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Elephant meat dead primate seized from Nigerian in LA
US Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and crocodiles in the baggage of a passenger from Nigeria. The agency said yesterday that the illegal items _ including a tiny dead macaque from Indonesia and elephant meat from a protected species in Thailand _ were seized between May 6 ...
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Deadly tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb
A powerful tornado with winds of up to 200 miles (320 kilometres) per hour pulverized an Oklahoma City suburb Monday, hitting at least two schools and wiping out blocks of homes. At least 37 people were reported ...
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Nigerian girl going home with new face and new life
SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - A Nigerian girl who was born with severe facial defects is getting a chance at a new life thanks to San Diego surgeons. After several painful medical procedures, the 9-year-old is now thriving. Favour finally gets to be a kid again. But to get to this point it took a flight from Nigeria, several surgeries and a lot of love. "I'm glad - I'm very glad...Very ...
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INSECURITY Lagos remains vulnerable as CCTV project goes moribund
BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI o It's not abandoned - Govt IT seems residents and visitors to Lagos State, will have to wait a little longer for the commencement of the multi million naira contract for the installation of Close Circuit Televisions, CCTVs, in the state aimed at addressing perennial security and traffic challenges. The electronic devices with capacity to capture and register images ...
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War on Terror Defence HQ moves to strenghten militarycivilian relations
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI -ABUJA ABUJA--The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, and United States government have commenced a process of initiating a strategy to strengthen civil-military relations. Speaking at a three-day seminar to enthrone the process in Abuja, Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Ibrahim, said the seminar, with the theme "Civil-military in a democracy: Synergizing all potentials for ...
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Lagos 652 lives lost to crashes in six months
According to the FRSC, eight government vehicles were involved in road accidents, while diplomatic vehicles recorded no crashes during the months under ...
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120 Boko Haram Islamists arrested in Nigeria
About 120 Boko Haram Islamists were arrested in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday as they were organizing the burial of a ...
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CAN ACN seek tighter security in Bauchi
By Suzan Edeh BAUCHI -- The federal and Bauchi State governments have been asked to provide adequate security to discourage Boko Haram insurgents escaping from either Adamawa, Borno or Yobe states from using Bauchi State as their sanctuary. The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, made the call at separate interviews with Vanguard in Bauchi, ...
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2015 Jonathan must contest Clark tells Northern leaders
By CHARLES KUMOLU & PRINCEWILL EKWUJURU LAGOS -- ELDER Statesman and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark said yesterday that the Southern part of the country would still produce President in 2015 election, adding that it was not yet the turn of the north. He also said the intrigues of power shift from the south in 2015 was improper at this period of the country's march ...
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FG warns construction firms to desist from recruiting foreign labourers
By Favour Nnabugwu Indigenous constructions companies in Nigeria have been warned to desist from recruiting foreign labourers as this is against the tenets of building local capacities. The Minister of Works,Mike Onolememen, who described the situation as unacceptable when he received Kashim Ali, the President of theCouncil for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria,COREN in his office last ...
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When women survive families and nations thrive – Jill Sheffield
AHEAD of the Women Deliver 2013 International Conference which opens in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 27, the health, wellbeing and survival of girls and women the world over, have been identified as critical factors for global development. In a call for improved and sustained investment in the health and wellbeing of girls and women all over the world, Jill Sheffield, President/Founder of Women ...
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FCT minister threatens to revoke land if…
BY LAIDE AKINBOADE ABUJA--Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, has threatened to revoke the land allocated to genuine operators of parks should they fail to develop such parks. Bala gave this warning in a meeting with some officials of the FCT Parks and Recreation Department. He insisted that efforts must be made to develop the parks in accordance with the ...
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I asked to be left out of Mexico friendly – Ahmed Musa
Super Eagles winger Ahmed Musa is not bothered that he was left out of the team that will play Mexico in an international friendly game on the 31st of this month in the United States. Coach Stephen Keshi left out the CSKA Moscow forward from the friendly game but has since said the pacy winger was still part of his plans and the player remains in the 30-man squad penned for the two FIFA 2014 ...
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We are fulfilling our promises – Ahmed
Promises Ilorin – Two years into his tenure, Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara says his government is fulfilling its electoral promises to the electorates as encapsulated in the Shared Prosperity Programme. Ahmed said this on Monday at the 2013 New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) Kwara Business and Investment Development Interactive Session held in Ilorin. He highlighted some of ...
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Customs arrest suspects with $2.7m at Lagos airport
Murtala Muhammad Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted $2.7m (or N432m) from five suspected money launderers while attempting to travel ...
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Workers’ protest NAMA beefs up Lagos airport security
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency on Monday deployed police officers in strategic locations within the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, in a bid to maintain law and ...
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Nigeria Must Get Real About Its Oil By Mohammed Dahiru Aminu
The ultimate goal of every benign government, especially of countries so categorised as ‘developing’, and so intended for a keen march into 21st century modernity is to adopt global best practices as regards governance. And as regards countries with huge oil reserves, the efficient management of petroleum wealth is of utmost significance for both present and future ...
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Nigerian military claims breakthrough against Boko Haram
Nigeria's military has claimed to have re-established control of swathes of the northeast of the country in an operation against Islamist militants. Several thousand troops were deployed last week for the ...
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Nigerian student loses appeal against High Court judgement
KUCHING: A Nigerian student who was sentenced to 10 years' jail and whipping by 10 strokes of rotan for possessing 147.85g of cannabis last year had his sentence affirmed by the Court of Appeal here yesterday.Dokubu Otokini Charles, 24, had his last appeal dismissed in the unanimous decision made by the panel of three judges consisting of Datuk Azahar Mohamed, Datuk Balia Wahi Yusof and ...
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Jonathan Nigige Obi others eulogise Achebe
BY Uduma Kalu President Goodluck Jonathan has said Professor Achebe's truthful interventions in Nigeria’s affairs will be greatly missed. Speaking yesterday at the evening of tribute for Achebe at the International Conference centre, Abuja, the President who was represented by the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said while others may have disagreed with his views, most ...
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NGF poll Pro-Jonathan Northern Govs root for Yuguda
BY SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH Northern governors, who are in support of the election of a new chairman for the Nigerian Governors' Forum, NGF, have reportedly thrown their weight behind the candidature of Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, Vanguard, has learnt. Vanguard investigation reveals that eight out of the 10 pro-Jonathan northern governors, who are opposed to the ...
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Akpabio bags Best Governor in Africa Award
Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has bagged the best Governor in Africa Award from an Accra-based Africa Development Magazine, for his development strides in the state. Presenting the award in Accra, Ghana, renowned Ghanaian Professor, Walter Alhassan, described Governor Akpabio as an icon of democracy and a good example of what leadership should represent. He said that ...
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UEFA Champions League MasterCard plans big for Nigerian soccer fans
BY JACOB AJOM and UCHE UDEH The 2013 UEFA Champions League final will mean different things to different Nigerians as MasterCard, the official sponsor of UEFA Champions League, has elaborate plans to celebrate the final of Europe's most lucrative club football competition. In a show of appreciation to Nigerian card holders whose passion for football is very high, MasterCard, the ...
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16 schools for Channels National Kids cup
BY JACOB AJOM Sixteen schools from various states of the federation will be participating in the 2013 Channels National Kids Cup kicking off Wednesday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere Lagos. Speaking at a pre-event media briefing in Lagos on Monday, Chairman and CEO Channels Television, John Momoh said, for the first time the competition was going national and schools participating in ...
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Nigerian Military More Than 200 Boko Haram Captured
A woman and two children stand along the Jos-Maiduguri road as they wait to board a vehicle, after the military declared a 24-hour curfew over large parts of Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria, May 19, ...
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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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