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  President Buhari’s Independence Day speech [FULL TEXT]

  I know how difficult things are, and how rough business is. All my adult life I have always earned a salary and I know what it is like when your salary simply is not enough. In every part of our nation people are making incredible sacrifices.

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  • WORLD

  Colombia and FARC sign historic pact ending 52-year war

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist rebel leader Timochenko used a pen made from a bullet on Monday to sign an agreement ending a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and made their nation a byword for violence.

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  • WORLD

  Clinton, Trump clash in fiery first debate

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump bickered and traded insults in a fiery US presidential debate Monday, as they aggressively pitched their case to tens of millions of American voters.

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  Bola Tinubu and those who want him dead

  The truth is that the behaviour of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun towards the man that single-handedly made him the National Chairman of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is reprehensible.

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  • AFRICA

  Ali Bongo to be sworn in as Gabon president Tuesday

  Ali Bongo will be sworn in on Tuesday as Gabon’s president for a second seven-year term, his office announced, three days after his election victory was controversially validated by the constitutional court.

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  • NIGERIA

  Boko Haram leader Shekau resurfaces in new video after being 'fatally wounded'

  The leader of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has resurfaced in a new video rejecting the Nigerian army's claim he had been "fatally wounded" in an air strike.

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