President: I never said I wouldn’t contest 2015 election

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said contrary to reports making the rounds, he had never at anytime promised that he would not contest the 2015 presidential election.

He also denied the claim by Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State that he signed an agreement with some Peoples Democratic Party governors for only one term in office. He challenged anybody with a copy of such agreement to produce it.

Jonathan was fielding questions from a panel of journalists during the Presidential Media Chat in Abuja on Sunday.

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‘I’m depressed’ , says Jonathan Goodluck

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday  had   an emergency meeting with service chiefs over the killing of  50 students of the  College of Agriculture  in Yobe State.

Jonathan  disclosed this while fielding questions during the Presidential Media Chat broadcast live on television stations. He had  earlier at the 53rd Independence Anniversary Interdenominational Church Service   at the National Christian Centre, Abuja, admitted that  activities of the sect  were depressing him and his administration.

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5 aliens nabbed for illegal bunkering

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The suspects.

Five foreign nationals, who allegedly specialised in conveying petroleum products from pipeline vandals to Benin Republic, have been arrested by the Nigerian Navy Task Force in Badagry area of Lagos State.

The suspects, comprising four teenagers from Benin Republic and a 50-year-old Ghanaian, were reportedly arrested while conveying 113 50-litre jerrycans filled with petroleum products.

Parading the suspects before journalists, weekend, Administration Officer, NNS Beecroft, Apapa, Commander Hyacynth Nwaka, said operatives of the Task Force at Atlas Cove, acting on a tip-off, intercepted the suspects at 3.30a.m. and brought them to the base for further investigation.

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Russia calls to curb Libyan ‘weapons spillover’

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Alexander Zmeevsky, Special Envoy for the Russian President on Countering Terrorism and Organized Crime

Russia has urged the Global Counterterrorism Forum in New York to prevent Libyan weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists who will bring them home after fighting in warzones.

Speaking at the ministerial summit in New York, President Putin’s anti-terror envoy Alexander Zmeevsky said the meeting focused on “averting the threat that is posed by terrorists coming back from warzones, as well as by the continuing spillover of Libyan weapons that are picked up by terrorist organizations.”

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Lavrov says Syria rebels have chemical arms, proofs mounting

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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Russia has collected enough evidence to implicate Syrian rebels in using chemical weapons near Aleppo on March 19. According to Foreign Minister Lavrov, gas sarin that was unleashed against civilians outside the northern city was crudely-made as the Russian investigation confirm.

The Russian foreign chief added the results of the probe were available to all member states of the UN Security Council.

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“ Things Late MKO & I Did Together In School” – OBJ Reveals

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A book titled “Baba’s Story: Nigeria Is 50″ by a Ghanaian author, Abyna-Ansaa Adjei on ex-Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo(aka Baba), is fast-selling at the moment. The 60-page hardcover book, which its foreword was written by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, is a story of Obasanjo’s origin as told by the ex-president himself. One of the revelations in this book is the relationship between Baba and late Bashorun MKO Abiola which he rarely talks about. Excerpts:

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Photo: Over 40 dead by Boko Haram sprayed Bullets on Sleeping Students In Yobe.

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Boko Haram men this morning stormed the College of Agriculture of Gujba in Yobe State and killed over 40 students while they were asleep. This is not the first time Boko Haram members will be storming a school to carry out their unholy act. Only few months ago, they attacked a secondary school killing over 24 students. An official at the Damaturu Specialist Hospital, in Yobe has confirmed that 40 bodies have been received so far. May their souls rest in peace
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ASUP resumes strike on Friday

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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics is to resume its suspended strike on Friday  following  the inability of the Federal Government to resolve outstanding issues with the union.

ASUP Chairman, Mr. Clement Chirman, told newsmen in Jos on Sunday that “the frustrating inertia of the Federal Government to convincingly fulfil any of the promises and agreements reached with the union before the suspension of the earlier strike on July 172013 shows that government is not serious.”

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33-Year Old Nigerian Man Charged To Court In US For Supporting Al Qaeda

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A Nigerian, Lawal Babafemi, 33, was on Friday arraigned in a U.S. Federal Court, on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda and criminal use of firearms.

Babafemi, who is also known as “Ayatollah Mustapha’’, was arraigned on a four-count charge of indictment, conspiracy, providing material support to AQAP, and use of firearms.

He allegedly provided the support to the group in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist organisation’s Yemen-based affiliate.

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'Pregnant' 2-Year-Old Boy Had Parasitic Twin Removed From His Stomach After Surgery - Video

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Nigerian Woman Dies: Tolu Kalejaiye Stabbed To Death by Son in her London Home

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On Thursday the 26th of September, 2013, the family of Mrs Tolu Kalejaiye, a London-basedaccountant and mother were shocked when they learnt of her untimely death.

The 46-year-old hardworking mother was found stabbed to death at her house in Wickford, Essexaround 10 am on Thursday morning. As we speak, her 21-year-old son, Oladotun Emmanuel Kalejaiye has been charged for her murder.

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A Vessel Carrying 150 Guests Capsize In River Niger! No One Has Been Found Alive Yet

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No fewer than 42 people were yesterday drowned in a boat mishap on River Niger close to Malilli village in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger when traders were returning from Malilli Village to Tunga Illo village, after the day’s market.

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2015: The Real Reason Fashola Apologized to Igbos

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Ọmọ Oódua Blog is beginning to suspect that Lagos State Governor, Raji Fashola, is being prepared to run in 2015 as a running mate to Buhari who is likely to get the All People's Congress, APC, Presidential ticket. This thinking is fueled by Fashola's recent apology to the Igbo nation over the deportation of alleged indigent Igbos from Lagos to Anambra state which sparked off an uproar amongst the Igbo.

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Another Nigerian Police Man caught on Video asking for ₦10,000 (62 U.S.D) Bribe.

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French National Kidnapped By Ansaru Calls For “Negotiations”

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Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru (Ansar al-Muslimeen) on Friday released a video of a French national kidnapped in December, the SITE jihadi tracking website said.

In the video, posted online, the hostage identifies himself as 63-year-old Francis Collomp, an engineer with the French firm Vergnet, who was “kidnapped in Rimi in Katsina state on 19 December 2012 till today, 25 September 2013.”

The hostage appears wearing a white t-shirt, with an unidentified person holding a weapon in the background.

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“I Gave MKO Abiola ₦35Million For 1993 Presidential Election” - IBB

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For the first time in history, former Military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida, IBB has revealed that he gave now late Chief MKO Abiola N35 million to contest for Presidential election in 1993.

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Prof. Wole Soyinka Escaped Death In Nairobi Kenya Mall Assault

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But for a stroke of luck, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, would have been among the dead in the terror attack that took place at the Nairobi Westgate mall in Kenya last weekend.

Speaking at a press conference at the Freedom Park, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Friday in honour of the late Ghanaian poet, Professor Kofi Awoonor who died in the attack, Soyinka led a group of eminent Nigerian writers to condemn the Nairobi massacre. Soyinka, who said he, like Awoonor, was invited to the Storymoja/ Hay Literature Festival, said he couldn’t attend because of other pressing engagements he had elsewhere.

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It Was Wrong for Fashola to Apologize to Igbo - FFK ( What Do you Think?)

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Former minister for aviation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, has lashed out at the Lagos State governor, Raji Fashola, over his recent apology to Ndi'Igbo on the deportation issue which sparked off a major controversy over citizenship and rights of a Nigerian citizen within Nigeria.

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Irritated Okada Man Flings himself In Entrance Of Oncoming Truck over Seizure Of His Bike

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Pandemonium broke out yesterday at Iyana Adeoyo, Ring Road part of Ibadan when an unidentified man in his thirties, attempted suicide by jumping facing oncoming vehicle, after officers of the Oyo State commercial vehicle registration unit impounded his bike because his papers were fake.

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Abdul Haji, Kenyan-Somali Muslim Saves Hundreds Throughout Westgate Enemy Assault, Hailed As International Hero!

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Mr Haji has been having nightmares since Saturday. His wife tells him he weeps in his sleep and Wednesday was the first time he went to work.

“I'm angry at what I saw, what those individuals did, and the claim they did it in the name of Islam,” he explained yesterday, insisting on being interviewed in a public place what he explained was an indicator of defiance to terror. “I'm a Kenyan-Somali and I'm Muslim; Islam does not advocate violence. They are doing the opposite of what Islam teaches,” he said.

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