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Seven people died as boat capsized today in Lagos while 10 people were rescued. Reports just reaching The Street Journal indicate seven people may have died after a commercial boat taking them to Lekki area of Lagos capsised in the Badore. The boat reportedly capsized as it made its way to Lekki from Ijede in Ikorodu and loaded with passengers. An eye witness said he counted six bodies brought out from the water by the local. The mishap occurred at about 10.15am. It was said to have been caused by a submerged log which the boat ran over. The boat carrying 17 passengers was said to be coming from Ijede in the Ikorodu area of the state and was heading to Badore when the accident occurred. Aside the log which the boat ran over, the boat boy was said to be inexperienced and over speeding. It was gathered that the boat was carrying 17 passengers, an operator and his assistant, out of which 13 persons were rescued by a combined team of officials from the National Emergency Mana...

The Kansas Court of Appeals today upheld a local judge’s ruling blocking the state from enforcing a new pro-life law that bans abortion clinics in the state from killing babies in dismemberment abortions that tear babies limb from limb. The pro-life law is the first in the nation to ban the gruesome method of abortions. The law embodies model legislation from the National Right to Life Committee that would ban “dismemberment abortion,” using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a living unborn baby to remove him or her from the womb in pieces. Such instruments are used in dilation and evacuation procedures. The pro-abortion lawsuit said such abortion procedures account for 95 percent of second trimester abortions nationally. Hendricks said the Center for Reproductive Rights is likely to prevail in arguing that the state can’t ban the most common second trimester procedure because it places too much of a burden on women. Last July, District Judge Larry Hendricks put ...

The committees on special duties and that of establishment and public service have unanimously agreed on the Bill before the senate, that the headquarters of the North-East Development Commission be sited in Maiduguri the capital city of Borno state. In a joint meeting with the two committee members and eighteen senators from the zone to harmonise the Bill, headed by Sen. Abdul-Aziz Nyako, Chairman Senate Committee on Special Duties, said Maiduguri was chosen because it was the first to be attack by the insurgent from the zone and has suffered worst hit in infrastructure and physical damage of lives and properties including the kidnapping of Chibok girls, even though Adamawa state inclusive in series of attack and damages.   He said the location will serve as a buster to develop the other affected states ravage by the insurgent, and also agreed to established the act governing the Niger Delta Development Commission as same as the North-East commission with positions of a Chai...