The Nation November 25, 2014

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Woman, 44, delivered of quadruplets From Osagie Otabor, Benin

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N 18-YEAR desperate search for a child has ended in a bountiful way for a 44-year-old woman. Mrs Clara Dominique was delivered of quadruplets last Saturday at Graceland Medical Centre in Benin, the Edo State capital. The three girls and a boy are said to be doing well. “I am happy that my husband and I were able to stay together till this day to witness the blessings of the Lord. My husband has been encouraging me that God would do it for us. My husband never contemplated driving me away,” Mrs. Dominique, who got married in 1996, said. She went on: “I was happy when the scan showed it was four. Sometimes I thought of

•Two of the babies...yesterday

I was the one dedicating children at our church every last Sunday of the month. I was the first to visit anybody that gave how I would carry the four of them. I have not birth so that I could seen somebody else who was delivered of four babies. It was not easy for me to carry the preggive them what I nancy. At a time, the weight was much for me. had. I am not the “I was the one dedicating children at our church every last Sunday of the month. I was envious type Continued on page 4

•Mrs. Dominique...yesterday

•A nurse attending to two of the babies...yesterday.

Boko Haram gunmen kill scores in attack on market Sect takes another town in Borno Jonathan meets Chadian President From Yusuf Alli and Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja

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NOTHER Borno State town has been taken by the Boko Haram sect. An unknown number of people were killed when the sect’s fighters invaded Damasak at dawn yesterday. Damasak is an isolated town on the border with Niger Republic. It is 116 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital. According to Senator Maina Lawan, eyewitnesses said the attackers arrived with improvised explosive devices and petrol bombs in a con-

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WILL THE CHIBOK GIRLS KIDNAPPED ON APRIL 15 EVER RETURN?

voy of Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles. No fewer than 300 soldiers guarding the town were said to have retreated.

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•CHEERS: Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun (centre) with some jubilant home owners, who were beneficiaries of the new batch of 5000 Certificates of Occupancy and Building Approvals presented by the governor under the state government’s Homeowners’ Charter Programme at the Arcade Ground, Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta...yesterday

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