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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Nigeria has begun a process of documenting its contributions to international development, peace and security. The exercise is aimed at correcting the distortion of history across the African continent on the level of past and present contributions of Nigeria, especially in the liberation of sub-Sahara Africa from colonialism and apartheid. The exercise will also enable […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
A human rights group has threatened to drag President Goodluck Jonathan and other key government officials before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Netherlands for crimes against humanity should the killings continue. The group, Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) disclosed its intention in Abuja yesterday. It was disturbed by the unending […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

By Sunny Chris Okenwa | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | May 16, 2012 – France, as one of the principal world powers, official possessor of nuclear weapons, permanent member of the UN Security Council and one of the engine rooms of the European Union, must be seen as wielding enormous influence in the new world order. […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
By Moses Sunday Ajehson. Wednesday, May 16, 2012 “We have to work hard in order to realize the potential greatness of the country. To realize the potential greatness, we have to have leaders. Leaders, not rulers. Leaders, not looters: we have to have leaders with the fear of God. Leaders who could not lie” -Maitama […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The Federal Government has denied claims by the Nigerian Labour Congerss (NLC), on its purported move to split the labour union through the registration of a parallel labour movement. Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, who made this known yesterday in Abuja, equally described the allegation as “mere speculation” as there was no […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
In its determination to rebrand football in the country, the Nigerian soccer governing body, NFF, has raised the level of sponsorship of the FA Cup competition, earmarking a whopping N100 million to prosecute this year’s tournament and perhaps return the glamour associated with the oldest football competition in Nigeria. Daily Sunsports scooped that the staggering […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Harsh words rather than comfort, come from the Senate yesterday, to Nigerians stranded in Indonesian jails.” Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Matthew Nwagwu, had earlier sought the leave of the chamber for its intervention in the plight of Nigerians languishing in Indonesian jails, some, on trumped-up charges. Rising under Order 42 of […]
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Latest Politics, South-West
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Wednesday May 16 , 2012 Alaafin Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Don’t take South-west by all means, was the warning from Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi (III), to politicians yesterday ahead of the 2015 polls. Except Ondo, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) controls Lagos, Ekiti, Ogun, Oyo and […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The Presidency yesterday described as sad and unfortunate Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s comments that the Federal Government is the “biggest Boko Haram”. Buhari, former Military Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) also allegedly predicted that there would be bloodshed if the government fails to organise free and fair elections […]
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Africa & World Politics
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Candidate for French socialist party (PS) primary vote for France’s 2012 presidential election Fran s Hollande waves next to his girlfriend Valerie Trierweiler (R) as he leaves a campaign visit in Voutezac, on October 15, 2011, south western France, on the eve of the vote’s second round. AFP PHOTO PIERRE ANDRIEU (Photo credit should read […]