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Africa & World Politics, House, Legislature, Senate
Friday, June 15th, 2012
BY EBUN SESSOU & OLUWATOSIN OLUWARINU LAGOS — Ghanaian Vice President, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, has said Nigerian government needs strong institutions, especially a strong legislature, whose legislative functions will hold the government accountable. The vice president stated this in a lecture delivered on his behalf by Ghana’s Minister of Information, Haruna Idrisu, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
Canada has come in fourth on an annual ranking of world peacefulness, trailing only Iceland, Denmark and New Zealand. The 2012 Global Peace Index released Tuesday — the sixth produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, an Australia-U.S. think-tank, with data from the Economist Intelligence Unit — saw Canada move up three spots from […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 8th, 2012
As Dana Air’s woes continue to mount over its plane that crashed on Sunday in Lagos, its senior managers of Indian nationality have reportedly fled the country as Nigerian aviation officials investigate the cause of the crash. LEADERSHIP gathered that the managers hurriedly fled because of the anger the death of more than 200 people […]
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, June 8th, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated the centrality of Africa, its peace, political stability and socio-economic development to Nigeria’s foreign policy. He said this on Thursday while receiving the new Mauritanian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr B.A. Abderrahmane, in State House, Abuja. He said in furtherance of his government’s commitment to work with other African countries to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
Email1 ACCRA (AFP) – Grieving family members gathered at a morgue in Ghana’s capital Accra on Sunday after a cargo plane overshot an airport runway and crashed into a passenger bus, killing at least 10 people. The four crew members from the Boeing 727 Allied Air cargo plane survived Saturday night’s accident, and Ghanaian President […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
An Italian engineer who was abducted by a group of armed men in Kwara State has been released, a spokesman for Italy’s Foreign Minister, Giulio Terzi told Reuters on Saturday. Details on his release were not immediately available, the spokesman said. In March, a Briton and an Italian abducted in Sokoto State were both killed […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
| Print | E-mail Written by Dipo Ogunsola Saturday, 02 June 2012 Share Yakubu NIGERIAN international, Yakubu Aiyegbeni is wanted by two leading Chinese clubs, Guan Beijing and Shanghai Shenhua on a £5million-a-year (about N1.25b) contract. Yakubu, who scored 18 goals in the recently concluded English Premier League (EPL) has expressed his feelings that he […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
CAIRO, June 2, 2012 (AFP) – A judge sentenced former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. Also given a life term for the killings was 84-year-old former strongman’s interior minister Habib al-Adly, while […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A 21-year-old student from Kenya was held without bail in the US state of Maryland Saturday after allegedly killing and eating parts of his housemate, CNN television reported. Alexander Kinyua was arrested after being charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault in the alleged cannibalism case, the network said. Harford […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
As Nigeria celebrates the re-birth of democracy in the country, corruption remains the bane of development in this part of the world. More worrisome is the role played by some institutions in the advanced countries in aiding corruption in the country. Some commercial banks in the United Kingdom have continued to launder millions of pounds […]
