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He asked Nigerians to reassess their journey from independence till date with a view to ascertaining the areas where the nation had gone wrong in order to make amends.
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L-R, DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, MRS. CLARA CHIME AND GOVERNOR SULLIVAN CHIME DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR THE GOVERNORS MOTHER AT ST. MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC CHURCH, ENUGU STATE. MAY 18, 2012.
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CROSS RIVER STATE COMMISSIONER FOR EDUCATION, PROFESSOR OFFIONG E. OFFIONG
CALABAR, May 18, (THEWILL) - Cross River State Government has inaugurated a six-member Teachers Registration Council charged with the task of providing accurate data of all teachers in the employment of the state.

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L-R, DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, MRS. CLARA CHIME AND GOVERNOR SULLIVAN CHIME DURING THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR THE GOVERNORS MOTHER AT ST. MARY'S PRO-CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC CHURCH, ENUGU STATE. MAY 18, 2012.
Lagos, Nigeria: Thursday, May 17, 2012: Two South-West States, Lagos and Oyo, have emerged centres with highest numbers of participants at the on-going Airtel Rising Stars 2 U-17 male and female football tournament.

The states recorded a total of 5,165 soccer participants with Lagos having 3,005 while Oyo recorded 2,160 registered participants to emerge first and second respectively.
Since Goodluck Jonathan ascended the throne of Nigeria as President after the demise of Yaradua , one of his favourite routine has been seeking the face of God in prayer. During

 the constitutional crisis leading to the death of Yaradua President Goodluck was made so uncomfortable by different power plays that he had course to receive prayers from different Christian groups genuinely concerned about the precarious fate of Nigeria.
CONFUSION has trailed the invasion on Tuesday of the palace of the traditional ruler of Ishiagu, Ebonyi State, Moses Ngele, and the Agu 111 by a gang of unidentified gunmen.

Three of the gunmen, who were said to have been armed with AK 47 assault rifles, were however, arrested.
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EUROPEAN Union (EU) naval forces using helicopter have destroyed several boats during their maiden raid on pirate bases on the Somali mainland, near the notorious port of Haradhere.
WURNO Local Council of Sokoto State has given priority to the provision  of potable water in view of its importance to the health of the people in the area..

Speaking while on inspection of some of the projects completed by his administration, the  Wurno Council Chairman, Alhaji Shehu  Chacho, said that over 15 boreholes have been rehabilitated at a cost of N9 million in addition to the renovation of some open wells.
By Ben Agande
ABUJA-House of Representatives, yesterday, called on the governors of the 25 states where caretaker chairmen run the affairs of local governments, to put measures in place to conduct elections into the councils.

This, according to the Reps, is to ensure that all local government chair-men are duly elected.
India and Nigeria together accounted for a third of the deaths of pregnant women globally in 2010, latest UN figures said, even as maternal deaths declined by nearly half in the past two decades due to improvement in health systems and increased female education.
BY VINCENT UJUMADU
AWKA - THE Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State yesterday said the female suspect paraded by the State Security Service, SSS, along with eight others over alleged robbery was not a student of the institution.
By GBENGA OLARINOYE
OSOGBO -  GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to tow the path of honour by immediately reinstating the suspended President of the Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami.
BY ANAYO OKOLI
ABA - Lawyers in Aba, Abia State, yesterday, called for the transfer of Justice Theresa Uzokwe for treating them with levity. Not even the intervention of the Acting Chief Judge, Justice Shedrack Nwanosike, could stop the lawyers' protest.
By Mitaire Ikpen
Abuja-Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has attributed the slow pace of work on the East-West Road, transversing the Niger Delta region, to poor releases of funds to the Ministry for the project, which he said will be completed by December 2014.
By Simon Ebegbulem
BENIN-FRESH crisis is brewing in the Niger Delta, as over 200 ex-militants in the region, who earlier accepted the amnesty granted by the Federal Government, have condemned the alleged non-inclusion of many of them in the amnesty training programme.

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