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| Rita Ora: Professional flesh flasher |
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| Ruby Stephens, 23 (left), and her husband, 48-year-old Roy Stephens (right), have been charged with first-degree murder in the starving death of the woman's newborn. Mr Stephens was not the girl's biological father |
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| INEC Chairman: Prof. Attahiru Jega |
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there is no basis for objecting to the affidavit presented by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, over the circumstances surrounding his certificates.
It also said that it does not have the mandate to screen or reject candidates, stressing that its role is simply to display the nominees of parties for claims and objections and that only when there are objections will it revert to the parties to do the needful.
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| President Goodluck Jonathan |
Prices of imported used cars are expected to rise appreciably in the New Year as the Federal Government begins the collection of 70 per cent duty on second-hand vehicles imported into the country from January 1, 2015. This is the second phase of the national automotive policy, which was announced in November 2013.
In a move to encourage local assembling of vehicles, the government had last year raised the import tariff on fully-built cars and used vehicles from 22 per cent to 70 per cent. The first phase of the policy involving the payment of 35 per cent duty came into effect in February 2014.
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| President Goodluck Jonathan |
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday [Dec. 30] said he did not expect Nigerians to shower praises on him while still in office. He said it was normal that public office holders would only be commended after leaving office by the time their achievements were compared with those of their predecessors.
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| Reports from crews suggest as many as 10 items may have been located - including what might be a life raft, life jackets and long orange tubes. |
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| This aerial view taken from an Indonesian search and rescue aircraft over the Java Sea shows floating debris spotted in the same area as other items being investigated by Indonesian authorities as possible objects from missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 |
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| Indonesian search teams are reporting that they may have located a door from missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 among at least 10 pieces of debris |
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| Rescue workers load body bags onto a flight to Kalimantan in Pangkal Pinang to collect the dead bodies |
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| Relatives of missing AirAsia passengers react to live news reports of bodies being found off the coast of Borneo Island. The group had been watching at a crisis-centre set up at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya |
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| Tragic: The flight went missing from radar at 6.18am local time - six minutes after last communication with air traffic control - while travelling from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board. Search and rescue workers spotted a number of bodies and debris floating in the water this morning |
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| Up to ten pieces of debris have been spotted around the search area looking for AirAsia flight QZ8501 |
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| Indonesian search and rescue aircraft have recorded images of debris on the Java Sea. Authorities are investigating whether they could be pieces of missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 |
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| Objects include a plane door, an emergency slide, and what might be a life raft and life jackets |
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| Live images shown on Indonesian television showed at least one bloated corpse floating in the water, causing families of the missing to burst into tears and at least one woman to collapse in grief |
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| Family members of passengers onboard AirAsia Flight QZ8501 react to news about the discovery of debris found floating in the search area |
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| Former Speaker of the House of Reps Dimeji Bankole |
As comments and reactions were still trailing the publication of an autobiography of former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo entitled, “My Watch” from well-meaning Nigerians, former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba faulted claims made by the former President of not nurturing a Third Term agenda, saying that he (Obasanjo) actually canvassed for it.
Osoba was chairman at the launch of a book titled: ‘Watch the watcher: A book of remembrance of the Obasanjo years’ by Yinka Odumakin’.
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Julius Joseph
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It was gathered that Joseph was returning from a bank in the area to withdraw money when Olaniran, who was in a Toyota Corolla, blocked the road and accused him of pinging and driving. Joseph was said to be checking an alert he received on his phone when the incident occured.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday [Dec. 29], said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered. The minister said this in Lagos at the launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher’, written by an activist, Yinka Odumakin, in reaction to Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My Watch’.
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| National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Oyegun |
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that its presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, will not immediately launch into probes of past leaders, politicians and officials who have stolen from the country when elected president, insofar as they repent.
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| Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide |
The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, says the people of Lagos State should blame the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) for the heavy traffic motorists face every day.
She said when Buhari was the Head of State between December 1983 and August 1985, he terminated the Lagos Metroline project initiated by the Alhaji Lateef Jakande administration to ease traffic in the metropolis.
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| President Jonathan, the First Lady & Villa Chapel Chaplain during Christmas Day Service at St Matthew's, Maitama. |
IN clear terms, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday [Dec. 28], previewed 2015 politically and economically and returned a grim verdict: It may be a turbulent year and there is need for Nigerians to pray. Speaking at the Christ Apostolic Church, Area I, Durumi, Abuja where he joined other worshippers for the last Sunday service of the year, President Jonathan specifically enjoined religious leaders to pray to God to guide him and other politicians in the country aright so that they will not set the country ablaze through their utterances.
The Murtala Muhammed Airport Police Command has launched a manhunt for a passenger who disappeared with N28 million ($150,000) belonging to another passenger on board Med View Airline. The huge sum, which was kept in the luggage of the owner and was kept in the hand luggage compartment in the upper cabin of the plane, was stolen by the passenger.
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has enlisted the support of voters in Abia State and the South-East in general for the re-election bid of her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan. Patience, who was speaking at a reception organised for her by her maternal kinsmen of Ohuhu clan in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, said a vote for Jonathan would guarantee sustainable transformation of the country.
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| ‘Prophet’ TB Joshua |
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| Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo |
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his Bachelors and Masters degrees certificates in Architecture from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have been consumed by fire.
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A baby born at sea on Christmas Day after his Nigerian mother was plucked from a floundering migrant boat by the Italian navy has been baptised Testimony Salvatore in honour of the medics who delivered him
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| The AirAsia Airbus A320 in question (PK-AXC) seen in 2010 – Photo: Bruno Geiger | Flickr CC |
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| Tragedy: April Rollison tested positive for methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana (file picture, inset) |
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| President Jonathan visiting former President Babangida at his residence in Minna, earlier today. |
The family of Dr. Akintayo Oguntuase, Head of Pediatrics at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, who was found dead in his clinic in Akure, after it was razed by a mysterious fire in the eve of Christmas, has said the medical practitioner was murdered in cold blood.
Universal Medical Clinic was in flames in the midnight of December 24, when residents of Araromi area of the city were in a festive mood and by the time the billows of fire and smoke faded out in the morning of December 25, the proprietor, Oguntuase, was found burnt and mutilated.
