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The Defense Mechanism central office in Capital Of Nigeria said yesterday that contrary to studies in the mass media that the five (5) Americans and two (2) Nigerians arrested by the Joint Undertaking Military Unit in Warri were scheduled to pay a visit to the Head of Defense Mechanism Staff, General Owoye Azazi, there is no record of any such as assignment with the Head of Defense Mechanism Staff.

In a statement signed by Lt. Col. J. A. Ajim, the Defense Mechanism central office said the revelation by one of the arrested Nigerians to that consequence was mischievious.

It reads, "The atention of the Defense Mechanism central office have been drawn to some deceptive business relationship of some aliens and their Nigerian spouses in the brooks of the Niger River River Delta by secret agents of the Joint Undertaking Military Unit in the Niger Delta".

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"We are particularly concerned by mass media studies where it was alleged by the Nigerian among the arrested work force to the consequence that 'the presence of the squad in Federal Republic Of Nigeria was public cognition and that they are scheduled to have got got audience with the Head of Defense Mechanism Staff.

"Without bias to the on-going investigation of the incident, we see it rather absurd for the people to claim that they have scheduled audience with the Head of Defense Mechanism Staff.

"On the human face of it, readers might come up away with the feeling that the people are known to the cadmiums and indeed had an assignment with him. However, the fact is that there is no record of any assignment between these people and the Head of Defense Mechanism Staff".

Canadian executive directors were
pessimistic about future gross sales for the first clip in more than than
six old age last one-fourth as they struggled with recognition shortages
and weak U.S. demand, a Depository Financial Institution of Canada study found.

Thirty-eight percentage of companies said they anticipate sales
growth to decelerate in the adjacent year, compared with 36 percent
predicting faster growing -- the first clip there were more
negative sentiments since the 4th one-fourth of 2001, the Ottawa-
based cardinal bank's said.

''The gross sales Numbers and the general mentality propose there
needs to be a small more than slump inch the nightlong rate,'' said
, a senior foreign exchange strategian at ABN Amro
Inc. in Chicago. Thomas Reid predicted the Depository Financial Institution of Canada will cut its
main loaning charge per unit by 50 footing points at its April 22 meeting.

The lag in the U.S. economic system and a deficiency of credit
worldwide will prevail and may eventually pare demand for
Canada's commodities, Depository Financial Institution of Canada Governor said
in an interview with Bloomberg News on April 12. The depository financial institution cut
its benchmark by one-half a point to 3.5 percentage on March 4 and
signaled more than decreases would be needed.

Canada ships three-quarters of its exportations to the U.S.,
where the collapse of the subprime mortgage marketplace last year
sapped consumer assurance and pared demand for Canadian lumber
and cars. The study establish more than optimism among companies in
western Canada, where lucks are tied to planetary terms for
oil, corn and other trade goodss rather than mill exports.

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''Firms negatively affected by the weaker U.S. economic
situation are generally expecting gross sales growing to moderate,
while those less open are more than optimistic,'' the depository financial institution said.

Forty-one percentage of the executive directors said recognition markets
''tightened'' inch the past three calendar months and 17 percent said they
had ''eased,'' according to the Depository Financial Institution of Canada's quarterly
survey of about 100 companies from Feb. Twenty-Two to March 20. Those
results were close to the bank's last survey, which establish the
most restrictive adoption statuses since mid-2003.

Companies in the most recent opinion poll also were less likely to
buy new equipment and reported fewer labour shortages.

Trading in hereafters contracts shows investors are betting
the cardinal depository financial institution will take down its benchmark loaning charge per unit by at
least a one-fourth point next week, after moderation by a percentage
point since December.

Policy shapers put to maintain rising terms at or
close to 2 percent, and the concern study indicated that
prices won't rush past times that mark.

Forty-four percentage of executive directors said they would have
''some'' Oregon ''significant'' trouble filling unforeseen
orders, down from 60 percent in the last survey, which was the
highest since the 3rd one-fourth of 1999.

The per centum of companies predicting rising prices of at
least 2 percentage over the adjacent two old age rose 1 point to 69
percent. Still, that reading was 80 percentage two living quarters ago.

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NEW DELHI, April 2: The Centre is planning to utilize the services of civil defense mechanism force in catastrophe direction trading operations throughout the country. Civil defense mechanism force mainly deployed in about 170 towns in boundary line countries were primarily for readiness against external aggression and were trained to ran into warfare clip challenges. Now, the state of operation of civil defense mechanism military units would increase from urban countries to distant towns of the country, changing its earlier town based attack to territory based approach. The determination was taken today by the place minister's civil defense mechanism advisory commission endorsing the recommendations of the kilometer Singh Committee on "revamping of civil defence". The consultative commission meeting, chaired by the Union place minister, Mister Shivraj Patil, met here today for the first clip to discourse the suggestions made by Mister kilometer Singh. The meeting was also attended by the defense mechanism minister, Mister Type A Kelvin Antony, the vice-chairman of the National Catastrophe Management Authority, Gen (Retd) Normality Degree Centigrade Vij, and the curate of state for home, Multiple Sclerosis Volt Radhika Selvi. Mister kilometer Singh, member National Catastrophe Management Authority, had proposed a new strategy on 'revamping of civil defence' which is to be implemented during the 11th Five twelvemonth Plan at an estimated cost of Rs 100 crore. The commission endorsed the suggestions of the Kelvin Meter Singh Committee to incorporate civil defense mechanism in the catastrophe direction model and transport out the necessary amendment to the Civil Defense Mechanism Act, 1968, for the purpose. All activities pertaining to civil defense mechanism in the state are carried out under the Civil Defense Mechanism Act, 1968 and the ordinances and regulations under the Act. normality SNS