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Africa & World Politics
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse in central Accra, Ghana. Photograph: Per-Anders Pettersson /eyevine David Smith,The Observer Herman Chinery-Hesse left America to return to his parents’ country with only a computer and some big ideas… He was born in Ireland, studied in America and worked in Britain. But when Ghanaian Herman Chinery-Hesse decided to build a software […]
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Boko Haram, Legislature, Senate
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
The former Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Dagash has been forced into an exile abroad after the general elections last year, no thanks to threats by the Boko Haram Islamist group. Sources close to the former minister said he was being hounded by the terror group over his support for President Goodluck Jonathan in the […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Protesting lawyers, Thursday, shut the main entrance into the Abuja International Conference Centre, venue of the on-going Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, annual general conference. The protest, which lasted over two hours threw the entrance into conference venue and adjouring areas into confusion. The lawyers, who were protesting against 500 percent hike in conference fees since […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
BY KATE OBODO, Tokyo National U-20 Women’s team’ assistant coach, Florence Omagbemi has denied suggestions that the present crop of players in the team were above the required age allowed for the competition. In a chat with Sports Vanguard in Tokyo, Omagbemi said, “we do not have the right to accuse players concerning their ages. […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
By GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO—The Osun State House of Assembly has applauded the appointment of the former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, by the two owner governments of Oyo and Osun describing the appointment as a unifying factor. In a statement signed by the Media […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Nigeria have won their second successive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup semi-final with a hard-fought 1-0 extra-time victory over a resilient Mexico in Tokyo. Nigeria, beaten finalists in Germany two years ago, were dominant throughout the first hour, but were unable to make the breakthrough on the scoreboard until Desire Oparanozie’s decisive goal on 109 […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
By VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA — A 16 year-old Miss Nwanneka Odah was, yesterday, beheaded by a three -man gang suspected to be ritual killers at Nawfia in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. This came as the Awka branch manager of a new generation bank, (name withheld), Mr. Tochukwu Nnadi, was yesterday kidnapped about […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
LONDON (AFP) – The British government has stripped a London university of its right to sponsor visas for overseas students, leaving thousands of students facing possible deportation. London Metropolitan University had its Highly Trusted Status — which allowed it to sponsor visas for students from outside the European Union — revoked by the UK Border […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
“Appointing a man who forged his academic certificates as Chancellor of a university will further debase the academic integrity of the country’s universities.” This is how the PDP South-West reacted to the appointment of former Governor of Lagos State and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Chancellor of the Ladoke […]
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Headlines, NNP News, Religion
Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Wriiten by New Nigerian Politics (NNP) The groundswell of support for embattled Nigerian-born pastor of Ukraine’s mega church, Embassy of God, has transversed the vast spectrum of denominational segregation as many Christian leaders around the world have been mounting pressure on the Ukrainian government to cease its reckless persecution of Pastor Sunday Adelaja, […]
