 2008.
Mohammed who disclosed this in Lagos said the records which exclude crude oil, were attained in spite of the global economic recession affecting ports [...]
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Professor Dora Akunyili, the Minister of Information and Communications, has attributed the progress made in the empowerment of Nigerian women to the cooperation of their male counterparts.
Akunyili said this in New York in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in commemoration of the 2010 International Women’s Day.
The day is observed every March [...]
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Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State said that the state government would not sponsor any pilgrim from the state for pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia or Jerusalem.
The governor announced this in Yola on Tuesday while receiving the 2009 Hajj report from the Leader of the 2009 Hajj pilgrims, Alhaji Barkindo Musdafa.
He, however, noted that the government [...]
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