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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
Islamic State Militants were responsible for Tuesday’s attacks on Brussels International Airport, the extremist group’s Amaq Agency has said. Amaq, one of the group’s multiple media outlets, said that Islamic State fighters, opened fire inside the Belgian capital’s Zaventen airport before detonating suicide bomb while one suicide attacker targeted the Maelbeek metro station. The brief […]
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Thursday, March 17th, 2016
Lifting MTN’s ban not tied to N50bn payment –NCC — 17th March 2016 By Olabisi Olaleye THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), yesterday in Abuja, disclosed that the lifting of the ban on regulatory services on MTN Nigeria was not predicated on the N50 billion part-payment it made recently. The Commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Mr.Tony […]
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Monday, March 14th, 2016
Fidelis Soriwei, Adelani Adepegba and Nnodim Okechukwu Security has been heightened at prominent hotels, shopping malls and other key places in the Federal Capital Territory, particularly those frequented by foreign nationals and high-profile Nigerians, following the terror attack on Cote d’Ivoire that claimed 16 lives on Sunday. Six gunmen had stormed Cote d’Ivoire beach resort […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
S’African special forces to train Nigerian soldiers – Minister advertisement TOP HEADLINES Fidelis Soriwei The Ministry of Defence has said Nigeria is not asking South Africa to deploy its special forces to assist in the fight against Boko Haram. Reports on Tuesday had said the Minister […]
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Friday, March 11th, 2016
The formalities for their departure were organised by the Libyan authorities and the mission of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Before embarking, their personal belongings, which were confiscated at the time of their arrest, were returned alongside a boarding pass. / AFP / MAHMUD TURKIA The International Organization for Migration flew 172 Nigerian migrants […]
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday publicly accused the MTN Group of contributing to the casualty figure of about 10,000 Nigerians killed by members of the Boko Haram sect between 2009 and now. He claimed the telecommunication firm contributed to the figure by selling unregistered SIM cards, which he said were being used by the terrorists. […]
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
17227 John Ameh and Sunday Aborisade, Abuja South African President, Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday acknowledged that Nigeria and Nigerians indeed sacrificed for his countrymen to be freed of the clutches of apartheid. He said particularly remarkable was a point in the history of the liberation struggles in South Africa when Nigerian civil servants voluntarily contributed […]
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
Olalekan Adetayo and Adelani Adepegba Switzerland has given conditions for repatriating $321m looted by a former military ruler, the late Gen. Sani Abacha, to Nigeria. Part of the conditions is that the fund would be used for projects that would benefit Nigerians and they (the projects) must be monitored by the World Bank. The Minister […]
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Shocked diplomats caught a pair of European officials having sex in a toilet at the crucial summit where David Cameron was battling for a renegotiation of Britain’s membership in the EU. It is claimed the couple were found locked in a cubicle at the Lex Building in Brussels while continental leaders were thrashing out the […]
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Nigeria has donated 15 cars and 100 motorcycles to the electoral commission of neighbouring Benin. The Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, Lawrence Obisakin, during the donation, lauded President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts at asserting Nigeria’s leadership in Africa. Mr. Obisakin said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Cotonou on the sidelines […]
