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No Tears For Abmode

October 8, 2018 Feature Article 824

During one of my trips to Lagos this year, I was with a certain guy called Jide Omiyale Jnr. who exclaimed ‘Lagos is working’, having seen the flyover and the bus terminus at Berger and…

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Former VP Atiku, Duke pick PDP, SDP presidential ticket

October 7, 2018 Latest News 175

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has picked the presidential ticket of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the end of the National convention that ended, Sunday morning in Port Harcourt, River State. Atiku polled 1532…

Indonesian rescuers recover a body from the debris at Perumnas Balaroa village in Palu in Central Sulawesi on Oct. 6, 2018, following the Sept. 28 earthquake and tsunami.
(Photo: AFP)

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Disease fears as more bodies found in Indonesia disaster

October 6, 2018 Asia 191

Rescuers picking through the grim aftermath of Indonesia’s quake-tsunami issued a fresh public health warning Saturday as more decaying corpses were unearthed from beneath the ruined city of Palu. More than a thousand people may…

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Turkey’s Erdogan tells ministers to stop using U.S. firm McKinsey

October 6, 2018 Economy 163

Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, said on Saturday that he had ordered his ministers to stop receiving consulting services from U.S. firm McKinsey after the deal came under fire from the main opposition. Last month, Finance…

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23 killed in fresh Plateau attack

October 6, 2018 Crime/Judiciary/Security 151

Senseless killing resumed Thursday night in Plateau State again as gunmen killed no fewer than four persons, including a security agent, in two separate attacks in Nkiedoro village in Bassa Local Government Area in which two…

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Buhari sympathise with teachers over unpaid salaries

October 6, 2018 Education 218

President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathised with Nigeria’s Teachers over the issue of unpaid salaries, saying his heart is with them. The president, in a message to 2018 World Teachers’ Day, assured that unpaid salaries would…

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Fire rips through palm plantation in Egypt’s New Valley – Agency

October 6, 2018 Latest News 139

Egypt used air force helicopters on Saturday to fight a fire which swept through palm plantations in the southwest of the country, threatening residential areas, state news agency MENA reported. The agency said that 30…

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Erdogan says Turkey open to investment, but has not asked any country for money

October 6, 2018 Economy 131

Turkey is open to all forms of investments and support, but it has not asked any country for money, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, as the country grapples with a currency crisis that has…

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The Ideal Journalist As An Artist And A Missionary

October 6, 2018 Feature Article 134

True artists are born, not made. Art is not something you stumble on. It is innate. But the environment must nurture it to blossom. The parents must see it. They must encourage it. From their…

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Romanians to vote on constitutional ban on same sex marriage

October 6, 2018 Europe 125

Romanians will vote at the weekend on whether to enshrine in their constitution that marriage must only be between a man and a woman in a referendum that has seen campaigners direct slurs at LGBT…

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