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Religion is the opium of the masses — Karl Marx
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lPoliticians take February 14 presidential battle to churches, mosques lWoo religious leaders with cash, other incentives }50-51
FG failed to act on US intelligence on Chibok girls — New York Times report Ndubuisi Ugah
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t has emerged that the over 200 abducted students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State may have been rescued had the Federal Government and
military authorities acted “swiftly” to an intelligence report titled “actionable intelligence”, which was issued by the United States. The New York Times in a report published on Thursday, reported that shortly after the U.S offered to help rescue the schoolgirls, it flew
several hundred surveillance drone flights over the vast, densely-forested regions in the North-East (Sambisa forest) where the girls were seized with the hope that the Federal Government will act swiftly on the report. The newspaper also quoted an unnamed Africa Com-
mand official in Stuttgart, Germany, who claimed that with few tips to guide the missions, the flights started yielding little information, while drones were diverted from other missions in war zones like Iraq and Syria. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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Convicted wife killer Arowolo updating Facebook status from cell }10
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How I spent my $200,000 Big Brother earnings }21
No ‘secret dismissal’ of 203 soldiers — Army }5