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Iraq to supply Egypt Sudan with petroleum on credit
By Michael Eboh, with agency report Iraq agreed in principle on Monday to provide both Egypt and Sudan with crude oil to be purchased on credit, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported on Monday. According to MENA, oil will begin being transferred once Egypt and Sudan obtain letters of credit from international banks and Iraq’s cabinet issues its final approval of the deal. Iraqi ...
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ACN Amosun commiserate with Tinubu
LAGOS -- The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has commiserated with its leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the death of his mother, Alhaja Abibatu Asabi Mogaji, asking him to draw strength from the sweet memories of her remarkable sojourn on earth. In a statement in Lagos, Monday, by ACN's National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said, though no words were good ...
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Teachers shun riverside schools in Delta
By Emma Amaize WARRI--ABOUT 80 per cent of teachers posted to primary and secondary schools in riverside communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State, have refused to report for duty, though they religiously draw their salaries monthly. A non-governmental organisation, Tompolo Foundation, set up by ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, said during a recent tour of the foundation to ...
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Sokoto still standing behind Wamakko
By Ahmed Mohd It is a wonder how a man like Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, who inherited a '' dead PDP '' in 2007 in Sokoto state could have been heinously suspended from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP by the party's National Working Committee, NWC. Wamakko had indeed revived the party from its state of coma in 2007 and breathed into it, making it the ruling ...
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Seven studentsothers killed in Boko Haram school attack
MAIDUGURI (AFP) – Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in northeast, leaving 11 people dead including seven students, the military said Monday. Details were sketchy and the information could not be independently confirmed. Mobile phone lines have been cut in much of the northeast since the start of a military offensive targeting Islamist ...
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Scores injured as students police clash in Lagos over school fees
BY BOSE ADELAJA LAGOS -- Fracas broke out, Monday, in Epe area of Lagos, leading to injuries on scores of students of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education. The entire Noforija community was equally thrown into disarray. According to an eye witness, the school authority had earlier issued a directive that the students should complete payment of their fees to be eligible for the first ...
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Angola joins league of world LNG producers
By Michael Eboh, with agency report After an 18-month delay, the Angola LNG plant in the country's northeast Soyo region has been completed. The US $10 billion plant with a capacity to produce 5.2 million metric tons per year (MMmt/y) of LNG has commenced initial production. The project will collect and transport natural gas from offshore Angola to an onshore liquefaction plant on the ...
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Statoil Tullow strike oil in Mozambique
By Michael Eboh, with agency report Statoil and Tullow Oil are completing a test well that could lead to the first commercial discovery of oil in Mozambique. The partners are hoping to extract 200 million barrels of oil from the offshore Cachalote well. The companies are drilling through natural gas fields in a prioritized search for crude. Natural gas has already been discovered in ...
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Cameroons Queen of the Mountains runs from poverty to fame
To win Cameroon's annual Race of Hope and its prize money, athletes must complete a grueling course up Mount Cameroon, an active volcano that is also West Africa's highest peak. To earn the title of King or Queen of the Mountain, a racer must win three times in a row. One woman has overcome poverty and illiteracy to become the only competitor in the race's history to earn its ...
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Nigeria prepares for flood season
Nigeria is preparing for its annual flood season while still recovering from last year's floods that killed hundreds of people, officials said. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency said this year's rainfall, which has already begun and will last until September, will be just as bad as last year's, which caused an estimated loss of $17 billion in property, infrastructure and ...
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Year After Church Bombings Kaduna Struggles to Rebuild
ABUJA -- Sectarian violence has plagued central Nigeria for decades and tens of thousands of people have been killed. Many mosques and churches are still rubble and in some cities the population has segregated itself out of fear. It is the first anniversary of triple church bombings that sparked sectarian riots in the central city of Kaduna. There is no roof on this mosque in Kaduna and no ...
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One change for Nigeria against lowly Tahiti
MADRID (Reuters) - Malaga's Spain Under-21 playmaker Isco has confirmed that Real Madrid and Manchester City have made offers to buy him and said he will decide his future after Tuesday's European championships final against Italy. The 21-year-old midfielder, valued at 20 million euros on website transfermarkt.com, helped Malaga reach the last eight of the Champions League last season ...
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11 dead in attack on school soldiers Nigerian military
Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeast, leaving 11 people dead including seven students, the military said Monday. Details were sketchy and the information could not be independently confirmed. Mobile phone lines have been cut in much of the northeast since the start of a military offensive targeting Islamist extremist ...
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Bonus row How Gaiya saved Nigeria
Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Sports, Honourable Godfrey Gaiya has absolved the Super Eagles of any blame in the show of shame that Nigeria was subjected to in Windhoek, Namibia when the players refused to board the arranged flight to Rio de Janeiro via South Africa. The legislator was blunt when he told Goal.com that the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation did not ...
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Confed Cup Nigeria starts Mikel Musa Echiejile others
BELO HORIZONTE – Starting line-ups in the Confederations Cup Group B match between Tahiti and Nigeria at Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte. Nigeria Vincent Enyeama (capt); Efe Ambrose, Godfrey Oboabona, Kenneth Omeruo, Uwa Echiejile; John Mikel Obi, Fegor Ogude, Sunday Mba; Agmed Musa, Nnamdi Oduamadi, Anthony Ujah Coach: Stephen Keshi Tahiti Xavier Samin; Vincent Simon, Teheivarii ...
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Nelson Mandela ‘doing very well’ says daughter
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s ailing icon Nelson Mandela, who has been in hospital for 10 days suffering a lung infection, is ';doing very well';, one of his daughters said on Monday. ';He is doing very well,'; Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, South Africa’s ambassador to Argentina, told reporters gathered outside the Pretoria hospital treating the 94-year-old ...
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Nigeria says 11 killed in Islamist sect school attack
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Seven students, two teachers and two insurgents were killed when suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a school in the northeastern town of Damaturu, the military ...
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Works Minister values Nigeria road infrastructure at N2.3trn
By Favour Nnabugwu For the country to have its desired road infrastructure that would place the nation among the top 20 nations in the world, Nigeria needs N2.3trillion, says Minister of works, Mike Onolememen. Onolememen said the value of N2.3trillion was arrived at based on statistical analysis during an audience with the representative of the United Nations Secretary General on ...
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NASS has not ruled out state creation – Senator Eze
ENUGU – Senator Ayogu Eze representing Enugu North Senatorial zone at the National Assembly has dismissed recent media reports that no state agitation met the basic requirements, saying the door was still open for the creation of new ...
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CBN reiterates plan to phase out polymer notes
Lagos – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday reiterated its decision to change some naira notes from polymer to paper. Mr Ugochukwu Okoroafor, Head of Corporate Communications Department of CBN, however, in Lagos said that the change would be gradual. The Deputy Governor of CBN, Mr Tunde Lemo, on April 2013, in Washington, said there were plans to withdraw the polymer notes. ...
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Nigerian churches burned Boko Haram suspected
Four Christian churches in northern Nigeria were bombed and burned over the weekend, in attacks attributed to the terrorist group Boko Haram. Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos, the president of the Nigerian bishops' conference, told the Fides news service that the Nigerian army had moved in to the area in the northern Borno state, bringing a greater sense of security to the ...
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Nigeria joins Ghana as new member of G8 food security alliance
Nigeria has become the seventh member of the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. The country, therefore, joins six fellow African countries Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania. Nigeria's Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Akinwumi Adesina made the announcement at the G8 Food Security and Nutrition events this ...
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Wife 20 accuses husband of sodomy seeks divorce
Kaduna – A 20-year-old house wife, Aisha Sani, of Nasarawa Kakuri in Kaduna has dragged her husband to the Magajin Gari Sharia Court, accusing him of sodomy and battery. She told the court on Monday that her husband, Abubakar Usman, was allegedly sodomising her after enchanting her with charms. According to her, the husband uses charms which makes her unconscious whenever he wants to ...
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Police save Pastor wife alledgedly involved in rituals from mob attack
By CHIDI NKWOPARA, OWERRI. Timely intervention of a team of police men from Isiala Mbano Police Division reportedly saved the life of a self-styled Pentecostal preacher simply identified as Pastor Obinna and his wife from being lynched. Vanguard was told that some angry Amauzari youths had completed arrangement to dispatch the preacher for his alleged involvement in the kidnap of a one month ...
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PDP recalls Sokoto governor Wammako
The Peoples Democratic Peoples Party (PDP) has rescinded the decision on the suspension of the Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Magatarka Wamako. The national Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur who announced the decision of the party at Legacy House, Abuja, said the decision was taken based on the appeal and intervention of the PDP Governors’ Forum led by the Governor of Akwa ...
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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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