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Darfur: Nigeria’s APCs’re Substandard, Says UN Inspectors

Posted by Evong on October 5th, 2009

From Juliana Taiwo in Abuja, 10.05.2009
 
United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has described Nigeria’s Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to be deployed to the mission as substandard, saying they were not made for the desert and so cannot protect the troops.
 The United Nations military team , led by Lt. Col Frank Leonhardt , which was in Nigeria from August 31st to September 2,2009 for a pre-deployment visit to assist, promote, and inspect the APCs to be deployed to the mission, said it was disappointed with the equipment , describing them as “zero standard” which falls below UN’s expectations . Read the rest of this entry »

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Happy 49th Anniversary to Nigerians

Posted by Evong on October 1st, 2009

-       Evong, E. S. B
President, Inspire Nigeria

It is 49 years since we gained independence from Britain. Along with that air of freedom came a great sense of hope. Hope of fulfilment and greatness. Hope that our already blossoming primary and secondary schools will continue to yield the best trained pupils and students and that our universities will continue to be international centres of human and scientific learning. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tompolo won’t surrender arms, says Ijaw youth group

Posted by Evong on September 14th, 2009

Sep 14, 2009 By Emma Amaize

WARRI—IJAW youth leaders in the Niger-Delta, under the auspices of the Ijaw Youths Leadership Forum (IYLF) , weekend, said militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, was fighting the cause of Ijaw people and ruled out the possibility of his surrendering  arms when the federal government has not commenced feasible development of the coastal communities. Read the rest of this entry »

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Microsoft hits back at i4i ruling claiming that the verdict is ‘not justice’

Posted by Evong on August 31st, 2009

Dan RaywoodAugust 27, 2009 

Microsoft has claimed that the ruling that prevents it from selling Word is not justice as it has won the right to a fast track appeal. 

In a 100-page brief for the defendant, the company claimed that the £175 million damages it has been ordered to pay to i4i are unreasonable and that an i4i survey the court used to decide that amount was flawed. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cross River’s many losses

Posted by Evong on August 18th, 2009

By Godwin Bassey
 

IN 1920 Calabar was made the administrative capital city of Nigeria by the then colonial masters. The euphoria that greeted this gesture by the people of the area was short-lived as the powers-that-be hijacked the capital to Lagos, their excuse was that Calabar was close to Cameroon and it was unconventional for the capital city of a country to be close to a neighbouring country. On further reflection, one is forced to ask which is closer, Calabar to Cameroon or Lagos to Benin Republic? Read the rest of this entry »

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