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Africa & World Politics, Raw Politics, Religion, Top Stories
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
Posted: October 21, 2012 – 17:23 Posted by siteadmin caption: Bishop David Oyedepo By GEORGE ARBUTHNOTT A church run by a controversial multi-millionaire African preacher has been accused of ‘cynical exploitation’ after its British branch received £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return. Followers are ferried […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
ABUJA, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) — The Civil Society Associations Gambia (CSAG) has filed an application against the government at the ECOWAS Court of Justice regarding the West African country’s 38 death row inmates at Mile 2 Central Prisons. Banka Manneh, chairman of the CSAG, made the announcement in a statement released by the West African […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Oyo, State News
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
The remains of Tennessie Jurry. Inset: The drugs puportedly given to Jurry to treat malaria The family of a Liberian national, Mr Tennessie Jurry, who reportedly came from the Oru Refugee Camp in Ogun State to Iseyin, but died recently while working as a mortician at Our Lady Hospital, Iseyin, Oyo State, suspects foul play […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Saturday, October 20th, 2012
By Goodluck Jonathan (President, Nigeria) and Jens Stoltenberg (Prime Minister, Norway) In 2010, the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health highlighted the suffering of women and children around the world caused by lack of access to life saving commodities. Life in the developing world is filled with stories like that of the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, October 19th, 2012
According to 96.1 WEFM,A Nigerian man dies after several pellets of cocaine burst in his stomach while he was on a Caribbean Airlines flight to Canada. Sampson Omoghan fell ill on the Wednesday flight, forcing it to return to Piarco Airport so that he could be taken to Arima hospital, where he died. […]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2012
15/10/2012 18:23:00 Font size: 0 Comments A protest by 10,000 Muslims outside the offices of Google in London on Sunday is just the first in an orchestrated attempt to force the company to remove an anti-Islamic film from website YouTube in Britain. The scene outside the Google offices in Buckingham Palace Road, London. Thousands had […]
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Africa & World Politics, Presidency
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan will today pay a working visit to Niamey, Niger Republic, for a scheduled meeting of the High Authority of the Nigeria-Niger Joint Commission. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati. Abati said […]
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Africa & World Politics
Monday, October 15th, 2012
Targeted: Malala Yousafzai, 14, spoke out about suffering under the Taliban regime THE schoolgirl shot in the head and neck by the Taliban is being brought to the UK for treatment. A British medical team has flown to Pakistan to help doctors looking after 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai and will now transfer her to the UK for […]
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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, October 12th, 2012
By AKEEB ALARAPE A Kabo aircraft conveying Nigerian pilgrims had to make a forced landing in Sudan capital, Khartoum on Wednesday after being denied entry into Saudi Arabia. The aircraft with Reg. No. N9-1143, was conveying pilgrims from Kaduna State but denied landing by the authorities of the King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, Jeddah, due to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Shell broke the law by not repairing leaks that destroyed the lands of Niger Delta farmers, a Dutch court heard in a case that could set a precedent for global environmental responsibility. The four Nigerian farmers, backed by lobby group Friends of the Earth, have brought the Anglo-Dutch oil giant into court thousands of miles […]
