Suicide bomber kills civillian JTF in Maiduguri

A suicide bomber in a bus killed one member of Nigeria’s civilian joint task force (JTF) at the main checkpoint on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday, military and JTF sources said.

There was no immediate claim for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno, is the birthplace of the jihadi sect.

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Court reinstates 22 sacked APC Rivers LGA Chairmen

A new twist has been added to the tussle of who occupies the 22 local government secretariats in Rivers state following a judgment by the National Industrial Court, sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital to reinstate the All Progressives Congress LG chairmen sacked by a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt in Rivers state.

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This Is Why We Sacked Keshi || NFF Drops A Shocker

Subsiquent to the sack of the Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the body has stated the main reason for their action.

The NFF revealed that Keshi could not meet the “required commitment stated in the contract to achieve the Federation’s objectives as set out in the coach’s employment contract.

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Rivers state shooting At least five killed

At least five killed in Nigeria's Rivers state shooting

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least five people were shot and killed on Saturday evening in a small community a few kilometres (miles) from Nigeria's largest refinery in the oil hub Port Harcourt in Rivers state, a spokesman police and local leaders said on Sunday.

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NASS CRISIS: Resign now, else….Southeast tells Ekweremadu

The embattled deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has been asked to vacate his seat. A southeast group, the African League Organisation (ALO) made this call immediately after the Peoples Democratic Party BoT supported the emergence of Ike as the deputy Senate President for the 8th National Assembly.

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Aregbesola Exposes Osun To An Unprecedented Debt Regime

Former state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Sunday Ojo-Williams, has accused the state governor; Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola of exposing the state to an unprecedented debt regime.

Ojo-Williams said the governor, through his indiscriminate recruitment exercise within his first year in office tripled the state’s monthly salary budget.

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