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Africa & World Politics, Cross River, Headlines, State News
Friday, December 28th, 2012
A 26-man Brazilian Carnival Band has arrived Calabar to participate in Carnival Calabar. Known as the Vai Vai Samba Band, the Brazilians thrilled a crowd that gathered at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport to welcome them. Speaking through an interpreter, the leader of the band, Thobias Da Vai-vai described the reception as marvelous, noting that […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
India’s government has ordered an investigation into the gang rape of a 23-year-old student while on a bus in the capital, Delhi, earlier this month. A retired judge will “identify the lapses” on the part of authorities and “fix responsibility” a minister said. The student’s condition has “improved marginally”, doctors say, although she remains on […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
The former South African president, Nelson Mandela, has been discharged from hospital, the South African presidency says. Mr Mandela will continue to receive treatment at his home in Johannesburg until he has fully recovered, according to a statement from President Jacob Zuma’s office. Mr Mandela, 94, was admitted to hospital 18 days ago. He was […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
Women in Swaziland risk arrest if they wear mini-skirts or tops which expose part of their stomach, a police spokeswoman has said. Wendy Hleta said police would enforce an 1889 law which bans “immoral” dressing if they receive a complaint. She also said women in the deeply conservative kingdom make it easier for rapists by […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT- NIGERIANS in Austria have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged indifference by the country’s Ambassador to that country, Mrs. Maria Laose, to the plight of Nigerians, following various ill-treatment they suffer in the hands of the host government. Expressing their frustrations in a chat with Vanguard in Port Harcourt, Rivers […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
POPE Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for an end to “savage acts of terrorism” in Nigeria and the slaughter of the “defenceless” in Syria. Delivering the Vatican traditional Christmas Day message from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the pontiff also called for the return of peace to Mali. Delivering Christmas greetings in 65 […]
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Africa & World Politics, Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Monday, December 24th, 2012
FRESH abduction has occurred in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, as four Italian oil workers were kidnapped along Pennington River, Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa State, while as of the time of going to press, their whereabouts remain unknown. The expatriates were returning from Eket, Akwa Ibom State, when the armed men accosted them […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, December 24th, 2012
THE United States has said beginning from 2013, its army brigade will dispatch small army teams to 35 African nations, as part of its plan to check the rising terror threats from al-Qaeda-linked groups in Africa, particularly with the rise of the extremist Islamist sect, Boko Haram, in Nigeria. According to a report the CBS […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
NEW DELHI, (AFP) – Police shot dead a journalist Sunday during a protest over a sex assault on an actress in northeast India as security forces in New Delhi fired tear gas at new demonstrations over a student’s gang-rape. After the victim of last Sunday’s gang-rape in Delhi began recounting her ordeal to police, a […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012
SEOUL (AFP) – Four South Korean workers who were kidnapped earlier this week in Bayelsa state have been released unharmed, a foreign ministry spokesman said Saturday. The four workers from South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries, were abducted by armed men Monday while working at a construction site in the state of Bayelsa. They were freed […]
