Some Lagos-based indigenes of Kibaki, a community in Chibok town, where 234 girls were abducted from the Federal Government College by Boko Haram, on Monday protested against the act. The protesters took their grievances to the office of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola in Alausa, Ikeja.
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Forensic experts have successfully established the identities of two men that participated in the bombing of Nyanya, a satellite community bordering the Federal Capital Territory and Nasarawa State on April 14, 2014. Security sources told one of our correspondents in Abuja on Monday that the experts identified their bodies using certain scientific variables, including body tissues.
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Members of the Ekiti State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the disengaged staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (NEPA) yesterday sealed the premises of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (Benin Disco) to protest the non-payment of their pension arrears and other benefits. During the protest led by the NLC Chairman in the state, Ayodeji Aluko, the major gate leading to the office of the company located in Ajilosun Area of Ado Ekiti, was completely sealed off.
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A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Sokoto State, Alhaji Ibrahim Magaji, Monday said the people of the North would support President Goodluck Jonathan's candidacy if he decides to seek re-election, adding that Northern leaders had failed the region and had no moral justification to insist on the return of the presidency to the North in 2015. He also denied that the former Minister of Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, was planning to defect from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC), stressing that there was no iota of truth in the malicious rumours making the round in the state. Speaking with THISDAY in Sokoto friday, Magaji maintained that those insisting on northern presidency in 2015 were only after their selfish interest.
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Tobi Soniyi and Muhammad Bello Efforts by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Dieezani Alison-Madueke, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to stop their appearance before the House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have run into a hitch, as a Federal High Court in Abuja has turned down their application for an interim injunction to stop the committee from inviting them. The committee was supposed to commence the probe Monday into allegations that N10 billion had been expended by the state-run oil corporation to charter executive jets for the personal use of Alison-Madueke and her family.
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An Egyptian judge has sentenced 683 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death, including the group’s supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, and confirmed the death sentences of 37 of 529 alleged supporters previously condemned. Outside the courtroom yesterday, when news of the sentencing broke, families of the accused began to scream and several women fainted.
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As the country prepares to celebrate this year’s May Day, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the umbrella body for Nigerian workers, has lamented the lingering insecurity in the country as well as rising the level of poverty. The celebration for this year’s event is also expected to hold under tight security as the NLC has warned those attending not to carry any bags, while vehicles should be parked at least 200 metres away from the venue.
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Some of the schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Chibok, Borno State, have been ferried around Lake Chad basin by their abductors. A Chibok youth leader, Dr Pogu Bitrus, who stated this during an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), said there was a report that the girls were hustled to the neighbouring country.
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The third round of US sanctions do not heavily target Russia's key industries, but include asset freezes against 17 companies and 7 individuals, including Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. All companies on the fresh round of sanctions are owned by Gennady Timchenko, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, or Bank Rossiya, which were targets of the second round, the US Treasury Department said in a statement on their website on Monday, April 28.
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The deepening crisis in Ukraine will continue to boost safe-haven demand for gold though any evidence of a resilient U.S. economy in this week's key scheduled data releases may erode prices, CNBC's weekly sentiment survey showed. "We have been warning about the headline risk out of the Ukraine for some time now, something we felt the bears should not get too complacent about," said Edward Meir, an analyst at INTL FCStone in New York. "We would prefer to tip our trading books towards the long side in gold."
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