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S.African lawmaker who backed cannabis for medical use dies

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A South African opposition lawmaker who had called for the legalisation of cannabis for medical use died Saturday after a…

Mixed reactions trail Adamawa acting Gov.’s decision to contest

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The decision of the acting governor of Adamawa, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri, to seek for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket…

Ebola: Female Doctor Discharged

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The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Saturday announced that the first Nigerian confirmed to have contracted the Ebola…

Awka in frenzy as group holds rally for Jonathan

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The popular Ekwueme Square in Awka was filled to capacity as the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), on Saturday, held…

Ribadu dumps APC for PDP, eyes guber election

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Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…

Kenya shut borders to Ebola hit countries

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Kenya on Saturday became the latest country to ban travellers from parts of Ebola-hit west Africa as Nigeria scrambled to…

APC will participate in Adamawa guber election

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state said in Yola on Saturday that it would participate in the 11…

Suffering and smiling in Sierra Leone’s Ebola ‘hot zone’

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Virologists call it the “hot zone” — nature’s version of a nuclear ground zero, the centre of an onslaught by…

Nigeria trains 800 volunteers to fight Ebola epidemic

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Nigeria has trained 800 volunteers to help fight the deadly Ebola epidemic that has already claimed four lives in Africa’s…

North has enjoyed Jonathan, than some northern rulers – Maku

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The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, claims that what President Goodluck Jonathan has done for the north previous presidents of…

Ebola: Catholic diocese bars corpses in churches

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The Catholic diocese of Makurdi, Benue, has barred the faithful from taking corpses of late relations to churches for funeral…

34 screaming survivors found in container at UK port

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One man was found dead and 34 others still alive in a shipping container on Saturday after staff at a…

Heavy rain, landslides kill 24 in north India

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The death toll from heavy monsoon downpours in northern India climbed to 24 Saturday after seven people in a house…

Boko Haram: Ogar should resign or be fired – APC

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Department of State Security (DSS) spokesperson Marilyn Ogar to resign or…

We’re Taking Care Of Ebola-Related Cases – Fashola

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Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Friday clarified that the state government is taking adequate care of all patients who…

Ex-Seleka fighters massacre ‘at least 34’ in C.Africa

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Suspected ex-rebels from the Central African Republic’s Seleka movement massacred at least 34 people in several northern villages over the…

APC lambasts DSS, Ogar for linking party with Boko Haram

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the thinly-veiled attempt by the Department of State Security (DSS) to link the…

Couple arrested over withdrawals from MH370 victims’ accounts

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Malaysian police said a bank employee and her husband had been detained over withdrawals of 31,000 dollars from four bank…

Ebola vastly underestimated – WHO

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday, expressed concern over the “vastly underestimated” scale of the Ebola outbreak as the…

Mexico protests Texas National Guard troops on US border

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Mexico’s foreign ministry late Friday protested Texas Governor Rick Perry’s deployment of National Guard troops to the southern US border…

Scotland tests Sierra Leonean for Ebola

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A woman who fell ill at a deportation facility in Scotland has tested negative for the Ebola virus, health officials…

Jihadists kill dozens in northern Iraq ‘massacre’

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Jihadists carried out a “massacre” in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members…

16-year old marriage dissolved over wife’s infidelity, demonic powers

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An Oke-Are Customary Court in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a 16-year old marriage between Rahaman Shitu and Toyin over her…

Chief Judge pardons 22 inmates in Nasarawa

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The Chief Judge of Nasarawa State, Justice Suleiman Dikko, on Friday, granted pardon to 27 inmates awaiting trial in four…

Borno seeks closer cooperation against insurgency

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Deputy Governor of Borno, Alhaji Umar Zanna, on Friday said there was the need for closer cooperation among stakeholders in…

Deductions from police salaries not mismanaged

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The acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, said on Friday that deductions from personnel of the force’s salaries into…

Abati denies statement on Chibok schoolgirls

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Presidential Spokesman Reuben Abati on Friday disowned a press release from his e-mail account earlier which said that President Goodluck…

China gang force children to donate blood

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Police arrested seven people in northwest China allegedly involved in a scheme that forced school children to donate blood, state…

German secret service ‘spied on Hillary Clinton’

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The German secret service listened in on at least one of Hillary Clinton’s telephone calls when she was US secretary…

Ebola outbreak could take six months to control

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The Ebola epidemic is moving faster than the authorities can handle and could take six months to bring under control,…

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