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Two sisters die in Lagos collapsed building

Two sisters killed in another building collapse in Lagos Two sisters have been confirmed dead with their mother injured after a two storey building collapsed in Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos. The siblings, Toyin and Bukola Coker -both female in their late 20′s-lived with their mother, who sustained injuries at Flat 4, Block N20 of the collapsed building. According to eyewitness account, the building caved in at about 12 midnight killing the sisters and leaving…
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Lagos - Ibadan expressway: Bicourtney out, Julius Berger and RCC in

BARELY 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan hinted that government would soon decide the fate of the concession agreement with Bicourtney Consortium on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Federal Government on Monday announced that it has revoked the contract. It has instead contracted Julius Berger and RCC Limited to commence immediate reconstruction of the road. The Nigerian Tribune, on September 5, had exclusively reported about the impending withdrawal of the concession of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway road…
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UK aid 'not improving Nigerian education' - BBC

Millions of pounds of UK government aid to Nigerian schools has failed to produce any major improvement in pupil learning, an independent watchdog says. The Independent Commission for Aid Impact said the aid scheme was being undermined by a shortage of effective teachers and a lack of local support. So far £102m has been spent in 10 Nigerian states, with a further £126m committed to 2019. The UK government said the report had a limited…
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Religious riots claim 4 lives in central Nigeria

YOLA, Nigeria - A Christian vigilante group killed a Muslim resident who insisted on going through their illegal checkpoint, triggering riots that have left at least four people dead in central Nigeria, a local official said Sunday, and showing how communities have lost faith in government's ability to protect them. Rioters have burned down houses and shops in the remote area of Ibi, about 140 miles (230 kilometers) from the Taraba state capital of Jalingo,…
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JTF in operation capture Abubakar Shekau alive as peace move fades

The proposed peace talk between the Federal Government and Boko Haram has crumbled, even as the top command of Nigeria’s security apparatus has launched a fresh offensive to capture the sect’s leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau alive. The collapse of the planned dialogue is coming barely three weeks after the sect initiated a fresh move for ceasefire and peace talks. The sect had on Thursday, November 1, announced, through one of its commanders, Abu Mohammed Ibn…
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Gunman kill 6 in Zango Kataf, Kaduna State

Kaduna - Gunmen have attacked and killed six people in a village in Zango Kataf in Kaduna state, a government official said on Thursday, in a region with a history of inter-ethnic violence. The attack late on Wednesday in a village in the Zango Kataf region in Kaduna state, an area at the heart of post-election violence last April that left hundreds dead and thousands displaced. Largely Muslim Northern Nigeria has been beset by violence…
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ECOWAS presents US$382,000 to flood victims in Nigeria

Help has continued to come the way of victims of recent flood disasters in some parts of the country as the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Tuesday, presented a cheque for US$382,000 (about N59.2million) to the Federal Government. Presenting the cheque to the Foreign Minister Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru at Tafawa Balewa House Abuja , commission president, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo said the money was to help mitigate the effects of the…
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Buhari, Bafarawa meet to strategize for 2015

Former Head of State and Presidential candidate for the Congress of Progressive Change, Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), again on Tuesday met behind closed-door with former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, over the insecurity and other challenges in the North. Besides, the meeting which lasted for more than three hours at Buhari’s home, a source said, dwelt on the unity and the future of the region among other issues. The duo had met in September…
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Boko Haram attack police station in Yobe State kill 3, steal weapons

Suspected Islamist gunmen attacked a police station in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe state on Friday, killing three officers and stealing guns and ammunition, the police said. Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed hundreds in bomb and gun attacks in the northeast since it launched an uprising there in 2009, mostly targeting people who work for the government. "In the early hours of today, gunmen attacked the police station at Bonny Yadi in Gujba local government…
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Soyinka's bomshell: Nigeria at war with mass murderers

Nigeria is "at war" with Islamist sect Boko Haram and should not negotiate with its leaders who are "mass murderers", Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said on Friday. President Goodluck Jonathan said earlier this year his government was open to dialogue with the sect, whose insurgency has killed an estimated 2,800 people since 2009. The sect is styled on the Afghan Taliban and while it usually targets security and government officials, it has also struck…
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