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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Press Releases
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Dear Brother & Sisters I am presenting the formula for peace talks for Syria and I hope that Nigerian Government and the whole world will support our efforts for achieving Peace and finding the path of democracy. 1. The Western powers and Arab countries must stop to back and support by all means to the armed […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Femi Fani-Kayode, NNP Columnists
Sunday, April 1st, 2012

By Femi Fani-Kayode | NNP | April 1, 2012 – The South Africans are an ungrateful lot. After all Nigeria did for them during the struggle against apartheid, white minority rule and the relentless tyranny of the Boers they have done nothing but treat us with disrespect, disdain and contempt. A glaring example of this […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, March 31st, 2012
Federal, states vote N1.044b for GDP computation NATIONAL Planning Minister, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman, yesterday gave reasons for Malaysia’s impressive growth ahead of Nigeria in the last 20 years. The minister, who recalled his encounter with his Malaysian counterpart, said the Asian country has achieved its globally-acknowledged growth because it recorded 96 per cent literacy level […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, March 30th, 2012
March 30, 2012 by Adelani Adepegba, Abuja 20 Comments Marilyn Ogar | credits: File copy State Security Service on Thursday paraded seven suspects aged, between 22 and 33, in connection with the alleged abduction of a United Arab Emirate national, Mohammed Khamis. The suspects, who were arrested on March 20, are Ojo Ajibade, Lamidi Akinkunmi, […]
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Africa & World Politics, House, Latest Politics, Legislature
Friday, March 30th, 2012
The House of Representatives, yesterday ordered its Committees on Public Safety and National Security, Foreign Affairs, Interior and the Police Affairs to probe the migration of Nigeriens into Nigeria. The House also urged the Federal Government to, urgently provide aids to border communities and the migrants. Such aid it said, should be in form of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Friday, March 30th, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, received letters of credence from the first ever Macedonia ambassador to the country, while expressing the hope of a rewarding relationship between Nigeria and the South-East European nation. He said in an audience with Ambassador Darko Angelov that government appreciated the effort of the Macedonian government in offering scholarship to some […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Friday, March 30th, 2012
LEADERS of Russia, Brazil, China, India and South Africa meeting under BRICS, have called for the review of the weighted voting system that gave Europe, the United States of America and Japan 54 per cent of the votes in the selection of the World Bank president. This is coming as an international non-governmental organisation, Youth […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines, Women Politics
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister for the economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said that “emerging economies must be given a fair shot at leading the institutions at the heart of global finance or they will end up going their own way.” Okonjo-Iweala, who is developing countries candidate for the World Bank presideny said […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
AS leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) meet in New Delhi, India, today, intensive lobbying is ongoing as United States’ diplomats and BRICS officials slug it out over plan by the leaders to adopt a common candidate for the World Bank presidency. The BRICS is an international political organisation of leading […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Nigerian authorities have detained five men, including a Mauritanian, believed linked to Al-Qaeda’s North African branch over the January kidnapping of a German, two security sources said yesterday. Four of the suspects were arrested last Thursday in a raid on a supermarket in Kano owned by the Mauritanian, while the fifth was held in a […]