﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Punch - News, Fresh and Factual:: -- Rss Feeds</title><link>http://www.punchng.com</link><pubDate>11/20/2009</pubDate><description>From the Punch Newspaper</description><copyright>Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.</copyright><item><title>Guaranty Assurance‘s shares boost capitalisation</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120312587</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>The entire 10billion shares of Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc were listed by introduction on the ...</description></item><item><title>After the banking reforms...</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2009111921314148</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 November 2009</pubDate><description>All seems calm in the banking sector now that the Central Bank of Nigeria has hung its ...</description></item><item><title>After the banking reforms...</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2009111921314148</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 November 2009</pubDate><description>All seems calm in the banking sector now that the Central Bank of Nigeria has hung its ...</description></item><item><title>Deportees, asylum seekers and Nigeria’s image</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911200404467</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Nothing exposes the nation’s crisis of governance than the recurrent high incidence of ...</description></item><item><title>Deportees, asylum seekers and Nigeria’s image</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911200404467</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Nothing exposes the nation’s crisis of governance than the recurrent high incidence of ...</description></item><item><title>Save the retirees</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120045985</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>I have never seen a country like Nigeria that seems to derive joy in seeing her citizens suffer...</description></item><item><title>...Ojo LG, too</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911200473951</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>The roads and streets in Okokomaiko, Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State is in a ...</description></item><item><title>Blood Game</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120143626</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Director: 	Okey Okoh. Featuring:	Ini Edo, Jim Iyke, Oge Okoye, Jim Lawson Maduike, Tina Amuziam, Mary Data Uranta. Blood Game is the story of friendship gone wrong. Mirabel (Ini), Empress (Mary Uranta) and Vivian (Oge Okoye) are students and the best of friends...</description></item><item><title>Jamie’s out</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120153884</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Last Sunday, Simon Cowell lost one of the acts he‘s mentoring in the X Factor 2009 -Jamie ...</description></item><item><title>Now we’ve qualified...</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911200594057</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>One of the challenges of being away from Nigeria is missing out on sports. 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work</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911203425470</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>The Executive Director, Media Rights Agenda, Mr. Edetaen Ojo, presented this paper at the Awareness Seminar on the Press Ombudsman organised by the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), in association with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),  the ...</description></item><item><title>‘How the Press Ombudsman works’</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911203333928</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Being text of the opening address delivered by the President, Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, Chief Ajibola Ogunshola, at a workshop on the  Press Ombudsman, in ...</description></item><item><title>Kemistry back in town</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911201205681</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Guess who‘s back in town? 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Ameobi</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120201746</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Newcastle United striker Shola Ameobi is a World Cup target for Nigeria...</description></item><item><title>APM Terminals debunk alleged sacking of 15 staff</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120224990</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>APM Terminals, Apapa, has debunked the allegation of sacking  employees...</description></item><item><title>‘Effective implementation of maritime laws’ll transform sector’</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911202153317</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>EFFECTIVE implementation of maritime laws has been described as an essential step towards ...</description></item><item><title>Arik to begin Abuja-London flights</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120256018</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 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2009</pubDate><description>THE Nigerian Accounting Standards Board has stressed the need for a review of the ...</description></item><item><title>FG donates books worth N4.2bn to schools</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120335264</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>The Federal Government on Thursday donated books worth N4.2bn to pupils in the Junior ...</description></item><item><title>TMG faults fresh bickering</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911203375925</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>A civil rights organisation, Transition Monitoring Group, has decried the fresh wave of bickering ...</description></item><item><title>RCCG holds seminar on Sat</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911203252571</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>The Excellent Men 	Fellowship of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, National 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race</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911201575956</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Obudu International Mountain Race women‘s defending champion, Andrea Mayr, narrowly ...</description></item><item><title>CSR: Stakeholders meet to improve practice</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20091120228817</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>Stakeholders in standards regulation have begun a national interactive workshop aimed at ...</description></item><item><title>Yar’Adua inaugurates Petroleum Institute at UNIPORT</title><link>http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200911202573796</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 November 2009</pubDate><description>President  Umaru Yar’Adua, on Thursday inaugurated a complex of the Institute of Petroleum ...</description></item><item><title>Arik to begin Abuja-London 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