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Boko Haram ready to fight the world — Cleric

Evangelist Matthew Owojaiye, the Kadu­na-based founder of Food for the Total Man Ministry and tele-preacher of the Old Time Revival hour is one man who loves to stroll majesti­cally where even angels...

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Chibok girls: DHQ denies arrest

By Kingsley Omonobi The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) disclosed, yesterday, that contrary to media reports, no suspects had been  arrested in connection with the abducted Chibok girls as  foreign troops...

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Insurgency: Egwu calls for massive recruitment into armed forces

Former Governor of Ebonyi, Dr Sam Egwu, yesterday in Ezzambo called on the Federal Government to recruit the teeming unemployed graduates in the country into the Nigerian armed forces. Egwu, who is the...

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How Nigeria can be great again — Anyaoku, Anya

Confab a monumental failure if…— Anyaoku Future’s bright —Anya BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE IN SPITE of the myriad of socio-economic, political and security challenges the country is currently facing, Nigeria...

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Nigerian spends $1bn annually on medical tourism

BY EMMANUEL ELEBEKE Abuja — The Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, Uche Orji has said that about 30,000 Nigerians spent $1 billion annually on medical tourism. Orji...

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BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria kidnapped girls ‘shown’ in new Boko Haram video

A new video issued by Boko Haram claims to show some of the nearly 300 schoolgirls missing in Nigeria, who the group’s leader says have converted to Islam. SEE VIDEO HERE AFP reported that Boko Haram’s...

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Buhari and Boko Haram

“Ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what you can do for your country.”  That was John F. Kennedy, president of the United States of America, shortly before he was slain by a crazy...

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Breaking:Another Boko Haram Member Captured in TB Joshua’s Church

Another member of the dreaded Boko Haram sect allegedly confessed at Nigerian Pastor T.B. Joshua’s church yesterday, stating that he was being paid N2,000,000 to bomb churches. Nearing the end of the...

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Jonathan rejects swapping Boko Haram prisoners for hostage schoolgirls

(AFP) – Nigeria rejects swapping Boko Haram prisoners for hostage schoolgirls More details soon…

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Nyanya bomb blasts: DSS parades suspects

…places N25m bounty on 2 others still at large By Soni Daniel and Chris Ochai Abuja – The Department of State Services, DSS, has paraded five suspects, who carried out the May 14 bomb blast at Nyanya...

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DPR accuses commercial drivers of aiding and abetting black marketers

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Monday blamed commercial drivers for allegedly aiding and abetting fuel black marketers activities in Abuja. The Abuja DPR Zonal Head of Operations, Mrs...

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My father is judge, prosecutor at home – Charlie Boy

Charles Oputa, first son of the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, said that his father was not just a legal icon but also a judge and prosecutor at home. Oputa, popularly called, `Charlie Boy in Nigeria’s...

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Education for all, panacea for insurgency – Buhari

BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD KANO — Former Head of State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Federal Government to provide free and qualitative...

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Chibok: Ex-Lagos lawmaker criticizes First Lady’s intervention, faults CAN’s...

A former Lagos State House of Assembly member, Babatunde Ogala has questioned the intervention of Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, in the abducted girls’ saga. He described the act as...

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Chibok : Our daughters not in Boko Haram video – Some parents

By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri Some parents of the school girls abducted at Goverment Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists have distanced themselves from the latest video...

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Why govt can’t trade abducted girls with prisoners, by Falana

Lagos Lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has said the over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State, should not be exchanged for the sect’s prisoners. The exchange is among the demands of the...

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Boko Haram: Jonathan requests extension to state of emergency

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday asked the country’s parliament for a six-month extension to the state of emergency in three northeastern states riven by Islamist militant violence. “I...

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Abubakar Shekau Brags of bombing Abuja and refineries in a new video

Boko Haram leader Imam Abubakar Shekau has made another video appearance, daring the United States and others. SEE VIDEO HERE He said none of the world powers could locate his whereabouts, no matter...

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Anybody or Group Who Kills In The Name Of Islam Is Doing So On His Own —...

Babangida Aliyu, the Governor of Niger State, urged the Federal Government to deploy all its weapons to fight the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect. He said this while receiving the 2013 Christian...

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Chibok abduction: Converting our girls to Islam is war against Christianity –...

The Christian Association of Nigeria has described the purported conversion of the abducted schoolgirls of Chibok to Islam as a war against Christianity. A statement by the National Director of...

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