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Ecuador vice president’s father gets 20 years for rape

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The father of Ecuador’s vice president was sentenced to 20 years for raping a 13-year old girl, the prosecutor’s office…

Boko Haram ‘kill several’ as they loot Borno market

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Boko Haram gunmen stormed a crowded market in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno, killing several people and carting away…

Belgium thwarts jihadist attacks

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The Belgian authorities have prevented several attacks by jihadist fighters returning home from Syria and by sympathisers with the Islamic…

Abandoned day old baby found in gutter

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Kayode Aponmade An abandoned day old baby boy has been rescued from a drainage channel on Holy Timothy Street Aboru,…

Guber aspirant hails Jonathan’s transformation agenda

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A governorship aspirant in Abia, Uche Ogah, on Saturday lauded President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda, saying it had launched the…

Ebola: UNICEF makes case for Liberia, Sierra-Leone, others

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Mrs Jane Giogh, United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) representative in Nigeria, has appealed to countries with adequate human resources…

Yemen clashes ground planes, close schools

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Flights to the Yemeni capital were suspended for a second straight day Saturday as the toll mounted from clashes between…

Benue to create 12 local government councils

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Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue said arrangements had been concluded to create 12 additional local government councils in the state…

Woman arrested for stripping friend naked in public

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Cyriacus Izuekwe A 23-year old woman, Joy Okafor has been arrested by the police for ripping off the cloths of…

Jonathan visits Synagogue as death toll stands at 86

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited the collapsed guesthouse at a mega-church in Lagos, promising to investigate the cause…

Bunkering: Navy destroys 53 illegal refineries

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The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta, Warri, said on Saturday that it has destroyed 53 illegal refineries in Ashafama forest…

Ebola: Lagos clears last suspect, affirms Sept. 22 resumption date

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The Lagos State Government on Friday said the last suspected case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the state…

Orji Kalu acquires jet for N11.5b

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Chief Orji Kalu, the immediate past governor of Abia state and Chairman of Slok Group of Companies has purchased a…

India court sends 13 men to jail over gang-rape of tribal woman

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An Indian court on Saturday sentenced 13 people, including a village headman, to 20 years in jail for gang-raping a…

One dead as Christ Chosen building collapses

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Jethro Ibileke/Benin At least one person have been confirmed dead in a collapsed storey building belonging to Christ Chosen Church…

Drunken hunter fights crocodile with an eye-poke

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A tipsy goose hunter said Saturday he lived to tell the tale of being attacked by a two-metre-long crocodile in…

Synagogue: Forensic test needed to identify victims – NEMA

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Charles Otegbade, Director, Search and Rescue, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said proper forensic test was needed to identify the…

Ogun postpones resumption date of schools to Oct. 8

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The Ogun Government on Friday in Abeokuta announced 8 October as the new resumption date for private and public schools…

Assembly minority leader defects to PDP

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Alhaji Mohammed Buba, the Minority Leader of the Gombe State House of Assembly, has defected from the All Progressives Congress…

18 IS jihadists killed fighting Syria Kurds

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At least 18 jihadists from the Islamic State group were killed in overnight clashes with Kurdish fighters in northern Syria…

White House scare after man jumps fence

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A man sparked an evacuation at the White House on Friday after he scaled and jumped over a fence and…

LASG releases 2014 promotion letters to civil servants

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Dr Olujobi Ososanya, the Chairman, Lagos State Civil Service Commission on Friday said Gov. Babatunde Fashola has approved the release…

Indonesia to punish gay sex with 100 strokes of cane

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Gay sex could be punishable by 100 lashes of the cane in Indonesia’s staunchly conservative Aceh province if parliament passes…

Air Force graduates 36 pioneer commercial helicopter pilots

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The first set of commercial helicopter pilots trained in the country graduated from the Nigerian Air Force International Helicopter Flying…

FG investigating Synagogue mystery aircraft – Obanikoro

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Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Minister of state for Defence, on Friday said investigations were ongoing to unravel the mystery of the…

Atiku blasts federal government on security

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Atiku Abubakar on Friday derided Goodluck Jonathan’s record on security, vowing that Boko Haram could be crushed easily if politicians…

49 Turks kidnapped by IS militants freed

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12 years ago

Dozens of Turkish nationals held hostage by Islamic State jihadists in northern Iraq for more than three months have been…

Alao-Akala picks PDP governorship nomination form

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Adebayo Alao-Akala former governor of Oyo state and an aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday collected the…

Chad accuses UN of using its troops as ‘shield’ in Mali

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The Chadian government on Friday denounced the “discriminatory” treatment of its troops in Mali, accusing the United Nations peacekeeping mission…

PDP congratulates Scotland over referendum outcome

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday in Abuja applauded the decision of Scotland to remain under the colony of…

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