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Awka - The body of revered Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe arrived on Wednesday in his home state in Nigeria, where hundreds of admirers packed a stadium to pay tribute a day ahead of his funeral. A wooden coffin transported the body of Achebe, the celebrated author of the novel Things Fall Apart, who died in March in the United States
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Kano — Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria's Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by Nigerian fighter jets on Boko Haram (BH) camps from 15 May. The attacks on BH camps in northern parts of Borno close to the borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon followed
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Lagos — Emotions ran high, Tuesday, at Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, following startling revelations by suspected members of three syndicates, who specialised in selling human parts to herbalists and persons suspected to be clerics. The suspects told a bewildered crowd that human heads were sold for N8,000; hands, N4,000 and private parts N10,000. One of them, Agboola Kolawole, who
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United States president Barack Obama will not be visiting Nigeria as recently speculated in the media. Obama and his wife Michelle will only visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3. A statement by the Office of the Press Secretary in the White House stated this yesterday while clarifying Obama's visit to Africa. A copy of
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Kaduna - The Nigerian military arrested 120 suspected Boko Haram militants on Monday in Borno State, in a sweep to curb the insurgency in the country's north-east, the army said. The extremists were arrested during a funeral rite in the Borno capital, Maiduguri, for one of their commanders, who had "died in an encounter with special forces the previous day",
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Abuja - Nigeria's military said on Monday it had re-established control in five remote areas of the northeast where Islamist insurgents had seized territory, as it pressed on with a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram militants. The military has "secured the environs of New Marte, Hausari, Krenoa, Wulgo and Chikun Ngulalo after destroying all the terrorists' camps", a defence ministry
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Abuja - Nigeria's military says its offensive against insurgents in the country's restive northeast has killed at least 14 suspected Islamic extremists and three soldiers. Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, a military spokesperson, said in a statement that one soldier also was missing as "forces have been engaging a large number of heavily armed terrorists" for the last two days. He
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The Nigerian Army yesterday accused Boko Haram gunmen of disguising themselves in fake army camouflage to carry out attacks on civilians at Bama, Borno State and Daura in Katsina State. Chief of Civil/Military Relations of the army, Major-General Bola Koleosho, told pressmen in Abuja that the Boko Haram gunmen were responsible for the dastardly acts that were being blamed on
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Lagos - A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison, over the sale of an adulterated teething drug that killed 84 babies in 2008. Children between 2 months and 7-years-old, died from renal failure after taking the painkiller, which was found to contain high levels of diethylene glycol, a poisonous solvent
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Lagos - A sweeping offensive against Boko Haram Islamists has left dozens of insurgents dead, the defence ministry spokesperson told AFP on Friday, as the military pressed on with air raids and ground assaults across three states. "Dozens of the insurgents have likely been killed," Brigadier General Chris Olukolade said, without offering a precise figure. He earlier told AFP that
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Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists could face charges of crimes against humanity, the UN's human rights office warned on Friday, also urging the government to ensure civilians are not swept up in an army counter-offensive. "Members of Boko Haram and other groups and entities, if judged to have committed widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population - including on grounds
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Kano - Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria's northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on an Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across the north. It was not clear who carried out the attack. Several gunmen were killed during a clash with police
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Maiduguri - Mobile phone service has been cut in areas of northeast Nigeria as the military sends more soldiers to the region to fight Islamic extremists. Soldiers raided areas in the Sambisa Game Reserve, a remote savannah of some 500km² in Borno state where Islamists have established bases, two security sources who asked not to be named said. They did
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Yola - Nigeria sent fighter jets in support of troops fighting increasingly powerful Islamist insurgents in its northeast on Thursday, the second day of a military offensive that has divided opinion over how best to tackle the rebellion. A Reuters reporter saw two Alpha jets land in the city of Yola, in Adamawa state, one of three over which President
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The Resources Governance Index of the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) has ranked Nigeria weak in its oil revenue. Report of the Institute for 2013 released yesterday in the United States said Nigeria's hydrocarbons sector is at a crossroads as a result of the current efforts to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill. The report ranked Nigeria 40 out of 58 countries
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Abuja — President Goodluck Jonathan, last night, declared a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states with an order to the military high command to use extra-ordinary measures to quell the insurgency that has bedeviled the states. Dr Jonathan in a nationwide address said the decision to impose the state of emergency followed the failure of other options,
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Lagos - Nigerian police on Wednesday said they had found six pregnant teenage girls in a raid on a house and arrested three people suspected of planning to sell their babies. It was the second so-called baby-factory uncovered in a week in the west African nation. "We acted on intelligence information and raided the house in Enugu [city] where we
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The Federal Government,Tuesday, declared a state of emergency in three states — Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states due to rising insecurity and breakdown of law and order in the states. President Goodluck Jonathan, quoting Section 305 (1) of the 1999 constitution in a nationwide broadcasting, however, failed to remove the governors of the states, saying that they are to continue
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Makurdi — The recurrent bloody conflict between Fulani herdsmen and Benue farmers took a dangerous dimension at the weekend, when no fewer than 47 mourners were gunned down by suspected herdsmen in Agatu local government area of the state, while carrying out the burial rites of two police officers killed last Tuesday in Nasarawa state. This is just as no
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Kano, Nigeria — Around 15,000 children in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, have stopped attending classes since February 2013, according to a Borno State Ministry of Education, who preferred anonymity, as Boko Haram extremists continue a wave of attacks on state schools. Most of the children are primary school students, according to the official. Thus far Boko Haram (BH) has burned
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Abuja - Pirates have released five Polish and Russian crew members they kidnapped from a cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria last month, the vessel's management company said. Piracy is increasing in the west Africa's Gulf of Guinea, an important exporting region for oil, cocoa and metals, and insecurity is driving up shipping costs. The hostages were taken when
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The World Bank Monday called on the federal government to delink its expenditures from oil price to ensure that its spending plan was not hampered by fluctuations in crude oil prices. It suggested that the annual haggling over the appropriate benchmark price could be replaced favourably by a longer-term commitment. The Bretton Woods institution noted in its new Nigeria Economic
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Lagos - An Iranian and his Nigerian accomplice were sentenced to five years in prison on Monday, over a plot they orchestrated to smuggle a shipment of military-grade weapons, including mortar rounds, into West Africa. Both Azim Aghajani and his accomplice, Usman Abbas Jega, pleaded for leniency in the hearing, in which Justice Okechukwu J Okeke avoided giving the men
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Unknown gunmen saturday kidnapped the wife and daughter of a Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour. Also abducted is the driver of the vehicle conveying them. Sources said the trio were intercepted as they were about to enter Benin, Edo State capital. Justice Rhodes-Vivour's daughter is slated to get married in the next one week and arrangements for the wedding are
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Kano - The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP on Monday, which also depicts women and children apparently being held hostage. The video features Abubakar Shekau, declared a global terrorist by the United States, seated on a rug with a kalashnikov resting behind
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