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BARELY 24 hours after he was declared winner of the Saturday governorship poll, Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said he would have won with a wider margin. The governor said this on Monday after a dramatic appearance at the Presidential Villa. Oshiomhole arrived at the Council Chambers while the swearing-in of the new Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloma Mukhtar, was ...

Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak, who was convicted over the death of protesters, was on Monday heading back to prison from a military hospital after the prosecutor general ordered his transfer. “He is in the ambulance and is on his way to Tora prison” in southern Cairo, a security official told AFP. Egypt’s prosecutor general ordered Mubarak to be returned to ...

KATSINA (AFP) – Nigeria has begun to import refined diesel fuel from Niger, its northern neighbour, oil market traders and truck drivers said on Monday. Fuel (gas) stations in the northern city of Katsina on the border with Niger stock diesel imported from Niger’s Soraz refinery in Zinder, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the border with Nigeria. “We have imported ...

(AFP) – Hundreds of villagers have quit their homes in Plateau state ahead of a planned army raid on suspected militant hideouts, over recent attacks that killed more than 100 people, the army said Monday. “Hundreds of them have left as of this evening,” spokesman of the Special Task Force (STF), army Captain Salihu Mustapha told AFP. “As a matter ...