Emotions ran high at number 9, Oyebola Close, Ikorodu, Lagos on Monday after a delegation of senior police officers visited the family home of Timilehin Ebun, a nine-year-old boy who was killed by a police stray bullet at the Mile 12 end of Ikorodu Road last Thursday.
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Public Investment Corporation (PIC), South Africa’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, on Monday said last week’s transaction with Dangote Cement will open up new acquisition prospects in Dangote’s other operations. Head of Resources at PIC, Fidelis Madavo, said these operations included Dangote’s sugar, flour, oil refinery and port operations. Last week PIC said
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reversed its decision suspending Sokoto State Governor, Magatarka Wamakko, from the party. National Chairman of the party, Bamanga Tukur, who announced the lifting of the suspension at Legacy House, Abuja, on Monday said the decision was taken based on the appeal and intervention of the PDP Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) led by Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio.
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Despite severe criticism generated by the new National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) 2013, the new policy would enable the country participate in the multi-billion naira cargo business transacted across the African continent, according to the coordinating general manager, communications for aviation parastatals, Yakubu Dati.
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•Churches burnt After about 10 months break, Boko Haram made a bloody return to Damaturu, the Yobe State capital at the weekend, attacking a school and killing nine people. The dead are seven pupils and two teachers of Government Day Secondary School.
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Oando has expressed readiness to acquire ConocoPhillips Nigerian assets as the company raises the necessary finance for the $1.79 billion (1.17 billion pounds) deal.
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Britain will engage Nigeria on the bill seeking to stop same-sex marriage, British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday. He was speaking against the backdrop of the legislation already passed by the National Assembly prescribing 14 years imprisonment for same sex marriage offenders. The bill is waiting for presidential assent to become law.
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As part of the Federal Government’s renewed commitment to ensure availability of petroleum products at subsidised prices, the Federal Ministry of Finance has stated that it had paid a total of N192, 502, 279, 966.50 as subsidy claims to marketers since the beginning of 2013.
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Apple received over the last six months between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters, the company said on Monday.
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Fiat has moved on from its initial marketing flop with J.Lo. The brand now deploys a little Italian cheek—literally—with scorpions snipping bikini tops and singer Pitbull fist-bumping the tiny 500 into the American psyche. Sexy sells, and sales are up, but now comes the five-door 2014 500L, in which the 500’s cutesy, bug-eyed face looks like it’s been pasted onto a mop bucket.
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