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Yola — At least 20 corpses swept away by flood have been recovered from River Benue in Adamawa state, Red Cross officials have said. The Red Cross secretary in the state Abubakar Ahmad told Daily Trust on Sunday that, "Corpses of 20 persons swept away by flood, which followed heavy rains and unexpected release of water from Lagdo Dam in
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The US embassy in Nigeria on Thursday warned Americans about the threat of attacks by extremist groups following the violence in Libya and Egypt, urging extra caution. The "emergency message" issued to Americans living in Africa's most populous country came after militants attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, killing the US ambassador and three other Americans, hours after a mob
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A member of the British House of Lords, David Alton, has accused a London-based charity organisation, Al-Muntada Trust Fund, of financing the operations of Boko Haram. According to the London-based Guardian newspaper, the parliamentarian raised concerns about the Al-Muntada Trust Fund's activities with Foreign Office Minister Lord Howell in July, as well as with the United Kingdom's Charity Commission and
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Lagos - Flooding across Nigeria has killed 137 people and displaced more the 35 000 since July, the Red Cross said Monday, warning that latest forecasts suggest the damage could still worsen. The states affected range from Lagos in the southwest to Adamawa in the northeast, where at least 30 people died following the release of water from a dam
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Abuja - Oil thieves opened fire on a boat carrying workers for the state oil firm in Nigeria's petroleum-producing southeast over the weekend, killing three engineers, the company said on Monday. The engineers had been dispatched to try to repair damage to a pipeline the thieves had hacked, a statement from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said. The engineering
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Barely a week after a child was reportedly born with Islamic rosary, (Tesbaha) in Sagamu, Ogun State, another amazing event was recorded in the ancient town of Abeokuta, as a man that was believed to have died about four decades ago was sighted at Mawuko area of Odeda local government, Ogun State. The appearance of late Sheikh Ibraheem Nyaas at
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who saw to the nomination of President Goodluck Jonathan as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in 2011, may have kept a distance away from groups advocating for Jonathan to run for a second term in 2015, checks by Sunday Trust have revealed. Sunday Trust learnt that the former president is disenchanted with many political
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Apparently fed up with the incessant clashes involving them and farmers over grazing areas, some 12 million Fulani cattlemen have stated that their right to fend for themselves and their livestock as citizens of Nigeria are being infringed upon across many states because of their age-long nomadic way of life. Consequently, they have now formed themselves into social groups to
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Soldiers and suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram fought a gun battle in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, leaving seven of the attackers dead, a military spokesman said. "A group of gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists opened fire on a military checkpoint where soldiers were conducting a cordon-and-search operation," Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa said of the incident
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Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on Thursday claimed a set of fires at telecom masts across the north, while threatening journalists with the Voice of America radio network. Roughly two dozen blazes were set at mobile phone towers in cities across the restive region Tuesday and Wednesday, marking a new type of attack from a group that has become notorious
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Pirates have hijacked a Singapore-owned oil tanker in the Nigerian port of Lagos - the third attack in just over two weeks in the Gulf of Guinea, the International Maritime Bureau said on Wednesday. The vessel, which had 23 crew on board, was laden with fuel, the bureau's Kuala Lumpur-based piracy reporting centre said, adding that the pirates were sailing
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Abuja - Nigeria's power minister resigned on Tuesday amid efforts to privatise the sector to resolve electricity shortages and after a report alleged a firm tied to him was involved in the bidding process. President Goodluck Jonathan's spokesperson announced that minister Barth Nnaji had quit in a brief statement that did not provide a reason. Jonathan "has accepted the resignation
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Abuja - State governors from Nigeria's north, which is grappling with a violent Islamist insurgency, formed a body aimed at holding "dialogue" with groups fuelling the crisis. The statement announcing the new committee did not mention Boko Haram, the radical Islamist group blamed for more than 1 400 deaths across northern and central Nigeria since 2010. The mandate of the
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Nigerian police said on Tuesday they killed four kidnappers in southern Edo state following a car chase where the hostage escaped, in the latest abduction in a region home to Africa's biggest oil industry. Criminal gangs kidnapping for ransom have blighted Africa's second largest economy for years, with the vast majority of people abducted Nigerians, although foreign oil workers have
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Lagos - Nigerian police said Friday they had arrested a governor's aide over a church massacre and an attack on a military patrol that killed 23 people, but his involvement was not clear. The attacks this month were similar to scores blamed on Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has targeted Christians as well as the security forces in a
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Ahead of Sallah celebration, security agencies comprising the police, state security service (SSS) and the Nigerian army have beefed up security in the north to forestall any break down of law and order and to checkmate the activities of Boko Haram. The inspector general of police Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered officers in charge of zonal and state police commands to
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Shell said Thursday it had shut down an oil processing facility in southern Nigeria over a pump failure, but denied reports that a significant amount of oil had spilled in the area. The flowstation in the Nembe Creek area of Bayelsa state was closed on Wednesday, the Anglo-Dutch company said. It said "some oil escaped from the seal into the
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Abuja - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a sports overhaul after the country failed to win any Olympic medals, a performance that drew jeers and criticism in Africa's most populous nation. The London Olympics marked the first time in more than 20 years that Nigeria returned home without a single medal. The country has previously won medals in events
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There was pandemonium Wednesday when two out of three locally made Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) went off in the controversial Rivers State-owned banana plantation located at Soghor in Tai Local Government Area. The explosives were said to be made up of gun powder, just as two other devices planted within the vicinity of the plantation were diffused and recovered by
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Nigeria on Wednesday cancelled a centuries-old Eid festival known for its elaborate horse pageant, officially due to the emir's health, but residents suspected worsening violence was to blame. The festival has taken place in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, for five centuries, featuring a horse pageant called a durbar, where riders in colourful robes and turbans
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Jos - Authorities say floods in central Nigeria have killed at least 33 people and displaced thousands. National Emergency Management Agency spokesperson Yushau Shuaib, who confirmed the death toll, said on Tuesday that the weekend floods affected six districts in Plateau state. Nigerian Red Cross official Andronicus Adeyemo said more than 10 000 people lost their homes. Kwampkur Samuel Bondip,
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Three people were killed in a bomb blast Tuesday on a northern Nigerian road leading to a mosque where a cleric had condemned the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, officials said. The bomb in the city of Kaduna appeared to have been transported by two people on a motorcycle. One official said both riders were killed along with a passerby.
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No fewer than 28 persons have been killed, while scores of others are still missing in a renewed flood rage in nearly all the villages of the southern zone of Plateau State at the weekend. More corpses are still been picked in villages around the affected areas. Also about a hundred communities and over a thousand houses are said to
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Maiduguri - The Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram denied on Monday that 20 of its fighters had been killed in a raid by security forces in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri the day before, saying all those killed were civilians. A security officer said a mixed military and police force, tipped off about a Boko Haram meeting on Sunday, had
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At a retreat for our senators, recently, there were two different arguments on the issue of government sponsoring citizens of this country on pilgrimages. While one argued that the government has no business sending anybody on pilgrimage, the other argued that only states that can afford it should sponsor their pilgrims. The issue is more of ethics than anything else.
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