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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
Russia said on Thursday that unilateral US airstrikes on jihadists in Syria would be a crude violation of international law. “In the absence of an appropriate decision of the UN Security Council, such a step would become an act of aggression, a crude violation of the norms of international law,” said Alexander Lukashevich, a spokesman […]
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Education, Headlines
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
BY AMAKA ABAYOMI, LAJU ARENYEKA, TARE YOUDEOWEI & PAUL IKUFORIJI Since the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, came into Nigeria, it has had an adverse effect on every sector in the nation. This is not just a health issue; its effects on business, transportation, religion and even education are unfathomable. Ebola’s fingerprints, especially on education, can […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA —SXTY-FIVE days after an Islamic cleric, Abdul Ganiyu Jumah and his wife, Muinat, were reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen at their residence, they were found at the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS in Ogun State. The couple, who were residing at 27, Fagbemi Street, Ijoko, in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area […]
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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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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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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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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: […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, September 8th, 2014
Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their second child, royal officials confirmed on Monday. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news,” the statement said. As with her first pregnancy for son, George, now one, Kate is suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a […]
