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THE NATION ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012
News Review
A naked prince, foul murder 10 bodies recovered in Lagos ocean surge
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EN victims of the penultimate Saturday ocean surge at Kuramo Beach, Lagos have been recovered. Four were retrieved on Sunday and the remaining six on Monday. Officials of the state government have subsequently cleared the area of all shanties that used to serve as residences and fun spots.
12 prisoners escape in Benin jail break
LEBANON, Beirut : Hussein Omar (C), one of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims taken hostage by Syrian rebels in May, is carried by relatives upon his arrival home in Beirut from Turkey following his release on August 25, 2012. The captors said in a statement that Omar was released as a “goodwill gesture�. AFP PHOTO/STR
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WELVE prisoners escaped from the Oko Minimum Security Prison, Benin, on Sunday after blowing up the toilet through which they ran away. Four were, however, re-arrested soon after the jail break which was initially thought to have been made possible by gunmen who purportedly bombed the prison. The Edo State Comptroller of Prisons, Mr. Jimoh Ewulo dismissed the report as a rumour.
JTF intercepts bomb-laden car
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HE Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno State on Monday intercepted a bomb-laden car apparently on its way to a suicide mission.The Camry car was intercepted at Tudu Quarters,Mudugumeri area of Maiduguri,loaded with four cylinders,four DAF gas oil cylinders,three constructed Improvised Explosive Decices (IEDs),and jerry cans,among other items.
Boko Haram denies talks with govt
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HE Islamist sect, Boko Haram, on Wednesday denied holding talks with the Federal Government in Saudi Arabia or any other place. It warned those claiming to negotiate on its behalf to desist. On the same day, Northern governors inaugurated a 40-man committee on reconciliation, peace and security in the North and mandated it to open dialogue with identified groups behind the reign of violence in that part of the country.
How we killed Cynthia, by suspects
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WO undergraduates recounted to reporters on Wednesday how they killed Cynthia, daughter of Major General Frank Osokogu, in a Lagos hotel. Odera Ezekiel (23) and Okwoma Nwabufor (33) said they lured their victim, whom they met through a Blackberry group chat ,from her Abuja base to Lagos, lodged her in the hotel, laced her drink with sedatives, tied her up and beat her to death. They said they invited her to Lagos for the purpose of robbing her. She is their fourth victim.
CBN set to introduce N5,000 notes
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HE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will introduce N5,000 note denomination into the Nigerian economy as part of the apex bank's currency restructuring exercise next year. The apex bank will also convert the existing N10 and N20 notes to coins thereby bringing the number of coin denominations in the currency system to six. CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, while addressing a press briefing on Thursday, in Abuja on the proposed currency -restructuring exercise, stated that according to international best practices, monetary authorities were required to review their nation's currency at interval of between five and eight years. Adorning the new currency are three women: Hajiya Gambo Sawaba, Margaret Ekpo and Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.
COLOUR BLIND South African gets life sentence for killing white supremacist
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black farm worker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the brutal murder of South African, white supremacist leader, Eugene Terreblanche, in a case that has been a source of racial tension in the city of Ventersdorp. About 100 protesters sang anti-white songs outside the courtroom in the city just west of Johannesburg to support 30-year-old Chris Mahlangu, who had pleaded guilty but argued that he acted in selfdefence in what the judge found was a violent dispute over wages. They were opposed by 20 white protesters who carried the doll of a black man with a rope around his neck and a sign that said: "Hang Mahlangu." Mahlangu was found guilty for beating Terreblanche, 69, to death with an iron in April 2010. Mahlangu said he feels he did no wrong by ridding the world of a man some called a monster. The judge had rejected a defence argument that Mahlangu had been sodomized by Terreblanche.
48 dead as Kenyans clash over water, land
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T least 48 Kenyans were hacked or burnt to death in ethnic clashes between two rival groups, the worst single attack since deadly post-election violence four years ago, police said. Attackers armed with machetes, bows and arrows and spears locked villagers in their houses, set the structures alight and killed anyone who tried to escape. The raid in Kenya's coastal region was part of a long-running dispute between the area's Pokomo and Orma groups over grazing land and water, said police.
HEIR APPARENT
The Sun publishes naked Prince Harry pictures
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ABLOID The Sun on Friday became the first mainstream British newspaper to publish photographs of a vacationing Prince Harry in the nude. The pictures of the prince, showing him naked in a hotel suite while he was on vacation last week in Las Vegas, were widely available on the Internet after website TMZ published them Tuesday. But British newspapers initially declined to publish them. The Sun's front page, headlined "Heir it is!" -- a play on Harry's status as third in line to the throne -- shows the 27-year-old prince naked except for a watch and necklace, protecting his modesty with his cupped hands.
Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Dies at 57 ELES Zenawi, Ethiopia's repressive prime minister, who lifted his country from the ruins of civil war and transformed it into one of Africa's fastest-growing economies and one of the United States government's closest African allies,
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TARGETTING THE PRESIDENT
President Obama receives e-mail threat
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AWMEN subdued and disarmed a Seattle-area man suspected of writing an expletive-laden e-mail threatening President Barack Obama, a Secret Service agent says. Anton Caluori, 31, was arrested Tuesday at his home in Federal Way, a Seattle, Washington, suburb, Agent Bryan Molnar said in an affidavit. Molnar wrote that the e-mail, received by the FBI earlier Tuesday, said, "I will kill the president !!!!!" and "You can't afford to call my bluff." Caluori is charged with making threats against the president and assaulting a federal officer, according to the affidavit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.