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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Sudanese Muslim woman sentenced to death for Christian conversion 2 By Our Reporter on May 15, 2014 · Trending A 27-year-old woman in Sudan has been sentenced to death for converting to Christianity from Islam, sparking protests in a country already hit with social strife. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim had been ordered to give up her […]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Suspected masterminds of the El-Rufai Motor Park bomb explosion in Nyanya, Ahmad Rufai Abubakar; Muhammadu Sani Ishaq; Ya’u Saidu; Adamu Yusuf; and Anas Isah, after being paraded at the Dss headquarters in Abuja… on Monday. (Inset: The arrested fleeing member of the the gang) The National Information Centre on Wednesday announced the arrest in Sudan […]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
By Max Siollun | NNP | May 14, 2014 – A religiously inspired armed group has been terrorising the north of the country for several years, and has upped the ante by kidnapping over 100 schoolgirls and taking them to a bush hideout. The group plans to “hand out” the girls as trophy wives and […]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Seven Nigerian girls currently stranded in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire have called on the Nigerian embassy in that country to assist them return to their families. Speaking to the News Agency of Nigerian at the embassy premises on Monday, the girls said they were brought to Cote d’Ivoire by three persons they identified as Dele, […]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2014
South Sudanese rebels have called for the opening of purported mass graves in the capital city of Juba, where thousands of civilians were buried after the outbreak of violence. The call came as US Secretary of State, John Kerry, concerned about possible genocide in the world’s youngest state, visited the country in an effort to […]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2014
By Brian Silver The British Homeland Security has deported Mrs. Helen Ukpabio, the President and Founder of one of Nigeria’s largest Pentecostal churches believed to be leading the spread of witch-hunting in the country. A United Kingdom based human right activist and charity worker, Ms. Modupe Debbie Ariyo announced this in a one paragraph sentence […]
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
Nigerian author, Ben Okri, will receive an honorary doctorate at the University of Pretoria’s Autumn Graduation Ceremony in South Africa on Friday, the university has said. In a statement, the University Council said, “Okri is being honoured on the grounds of his being a widely recognised, international writer and scholar whose outstanding contributions to contemporary […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2014
The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank has approved $150m to finance 19 university-based Centres of Excellence in Nigeria and six other countries in West and Central Africa. A statement issued by the bank on Thursday said Nigeria would get the highest share of $70m from the International Development Association funding. According to […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2014
President Mamnoon Hussain of Pakistan will begin a three-day working visit to Nigeria from Monday, April 21, the Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner, Ahmed Sirohey said in Abuja. The visit is the first of a Pakistan’s president to Nigeria in 32 years and Hussain is leading a 70-man delegation, Sirohey told reporters. According to […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2014
Helen Ukpabio A Nigerian preacher, Helen Ukpabio, a self styled witch hunter, could be banned from the UK following calls to Home Secretary Theresa May that she is a risk to youngsters. Ukpabio who founded the controversial African Evangelical Franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries in Nigeria, has published her views around the demonic possession of […]
