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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
ACCRA (AFP) – Ghana Vice President John Dramani Mahama was sworn in as the west African nation’s new president on Tuesday, hours after the sudden death of president John Atta Mills. The country’s chief justice swore in Mahama before an emergency session of parliament following Mills’ death. Mills died as he was being treated for […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare believes she can upset the pecking order at the Olympics and outshine her 100m rivals from Jamaica and the United States. The 23-year-old has hit form at the right time, dipping under 11 seconds twice this month to record victories at both the London and Monaco Diamond League events against her […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
July 25, 2012 by Kazeem Busari When the athletes flying Nigeria’s flag at the London Olympics begin their events, their aims will not be to just feature in the Games but to win medals and etch their names in history. They have the chance, just as every athlete from other participating nations, to return home […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
July 25, 2012 by Ademola Alawiye The mystery surrounding the alleged illegal Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation account with JP Morgan was finally cleared on Tuesday by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She said at a dialogue organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and the Organised Private […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Ghana’s President John Atta Mills dies President Atta Mills came to power in 2009 Ghana’s President John Atta Mills, who was suffering from throat cancer, has died in hospital in the capital, Accra. A statement from his office said the 68-year-old died a few hours after being taken ill, but did not give details. “It […]
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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
A bomb exploded at a compound in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing nine people and wounding 20, local government and intelligence officials told Reuters. The bombing in the compound, used by a local militia and containing residential units and an office, occurred near the village of Spin Tal in the Orakzai tribal region. The Pakistan […]
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
A DAY after a ferry sank off the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, with 38 bodies already recovered, a Zanzibar official yesterday said there was no hope for more than a hundred people still missing. The vessel, which was officially carrying at least 290 passengers and crew, including more than 30 children, went down in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Monday, July 16th, 2012
South Sudan Police authorities has pleaded with the Nigeria Police Force to urgently come to their aid in the area of training of their own manpower and capacity building especially as they have seen from the performances of the Nigeria Police contingent in the newly independent country, that Nigeria Police officers are ‘top class’ comparable […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Friday, July 13th, 2012
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki By Muhammad Bello Issues bordering on global, transnational and internal security were top on the agenda of the meeting of the National Council of State (NCS) held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Thursday. In attendance for the deliberation were former presidents of the country, the Senate President, Speaker of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, July 13th, 2012
The top Ecowas mediator, Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore, told the meeting of politicians, religious and trade union leaders that a new government must “confront the terrorist peril in the north”. Ecowas chairman Alassane Ouattara, the president of Cote d’Ivoire, told the meeting – also attended by leaders of Niger, Togo, Benin and Nigeria – […]
