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STREETS across Anambra State have remained deserted today as local residents comply with the sit-at-home order issued by secessionist group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) to protest the arrest of its leader Nnamdi Kanu.

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[1] There are a total of 42 facilities in Japan hosting the Tokyo Olympics. Obviously the pick of the bunch is the 72,000 capacity International Stadium Yokohama built at a cost of $1.4bn. Timber was used as a major component of the structure, all of it sourced from Japan in order to reduce environmental impact

GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State has threatened all civil servants who dare abstain from work tomorrow in observance of an Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) sit-at-home directive that they will be sacked.

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[1] Procrastination is the thief of time - Charles Dickens

[2] We cannot afford the tranquillising drug of gradualism - Martin Luther King

[3] I believe in the fierce urgency of now - Dr Martin Luther King

[4] Justice delayed is justice denied - William Ewart Gladstone

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FOUR people were killed last night when armed gunmen attacked the divisional police headquarters in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State and the security forces engaged them in a running gun battle.

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[1] Every serious nation must have the capacity to manufacture its own military hardware. There is simply no way you can provide security within your borders if you have to buy equipment on the international market. It is totally impossible to get the equipment you want at the price you want, in the specifications you want, at the time you want and in the quantities you want if you do not have a domestic manufacturing capability

NIGERIA'S federal government has appointed several financial companies as its transaction advisers to including JP Morgan to help facilitate the issuance of Eurobonds in the international capital market.

NIGERIAN businesses have lost a total of about N150.46bn ($366.88m) since June 5 as a result of the federal government's ban on Twitter in response to the company deleting a tweet posted by President Muhammadu Buhari.

LAGOS State government withdrawn the murder case against Yoruba Nation protester Tajudeen Bakare over the death of 14 year old Jumoke Oyeleke was killed by a stray bullet during a demonstration at Ojota on July 3.