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The end came for Lekinson Wednesday as he succumbed to a heart-related ailment. News just filtered in late Wednesday night that Jorgio Lekinson, a popular in Yoruba genre of Nollywood died this evening of heart-related ailment. The news has thrown his numerous fans into mourning. Mr. Lekinson reportedly died at 5 p.m. at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo,
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Advanced myopia may well be what our government is suffering from. Or it may well be just that government is glibly waxing lyrical about the deregulation of the downstream sector of the country’s petroleum industry.
What do we believe, if none of the retinue of government officials could see that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)languishing in the National Assembly for almost three years, contained provisions that eloquently addressed the issue of deregulation?

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President Goodluck Jonathan has inaugurated a Special Committee charged with overseeing police reform, it was announced Wednesday. The Nigerian Police Force has come under heavy criticism recently for failing to address the growing insecurity in the country,
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Hafiz Ringim has been directed to proceed on terminal leave. The Presidency has just released a statement.

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President Barrack Obama Tuesday took off the electoral blocks in high propane performance with a powerful State of the Union speech heavily emphasizing income inequality, tax reforms to require millionaires to pay at least 30% of their income in taxes, eliminate deductions for companies money if they move jobs overseas, and lower corporate rates, for businesses that manufacture and create jobs in the U.S.
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Boko Haram suspect and his pregnant wife were Monday night summarily executed by the joint military task force in Hotoro quarters, Kano.
Eyewitnesses said Uzairu Abba Abdullahi , a 2002 Bayero University Mass Communication graduate, and his pregnant wife, were killed during a shootout with the security team at about midnight.
The security team had stormed the area following a tip-off that members of the deadly terrorist sect were living in the area,

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In the wake of the recent massive protests against the increase in the pump price of petroleum products and escalating terrorism attacks of the extremist Boko Haram sect, a group of Nigerians, under the aegis of the Committee of Concerned Nigerians, including Nigeria’s internationally acclaimed poet and US-based distinguished Professor of English, Professor Niyi Osundare, has called for the convocation of a national conference to resolve the “fundamental crisis” in Nigeria.

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The Save Nigeria Group, the prominent activist group spearheading the Lagos protests against the cut in fuel subsidy, has concluded plans to sue the federal government over the disbursement of subsidy funds.

The group says they will ask the court to investigate how the Federal Government ended up spending N1.6trillion as against the N240b budgeted for subsidy in the 2011 fiscal year.

The convener of the group, Tunde Bakare,while speaking at a press conference in Lagos to address the fallout of the recently suspended nation-wide strike condemned the truncation of the industrial action.

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As opposition to government's policy withdrawing subsidy on petrol increases, President Jonathan unleashed soldiers and the police on protesters and journalists

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Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress are set to shut down the country

Organised labour, represented by the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) rose from its emergency meeting in Abuja today with a demand on the Federal Government to reverse its contentious policy of withdrawing petrol subsidy or face the wrath of workers through a nationwide strike.

Government’s New Year day announcement cutting subsidy on petrol has since sent prices of the commodity spiraling from N65 per litre to between N138 and N141 in some urban cities, and as high as N200 per litre in far-flung areas across the country.

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Protesters on Tuesday brought vehicular and other activities in Lagos to a standstill as they marched for more than four hours demanding the reversal of the removed fuel subsidy by the federal government.

The protest, organized by the Joint Action Force (JAF), the pro-Labour Civil Society component of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition, began at the Nigeria Labour Congress' Secretariat at Yaba at about 9 a.m.

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Lagos State Attorney General says there is not enough evidence to prosecute the Nigerian customs boss accused of certificate forgery

The Lagos State Commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye, says there is no sufficient evidence to prosecute the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko Inde, for alleged certificate forgery.

Mr. Ipaye made this known in a written address filed at an Ikeja High Court in Lagos on Tuesday,

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Labour said the Federal Government should be held responsible for the death of the protester in Ilorin

The second day of mass protest against the removal of fuel subsidy and hike in petrol price ended on a bloody note in Ilorin, Kwara State, as government security agents openly shot at protesters.

One of the victims of police brutality, who was shot around the post office area in central Ilorin, died instantly,

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The naming of a new coach for the national women's team, the Super Falcons will not exceed January, officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said.

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Labour said the president lied in his claim that it (labour) agreed to support the withdrawal of subsidy

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has risen in stout defence of its integrity and credibility, accusing the Presidency of lying on the contentious issue of fuel subsidy.

NLC President, Abdulwaheed Omar, who was reacting to allegations by the Special Adviser to President on Media, Reuben Abati, that Labour had given the Federal Government its support on the removal of fuel subsidy, described such claims a blatant lie to mislead the public,

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Troubled by the mounting protest across the country, President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to scramble his cabinet together to respond to what appears a national uprising.

In the face of mounting protest against government’s New Year day announcement of withdrawal of fuel subsidy, the president has summoned an emergency cabinet meeting.

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Protesters have shut down the ever busy Ikorodu road in protest of the federal government's removal of fuel subsidy.

The protest, which began at the NLC secretariat at Yaba, proceeded through Ojuelegba road before turning into Ikorodu road.

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Operators of private filling stations in Akure, the Ondo State capital, have closed their stations to motorists following the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the filling stations in Akure on Monday, reports that NNPC filling stations, the only stations open for business, were selling petrol at N138 per litre. Motorists were buying at the new price but expressed dismay at the removal which they described as unfair.

Public transport operators have also increased fares as taxi operators now charge between N40 and N80 per drop depending on the distance as against the N30 they used to charge.

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The Nigerian government has begun a massive crackdown on protesters demanding a reversal of the New Year removal of subsidy on petrol.

On Tuesday, twelve activists were hunted down and arrested in Abuja after a peaceful inaugural signing of petitions against the subsidy removal.
Signing the petition marked the beginning of a series of planned protests against the subsidy removal, a policy the government has vowed to implement at all cost.

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More than 500 patients were unhurt after a fire broke out at the Ikeja arm of Eko Hospital, Lagos, on Monday.

The fire which, according to witnesses, began on the third floor engulfed the entire four floors of the hospital.

Eye witnesses said that the fire, which started at about 3 p.m. in aroom at the left wing, was due to an electrical spark from a fridge in
a patient’s room.

The patient, it was gathered, was returning from the bathroom when she noticed her room engulfed in smoke and she quickly drew the attention of the hospital management.

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Under a hazy harmattan sky on Monday, usually busy Abuja roads, notorious for busy traffic, went near-dead with barely a few cars easing through, as many owners either clogged at petrol stations, or abandoned their vehicles at home on the first full day of the commencement of government's deregulation of the oil sector.

With government subsidy off now, petrol sells at an average N141 a litre from N65, black market prices have soared and transport fares have tripled.

But the new rates, long anticipated and speculated by Nigerians, arrived still a surprise, and a shock on new year day, catching an outraged nation off guard.

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A coalition of northern youth groups has called for mass protests against the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government.

A statement jointly issued by the Arewa Citizens Action for Change, the Arewa Students Forum and the Arewa Youth Development Foundation said the protests would ground all activities in the region.

The coalition advised people in the region to stock pile food and other necessities before Tuesday next week in preparation for the long drawn protests to commence Wednesday.

"This has become necessary because President Jonathan has finally dared the entire nation to a ride in the tide," the statement said.

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