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ThisDay reports that about 100 persons were reportedly killed during Tuesday’s attack on three border communities with Cameroon during an insurgency attack. The Tuesday’s attack, it was learnt was a retaliatory one on the three villages of Attagara, Agapalawa and Aganjara in local government area of troubled Borno state.
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It has been reported that Oil magnate, Kola Aluko, will soon be on the wanted list of International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) following his failure to return to Nigeria to answer questions on his business deals. According to TheCable, The multi-millionaire who has homes in America, France and Switzerland has had a dramatic falling out with the minister of petroleum resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, and his assets in Nigeria are now a target for confiscation. TheCable was told that the federal government has decided to enlist Interpol to arrest and bring him back to Nigeria “to vomit what he has swallowed”.
Industry sources informed TheCable that Aluko, who has been named in many controversial deals in the oil sector, might have played “a fast one” on Alison-Madueke. “It is mainly an issue of breach of trust, breach of a gentleman’s agreement,” a source ─ who is in the know of the deals ─ said. It was initially understood that the oil deals he was getting ─ including mining licences and crude oil trading ─ were meant to finance political campaigns.
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Neymar is set to light up World Cup, but who else do Brazil have asks Daily mail. I love the poster of the Brazillian players in their famous golden colour, don’t you?
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday nominated Former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano), Senator Adedayo Adeyeye (Ekiti), Doctor Stephen Orhu (Delta), and Doctor Abdul Bulama (Yobe) for appointment as ministers reports Punch.
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SPORTS: ESPN’s latest website dedicated to World cup 2014 is worth a check out. Click to view.
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CBN Gov. Godwin-Emefiele
ECONOMY: Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday assumed duty as new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), with a pledge to immediately begin the task of protecting the naira, which in recent months has come under hammer, falling way below the official rate against major global currencies. The new CBN helmsman hopes to ward off pressure to devalue the naira and keep inflation at single digits which it has maintained in recent months, despite rising slightly in April. Click Daily Independent Nigeria for complete story.
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SPORTS: Have You Seen Neymar’s outrageously cheeky penalty? You need to…
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop
TERRORISM: The Australian government has offered to provide its special forces to help Nigeria to rescue the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Australian television website, abc.au.net,reports that the country’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told Sky News that Australia had offered to lend its support but Nigeria had not responded. Bishop reportedly said, “Australian troops, the SAS, are always on standby for contingencies. We have made an offer to the Nigerian government to provide whatever support they need to release the girls. We’ve made a specific offer to our UK and US allies … that we are ready to assist in whatever way we can. “We have not had a response from the Nigerian government. They’ve thanked us for our willingness to be involved in trying to rescue the girls but we haven’t had any specific acceptance of the offers that we’ve made.”
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Its 8 days to the World cup and it promises to be as thrilling as Brazilian football itself. There were a number of friendlies that took place, one of which was Nigeria against Greece, two World cup bound teams. As expected, opinions differ on the game which was scoreless. Whatever the case, it was a good workout for both teams.
This was how KickOffNigeria summarised the game; The Super Eagles need a game changer. Urgently. Against Greece, Victor Moses was the only one who really carried a threat, and even he looked a tad aimless at the final hurdle….Hmmmnnnn
