There was little noticeable rust in Tiger Woods' game as he played a pro-am round Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Championship, where he makes his first tournament start since the Masters on Thursday. Woods took a three-day break following his 32nd-place finish at Augusta National and said he went 10 days without touching a club.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved the appointment of of Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru as the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
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A Pennsylvania couple is charged with first-degree murder after they allegedly beat a 4-year-old boy to death for spilling his breakfast cereal. Murder charges were recently filed against Lisa Smith, 19, and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Keiff King, after an autopsy on Smith's son, Tahjir, revealed that the child died from multiple blunt-force injuries, thermal injuries and shock.
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Eleven persons have been hospitalised in Anambra State following the outbreak of cholera in Inoma community in Anambra West Local Government Area.
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No fewer than 507 suspected cases of measles have been recorded in Bauchi State from January to October 2017
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To ensure adequate preparation. for the second group game of the 2018 World Cup against Algeria, Super Eagles technical assistant, Gernot Rohr is set to return to the country by the first week of November.
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The US holds Russia responsible for the violence in Aleppo and is threatening to break off all cooperation with Moscow in Syria, the State Department said. Russia is asking the US to live up to its obligation to separate US-backed opposition from terrorists.
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THE Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to bring back health inspection officers in each of the 57 Local Government and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, to address the menace of cholera outbreak.
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The Ebola epidemic in West Africa exposed weaknesses in the U.K.’s arrangements for dealing with outbreaks of infectious diseases and the government must improve its preparations, a panel of lawmakers said on Monday. The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, which is intended to channel advice to the government, only met for the first time in October 2014, three months after the Cobra emergency response committee, and there were delays in surveillance of the disease, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said in a report published in London.
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The Minister of Health, Prof. Issac Adewole, who disclosed this, yesterday, in Abuja at the Emergency National Council on Health meeting with state Commissioners of Health and other stake- holders in the health sector, said the current out-break was a national embarrassment.
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