Team Nigeria’s athletes and officials took the centre stage Tuesday at the imposing Olympic Games Village when the country’s contingent was formally welcomed into the residential arena. Nigeria’s green white green national flag was equally hoisted to indicate the presence of the most populated nation south of the Sahara at the Games.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has appointed Water Minister Hisham Qandil as prime minister and asked him to form a new government, state TV says. There has been much speculation over how Mr Mursi will allot cabinet posts.
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Russian officials are investigating how the remains of 248 aborted human fetuses ended up dumped in a forest in the Ural Mountains, state news outlets reported Tuesday.
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Pro-government forces have hit back after rebels seized parts of Syria's economic capital, Aleppo, and tried to move into its historic old city. Fighter jets and helicopters attacked targets in the east of the city and reports said thousands of troops were being moved to counter the threat.
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British prosecutors have charged a former aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron and a close confidant of media baron Rupert Murdoch with illegal eavesdropping on voice mail, authorities said Tuesday.
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Team Nigeria’s athletes and officials took the centre stage Tuesday at the imposing Olympic Games Village when the country’s contingent was formally welcomed into the residential arena. Nigeria’s green white green national flag was equally hoisted to indicate the presence of the most populated nation south of the Sahara at the Games.
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The first event of London 2012 won't take place at Olympic Park but some 132 miles away in Wales, where women's football gets the Games underway on Wednesday -- two days before the opening ceremony. Hosts Great Britain will play their first match in an Olympic women's football tournament when they face New Zealand in the Millennium Stadium, in the Welsh capital Cardiff, reports AFP.
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Team Nigeria’s athletes and officials took the centre stage Tuesday at the imposing Olympic Games Village when the country’s contingent was formally welcomed into the residential arena. Nigeria’s green white green national flag was equally hoisted to indicate the presence of the most populated nation south of the Sahara at the Games.
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Nnamdi Duru The revenue collection agency of the Federal Government, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), said it collected taxes worth N2.43 trillion on behalf of the FG in the first half of this year ended June 30, 2012.
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ABUJA—The crisis rocking All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, yesterday, took a new dimension as the National leadership of the party, led by Chief Victor Umeh, petitioned the Abuja Commissioner of Police, alleging forgery of signatures of 11 of its National Working Committee, NWC, members by the Alhaji Sadiq Massalla group.
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