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Tuface Ras Kimono Faze others clean up Lagos streets feed hungry destitutes
Lagos – Some artistes in the Nigerian music industry on Tuesday turned out en masse to clean up the streets of Lagos, feed the hungry and visit the homeless. The musicians who participated in the exercise included TuFace Idibia, who was accompanied by his manager, Mr Efe Omorogbe. Others were Ras Kimono, Dizzy Falola and Chibuzor Orji, popularly called ';Faze'', amongst ...
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Wande Coal Don Jazzy Others to Headline Big Brother Africa The Chase Opening Ceremony
Kenyan rapper Stella Mwangi Mavin records artiste, Wande coal, Don Jazzy and D'Prince, are billed to headline the opening ceremony of this year's edition of reality TV show, Big Brother Africa, on Sunday, May 26. This edition which has been tagged "the chase" will also see other African music stars like South African Mafikizolo and Kenyan Rap queen, STL. As the ...
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Insecurity - Buhari Asks Jonathan to Resign
Katsina - Former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office for his inability to tackle the security challenges facing the country. "Jonathan should vacate and give way to competent hand to govern the country", he said. Speaking to newsmen in his residence in Daura town yesterday, General Buhari said the issue of security is a ...
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35-Year-Old Cobbler Nabbed Over Rape
Yenagoa - Police in Bayelsa State have announced the prosecution of a 35-year-old man, Nathaniel Elaweremi, for allegedly raping a teenager. Also arrested is a cobbler, identified as Adamu Musa, over alleged rape of a 12-year-old. While Elaweremi was arrested on October 14, for raping a 14-year-old girl, at 7.30pm along the Green Villa Road, Biogbolo community in Yenagoa Local Government Area, ...
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Nigeria Human Parts Available in Lagos - Price List Revealed
Lagos - Emotions ran high, Tuesday, at Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, following startling revelations by suspected members of three syndicates, who specialised in selling human parts to herbalists and persons suspected to be clerics. The suspects told a bewildered crowd that human heads were sold for N8,000; hands, N4,000 and private parts N10,000. One of them, Agboola Kolawole, who blamed ...
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Jonathan rewards Golden Eaglets African under-18 athletics champions
Abuja -President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday announced various forms of cash reward to members of the national under-17 male football team and Nigeria's medalists at the maiden African U-18 Athletics Championships. Jonathan announced the cash reward at a special reception in honour of the Golden Eaglets and the athletes at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Another ...
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Double Trouble for Widows of Slain Policemen
Some 90 women who lost their husbands to the Ombatse cult on May 7, this year, at Alakyo in Nasarawa State deserve pity. Some of the corpses are yet to be recovered while many of the recovered ones were burnt beyond recognition. But the worse shock these widows have received so far has been inflicted by the relatives of their deceased husbands: many of them are insisting on taking the ...
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Ezekwesili - Governors Diverted UBE Funds to Hire Thugs Praise Singers for 2007 Polls
A former Minister of Education, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, Tuesday accused some governors of diverting funds meant for hiring teachers under the Universal Basic Education (UBE) scheme to hire thugs and praise singers for the prosecution of the 2007 general election. She also disclosed that no fewer than two million graduates and youths annually joined the country's labour market, noting ...
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Arik Admits Two Crew Members Arrested in U.K. for Drug Trafficking
The management of Arik Air has admitted that two of its crew members were arrested for allegedly possessing banned drugs suspected to be cocaine after one of its flight to the U.K. The airline company promised to cooperate with British authorities investigating the the two cabin crew members. The spokesman for the company, Adebanji Ola, said in a statement on Tuesday that Arik Air was ...
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Emergency Aid for 2400 People Fleeing Violence in Nigeria
Geneva/Niamey - Several hundred families fleeing violence in northern Nigeria and taking refuge in the Diffa area of south-eastern Niger are being provided with emergency supplies and food aid by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red Cross Society of Niger. Around 2,400 people in Bosso, Kablewa, Tchoukoujani and Diffa today began taking delivery of emergency aid ...
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How Orange Seller Spying for Terrorists Was Arrested With N600m
Boko Haram Kaduna - More facts emerged yesterday on how a combined security team of army and State Security Service (SSS) arrested a popular orange seller who was spying for a terrorist group in Kaduna with N600 million transactions made in his bank account in three months. The man was trading near Kawo bridge in Kaduna metropolis, just a stone throw to the One Division of the Nigerian Army, ...
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Hundreds Receive Achebe As Family Limits Government Involvement in Burial
Hundreds of people were at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, to receive the body of late literary giant, Chinua Achebe; even as major burial plans scheduled to involve top Nigerian government officials were shelved. The late Professors body which arrived in the early hours of Tuesday aboard a British Airways flight was received by the Governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi; the ...
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Nigeria Man Arrested for Selling Heads of Late Relations At N8000 Each
Lagos - A 40 year-old man, Agboola Kolawole, who was alleged to have sold the heads of four of his late relations at the rate of N8000 each, is among the five suspected human parts sellers that were arrested by the police. The suspects were all rounded up from their hideout at Owode area of Ogun State while trying to sell human hands to police detectives attached to Special Anti Robbery Squad ...
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Soccer-Moses out of Nigerias matches Obi Mikel wants a rest
May 22 (Reuters) - Victor Moses has withdrawn from Nigeria's squad for next month's World Cup soccer qualifiers and Confederation Cup tournament while Chelsea team mate John Obi Mikel has asked to be rested for a friendly against Mexico next ...
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Can South Africa Help Nigeria to Industrialise
South Africa has pledged to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation's flagship industrial target. Currently German car manufacturer BMW has a plant at Rosslyn near Pretoria. About 80 percent of the BMWs produced there are for the international market. Credit: John ...
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Moses Out of Nigerias Matches Obi Mikel Wants a Rest
(Reuters) - Victor Moses has withdrawn from Nigeria's squad for next month's World Cup football qualifiers and Confederation Cup tournament while Chelsea team mate John Obi Mikel has asked to be rested for a friendly against Mexico next week, Nigerian Football Federation officials said on Wednesday. Both players are in the United States with Chelsea this week for friendlies against ...
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Nigeria seeks bidders for annual oil contracts
Nigeria has opened a tender to sell its oil through multi-billion dollar annual contracts starting in August, an official notice showed. ...
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Dortmund’s path from cash-crisis to Wembley
BERLIN, May 21, 2013 (AFP) – Borussia Dortmund’s path from the brink of bankruptcy in 2005 to Saturday’s Champions League final against Bayern Munich has been dubbed ';Ground Zero to Wembley'; by CEO Hans-Joachim ...
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England braced for Mourinho’s Chelsea return
LONDON (AFP) – Jose Mourinho looks set to be welcomed back to Chelsea with open arms, but his reputation has been sullied during his three-year stint at Real Madrid and he will return to Stamford Bridge with several thorny issues to ...
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Shaken Jonathan Shoes Up to Tackle Crises
President Goodluck Jonathan finally grew up to the reality that the nation was at war when in pronouncing so, he imposed martial law in the North East States of Borno, Bauchi, and Adamawa. It was no longer a monotonous lamentation in the born-with-no-shoes tone, but a firm and resolute reproach of detractors by an angry commander in chief, awake to the stern responsibility of recovering the ...
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Suspected Insurgents Arrested in Adamawa
Yola - The Nigerian army confirmed yesterday that many suspected insurgents have been arrested and detained in Adamawa State. The state is one of the three states that are under the emergency rule; the other two are Borno and Yobe. The Commander of the 23 Armoured Brigade Brigadier General Fatai Oladipo Alli, who confirmed this to journalists in Yola, said more arrests would be made. However, ...
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Nigerian Students in Russia
The spectacle of Nigerian students in Russia going door to door in search of subsistence must be an embarrassing one for any country. That was the grim picture painted last Wednesday when representatives of Nigerian students on federal government scholarship in Russia visited the National Assembly to highlight the plight of their colleagues abroad. They told members of the House of ...
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Emergency - National Assembly Gives Conditional Approval
The National Assembly yesterday approved declaration of state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states by President Goodluck Jonathan last Tuesday but set out conditions. Senate President David Mark, who announced the Senate's resolution after a closed-door meeting, said the military must be guided by a code of conduct to safeguard the lives of innocent citizens. "We also would ...
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Etisalat Signs U.S.$1.2 Billion Loan Deal With 13 Banks
Lagos - The Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services Ltd (EMTS), trading under the name of Etisalat Nigeria has signed a $1.2 billion medium term syndicated loan facility with 13 Nigerian banks. The facility includes both Naira and US dollar tranches from a consortium of Nigerian banks, namely: Zenith Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, First Bank, United Bank of Africa, Fidelity Bank, Access Bank, ...
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Yero Donates N10 Million to Revive Kaduna Turf Club
Kaduna - In a bid to revived horse racing in Kaduna state and the north in general, the Governor of Kaduna state, Alhaji Murkhtar Ramalan Yero has donated the sum of N10 million for the up-keep of the Kaduna Turf Club of Nigeria. Speaking at the Club's Derby Race which took place in Kaduna, the Governor who was represented by his Commissioner of Youth and Sport, Honourable Nazifi Jibril ...
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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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