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CHICAGO - Eight nonprofit organizations were named winners of the "MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions," and each will receive up to $500,000 from the MacArthur Foundation: _Centro de ... via KOB-TV

NIGERIA National Filters Association, Delta zone has protested the employment of expatriate filters by the Chevron Nigeria Limited for its operations in the state when they are qualified indigenous filters, ... via Vanguard

“This must change. Iata is serious about delivering results that will raise the bar on aviation safety”

Ipsoa is a partnership to improve both safety and efficiency. Iata will provide access to the data, but the airlines must invest to ensure that their organisations can take advantage of the programme. via Sunday Times

But the name of the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo, which was mentioned as having partaken in the graft, was missing on the list of the accused persons charged to court yesterday. via Vanguard

“Resist doing so because these products cannot meet global standards”

Concerned women executives in the Information and Communication Technology field are advocating involvement of more Nigerian women in the sector. via PC World

“We urge the DPR to come alive to its responsibility to the consuming public by ensuring that the product vessels are cleared expeditiously to avoid the seeming artificial scarcity and lengthy queues at the pumps.”

FRIDAY'S directive by President Umaru Yar'Adua to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , the Department of Petroleum Resources and the Standard Organisation of Nigeria to take urgent steps to end the ... via AllAfrica.com

“For those who have retired between July and December 2007, we've paid close to N10 billion from that account out of the N59 billion the Federal Government has set aside.”

HE Federal Government contributed N59 billion for the payment of retirees from the Federal Civil Service between July 2004 and March 2008. via Vanguard

“The size and scale of the Lekki port when combined with its state of the art cargo handling and storage infrastructure will make it an ideal transshipment hub capable servicing the entire West African coast.”

The deepest port in Africa with a draft of 17 meters is to be constructed by Lagos Port LFTZ Enterprises along Atlantic coast at Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos by the first quarter of 2009, Mr. via AllAfrica.com

SHOCKING revelations have emerged after President Umaru Yar'Adua, last week, ordered the termination of the controversial sale of 80 per cent shares of the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and the National Mining ... via AllAfrica.com

“Government intervened on a number of occasions to address some of these concerns, but for some reasons, these interventions were either not sustained or were unsustainable”

Mr Solomon Onafowokan, the President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry , weekend in Lagos urged government to effectively implement its strategies at reforming the ports. via AllAfrica.com

“No wonder Nigeria has been able to generate over $2.6 billion in licensing fees alone, excluding tax revenues”

Since the liberalisation of the telecom sector and the advent of GSM in Nigeria, Direct Foreign Investment of over $12 billion has flowed into the country, the Minister of State for Information and ... via Vanguard

“This is what has made the current shortage so bad”

With massive fuel shortages in the north of Nigeria since mid March, transport costs have doubled exacerbating food prices. via IRIN

FIVE workers of Express /Shebah Petroleum and Gas Company Limited, kidnapped by militant youths in Ilaje oil rich communities areas of Ondo State, have been released to the state government. via Vanguard

A six-count criminal complaint filed in Nigeria eight years ago charges Kase Lawal with joining in a plot to forge papers in the name of a local company, win offshore-drilling approvals and illegally pump and ... via The Modesto Bee

“Port's demonstration of its corporate social responsibility to those who risked their lives through evacuating the infamous toxic waste in Koko Port”

FOUR victims of the infamous Koko toxic waste dump recieved N39.7m compensation from the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Warri, for injuries, pain and frustration suffered during the evacuation of the toxic dump ... via AllAfrica.com

The Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro yesterday carried out his threat to either arrest or fish out police officers that falsify documents or impersonate during or after entry into the force by ordering ... via Vanguard

There was free for all fight in the Anambra State House of Assembly yesterday following the slashing of the State's 2008 budget from N84.2 billion to N57.2 billion by the committee on finance and appropriation. via AllAfrica.com

A House of Representatives committee has expressed shock at lack of work, and spending of $86 million on Bayelsa Independent Power Project . via AllAfrica.com

“People say why should I bother [to vote]?”

Violence was relatively low in the run-up to local elections on 29 March in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State but with evidence emerging of massive voting irregularities in favour of the ruling party, human ... via IRIN News

“My town, which is home to 625 people, is for Obama, my children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama.”

Former President Jimmy Carter all but said Wednesday he plans to cast his superdelegate vote for Barack Obama. via CNN