Kiev punitive operation in eastern Ukraine threatens loss of national sovereignty - State Duma head

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The chairman of Russia's State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, argues that Ukrainian government's military operation in eastern Ukraine threatens to deprive the country of its sovereignty.

"The plans to sell off to American and European owners something that has in the past brought economic benefit and welfare to the Ukrainian people have ceased to be a complete secret. Nor are the Kiev authorities trying to hide it any more. However, is this not what explains both the rapid pace and the brutality of the hostilities in the east of the country?" Naryshkin says in an article entitled "Europe Looking for Adventures" and published in Russian government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Fighting between Ukrainian army, self-defense forces under way near Lugansk airport

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Clashes between Ukrainian government forces and militia are taking place on Wednesday evening near the Lugansk airport controlled by the Ukrainian army.

Eyewitnesses told Interfax they saw Grad rocket launchers being used twice but could not say by which side.

Eyewitnesses also said that a gas pipeline near the airport has been damaged and the airport's engineering premises were burning.

Ukraine's combat operations in southeast damage 62 gas pipelines leaving locals without gas.

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Continuing combat operations between the Ukrainian military and self-defense militia in east Ukraine’s Lugansk region have damaged the local gas pipeline network and left almost 10,000 families without household gas, the press office of the gas company Luganskgaz said on Wednesday.

According to the company’s data, "the hostilities have damaged 62 gas distribution pipelines, 2 gas distribution points and 24 courtyard pipeline stretches."

As a result, "1,188 apartments and 8,641 homes have been left without gas supply," the press office said, TASS reports.

Govt. didn’t interfere unduly in NFA, says Sports Minister -

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Abuja -  The Minister of Sports, Tammy Danagogo, on Wednesday in Abuja said government did not unduly interfere in the affairs of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) as being claimed by FIFA.
Speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Danagogo said Nigeria was not at risk with the world football body over the crisis in the NFA.

The minister’s assurance however came shortly before FIFA announced the country’s ban over Saturday’s dissolution of the Aminu Maigari-led NFA board.

Why PDP thinks it can win Osun

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BASKING in the euphoria of gaining and sustaining the upper hand in Ekiti with its decimation of the support base of the loud but ineffective All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been strutting around like a cock in the midst of female fowls.

But do you blame the PDP, when suddenly the APC is losing grounds everywhere because of the less-than-noble and undignified behaviour of the leaders of the party, who, for want of office, have been trampling on every other person’s ambition?   From the North to the South, from the East to the West, those who look like political “juggernauts” have been jumping ship.

Balmo forest: FG probes politicians sponsoring terrorists

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The Coordinator, National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, has said the Federal Government has started investigating some unnamed politicians with alleged link to terror activities in the country.

Omeri, who spoke in Abuja on Wednesday, added that this followed the successful raid of the Balmo Forest in Bauchi and Borno states, where some foreign mercenaries were also apprehended by the operatives of the Nigerian Army.

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Police parade suspected baby factory operators in Rivers

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The Rivers State Police Command on Tuesday paraded three pregnant women and a 36-year-old man suspected to be involved in producing babies for sale.

The ‘baby factory’ suspects, who were arrested at Igwuruta in Ikwerre Local Government Area, on July 5, 2014, were identified as Odinchinma Nwala (25), Glory Anyanwu (22), Goodness Nwankwo (19), and Stanley Okechukwu (male, 36).

FIFA hammers Nigeria, suspends NFF indefinitely

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The Fifa Emergency Committee has announced that it has suspended the Nigerian Football Association with immediate effect due to alleged “government interference.”

“The decision follows a letter sent by FIFA to the NFF on 4 July 2014, in which it expressed its great concern after the NFF was served with court proceedings and consequently an order preventing the president of the NFF, the NFF Executive Committee members and the NFF Congress from running the affairs of Nigerian football was granted by a High Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” a statement read.

"Boko Haram menace is not a war the army can easily win" - Alao-Akala

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Former Oyo state governor Adebayo Alao-Akala in   an interview with Vanguard says the army with all its sophistication can't easily win the battle against Boko Haram. He explained this while giving an answer to questions about their state of insecurity in Nigeria and what should be done  to arrest the threatening situation

"With due respect to the army, no matter how sophisticated the army is, this is not a war they can easily win. It is one that everybody has to participate in order for the nation to win. What they should do is to make sure the police are well equipped to face the challenge. If you see when they started they first of all scared away the police. They are attacking police station all over the place just to scare them. And they allowed police to be scared by bringing in army, no!

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Hungry Robbers kill one, steal bags of rice in Ibadan

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BY OLA AJAYI

IBADAN — Armed robbers, numbering about 25, invaded a market at the new Iyana Agbala community in Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State, yesterday, killing a night guard and stealing goods worth millions of naira.

According to information gathered, the dare-devil robbers strangled the guard who reportedly identified some of them.

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Unidentified Gunmen Shoot UNILAG Student in the Head

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A student of UNILAG  was reportedly shot in the heard yesterday by unidentified gunmen at the King Jaja Hall section of the university on Monday. Fortunately, the student who had been identified as Sapara, the final year student of Philosophy, had his face covered in blood instead of being dead after the bullet scraped the medial side of his head. 

He was subsequently taken up to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, and official report revealed  he is in a well balanced condition. The incident had however generated chaos as students were seen running in various directions after the gunshot was fired. 

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PhotoNews: Photo From National Council of State Meeting [OBJ, GEJ,IBB, Others]

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Stella Damasus Stunning In New Photos

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 Ever pretty Nollywood actress, Stella Damasus, shared these lovely photos on her social media pages.
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If price of oil crashes today, govs flying jets will look for okada to ride – Delegate -

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By Henry Umoru
ABUJA- A delegate representing the South West Geo- Political Zone of the country, Yinka Odunmakin told other delegates yesterday that if the price of oil crashes today, governors who he alleged to be going round the world with private jets, will look for motorcycles, known as Okada to ride.

Contributing to debate on report of the devolution of power Committee yesterday, Odunmakin also said that if no oil, only Lagos state out of the 36 states of the country would be able to use its Internally Generated Revenue, IGR to pay workers’ salaries.

18 new States: 50 Osun Monarchs write Kutigi

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BY HENRY UMORU AND JOSEPH ERUNKE
50 first class traditional rulers, leaders, stakeholders, elders from Osun State have written the Chairman, National Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi and the leadership to demand the inclusion of Oduduwa State as an additional state to those to be created from the South West geo- political zone of the country.
Expressing dismay that Oduduwa State was not part of the 18 states proposed by the national conference committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government, the Osun traditional rulers and leaders said the demand for the new state had been a passion for the people of the affected area since 1983.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun's Diary Of Violence

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In his now infamous frequent but mischevious reference to an "Immediate inglorious past" in Ogun State and the expressed mischief calculated at painting a not-too-noble picture of some people perpetrating political violence, i think it may be good enough to let the Ogun State residents and Nigeria in general  into the hindsight and previous conducts of the man who now sits over the affairs of our State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, so that our people can judge by themselves as to who is REALLY the perpetrator and Chief Promoter of political violence and intolerance who has troubles the Ogun State political seas for the past ten years.

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Two ex-heads of state, emirs plead for Nyako

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Two former military heads of state led the embattled Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako to a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday night in Abuja as part of the efforts to save Nyako, who is battling to escape impeachment by legislators in his state.

The PUNCH learnt that the meeting was at the instance of the two ex-heads of state.

A source close to the meeting confided in one of our correspondents that the two former dictators’ intervention rested on the fact that Nyako was a mutual friend.

Nyako is a retired Vice-Admiral and one-time Chief of Naval Staff under ex-dictator Ibrahim Babangida.

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Al-Qaeda threat: Security beefed up at Lagos airport

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Security activities was on the high side on Tuesday as the entire Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, was put under intense screening and searchlight for several hours, as security agencies screened all vehicles and humans entering the cargo hajj camp of the complex.
The situation forced scores of passengers, especially those going on the international flights, to trek to the airport in order not to miss their scheduled flights.

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Video: Brazilian fans turn on President amid team's World Cup failure, burn national flags.

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Brazil’s inglorious defeat in a World Cup's semifinal reached a fevered pitch, when fans once again turned on President Dilma Rousseff as the target of their fury.  

The national team wasn't just defeated by the Germans. It was routed in front of the entire world, humiliated "at its own party". It conjured up painful memories of another painful defeat: Brazil's 1950 World Cup loss to Uruguay. Young and old, Brazilians shared in the anguish of what many were already calling a national calamity, the worst loss in its team's storied World Cup history.
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Israel dazes Palestinians with devastating strikes from the air and sea

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As the world is dazed over the Brazil-Germany match, Israel is also dazing Palestinians with devastating strikes from the air and sea. The attacks are said to be directed against Hamas but nothing less than 30 Palestinian civilians, including an eight-year-old and two teenagers have been killed in the airstrikes. Israel said it is ready for an escalation of the conflict in Gaza and said its response was due to over 130 rocket attacks from Hamas.