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News|Nigeria|National: Saudi Arabia apologises for ill-treatment of Nigerian pilgrims

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The Saudi government has apologised to 2 Nigerian pilgrims slapped by security personnel at the patrician Muhammad Bn Abdulaziz landing field in Madina.Audu Muhammad and Ibrahim Godi, each from Nasarawa State, were reportedly brutalised by customs officers shortly when their arrival within the City of God. The deputy governor of Madina region, ruler prophet Albijawi, WHO tendered the apology throughout a visit to the victims, vowed that the protection officers, WHO displeased the pilgrims, would be sanctioned. He urged the pilgrims to be of excellent conduct and perform the yearly non secular journeying supported non secular tips and directions.Albijawi, disclosed that the Saudi authorities have place facilities in situ to confirm a hitch-free regilious exercise. The Nigerian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Umaru Salisu Zainabu, counseled the authorities for the swift action. conjointly the victims were excited at the response. cardinal thousand Nigerians square measure activity this year...

News: Nigerian-born, English jock Eniola Aluko has defendant England's soccer Association (FA) of discrimination.

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The jock, 30, has defendant the Women's team manager Mark Sampson of "bullying and discrimination", says anti-racism campaign cluster Kick It Out. Sampson, 34, has been cleared of wrongdoing by 2 investigations and vehemently denies Aluko's claims. But details given by Aluko in an exceedingly BBC interview on Monday "throw new lightweight on the allegations", Kick It Out aforementioned. The Chelsea women player alleges Sampson created a "racist comment" concerning her family in African country being infected with the filovirus. Sampson vehemently denies spoken communication this. The solfa syllable aforementioned the allegation arose in informal correspondence and wasn't enclosed in Aluko's sequent grievance, or it might are investigated. A three-month freelance investigation by lawyer Katharine Newton failed to uphold any of the complaints and cleared Sampson and also the solfa syllable of any wrongdoing. Aluko, however, has claimed the in...

Nigeria News: JAMB crashes cut-off marks

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 Minister admits error in prohibition post-UTME The Joint Admissions and admittance Board (JAMB) yesterday crashed the admission cut-off marks into universities, polytechnics and schools of education within the country from a hundred and eighty to as low as a hundred and twenty and one hundred. The Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, World Health Organization disclosed in capital of Nigeria throughout the Combined Policy Meeting on 2017 admissions, pegged the mininum score for degree programmes at a hundred and twenty, whereas that of polytechnics and schools of education was place at one hundred. Saying that tertiary establishments area unit at liberty to outfit the benchmarks subject to the selections of their Senate and educational boards, Oloyede stressed that no establishment was expected to travel below the cut-off marks. He said: “For degree-awarding establishments, the minimum upright score is a hundred and twenty, for polytechnics, it ranges between one hundred and a hundred a...

News: Nigerian government, states, LGs share N467.8 billion in August as revenue drops

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The national, states and native governments shared N467.8 billion in August, the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, aforementioned on Tuesday. This indicates a deficit in revenue by N184.2 billion from N652 billion shared in July. Mrs. Adeosun, WHO was portrayed by the Permanent Secretary within the ministry, Mahmoud Dutse, aforementioned this at the top of the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting on Tuesday in national capital. She aforementioned the shared quantity was inclusive  valuable another Tax, VAT. The Gross statutory revenue was place at N387.31 billion, whereas the VAT was N80.53 billion. She aforementioned the decline in revenue was caused by a forceful fall in revenue from corporations revenue enhancement, CIT, because of the expiration of the point for filing tax returns. She, however, aforementioned oil revenues recorded a rise because of rise in export sales by $62 million. “The increase within the average worth of oil from $50.27 per barr...

Today News: Boko Haram kill half dozen Nigerian villagers

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Boko Haram jihadists killed six men in a very village in northeast Federal Republic of Nigeria on weekday in what gave the impression to be a targeted retaliation attack, a militia fighting the cluster told foetoprotein. Nine Boko Haram fighters ar suspected of getting into Kijimatari, a village in northeast Borno state, at around a pair of am (0100 GMT), breaking into the homes of six men as well as the village chief before slitting their throats. "The attackers evaded a close-by military stop by getting into the village through bush ways," says Ibrahim lagune, the top of an area anti-jihadist militia force. "The chief of the village was among the victims and it absolutely was clear the victims were deliberately targeted." Local resident Kulo genus Musa says that whereas the attackers had carried guns, they "chose to use knives" to avoid alerting troopers manning a close-by stop. Musa says the killings were a retaliation for the arrest of 2 Boko Haram mem...

Entertainment News: Today in History for weekday, Aug. 23, 2017

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In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was dead by nation for treason. In 1775, Britain’s King King of Great Britain announced the yankee colonies to be during a state of “open and declared rebellion.” In 1858, “Ten Nights during a Bar-room,” a play by Timothy carriage Arthur regarding the perils of alcohol, opened in big apple. In 1913, Copenhagen’s very little imaginary being sculpture, impressed by the Hans Christian writer story, was undraped within the harbor of the Kobenhavn. In 1914, Japan declared war against European nation in warfare I. In 1926, silent movie star Rudolph Valentino died in big apple at age thirty one. In 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists anarchist and anarchist were dead in Hub of the Universe for the murders of 2 men throughout a 1920 theft. In 1939, Third Reich and also the USSR united to a non-aggression accord, the Molotov-Ribbentrop accord, in Moscow. In 1947, associate audience at the Hollywood Bowl detected President Har...

Entertainment News: Pictures of the Day

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White koala bear joey on her mother TIA at the Australia installation on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. the feminine joey's very pale colouration is caused by a cistron and thought to be familial from her mother TIA UN agency has had different pale colored joeys within the past. The joey is nevertheless to be named with touristry Australia set to encourage naming suggestions.