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8 dead, 32 injured as police helicopter crashes into bar

From the horse’s mouth: WHY WE FREED DOKUBO —Government of Benin

Failed asylum seeker who claimed to be fleeing from Boko Haram deported from UK near death after 100-day hunger strike

RIGHTSView: KANO’S WAR AGAINST BEER BOTTLES

Jonathan raises poser on training of lawyers as Nigerian Law School clocks 50

Anambra guber: NGIGE WAITING FOR OBIANO IN COURT •How he hopes to win at the Election Tribunal

Tax Payers applaud FG on N2.9 trillion non-oil export tax target, caution on ASUU

Cameroonian football agent in love with Nigerian talents, celebrates Golden Eaglets’ World Cup feat

PDP’s expulsion of Oyinlola a declaration of war on the judiciary, that of Baraje, Sam Jaja meaningless —New PDP

Nwankwo Kanu storms Lokoja for finals of CBN All Financial Institutions Football Competition

All set for today’s Anambra guber supplementary election

Beware of ‘Abuja politicians’, Imo APC tells Jonathan

Oshiomhole under fire for telling poor widow to “go and die”

The “envelope system” and budget performance, by Olusegun Adeniyi

We didn’t give fresh conditions to end strike —ASUU •Promises to return to work within 24 hours if . . .

Tukur lobbies defecting PDP governors, says ‘there’s a limit to anger’

Dokubo’s men give deadline for release, threaten fire •Blame Jonathan’s enemies for arrest and detention

APC, New PDP merger a done deal, MOU signed —New PDP •Party chief says defecting lawmakers’ seats safe

Medicine after death?: PDP expels Oyinlola, Baraje, Jaja

Jehovah’s Witnesses hold ‘silent assembly’ for the deaf in Benin City

Delta Climate Change Policy and the future of the state

How I beat breast cancer —Gov. Fashola’s wife

Enugu lawmakers pass only 6 bills in 2 years •Ebonyi, too; Benue, Cross River 7; Lagos 8

Dele Giwa’s murder: IBB WILL FACE JUSTICE —Akinnola

Angola to ban evangelical Christian sects, rejects 170 faith groups

Rapper Kayode Oshin jailed for 22 years after boasting about trying to murder rival

Nigerian universities ordered to reopen •Pro-Chancellors say no more basis for ASUU strike

Intersociety moves to checkmate ‘desperate rigging forces’ ahead of Anambra supplementary guber poll

New U.S. Ambassador James F. Entwistle presents credentials to President Jonathan

CBN storms Abuja markets with cash-less campaign, set to launch mobile phone money transfer

Oyinlola, Govs Aliyu and Lamido distance selves from APC merger •I remain PDP scribe —Oyinlola

Gunmen on rampage in Plateau, kill 45 •Governor Jang’ ‘prophecy’ fulfilled

DOKUBO IN TROUBLE, arrested in Benin •Whisked off into detention in Cotonou

RIGHTSView: Reflection on Adoke, MTN and litigation

HURIWA condemns attempt on Stella Oduah’s life, cautions against undue sentiments