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Regulatory sanctions threat to foreign investment – Experts

NAN Some financial experts on Monday said that spate of regulatory sanctions in the nation’s bourse would serve as a threat to the country’s quest for foreign investment. The financial experts, who...

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Overhaul education sector

On Wednesday, November11, like other teeming Nigerians, I watched on the television the inauguration of new ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari. While listening to the reading of citations of...

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Beyond juicy committees

 It is unfortunate that a majority of our lawmakers who are elected to make laws and sponsor bills that will bring about good governance have abandoned their primary duties of making laws and...

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Indonesian newly-wed eat alleged rapist’s genitals – Police

AFP A newly-wed Indonesian couple have been arrested over claims they dined on the genitals of the woman’s suspected rapist after her husband allegedly murdered him and cut off his private parts,...

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France stages 128 raids overnight after attacks

AFP French police staged 128 raids in the early hours of Tuesday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, as authorities stepped up their investigation into the country’s worst-ever terror attacks....

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Five Tanzanian miners rescued after 41 days underground

AFP Five Tanzanian gold miners have been rescued after spending 41 days trapped some 100 metres underground after the shaft they were working in collapsed, the mining ministry said Tuesday. “The miners...

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US states shun Syrian refugees

Al Jazeera A string of United States governors have said they will refuse the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their home states in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks, prompting accusations of...

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India deploy troops in south as floods kill dozens

AFP India has deployed the army and air force to rescue flood-hit residents in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where at least 71 people have died in a week of torrential rains. Media reports said...

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Egypt plane crash, brought down by bomb – Russia

Al Jazeera The Russian intelligence service says that a Metrojet airliner that went down over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula in October was brought down by a bomb. The Russian Security Service said on Tuesday...

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Measles: Jigawa council to immunise 97,000 children

The Dutse Local Government Council of Jigawa said on Tuesday that it would vaccinate no fewer than 97,000 children against measles during the forthcoming immunisation exercise. Alhaji Sani Yusif, the...

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AU trains 90 organic farmers

The African Union Commission, said on Tuesday that it had trained 90 organic farmers, practitioners and exporters from East and West Africa, in order to enhance food security in the continent. Mr...

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Global terrorism deaths rise by 80% – Reports

The number of people killed in terrorist attacks has jumped by 80 per cent in 2014 as 11 nations suffered more than 500 deaths. This is contained in a think tank report released on Tuesday in London by...

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Nine killed, 100 injured as Pakistan train derails

AFP At least nine people were killed and more than 100 hundred injured on Tuesday when a train derailed in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, administration and railway officials said. The...

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LASG pledges enabling environment for investors

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would provide an enabling environment that would attract investors to the state to boost its revenue generation. Special Adviser to Governor Akinwunmi...

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Putin vows to punish Russian plane attackers

AFP Russia’s President Vladimir Putin vowed to find and punish the attackers who brought down a plane with 224 people on board in Sinai last month, in remarks released by the Kremlin Tuesday. “We will...

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NSCDC raids illegal petrol hawkers’ depots in Jigawa

The Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Tuesday said it had raided ‘depots’ used by illegal petrol hawkers in Dutse. NSCDC said in a statement in Dutse signed by its...

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Cameroonian army captures 19 suspected B’Haram members

Xinhua The Cameroonian army claimed to have captured 19 suspected Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram militants, on Monday during a ground and air offensive in Ketta, a town in Cameroon’s Far North...

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Russia offers $50m reward for information on plane attackers

AFP Russia’s Federal Security Service on Tuesday said it would pay $50 million for information about terrorists who brought down the plane in Sinai last month with 224 people on board. The FSB appealed...

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Police to deploy more personnel  in Yobe, Adamawa

The police have concluded plans to scale up deployment of anti-riot policemen to Yobe and Adamawa States, following a shortage of personnel fighting insurgency in the area. It was gathered that the...

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