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Friday, April 6th, 2012
Malian junta leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, makes a declaration at the Kati military camp near Bamako on April 1, 2012. Mali’s coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, announced the reinstatement of the constitution and state institutions Sunday, and promised broad consultation on a political transition. “We make the solemn commitment to restore, from this day, the […]
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
– Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, medical and government sources said on Friday. The 78-year-old was rushed to a Lilongwe hospital on Friday after collapsing but was dead on arrival, the sources said. On Thursday, Mutharika was “very critical” after a heart attack and was being flown to South […]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Nigeria, India, China, Indonesia and the United States will lead the world’s growth in urban populations in the next four decades. This will lead to challenges in the provision of jobs, housing, energy and infrastructure, the United Nations said yesterday. Ahead of its sustainability summit in Rio, Brazil, in June, the world body released new […]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
By Uduma Kalu & AbdulSalam Muhammad ABUJA—The United States and the United Kingdom yesterday warned their citizens not to travel to certain parts of the north saying there is a high risk of terrorist attack during the Easter holiday. The UK foreign office and the US embassy in Abuja issued the updated travel warnings yesterday, […]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
A Canadian firm, Manitoba Hydro International, has demanded the sum of $23.72m (about N3.72bn) from the Federal Government to run the Transmission Company of Nigeria for three years. Manitoba, whose financial bid for the management of TCN, one of the successor companies of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, was opened on Tuesday, emerged the […]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
“On this day, March 25, 2012, at 9:27 pm., President Abdoulaye Wade, a candidate in the presidential election, called President Macky Sall to congratulate him for having won the election and to wish him good luck in his mission as the head of Senegal in the hope that he will render the Senegalese happy. In […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Some 10,500 Nigerians sought asylum in 2011 in industrialised countries compared to 9,500 in 2010, according to a report released by the United Nations Refugee Agency. The report, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, ranked Nigeria 10th on the list of asylum claimants to the world’s richest countries in 2011. Afghans […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
By Tina Akannam The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has so far invested US$45.5 million as intervention fund in various projects in private and public sectors of the Nigerian economy, the President of the bank, Mr. Bashir M Ifo, has disclosed. Ifo disclosed this Thursday, in Jigawa State, […]
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
By BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE LAGOS – The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has dragged two Britons before a Federal High Court, Lagos, over alleged forgery of Nigerian visa and impersonation of the Director of Citizens and Business Department, Ministry of Interior, Mr. Adetayo Sode. The accused, Ian Cunliff and Ofir More, were said to have conspired to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Osita Ebiem
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
By Osita Ebiem | NNP | April 1, 2012 – In recent time it has become a full-time job for some dubious and dishonest Nigerians to deny the Biafra Genocide also known as Nigeria Genocide in Biafra. Some go to the ridiculous extent of saying that it never happened. Such ones are wishful thinkers. They […]
