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The death toll from the collapse of a five-story building in the Nigerian state of Lagos has reached 30, officials say. The Lagos state government said on Wednesday that more bodies have been pulled out from under the rubble in the city of Lekki. Earlier reports said 15 people had lost their lives. A total of thirteen people have been rescued so far.

According to Lagos officials, the building collapsed as the owners had added more floors despite lacking a permit. A construction worker said the building’s owners had continued work after heavy rainfall had caused the house to shift. The state government said in a statement that "it has also been discovered that in a brazen act of defiance and impunity, the owners of the building ... criminally unsealed the property and continued building beyond the approved floors." Such incidents are common in the state of Lagos’ populated areas, where structures are built with poor materials.

In September 2014, some 120 people lost their lives when a guesthouse in a northern suburb of Lagos caved in. Located in the southeast of Lagos, Lekki is home to the state’s most expensive real estate and has developed rapidly in recent years, with many wealthy Nigerians and expatriates owning properties there.

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10.Mar.2016

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi highlighted in a phone conversation on Monday that the fight against terrorists should continue not only in Syria but also in Libya and Yemen, the Kremlin said in a statement. Putin informed Sisi about the implementation of a Syria ceasefire agreement which the Russian leader said was key for stabilizing the situation in the country.

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09.Mar.2016

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Syrian planes, assisted by the Russian army, have airdropped humanitarian aid for people besieged by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the Arab country’s east. The Syrian aircraft dropped food cargo over the city of Dayr al-Zawr on Monday, using Russian parachute platform airdrop systems. Some 200,000 people living in Dayr al-Zawr have been deprived of aid since the city was encircled by Daesh in May 2015. Dayr al-Zawr links the Daesh stronghold of Raqqah province in Syria with territory controlled by the terrorist group in neighboring Iraq. 

A ceasefire agreement in Syria, brokered by Russia and the United States, entered into force on February 27. Under the truce, humanitarian aid is to be delivered to besieged areas across Syria. Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. According to a February report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict has claimed the lives of over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the country’s pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond its borders.

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08.Mar.2016

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A trailer and a bus transporting 70 people collided on Monday along the Douala -Bafang axis precisely at a place called Fokouakemg, killing 15 people. The head of the Bafang gendarmerie company who spoke to the media immediately after the accident revealed that dozens of other passengers sustained life threatening injuries.

Police sources hinted Cameroon Concord that the bus began its journey from Bafoussam while the trailer had left the locality of Kekem. The truck reportedly lost its brakes while descending the hill in front of the Fokouakemg government high school.

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Sama Ernest

08.Mar.2016

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The former minister of Sports, Adoum Garoua has been forbidden from leaving the country, Cameroon Concord has gathered from sources close to the Special Criminal Court in Yaounde. Our informant hinted that the  Delegate General for National Security was given standing instructions to use his elements stationed at the borders and restrict the movement of the former sports minister.

Justine Aimée Ngounou, the public prosecutor at the Special Criminal Court reportedly made the decision following the results of a survey conducted in January 2015 by the Higher State Control (CONSUPE) on the use of funds released by the Cameroon government for the World Cup in Brazil.  

The Minister of Sports and Physical Education, and members of the Standards Committee, the technical and administrative staff of the Indomitable Lions had all been heard by state inspectors, CONSUPE . The report of that body identified overbilling.  The government recently sent a commission to Brazil to verify the accuracy of statements by some officials of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) and those of the Ministry of Sports and physical Education.

The Cameroonian delegation that traveled to Brazil consisted of friends, relatives, mistresses and other impostors who have no relation to the World Cup. The border police have been told to also prevent André Nguidjol (former executive director of the national team), Jean William Sollo (former DG of the Cameroon water utilities corporation) from traveling out of Cameroon.

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Sama Ernest

06.Mar.2016

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Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, James Ocholi, is dead. Born November 26, 1960, he was 55. He died in a road accident along the Kaduna-Abuja highway on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Ocholi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Kogi state, and his son died on the spot of the accident.

Those familiar with the incident said his wife, who slipped into coma after the accident, died hours later. His driver remained in critical condition at Doka clinic, several kilometres from Kaduna, as at the time of this report. A witness, whose car was behind the minister’s when the accident occurred said the minister’s car had a burst tyre before somersaulting several times.

Mr. Ocholi became Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2007, and Chairman, Disciplinary Committee of the Abuja chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association. In 2011, he was governorship aspirant in Kogi State on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change.

Between 2013 and 2014, he was deputy national legal adviser of the All Progressive Congress. Last year, he sought the APC gubernatorial ticket at the party’s primary election, losing to the late Abubakar Audu. He was appointed minister in 2015. Mr. Ocholi attended Ochaja Secondary School, and the University of Jos. He graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 1986 and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar the same year.[slideshow width="SLIDESHOW_WIDTH" height="SLIDESHOW_HEIGHT" align="left|right|none" caption="yes|no" count="3" autoslide="yes|no"]
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06.Mar.2016

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