War as Industry: Check out Top 5 Arms Producing Companies in America.

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By Sean Nevins WASHINGTON - The United States aerospace and defense industry is by far the most powerful in the world employing hundreds of thousands of people and raking in billions in profit every year. American companies make up seven of the top ten arms-producing and military services companies in the world (excluding China). To illustrate this,America’s Sean Nevins created the infograph below. 

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2015 Elections May Hold In January – Prof Attahiru Jega

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If given approval by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the 2015 general elections will take place either in January or February of that year.

Chairman, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, dropped this hint at a two-day international workshop on “Ethics and Elections: Challenges and Institutional Responses” organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation in Abuja.

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Governor Orji, Tells Police To stop Gov. Okorocha's Birthday Reception In Abia

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The proposed civic reception in honour of Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, billed to hold today in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, has been stopped on the orders of the state governor, Theodore Orji.

Abia governor who alleged that the reception was a ploy to launch the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state stopped the reception organised by rescue missionaries to mark the 51 birthday of Okorocha.

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Freedom in quote: NSA phone tapping okayed by court

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America’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC, has granted a request from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for the National Security Agency to continue collecting metadata concerning telephone connections with the aim of detecting foreign spies and terrorists. It once again ruled that operations of this kind comply with the law and do not violate citizens’ privacy.

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VIDEO: "30% of Annual Budget for Education" - ASSU President ( Do you support him?)

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IFC to fund Nigeria's $5bn gas direction project

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The Federal Government is in talks with the International Finance Corporation to greatly help to fund a national gas-pipeline network for the way to obtain power stations and industries.  Bloomberg on Thursday quoted the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, as saying the IFC was thinking about financing the 40-inch 683-kilometer (424-mile) Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano northern link, the principal network for the proposed trans-Saharan pipeline to Europe.

“We called for a mixed basket of debt and equity financing. Over the following half a year, when the front-end issues are sorted out, mobilisation and implementation of the financial support and the job, as well as project advisories and project support, will begin.”

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Mom of Lagos airplane crash Victim: Samson died after I lost my hubby, girl within three days

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The Agege, Lagos residence of the Hassans still maintained a gloomy silence a week after Samson Hassan, 27, along with some other passengers, died following the October 3, 2013 crash of an Associated Airline charter aircraft.

Samson was a photojournalist, working with MIC Caskets, which lost its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Tunji Okusanya, his son, Olatunji Okusanya (Jnr) and four other employees in the crash.

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Photo: Charlotte Dawson's boobs inadvertently comes out of her revealing bikini (see Photos)

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She’s never really been known for this. But Charlotte Dawson found herself having a wardrobe malfunction as she danced around in a plunging swimsuit during her 21st birthday celebrations in Ibiza last month. 
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Train kills an Adult male elephant : Check out Photo

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An adult male elephant was Friday mowed down by way of a train in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, a forest official said.

The incident comes a day after a jumbo having its head chopped off was found also in the exact same district.  The incident happened in Mongpong, on the fringe of Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, once the Siliguri-Alipurduar Express hit the jumbo.

“The incident happened Friday morning. There is a need certainly to further restrict the speed limit of the trains on the Siliguri-Alipurduar stretch. We are discussing on lowering the speed limit to below 25 km,” said Chief Wildlife Warden N.C.Bahuguna.

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Check out How Nigeria’s poor make the rich richer

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As early as 7am on any day, Abdullahi Shuwa, pushes out the cart he uses to produce water around a neighbourhood in Ikeja, Lagos.

The 24-year-old man pushes the cart with 10 empty 25-litre kegs to a borehole where in fact the landlord of the home allows him to fill them at N10 each.

Shuwa is an indigenous of Niger State but speaks Yoruba fluently.

“I came to Lagos quite a long time ago. I git married here,” he told Saturday PUNCH.

If one is to consider the enthusiasm with which Shuwa carries out his daily routine of pushing his heavily-laden cart across the neighbourhood in search of customers, it's possible to conclude he makes a bundle from the business.

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Blood Pool in Abeokuta as APC factions clash

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No fewer than 40 persons sustained various level of injury on Friday within a bloody clash between rival factions of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ogun state. The fracas, occurred around 4pm at the state Secretariat of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) , one of the legacy parties that fused into APC at Leme along Abiola, Abeokuta. The party's Secretariat which includes been repainted in APC colour was damaged although some cars parked in leading weren't spared as members of the factions used guns, cutlasses, broken bottles in addition to other dangerous weapons freely during the clash.

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Mountain Of Fire Ministries Pastor Injures Lover, Abducts Daughter (PHOTO)

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A man, who claimed to be the pastor of Prayer Mountain Ministries, Lagos, Olusola Adewunmi, has been accused of aggravated assault against his lover, Queen Ujiatolor, in the Onipanu area of Lagos State.

Although not legally married, the couple are said to have two children together. Their five-year relationship is said to have been fraught with domestic violence.

When PUNCH Metro visited the victim in a hospital, her legs and hands were bandaged while she was also placed on drip.

Asari Dokubo Now Runs His Own Private University !!! How many Private Jets ?

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The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university proprietors with his establishment of a university in the neighbouring Republic of Benin.

Mr. Asari-Dokubo, who already owns a soccer academy in the West African country and another one in Abuja, said the university, which will be known as
King Amachree African University, KAAU, had already been accredited to commence degree programmes beginning September 2014.

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Weird: Man Eats His Daughter’s Flesh And Drinks Her Blood

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A Papua New Guinea man described as a vampire has been arrested after allegedly murdering his young daughter by biting her neck, eating her flesh and drinking her blood, a report said Friday.
Police called the grisly incident that occurred on Wednesday at a settlement near Lae “an act of cannibalism”. 

The PNG Post Courier cited local councillor John Kenny, who was one of the first on 
the scene, as saying the three-year-old child and her mother were visiting the father when he grabbed the girl and ran off into nearby bushes. Kenny said the man allegedly held the toddler close to him, bit deep into her neck, ate the flesh and sucked her blood.

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"Pilots Were Busy Arguing Before Agagu's Plane Crashed", Blackbox reveals

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According to the black box for the Associated Airlines aircraft that crashed on the third of October in Lagos Nigeria and killed 15 people, there appeared to have being an argument involving the Captain and the First Officer of the Associated Airline aircraft.

PMNews reports that the readout of the black box , also called Cockpit Voice Recorder, CVR, conducted by Nigeria's Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, in its Abuja's laboratory revealed that the computer onboard the plane sent a warning message to the Captain, Yakubu Abdulrahman, shortly before take-off but he ignored it.

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Lagos Plane Crash: Man talks about How He Cheated Death

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Gideon Ade Akingboye, a very close friend of  the late Tunji Okusanya, the director of MIC Funerals. He spoke to FUNSHO AROGUNDADE and BAYO ADETU on the last moments of the deceased and how he escaped being killed in the plane crash that took the lives of  his friend and others
You were supposed to travel together to Akure during the 3 October air crash that killed Tunji Okusanya?
Yes.

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Again: Another Migrant Boat somersault and drown In Italy

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A migrant boat capsized between Sicily and Tunisia on Friday and hundreds of souls were in the ocean, the Italian navy said, and the national news agency ANSA said corpses have been spotted.  The incident occurred just over a week after the about 319 people drowned when  a ship carrying Eritrean and Somali migrants sank nearby the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.  

“You will find at least 200 people in the ocean and our helicopters are picking them up,” said a navy spokesman, adding that two navy ships were also on the scene.  Last week's disaster was among the worst in an extended migrant crisis that has seen countless amounts of people arriving in small, unsafe boats in southern Italy. Lampedusa, a little island located midway between Sicily and Tunisia, has borne the brunt.

Gunmen Abduct Cross River Deputy Governor’s Father And Uncle

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Etubom Essien Cobham, the daddy Cross Rivers State Deputy Governor, Efiok Cobham, was on Friday morning kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Creek Town, Odukpani local government area, of the state. Cobham was abducted at about 1.00am in his house. The deputy governor's uncle, whose name couldn't be ascertained, was equally believed to possess been abducted by the kidnappers.

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Boko Haram Leader, Shekau On Hospital Bed After He Was Shot

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Is he dead? Is he alive? Who? Well i'm talking of nigeria's enemy number one- the boko haram leader ibrahim shekau.Not too much time ago, security agencies said he might have died consequently of wounds he sustained throughout a shoot-out with security agents sometime in july.He was almost captured, but his aides were able to evacuate him over the border to cameroun.

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Shekau shot

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