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Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, has said the Federal Government is in the process of repatriating from Jersey the stolen £300 million. Onyeama stated this in Abuja, on Tuesday, at a news conference organised as part of activities to mark the one year anniversary of President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration. Jersey, an independent English-speaking territory with […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
NIGER government has arrested scores of Boko Haram militants and will hand them over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for trial, President Mahamadou Issoufou has said. This was contained in a document from the World Humanitarian Summit, ongoing in Istanbul, Turkey and made available to reporters in New York. The document said Mr Issoufou made this […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
Pope Francis embraced the grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque at the Vatican on Monday in a historic encounter both sides hope will lead to greater understanding and dialogue between the two faiths. The first Vatican meeting between the leader of the world’s Catholics and the highest authority in Sunni Islam marks the culmination of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Corruption Politics, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
By Emeka Chiakwelu | NNP | May 23, 2016 – Another corruption summit will again take place in London. This time around the chief organizer and town crier is David Cameron’s Great Britain. The last one about two years ago was initiated by G8 and we are still waiting for solutions and results. “Police Minister, Judith Collins will represent the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, May 16th, 2016
A Ryanair flight from Norway to Manchester was evacuated before take-off due to “suspicious behaviour” of two passengers, police have said. Sky News reports that Norwegian police spokesman, Anders Stroemsaether, told public broadcaster NRK that the incident at Rygge airport, near Oslo, happened during boarding when the two passengers were overheard arguing in an airport toilet. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai, Headlines
Monday, May 16th, 2016
President Dilma. Rousseff V the Senate of Brazil. (1) The former President of Brazil,D. Rouseff should be discharged and acquitted, for the following reasons: (a) That incompetence is not a crime but is due to human frailty and limitation in knowledge common to all human beings. (b) That her offence falls into the “political offence” […]
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
Can you give a brief background of yourself? My husband gave me a Nigerian (Yoruba) name, ‘Ibukun,’ which means ‘blessing.’ I am originally from Hungary. I live in the United Kingdom at the moment. In 2008, I came to the UK, where I met my husband, Gbenga Afolabi of MagnumN3. I studied Business and Management. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, May 12th, 2016
By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA-President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in London said that Nigeria is favourably disposed to the initiative of restricting corrupt people from traveling, investing and doing business abroad. This was even as the president unveiled the Open Contracting Data Standard, (OCDS) a new strategy to effectively curb corruption in Nigeria. The new plan […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Brazil former President Dilma Rousseff Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended Thursday to face impeachment, ceding power to her vice-president-turned-enemy Michel Temer in a political earthquake ending 13 years of leftist rule over Latin America’s biggest nation. A nearly 22-hour debate in the Senate closed with an overwhelming 55-22 vote against Brazil’s first female president. […]
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
Mixed reactions from Nigerians, on Tuesday, trailed comments credited to British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, that Nigeria was “fantastically corrupt.” Cameron made the scathing statement in a video that went viral today. He was caught in a conversation with the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, reports BBC. PM Cameron was talking about this week’s anti-corruption […]
