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13 hrs ago | Vanguard

Baby factory: Operators go into hiding

The lies and deceits of pregnancies in maternity homes A visit to some communities in Rivers, Abia and Imo states will reveal the existence of certain Maternity homes and Child care centres.

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Fri May 24, 2013

Vanguard

AFN/Solid Works Golden League: Nigerian athletes search for form in Benin

Nigerian athletes return to golden league action today in Benin City, after another lack luster performance at the Port Harcourt leg of the meet last weekend.

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Vanguard

Police, judiciary urged to be neutral in Rivers political crisis

YOUTHS of Rivers have enjoined the Police and the judiciary to be neutral in the political crisis rocking the State.

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NEWS.com.au

Baby scam tricked clients to look pregnant

FOR nine months, the midwife had been giving the woman herbs to take and several things indicated she was indeed pregnant.

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Thu May 23, 2013

Vanguard

We won't let Mba go for cheap - Wolves

The club said that they were still waiting for the right bid for the midfielder.

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Vanguard

Police arrest fake bishop, prophet over foiled kidnap

BY EMMA AMAIZE & AKPOKONA OMAFUAIRE WARRI - TWO men, sus-pected to be fake pastors, have been arrested by the police in Warri, Delta State over a foiled kidnap attempt on the proprietress of Shammar Children's School, Udu Road, near Sedeco area in Udu, Mrs.

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Guardian Newspapers

NLC, TUC plan solidarity strike over Rivers crisis

IF the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State continues, the nation will feel its impact starting from Monday, May 27, as the Nigeria Labour Congress and its Trade Union Congress counterpart have announced plans for an industrial action on the said date.

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Vanguard

Edo Assembly laments abandoned NDDC projects

Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, lamented what it described as the unacceptable number of abandoned Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, projects in the state and urged the Commission to make concerted efforts to complete them.

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Scoop

2015: The Big Uniport Four

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Guardian Newspapers

PDP chiefs oppose Chibuike Amaechi's bid for second term

CITING the need not to escalate the political crisis in Rivers State, leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state have urged Governor Rotimi Amaechi to drop his ambition to be re-elected as chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum .

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CNN

iReport from Iyalla, Nigeria [Breaking News]

RIVERS CRISIS:YOUTHS CALLS FOR THE REMOVAL OF GOV AMAECHI As AIG Plan improve Policing Iyalla Adaye, Nigeria A total of over ten thousand youths drawn from various Local Government Areas protested for the removal of Rivers State governor, Rt.

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Tue May 21, 2013

AllAfrica.com

Nigeria: Nine Minor Informants to Kidnappers, Assassins Nabbed

Nine minors, all males, suspected to be members of four different dreaded cult groups that have been disguising and acting as informants to kidnappers and assassins in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were Tuesday arrested and paraded in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, by men of the Nigeria Army, Koko ... (more)

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Vanguard

Extend state of emergency to Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, others, monarch tells Jonathan

By Emma Amaize WARRI- FORMER national chairman of the Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HRM Charles Ayemi-Botu, has said declaration of state of emergency by President Goodluck Jonathan in only three Northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa was not enough.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Vanguard

I paid N2,700.000 for triplets, says victim of baby factory

A baby delivery syndicate was recently unearthed by the Police and a key suspect arrested and paraded in Lagos, alongside two other women who were believed to have paid certain sums of money respectively, to be delivered of babies.

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Vanguard

2015: Anenih's agenda for Jonathan

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Chief Anthony Anenih's capacity for doing the political impossible is legendary.

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Tue May 14, 2013

Guardian Newspapers

Lawmakers allege plot to kill Amaechi, others

FROM being only a thorny political issue, the crisis in Rivers State is moving fast to take a tragic character.

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GhanaWeb

Mantrac to invest in engine rebuild centre

Mantrac Ghana Limited will invest over 20 million dollars into the construction of a new Engine Rebuild Centre near Takoradi to serve the oil and Gas and Mining clients, Mr Emad Adeeb, Managing Director, said on Monday.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Guardian Newspapers

Govs oppose emergency rule in northern states, condemn killings

SHOCKED at the call for the declaration of a state of emergency in some northern states, the Nigeria Governors' Forum has appealed to the Federal Government to consider those behind the clamour as enemies of the country.

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Guardian Newspapers

Court orders police to end barricade of Rivers council

A FEDERAL High Court has ordered the police to end their 10 days barricade of the Obio-Akpor local council secretariat in Rumudomaya, Rivers State.

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AllAfrica.com

Nigeria: Kidnappers Beat a Retreat in Delta, As Uduaghan Gives Marching Orders

SINCE Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, gave Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr.

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