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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
By Bayo Olupohunda Recently, some Nigerians living in South Africa were reported to have been victims of violence allegedly fuelled by xenophobia. Hate crimes against Nigerians living in South Africa are nothing new. Since the dismantling of apartheid, Nigerians and other African nationals living in the country of the Madiba have been the subjects of […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, and his wife, Judith, on Wednesday shunned the inauguration of the South-South Zonal Secretariat of the Women for Change and Development Initiative by the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Apart from the governor and his wife, other top officials of the Rivers State government also boycotted the occasion which […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Sunday, June 16th, 2013

Today in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, African champions, the Super Eagles will begin their Confederations Cup chase with a Group B match against Tahiti, who are the champions of Oceania. Sixty three years ago, the Brazilian city was the location for one of the biggest upsets in footballing history, USA’s win over England […]
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Presidency
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
By Simon Ebegbulem The battle between the North and the South-south over 2015 presidency took a twist as a two-time former governor of the defunct Bendel State, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, said the North has no claim to power until 2027. Ogbemudia argued that the North’s right to the presidency would be valid after the South-south […]
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Headlines
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
BY AUSTIN OGWUDA ASABA — A high Court sit-ting in Ughelli, Delta State has sentenced two persons, described as “notorious rapists,” Ernest Steve, 30 and Jerry Godwin, 29, to life imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old daughter of a Pastor. The incident took place on November 5, 2007 when the duo broke into the residence of […]
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Governors, Headlines, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Taye Obateru LAGOS — Governors Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Jonah Jang of Plateau State were, yesterday, locked in a war of words over their claims to the chairmanship of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF. Amaechi, told his Plateau State colleague to stop impersonating him as chairman of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, June 16th, 2013

By CHUKS EZE (fazec1@yahoo.com) For Nigerians resident in Kenya, these are the worst of times. Their plight could be compared to the era of slave trade when able-bodied Africans could not tell what the next minute held for them because human traffickers could pick them up the next minute. Checks revealed that in recent times, […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, June 15th, 2013
THE Presidency totally rejects the false, hypocritical and self-serving claim by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu at a lecture in Kaduna on Saturday that Nigeria under President Goodluck Jonathan is a “sinking ship” in which the yearnings of the masses are being neglected by a tyrannical leadership. We find it very sad and utterly deplorable that Nuhu […]
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General Politics, Niger Delta, Top Stories
Saturday, June 15th, 2013

On May 29, some students from the Niger Delta held a rally in Abuja to mark President Goodluck Jonathans two years in office. The rally ended up in the picketing of Niger Delta Minister Elder Godsday Orubebes office because of his alleged refusal to see them. EMMANUEL AHANONU reports. IT was May 29, a day […]
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Abdulrazaq O. hazmat, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, June 14th, 2013

By Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat | NNP | June 14, 2013 – Exactly today, 20 years ago, precisely on June 12 1993, the Nigerian military President, General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida (IBB) conducted an election which was widely regarded as the most free, fair and peaceful election in the history of Nigeria and at the same time, […]