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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, September 8th, 2014
(FREETOWN, Sierra Leone) Britain will send military and humanitarian experts to Sierra Leone to set up a medical treatment centre to care for victims of the Ebola outbreak there, the British High Commission said on its Twitter feed on Monday. The epidemic in West Africa – the worst in the disease’s history – has killed […]
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General Politics, Governors, Latest Politics
Monday, September 8th, 2014

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has listed commitment to nation building, promotion of genuine democratic ethos, youth development, and the desire to give back to the society as the building blocks of his aspiration for the office of president. Abubakar, who will formally declare for the plum seat on Wednesday, September 24, told Sunday […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, September 8th, 2014
The Rivers government said on Monday that the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the state has not caused any expatriate drift from their work places. The commissioner for health, Dr Sampson Parker, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt that government has not received reports of expatriates leaving the state because […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Monday, September 8th, 2014
After a fierce battle, the nation’s military has reclaimed Bama town, Borno State from the terror group Boko Haram. Boko Haram captured the area last Monday. But after aerial bombardments by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF)’s fighter jets, the military has reclaimed Bama. Sources confirmed this yesterday in Maiduguri, the state capital. A military source […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Monday, September 8th, 2014
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI-ABUJA Following recent promotions and retirements in the Nigerian Police force which led to vacancies in position of Command helmsmen, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba Monday appointed new Commissioners of Police for 21 states of the federation with CP Kayode Aderanti moving to Lagos as the new CP. He takes […]
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Headlines
Monday, September 8th, 2014
Fifty days after the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, was imported into the country, the Federal government Monday confirmed the 19th case of the disease, even as another survivor was discharged from the isolation centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, bringing the number of survivors to 11.The 19th case was the fiancé of one of the […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, September 8th, 2014
By Kingsley Omonobi, Umar Yusuf, Caleb Ayansina Yola— Anxiety, panic gripped residents of Mubi, the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State, yesterday, as news spread that Boko Haram insurgents were closing in on the town. This came as the military vowed that the onslaught to checkmate activities of the terrorists will not stop until they […]
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Education, Headlines
Monday, September 8th, 2014

Ben Agande, Abuja.The Federal government has decided that the earlier extension of resumption date for primary and secondary schools to the 13th October be reviewed to the middle of September.Addressing state House correspondents after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu said the decision to review the extension of resumption […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Monday, September 8th, 2014

MANCHESTER (AFP) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Monday he wants to start trials on giving coaches the right to “challenge” referee decisions during a match.The system, backed by television monitors, could be tried at the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand next year and Blatter said he would like to find a national league […]
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Headlines
Monday, September 8th, 2014
LAGOS — In what is fast becoming the norm, gunmen, Friday, stormed the Federal Radio Cooperation of Nigeria, FRCN, Training School, Lagos State, raping and robbing many of the female trainee journalists. An eye witness in the school said that was the third time the armed men would be attacking the school. An insider said: […]