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“I won’t fight anybody or even dream of battling anybody" - Father Mbaka

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Controversial Catholic priest, Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka has stated that he is going to “suffer and suffer” after he was posted from Christ The King Parish in Enugu to a new duty post at Our Lady Parish, Umuchigbo, Njinike, four hours away from his old parish.

“The Real Reasons I Conceded to Buhari” — Jonathan

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has spoken of the tensed moment he faced on March 28, 2015 ahead of his decision to concede victory to President Muhammadu Buhari after that year’s presidential election.

Who Won the Trump–Fox News Debate Showdown?

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Donald Trump pretends to box ... let's say Roger Ailes. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/2016 Bloomberg Finance LP After completely transforming the 2016 GOP primary, on Thursday night Donald Trump pulled off the season's most dramatic showdown so far simply by refusing to show up for an event. Everyone agreed that Trump's competing rally was boring, but perhaps that wasn't the performance we were meant to focus on. As The New York Times' Frank Bruni noted, Trump's absence was the "most compelling presence" on the Fox News debate stage. "Trump was remembered. Trump was invoked," Bruni said. "His ghost was there, because he’d reshaped his Republican rivals’ images, reconfigured the challenges in front of them, rewritten the rules of this extraordinary race."

Two die, 3 hospitalised after consuming locally-brewed gin

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Two persons have died in Edo State after consuming some quantity of locally-brewed gin popularly called “Ogogoro’’, believed to have been contaminated, a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports . The correspondent, who visited Ugieda, South Ibie, in the Etsako-West Local Government Area of Edo on Thursday where the incident took place, reports that three persons were hospitalised at an undisclosed health facility, after taking the substance. An eye-witness, Mr Lukman Rilwan, told NAN that the five persons who consumed the local brew, had complained of stomach ache afterwards.

Buhari Rejects Devaluation, Says ‘I Won’t Kill The Naira’

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President Muhammadu Buhari declared late Wednesday in Nairobi that he was yet to be convinced that Nigeria and its people will derive any tangible benefit from an official devaluation of the Naira. Speaking at an interactive meeting with Nigerians living in Kenya, President Buhari maintained that while export-driven economies could benefit from devaluation of their currencies, devaluation would only result in further inflation and hardship for the poor and middle classes in Nigeria’s import-dependent economy.

Scott Disick Enters Rehab On ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ Season 11, Kourtney Kardashian Responds

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Scott Disick appeared to be on a downward spiral in the months after his split from Kourtney Kardashian last year, but luckily, he eventually got help. After photos of Scott Disick and his ex-girlfriend, Chloe Bartoli, in the South of France hit the web last July, his nine-year relationship with the reality star came to an abrupt end, and as fans have seen on Keeping Up With The Kardashians saw, he didn’t handle the split very well. Instead, he was seen partying around Los Angeles, and stars of the show spoke of his wild ways. Then, in early October of last year, Scott Disick entered a 30-day treatment plan at the Cliffside rehab center in Malibu, California.

Zika Virus May Have Spread To Common Mosquito

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Scientists in Brazil believe the devastating Zika virus may have already crossed over to the common mosquito, dramatically increasing the risk of it spreading worldwide. The Brazilian government is already struggling to contain a growing public health disaster. There are suspicions the mosquito-borne virus is linked to more than 4,000 babies with brain deformities in South America’s largest country. The authorities have called troops out on to the street and deployed teams of health workers to try to combat the spread but so far those at the forefront admit they are nowhere near succeeding.