255 shops burnt, scores injured as fire guts Katako market in Jos

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No fewer than 255 shops were burnt and scores of people injured, when the grains section of the popular Katako Market in Jos, the Plateau State capital, was Tuesday night gutted by fire, destroying valuables worth millions of Naira.

Former Local Govt Chairman jailed six months for N7m fraud

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• The Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Wednesday sentenced a former Chairman of Davi Local Government Area, Mr. Enesi Jimoh, to six months in prison without an option of fine. Justice I. E Ekwo convicted the politician after finding him guilty of converting N7m belonging to the council to personal use while in office.

Jonathan ignores Commonwealth meeting to campaign for PDP in Anambra governorship election

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• The President goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said he abandoned the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka to campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Mr. Tony Nwoye, in the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.
• Jonathan while campaigning in Onitsha said, “I had to cancel my trip to attend the CHOGM to be at this rally,” to underscore the importance he attached to the election and the “need to push Anambra State forward.”

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ASUU suspends NEC meeting indefinitely following Iyayi's death

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday suspended indefinitely, the National Executive Council meeting scheduled to hold in Kano, following the death of Prof. Festus Iyayi, the union’s president has announced.

8 students injured, as school railing collapses in Lagos

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• The Eight students of Ajangbadi High School in Iba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Lagos went into coma after the railing of the two-storey building in the school collapsed. 
• The incident which caused pandemonium in the school premises occurred at about 10:00 a.m. as the students were leaning on the rail on the second floor of the building.

FG inaugurates committee for Akhigbe’s burial

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• The Federal Government on Wednesday inaugurated a Presidential Committee on the burial arrangement of former Chief of General Staff, Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe.
• The Akhigbe died on October 28 at the age of 67 in New York, United States.

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Basketmouth Celebrates Wedding Anniversary In Nairobi

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It is really a good thing to marry a celebrity as Nigerian top comedian and Glo Ambassador,  Bright Okpocha, (Basketmouth), took his wife, Elsie, to the ‘Green Land under the Sun’, as Nairobi is fondly called by its citizens, to celebrate the third anniversary of their wedding.