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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
A Canada-based organisation, Grand Challenges, is set to provide free diagnosis and treatment of neuro-developmental disorders for Nigerian children under the age of three years. Dr. Muideen Owolabi Bakare of Child and Adolescent Unit, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu is leading the project. Speaking with journalists in Enugu, on Sunday, Bakare said the project, which will […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler has been admitted to hospital after media reports of an alleged affair involving President Francois Hollande. Her office said she had been admitted on Friday “for rest and some tests”. Mr Hollande’s unmarried partner was admitted after Closer magazine published images of the alleged affair. The French leader has not […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Leburah Ganago, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
By Laburah Ganago | Atlanta, USA | Jan. 12, 2014 – One, a lawyer, the other a writer; both had a common thread running through their veins. They saw themselves as having been called to a higher duty- to deliver their oppressed peoples from the shackles of internal colonization. And they had an utmost conviction […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
A man who claims to be Jesus Christ and has been dressing up as such since 1979 has been banned from Britain in addition to being expelled from the United States and Venezuela. “This man believes he is Jesus Christ reincarnated despite being arrested more than 40 times,” says a report in Britain’s Daily Mirror. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
THE Nigerian/Chinese tie has gone a step deeper, as Nigerian diplomats and senior government officials get visa exception with effect from February 1. The announcement was made yesterday. The outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Deng Boqing, made the disclosure at the Nigeria-China Business Roundtable and Luncheon in Lagos, which was organised by the Nigerian Institute […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
A South African preacher made his congregation eat grass to “be closer to God” before stamping on them. Under the instruction of Pastor Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Centre Ministries dozens of followers dropped to the floor to eat the grass at his ministry in Garankuwa, north of Pretoria after being told it will “bring […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
Israelis are beginning a short period of mourning for ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who has died aged 85 of heart failure after eight years in a coma. The public will pay their respects when his body lies in state on Sunday before a private burial on Monday. Israeli and world figures have paid tribute to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
Minabere Ibelema | credits: File copy There are two related images that have hunted me most this Christmas season. One is of South Sudanese families, including children as usual, fleeing in terror as rebel and government troops unleash their murderous arsenals. The other is of young French soldiers getting set to be deployed in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Sunday, January 5th, 2014
South Sudan President, Salva Kiir By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Jan. 5, 2014 – The month of July, 2011 marked a turning point in the history of South Sudan. Not only did it eventually come out of over two and half decades of a bloody civil war in Sudan after intense struggle with […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, January 3rd, 2014
When Zimbabawe’s immediate past Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai recently decided to travel to Lagos, Nigeria, to consult controversial pastor/prophet, Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua, little did he know that he would no longer find his wife at home on his return to Harare, the Zimbabwean capital. Tsvangirai’s political fortunes had dipped following his party’s loss of […]
