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Making Money From Penny Stock

By OYEGUE OSAGIATOR STANLEY

Penny stocks are loosely categorized companies with share prices of below N5 (five Naira) on the average. They are sometimes referred to as “the slot machines of the stock market” because of the risks involved. There may be a good place for penny stocks in the portfolio of an experienced, advanced investor, if you know what you are doing.

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International

Australian PM Wins Key Backer In Bid For Power

 

SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard won the support of a key independent MP yesterday, leaving her close to breaking the worst political deadlock in decades after elections failed to produce a winner.

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US Forces Still In Fight At End Of Combat Mission

HAWIJA, Iraq - Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents.

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Israel And Palestinians Set For Face-To-Face Talk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a diplomatic push from President Barack Obama, Israeli and the Palestinian leaders will start direct peace talks on Thursday shadowed by skepticism on all sides and fresh violence in the volatile West Bank.

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Two Indonesia Police On Trial For ‘Qaeda’ Arms Sales

JAKARTA (AFP) – Two Indonesian police officers went on trial on Thursday charged with selling firearms to alleged Islamist extremists from a group dubbed “Al-Qaeda in Aceh”, which plotted a series of attacks in Jakarta.

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South Africa State Workers March After Rejecting Offer

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Striking South African state workers plan a protest march on Thursday and their leaders will meet government negotiators after rejecting a revised wage offer aimed at ending their three-week strike.



 

 

COURTESY VISIT: Edo State Deputy Governor, Dr. Pius Egberanmwen Odubu (left) responding to an address by the Chairman, Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council, Comrade Friday Obanor (right) during a courtesy visit by the State Working Committee of the Union to Government House, Benin City, yesterday. Photo: JAMES OMOREBOKHAI.

Credible polls ’ll foster stability - Jonathan

 


ABUJA-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan affirmed yesterday in Abuja that his administration will give the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) all the support it requires to conduct elections that will meet global standards of acceptability next year.

EDSG opposed to casualisation- Odubu

By CLIFFORD AGBAJOR

 


BENIN CITY - Edo State Deputy Governor, Dr. Pius Egberanmwen Odubu has emphasized that the state government will not allow casualisation to flourish in the state, as it does not believe in slave labour.

2011: Utomi harps on vibrant opposition

By QUEENETH AIKHIONBARE

 



BENIN CITY – The Protem National Chairman of the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP), Prof. Pat Utomi has stressed the need for a vibrant opposition that is based on ideology and commitment to the service of the people.

Cholera scourge: Nigeria to meet with neighbours






ABUJA - Nigeria is to hold a crucial meeting with its neighbours next month in Abuja over the cholera epidemic which has killed at least 350 persons in Nigeria alone.

 

Reps seek adequate funding for education

 

ABUJA- The House of Representatives Committee on Education yesterday in Abuja, canvassed for adequate budgetary allocation to the education sector.

FG declares Sept 9, 10 public holidays

ABUJA- The Federal Government has declared September. 9 and September. 10 as public holidays to mark this year’s Id-el-Fitr celebration which ends the holy month of Ramadan.

Flood kills PDP stalwart, 1 other

MALUMFASHI - Flooding has claimed the life of Malam Surajo Audu, one of PDP executive members in Yammama Ward, Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina state.

Justice Akhigbe dies at 77


BENIN CITY – The first Chief Judge of Edo State, Justice Jacob Osagie Akhigbe is dead.

Odubu tasks movie producers

By CLIFFORD AGBAJOR

 


BENIN CITY- Movie producers in Edo State have been advised to use their productions to highlight the positive aspects of the state.

Other News
 

IDSL - SMCSL Holds AGM

Delta Govt Allocates Land To 1,500 Applicants

Community Resolves To Sack CDA Exco

National

Cholera Kills 7 In Zamfara

PHCN Cable Vandal Arraigned

Reactions As FG Pegs Retirement At 70

Biase Women Protest Return Of Chairman

Osun To Commission Free Trade Zone In December

Point-Counterpoint

Nigeria At 50: Is It Worth Celebrating?

By Hon. Josef Omorotionmwan And Ven. Prof. Ben Egede

Hon. Josef Omorotionmwan - Let’s Celebrate.

 

Ven. Prof. Ben Egede - There’s Nothing To Celebrate

 






Analysis

The Problems Of Tribal Politics

By EKAIWE IGNUA OSEMWEGHA


 


PEOPLE all over the universe have great desire and expectations of one idea or another. For this fundamental fact one labours extensively for the actualisation of such laudable dream. So, the fact remains that the fulfillment of one’s aspirations is the vista to happiness which every man desire as an ultimate goal.


PDP Has No Moral Right To Indict Opposition Parties -ANPP

 

ABUJA-ANPP has expressed displeasure over PDP’s description of it as a “factionalised and discordant party that cannot be entrusted with authority at any level in Nigeria”.


64.9 Tonnes Of Obsolete Pesticide Collected In States, Fed - Coordinator


ABUJA-Approximately 65 tonnes of obsolete pesticides were gathered across the 36 states and the FCT, Mr. Theodore Nwaokwe, the former Project Coordinator, Nigeria-African Stockpile Programme, has said.

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ECOWAS Disburses N237.6m To Organisation

ABUJA-The ECOWAS Commission in Abuja disbursed N237.6 million EU donations to 17 regional civil society organisations.

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NASS Urged To Pass Bill On Trad Medicine


ABUJA-Prof. Charles Wambebe, former Director of National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, in Abuja, has called on the National Assembly to pass the bill on traditional medicine into law.

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Sports

Commonwealth Games: Nigeria In Floppy Preparations

WITH less than a month to the kick off of the 2010 Common Wealth Games taking place in India on October 3, 2010, Nigeria boxers are still awaiting orders from the presidency to embark on foreign tours enroute the games.
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I’m Not Harry Potter - Mourinho

Konchesky, Gyan And Hleb Head Deadline Moves

Enmeshed In Controversies

Utaka Losses Out On England Switch

Business + Economy

Group Expresses Desire To Purchase Sapele Power Station

ABUJA-The Sapele Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, has expressed its desire to purchase the Sapele Power Station in response to the Federal Government’s plans to fully privatise the PHCN.

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SON Wants Enforcement Of Standards Backed By Law

ABUJA-Dr John Akanya, the Director General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), said that enforcement of standards without legal backing would not be effective.

Stakeholders Task FG On Power Sector

LAGOS-The Federal Government must investigate the capabilities of prospective managers of the power sector, Mr. Abiodun Ogunleye, the Managing Director, PowerCap Nig. Ltd., has said in Lagos.

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Investors Trade 254.6m Shares At Stock Exchange

LAGOS-Investors on Wednesday traded a total of 254.64 million shares worth N2.11 billion in 7,165 deals at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).
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NSE Approves N74.3bn Issues For Listing

LAGOS-As part of efforts aimed at further deepening the nation’s stock market, the Council of The Nigerian Stock Exchange on Tuesday, through its Quotation Committee, approved for listing, issues worth N74.302 billion for six companies, two state governments and one financial instrument as follows:

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Education Platform

Sanctity Of NAESS Intact
- Comrade Ibodeme

With KEN ABU




THE tenure of Comrade Theophilus Ibodeme, the National President of NAESS, has been hugely characterised by unprecedented successes which hitherto, was relatively unknown in the history of the association.

EDO @ 19

We Have Seen A Giant Leap In The Film Industry In the Past 19 Years - Okao

With O. C. Madu




 


Mr. Peddie Okao, Chief Executive Officer of Prolens Movies Ltd, is a prolific movie producer and actor whose undying passion for the advancement of quality films in Edo dialect clearly underscores excellence in professionalism as demonstrated in the quality of film productions from his stable.

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Politics

PDP, Zoning And Jonathan’s 2011 Ambition

By KELVIN OKUNZUWA

 


It is a truism that political parties are platforms on which political office seekers contest elective offices during polls. .

Perspective

My 14 Days Trip To Nigeria

By SUNDAY OMO IDAHOR ESQ

 


PERMIT me to humbly appeal to your highly esteemed organization that I be allowed to use your medium in making known to the whole world events that occurred in the above-mentioned trip to my native land Benin City Nigeria!

Administration

Scheme Of Service, Transfers (Inter-Cadre And Inter-Service), Preparation Of Establishment Proposals And Promotion Briefs (1)

By S.I. EKHATOR

The Civil Service THE word civil commonly means belonging to the general public and not the army. Literally, therefore, Civil Service connotes Public or Government Service. The Civil Service is thus

Editorial

SIM Card Registration

SINCE the advent of the Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM), a lot of barriers to communication and information have been eliminated. Economic fortunes have been created for both subscribers and operators of the system who so far have been enjoying the large market base there is to tap.