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Military Strikes Insurgent Targets in Northeast
The Nigerian military has been targeting multiple sites across the country's northeast to rid the area of Islamist insurgents. President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the region on Tuesday. Camps housing Boko Haram and other Islamist insurgents came under siege from Nigeria's air force on Friday, according to a military spokesperson. "A number of insurgents ...
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Nigerian Army Starts Offensive Against Islamists
More than 2,000 soldiers and several fighter jets have been deployed in northern Nigeria in response to attacks attributed to Islamist group Boko Haram. Rights groups fear there could be more civilian deaths. The Nigerian military offensive against Boko Haram insurgents in northern Nigeria has now begun in earnest, following President Goodluck Jonathan's announcement of a state of ...
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2015 - Buhari Will Support a Formidable Candidate - CPC
Abuja - The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Tuesday said its national leader and 2011 presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari is ready to give maximal support a more formidable candidate that will emerge as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives' Congress, APC, in 2015. A member of CPC merger committee and 2011 governorship candidate in Enugu State, Mr. Osita ...
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Dana Plane Crash Inquest - Pathologist Cross-Examination Fixed for July 3
Ikeja - The coroner's inquest into the June 3, 2012 Dana plane crash on Tuesday fixed July 3 for further cross-examination of a Consultant Pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner of Lagos State, Prof. John Obafunwa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 153 passengers and some residents of Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State, where the crash occurred, lost their lives in the incident. ...
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Nigerias Moses to miss Confed Cup
Nigeria forward Victor Moses will miss this summer's Confederations Cup through injury, while his Chelsea team-mate John Obi Mikel has asked to be rested for an upcoming international friendly against ...
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Pop duo Bracket releases hot new video ‘Temperature’
By Charles Mgbolu After a really good scare from Vast who was diagnosed with Lymphoma ( a form of cancer of the blood) a while back but successfully underwent treatment in a UK hospital; the group Bracket is back in business again as they’ve released a long awaited single ‘Temperature’ and it’s ...
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Zimbabwe limits presidential tenures to two five-year terms
HARARE(AFP) – President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday signed Zimbabwe’s new constitution into law, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year. The longtime ruler inked the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum. ';This day is an historic day, it’s about the future,'; Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga said at ...
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Court sentences banker to 6 months in prison for breach of trust
Bello Jimoh, a 52-year-old banker, was on Tuesday sentenced to six months imprisonment, by a Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court for misappropriatingN621,387 in his custody. The Senior Magistrate, Sharon Ishaya, passed the judgment after the convict pleaded guilty to the two-count-charge of criminal breach of trust and misappropriation filed against him. The prosecutor, Sgt. Mohammed Garba, ...
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DPP says it’s not merging with any political party
The Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) says it is not in any merger with any political party or association. This is contained in a communiqu signed by the party's Director, Media and Publicity, Mr Abubakar Yusuf. The communique was issued at the end of the party's Pre-Convention National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the communiqu, the party will ...
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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 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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