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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The General Overseer of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, Nigeria, Prophet T.B. Joshua has attributed the backwardness of the African Continent to the dearth of consultants and elder statesmen. Lamenting the situation, T.B. Joshua said that former presidents of the African Continent should, by virtue of their experience and wisdom, become fathers […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Dubai – Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son Saif al-Islam wants an aircraft to take him out of Libya’s southern desert so he could turn himself in to The Hague war crimes court, a source with Libya’s National Transitional Council said on Thursday. A fearful Saif al-Islam, 39, went on the run at about the time his […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
BENGHAZI (AFP) – Libya’s new rulers said on Thursday they would prosecute the killers of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi following the international outcry over the circumstances of his death. “With regards to Gaddafi , we do not wait for anybody to tell us,” NTC vice chairman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga. “We had already launched an investigation. […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
By Kenneth Uwadi, Imo State, Nigeria – October 27, 2011 – Five days ago, the U.S. Department of State warned U.S. citizens of the risks of travelling to 7 states in Nigeria including Imo State because of kidnapping, robbery, and other armed attacks in these areas. This to me is no good news for Imo […]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
MISRATA (AFP) – The body of Libyan ex-leader Muammer Gaddafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gaddafi’s remains were buried “overnight in a religious ceremony” along with the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, October 24th, 2011
By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—Trial resumed, Monday, behind closed doors in the case against an Iranian, Azim Aghajani, and a Nigerian, Alli Abass Jega, accused of importing arms illegally into Nigeria from Republic of Iran. Trial judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke, who ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants out of the court room as the case was called, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, October 24th, 2011
A LIBYAN revolutionary fighter has bragged in a leaked video that he was the man who killed that country’s despotic former ruler, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. The young man, who is pictured but has not yet been identified, said he killed the fallen dictator because he could not bear the thought of taking him alive. ‘We […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, October 21st, 2011
The 14-member states of the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Thursday lifted its sanctions on Libya. Mr Ramtane Lamamra, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security said in Addis Ababa on Thursday after the council’s meeting that all AU sanctions against Libya had been lifted with immediate effect. NAN reports that some of the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, October 21st, 2011
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried according to Muslim rites within 24 hours, a Libyan transitional government force commander said on Friday. The announcement is coming just as witnesses said the body bore a visible bullet hole in the head. “He will get his right like any Muslim; his body will be washed […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen. “He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel […]
