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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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PDP empowers Jonathan to head reconciliation committee
Ben Agande, Abuja. The National Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday empowered president Goodluck Jonathan to lead a reconciliation move to bring into the fold members of the party who had left out of grievance with the party. Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio who disclosed this while briefing state House correspondents after the meeting. According to him, the ...
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5 NECO candidates 13 others killed in fresh Boko Haram attacks
BY NDAHI MARAMA MAIDUGURI-- Barely 24 hours after gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram members, Sunday night, killed seven students and two teachers of Government Secondary School, Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, five students and 13 civilians were, Monday, killed in separate attacks by suspected Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Our correspondent gathered that five of the ...
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Enyeama Fatigue caught up with Eagles
A 6-1 win against the amateurs from Oceania looked jerky in patches as the Nigerian strikers wasted a host of opportunities, and Enyeama said jet lag took its toll "It was obvious that we were struggling," Enyeama said. "There was fatigue in the brain and all parts of the body. "But we are happy we scalled through and we are happy it's Tahiti we played first, so we ...
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Can Lagos Be a Smart City
I AM constantly amazed at the advances in information and communication technology, such that inventions and innovations being celebrated this week may become near-obsolete the following week as an even better option might have been developed. The way things are going, there will be very few things left that can be done without the aid of an ICT device, or without interfacing with some ...
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How Forensic Examination Exposed Oil Thieves - Witness
A forensic analyst with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Muktar Bello, has told a Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Evoh Stephen Chukwu, how forensic examination of the mobile phones of accused persons in oil theft established their complicity in the crime. Led in evidence by counsel to EFCC, Austin Emumejakpor, Muktar, who is also a witness in the ongoing ...
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Boko Haram Declare War On Borno Yobe Youth Over Vigilante Activities
A spokesperson for the Boko Haram, Abu Zinnira, has said his group will launch a manhunt for youth in Borno and Yobe states who partake in vigilante activities to identify and arrest members of the terrorist group. Some youth in both states have formed vigilante groups to assist the Nigerian military to identify and arrest the terrorists in the towns. Their activities have been commended by the ...
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Nigerian Women - Caught Between Benevolence and Rape
Are there countries in which women are worse treated than in Nigeria? Yes, I would say, there are, especially in those dictatorships that profess to practicing Islam in the way it should not, and in all those countries, where capitalism has transformed women into sex slaves. In this country, under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, there has been a very visible effort to raise ...
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U.S.$600 Billion Stolen By Nigerian Elite Since Independence
A report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has put the estimated amount of looted funds from the Nigerian treasury at $600 billion between independence and 1999. Making this known yesterday in Abuja at a two-day international conference on "Emerging Democracies in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities", organised by the Nigerian Institute for Legislative Studies, ...
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Patience Must Stay Out of JonathanAmaechi Feud
Lafia - Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience must learn to stay out of the feud between her husband and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of River State, and in the alternative, wait for 2015 to come so she can run for the Rivers State Government House, a critic of the president, Abubakar Tsav said yesterday. Tsav, who reacted to the First Lady's comments about how Port-Harcourt has ...
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Marriage Crashes Over Husbands Inability to Satisfy Wife in Bed
Lagos - An Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved a seven-year-old marriage of an office assistant who said that her husband was unable to satisfy in bed. The Court President, Mr Emmanuel Sokunle, held that evidence before the court showed the marriage of Mr Maxwell Madu and Grace, had broken down irretrievably. He noted that the petitioner, grace insisted on divorce. ...
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Super Eagles Arrive Salvador for Uruguay Test
African champions, Nigeria, have arrived in Salvador,north-eastern Brazil Tuesday afternoon ahead of their much-hyped clash with South American champions, Uruguay, on Thursday. The Eagles are perched at the top of Group B of the 2013FIFA Confederations Cup following a 6-1 trouncing of Tahiti in Belo Horizonte on Monday evening. Spain's Furia Roja (Red Fury) who edged Uruguay 2-1 in the ...
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Nigeria Gunmen Kill 77 in Zamfara Maiduguri
About 50 people were killed yesterday in Kizara village of Tsafe local government area of Zamfara State by group of gunmen suspected to be cattle wrestlers. The gunmen numbering about 150 and riding motorcycles besieged the village at about 4am, and suddenly opened fire on any adult community member on sight. The gunmen also killed the village head, Mallam Lawali Madawaki, the chief Imam ...
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Nigeria Nigeria Drops Arms Importation Charges Against Eight Russians Prosecutes Seven Others
The Federal Government on Tuesday dropped the charges against eight out of the 15 Russian sailors charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria. They are Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Lopatin Alexey, Baranovskly Nikolay, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov and Kononov Sergel. The 15 sailors had appeared before a Federal High Court, Lagos, on a four-count charge for ...
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Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack medical worker
students , witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom ...
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Dad Remanded for Allegedly Poisoning Own Son
Makurdi - A 21-year-old man, John Terver, has been arrested and remanded in Makurdi for allegedly poisoning the food of his three-year-old son, Aondoyima Terver, which led to the death of the toddler. Terver, an automobile panel beater, hails from Zaki Biam in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. Arraigning the suspect at a Makurdi Magistrate's Court, the police prosecutor, Patrick ...
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A Letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President, Greetings from Nigeria. Excuse me for addressing you simply as "Mr. President" which is considered rude here under our shores and where our protocol demands that you should be addressed as "Your Excellency, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Professor of Constitutional Law, Professor President of the United States of America!" And if I wanted a ...
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A Get-Well Card for Mandela
The status of the health of former South African President Nelson Mandela has provoked anxious moments not only in his rainbow country, but also across the world. The global scare caused by the current stay of Mandela in the hospital is different from earlier ones given the tone of the medical bulletins coming out of South Africa. Although the man fondly called Madiba by his people remains on ...
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FG to Finalise U.S.$6 Billion Loan Deal for Telecoms Infrastructure
The Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson Tuesday said the federal government was assiduously working towards securing a total of $6 billion investment to promote efficient telecommunication services across the country. The investment, according to the minister, would be done through major telecommunications service providers before the end of the year. According to her, ...
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FG Designates 13 Airports Cargo Terminals
The federal government has designated 13 airports across the country as perishable cargo terminals, as a strategy to enable the country benefit from the over N250 billion Africa's annual cargo freight business and also to transform the aviation sector into a major revenue earner for the country. A statement Tuesday, the Group General Manager, Corporate Service of the Federal Airports ...
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Nigers Growing Jihadist Problem
Today, our partners at Stratfor warn that Jihadist activity is on the rise in Niger. They attribute this worrying trend to intensive counterterrorism operations across West Africa and to the Nigerian military's involvement in northern ...
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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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