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Rainstorm Destroys 180 Structures in Katsina
Musawa - A three-hour rainstorm on Monday night destroyed no fewer than 180 structures including residential homes, schools and hospitals in Musawa, headquarters of Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State. The Monday night disaster was the second in about two weeks following a similar occurrence on May 29 that destroyed 50 structures in the town. Alhaji Tanimu Kira, Chairman of the ...
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Tinubus Speech - ACN Slams Presidency Over Reaction
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has condemned the presidency's hysterical reaction to the recent speech at the British African Diaspora Conference in London by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing as unnecessary and diversionary the name calling and personal attacks against the ACN leader. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai ...
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Jonathans Scorecard - Harnessing Potential of Agriculture ...
"I don't know what to do; I have tried all I can to get fertiliser but it is not available. Even the available ones are too expensive and the season for fertiliser application would soon be over. "I wonder why the government is claiming to be spending so much on fertiliser subsidy, while we, the farmers, cannot get it," Idris Yakowa, a local farmer in Kaduna moaned. But ...
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Nigeria Nigerians Support Anti Same-Sex Bill - Poll
A new weekly poll has revealed that 92 per cent of Nigerians are in support of the proposed Anti Same-Sex Bill. The weekly poll conducted by NOI Polls Limited from June 4 - 6 in Nigeria also revealed that the reason behind their support revolve around morality and religion. According to results of the poll, most Nigerians are of the opinion that the proposed bill is not an infringement on the ...
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Nigeria Condemned Criminals - Waiting for Governors and Hangmen
The call by President Goodluck Jonathan last Sunday on state governors to sign death warrants of condemned inmates in prisons across the country has again brought to the fore the lingering controversy on the issue. At a special ceremony to mark the 2013 Fathers' Day organized by the Aso Villa Chapel, President Jonathan urged governors not to run away from their statutory responsibility by ...
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Brazil demonstrators promise biggest protests yet
Reversing public-transit fare hikes failed to defuse Brazil's anti-government protests, with organizers vowing to hold the biggest demonstrations yet Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators -- angry about political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament -- are expected on the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, ...
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Jumia Partners MasterCard Dell Others Marks Anniversary
Jumia Nigeria has announced its partnership with MasterCard to use MasterCard's Internet Gateway Service to make credit card payments safer and easier for its customers. The company, which marked its one year anniversary, said it was nearing exclusive partnerships with Dell, Intel and Nokia, among others, to increase customer satisfaction and experience. A release made available to ...
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UBA Re-Launches Ruby Account for Women
The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has repackaged its Ruby Account product that was specifically designed to cater for women. The bank explained that the gender specific personal current account product was specially designed and targeted at discerning women. Speaking at an event for customers in Lagos, the Deputy Managing Director, UBA, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, said the product has been redesigned ...
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PDP NGF Crises Are About 2015 Says Jang
The Chairman of a faction of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) and Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, Wednesday disclosed that the crises in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the NGF were as a result of the divergent interests on who becomes the president of the country in 2015. Jang made the revelation at the end of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting held at the Banquet ...
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NGO Empowers 20 Underprivileged Persons
Twenty out of a good number of underprivileged individuals living in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have received various forms of help from a Non-governmental organisation, the Ijaw Community in Abuja (IJCA). IJCA, which also doubles as a socio-cultural platform for all sons and daughters of the Ijaw nation that are resident in Abuja, presented various gift items and monies which it ...
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More Important Than Football
PROTESTS in Brazil's biggest cities are over the billions of Dollars the country is pouring into preparations for the 2014 World Cup, the first in Brazil in 60 years. Hungry, unemployed youth are on the streets – they consider their future more important than the FIFA Confederation Cup, the 2014 World Cup, and the Olympic Games in 2016. "If your kid gets sick, take him to the ...
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Kidnapped 82-yr-old man buried alive in “evil forest”
BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASEBENIN-- THE remains of an 82-year-old retired Inspector of Police, Elder Samuel Ekhoruyimen, who was allegedly abducted by some youths of Ewudu village in Ovia North- East Local Government Area of Edo State have been discovered in an ‘eveil forest’ near the village. However, his remains suggest that he was buried alive in a grave dug before his abduction. Pa ...
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Benin opposition denounces election fraud
Following a chaotic election process, Benin's government claims incumbent President Thomas Boni Yayi won the first round outright. Opposition leader Adrien Houngbedji cries ...
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Issoufou wins Niger model vote
The elections in Niger, gained by long-time opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou, are described as a "model" for Africa. Also the democratic transition process is ...
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Benin protesters won demanded vote delay
Benin last month saw mass protests, demanding a delay of the elections planned for 27 February as 1.4 million voters were missing in the electoral roll. Now, the Constitutional Court has given them ...
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Ondo female legislator suspended over fetish objects possession
By DAYO JOHNSON AKURE -- A female member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Fola Olasehinde was, yesterday, suspended indefinitely for being in possession of fetish objects including miniature coffins. The suspended member is representing Ose council area of the state constituency. Her indefinite suspension was announced on the floor of the House by the Deputy Speaker, Dare Emiola after a ...
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OAU female student caught allegedly flushing baby down toilet
BY GBENGA OLARINOYE Ile-Ife -- Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, yesterday, reportedly apprehended a female student of the institution (names withheld) who allegedly attempted to flush her new born baby down a toilet. Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred at the popular Moremi Hall of residence on the campus. The incident, which shocked the university ...
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Armed gang kills 48 in Zamfara raid JTF
KANO(AFP) – 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 said Wednesday. The attack saw gunmen move house to house as well as take positions atop a hill and open fire, the official said. Houses were also burnt, but it was not clear how many. ';There was an attack by armed ...
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How EFCC uses mobile phones to get evidence
By Soni Daniel ABUJA--A forensic analyst with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Muktar Bello, yesterday, explained how the agency was using mobile phones to track oil theft, a booming business in the country. Bello is also a witness in the ongoing trial of Joseph Amaechi and 13 others, in a case of illicit oil bunkering before an Abuja high court. He used the data extracted ...
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Appeal Court upholds death sentence for bus driver
By CHRIS OCHAYI ABUJA -- The Appeal Court in Port Harcourt has upheld the ruling of Rivers State High Court which sentenced a bus driver, Emeka Mbachu, to death for killing Clifford Azubuike, a special marshal of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC. Azubuike was killed while on patrol on November 3, 1995, at the 1st Artillery Junction, along Aba-Port Harcourt highway in Rivers State. The driver, ...
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VC students trade blames on UNIUYO closure
By TONY NYONG UYO -- Authorities of University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and students of the institution, have continued to trade blames over lastweek'sstudents protest that leftsome students dead, with scores of others sustaining injuries, whileproperty worth millions of naira were destroyed. Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Comfort Ekpo, has insisted that the school management ...
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Lekki Port Plugging capacity gap in Nigerian ports revolutionalising the economy
NKIRUKA NNOROM writes that the Lekki Port, expected to be operational in 2016, will change the face of maritime business in Nigeria and improve economic fortune of the nation Aregulator visitor or even a first time visitor to Apapa Port, the most functional port in Nigeria will attest to the congestion within the Port premises. As a result of this, the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and ...
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Right abuse Court awards N15m damages against Army
BY INNOCENT ANABA A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, has awarded N15 million damages to Joseph Agu against the Nigerian Army for torture, inhuman and cruel treatment by a soldier Sgt Francis Oga of 82 Division Enugu, leading to his permanent loss of sight. The incident occurred on January 15, 2009. Agu had sued the Nigerian Army on December 10, 2010, for the enforcement of his fundamental ...
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Ex-Dep Gov declared wanted over alleged N130m fraud
BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS -- The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, in Lagos, has declared a former deputy governor of Lagos State (names withheld) wanted for allegedly jumping bail over a case of obtaining N130 million by false representation. Commissioner of Police in-charge of the unit, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin, who made the disclosure, yesterday, explained that the unit received a petition from the ...
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Amaechi to CP Mbu You’ re a security risk
By JIMITOTA ONOYUMELU PORT HARCOURT -- GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, accused the state Police Commissioner, Mr Joseph Mbu of being a security risk, noting that Mbu was in the habit of exposing decisions reached at the state security council meetings. Speaking when former Petroleum Minister, Professor Tam David-West, led a delegation on solidarity visit to him in ...
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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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