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Longest Living Conjoined Twins Celebrate Their 63rd Birthday At Disney World And Busch Gardens

Ronnie and Donnie Galyon may be the world's oldest conjoined twins, but when they celebrated their 63rd birthday recently, they decided ...

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Nigerian, Not Cameroon Airforce Bombed Boko Haram Terrorists In North-East - - DHQ

Following reports Tuesday, that Cameroonian air force jets on Monday launched air strikes on scores of Boko Haram terrorists who occupied a ...

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U.S. Airstrike Kills Al Shabab Intelligence Chief Abdishakur, Somalia Says

A U.S. airstrike killed the intelligence chief of the Somali terror group Al Shabab, Somalia’s intelligence service said Tuesday. Abdish...

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First Ebola Victim May Have Been Infected By Bats

A team of researchers think they may have pinpointed how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa started - with a small boy playing in a hollowed-...

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Nollywood Actress Nkiru Sylvanus Weds Colleague Oge Okoye’s Ex-Husband, Stanley Duru

Nolllywood actress, Nkiru Sylvanus has reportedly gotten married to Stanley Duru, the ex-husband of her colleague and former friend, Oge Oko...

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NIGERIA: Cancer-causing Metal Detected In Water Supplied To Lagos Residents

In the second part of his report, KUNLE FALAYI takes on the Lagos State Water Corporation armed with the report of a chemical analysis done ...

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AirAsia: Relatives Faint As Rescuers Recover 40 Corpses

‘PAPA, please come home. ‘I still need you.’ This was the heartbreaking message posted on the social media on Tuesday by Angela Ranasti...

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Ebola Nurse May Be Offered Recovered Patients' Plasma

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is battling Ebola at a London hospital, could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus. ...

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Boko Haram Kills 15 In Northeastern Nigerian

Suspected Islamist militants opened fire in a town in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, witnesses and a security source said. ...

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Zimbabwean Man Survives Buffalo Attack By Hanging Onto Its Horns

A Zimbabwean man survived an attack by a charging buffalo by hanging on to its horns, The Chronicle reported on Tuesday. His intestines ...

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Mozambique Court Confirms Ruling Party Win

Mozambique's electoral body on Tuesday confirmed the ruling Frelimo party's candidate Filipe Nyusi had won October's presidentia...

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Gambia Closes Borders With Senegal After Failed Coup

Gambia closed its borders with neighbouring Senegal after a foiled military coup Tuesday. Security units including police and military f...

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Ebola Returns To Europe With First Case Diagnosed In UK

A healthcare worker recently returned from Sierra Leone was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday by doctors in Scotland's largest city.  ...

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PHOTO NEWS: Activist Presents His Book ‘Watch The Watcher’ In Response To Ex-Nigerian President Obasanjo's Book

An activist Yinka Odumakin launched the book ‘Watch the Watcher’ in a response to the book of the former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasa...

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SOUTH AFRICA: ANC’s Yolanda Botha Has Passed Away After Long Battle With Illness

Fraud and corruption accused senior Northern Cape ANC official Yolanda Botha, who served in Parliament’s social development portfolio commit...

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NIGERIA: 2015 Goodluck Jonathan Will Win, In Whatever Way - Ex-Militant Asari Dokubo

Alhaji Asari Dokubo, the leader of the Niger Delta People's Salvation and Volunteer Front (NDSVF), who is also the founder of King Amach...

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Air Tanzania Pilots Leave Passengers To Comoros Stranded

More than 100 passengers are stranded at an airport in Tanzania after pilots failed to report to work following their Christmas break, offic...

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3 Changes Nigerians Would Witness In The First 100 Days Of An APC-Led Govt – El-Rufai

Former Minister of the FCT and Kaduna State governorship candidate under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Nasir El...

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Nigeria's First Lady Patience Jonathan Faults Calls To Scrap ‘First Ladies’ Office

Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, has faulted the calls in some quarters for the scraping of the office of the Fi...

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Egypt Court Bans Jewish Festival For 'Moral Offences'

A court in Egypt has banned an annual Jewish festival held in honour of a 19th Century Moroccan rabbi. The Alexandria Administrative Cou...

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Al-Shabaab Plays Down Surrender Of Wanted Official

Somalia's Shabaab militia on Monday played down the surrender and arrest of a senior militant figure, saying the official had left the m...

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Tunisia's New President To Be Sworn In

Newly elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will be sworn in Wednesday at a ceremony in parliament, which is dominated by his anti-Is...

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US Air Strike In Somalia Targets Al-Shabab Leader

The US says it has conducted an air strike against the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab in Somalia. Its target was a "senior lead...

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Ebola Outbreak: Liberia Opens New Cemetery

Liberia has opened a new national cemetery to provide safe burial sites for victims of the Ebola outbreak. A Liberian official said the ...

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NIGERIA: Skye Bank Appoints Interim MD For Mainstreet Bank

Skye Bank Plc, in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday, said it has appointed Amaka Onwughalu as interim Managing Directo...

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Boko Haram Unrest: Cameroon Air Strikes On Nigerian Militants

Cameroon has carried out its first air strikes against militant Islamist group Boko Haram, after it overran a military base and attacked fiv...

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Naira Gains Against Dollar At All Markets

The Naira appreciated against the dollar at both the official and parallel markets, a survey showed in Lagos on Monday. The  Nigerian cu...

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NIGERIA: Why Gov Lamido Is Moving Against Jonathan

Indications emerged, weekend, that Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State had openly rejected the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonath...

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SOUTH AFRICA: High Drama At EFF Leader Malema's Wedding

Julius Malema’s traditional wedding to Mantwa Matlala this weekend was full of the bling and drama expected from the charismatic and controv...

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Missing AirAsia Jet Likely ‘At Bottom Of Sea’

The AirAsia plane that went missing with 162 people on board after takeoff from Indonesia is likely at the bottom of the sea, Indonesia’s Na...

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My Certificates Consumed By Fire, Nigeria VP Sambo Tells Electoral Body

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his Ba...

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Libya Airstrikes Hit Misrata Militants For First Time

Libya's air force has struck the western city of Misrata for the first time in the latest clash between government and militant forces. ...

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NIGERIA: Gunmen Kill 10 In Southern Kaduna

Gunmen, at the weekend, attacked and killed 10 natives, wounding others at Tattaura Community in Sanga Local Government Area of Southern Kad...

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AirAsia Shares Lose 8% In Malaysia After Jet Disappears

The firm slumped 12 per cent to 2.60 ringgit at the open but recovered slightly to sit at 2.71 ringgit, still down 7.82 per cent, at 2pm. ...

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Boko Haram Militants Stage Attacks In Northern Cameroon

Some 1,000 suspected Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria attacked five towns in northern Cameroon over the weekend and briefly occupied a milit...

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Its December End And Oprah Winfrey Now Have Just 1 (One) Month And 3 Weeks To Live?

Its not new that, Oprah Winfrey will remain one of the greatest Daytime talk extraordinaire.  According to the report circulating online...

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Somali Islamist Zakariya Ahmed Ismail With $3 mln U.S. Bounty On Head Surrenders

A leader of Somali Islamist group al Shabaab, who has a $3 million U.S. bounty on his head, has surrendered, a Somali government official an...

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Nigerian Government Tackles ISIS Threat

Following intelligence reports that the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is making frantic moves to recruit Nigerian youths, the Fe...

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Air Asia Flight With 162 On Board Missing

An AirAsia flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control after take-off, the airline has said. ...

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Liberia Senate Race: Landslide Win For The Former Football Star George Weah

The former football star George Weah has won a landslide victory in Liberia's senate elections, in polls disrupted by the Ebola outbreak...

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Why I Dumped Mothers Of My Two Daughters – Nigerian Star Artiste Oritsefemi Reveals

Double Wahala crooner,   Oritsefemi, revealed to Vanguard during the year that he had a rough beginning. But his rough beginning did not sto...

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NIGERIA: Boko Haram Acts Negate Islamic Teaching - Sultan Of Sokoto

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has described the unholy activities of the violent sect, Boko Haram as a contradiction  of what ...

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NIGERIA: Panic In Bayelsa Over Killing Of Six Soldiers

There was panic among indigenes of coastal communities in Bayelsa State following the recent killing of soldiers attached to the Joint Milit...

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Meets Former Head Of State IBB, Gets Support

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday visited former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in his Minna country home. ...

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Security Experts Who Analyzed The Leaked Sony Emails Say The Hackers Responsible Are Actually RUSSIAN

A new theory has surfaced that downplays North Korea's involvement in the Sony hacking scandal and suggests the people responsible are a...

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Egypt Cuts 'Gay Wedding Video' Jail Terms

A court in Egypt has reduced to one year the three-year jail sentences given to eight men for appearing in a video alleged to show a gay mar...

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NIGERIA: There'll Be No First Lady If I Become President - Buhari

Presidential candidate of the APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has said that if he emerges winner of next year's presidential elections, there...

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[NIGERIA] 2015: Jimi Agbaje Receives Over 3,000 APC Defectors Into Lagos PDP

Governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos in the 2015 poll, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has received over 3,000 defectors from ...

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N. Korea Calls Obama 'Monkey,' Blames U.S. For Shutdown

North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacki...

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SHOCKER: Nigerian University Where Students Defecate In The Open

Widespread anomie prevalent in Nigeria, occasioned by a virtual dilapidation of the societal ethical and moral framework, has literally sque...

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