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President Olusegun Obasanjo (left) receiving the report of 2006
National Census from Dr. Samu’ila Danko Makama, chairman of the
National Population Commission. Photo: Aso Rock. |
NACA, traditional medicine practitioners
to fight AIDS
From MUAWUYA B. IDRIS, Katsina
THE National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) is working with
traditional medicine practitioners to come up with traditional
medicines for AIDS treatment, the executive chairman in charge of
the committee, Professor Babatunde Osotihemin has said.
Professor Osotihemin told newsmen in Katsina that the federal
government had already directed the National Institute of
Pharmaceutical Research and Development to conduct research on
different traditional medicines.
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Prof. Maurice Iwu
INEC Chairman |
INEC registers more voters in Kaduna,
Osun
INEC says more than one million people have been registered in
Kaduna state and 857,892 in Osun, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports.
INEC's Commissioner in Kaduna state, Alhaji Aliyu Marafa, said the
commission recorded the number last week.
``My electoral officers in the local government areas are presently
collating the number of voters so far registered and very soon, we
will make it public,'' Marafa said.
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Malam Ibrahim
Shekarau Kano Governor |
Shekarau commiserates with This Day
GOVERNOR of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has joined other
well-meaning Nigerians in commiserating with the board, management
and staff of Leaders and Company Ltd., publishers of ThisDay
newspapes, as well as millions of the newspaper’s readers all over
the world on the sad event of the fire disaster which engulfed the
corporation’s premises over the weekend.
This is contained in a press statement signed by his Director of
Press, Mallam Sule Ya’u Sule in Kano expressed shock at the sheer
magnitude of destruction of the newspaper’s property..
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Sani Lulu Abdullahi
NFA Boss |
Kwara /Tornadoes tie gulp N9m
Nigeriansportsonline.com can report today that the 2007 Globacom
Premier League opening match between Kwara United of Ilorin and
Niger Tornadoes of Minna cost as much as N9m to be televised live.
Nigeriansportsonline.com learnt that the huge bill in beaming the
opening fixture live of the Globacom Premier League live by cable
channel SuperSport who are the official TV right owners as well as
other logistic shortfalls made it impossible for another match to be
telecast live on Sunday.
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