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Daniel, Bankole in open feud over Ota bridge – The Guardian
Nigerian Bulletin
Decorum was thrown away yesterday (Thursday) as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and the Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel, engaged in hot verbal brick-bats at the commissioning of the Sango-Ota bridge. ...
Bankole, Daniel In Open Brawl In OtaNigeria Daily Independent
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Confusion over Ota bridge inaugurationNigerian Tribune
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Nigerian Observer
NASS Gives Jega November Deadline For Voter
Nigeria Daily Independent
Federal lawmakers on Thursday gave Attahiru Jega a November deadline to produce a new voter register after passing a harmonised version of the Electoral Act 2010. ...
2011: Jega seeks partnership with police – The NationNigerian Bulletin
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2011: Jega holds meeting with police, tasks on free, fair pollsNigerian Tribune
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NCC: Mark Sacks Communications Committee Chairman
Nigeria Daily Independent
Sylvester Anyanwu has become the first Senator to lose his Committee Chairmanship for carrying out a solo screening of the nominees for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) board. ...
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Angry Mark sacks committee over illegal screening of NCC board membersNigerian Compass
Screening of NCC board members: Senate dissolves committee on communicationsBusinessDay
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Fighting in the Somali capital this week led to the deaths of dozens of civilians and injuries to scores of others, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

More than 100 people have died of cholera in Cameroon, according to Joseph Beti Assomo, a regional governor.

A French woman who admitted to giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period was secretive but always supportive of her family, two of her daughters said in a local newspaper report published Friday.

Mexican federal authorities arrested 62 police officers in the state of Baja California Thursday suspected of ties to organized crime and drug trafficking, the state's attorney general said, according to the state-run Notimex news agency.

The Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez has closed to "review its security posture," the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said Thursday in a statement.

The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently sealed.

Every time the automatic doors at the outpatient ward of Islamabad's main hospital slid open, they revealed a thick white mist lingering inside.

Arab leaders gave the Palestinian Authority Thursday the green light for direct talks with Israel, a move that prompted the Israeli prime minister to say his country is ready for the face-to-face talks as well.

Vanguard
Lawmakers add N4bn to NDDC budget
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BY Ini Ekott The National Assembly, yesterday, passed the 2010 budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission, adding N4bn to the requested sum and renaming the N90m earlier billed for “staff marriage”. Lawmakers reviewed the spending plan of the ...
Reps okay N240.5bn budget for NDDCVanguard
Senate delays NDDC budget approvalNEXT
Reps okay N240.5b NDDC budgetBusinessDay
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Christian Science Monitor
North seeks consensus candidate to face Jonathan
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Indications emerged yesterday that northern leaders who believe the Presidency should be zoned to the region will support a consensus candidate to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party. ...
Zoning: Stop Jonathan, cause crisis, says Northern G20Vanguard
Nigeria: 2011 - Expect Crisis Without Jonathan, Gana WarnsAllAfrica.com
Nigerian President Returns Home From Uganda After Plane DelayWall Street Journal
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IBB Ibadan rally flops •$12.4bn oil windfall: FG panel submits report on ex ...
Nigerian Tribune
MANY politicians were, on Thursday, disappointed at the non-appearance of former President Ibrahim Babangida in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, as reported in the media for the past two weeks. The politicians, who were gaily dressed, waited to receive ...
2011: OBJ, IBB clash over S-West govs' supportVanguard
IBB's Rally Flops In Ibadan, Ex-Dictator Fails To Show UpP.M. News

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The top U.S. military officer said that the founder of WikiLeaks was risking lives to make a political point by publishing thousands of military reports from Afghanistan.

Eighty people were killed late Tuesday in a ferry accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman confirmed Thursday.

Afghanistan's president said he is incensed that leaked secret U.S. military documents include the names of Afghan informants.

At least 90 people have been killed since Wednesday due to floods caused by monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan, a provincial minister told CNN.

A Spanish judge issued arrest warrants for three U.S. soldiers on Thursday in connection with the death of a Spanish TV cameraman in Iraq in 2003, reopening a long-running legal battle, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.

Attacks on military posts in Iraq claimed at least five lives Thursday.