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Boko Haram Kill Three in Maiduguri, Bornu

Suspected members of Boko Haram are behind the killing of three more people at a hospital in Maiduguri, police said on Wednesday. The three victims, including a senior police officer, were killed Tuesday evening when some armed men fired shots into a teaching hospital in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. “An investigation has already commenced but I can tell you that we believe the killings must have been carried out by the Boko Haram since it was their mode of operations,” the Borno State police public relations officer said. Boko Haram said on its website on Tuesday it was behind the Christmas Eve bombings in Jos. The group is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. Members of the group had, last Saturday attacked some churches in Maiduguri killing about six people. A witness said the attack was carried out by around 30 armed men. The Brigade Commander of the military task force in the town, Ibrahim Hassan Ndaliman, said his men were actually on patrol when they heard of the situation in Dala Alemderi, and they came around; but the deed was already done before they arrived. He said they were able to protect other Churches within the state capital against further attacks.

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Lagos State University Students Fix School’s Resumption Date

Students of the Lagos State University (LASU) have fixed January 5 , 2011 as their own resumption date. Agboola Seriki, Public Relations Officer of the institution’s Students Union, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Sunday. The students took the action even as the institution’s striking [...]

January 3, 2011 0
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NFF Names Yusuf, Shorunmu as Samson Siasia’s Assistants

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) yesterday,finally gave approval for the appointment of three coaches to backup Coach Samson Siasia in his onerous task of tinkering the Nigerian national team to greater heights. Since his appointment, Siasia had been locked in a battle of wits with NFF over the identities of those who would form his [...]

January 2, 2011 0
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New Year Eve’s Bombings in Abuja Nigeria

Several people have been killed by a bomb blast at a bar near a barracks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan condemned the attack, blaming it on Islamists who claimed responsibility for a recent bombing in the northern part of the country. The bomb explosion happened in a market where soldiers and civilians [...]

January 2, 2011 1
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Lekki-Epe Residents Demand Cancellation of Tolls

Residents of Lekki and environs are demanding the cancellation of tolls on the Lekki- Epe Expressway in Lagos State and not suspension as proposed by Governor Raji Fashola. The residents whose aggressive complaints to the Lagos State government had stalled proposed collection of toll fee on the road, said the suspension fell short of their [...]

January 2, 2011 0
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Dangote Group Job Vacancies: Vocational Technical Trainee Scheme

The Dangote Group is a leading industrial conglomerate in the sub-sahara Africa with interest in Food, Cement, Sugar, Salt etc.

December 30, 2010 0
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PTDF 2011 Overseas Scholarship Scheme for B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D

Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) Overseas Scholarship Scheme (OSS) has earned quite a reputation over the years.

December 30, 2010 2
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Bombs Hit Bayelsa State Political Rally

Two bombs exploded in Yenogoa, a southern Nigerian city during a political rally on Wednesday, police said, in the latest in a series of attacks in the country.

December 30, 2010 0
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Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Collapses In Church

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who twice ruled Nigeria, once in the 1970s and then for eight years starting in 1999, collapsed yesterday at the St. Stephens Anglican Church in Igbotako, Ondo State.

December 28, 2010 1
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Sikiru Ayinde Barrister To Be Buried In Lagos

Long after a short delay due inclement snow and ice storm in the UK, the remains of late Fuji Music czar, Dr. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister who died in London will be flown into the country on Wednesday 29th December and be buried in his Lagos home.

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