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Private companies want to edge into the market of providing nutrients to the world's hungry, and fortifying chewing gum with micronutrients is seen as one way to get a foothold on a huge market.
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As a five-day anti-corruption convention got underway on Monday in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the United Nations said the cost of political corruption to governments around the world is about $1.6 trillion each year.
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A 38-year-old Nigerian woman, Kadijat Mohammed, has been disowned by her parents for not getting married at her age, saying that they are tired of being a host to a parasite who is nothing but a liability to the family.
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A human right activist was ordered out of the court for wearing a Beatles T-shirt in the Sharia Court in Kaduna state, Nigeria .
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The Nigerian rebel group, Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, stated on Wednesday that it wants peace talks before a ceasefire agreement.
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The International Criminal Court is conducting a 'preliminary investigation' into the deaths of Guinean citizens, as well as the raping of women, allegedly perpetrated by soldiers during a demonstration held in the capital of Conakry in late September.
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Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Nigeria's main rebel faction, will resume attacks against Africa's biggest energy industry in September.
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Nigeria's central bank has injected $2.5 billion into five big banks in the oil-producing nation and at the same time firing their managing director.
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After a raid on Saturday, Nigerian police detained nearly 4,000 Muslims in an Islamic community in Northern Nigeria because the group posed a potential threat, according to Reuters.
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