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    Metro How to protect your Facebook data – BBC News

    Image copyright Getty Images Image caption People increasingly want to know how much information tech firms have on them Allegations that research firm Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million Facebook users have reopened the debate about how information on the social network is shared...
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    Metro Lagos Assembly gives commissioner 7 days to remove traditional ruler – Premium Times Nigeria

    Lagos lawmakers on Tuesday asked the Commissioner for Local Government, Muslim Folami and a monarch, Oba Rafiu Salami, to revoke installation of a new traditional ruler in the state. The call followed the adoption of the recommendations of a report on a chieftaincy petition presented … Read...
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    Metro Dapchi: Nigerian Security Forces Ignored Warnings About Boko Haram Attack Hours Before...

    Global human rights organization, Amnesty International (AI), has claimed that Nigerian security forces ignored advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was headed for Dapchi, Yobe State, where the sect abducted 110 schoolgirls on 19 February. The claim was made in a statement...
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    Metro We are suffering, victims of rainstorm in Bayelsa community cry out – Vanguard News

    …indigenes lament magnitude of destruction …exposed to vagaries of weather …solicit govt support YENAGOA—INDIGENES of Biseni Clan in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are still counting their loss following a violent rainstorm that rendered several families homeless. Family meeting...
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    Metro How plastics in packaged water, food are ‘killing’ us – The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

    Table water *Exposure in pregnancy causes altered brain development, male infertility in future generations *90% of popular brands including Aquafina, Nestle Pure Life contained tiny pieces, says WHO More reasons have emerged why Nigerians should stop using plastics to package food … Read more...
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    Metro Haters Can’t Deal With This ‘Curvy’ Woman’s Marriage To ‘Mr. 6-Pack’ – AskMen

    Long Story Short Haters gon’ hate (but screw ’em). Long Story Jenna Kutcher, an entrepreneur, podcast-host and wedding photographer, often posts photos on Instagram with her husband Drew, a health business coach. A lot of the time her posts are showered with praise — but one DM shook her. …...
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    Metro Electricity: Residents lock out EKEDC staff – The Nation Nigeria

    Residents of Satellite Town Lagos, on Monday, protested over irregular power supply in their area. The residents (30) locked out the workers of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) from entering their office for three hours, and also threatened to stop the officials of the firm from...
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    Metro Men who frequent prostitutes are ‘sick criminals’, says Pope – Punch Newspapers

    Pope Francis has said that men who frequent prostitutes are criminals with a “sick mentality” who think that women exist to be exploited. “This isn’t making love. This is torturing a woman. Let’s not confuse the terms,”Pope insisted on Monday. He further asked forgiveness for all Christians who...
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    Metro Catholic Church Knight Who Secretly Married 2nd Wife Exposed – P.M.EXPRESS

    CYRIACUS IZUEKWE It was the height of deceit and shock for the members of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Ejigbo, Lagos after death exposed one of their strong members and a knight of Catholic Church in Lagos. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the deceased, late Chief Odogwu – a knight of the … Read more...
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    Metro JAMB: Candidates yet to access UTME 2018 results one week after exam – Daily Post Nigeria –...

    Some candidates, who wrote this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) over a week ago, are yet to be notified of their results. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun releasing the results, with highest-scoring candidates emerging. David Fedoje, who...
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    Metro Kogi: Monarch, nine others killed in suspected herdsmen attack – The Nation Nigeria

    In what appears a renewed attack on areas of Kogi East by suspected herdsmen, nine people including a traditional were on Monday killed in separate attacks on Agbenema, Ajichekpa, Opada and Iyade villages, in Omala Local Government Area. Several houses were also razed in the attacks which …...
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    Metro How Corruption suspects whip up religious sentiments to frustrate interrogation – Magu –...

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed how corruption suspects whip up religious sentiments whenever they are called upon to account for any alleged misconduct. Acting Chairman of the anti-graft commission, Ibrahim Magu, made this observation at the 7th Triennial...
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    Metro Family of kidnap victim cries out to Gov Ayade for help – Vanguard News

    BY IKE UCHECHUKWU CALABAR—THIS is certainly not the best of times for the Olugu family of Orumukpong, Oron in Okobo LGA of Akwa Ibom State whose breadwinner, Mr. Joshua Asuquo was abducted four months ago and his whereabouts unknown. Joshua Asuquo kidnapped in Calabar The troubled family members...
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