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60 killed in Nigerian village attacks
At least 60 people were killed in Nigeria Tuesday when some gunmen stormed four villages of Zamfara state early morning, residents and security sources said. About 100 gunmen, first stormed Kizara village around 3.00 a.m. and began attacking the residence of poor villagers. In the process, an unknown number of people were killed, including the District Head of Kizara, Bello Ibrahim, who was ...
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Gunmen Kill Dozens in Northern Nigeria Village
Witnesses say dozens of gunmen arrived on motorbikes early Tuesday in the village of Kizara, moving from house to house and shooting at residents. Some of the gunmen climbed on top of a hill and opened fire on villagers who tried to escape the attack. Zamfara state officials say the gunmen were part of a group of cattle rustlers that have been terrorizing the local community. The gunmen ...
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Armed robbers kill 48 in northwest Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria -; Police say armed robbers have shot and killed 48 people in a revenge attack on villagers in northwest Nigeria who have formed vigilante groups to try to end a spree of violent ...
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Pirates attack ship off Nigeria kidnap four - sources
ABUJA (Reuters) - Pirates in speedboats attacked an oil supply vessel and kidnapped four Indian and Polish crew members in increasingly dangerous waters off Nigeria's coast last week, two security sources said on Wednesday. The gunmen launched their assault on the Singapore-flagged tugboat MDPL Continental One around 30 nautical miles from land on June 13, the security sources said. The ...
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Nigeria 22 Killed As Boko Haram Launches Reprisal On Youths in Maiduguri
Maiduguri - At least 22 people including students and fishermen have been killed in Maiduguri yesterday, a few hours after Boko Haram insurgents declared war against youths in Borno and Yobe states who have captured many insurgents and handed them over to the Joint Task Force (JTF). Witnesses, survivors and reliable security sources said the first incident which appeared like a revenge mission ...
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Armed gang kills 48 in Nigerian raid
An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a state official says."There was an attack by armed bandits early Tuesday on Kizara village where 48 residents were killed in apparent targeted killings by cattle rustlers that have been terrorising the state for some time now," said Ibrahim ...
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NigeriaDrug Barons Devise Strategy To Evade Jail 110 Accused Persons Jump Bail
By SaharaReporters, New York An investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed what one insider called an increasing boom in Nigeria’s hard drug business, with serious lapses in the prosecution of suspects. "It is well known that a cartel operates within the courts, the prisons and at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to assist drug convicts to evade jail terms," said a ...
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Boko Haram Islamist militants kill nine school children in northern Nigeria as punishment for youth gangs working with the army
Members of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group have killed at least nine children at a school in northern Nigeria - the second attack on students in the area this ...
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Barber in prison over alleged robbery
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a barber,Oriyomi Saliu, 27, in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos, over alleged armed robbery. The Magistrate, Mrs A. Ipaye-Nwachukwu, said that the accused would stay in prison, pending when legal advice from the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions(DPP) would be ready. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the plea of the accused ...
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Gunmen Kill 48 in Zamfara
Gusau - Gunmen yesterday raided a village in Zamfara State and killed at least 48 people including the district head, chief imam and the local vigilante leader. The attack in Kizara village of Tsafe local government area started at about 4am and lasted for more than five hours, residents told a Daily Trust reporter who visited the area soon after the incident. Witnesses said dozens of ...
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Protecting Religious Rights At Rivers State University
This paper last week featured an in-depth report of it said was the denial of a place of worship for Muslim students of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology. According to the report, while the university's authorities paid for the construction of churches for the different Christian sects on campus, they frequently demolished any structures that the Muslim students put down ...
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Confederations Cup - Eagles Prepare for Uruguay
The Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, and his players will not be celebrating the big win over Tahiti for too long as the attention has now shifted to their next opponents Uruguay. The African champions will meet with the South Americans kings on Thursday fully aware that victory in any shade will see them through to the semi final of the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil. Hat-trick hero in ...
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Kurfi Charges Eagles to Beat Uruguay
Foremost football financier and member of the current board of the Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), Alhaji Aminu Kurfi yesterday charged the Super Eagles to beat Uruguay in their second Group B match at the ongoing FIFA Confederation Cup to book their passage to the semi-final of the prestigious soccer fiesta. Kurfi, in a telephone interview with Daily Trust from London, noted that the team has ...
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If Mandela Were a Nigerian
If Nelson Mandela were a Nigerian, he would never be treated in a hospital within his country. God forbid! At the slightest sign of ill health, he would be airlifted to a hospital in Germany, the UK, the US, France, or Saudi Arabia. Any Nigerian doctor who comes close to him - much less touches him - would immediately be arrested and charged with treason. An SSS interrogator would ask the ...
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Bandit attacks displace northern Nigeria herders
Displaced Fulani families take shelter in a school in Kaduna's Birnin Gwari district KANO, 19 June 2013 (IRIN) - Incessant deadly attacks on Fulani settlements and villages in northern Nigeria by armed bandits - made up partly of disgruntled Fulani who themselves have lost cattle - are threatening herds and upping tensions in northern Nigeria. Gangs of heavily armed bandits prowl the ...
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Kim Kardashian names baby Kaidence Donda West
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reportedly named their daughter Kaidence Donda West. The reality TV star gave birth to the couple’s first child on Saturday (15.06.13) in Los Angeles, California, and a loose-lipped nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the hospital where she had her baby, has allegedly revealed their new arrival’s name. According to gossip website ...
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Hollywood actor Johnny Depp is almost blind
Johnny Depp has revealed he is almost completely blind in one eye and near-sighted in the other. The ‘Lone Ranger’ star, who is rarely photographed without a pair of tinted glasses, claims he has been ';basically blind as a bat'; in his left eye since birth and the problem is impossible to correct. The 50-year-old actor told the July issue of Rolling Stone magazine that ...
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Again APC fails to unveil Nat’l Officers
BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & GABRIEL EWEPU ABUJA- THE three political parties, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, seeking registration under the All Progressives Congress, APC, failed again to unveil national officers that would run the affairs of the party. Speaking shortly after merger committees' meeting with ...
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”I will be with you through fire” Lady D tells Charly Boy in Bday letter
By Charles Mgbolu In a very moving letter, Lady D wife has congratulated her husband Charles Charly Boy Oputa aka Areafada who turns 62 today, June 19th, vowing to remain with him even when their love passes through fire… Read her heart touching letter… My dear Charles, you have been in our lives for many- many seasons, and I have chosen to lay my heart out for that reason. This ...
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Suarez Eagles will fall
Uruguay striker, Luis Suarez has boasted that the Super Eagles will suffer for the 2-1 defeat inflicted by Spain on the Uruguay when the champions of Africa and South Americans clash tomorrow in a Group B Confederations Cup match in Salvador. Uruguay opened their campaign at the FIFA Confederations Cup, Brazil 2013, with a defeat, but that does not necessarily mean there are no positives to be ...
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Expert hails proposed ban on pure water packaging
Port Harcourt – Dr. Chukwuemeka Oluoha, Executive Director, Abia Primary Healthcare Development Agency, has said that the proposed ban of the packaging of sachet water in cellophane was in the interest of public health. Oluoha in Port Harcourt on Tuesday said that the plastic material used in packaging pure water was not good for products meant for consumption. He said when a plastic ...
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Vanguards Publisher Decries Child Abuse
Lagos - Publisher of Vanguard newspaper, Mr. Sam Amuka, yesterday, reaffirmed his organisation's commitment to fight child sex abuse in the country, even as Mrs. Kuburat Okoya, wife of industrialist, Razaq Okoya, said the trend had become a silent epidemic. Addressing participants during the 5th edition of Vanguard's Children's Annual Conference that attracted over 40 schools in ...
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UN concerned over refugee outflows from Nigeria crisis
New York, June 19 : The United Nations refugee agency Tuesday reported that the ongoing crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is continuing to send people fleeing to Niger and now to Cameroon amid the insecurity resulting from confrontations between the army and ...
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Gunmen in 38 motorcycles invade Zamfara village kill 32
Kizara (Zamfara) -More than 32 persons were reported killed in the early hours of Tuesday when gunmen numbering about 150 attacked Kizara village in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara. The heavily armed gunmen, who came on 38 motorcycles, invaded the village at about 4 a.m., shooting sporadically at anybody in sight. An eye-witnesses told newsmen that the attackers set several houses ...
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Why Amaechi remains suspended by Akpabio
Abuja – The National Caucus of the ruling PDP has explained that the suspension of Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers was not lifted because of a pending case challenging the action. The party organ gave the explanation late on Tuesday after a meeting, presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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