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    115 Shiite protesters arrested in Nigerian capital: police – Daily Nation | Home

    At least 115 supporters of a pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim group were arrested in the Nigerian capital on Monday during the latest protest to demand the release of their detained leader, a police spokesman said. Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, head of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has been in...
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    Photo: Primary School -Leaver ‘Practised’ As Doctor For Four Years – Ladun Liadi’s Blog

    The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Abdulrahman Mohammed for allegedly impersonating a medical doctor and operating a clinic in the Idi-Araba area of the state. Mohammed, a primary school-leaver, had allegedly paraded himself as a doctor for four years before luck ran out … Read...
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    Otun Olubadan’s twins: Abductors reduce ransom to N10m – Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog

    The family of the Otun Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun has shown confidence their set of twins will soon regain their freedom after their abductors reduced the ransom from N100m to N40m and now N10m. Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2HxQKAS Get More...
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    Fear grips Taraba residents over withdrawal of troops – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

    Palpable fear has gripped residents of Donga, Takum and Wukari council areas of Taraba following the recent withdrawal of military personnel from the state. A tour by The Guardian revealed that the once visible army checkpoints in the affected areas were non-existent. It was gathered that the...
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    Kenya Airways blames Nigeria labour union for sack of 24 Nigerian staff – Nigeria News |...

    Kenya Airways has blamed the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) for the sack of 24 of its Nigerian workers saying the labour union failed to take pro-active steps to protect the local staff when they were notified of Kenya Airways’ intention to render the workers redundant...
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    Nigeria’s crude oil production lags budget benchmark by 277,000 bpd – Vanguard News

    Nigeria’s crude oil production stood at 2.022 million, bpd in March, 277,000 bpd below the 2.3 million bpd benchmark for budget 2018, indicating, the country is still struggling to step up production to meet the budget benchmark. Oil pipeline Data obtained by Vanguard from the … Read more...
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    Nigeria’s Brent crude crosses $72 mark, production hits 1.81mbpd – The Guardian Nigeria...

    Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude oil price touched it’s highest since 2014 at the weekend, supported by Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) led production cuts, and likelihood of the United States taking military action in Syria increases. Besides, Nigeria’s crude … Read...
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    FBI investigating cases that bind Michael Cohen, Keith Davidson – CNN

    Some of the cases the FBI is investigating involve both President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen and the former attorney for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, Keith Davidson. CNN’s Sara Sidner reports. Read more via CNN – https://ift.tt/2H5R3DQ Get more World News
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    France’s Macron says he persuaded Trump to keep troops in Syria – Yahoo News – Latest News...

    PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he had convinced U.S. President Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria for the long term and limit joint strikes to chemical weapons facilities. Early on Saturday, the United States, France and Britain … Read more via Yahoo...
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    Saraki pays Kwara monarchs’ 20 months salary arrears – Vanguard News

    FOLLOWING dwindling federal allocations to local governments, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has cleared the 20 months salary arrears owed some traditional chiefs in Kwara Central senatorial district. The affected local government areas—Ilorin East, Ilorin South and Asa— could not meet...
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    How APC will unseat PDP in Ekiti, by ex-gov Oni – Vanguard News

    Abuja—A former governor of Ekiti State, Engineer Segun Oni, yesterday, said that All Progressives Congress (APC) has “tremendous’’ goodwill in Ekiti to win the July 14 governorship election in the state. Oni He said this in Abuja while speaking with journalists at the APC National Headquarters...
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    I’ve retired Nzeribe, Ohakim, Udenwa – Rochas Okorocha boasts – Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog

    Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has boasted that he has boasted that he has retired politicians like Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Arthur Nzeribe and former governors, Achike Udenwa and Ikedi Ohakim, to pave way for young ones to come up […] Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog –...
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    Sports Blessing Okagbare Betrayed By Home Based Athletes..Accused Of Disrupting Camp – NaijaGistBlog

    It has been revealed how Team Nigeria captain, Blessing Okagbare, fought hard to defend her teammates leading to her been accused of disrupting the camp. Our correspondent scooped that the plan was to pay only the foreign-based athlete’s competition grant but the African record holder in 200m...
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