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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, December 27th, 2013

By Oluwashina Okeleji BBC Sport Sunday Mba has been allowed to leave Nigeria’s training camp for the African Nations Championship (CHAN) to finalise a move to French side CA Bastia. Nigerian side Warri Wolves rejected a bid from the French Ligue 2 club in September, for the man who scored the Africa Cup of Nations […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Thursday, December 26th, 2013
Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has enjoined Christians in the state to remain committed to the ideals of Christmas as such is the only way to accord proper meaning to the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state, Nigeria He also enjoined them to see the celebration of […]
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Headlines
Thursday, December 26th, 2013
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The Delta State Police Command said it has arraigned one Victor Osakwe, a pastor, at the Asaba Magistrate Court for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting victims of over N20 million naira. Charles Muka, DSP, the Command’s Acting Public Relations Officer (PPRO),disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Asaba, the state capital. He said the […]
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Headlines
Thursday, December 26th, 2013
Via Vanguard• confession of 34-yr-old serial rapist By CHIDI NKWOPARA, Owerri The Police in Imo State, recently,rounded up the brain behind the death of a 12-year-old girl, Ifunanya Favour Iberi who was declared wanted two months ago by arresting a 34-year-old man identified as Samuel Chukwunyere. Police alleged that the suspect was responsible for raping […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, December 25th, 2013

“I was stripped of my shirt, shoes inside forest and my driver left with only his boxer shorts on” The immediate past primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Dr. Peter Akinola on Christmas day recounted his ordeal in the hands of the gunmen who abducted him on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
The first batch of 80 Nigerians to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the deportees arrived in the country on board an Ethiopian Airline plane at about noon. Mr Daniel Obot, the Assistant Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, National Emergency […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
Two bombs in Christian areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 35 people, officials have said. One device exploded near a Catholic church when worshippers were leaving a Christmas Day service, killing 24. Another bomb ripped through a market, killing 11 more people. Christian leaders denied that the attacks had targeted worshippers. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
UK business tycoon Richard Branson has called on companies and tourists to boycott Uganda after its parliament approved a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts. It was against his conscience to support a country which carried out a “dreadful witch hunt against the gay community”, he said on his website. The bill proposes […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Religion
Wednesday, December 25th, 2013

The Pastor of the Household of God Church International, Chris Okotie, recently bought a Rolls Royce Coupe, the 2014 Bespoke Edition, to mark his 30 years as born-again Christian and 27 years as a pastor,SUNDAY PUNCH learnt on Saturday. According to Okotie’s close aide, the pastor spent N120m on the luxury car and had earlier […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
International efforts are intensifying to end the bloodshed in South Sudan, where thousands of people are believed to have died in the past 10 days. The UN Security Council is almost doubling the number of peacekeepers to 12,500 in the world’s newest state.US Secretary of State John Kerry urged both President Salva Kiir and rebel […]