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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May 22 (Reuters) - Victor Moses has withdrawn from Nigeria's squad for next month's World Cup soccer qualifiers and Confederation Cup tournament while Chelsea team mate John Obi Mikel has asked to be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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Proffer Solution to Insecurity Sultan Tells Amnesty Committee
Sokoto - Sultan Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III has tasked the presidential committee on dialogue and peaceful resolution of security challenges in the north to work hard towards proffering lasting solution to the insecurity situation bedevilling the country. He made the call when the committee led by its chairman, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki, paid him a visit. The sultan underscored the importance ...
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Falana Tackles FG Over Attempt to Sack Gwandu From ITU
Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has written to Minister of Communications Technology Mrs Omobola Johnson to withdraw a letter sent to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), asking the agency not recognize Engr Bashir Gwandu, the former Executive Commissioner of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The minister, in a letter with reference no: MC/ST. 01631T4, ...
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NDLEA Probes Arrest of Two Arik Air Crew in UK
Lagos - Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Ahmadu Giade has ordered the investigation of two crew members of Arik Air arrested by officials of British Customs at Heathrow Airport in London in connection with drug trafficking. NDLEA's head of public affairs Ofoyeju Mitchell the two persons arrested are Temitayo Olubunmi Daramola and Delita Abibimgbi. He said ...
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Super Eagles to Host Cote dIvoire in CHAN Qualifiers
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said that the Super Eagles will host Cote d'Ivoire between July 6 and July 7 in the first-leg of the qualifying campaign for the Championship for African Nations (CHAN). The biennial competition, which is heading for its third edition, is a continental showpiece exclusively for players plying their trade on the African continent. NFF's ...
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FG Begins Accessing U.S.$500 Million AfDB Loan
The federal government has activated a $500 million African Development Bank (AfDB) loan with the constitution of a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) committee yesterday in Abuja. The loan is an intervention fund for the power sector and will be released in tranches of $100 million at a time, a statement from the ministry of power said yesterday. The setting up of a committee for the purpose ...
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Nigeria Jonathan Orders Release of Boko Haram Suspects
Abuja, Maiduguri and Kano - The Defence Headquarters yesterday said it will start releasing detained Boko Haram members and handing them over to state governments, under a peace initiative towards ending insurgency in parts of the North. All women suspects will be freed, following a recommendation by the presidential dialogue committee headed by Special Duties Minister Kabiru Turaki, a military ...
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JTF Bans Hawking Begging Around Checkpoints in Yobe
Damaturu - The Joint Task Force on Internal Security (JTF) in Yobe has banned hawking and begging around security checkpoints in the state, a statement said in Damaturu yesterday. The statement by JTF spokesman Lt. Eli Lazarus also advised hawkers to use "designated markets and other approved places for trading activities." "Henceforth, anybody found hawking around security ...
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Nigeria Achebes Body Arrives Enugu Amidst Tears
The corpse of literary icon Professor Chinua Achebe arrived in Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, yesterday, aboard a chartered aircraft owned by Overland Nigeria with registration number 5N-BPE, at exactly 12.35pm. It was received by the secretary to the Enugu State Government (SSG), Barrister Amechi Okolo, and the elder brother of the deceased, Mr Daniel Achebe. The casket bearing the ...
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Analysis Nigerians on the run as military combat Boko Haram
HIGHLIGHTS 2,000 flee the country Boko Haram rejects government amnesty overtures Military crackdown could backfire Spillover threat KANO, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian fighter jets on Boko Haram (BH) camps ...
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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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