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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Speaks on Europe, US and African immigrants dying at sea Dr. Patrick Dele Cole served during the first term of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Special Adviser on International Relations. In this piece, Cole speaks on the ill of African immigration to Europe. War costs money and, at the end, someone has to pay. In the 17th, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 13th, 2015
A Turkish mother, 36, shot dead her daughter, 17, after finding out that she was three months pregnant, media reports said on Saturday. The mother, named as Emine A., found out that her daughter Meryem A. was pregnant during a visit to neighbours, the Hurriyet daily reported. She then went back home to find a […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 13th, 2015
-Punch A Turkish mother, 36, shot dead her daughter, 17, after finding out that she was three months pregnant, media reports said on Saturday. The mother, named as Emine A., found out that her daughter Meryem A. was pregnant during a visit to neighbours, the Hurriyet daily reported. She then went back home to find […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 13th, 2015
Final death toll rose to 442 as bodies of the last several missing people aboard the capsized Yangtze River cruise ship Eastern Star had been found, a rescue official said Saturday. Only 12 people survived the disaster on the night of June 1, Tang Guanjun, director of the Yangtze River Navigation Affairs Administration, told a […]
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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Friday, June 12th, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday requested leaders of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin Republic to allow Nigeria to command the troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), which will fight Boko Haram He also promised to pay up the $100 million pledged by Nigeria to fund the Force. The President spoke during the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
By Kingsley Omonobi & Ben Agande ABUJA — As part of the strategy to fight the Boko Haram insurgency, President Muhammadu Buhari will today host a meeting of Heads of State and Presidents of the Lake Chad Basin Commission in Abuja. In a bid to perfect Nigerian position for today’s meeting, President Buhari yesterday held […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Pakistan on Wednesday executed a man who rights groups say was tortured into confessing to a murder committed more than two decades ago, when he was still a minor, prison officials said. “Aftab Bahadur Masih, a Christian man, was hanged in Kot Lakhpat prison of Lahore Wednesday morning,” an official at the jail told AFP […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Authorities in the UK have deported a Balochi student to Pakistan, despite a last-ditch attempt to prevent his removal by campaigners who said he faces death or imprisonment. Activists said Majid Ali, who was deported late on Tuesday, applied for asylum in the UK in 2011 claiming his Balochi nationalist activities put him at risk […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Pakistani police say a court has freed eight out of 10 people charged with organising the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl activist. Salim Khan, a senior police official, said on Friday that the eight men were freed because there was not enough evidence to connect them to the 2012 attack in Swat, northwest of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the government and people of Ghana over the dual tragedy of flooding and fire outbreak which claimed scores of lives in that country. The president, in a condolence message on Friday, 5 June 2015 signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu […]
