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Africa & World Politics, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 advertisement TOP HEADLINES Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, immediate past Minister for Petroleum Resources, has dismissed allegations made by the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria to the effect that as former minister she “sat” on a $15 billion oil deal, describing it as spurious, unfounded and libelous. Alison-Madueke who spoke […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
advertisement TOP HEADLINES Curled in the foetal position next to a car engine, the migrant was lucky to be alive after going to desperate lengths to try to smuggle himself into Europe. The asylum seeker, thought to be from Guinea, West Africa, was found in a special compartment under the car bonnet as it […]
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Friday, August 28th, 2015
Zuwara – A Red Crescent official said on Friday that the organization has recovered 82 bodies washed ashore after a boat packed with migrants sank near the western Libyan town of Zuwara. Ibrahim al-Attoushi, the Red Crescent Official, said no fewer than 100 people were still missing, adding that over 198 migrants had been rescued. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Friday, August 28th, 2015
Chad sentences 10 Boko Haram fighters to death Chad has sentenced 10 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to death on terror charges, after a three-day trial in the capital N’djamena. The 10 were convicted over their roles in attacks on the capital in June and July, which killed at least 53. […]
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Africa & World Politics, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories, United Nations
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
Ki-Moon demands release of Chibok girls •Backs President’s anti-graft war From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, yesterday in Abuja demanded the unconditional release of over 200 girls abducted from their school in Borno State on April 14 last year. This is even as his host, President Muhammadu Buhari said over […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Saturday, August 22nd, 2015
Barely three weeks after she stole the headlines with the revealing ‘nude tone’ dress she wore to her debut movie premiere appearance of “Royal Diadem,” at the West Hills Mall, Ghana, rising Ghanaian actress, Effia Odo has revealed why she is not at home with bras. According to her, impressing any man by wearing bras […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
he Nigerian embassy in Delhi, India, has written to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see the two Nigerians that were arrested in Punjab recently while on their way to Pakistan, allegedly to join the Islamic State terrorist group. The two youths from Kano, identified as Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu, are currently being […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
By Ronald Mutum, Francis Okeke and Joshua Odeyemi President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into how an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader secured a valid Nigerian visa in Lebanon, Daily Trust learnt yesterday. Imam Ahmed Al-Assir, who was sentenced to death in absentia and had been on the run since 2013, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza sworn in for third ter The ceremony, expected next week, took many by surprise Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has been sworn in for a controversial third term in office. The BBC’s Prime Ndikumagenge in Burundi says the ceremony came as a surprise, as Mr Nkurunziza had been expected to be sworn […]
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Africa & World Politics
Tuesday, August 18th, 2015
Hadi Juraid, Transport Ministry Spokesman, said search and rescue teams on Tuesday found all 54 bodies in the wreckage of a plane that crashed at the weekend in Indonesia’s Papua province. He said in Jakarta that the ATR 42-300 aircraft operated by Trigana Air Service crashed on Sunday, just 10 minutes before its scheduled arrival […]
