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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, November 24th, 2017
Mugabe is gone. That is settled. He came in 1980. In 1983 he organized the massacre of 20,000 Ndebeles, in Matebeleland. Matebeleland was a stronghold of the Joshua Nkomo led opposition ZAPU party. He said the Ndebeles needed some re-education. The death cries of the Ndebeles were ignored by the West. So in 1994, the […]
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Headlines
Friday, November 24th, 2017
By Omeiza Ajayi NIGERIA’s Prison population of 65,000 inmates are currently under the threat of starvation following the non-payment of ration and gas suppliers since 2015. Saturday Vanguard gathered that the Federal Government had since 2015 failed to remit payment of over N6 billion to the contractors. Reacting to the development, one of the suppliers, […]
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Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Friday, November 24th, 2017
Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, says restructuring Nigeria is inevitable for all-inclusive advantages it will confer on federating units and enhancement of national unity. Ekweremadu stated this at a two-day Retreat by Southern Senators Forum in Calabar on Friday, and dismissed the fear in certain quarters that restructuring would cause the break-up […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, November 24th, 2017
By Charles Kumolu WHILE it would not be wrong to describe former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a serial defector, profiling him as the only person, who had criss-crossed parties in the quest for the presidency could be termed fallacious. Even with his latest move yesterday, which was the third in its series, Atiku is […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, November 24th, 2017
Egypt mosque attack death toll rises to 115, reports say. It was earlier announced that armed assailants killed at least 54 people in an attack on a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai on Friday, state television reported. At least 75 more people were wounded in the attack that targeted worshippers during weekly Friday prayers, the report […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, November 24th, 2017
Tinubu governors can’t appropriate power of endorsement • Govs, North Central leaders urge Buhari to contest 2019 presidential election • Why no automatic ticket for Buhari in 2019 -Tinubu By Dayo Johnson & Henry Umoru ABUJA-AGAINST the backdrop of a gale of second term endorsements for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 Presidential race, especially […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, November 24th, 2017
Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in as Zimbabwe’s president on Friday, marking the final chapter of a political drama that toppled his predecessor Robert Mugabe after a military takeover. Mnangagwa, until recently one of Mugabe’s closest allies, took the oath of office at the national sports stadium on the outskirts of Harare to an explosion of cheering from […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, November 24th, 2017
Zimbabwe’s newly sworn-in President Emmerson Mnangagwa praised outgoing leader Robert Mugabe as “the father of the nation” during his inauguration address on Friday. “Let me at this stage pay tribute to one of the, and the only surviving, founding fathers of our nation, Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe,” Mnangagwa said in front of a crowd of […]