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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, September 5th, 2014

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | Sept. 5, 2014 – Right from my days in the University of Port Harcourt I fought for the masses and the oppressed. I do this through article writing, placard caring protest, blogging, hiring of legal service, campaigns and struggles against the anti-poor policies of the ruling class, as […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Amaechi, NNP Columnists
Friday, September 5th, 2014

By Ikechukwu Amaechi | NNP | Sept. 5, 2014 -There is no politically discerning Nigerian who has not heard the news. Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the presidential candidate of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011, has defected to the ruling […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, September 5th, 2014

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Sept. 5, 2014 – The Nigerian media has been accused of being unpatriotic in its reportage of the lingering insurgency ravaging the country. The accusation was made at a recent interactive discussion The Tide had with some respondents on an assessment of the media in reporting the activities […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, September 5th, 2014

BY JUDE OPARA, ABUJA Super Eagles only training session on Thursday evening at the UJ Esuene Stadium, was one that stood some players out, though all the stars, 22 of them are fit to start according to Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi. Hotshot, Emmanuel Emenike’s rising profile in front of goalkeepers was obvious as his […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, September 5th, 2014
PORT HARCOURT —Three doctors, a nurse and one other health worker have been kidnapped in Rivers State. Vanguard gathered that the health workers were taken hostage at Okolomabo community in Abua/Odua Local Government Area. Condemning the abduction, Coordinator, Niger Delta Youths for Positive Attitude Change and Progress, Mr Emmanule Enisuo, called for their unconditional release. […]
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Headlines
Friday, September 5th, 2014
Lagos – A 34-year-old man, Uche Afokaigbo, who allegedly bit a woman’s breast, was on Monday brought before an Itire Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Afokaigbo, who resides at No. 20, Enoma St., Ago-Palace Way, Ago-Okota, Lagos is facing a one-count charge of assault. The prosecutor, Insp. Olakunle Shonibare, told the court that the accused had […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, September 5th, 2014
Britain could contribute 3,500 troops to a NATO rapid response force designed to meet new threats highlighted by the Ukraine crisis and Islamic militant gains in Syria and Iraq, Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday. Cameron said the alliance, set up in 1949 to protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union, had to show that […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Friday, September 5th, 2014
By Ndahi Marama MAIDUGURI—Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State who has been on foreign trip since last week was forced to cut off his trip and return to Maiduguri following the recent Boko Haram attacks on Bama town. Governor Shettima who arrived Maiduguri, yesterday, through a chartered flight along with his entourage went straight to […]
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Headlines, Wole Soyinka
Friday, September 5th, 2014
Wole Soyinka, may he never live long on September 05, 2014 / in Viewpoint 12:33 pm / Comments IT was a night of radiant quality stars, in December 2010, at the State House, Banquet Hall of the Ghanaian Government, Accra,Ghana, where Professor Wole Soyinka was awarded the Millennium Excellence Award and Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize, […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Friday, September 5th, 2014
TIME Magazine: How Nigeria keeps Ebola at bay Written by TIME Magazine Category: Columnists advertisement FEARS that Africa’s most populous country would become a tinderbox for the disease have so far not come to fruition. Ebola is still running rampant in parts of West Africa. Over 1,500 people have died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and […]