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The Israeli prime minister’s office said that police blocked the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday mass out of “concern for his safety”.
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Palm Sunday, which opens Holy Week for Christians, marks Christ’s final entry into Jerusalem, days before his crucifixion and resurrection, according to the Gospels.
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The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has arraigned a suspected railway vandal in Lagos as part of its intensified crackdown on attacks against the nation’s rail infrastructure.
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By Innocent Anaba The Village Boys Movement, VBM, has stepped up calls on the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to hand over its presidential ticket to Mr. Peter Obi, following a coordinated nationwide mobilisation across several states. The group, weekend, staged what it described as a “2 Million Man March and ADC Registration Drive,” with activities […]
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A professor of Economics at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Nicholas Attamah, has identified economic stagnation, capital flight and weak institutions as consequences of deep-rooted corrupt practices in Nigeria.
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The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the successful implementation of its bank recapitalisation programme, revealing that 32 banks have met the new minimum capital requirements.
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The Nigerian civil war of 1967 to 1970 ended with statements “No Victor, No Vanquished” but memories and scars of the war lingered in communities in the university town of Nsukka whose lands were usurped by the military and named army barracks.
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Abdullahi questioned why a party with 31 governors and near-total control of the National Assembly was still unsettled by the opposition’s growing momentum.
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a large consignment of cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Strategic Command, Lagos. A statement by the NDLEA Spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja said that the consignment was concealed in heads of imported dry stock fish. Babafemi said that operatives of the […]
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Hajiya El-Rufai had reportedly been living with her son in Cairo, Egypt, before her passing.
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