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Photonews: Fire Guts INEC Office in Abuja

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UPDATE: 102 burnt to death, 20 wounded, 18 on danger list

SUNNEWS — They flooded the place. I tried to stop them but they did not listen to me. At that time the drivers of the tanker and the bus were quarelling...

Nigeria: NDLEA arrests 5 in Lagos over N2bn heroin import

…Widow excretes 839 gramms of cocaine in Port Harcourt BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME, DANIEL ETEGHE & IFEANYI OKOLIE IKEJA – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, arrested five suspected drug traffickers in connection with a large shipment of heroin worth N2.2 billion from Pakistan at the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos. The agency also arrested...

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JTF destroys vessel with 600,000 litres of stolen diesel in Bayelsa

Yenagoa – The Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, has intercepted another vessel loaded with 600,000 litres ...

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Nigeria: Four Killed As Bomb as Military Patrol Vehicle Exploded in Maiduguri

Maiduguri — Four people were killed yesterday afternoon as a result of pandemonium at Lawan Bukar Ward in Maiduguri metropolis when an Improvised Explosive...

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45 illegal Chinese Citizens Arrested in Nigeria, To Be Deported

Forty five Chinese nationals, comprising 34 male and eleven female, have been arrested and detained by the Kano state command of the Nigerian Immigration...

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EXPOSED: The Many Lies Of D’Banj

It is no news that Dapo Oyebanjo, who is well known as D’Banj has parted ways with Don Jazzy. It is also not news that one of the last songs done...

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Nigerian Health workers begin Nationwide strike

ABUJA – Health workers and other professionals in the health sector, under the auspices of Joint Heath Sector Unions, JOHESU, yesterday declared an...

Ghana: Man Sets his Five Children Ablaze For Disturbing His Sleep (Aged 6 to 14)

A 10-year-old boy died and four others sustained severe injuries, when a 40-year-old fisherman, Kobina Amakye, threw an improvised explosive device at...

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP NAMES CORRUPT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

A daring civil rights organisation, Rights Monitoring Group (RMG), said it has compiled a list of allegedly corrupt Nigerians which it had forwarded to the Federal Government for appropriate action. According to the group, the list includes serving cabinet ministers who allegedly acquired property within and outside the country with funds which could not be said to be...

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Gunmen kill five in Maiduguri, Boko Haram injure two policemen in Kano

Five persons were killed on Thursday when gunmen attacked a bakery on Polo road in Maiduguri, Borno State..   Residents told newsmen that the gunmen...

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Nigeria: New constitution out in 2013 – Senate

ABUJA — Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said yesterday, that a new amendment to the 1999 Constitution would be ready by July 2013. Ekweremadu,...

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Nigeria: SSS uncovers bombs factory in Yola

NIGERIA: DEPARTMENT of Security Service, DSS, otherwise known as SSS has uncovered a factory where Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, are manufactured...

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WAEC CANCELS NOV/DEC EXAM RESULTS, RELEASES SOME

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the cancellation of some results which it withheld in the  November/December 2011 West African...

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Nigeria: Students attacked in Oko Poly Again

BY VINCENT UJUMADU …As NANS calls for immediate relocation of school. AWKA – SOME  students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, who returned...

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Easter Sunday bomb blast: Nigeria lost 100 Okada riders

BY LUKA BINNIYAT & NDAHI MARAMA The commercial motorcycle riders  under the aegis of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association...