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Parents of missing Chibok girls converge at Unity Fountain for match to Aso Rock to see Buhari

Parents of the missing Chibok girls have converged at the Unity Fountain where they will join the missing Chibok girls advocacy group, Bring Back Our Girls, on a match to Aso Rock where they are expecting to meet with President Buhari to inquire from him his efforts towards finding their daughters who have now been missing for a year and 265 days. See more photos (more…)

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No budget is missing, Senate chairman

Read the statement below... Chairman, Senate Committee on Media And Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has said that no statement made by any Senator during the plenary today can be interpreted to mean an admission that the 2016 budget is missing. He said there is no budget missing and that the Senate will tomorrow (Thursday) distribute copies of the budget to all the Senators so as to arm them to properly contribute to the debate which will take place between Tuesday. January 19 to Thursday, January 21, 2015. (more…)

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World’s oldest man aged 131 discovered in Brazil (Photos)

A man thought to be the world's oldest man has been discovered by civil servants in Brazil.They say they discovered the 131-year-old dad-of-three living with a wife 69 years his junior. The Guinness Book of Records recognises 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide from Japan as the oldest person alive. And Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died aged 122 in 1997, holds the record for the world’s longest living person. Social security workers in Acre in the north of Brazil today  published photos of OAP Joao Coelho de Souza alongside a birth certificate dated March 10 1884. (more&h

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Three Dead After Avalanche Hits Schoolchildren Skiing In French Alps

At least three people have been killed after an avalanche struck a group of schoolchildren skiing Wednesday in a French Alps resort. According to French officials, a group of 10 high school–age children and their teacher, as well as a Ukrainian man not part of the group, were skiing on a closed run in the Deux Alpes ski resort when they were hit by the wall of snow. Two students, as well as the Ukrainian man, are confirmed to have died in the avalanche, according to officials in the Isère prefecture. Three people were seriously injured, including the teacher, who has