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Designers Dolce and Gabbana sentenced to prison for tax evasion
ROME (AFP) – An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced fashion house duo Dolce & Gabbana to one year and eight months in prison for tax evasion of 200 million euros ($268 million) They were also ordered by the court in Milan to pay a fine of 500,000 euros to Italy’s national tax agency. Lawyers for Dolce and Gabbana, whose celebrity clients include Beyonce and Madonna, ...
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Military bans Thurayas in northeast Nigerian state of Borno says Islamic militants use them
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 cellphone service. Spokesman Lt. Col. Sagir Musa says extremists used Thurayas to plan and co-ordinate attacks that killed 16 high school students in ...
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77 killed in revenge attacks against northern Nigeria vigilante groups
At least 77 people have been killed in two separate attacks against vigilante groups in northern Nigeria, police and witnesses say. At least 50 people were killed in the Zamfara state village of Kizara in an early morning attack by 150 gunmen on motorcycles, the newspaper Leadership reported Wednesday. An eyewitness said the men besieged the village about 4 a.m. Tuesday and began shooting at ...
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Finally credible elections for Nigeria
Will the upcoming general elections in Nigeria become a repetition of the 2007 sham, or can the country finally organise a credible poll? There are both good and bad ...
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Cameroon new gorillas need protection
A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living ...
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Nigeria will probably pay 6 pct yield for Eurobond - analysts
Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:59pm EDT * Yields on Nigeria bonds risen sharply recently * Nigeria on roadshow to market $1 bln Eurobond * Eurobond timing and tenor yet to be agreed By Chijioke Ohuocha and Sujata Rao LAGOS/LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Nigeria will likely have to pay around 6 percent for a 10-year maturity on its $1 billion Eurobond if it goes ahead with the issue after a debt meeting with ...
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Lebanese Men Accused of Terrorism Sue Nigeria for $25 Million
ABUJA, NIGERIA -- Four Lebanese men accused of being Hezbollah members remain imprisoned in Nigeria after a court dismissed weapons and terrorism related charges against them on a technicality. The men are suing the government for nearly $25 million for unlawful detention, but lawyers say the government also may present new charges Friday in a higher court. This story started in May with a ...
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Confederations Cup Nigeria and Uruguay to battle for second spot in Group B
Before the Confederations Cup, Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi looked at the schedule and knew his team's meeting with Uruguay would be a must-win if they wanted to advance past the group stage. Peter Powell / ...
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Customs intercept goods worth N153.6m in Lagos says Spokesman
The Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ';A'; of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it had intercepted contraband valued at N153.6m in May 2013. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, Mr. Uche Ejesieme, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the command also intercepted contraband valued at N91m in the corresponding period of ...
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Forlan Eyes 100th Uruguay Cap in Key Game Against Nigeria
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Shell to resume Niger delta oil spill compensation talks
Oil company Shell will resume talks next week in London with lawyers representing 15,000 of the poorest people in the world who are claiming millions of pounds' compensation ...
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Police arrest 150 robbery suspects kill 24
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA – The Ogun State Police command on Wednesday said it had arrested 150 robbery suspects and killed 24 others during gun battles within the last six months across the state. The command which also disclosed that it arrested 27 cultists, three rape suspects and 1,153 suspects for various offences stated that 131 vehicles were recovered while property worth ...
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Subsidy Bribe Scam Farouk Emenalo ask judge to hands-off trial
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ...as ICPC raises alarm over plot to scuttle trial ABUJA- Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja High Court, Wednesday, fixed July 10 to rule on an application that was filed before him by the former Chairman and Secretary of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on fuel subsidy probe, Farouk Lawal and Mr Boniface Emenalo, asking him to hands-off their trial. The ...
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House wife lover appear in court for alleged adultery
A middle-aged man, Ahmed Adesanya, and a 39-year-old house wife, Tawakalitu Garuba, were on Wednesday arraigned before an Ilorin Magistrates' Court for allegedly engaging in extra marital affair. The accused persons were arraigned before Mrs Ibijoke Olawoyin, on a three-count charge of criminal intimidation, enticement and adultery. Prosecutor Al-hassan Jubril said the offence contravened ...
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Nigeria Displaced Fulani families in Birnin Gwari district due to bandit attacks
northern Nigeria by armed bandits – made up partly of disgruntled Fulani who themselves have lost cattle – are threatening herds and upping tensions in northern Nigeria. Gangs of heavily armed bandits prowl the vast Dajin Rugu forest which spans several hundred square kilometres across Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna states and Niger State in central Nigeria, according to Fulani ...
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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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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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