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Piqued by recurring acoustic remarks, especially from pro south and southern leaders that northerners were lazy and the North had been sustained over the years by the South, northern leaders penultimate week said they could stand on their own if Nigeria broke up. For close to two decades, there has been an intense clamour, predominantly by southerners, for restructuring of
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What does it symbolise that American and British visitors to South Africa do not need a visa, but Nigerians and many other Africans do? This was one of the questions posed by the director of the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Adebayo Olukoshi, to the former deputy president of South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, during a panel
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For weeks now, the Boko Haram sect spreads panic at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. The latest attack left at least twelve persons injured. Residents on both sides of the border are traumatised. On the attack site, charred motorbikes are still visible a few weeks after the attack. "Over twenty bikes were destroyed," said a religious leader in Banki.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A man tried to smuggle grenades and rifle ammunition into Nigeria's Information Ministry where ministers were attending a news conference Monday, witnesses and authorities said. The man apparently made it past the gate of the Radio House compound in Nigeria's capital Abuja, heading toward where the ministers were meeting before being stopped. Footage aired on the
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A Nigerian man said Monday that he helped carry out deadly attacks on April 29 at a university church service and admitted belonging to Islamist group Boko Haram in his confession to police. Police in the northern state of Kano presented Augustine Effiong to journalists Monday following his arrest on Friday for attempted murder. According to a police statement, the
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Classrooms have been burnt, reduced to piles of broken glass and shards of cement, but children and teachers remain, squeezing into the part of the building still standing for lessons. "We thought of closing, but there are parents who are still insisting that they must come and learn," said an English teacher at the school, one of several burnt by
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Enugu — PRESIDENT yesterday, declared that the numerous problems confronting the nation did not start from his regime which commenced only two years ago. He asked Nigerians to reassess their journey from independence till date with a view to ascertaining the areas where the nation had gone wrong in order to make amends. President Jonathan Commiserating with Gov. Sullivan during
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Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has disclosed that while huge amount of dollars has been in the last one year on pipeline repairs, a record volume of crude valued at $7billion has been lost to crude theft via illegal bunkering within the same period. This is even as the federal government's effort to combat the unending episodes of
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A Joint Task Force (JTF) comprising Police, State Security Service (SSS), Navy, Air-force and Army recorded a major breakthrough Wednesday in Kogi State as a key hideout of terrorists was discovered and dismantled with different kinds of dangerous items recovered. The state Director of SSS, Mr. Mike Funbara, said the discovery was a "turning point in the security situation in
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Kano - One hundred couples tied the knot at a mass wedding at the main mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Tuesday, part of an Islamic police programme aimed at promoting stable families. Hundreds of residents in the city of Kano, the largest in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, thronged outside the central mosque for the wedding of divorcees and widows
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Lagos - Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said Monday. The attacks targeted four villages early on Sunday morning in a remote area of Adamawa state, which borders Cameroon. The
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Lagos - Regulators in Nigeria have fined four mobile phone carriers a total of $7.3m over poor service in a nation that depends on cellular phones for communications, a spokesperson said. The Nigeria Communications Commission's penalties hit Bharti Airtel Limited of India, Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat, local firm Globacom Limited. and South Africa-based MTN Group Limited, some of the dominant carriers
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Nigerian troops arrested a suspected leading Boko Haram militant in a raid Friday, a day after the restive city where the Islamist group is based was rocked by blasts and gunfire. "We had an operation this morning... at a Boko Haram hideout (in the northern city of Kano). We made some arrests but details will be given later," Kano military
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Abuja - An official with Doctors without Borders says a deadly lead poisoning crisis in north Nigeria continues unstopped two years after the outbreak began. Ivan Gayton told journalists on Thursday in Nigeria's capital Abuja that more needed to be done now to stop the outbreak. Gayton said 4 000 children in rural villages in Zamfara state have been affected,
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At least two people were killed in an attack on a northeast Nigeria market that the military blamed on a radical Islamist sect waging an increasingly bloody sectarian battle in the country. The attack happened Wednesday in the city of Maiduguri, where the sect known as Boko Haram once had its main mosque. Witnesses said the gunmen came into the
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Nigeria's military has arrested 21 Ghanians and five Nigerians for alleged oil theft as they operated two vessels in the country's main crude-producing region, authorities said on Tuesday. The two vessels had a capacity of 650,000 metric tonnes of oil. A military spokesman said only one of the vessels was transporting oil at the time, but he could not give
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Kano - Three unexploded bombs were discovered on Tuesday at a university in northern Nigeria that was the site of an attack on church services last month which killed at least 19 people, authorities said. A Bayero University spokesperson said the bombs made of gas cylinders were believed to have been at the university since the 29 April attack. The
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Kano - Thirteen people died and six others were seriously injured on Monday when a bus and a car collided near Azare town, in Nigeria's northern Bauchi state, a road safety official said. "The two vehicles had a head-on collision in which 13 people died on the spot and six others were seriously injured," Bauchi state head of the Federal
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Potiskum - Crowds of protesters took to the streets of the Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday over a deadly market attack last week, with a church and classrooms burnt and police firing tear gas. More than a thousand protesters, including traders and clerics, took part in the demonstration in the northeastern city hit by a bomb-and-gun attack Wednesday night
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Gunmen in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state on Monday shot dead a Lebanese man and his Nigerian driver and abducted another Lebanese national, the state police spokesman said. "The gunmen attacked the construction bus in which they were travelling, shot dead a Lebanese and the Nigerian driver and kidnapped another Lebanese," Aminu Lawan told AFP on telephone from Kaduna city. He
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Oil giant Shell on Monday said two new leaks had occurred on one of its pipelines in southern Nigeria after similar incidents in recent days blamed on crude theft. "Two new leaks were reported today on the Trans Niger pipeline at Akpajo and K-Dere in Ogoniland, after a similar number of leaks caused by hacksaw cuts were repaired at the
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Whether President Goodluck Jonathan will run or not looks like an open-ended question. Who becomes the next occupant of Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja in 2015 is generating weird calculations among political power mongers when the incumbent has stayed barely one year out of four. Politicians think of the next election after being elected, even before thinking of what can
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has sent messages of condolence to Nigeria following the death of former international Rashidi Yekini. The 1993 African Footballer of the Year died Friday at the age of 48 following a brief illness. CAF president, Issa Hayatou, said: "It is with great sadness and sorrow that we learned about the passing away of Mr
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Lagos - Police say gunmen wearing military uniforms arrested and shot dead five people in northeast Nigeria as violence escalates in the region. Taraba state police spokesperson Ibiang Mbaseki said on Saturday that the attack happened on Friday night in a remote village in his state. Mbaseki said witnesses told police the gunmen claimed to come from Abuja. The spokesperson
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Shell announced Friday a significant cut in its Nigerian oil production due to pipeline damage caused by theft, and warned that it might not meet contractual obligations as a result. "The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) declared force majeure on outstanding cargoes of Bonny Light with effect from noon (1100 GMT) today, 4th May 2012," a statement
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