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- The minister of health, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo, yesterday stated that hehas been given assurances by president Obasanjo that a lion share of therecoveries that will be made from Nigeria's money stashed in Swiss bankswill be invested on health programmes in the country. |
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- An estimated 400,000 people in Kano State have been discovered to beinfected with HIV/AIDS. |
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- The Multi-Lateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank Group,has said that it would guarantee a loan of $300m (or N40.6 billion), for thesustained development of the telecommunications sector in Nigeria. |
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- Liberia's main rebel movement, Liberians United for Reconciliation andDemocracy (LURD), has dropped its threat to hold up the process ofdisarmament until its demand for more top jobs in government has beenmet. |
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- Police zonal Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) and commandheadquarters have been ordered to beef up security as Queen Elizabeth II isexpected in Nigeria today to open Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetingon Friday and tour the country briefly. |
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- The Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Mr Don Makinnonhas disclosed that as part of measures to support developing countries,plans are underway to cut cost of capital in the financial market. |
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- The Emir of Dikwa in Borno State, Alhaji Kyari Ibrahim Ibn El-Kanemi haswarned that he cannot guarantee peaceful transfer of some villages in hisdomain affected by the World Court judgement over the Lake Chadterritory. |
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- JOINT military task force on the Niger Delta, Operation Restore Hope,yesterday paraded an alleged kingpin of the spate of kidnappings, includingexpatriates, and general crisis in the area. |
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- Malaria has been acknowledged as being responsible for the high rateof infant mortality in Africa. However, the launch of a new anti-malarialdrug penultimate week, by the Society for Family Health, is set to reversethe trend. Godwin Haruna, who witnessed the event, writes |
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- Press Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, Ms. Penny Russell-Smitt,yesterday in Abuja confirmed the cancellation of the proposed trip of theQueen to Kano, noting that the cancellation was necessitated by her tightschedule. |
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- The Central Bank Governor, Chief Joseph Sanusi has blamed the incidenceof financial crises, banking distress and unsound banking on inadequatelegal procedures and processes. |
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- A bill seeking to peg the spending limits of state governments in theirannual budgets will be presented to the National Assembly by the FederalGovernment, Economic Adviser to the President, Prof. Charles Soludo hassaid. |
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- Gombe State is having the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases in the NorthEast zone. |
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- Federal Government yesterday categorically rejected a report by theHuman Rights Watch (HRW), which alleged that there is a crackdown on themedia and individual liberties in the country. |
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- President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said that the public image of theuniversities in the country has been captured more in terms of perennialstrikes, closures and epileptic academic calendar rather than in serene,serious-minded, reflective attitudes for which universities were known andrevered in the past. |
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- Apparently worried about the products of the different levels ofeducation in the country and the attendant effects of examinationmalpractice and cultism on Nigerian youth and national development, theFederal Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Exam Ethics Project(EEP), an educational non-governmental organisation last week held a two-dayEducation Stakeholders |
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- The sixth Biennial Meeting of the Association for the Development ofEducation in Africa (ADEA), with the central theme: "The Quest for Quality:Learning from African Experience", begins today at Grand Baie,Mauritius. |
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- It is a great privilege for me to have the opportunity of speaking atthis meeting of Commonwealth countries on education. I am also very happythat you have chosen Edinburgh as the venue of this important conference. Iam very proud of my own association with Edinburgh, through being an alumnusof two universities here, Edinburgh University and Heriot-Watt University(admittedly my connections are only through honorary degrees but theygenerate a sense of closeness to the real students here), and also throughbelonging to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and having other associationswith this great city. |
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- As Nigeria hosts other Commonwealth nations in the next few hours, manywonder whether the basic objectives and principles of equality, respect forhuman rights, the rule of law, among others which brought the present54-member nations together for over half a century are still relevant to theover 1.7 billion people who represent 30 per cent of the world'spopulation. |
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- Alhaji Maitama Sule, former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the UN,is opposed to suggestions that Nigeria should withdraw from theCommonwealth. |
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- President Olusegun Obasanjo has been called upon to seize theopportunity provided in hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting(CHOGM) Abuja 2003, to present Nigeria's project to the Commonwealth leadersso as to get foreign investments into the country's economy. |
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- Civil society organisations rose from a one day interactive session withgovernment organised by the office of the Special Adviser to the Presidenton Civil Society Relations and called for more information on thederegulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. |
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- The national commissioner representing North-West in the IndependentNational Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr. Shehu Lawal, who was attacked byarmed robbers recently in Kaduna, is reported to have been paralysed. |
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- Here's how I look in full-color ASCII (link via Brady Gaster): +hDDDDDDDDDhzsssss==+s<==&l <hDDDDDDhhzs+++=++<((< ~zhhhhzs=+< |
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- Here's how I look in full-color ASCII (link via Brady Gaster): +hDDDDDDDDDhzsssss==+s<==&l <hDDDDDDhhzs+++=++<((< ~zhhhhzs=+< |
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- Create New Topic Proposal from PatternSkinCodeChanges. Go there for an overview of other changes and page flow diagrams. It should be obvious to users how to create ... |
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- "Blue, liberty; White, equality; Red, fraternity... We looked very closely at these three ideas, how they functioned in everyday life, but from an individual's point of view. These ideals are contradictory with human nature. |
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- Dec. 3 - Cars and tires caught fire at an auto salvage business in Coventry. |
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- Dec. 3 - News Channel 10's Bill Rappleye reports on efforts to extend commuter rail service to Fall River and New Bedford. |
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- Pour honorer l’ancien président de la République qui créa l’ONM il y a 40 ans, plus de 300 détentrices et détenteurs de cette distinction se sont rendus hier à Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, où ils se sont inclinés sur la tombe du Général. |
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- Laurent Baffie se lance dans la réalisation d’un film à l’intrigue palpitante. C’est l’histoire d’un type qui a perdu ses clefs de bagnole… Durant plus d’une heure et demie, il va retourner ciel et terre pour les retrouver. (Les programmes dans nos salles en page suivante) |
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- Arguant que le projet a été profondément modifié, l’opposition a voté contre le nouveau compromis de vente qui sera signé entre la Ville et la société Les Arches, en vue de la construction du pôle commercial dans l’ancien dépôt. «Les Chaumontais jugeront», a fini par trancher le maire lundi soir en deuxième partie de conseil. |
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- Diderot et la ville de Langres ont donné leur nom à des astéroïdes. Non, ce n’est pas un canular ! C’est le fait d’un astronome belge, passionné par les philosophes de la période des Lumières. |
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- A quelques jours maintenant de la fin de l’année, la Maison des jeunes et de la culture de Saint-Dizier va célébrer à sa manière Djazaïr 2003 - “Une année de l’Algérie en France” -. Une initiative proposée il y a plusieurs mois par une jeune Bragarde, Najet Ghazi, qui prendra corps vendredi et samedi.Expo, films, témoignages, théâtre et danse et peut-être aussi un questionnement. |
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- Retrouvez nos pages annonces légales du samedi 29 novembre 2003 en PDF en page suivante |
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- One of the common requests I get from people using my base entity framework is in regards to how they call some methods on the entity objects. Rather then calling the methods on an instance of a class they want to call static methods. // current implementationCustomerCollecti customers = new Customer().GetAll(); |
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- Commuters wear masks, to protect themselves against SARS, at a Beijing train station in April. (AP Archive/Greg Baker) (Click for Large Photo) [yworld: 2, +wear +april] |
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- Since its launch in May, the NYTimes.com News Tracker service has pulled in 30,000 subscribers at $19.95 a year. Nice... |
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