Seven desperate jobseekers die in 32C heat as they take part in fitness test for South Africa's traffic police

South Africa Job seekers Seven jobseekers died and  230 collapsed after 15,500 unemployed youths took part in a fitness test in the hope of securing one of 90 jobs with South Africa's traffic police. The massive crowd of jobseekers took part in the deadly fitness test...

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Fire burns Lagos Deputy Gov.'s residence

Lagos -  The police on Sunday said the fire at the residence of Mrs Adejoke Adefulire, Lagos State Deputy Governor, was a minor incident.  The Area Commander, Area `A' Command Lion Building, ACP Imohinmi Edgal, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that...

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Jonathan: Our Greatest Challenge Is Our Attitutude Not Corruption

President Goodluck Jonathan claimed today that Nigeria’s biggest challenge to good governance is not corruption, but the attitude of Nigerians. Jonathan submitted this theory today in Yenagoa during a flowery tribute that he paid his former national security adviser, General...

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Stop Insulting Jonathan On Facebook, Twitter – N/Delta Youth Group

Nigerian youths have been called upon to desist from insulting the country’s President on Facebook and other social media. The group, Niger Delta Youth Initiative for Positive Change, decried the penchant of some Nigerians in hurling abusive words towards President Goodluck...

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Suicide Bomber Attack Averted In FCT

Indications emerged, on Thursday, that authorities of the Nigerian Army Garrison Headquarters in Abuja, foiled a suicidal plot by members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to carry out a Christmas and New Year celebrations’ bombing in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. According...

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Colombian Drug Baron, Seven Nigerians Arrested By The NDLEA

A Colombian drug baron and seven Nigerians who specialise in the production of Methamphetamine (white, odourless, bitter crystalline powder) have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NDLEA Chairman, Alhaji Ahmadu Giade, who made the disclosure...

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Police Arrest Con-Man Pastor

The police in Lagos State said they have arrested a pastor and a travel agency operator, who allegedly specializes in defrauding intending pilgrims of using the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission. Lagos State Police Command Spokesperson, Ngozi Braide, who confirmed...

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Former RCCG pastor berates Adeboye for welcoming politicians in to their annual Holy Ghost congress

A former pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Bankole Solomon, has criticized the General Overseer of the church, Pastor E A Adeboye, for allowing politicians i.e President Jonathan, into their annual RCCG Holy Ghost congress and turning it into a political...

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Revealed: Ojukwu’s controversial Will

The late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, willed all his money to his wife, Mrs. Bianca Odinaka Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu, according to the bromide of his will exclusively obtained by Sunday Vanguard. The 16-point will, prepared by the firm of Sir Emeka Onyemelukwe...

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Nigerians are educated illiterates —Chukwumerije

Too much emphasis on paper qualification has produced Nigerians that are “educated illiterates” without initiative, Chairman Senate Committee on Education Too much emphasis on paper qualification has produced Nigerians that are “educated illiterates” without initiative,...

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‘How herdsmen r*ped bride, k*lled 21’

For allegedly refusing some herdsmen the usage of  their farmlands to graze  their herds, no fewer than 21 people of Ketuland in Yewa North local government area of Ogun State were slaughtered while women, young and old,  including a bride, were allegedly raped....

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40-Year Old Man Excretes 90 Wraps Of Cocaine In 2 Weeks

A suspected drug trafficker recently excreted 90 wraps of substances believed to be cocaine in 14 days.The suspect, Peter Onyeagba, 40, who allegedly tested positive for drug ingestion after his arrest at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos during an inward screening...

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WAEC Records 62.03% Failure As Blind Students Top Performance List

The West African Examinations Council, yesterday in Yaba, Lagos, said that about 62.03 percent of students who wrote the November/December 2012 West Africa Seniour School Certificate Examination failed the test as only 37.97 percent or 150,615 obtained five credits including English...

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Medical Doctor Among Pipeline Vandals Nabbed: Says Vandalism More Lucrative Than Medicine

A medical doctor was one of 25 suspected vandals nabbed for allegedly vandalising pipelines in different parts of the country, information emerging from the Inspector General of Police’s Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit, Force Headquarters Annex, Lagos, has...

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Suicide bombers attack Airtel office in Nigeria

A suicide bomber today attacked the office of a Nigerian subsidiary of Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel in northern city of Kano."The attacker who hit the Airtel office was shot before the bomb exploded," Ibrahim Idris, the chief of police in Kano said. According to initial...

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Four kidnapped S. Korean expatriates freed

Four South Korean workers who were kidnapped earlier this week in Bayelsa state have been released unharmed, a foreign ministry spokesman said Saturday. The four workers from South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, were abducted by armed men Monday while working at a construction...

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World’s Oldest Living Person Dies

No matter how long you live, you must die someday. No one lives forever, not even Dina Manfredini. Dina Manfredini, the world’s oldest person, on Monday passed away in Johnston, Iowa. She was 115 years old. Guinness World Records confirmed her holder of the title of world’s...

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Mad Woman Miraculously Regains Her Senses after Being Hit by a Car

The story has been told about the miraculous cure of a 40-year-old mentally ill woman who has been simply identified as Olubisi Aina at Sanyo area of Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday, 11th December, 2012 after an auto accident. According to the Tribune, which reported the story,...

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New Superstition: Boy Who Celebrated His 12th Birthday at 12 Midnight on 12:12:12 is the Antichrist

Kiam Moriya Yes, it is no longer Barack Obama. As some already know, the American President had been recently fingered as the “Antichrist” by some people for some reasons best known to them. However, there is apparently a new candidate for the post! Well, the number 12 has...

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32-year-old Marriage Ends Without A Child

A 32-year-old marriage which was devoid of the fruit of the womb was on Thursday dissolved by an Orile-Agege Customary Court in Lagos following a petition filed by 60-year-old Joshua Ajala who accused of witchcraft and abandonment. Ajala urged the court to separate him from...

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