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MAN OF THE YEAR
THE most influential people on earth are ordinary dreamers. They see beyond the immediate; they construct, in their mind's eye, a future - seemingly farfetched, but festooned with possibilities.
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The new look Oshodi area after Sunday demolitions, as traffic now flows... yesterday
PHOTO: SAM OLUSEGUN-ALADE
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CBN deploys fraud monitors in banks
By Enitar Ugwu
THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has scaled up its crackdown on fraud in the nation's banking sector by deploying its officials to banks to monitor their activities.
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Gunmen abduct, free author, Elechi Amadi
From Kelvin Ebiri (Port Harcourt) and Willie Etim (Yenagoa)
UNKNOWN gunmen who abducted renowned author, Captain Elechi Amadi, on Monday night in his home in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday night released him to his family.
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Lagos moves to end doctors strike, opens paediatrics complex
By Chukwuma Muanya, Seye Olumide and Bertram Nwannekanma
STRIKING doctors in Lagos may call off their industrial action today after the state government set up a negotiating team to meet with executives of the Medical Guild.
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AFRICA
Mugabe to form government in Feb.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is expected to form a new government by the end of February despite stalled talks with the main opposition party, the state-run Herald newspaper said yesterday.
AU to plug Somali troop gaps
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African Union officials in Somalia have said that they will plug the gaps left by departing Ethiopian troops.
WORLD
India hands over Mumbai attack evidence to Pakistan
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India said it had handed over evidence that linked Pakistani militants to the Mumbai attacks yesterday, demanding a prompt investigation by Islamabad and piling diplomatic pressure on its nuclear-armed rival.
U.S. opens new Iraq embassy in symbolic move
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The United States opened its new embassy building in Baghdad yesterday, a step meant to symbolise its transition from occupying power to an ally of a sovereign Iraqi government.
POLICY & POLITICS
How Utomi, others see Ghana's election
By Clifford Ndujihe
AS Prof. John Evans Atta Mills is sworn-in as Third President of the Third Republic today, many Nigerians and groups have continued to hail Ghana's democratic culture.
ARTS
In 2008, plenty laugh, robust purse for comics
By Justin Akpovi-Esade
WITH six awards last year, the biggest being the Comedian Of The Year, Diamond Awards for Comedy, comic Ayo Makun popularly called A Y could qualify to be called the nation's reigning King of Comedy.
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