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Manchester City confirm Sergio Aguero’s car crash

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Manchester City have confirmed Sergio Aguero was involved in a car accident on Thursday night , but said the extent of his injuries are not yet known. City, in an official statement, say Aguero will return to Manchester today and will then be assessed by doctors. “Sergio Aguero will be assessed by Club doctors today after being involved in a road accident on Thursday. “The City forward was in Holland on his day off and has sustained injuries. “He will return to Manchester this morning and his status will be…

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25.5 million unsafe abortions performed annually– WHO

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said dangerous methods were used in nearly half of the 55.7 million abortions carried out each year globally. A WHO study shows that anti-abortion laws raise health risks for women. According to research by WHO and the Guttmacher Institute, a U.S. reproductive health think tank, almost all of the 25.5 million unsafe abortions are happening in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It noted that “the problem is especially acute in 62 countries where women are forbidden to end their pregnancies…

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Biafra Youth League talks tough, reveals agenda

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The Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, on Thursday announced that it would go ahead with their demands for a Biafran State. The group said “threats and intimidation from Nigerian government” will not deter it from actualizing an independent country. This is contained in a statement by BNYL Deputy Leader and Head of Biafra Broadcasting Service internet radio, Ebuta Ogar Takon. It disclosed that the group will further hold grassroots engagements across Southeast and Southsouth states in the coming weeks. BNYL said this was part of the sensitisation campaign which commenced…

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Teacher strangles son to death, faces life jail

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A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered the remand of a 38-year-old Arabic teacher, Bashiru Isah, accused of strangling his own son. Isah was arraigned on a one count charge of culpable homicide, punishable under Section 221 of the Penal Code Law. The Police prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Danladi, told the court that one Aisha Bashiru, wife to the accused person, reported the matter at Lapai Police Division on Sept. 19. Danladi said the complainant alleged that on the same date at about 1:15 am, her husband, a resident of Ebbo…

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Independence : Police assure on adequate security

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The Police Command in Niger has says it is ready to provide adequate security before, during and after the 57thIndependence celebrations of the country in the state. The Commissioner of Police for the command, Mr Austine Agbonlahor, gave the promise in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Friday. Agbonlahor said that the command had mobilised all needed manpower and logistics that would enable it provide a secured environment for the peaceful conduct of all celebrations in the area. He said that operational order on how to…

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Buhari too slow in fulfilling electoral promises – Obasanjo

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised the slow pace at which the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari is taking to fulfill its promises to Nigerians. This, he disclosed in an interview with African Arguments in which he stressed that President Buhari has not done enough for Nigerians especially in the area of employment generation for teeming youth. ”All youth in Nigeria have legitimate reasons to feel frustrated and angry. Buhari has made some announcements. He has tried to keep on going in the area of agribusiness, but not enough. It…

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Ohanaeze takes Biafra to London

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Leader of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group in Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nwodo, has maintained that restructuring remains the only way forward for Nigeria. He faulted the belief in some quarters that the north would be doomed if the country was restructured. He stressed that rather, the North, with right agricultural policies, would be the richest part of the country, if Nigeria is eventually restructured. Nwodo made these submissions when he spoke yesterday at the Chatham House, in London, where he delivered a paper on “Next Generation Nigeria: Accountability and…

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INEC releases names of Anambra guber candidates

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the names of all candidates for the November 18 Anambra state governorship election. The commission said on Wednesday in Abuja that political parties presented candidates. The Commission, in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said the candidates included five women, and eight vying for the office of Deputy Governor. The governorship candidates are Mr Willie Obiano, the incumbent governor, with his deputy Nkemakonam Okeke, on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Others are Mr Oseloka…

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Trump, Facebook’s Zuckerberg in fire-for-fire

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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has fired back at US President Donald Trump after he accused the leading social network of being “always anti-Trump.” Zuckerberg rejected the notion, countering that Facebook is working to ensure “free and fair elections” with an online platform that does not favor one side over another. Zuckerberg’s post at Facebook on Wednesday came after Trump accused the social network of bias in a morning tweet that read: “Facebook was always anti-Trump.The Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News, @nytimes(apologized) & @WaPo were anti-Trump. Collusion?” Early morning Twitter…

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Jonathan blasts Okorocha over 2015 election‎ bribery claims

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied that he offered a bribe to Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, ahead of the 2015 presidential election. In a statement released by his spokesman, Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan said he did not offer “huge sums of money and an influential ministry” to Okorocha in order to make him dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “We offer to quickly dismiss these claims as lies, because we are clear in our minds that such conversation never happened. “We are wondering…

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