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Africa & World Politics
Friday, September 21st, 2012
London – A British soldier who did not realise she was pregnant has given birth to a baby boy at the Camp Bastion field hospital in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) in London said mother and baby were in stable condition and a specialist “Paediatric Retrieval Team’’ would fly out from Britain to care […]
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Africa & World Politics, General Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

The members of staff of a firm, Chinese Group of Companies, Ikeja, Lagos, were thrown into confusion on September 9, 2012 after the corpses of two of their colleagues, Odion Imhonbhio and Richard Dada, were found at the bottom of the swimming pool on the premises. PUNCH Metro learnt that Odion and Dada went swimming […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, September 16th, 2012
THE Zimbabwean prime minister went ahead with wedding celebrations yesterday despite a court ruling that cancelled his marriage license on allegations that he would be committing bigamy. Morgan Tsvangirai, 60, and his bride exchanged vows and rings at a luxury convention facility in Harare but did not sign the legal marriage register. A court on […]
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Africa & World Politics, CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists
Saturday, September 15th, 2012

By Emeka Chiakwelu | NNP | Sept. 15, 2012 – How long will it take Nigerian policy makers to come out from their self imposed bubble and comprehend that policy decision they made can have adverse consequences. We all wake up one bright morning; the next thing we heard was that Sanusis Central bank of […]
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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, September 15th, 2012
By Professor Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai When Iranian foreign office diplomats were sending out letters of invitation to the Non-Allied states, they were cautiously optimistic about the responses that their government would receive, in view of the strident diplomatic stance some states have taken against Iran.There was a growing impression that Iran was isolated. On 29August, 2012, most […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, September 15th, 2012
OTTAWA — Canada plans to create a new class of visa that it hopes will attract high-tech and other entrepreneurs to immigrate to the country to start new companies, officials said on Tuesday. It has put a moratorium on issuing its existing entrepreneur visa, which only required an immigrant to hire one person for one […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, September 15th, 2012
NIGERIA has expressed concern over the alleged humiliation of its nationals living in Zimbabwe and urged Harare to address the situation to ensure strong bilateral relations are not undermined. The country’s Senate President, David Mark, expressed Abuja’s concern when he met Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe in the Nigerian capital Tuesday. Khupe said she was […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, September 15th, 2012
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and two Nigerians on death row in The Gambia who said they are about to be executed by the government have taken their case to the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja asking the court to urgently stop their impending execution. The Nigerians involved in the case are Micheal […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, September 15th, 2012
Gambia on Saturday suspended its plan to execute two Nigerians, Micheal Ifunaya and Stanley Agbaeze, and nationals of some other African countries. This is just as some Nigerians launched a drive to raise thousands of signatures for an online petition to President Goodluck Jonathan to pressurise him to save the death-row inmates. Gambia President Yahya […]
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Africa & World Politics, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 11, 2012 – Two interesting incidents that played out on the international scene recently clearly underlined the profound confusion of values that has crept into Western policies and attitudes towards President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Late in May, the United Nation’s World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) announced the […]