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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Niger Delta
Sunday, March 5th, 2017
-Punch Ovie Okpare The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has called on the Nigerian parliamentary delegation to South Africa to extend its fact-finding mission to other Nigerians being kept in solitary confinement in various South Africa prisons. MEND said secret xenophobic attacks take place in South Africa prisons. It listed its […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Zimbabwe has appealed for $100m (£82m) to help those hit by floods that have killed 246 people since December. Officials say floods, which follow a crippling drought, have swept through villages, destroying roads, crops and livestock in the south of the country. The air force has transported some marooned villagers to safety. Last week the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Spain has appointed a ‘sex tsar’ to help boost the country’s “catastrophically low” birth rate . Young couples have reportedly blamed being “too tired after a full day at work” and “late nights” for the decrease. So, faced with a rapidly declining population, the Senado de Espana has tasked demographic expert Edelmira Barreira with sorting […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja -Punch Another 180 Nigerians are expected back in Nigeria from Libya on Tuesday. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this on Friday while receiving the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons Commission, Sadiya Farouk, at the Presidential […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017
The sub-standard tyres As a ploy to cheat Nigerians and endanger their lives, importers of sub-standard tyres are beginning to latch on to regulations by government agencies, which insist that car owners buy new tyres, by deploying post-dated tyres into the market. To tackle this new ruse, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) at the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017
FG evacuates 41 Nigerian girls from Mali, arrests 6 suspected human traffickers The Federal Government on Monday evacuated 41 Nigerian girls who were trafficked to Mali for forced labour and sexual exploitation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that six persons, alledged to be human traffickers, were also arrested and brought back to the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, February 24th, 2017
No fewer than 43 Nigerians on Thursday night deported from Germany, Belgium, and Italy for several immigration-related offenses and unruly behavior. The deportees arrived through Hi-Fly chartered Airbus 330 aircraft with registration number CS-TQW at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) at exactly 8:55 p.m. The deportees were received on arrival by officials of the National Emergency Management Agency […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, February 24th, 2017
ose to 24 hours after their abduction, the whereabouts of the kidnapped German archaeologist, Professor Peter Breunij and his research fellow, Johannes Buringer remains unknown. The two german nationals were abducted on Thursday afternoon around Kaduna State-Abuja axis, a security source in Abuja who is closely following the situation has told SaharaReporters. Prof. Breunij is an […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
Iraqi security forces have recaptured Mosul airport, a key part of the government’s offensive to drive the so-called Islamic State (IS) from the western half of the city. The operation took four hours. IS continued to fire mortars at the airport from further inside the city after losing the ground to the army. The jihadists […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
Libya’s eastern authority freezes women’s travel ban The authorities in eastern Libya have ordered a temporary freeze on a controversial travel ban on Libyan women under the age of 60. The directive, which came into force last weekend, was widely condemned and ridiculed across the country. Affecting women in eastern Libya, it prohibited those under […]
