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Lagos PDP crisis Bode George Ogunlewe reconcile
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State Chapter, on Friday announced that the lingering disagreement between two of its leaders – Chief Olabode George and Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, has been resolved. In a statement in Lagos, the PDP said:';The reported battle over the soul of the party in Lagos State has been settled. ';The two gladiators involved — George and ...
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CBN sells N277.9bn worth of treasury bills
Lagos – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sold treasury bills worth N227.91 billion this week. The Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA) disclosed this on its Website on Friday. FMDA said that five categories of treasury bills were sold at the last biweekly auctions. It said the auctions included the Open Market Operation (OMO) which comprised the 139-day and 128-day tenor bills. ...
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OIC condemns Nigers suicide attacks
WAM Jeddah, May 24th, 2013 (WAM) -- The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the two simultaneous car blasts, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and the other in the remote town of Arlit inside a French-operated uranium mine. In a statement released today, the OIC reiterated its firm rejection of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, extremism and the ...
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UPDATE 1-Algerian jihadi mastermind claims Niger suicide attacks
Fri May 24, 2013 12:12pm EDT * French forces, Niger troops kill last two Islamists * Veteran Algerian jihadist Belmokhtar claims Niger attacks * Belmokhtar planned hostage taking at Algeria gas plant * Niger attacks are 'shockwave' of Mali conflict By Abdoulaye Massalatchi NIAMEY, May 24 (Reuters) - French special forces and Niger troops shot dead on Friday the last two Islamists ...
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Security Council Press Statement on Attacks in Niger
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks that occurred in Agadez and Arlit, Niger, on 23 May, for which MUJWA has claimed responsibility, and which have caused numerous deaths and ...
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French help Niger to kill last jihadist bombers
Twisted metal lies at the site of a morning car bomb attack inside a military camp in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to ...
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Niger defense minister Hostages freed in Agadez
Twisted metal lies at the site of a morning car bomb attack inside a military camp in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to ...
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Niger Al-Qaeda Attack 20 people dead as dozens others left injured in Niger Africa News
Both attacks were carried out as people prepared for early morning prayers known as Fajir just after 05:00 local time (04:00 GMT). Local reporters say a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west of the country were the target of the terrorists. A bomb at a barracks in Agadez killed 19, including 18 soldiers while four terrorists died in the attack and a passbyer. ...
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French troops stage Niger raid
FRENCH special forces and local troops have raided an army base in northern Niger, ending a hostage seizure by Islamist fighters who had staged twin suicide bombings that killed at least 20 people. Friday's dawn raid came after Signatories in Blood, a jihadist group that claimed the previous day's blasts, threatened to continue attacking Niger until the country withdraws its forces from ...
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French special forces intervene in Niger amid Al-Qaeda attacks
Terrorism French special forces assisted Nigerien troops in an operation at an army base in Niger to flush out Al-Qaeda-linked militants suspected of a string of deadly attacks Thursday in the West African country. At least 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded in coordinated car bombings and assaults on a uranium mine run by French company Areva in the town of Arlit, and at a ...
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Mother of nine commits suicide in Zamfara
GusauA – 45-year-old house wife, Malama Hadiza Sani of Gada Village in Bungudu Local Government area of Zamfara has allegedly committed suicide. Hadiza, who until her death was a local comedian, was said to have killed herself with a sharp object in her husband’s compound. Her husband Sani, a meat seller, told reporters on Friday in Gada that he left his wife alive for prayers in a ...
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Gunmen kill father son Almajiri in Borno
BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Despite the emergency rule and the deployment of over 3000 Joint Taks Force troops in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, some gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect yesterday shot dead provision store dealer, Mr. Bitrus Kwaji and his son (name witheld), while one child suspected to be Almajiri(destitute) was killed by a stray bullet in Chescon area of Federal low ...
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Nigeria Senate Discusses Urgent Need for Rivers Dredging
This program will include: urgent need for dredging and desilting of the River Niger, the Cross River, River Benue and other inland waterways in Nigeria; and accordingly resolved to mandate the relevant Committees of the Senate to ascertain the level of preparedness of the Ministries in tackling this menace. The Senate commenced the consideration of the NOSDRA amendment Bill Committee Report. ...
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AU Countries Endorse Nigeria for UN Security Council
Nigeria was unanimously endorsed Thursday by African Union members in the nation's quest to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in October. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, who disclosed this after a closed door meeting with other foreign ministers at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, said the major hurdle now is ...
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Good Nigerian Talents Cost More Than Expatriates Says Airtels CEO
Lagos - Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya has called on the leadership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) to celebrate and promote local talents, saying African talents should be adequately empowered and supported to take up corporate leadership opportunities across the continent as good Nigerian talents ...
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Jonathans Half-Time - Club Down Manager Out
May 6th 2013 would make it 3 years since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became president of Nigeria. As an elected government, the administration would be celebrating its second anniversary next week. It therefore is the right time to look at how well it has fared. Two years is sufficient time to examine what promises have been kept, what projects are on schedule and which have been dumped altogether. ...
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Windstorm Sacks 2000 Bakassi Returnees From Cross River Refugee Camp - SEMA
About 12,000 people were displaced across the state by the flood. No fewer than 2,000 people have been displaced by a windstorm that ravaged a school block serving as refugee camp for Bakassi returnees in Cross River. The building, located in St Mark's Primary School, Akwa Ikot Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River, was used as a temporary camp since March 7 by the ...
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Fresh Oil Spill Hit Bayelsa Communities Pollutes Taylor Creek - It Is Sabotage-SPDC
Yenagoa - Communities in the downstream of the Taylor creek traversing Bayelsa communities in Yenagoa local government area have been hit by a fresh oil spill from a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) facility. The latest incident, it was learnt, occurred from a spill site three hours after it was clamped by SPDC personnel. A source told Vanguard, "about three hours after Shell ...
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Legislative Activities for May 15 2013
i. National Agricultural Development Fund (Est.etc) Bill 2013 (SB.299). Sponsor - Sen. Abdullahi Adamu ii. Economic and Financial Crime Commission Act (amendment) Bill 2013 (SB.300). Sponsor - Sen. Barnabas Gemade iii. National Institute for Sports Act (amendment) Bill 2013 (SB. 301). Sponsor - Sen. Barnabas Gemade iv. National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill ...
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Overzealous Security Aides Shut Bishops Nigerian Governors Out of Achebes Burial Service
The security officials were there to protect President Jonathan. Overzealous security officers on Thursday shut invited bishops, ministers, as well as state governors out of the burial service of Chinua Achebe. This happened moments before the arrival of President Goodluck Jonathan, who was accompanied by his Ghanaian counterpart, John Dramani. At the end of a moving sermon in which he ...
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Nigeria to Set New Tariffs for Manufacturers Industrialists
The new tariff would help improve manufacturing in Nigeria. A new tariff regime aimed at increasing local manufacturers' capacity and boost investments in the industrial sector is underway, The Minister of Trade and Industry, Olusegun Aganga, said. The Special Assistance to the Minister on Corporate Communications, Yemi Kolapo, said in a statement that Mr. Aganga made the plan known on ...
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Dipo Fashina - Farewell to the Last Standing Man
What credits one's life is not how much wealth he has piled up for himself but how good he has done for the rest of humanity. Dr Oladipo Fashina was very careful to ensure that he autographed his deeds with ...
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Nigeria Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
Abuja - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds of ...
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Good Nigerian talents cost more than expatriates says Airtel’s CEO
Lagos – Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya has called on the leadership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) to celebrate and promote local talents, saying African talents should be adequately empowered and supported to take up corporate leadership opportunities across the continent and that good Nigerian ...
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Niger government spokesman There were no hostages in Agadez
A soldier wounded in a car bombing attack on a military camp, lies in a hospital in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to ...
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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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