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Thursday, June 26th, 2014
(AFP) – Ghana stars Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng have been indefinitely suspended from their country’s World Cup squad after bust-ups with management, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) said Thursday. Muntari, 29, is accused of attacking a member of the management team, Moses Armah, while Boateng, 27, is said to have verbally abused national team […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon missing by NAN Ad by Websteroids advertisement A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon has disappeared, according to Cameroon aviation sources on Tuesday. The plane, owned by the US company Global Aviation, took off from Kano in northern Nigeria at 1800 hours […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2014
The Nigerian Embassy in Moscow, Russia, said it has concluded plans to host an investment forum focused mainly on energy for the business community in Russia. The investment forum is meant to boost trade relations between the two countries, which is said to be very low. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Russia, Chief Asang E. Asang, who […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2014
Meriam Ibrahim gave birth to a baby daughter in prison Continue reading the main story Related Stories Sudan death row child ‘traumatised’ Listen Sudan case reignites apostasy debate Sudan country profile A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2014
The new Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb. Ghanashyam Rangaiah, on Monday disclosed his government’s readiness to establish more Indian hospitals across the six geopolitical zones of the country. Rangaiah told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the initiative was to make India’s medical facilities accessible and affordable to Nigerians in various communities. […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2014
*On imprisoned mother and child: It’s a crime to convert from Islam to Christianity in my country By Victoria Ojeme The Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Tagelsir Mahgoub Ali, speaks on the difficulties being faced by his home country to extradite the man suspected to be behind the bombing of Nyanya, near Abuja, the FCT, […]
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Monday, June 16th, 2014
At least 48 people have been killed after unidentified armed men attacked Mpeketoni, a coastal town in Kenya’s Lamu county, and set fire to three hotels and a police station, reports say. The area is in the heart of the East African country’s tourism industry. The attackers targeted several buildings on Sunday, including hotels, a […]
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Monday, June 16th, 2014
At least three people have been killed and more than 80 people injured in overnight mob attacks led by Sinhala Buddhist monks in two coastal Sri Lankan towns, according to medics. Sri Lanka’s police on Monday extended a curfew across the popular resort towns of Aluthgama and Beruwala after Muslim properties and mosques came under […]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
THE ambition of Nigeria and Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to become the Secretary General of the influential Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was dashed on Wednesday. This followed the decision of the members of OPEC to extend the tenure of the incumbent Secretary General, Abdullah al-Badri. The tenure of al-Badri was […]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2014

The newly appointed caretaker committee chairman of Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Julius Takeme, has decried the incessant silent killings of Nigerians resident in South Africa. This was just as he warned that if something urgent wasnot done to address the trend, a diplomatic rift might surface between the two countries. Chief […]