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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Nigerian passengers heading for Dubai have had to make alternative arrangements to arrive at their destination by making connecting flights through Abu Dhabi and other destinations in the Middle East following a recent announcement that Emirates Airlines had cancelled one of its twice-daily flights to Dubai. Emirates Airlines originally operated one flight per day from […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Malaysian police have detained 13 men and are still looking for other suspects following allegations that a 15-year-old girl was raped by 38 men in an abandoned hut, a report said on Friday. The media reported that the assault took place in the Northern state of Kelantan on May 20 when the girl met a […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
The presidents of Cameroon and Chad met Thursday to map out ways to combat the Boko Haram sect, which has extended its violence from Nigeria to its neighbors. Presidents Paul Biya and Idriss Deby were also to examine security reports that some weapons used by Boko Haram came from Libya through Chad. The two leaders […]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2014

By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | May 22, 2014 – How many times have we in Nigeria been observing how elections are conducted in other countries we try to emulate or copy, yet we refuse to do the same in our own country for our own progress? I do not believe it cannot […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
Malawian President Joyce Banda, said on Thursday that the elections were rigged, as counting of votes in the May 20 Malawi elections continues. She said in Lilonggwe that the electoral officials must go for manual counting of the votes. Banda also called for full auditing of the whole process. Information revealed that local radio stations […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, May 19th, 2014
THE 10 Chinese workers abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Cameroon are most likely taken back across the border to the Nigerian Islamist group’s strongholds, a police official said on Sunday. “We are almost certain that the 10 Chinese have been kidnapped and transferred to Nigeria. We have no fresh news about them,” the official […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Sunday, May 18th, 2014
Not less than 29 people were killed in an attack at a market in Ngurosoye village in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday. Sunday Tribune gathered on Saturday that the insurgents came in hundreds on motorcycles and six Hilux vans and began shooting sporadically as they threw rocket launchers on traders in […]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2014
Leon Usigbe – Paris and Moses Alao with Agency Report PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that the war against terror has blown into a full scale war, which has now taken the lives of about 12,000 people. Addressing the Regional Summit on Security convened by France President, Francois Hollande in Paris, on Saturday, Jonathan said […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, May 17th, 2014
AT least 13 people were reported to have died during two bomb attacks in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The blasts, which are said to have taken place near Gikomba Market, came the week hundreds of Western tourists were evacuated from the country due to increasing terror threats. The first explosion came from a 14-seater […]
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Friday, May 16th, 2014
Oyewale Oyelola The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin has upturned the acquittal of James Ibori in 170 counts of money laundering filed against the him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in 2008. Convicted Ex Delta Gov James Ibori, A three-man panel of justices at the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal […]