Court Restores Bauchi North Senate Seat Ticket

A Federal High Court in Bauchi has restrained the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from substituting Hon. Farouk Mustapha with Alhaji Abdulmalik Mahmoud for Bauchi North senatorial election in next month general elections pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

Mustapha who is a serving House of Representatives member named the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), INEC and Alhaji Abdulmakil Mahmoud as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants in suit he filed challenging his substitution with the former deputy governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Abdulmalik Mahmoud.

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Nigerians Enjoined To Patronise Home-Made Autos

The federal government has called on Nigerians both in the private and public sectors to patronise locally manufactured automobiles as part of efforts aimed at promoting made-in Nigeria products.

Speaking at the just concluded 4th National Council on Commerce and Industry in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, the minister of commerce and industry, Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye, said the automotive industry has a unique capacity for mass employment and technological development.

Martins-Kuye, who was represented by the minister of state for commerce and industry, Ms. Josephine Tapgun, reminded the council that successful campaign for patronage of made-in-Nigeria goods would have multiplier Effects on all sectors of the economy with particular reference to automotive sector that requires much attention of the government and organised private sector.

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NASS, Sanusi and the Fiscal Discipline In Governance

The National Assembly is repositioning, so it seems. The NASS members have announced that they would lead a campaign to enthrone fiscal discipline in governance.

To start with, the Senate President David Mark told Nigerians that the National Assembly would cut its recurrent expenditure and would want other arms of government to make similar sacrifice. Was it a direct response to the Sanusi’s hurricane which blew open their outrageious spending? UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis x-rays the NASS offer and asks how real it is. Equally, would other arms of government do likewise?

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MEND Attack: FG Gives SSS, Police Ultimatum

Security chiefs in crucial meeting over polls ||  The presidency yesterday tasked officers and men of the State Security Service (SSS) as well as the police over the renewed threat to national security by supposed members of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). The two security agencies were also charged to fish out those responsible for the bombing of Agip oil facility within seven days.

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Qaddafi Forces Attack Rebel Stronghold in West

TRIPOLI, Libya — A day after routing a ragtag army in an eastern town near the rebel capital of Benghazi, forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi launched attacks Wednesday on the city of Misurata, the last rebel stronghold in western Libya

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Jonathan Signs New Minimum Wage Act

> Inflation rate declines by 11.1%
Henceforth, employers of labour  in both public and private establishments in Nigeria are expected to pay N18,000 as minimum wage to their workers. Reason: President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the N18,000 National Minimum Wage into law.The new wage law states that once an employer in the public or private sector has a workforce of about 50 persons, he or she is bound by the law to pay a minimum wage of N18,000.

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