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Military Thurayas banned in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -; Soldiers fighting to halt an insurgency by Islamic militants are banning the use of Thuraya satellite telephones by civilians in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, throttling communications already made difficult by cut cell phone ...
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Nigerian President Calls for More Cooperation to Fight Terrorism
Abuja, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, calls for a higher international cooperation and coordination to fight terrorism, said a communique spread today by his special assistant for public relations, Reubens Abati. During separated meetings with recently appointed ambassadors of Israel, Russia, Greece and Algeria in Abuja, Jonathan said that a higher collaboration ...
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Nigerian naira at week high vs dlr on cbank intervention
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A money dealer counts the Nigerian naira on a machine in his office in the commercial capital of Lagos, January 13, 2009. REUTERS/Akintunde ...
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Nigerian U of R students spend one year in sanctuary
Victoria Ordu has one wish for her 22nd birthday on June 28 - to be granted permission to continue her studies at the University of Regina.She and fellow Nigerian student Ihuoma Amadi have been in sanctuary for one year today, compelled into hiding after they were ordered to leave Canada after unknowingly breaking their study permits by working for two weeks off-campus.The Leader-Post told their ...
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1 year later no resolution for Nigerian students in asylum
It has been a year since two Nigerian students have been in asylum in Regina and despite support from local advocates, the university and province they still face deportation. Victoria Ordu and Favour Amadi have taken sanctuary in a church after learning they would be forced to leave the country. "Living here is not the most comfortable it has been," Ordu told CBC News Tuesday in a ...
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Togo admit using banned Romao in World Cup qualifier
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Togo have joined Ethiopia in admitting that they fielded a suspended player in a 2014 World Cup Africa zone qualifier. A Togolese football federation spokesman told reporters that Marseille midfielder Alaixys Romao should not have started a June 8 Group I home game against Cameroon. ';Alaixys received yellow cards in two earlier matches but we did not check if ...
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Tinubu’s Speech ACN slams presidency’s 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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Brazilians protest ahead of Mexico match
FORTALEZA (AFP) – More than 500 people blocked access to a stadium where Brazil was to play Mexico on Wednesday to demand government spend more on health and education and less on the World Cup. ';Brazil, we are going to wake up, a professor is worth more than Neymar,'; they shouted, referring to a popular star of the national team. Brazil is currently hosting the ...
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The US has sent troops to Niger
President Barack Obama today informed the US Senate that he had ordered the stationing of around 100 soldiers in Niger to support the French military operation in neighbouring Mali. The Niger government had agreed to the move, Mr Obama ...
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Niger transition shows way for North Africa
With Saturday's second-round presidential elections, Niger ends a model one-year all-inclusive democratic transition process. The process could be an example for the revolutions in Egypt and ...
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Early endgame for Uruguay Nigeria
Uruguay must take something from this game if they are to have any chance of progressing. To achieve that, Oscar Tabarez's will need to reproduce the kind of form they showed late on against the world champions, when they rallied after being very much second-best for fully 70 minutes. With that idea in mind, ...
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Fracking Nigeria Economy On The Bed Of Shale By Ehi Oyabure
The outcome of last OPEC meeting held in Vienna, Austria on the 31st of May 2013 was an unexpected departure from the past, openly admitting for the first time, the threat to its dominance in global oil supplies – hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Fracking is indisputably changing the geopolitical dynamics of global energy supplies and challenging the survival of oil export ...
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Nigerian students killed during exam
Suspected Islamists have shot dead nine students as they sat an exam in an attack on a private school in northeast Nigeria, local people say. The attack, in a region that is a stronghold of the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, happened in Maiduguri, they said. Mohammed Saleh, a relative of one of the deceased students, said school officials had told him that the attack happened soon after the ...
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Nigeria bans sat phones in northeast after attacks
Nigeria's military on Wednesday banned the use of satellite phones in much of the restive northeast after cutting mobile phone service, further isolating the area after a series of fresh attacks. The military claimed in announcing the ban that Islamist extremist group Boko Haram had used satellite phones to plan attacks on schools. The insurgents have attacked two schools in the northeast ...
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Soldiers drafted to broken oil installation
Yenagoa -The Joint Task Force in Niger Delta has tightened security around the Agip Oil's Well 9 facility in Ogbuinbiri community, Southern Ijaw local government in Bayelsa. A gas explosion from the facility had forced residents of the community to flee the area while the oil firm reportedly evacuated its workforce to a safe location. On Wednesday an additional detachment of armed ...
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FIFA Declares Nigerias First Goal Against Tahiti As Own Goal
The goal was initially credited to Elderson Echiejile The first goal of the match between Nigeria and Tahiti, scored by Elderson Echiejile, has been declared an own goal by the world football ruling body, FIFA. After its investigation of the game, FIFA released a statement on Tuesday saying, "Following further studies of the video of the match between Tahiti and Nigeria on 17 June in Belo ...
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Abuja Court Strikes Out Terrorism Charges Against Amigo Supermarket Owner Other Lebanes
Weapons discovered in Kano An Abuja court has struck out a case of illegal arms importation filed against the co-owner of Amigo Supermarket, Mustapha Fawaz, and three other Lebanese, Channels Television is reporting. Magistrate Muyiwa Oyeyipo of the Chief Magistrate Court in Karu, an Abuja suburb, stuck out the suit following an application by the prosecutor, Cliff Osagie. Mr. Fawaz, Talal ...
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Nigeria Boko Haram Declares 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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Nigeria Jonathan Drags Tambuwal Before Journalists
"Why are you hiding?" the president asked the speaker. A mild drama occurred at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa on Tuesday night as President Goodluck Jonathan dragged the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, before television cameras, shortly before the commencement of the closed-door meeting of the National Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). ...
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Cameroon Maritime Securit - US Promises Support For Summit
The US Ambassador to Cameroon says his country will send experts to the country. Experts from the US are expected in Cameroon in the days ahead to share experiences with those of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) when Cameroon hosts the first-ever ECCAS, ECOWAS and Gulf of Guinea Commission summit on maritime safety ...
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Jonathan’s 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 bans satellite phones in Islamist battleground
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria's military banned the use of Thuraya satellite phones on Wednesday in northeastern Borno state, a step it said was designed to stop Islamist militants ...
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Police Armed robbers kill 48 in northwest Nigeria in revenge attack on villagers
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 thefts. Police Commissioner Akila Usman of Zamfara state said the gunmen arrived on motorbikes Tuesday night and went from house to house in Kizara village. The gunmen searched for suspected vigilantes ...
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Jonathan Urges International Co-operation in Terror War
President Goodluck Jonathan has called for greater global cooperation and coordination in the war against terrorism. The president made the call yesterday while speaking at separate audiences with the new ambassadors of Israel, Russia, Greece and Algeria who presented their letters of credence to him at the Presidential Villa. A statement by Jonathan's spokesman, Reuben Abati, quoted him ...
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Boko Haram - FG Urged to Compensate Victims Families
Port Harcourt - The Federal Government has been advised to compensate families of those murdered by the Boko Haram insurgents as part of measures to achieve enduring peace in the area. A conflict resolution expert, Barrister Richard Anthony, who gave the advice in Port Harcourt, also enjoined the government to explore alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in resolving the security challenge ...
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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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