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The Nigerian Army on Saturday handed over Maryam Ali Maiyanga, the Chibok girl, with her ten-month-old son, to the Borno Government after they were rescued from Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, by troops. Maj-Gen. Lucky Irabor, The Theatre Commander of 7 Div. of Nigeria Army, disclosed this to newsmen in Maiduguri. Irabor said, ”At about 6:00 a.m., while screening some escapees from Boko Haram terrorists’ hideout in Sambisa forest, we discovered one of the abducted Government Secondary School Chibok girls, named Maryam Ali Maiyanga, among them. “She was discovered to be carrying a 10-month-old son, named Ali. “She revealed to…

Dr Charles Ugwuanyi, a Consultant Neurosurgeon with the Wellington Neurosurgery Centre, Abuja, says that Nigeria loses 1 billion dollars annually to medical tourism abroad. Ugwuanyi made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the ‘Wellington Foundation fourth annual CME Course’ on Saturday in Abuja. He called on the government to create enabling environment in the country to reduce the trend and make more Nigerians visit hospitals within the country to access quality health care. “The country is losing at least one billion dollars on annual basis to medical tourism abroad; if…

Eden Hazard scored twice as Chelsea climbed to the top of the Premier League for the first time since August with a stylish victory over Everton. Hazard put Chelsea ahead with a low angled shot before Marcos Alonso added a second when he slotted through Maarten Stekelenburg’s legs. Diego Costa made it 3-0 from a corner just before half-time and Hazard scored the pick of the goals after the break. Pedro put the gloss on the result when he tapped into an empty net. Everton spent the majority of the game penned in their own half and did not manage…

Marten de Roon’s injury-time equaliser snatched a draw for Middlesbrough as Manchester City were made to pay for a sloppy second-half performance at Etihad Stadium. Sergio Aguero put City ahead, stabbing in Kevin de Bruyne’s cross for his 150th City goal with their 18th shot of the afternoon. Boro were hugely improved after the break and Alvaro Negredo brought a fine save from Claudio Bravo with an audacious lob from the halfway line. Pep Guardiola’s side looked to have withstood the isolated spells of Boro pressure but De Roon’s header from George Friend’s 91st-minute cross denied them. It was the…

Recession and the lingering unfavourable forex regime has continued to reduced the volume of vehicles imported through the Nigerian ports, the Operations Manager, Ports and Terminal Multiservices Ltd. (PTML), Mr Jack Angrish has said. Angrish said that the unstable and high cost of the US dollar over the local currency did not encourage vehicle trade as many vehicle seats remained empty with vehicle importation dropping by 80 per cent from about 30,000 to just 6,000. Angrish told our correspondent on Saturday in Lagos that “this is time for the vehicle business operators to pool their resources together to facilitate domestic…

Boxer Manny Pacquiao, known as the people’s champion in his native Philippines, says he has given away about $200 million on projects to help the less fortunate. “Every income I receive in boxing, almost half of it goes to the less fortunate,” Pacquiao said. “After each fight, half of my income goes to the poor. “But I don’t like to announce it.” According to Forbes, Pacquiao’s income from career purses and endorsements is around $500 million. Pacquiao has a number of projects underway in the Philippines including building 1,500 homes on the island of Mindanao. He also helped to buy…

A Utah bride and her dad surprised the 400 guests at her wedding reception with an epic, choreographed dance mashup in place of the traditional father-daughter dance. Mikayla Ellison Phillips, 25, and her dad, Nathan Ellison, brought the house down at her Oct. 8 wedding near Provo, Utah. The father-daughter pair performed a nearly four-minute dance mashup that started with a slow dance to “Butterfly Kisses” and quickly morphed into a fast-paced medley featuring songs like M.C. Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye.” “I’m the oldest and the only girl so that was my dad’s only…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday joined thousands of well-wishers from within and outside Nigeria to witness a grand Durbar held to mark the 10th coronation anniversary of Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III. No fewer than 3,000 beautifully-dressed horse riders drawn from across Nigeria participated in the durbar, held at the Sultan’s palace in Sokoto. Prominent Nigerians at the event included former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, serving and former Governors, among others. In a remark at the event, Governor Aminu Tambuwal said the durbar was organised to celebrate…

No fewer than 2, 620 registered rice farmers in nine Local Government Areas in Kogi will benefit from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrower programme for the dry season farming. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr Tim Diche, disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Lokoja on Saturday. Diche said that only registered farmers in the nine local governments along river basins and those that have rivers and dams available to them to do irrigation would access the loan for dry season farming. He said the local governments are; Ibaji, Idah, Igalamela, Bassa, Kogi, Yagba…

Horrific footage shows a female self-confessed ‘child-kidnapping witch doctor’ stripped naked and beaten before being sexually assaulted. The distressing clip was filmed in Nigeria and shows an angry mob of men bearing down on the woman, hitting her with wooden sticks and yelling at her. The woman – it is reported – had been caught red-handed trying to lure away young children with promises of ice cream in the south east Nigerian state of Imo. But the brutal mob turned the tables on the alleged child snatcher, who was subjected to a brutal beating as she was paraded naked…