Abuja: Nigeria's secret police on Saturday said they had arrested a dozen suspects linked to the discovery of "sleeper cells" operated by Boko Haram Islamists in and around the capital Abuja. The Department of State Services said those arrested had travelled from the restive northeast of the country to the Federal Capital Territory and were planning on staging attacks in Abuja during the year-end festivities.
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Nigeria police make arrests over Boko Haram 'sleeper cells' in Abuja area
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Suicide blasts kill three in NE Nigeria: vigilantes
At least three people were killed and six others injured Friday in suicide attacks in Nigeria's northeast Borno state blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, vigilantes told AFP. Two bombers blew themselves up at a security checkpoint outside Sabon Gari village in Biu district, 180 kilometres south of state capital Maiduguri, killing two civilian vigilantes and injuring four people.
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Press Release: The IMF's AFRITAC West 2 to Ramp up Capacity Development Activities
... of Ghana's strengthening of its inflation targeting framework and noted that in the Center's largest member country, Nigeria, AFRITAC West 2 have been closely engaged with the Kaduna State Government in improving its public financial management. The ...
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African troops free Boko Haram hostages, arrest militant fighters
Soldiers from Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, and Benin swept an area of Northern Cameroon and Nigeria where the Islamic extremists had strongholds, a Cameroonian official announced Wednesday. During the offensive, which lasted between Nov. 27 and 29, the forces killed more than 100 Boko Haram fighters, arrested another 100, and freed 900 hostages.
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Female suicide bombers continue to strike in West Africa
The Islamic State's West Africa Province, formerly known as Boko Haram, continues to utilize women as suicide bombers in its rampage through Nigeria and in neighboring countries. At least 75 women and young girls have carried out suicide attacks on behalf of the terrorist organization in northwest Nigeria, northern Cameroon, and southwestern Chad since the beginning of June 2014, according to data compiled by The Long War Journal .
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Woman killed in election violence i...
Yenagoa: A woman was shot dead on Saturday in violence as voters went to the polls under tight security to elect a new governor in Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, officials said. Bayelsa is the home state of former president Goodluck Jonathan, where incumbent governor Seriake Dickson is running against former governor Timipre Sylva for another four-year term in office.
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President Buhari, beware, you're presiding over the crisis of a...
The plebeians are behind you in your resolve to make Nigeria great again. This is the time Nigerians should be more expressive in their displeasures and support your government's efforts, to expose the ways mismanagement and graft were made the other of the day in the administrations of People Democratic Party in Nigeria.
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Sambo Dasuki should be innocent until proven guiltyTEMPLE C. UBOCHI, Bonn, Germany
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind espite the fact that Nigerians are irked by President Buhari's frequent foreign travels in the midst of crises engulfing Nigeria, he jetted off again to South Africa, and that might not be the last before the year runs out. Anyway, anybody criticizing the President here is missing something.
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Spicejet DH8D at Jabalpur on Dec 4th 2015, boar strike, runway...
... runways when the tower reported a flight was due in shortly. Something worst than that happened in Port Harcourt (Nigeria)in July 2005 when an Air France A330, coming from Paris, after landing around 5 am collided with a bunch of cows that, somehow ...
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Govt: Triple suicide bombings in Chad kill at least 15
A triple suicide bombing Saturday at a market on an island in Lake Chad killed at least 15 people and injured 130, Chad's government said. A top police official blamed the carnage on Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
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Nigeria arrests 9 alleged Boko Haram extremists in Abuja
Nigeria's intelligence agency says it has arrested nine alleged Boko Haram extremists plotting attacks on Abuja, the capital, over the festive season. Saturday's statement follows a warning Friday from the U.S. Embassy that extremists may be planning attacks on hotels favored by Westerners.
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Nigeria: Akwa Ibom Awards N100 Billion Road Contracts, Gets Buhari's Nod to Construct Federal Roads
The Akwa Ibom State Government has awarded road contracts worth over N100 billion during the first six months Governor Udom Emmanuel's administration, the state Works Commissioner, Ephraim Inyang-eyen, has told PREMIUM TIMES. Already, Mr. Inyang-eyen said the governor has received the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari to construct Federal Government's roads in the state.
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Nigeria: 2016 Budget Will Show Buhari's Focus Is Lifting Nigerians From Poverty - Minister
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government will take advantage of the vast opportunities in the agriculture, solid minerals, and real sectors to create jobs for Nigerians. Mr. Mohammed, who stated this at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja on Friday, said, "all we are waiting for is the 2016 Budget to be put in place".
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Nigeria: Minimum Wage - Resign If You Can't Pay, Aremu Tells Governors
Former Vice President, Nigeria Labour Congress , Comrade Issa Aremu has said that any of the 36 States governors who cannot pay the minimum wage of N18,000.00 to workers, should resign from office. Aremu, who is also the General Secretary, National Union of Textile Garment Workers of Nigeria said such governor had no reason to be in the business of governance.
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Nigeria: Presidency Promotes 907 FRSC Officers
The Presidency has approved the promotion of 907 Federal Road Safety Commission officers between the ranks of Deputy Corps Commander and Deputy Route Commander. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Bisi Kazeem, Head, Media Relations and Strategy, and issued in Abuja on Saturday.
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Nigeria: Fire Outbreak in Central Lagos, As Two Petrol Tankers Explode
Several vehicles and at least two houses are feared to have been burnt after two tankers carrying petrol exploded almost at the same spot at Ojuelegba in Lagos on Saturday morning. The first fire occurred around 5:30 a.m as a petrol tanker skidded off the road and burst into flames burning commercial buses and other vehicles parked under the Ojuelegba bridge.
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Nigeria: WeChat Boosts Nigerian Start-Ups
... is just the beginning. In the next few weeks WeChat will be launching two additional services that will take the Nigeria startup story to the next level, please watch out. Idemudia noted that the partnership arrangement is just one of the many ways ...
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Nigeria: Job Creation, Our Major Promise - All We Are Waiting for Is 2016 Budget - Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed says the Federal Government will take advantage of the vast opportunities in the agric, solid minerals, and real sectors to create jobs for Nigerians. Mohammed, who stated this in Abuja on Friday, said, "all we are waiting for is the 2016 Budget to be put in place".
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Nigeria: Cars Burnt As Pipeline Fire Bars Traffic On Effurun/Sapele Express
Another pipeline fire, the second in the spate of three weeks, on the fringe of the Army Barracks along the Effurun-Sapele Road, Delta state left several cars burnt and those on transit held in gridlock as vehicular movement between Warri and Sapele was caused by a heavy guard of military personnel yesterday. The raging fire was said to have been ignited at about 10am by a spark from a power electricity cable fell by a heavy duty equipment into a pool of crude oil which observers noticed has been spilling from a ruptured pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in the past three days.
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Nigeria: Pipeline Explodes in Effurun, Delta
A pipeline belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, exploded at mechanic village in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta, on Friday. This is coming barely two weeks after the same pipeline exploded and burnt the mammy market close to the 3 Battalion, Effurun.
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