
Elections in Equatorial Guinea yesterday were certain to extend the 30-year rule of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, a man accused of draining his nation’s oil wealth to fabulously enrich family and cronies while his people suffer in slums.
Western governments that have promised to fight corruption so far have done little as companies compete for concessions for [...]
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The Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has charged youths to always worship God so as to guide them through their endeavours in life.
Governor Amaechi who gave the charge Saturday night at a thanksgiving and Christian musical festival organized by the Rivers State Government at Alfred Diette Spiff Civic Centre, Port Harcourt, said [...]
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The wife of the Rivers State Governor, Dame Judith Amaechi will tomorrow flag-off the World AIDS Day celebration at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers State.
Speaking with The Tide yesterday, the HIV/AIDS programme co-ordinator, Rivers State Ministry of Health (RSMOH), Dr Naaziga Francis said December 1 every [...]
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An expert in community medicine at the University of Port Harcourt, Dr Best Ordimoha has said that the shortage of community health officers in the country is the greatest setback toward raising healthcare quality at the grassroots adding that the 29,000 currently engaged are insufficient for Nigeria.
Delivering a lecture at the 2009 Community Health Week [...]
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Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of US troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
The report asserts that the failure to kill or capture bin Laden at his most vulnerable in [...]
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Head of the editorial department of The Tide newspapers, Mr Soye Wilson Jamabo, has been awarded Life Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Administration of Nigeria.
Presenting the award after an investiture at the Algate International Conference Centre, Port Harcourt at the weekend, chairman of the institute’s governing council, Dr Godwin Onyekwere described Mr Jamabo as [...]
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In a move to develop a strong food production system, backed up by cutting edge technology that would tackle the challenge of food security in the Niger Delta region, the Nigerian Agip Oil Company Green River Project has empowered farmers and co-operative societies of host communities in their operation areas in Imo, Delta, Bayelsa and [...]
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Zain Nigeria, at the weekend, won the prestigious Best Customer Care Operator of the Year in Nigeria, at the 2009 Nigeria Information Technology and Telecommunications Awards (NITTA) confirming its long and unbroken tradition of good Customer Service Excellence.
Last weekend’s award was the sixth of similar awards by the company in the industry in its 8th [...]
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As part of its social responsibility, the First City Monument Bank, FCMB Plc is to partner states, local governments to ensure a sustainable environment through a social engagement to educate those within its communities on the immense benefits of maintaining a clean and healthy environment.
Achia Tor Agbidye, branch manager, FCM Bank, Makurdi gave this indication [...]
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Equity trading in the Nigerian Stock Exchange closed the three-day trading week with the banking sub-sector dominating the volume drivers’ table as it recorded 175.9 million shares worth N1 billion in 3154 deals. Volume in the sub-sector was buoyed by activities in the shares of Fidelity Bank Plc which traded 39.6 million shares valued at [...]
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