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Friday, August 24th, 2012
Japan won’t grant visas to most members of a group of Nigerian doctors planning to attend a conference in Hiroshima sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, its U.S. affiliate said Wednesday. The Foreign Ministry said it rejected requests from nine of the 13 Nigerian applicants. Kazuo Inamura, a senior official […]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
ENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday warned that regional troops would definitely intervene in the occupied area if negotiations with extremists in Mali failed to yield a solution. This came days after Mali’s new Foreign Minister Tieman Coulibaly said that winning back the Islamist-occupied north was the top priority of a unity government which was formed on […]
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
IN recent times, education agents have destroyed working relationship between educational institutions in Ghana and Nigeria by fraudulently making shoddy arrangements for Nigerian students who want to study in Ghana. This are the conclusions of institutions in Ghana, a situation which is now reason the institutions have decided to embark on Nigerian tour to woo […]
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegne, has been sworn-in as the country’s acting Prime Minister after the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Desalegne has now made history as the first Protestant Christian head of government and one of few southern region politicians in the Ethiopia’s Cabinet. The 47-year-old politician was appointed deputy prime minister […]
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Monday, August 20th, 2012
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler who held tight control over this East African country but was a major U.S counter-terrorism ally, died of an undisclosed illness after not being seen in public for weeks, Ethiopian state television said Tuesday. He was 57. Meles died Monday just before midnight after contracting an […]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2012
By Prof Emmanuel O. Esiemokhai | Abuja, Nigeria | August 19, 2012 – The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women. Under favourable conditions, the […]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2012
Back to news home Julian Assange wikileaks founder Ecuador has granted asylum to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, while fighting extradition from the United Kingdom. Mr. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy after the UK’s Supreme Court dismissed a bid to reopen his appeal against extradition and gave him two-weeks grace […]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2012

The former governor of Delta state, southern Nigeria, James Ibori, convicted for fraud by a court in Britain, has been transferred to the Worcestershire Long Lartin Prison outside London. The maximum-security prison houses terrorists, rapists, drug barons and other violent criminals. A recent report in The Guardian, a United Kingdom newspaper, portrayed the prison as […]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2012
A Sudanese airplane has crashed while landing in Talodi town, on its way to South Kordofan state for Muslim Eid holiday celebrations, killing all passengers on board, including a cabinet minister. Spokesman for the Sudan Aviation Authority, Abdelhafiz Abdelrahim, confirmed the accident, saying the plane plane was making to land on Sunday at about 8:00 am (0500 GMT) when […]
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Saturday, August 18th, 2012
This, before some one starts to say ‘not again’, is not about me. Its about my egbon. Mr Mac Ovbiagele, a foremost advertising practitioner, and I dare say, one of the best in his generation—likes to do things by the book. I should know since I have known him for almost 40 years and I […]