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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, COVID-19, Health, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Nasarawa, Nigeria | August 30, 2020 – Recent reports about the trajectory of the COVID-19 in Madagascar shows an uptick in the rise of infections and deaths. According to reports, public hospitals in the country are only admitting patients with severe symptoms because the surge in cases has simply overwhelmed the […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
Former international, Etim Esin, has expressed concern over the sudden shift in confidence on players with Nigerian descent, who were left out of their countries of birth teams and seeking a second choice, saying that such policy will destroy the spirit of the homegrown players and also efforts at discovering more talent at the grassroots. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
Around 300 people were on the streets of Malmo, with violence escalating as the evening wore onAt least 10 people were arrested in southern Sweden and several police officers were injured in violence which broke out after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said Saturday. Protesters threw stones at […]
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Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
The Presidency has again frowned at the repeated sentiments being played around a recent video clip by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), describing it as ”a complete waste of time”. The PDP had in the last few days addressed several press briefings over the video clip, showing the Chief of Staff to the President, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
Egypt arrests new suspect in gang rape case By AFP 30 August 2020 | 1:25 pm James sombre after losing Black Panther and Black Mamba in 2020 7 hours ago Hezbollah says will kill an Israeli soldier for each combattant slain 2 hours ago Belarus police arrest protesters in opposition march 2 hours ago […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Party Politics
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
The various contending forces in the All Progressives Congress are beginning to retool ahead of a renewed battle for the soul of the party, writes Chuks Okocha With the reconciliation between the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi and his colleague in the Petroleum Minister, Timipre Slyva, the supremacy battle of who becomes the leader of […]
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Ebonyi, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
By Benjamin Nworie The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the 13 chairmanship and 171 councillorship seats in the just concluded local government polls in Ebonyi State. The election, which was conducted on Saturday, August 29, was adjudged free and fair with massive turnout of voters in the state. The election was initially scheduled […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
The truce, brokered last week, between the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and his counterpart in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva remains an effort, whose fate is still in the belly of time. Onungwe Obe writes Politics is an interesting vocation. It is only in politics that there are no permanent friends or […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
A quirky script to scupper the second tenure of the President of African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, by the US Department of Treasury and a coterie of shadowy forces gets deservedly snookered, writes Louis Achi It was indeed a remarkable and teachable moment on the first day of the AfDB’s annual general meetings […]
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Headlines
Sunday, August 30th, 2020
Fani-Kayode Former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, last week, bit more than he could chew, when he called a journalist stupid for daring to ask how his current tour of some PDP states in the South-south for peer review was being financed. For over two minutes, FFK as he is otherwise called, took the […]
