Relief for fun seekers petty businesses as Ibom plaza reopens

The long wait for the reopening of Ibom plaza is over.  After several months of its closure, the plaza has reopened bringing much relief to fun seekers and small business operators who were displaced while the plaza remained shut by the Akwa Ibom government for rehabilitation. Built by the previous administration as a one stop-relaxation [...]

[ More ] May 4th, 2013 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Quotes from around the world

Saturday, May 04th Last update06:20:39 PM GMT HEADLINES: Abia police begin beatification of premi… TUC women seek stiffer laws against rapi… Illegal mining: Osun a pprehends three s… Lagos battles nature Effective use of board meetings 2013 budget passed, assented to, but con… Setting up one hectare seed yam farm ‘Nigerians are impressively entreprene… Quitting [...]

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The Business Trailblazers and Titans of Black America

When Black Enterprise published its first issue four decades ago, the era was marked by promise but not prosperity. The economic evolution of the African American business class had not yet begun. A year earlier, President Richard Nixon had signed Executive Order 11458, directing the Commerce Department to coordinate the federal government’s programs “which affect [...]

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I am in love with my brothers friend

  Dear Agatha, I am in love with my brother’s best friend. I don’t know if I should tell him or not. I know you might think it is infatuation because I am just 16, but he is everything I need in a man. He is  kind and gentle as well as so handsome. I [...]

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Nigeria seeks Poland help in power transmission development

By Obas Esiedesa/Abuja Nigeria has asked Poland’s for help in developing its capacity to evacuate power from generating companies to areas of need across the country. Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo told a Polish delegation led by Pan Jan Bielecki in Abuja that Nigeria is excited by the dramatic transformation of the Polish society, from [...]

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Is Margaret Thatchers world really all around us Look again

By Nigel Willmott guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 April 2013 09.00 BST Maybe the obeisance to Thatcherism says more about the capitulation of liberal opinion to the myth-making of the right In Brixton they burned her image and in Belgravia they bowed down before it. And in between was every possible strand of dislike or adulation. But [...]

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Bearing brunt of U.S shale boom

SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf examines the implications of the exploration for Shale oil and gas by the United States to Nigeria’s daily crude exports, and reports that dreadful times may just be around the corner for the economy of Africa’s biggest crude exporter The United States accounted for 35 percent of oil exports from Nigeria [...]

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