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VOL. 7, NO. 2353 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012
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US to citizens: don’t visit Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, seven others T HE United States has banned all its citizens from travelling to 10 states in Nigeria during the Yuletide - no thanks to insecurity. The states are: Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Yobe, Kaduna, Bauchi, Borno, and Kano states.
From Yusuf Alli, Abuja
The United States has also restricted its officials from visiting all the 19 Northern states and directed the officials to obtain clearance if the mission is essential.
It, besides, alleged that there is increasing attacks on commercial and private vessels by pirates off the coast of Nigeria in the Gulf of Guinea with the Nigerian Navy lacking the capacity to
•WHERE IT ALL ST AR TED: House 45, Ojogiwa St., Idumota, Lagos on fire...yesterday STAR ARTED:
check the menace. The US said it decided to take the step because the security situation in Nigeria “remains fluid and unpredictable”. These observations are contained in the latest travel warning by the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the US Continued on page 2
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Fury of fire on Lagos Island
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•STORY ON PAGE 2
One dead, 40 injured, 10 vehicles burnt 10 houses razed Fashola raises posers
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