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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Many Nigerians living abroad, who are yet to obtain the new ECOWAS passport popularly known as e-passport, should prepare for serious hiccups and hitches ahead. A Nigerian, who simply wants to be identified as Michael and has just obtained the epassport told African Examiner that the online payment procedure was “very very awkward” because […]
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
After days of dithering, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he had resolved not to release the photographs of the killing and burial of the leader of Al Qaeda terrorist network, Osama bin Laden. Obama, in an interview with CBS News, said he took the decison because the graphic nature of the killing and […]
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Pakistan blamed worldwide intelligence lapses for a failure to detect Osama bin Laden living near its capital, while Washington worked to establish whether its ally had sheltered the al Qaeda leader. A US acknowledgement bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead in Monday’s raid in Abbottabad raised accusations Washington had violated international law. Exact […]
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
America has sent an elite team of agents to protect President Barack Obama’s grandmother in Kenya. White House sources said security had been heightened at her Kogelo rural home following the killing of al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. Also more police officers have beeOn deployed to man Mama Sarah Obama’s in homestead western Kenya following […]
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Africa & World Politics
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits the students of St. Augustine Elementary School REUTERS Canada’s ruling Conservatives won a crushing victory in Monday’s federal election, as the left wing vote split between two parties and the separatist Bloc Quebecois faded to almost nothing, reports Reuters. Still provisional results showed the Conservatives had 167 seats in Parliament, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, May 2nd, 2011

The al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden was found and killed at a fortified compound on the outskirts of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported. According to the report, the compound where he was killed was a few hundred metres from the Pakistan Military Academy, an elite military training centre, which […]
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Africa & World Politics, Women Politics
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
President, African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and wife of Ekiti State Governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, has said female law makers must not fail, if women are to be taken serious. She congratulated the four women elected into the Ekiti State House of Assembly. Three of them were elected on the platform of the Action Congress […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
AS part of its strategies to engender positive change in Africa, the United States (U.S.) would this month continue the dialogue initiative it started in August 2010 when President Barack Obama met with a select group of young African leaders in the White House. A U.S. State Department statement at the weekend disclosed that the “Dialogue […]
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Friday, April 29th, 2011

April 29th, has rolled into the annals of British royal history as the day when the future King of England, Prince Williams, walked the aisles to marry his heartthrob for the past ten years, commoner Kate Middleton. The occasion was graceful as expected of any such royal undertaking, abundantly pregnant with pump and assorted pageantry […]
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Africa & World Politics
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
CATHOLIC priest Father Marko Mnkandla has told of how he was stripped in the presence of two female police officers following his arrest two weeks ago. The Lupane clergyman had been arrested for allegedly holding a political rally disguised as church service for Gukurahundi survivors and victims without the consent of the police. Mnkandla was […]