Intruders Storm Nigerian Parliament, Snatch Mace

Three men burst into Nigeria's Senate on Wednesday and snatched the legislature's ceremonial mace, in an incident the body's spokesman blamed on a lawmaker who had been suspended. The men entered the chamber, picked up the mace and left with it in a swoop that lasted less than two minutes. A Reuters journalist at the scene was not able to identify them. The upper house of parliament resumed 15 minutes later after replacing the mace with a spare, the spokesman...

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