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Phillies prospect has eye removed after freak training accident

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Imhof is a 22-year-old pitcher picked by the Phillies in the second round of the 2014 draft and assigned to the Single-A the Clearwater Threshers. He was in the workout room of the Brevard County Manatees, the Milwaukee Brewers Single-A team, last Friday when his eye was, as doctors put it, “crushed like a grape.”

N4.9bn fraud: Court to rule on FFK's bail application on July 4th

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The Federal High in Lagos has postponed to July 4th the ruling on the bail application of former Aviation Minister and former spokesperson of PDP's presidential candidate, Femi Fani-Kayode. At the hearing of his bail application today July 1st, the presiding judge, Justice Hassan said he needs time to review the arguments put forward by Fani-Kayode's lawyer and that of the EFCC. The ruling of the bail application of former Finance Minister, Nenadi Usman was also deferred to Monday July 4th.  Photo credit: Stephanie Findlay

Dollar Rate as at Today July 1st 2016

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The official exchange rate as at today 1st of July, 2016. Dollar is now 345.where are we going in Nigeria

Watch Justin Bieber Take Another Tumble in Concert

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The 22-year-old singer took quite the fall at the Jacksonville, Florida, stop of his Purpose Tour on Wednesday night. Bieber seems to have taken the spill during his performance of “Sorry,” after kicking water at one of his backup dancers. But fear not, Beliebers, baby Biebs was quickly tended to, as his crowd of dancers huddled around their fallen star.

Nude Selfies Are All the Rage in Hollywood

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Hollywood’s biggest stars are stripping down to their birthday suits for social media. On Thursday, Kate Hudson was the latest celeb to hop on the bandwagon when she posted a naked throwback to Instagram.  “#tbt #PrettyHappy #LOVE #AlmostFriday,” the 37-year-old actress captioned the pic of her in the buff in front of a window. But Hudson isn’t the only star baring all. Kim Kardashian, Emily Ratajkowski, Ariel Winter, Gigi Hadid, and Chelsea Handler have all showed some serious skin on Instagram recently

150 years of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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Members of the Ku Klux Klan ride horses during a parade through the streets of Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 21, 1923. (Photo: AP) Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights in the 1960s. Membership dwindled, a unified group fractured, and one-time members went to prison for a string of murderous attacks against blacks. Many assumed the group was dead, a white-robed ghost of hate and violence. Yet today, the KKK is still alive and dreams of restoring itself to what it once was: an invisible white supremacist empire spreading its tentacles throughout society. As it marks 150 years of existence, the Klan is trying to reshape itself for a new era. Klan members still gather by the dozens under starry Southern skies to set fire to crosses in the dead of night, and KKK leaflets have shown up in suburban neighborhoods from the Deep South to the Northeast in recent months. P

NEMA responds promptly to an accident scene in Abuja

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NEMA officials promptly responsed to an accident scene in Abuja yesterday June 30. A twitter user who witnessed the accident said he called FRSC's emergency number but the person over the phone wanted to know "how serious the accident was" before NEMA arrived to take care of the situation.

Turkish Police Release Information About Suicide Bombers as Death Toll Rises

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The three suicide bombers who attacked Istanbul airport were a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz, a senior Turkish official said Thursday, hours after police carried out sweeping raids across the city looking for ISIS suspects. Tuesday’s gunfire and suicide bombing attack at Ataturk Airport killed 43 people and wounded more than 230 others. The day opened with police conducting raids on 16 locations in Istanbul, rounding up 13 people suspected of having links to ISIS, the most likely perpetrator of the attack at one of the world’s busiest airports. The manhunt spanned three neighbourhoods on the city’s Asian and European sides. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations, did not name the attackers.