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Trust Reporter Columnist Shortlisted for Caine Prize
A literary journalist with Sunday Trust, Abubakar Ibrahim Adam, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing for his story 'THE WHISPERING TREES' in a list which has three other unprecedented Nigerian entries. The other three Nigerians also shortlisted are Elnathan John, a for his story titled Bayan Layi'; Tope Folarin for his short story 'Miracle,' ...
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Dokubo - How Criminals Rule Nigeria
Speaking for their boss and theatrically playing his script, two criminals recently threatened Nigeria with war if President Jonathan, by their proclamation, is not returned for another term in the 2015 elections; whether he wins or loses. It was President Jonathan's Special Adviser on Niger Delta who first issued threats of violence while on a visit to the United States of America should ...
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Briton Unlawfully Killed in Nigeria
An engineer from Greater Manchester was unlawfully killed by his kidnappers in Nigeria minutes after a UK-led rescue operation stormed in, an inquest found. Hostages Chris McManus, 28, from Oldham, and Italian Franco Lamolinara, 48, died on March 8, 2012 before Nigeria and UK forces were able to rescue them. They had been kidnapped in May 2011 after gunmen stormed their building. An inquest ...
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Celebration Galore As Chimps Bobby and Paulina Clock 50
Jos - In a ceremony described as the first of its kind in Africa, the National Zoological Garden, Jos organised a special 50th birthday party for two chimpanzees Bobby and Paulina last week. Bobby and Paulina are said to be two of the oldest living Chimpanzees in Nigeria. The female Chimps recently marked their 50th birthday in style surrounded by children of primary schools, their care givers ...
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Man Who Kept Mothers Corpse in Wardrobe Linked to More Disappearances
Owerri - Last week, Chimezie Osuigwe, hit the headlines after he was arrested for allegedly keeping the remains of his 78-year-old mother inside a wardrobe for 10 years. Now it has emerged that even before the ugly incident, which shocked the people of Ezuru, Umuagwu of Ejemekwuru Community in Oguta Local Government Council of Imo State, Osuigwe has been linked to the mysterious disappearance ...
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Sokoto Mass Wedding - Screening Attracts the Young and Old
Sokoto - Females and males of different ages in their clusters waited unwearyingly as the screening for the mass wedding in Sokoto was to be conducted. The screening which held last week at the Youth Development Centre in the state capital saw over 140 prospective couples being screened. Interestingly, the exercise attracted both the young and the old. Many who witnessed the screening ...
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The Media Terrorism and Nigerias Democracy
Since the evolution of the modern press, fundamental roles have been ascribed to mass media practitioners all over the world, on the basis of social responsibility and with regard to their contribution towards the development of the societies they serve. In fact, the mass media have become so indispensible in our present world that they are now widely known by the cliche "fourth estate of ...
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Nigeria Insurgents Disguising in Military Camouflage - Army
The Nigerian Army yesterday accused Boko Haram gunmen of disguising themselves in fake army camouflage to carry out attacks on civilians at Bama, Borno State and Daura in Katsina State. Chief of Civil/Military Relations of the army, Major-General Bola Koleosho, told pressmen in Abuja that the Boko Haram gunmen were responsible for the dastardly acts that were being blamed on soldiers. ...
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Nigeria Nigeria First Bank Targets 10 Percent Loan Growth This Year - CEO
Nigeria's FBN Holdings Plc aims to grow loans 10 percent this year for its banking unit, down from 23 percent growth in 2012, as it tries to balance its capital needs with creating risk assets, the head of the banking unit said on Friday. The CEO of First Bank, Bisi Onasanya, told a conference call the lender had a capital adequacy ratio of 21 percent and it wanted to balance its capital ...
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Nigeria DBanj Now Face of Bank of Industry
Award-winning artist, D'banj, has been appointed as the face of the Bank of Industry (BOI). The G.O.O.D Music artiste is the first musician to be appointed ambassador of the Bank headed by Ms. Evelyn Oputu. The unveiling/media presentation took place earlier in the week and was performed by the BOI boss herself. The value of the contract is unknown but it's speculated to mean more ...
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Nigeria imposes 24-hour curfew as offensive presses on
Nigeria's offensive is targeting all three states put under emergency decree, including Adamawa and Yobe, but the Boko Haram's traditional base of Borno is expected to see the most intense fighting. ...
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Press lambast Mourinho after cup final loss
MADRID- The day after Atletico Madrid ended 14 years of hurt to finally beat Real Madrid 2-1 and lift the Copa del Rey at the Santiago Bernabeu, the Spanish press was left to reflect on a disappointing season for Los Merengues and almost certainly the final chapter in Jose Mourinho’s time in charge of Real. Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo, who had headed Real into an early lead, were both ...
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Nigeria Akwa Ibom Orders Closure of Illegal Motor-Parks
Uyo - The Akwa Ibom Government has directed operators of commercial vehicles and tricycles to relocate to government- owned motor-parks across Uyo so as to check criminal activities. The Commissioner for Transport, Mr Bassey Abia gave the directive while interacting with newsmen in Uyo on Thursday. Abia said that the relocation should be carried out immediately. "A tax force committee ...
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Residents flee after air raids on Boko Haram
KANO- Residents of an insurgent stronghold in northeast Nigeria fled their homes Saturday as military fighter jets and helicopters carried out heavy air strikes on Boko Haram Islamist camps. Nigeria launched a massive offensive against Boko Haram this week, deploying several thousand troops across three states where President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency after the Islamists ...
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Nigerias Oil Sector Output Decreases in First Quarter - NBS
Abuja - The economy, measured by the Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), grew by 6.56 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 as against 6.34 per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2012. Dr Yemi Kale, the Statistician-General of the Federation, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 9.1 per cent in April as against 8.6 per cent recorded in March ...
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Babangidas Legacy of Private Broadcasting
IN the past, broadcasting was an exclusive central government preserves which means private individuals do not have the right under law to invest in the sector. Broadcasting is an aspect of modern mass media which meant that signals could be sent out to anyone within broadcast range who possessed the equipment to pick it up. This was a vast change from the physical delivery necessary to ...
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One Dies Three Trapped As Four-Storey Building Collapses in Lagos
Lagos - ONE person died while three workers were trapped as four-storey building under construction at Liverpool Estate in Ijegun, Lagos collapsed. At press time, rescue operation by officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency was on-going, as more persons were believed to have been trapped in the building. It was gathered that the building was already marked for demolition by Town ...
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Economy Grows By 6.56 Percent - NBS
Abuja - The economy, measured by the Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), grew by 6.56 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 as against 6.34 per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2012. Dr Yemi Kale, the Statistician-General of the Federation, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 9.1 per cent in April as against 8.6 per cent recorded in March ...
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Nigerian warplanes strike Boko Haram camps
Nigerian officials say warplanes have struck Boko Haram camps in the northeast in a major offensive against the group's fighters.Troops used jets and helicopters on Friday to hit targets in their biggest military campaign since Boko Haram launched a revolt almost four years ago. The air raids, which began after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the states of ...
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ICPC to install free toll line for information on corruption
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it is planning to install free toll line for Nigeriansto report corrupt ...
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NAMA cancels its planned closure of airspace
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) staff have suspended the industrial action slated to start on Monday to press home their demand for additional welfare package. The workers decided to suspend the planned strike after a meeting between the management and union ...
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Church constructs N4.5 m clinic in Adamawa
Gombi (Adamawa) -The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria has constructed a health clinic worth N4.5 million in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa. The acting Bishop of Yola Diocese, Reverend Ishaku Bala, disclosed this at the opening of a three-day conference of the diocese on Friday in Gombi. He said that the clinic was built to address the health needs of the people in the area. Bala ...
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Lagos Employs 70 Women Truck Drivers
Ikeja - The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had just employed 70 women as truck drivers, as part of efforts to empower women in the state. The Deputy Gov., Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, announced this at a news conference in Ikeja organised to mark Gov. Babatunde Fashola's sixth year in office. She said that the women had been trained on driving large vehicles before they were ...
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Nigeria Rebels Could Face War Crimes Charges for Population Cleansing - UN Rights Office
Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram and other extremist ...
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NYT Morgue overflowing as Nigerias dirty war rages
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. "They were not properly shot," recalled a security official here. "I had to call the J.T.F." -- the military's joint task force -- "and they gunned them ...
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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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