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By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa — National Chairman of Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSCON, Chief Alred Bubor, yesterday, expressed concern over the continued refusal of Bayelsa State Government to accede to the demand of the people for the establishment of Bayelsa State Oil Producing Areas Commission, BASOPADEC. BASOPADEC, according to the group, will facilitate rapid development at the grassroots. HOSCON, a pressure group with presence in all the oil producing states, except  Bayelsa and Rivers states, ..read more

By John Moyubi Amoda TALCOTT  PARSONS, the Moses of American Sociology translated Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism from German into English. The cover note on this translation describes Max Weber’s bench mark work as “a classic study of the fundamental relationships between religion and the economic and social life in a modern culture”

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By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—NATIONAL Consultant/Project Adviser to the Midwives Services Scheme, MSS, Dr. Ugo Okoli, yesterday in Benin disclosed that infant/maternal mortality rate in Nigeria has dropped from 800 deaths per 100,000 to 545 deaths per 100,000. She disclosed this to newsmen shortly after yesterday’s session of Training of Trainers Workshop on Life Saving Skills for Midwives organized by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA.

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By Luka Binniyat ABUJA—In a surprising development, the House of Representatives South-South Parliamentary caucus came out from a closed door meeting in Abuja last week and declared that it stands by the resolution passed by the House of Representatives three weeks ago. The resolution  states that Vice President Goodluck Jonathan  is already acting as Nigeria’s President irrespective of provision of section 145 of the Nigerian constitution. The Chairman of the caucus, Hon.

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By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN—SECOND Republic senator, Senator Francis Okpozo, has stressed the need for the National Assembly to speed up the Electoral Reform Bill so as to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to display the voters register at least two weeks before any election. He said this would reduce the marginalization of people as well as prevent electoral fraud.

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