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AllAfrica News: Nigeria

• Explosions Hit Army Base, Airforce Barrack and Kawo Bridge in Kaduna
  [Leadership] Multiple explosions on Tuesday rocked Kaduna military formations.
  
  
• Corruption, Greatest Act of Terrorism - Cleric
  [Leadership] Rev. George Adeboye, the founder of Rhema Chapel International Church, Ilorin, has identified corruption as the greatest act of terrorism confronting the nation.
  
  
• NPL to Investigate N12 Million Fraud
  [Leadership] The troubled Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has said it will begin an inquest into an alleged N12 million (about $75 000) fraud.
  
  
• Foremost Economist, Prof Sam Aluko Dies At 83
  [Leadership] Professor Sam Aluko, one of Nigeria's foremost economists has died at the age of 83.
  
  
• Council to Partner Automobile Company to Establish Vehicle Recycling Plant
  [Leadership] The National Automotive Council (NAC) is partnering with an automobile company to set up a recycling plant for "End of Life Vehicles (ELV)" in Nigeria.
  
  
• Economy Suffers As Boko Haram Infiltrates
  [IPS] Yaounde - Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
  
  
• NNPC Has Enough Fuel to Last 33 Days - Presidency
  [Vanguard] Abuja - The uncertainties surrounding the fuel subsidy regime could be blamed for the incessant return of queue to the filling station across the country, it was learnt, yesterday.
  
  
• Agip Attack - JTF Launches Manhunt for Masterminds
  [Vanguard] Yenagoa - Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, has launched a manhunt for the alleged masterminds of weekend attack on the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, facility in the mangrove swamp of Brass in Bayelsa East senatorial district. Already, the names of the suspects, it was gathered, are with the security forces.
  
  
• Borno Creates Jobs to Fight Boko Haram
  [Vanguard] Maiduguri - To overcome Boko Haram insurgency and insecurity of lives and property in Borno State, Governor Kashim Shettima is to embark on a massive job creation through infrastructural development in agricultural and education sectors.
  
  
• NNPC Has Fuel for 33 Days
  [Vanguard] Abuja - Presidency, yesterday, said there was no reason for Nigerians to embark on panic-buying of petrol as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had adequate stock to serve the country for 33 days.
  
  
• Bayelsa's Five-Star Hotel
  [Vanguard] President Goodluck Jonathan remains a surprise. He was not different on Friday when he broke his long silence on the disputation between him and Bayelsa State Governor Chief Timipre Sylva. It was all about a hotel, an un-built hotel.
  
  
• Legacies and the Failed North
  [Leadership] A few years ago, when things were not nearly as bad as they are now - a young man in the context of a conversation whose details have evaporated like the heat from a plate of food, said quite arrogantly that the North had a legacy.
  
  
• Visa Racketeers Siphon N3.6 Billion From the Country
  [Vanguard] VISA processing and issuance procedures have become a major source of capital flight as Nigeria loses N3.6 billion through a web of criminal conspiracy between officials of government, embassy staff and consular officers of some embassies on one hand; desperate intending travellers and agents, their agents and proxies, making the West African country the most lucrative consular operating centre in the world.
  
  
• Boko Haram Targets Me for Assassination - Soyinka
  [Vanguard] Lagos - Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has disclosed that he is one of the prominent Nigerians on the hit list of Boko Haram sect marked for assassination.
  
  
• Boko Haram Attack Two Police Stations in Kano
  [This Day] Kano State police command has confirmed that suspected members of the Boko Haram Islamic group on Monday evening launched a bomb and gun attack on Sharada Police station.