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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ikechukwu Enyiagu, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Sunday, August 12th, 2012
By Ikechukwu Enyiagu | NNP | August 11, 2012 – One’s country should be a thing of pride for every citizen, no matter where they are or their status. And such country’s leaders should be as shining stars and pillars of encouragement for patriotism. That’s why you can find, amongst other nationalities, citizens who ride […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, August 11th, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila | London, UK | August 11, 2012 – Take just an English and you have a dull person, take two English and you get two dull people, take three English and you get a great nation. That in part is the story of the successful Olympic Games we are currently witnessing […]
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Headlines
Saturday, August 11th, 2012
Written by New Nigerian Politics For hundreds of expectant worshippers at Benny Hinn’s crusade in Toronto, their cups runneth over with frustration and anxiety when they were turned away from Toronto’s largest church, Prayer Palace, venue of the crusade. Church officials cited lack of space and strict adherence to fire code at the 3000-seater auditorium […]
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Delta, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
BY Emma Amaize WARRI—A militant group, Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, has criticised the attack on journalists in Warri, Delta State, by a group of ex-militants on Tuesday. NDLF, in a statement by its spokesperson, ‘Captain’ Mack Anthony, described the invasion of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Correspondents’ Chapel, Warri Office, by supposed ex-militants as […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
LONDON (AFP) – Sprint king Usain Bolt said he had lost all respect for Carl Lewis after the US sprint legend restated his concerns over the toughness of Jamaica’s drug-testing policy. Speaking after winning the 200m at the London Olympics to seal a second consecutive sprint double, Bolt said he held sprint icon Jesse Owens […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Prof Kimse Okoko, President of Conference of Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta, CENND and former President of Ijaw National Congress, INC, has described as “unnecessary distraction” the call on President Goodluck Jonathan not to run for the 2015 general elections. He insisted that the President was at liberty to run for a […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
y Soni Daniel Kaduna-based activist, Shehu Sani, yesterday, warned Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku, to desist from blackmailing the North for his selfish interest. Similarly, the social critic lambasted the leader of Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo, and Chief Edwin Clark, for launching what he described as an orchestrated campaign of calumny against the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE (with agency report) …Ex-president’s death raises stakes for 2012 presidential polls TODAY is a special day for Ghanaians. It is a day that they would bury Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the first Ghanaian president to die in office. Today is a climax of a three-day burial programme, which began on Wednesday. […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
—The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oristejiafor, has written a letter to the visiting American Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressing CAN’s reservation on the manner the issues of Boko Haram and related violence by Islamist groups against Nigerian Christians are being treated by the United States. The Letter […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
ABUJA (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Nigeria on Thursday to meet President Goodluck Jonathan and was expected to offer assistance in helping the country stop a worsening Islamist insurgency. Her visit to Nigeria comes with Jonathan under growing pressure to stop the violence in the northern and central regions of […]
