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American Politics, Headlines
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
s The body of 26 year old Adaobi Michaella Obih was found Tuesday at an apartment at Riverstone Apartments in Columbus, Indiana. Her death is being investigated as a homicide. A spokesman for the Columbus Police Department said her neighbour, 36 year old Ryan Allen Klug, is a person of interest in the […]
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American Politics, House, Legislature
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
The House of Representatives raised the alarm on Tuesday over alleged plans by the Federal Government to sell the official residence of Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. In a resolution on a motion by Mr. Yakubu Dogara, the House directed its Committee on Foreign Affairs to conduct a public hearing […]
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Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
Indications emerged on Saturday that the United States has been spying on the Nigeria’s security agencies, especially the State Security Service, and probably the Presidency. In a report published in New York Times, Edward Snowden, an American computer specialist, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and as a contractor with the US […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Thursday, October 31st, 2013
“I have just received a letter from the headmaster of a school in England,” he (the headmaster) said and held up a blue letter for all to see. “The content of this letter has filled me with shame.” He…spoke… about Ezekiel’s crime. “Think of the bad name you have given this school,” he said, […]
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Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

US Senator, Ted Cruz, is asking for a peace meeting with Nigerian-Americans who have demanded that he retracts his controversial joke last week which many of them considered insulting, Empowered Newswire reports. According to a letter from the senator released over the weekend to leaders of the Nigerian community in Houston, Texas, where the controversial […]
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Sunday, October 27th, 2013
The office of Ted Cruz has issued a statement from the Senator apologizing saying no offense was intended by the remark. The full statement reads: It’s unfortunate that we’re living in a time where just about every joke can be misconstrued to cause offense to someone. To the good people of Nigeria — a […]
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Saturday, October 26th, 2013
New York – Members of the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN) have called on Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to make a formal correction by retracting his disparaging remarks made about Nigerians. According to local American media, Cruz, while taking a political swipe at the computer problems of the Affordable Care Act in the U.S, […]
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Saturday, October 26th, 2013
Nigerians have expressed their dissatisfaction with the United States lawmaker representing the State of Texas in the American Senate, Ted Cruz, for blaming the glitches plaguing the Obamacare website on Nigerians. Many Americans had been experiencing error messages and long waits in trying to sign on to healthcare.gov, the online insurance portal under the Patient […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, Uncategorized
Sunday, October 20th, 2013

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | October 21, 2013 – Until recently when the Nobel Committee swiftly presented the 2009 award to President Barack Obama who had just occupied the Oval Office, promising to effect a change in the hawkish, hegemonic and aggressive nature of American foreign policy which the George Bush years exemplified, […]
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Saturday, October 19th, 2013
Most Nigerians in the United States have lived here for an average of 25 years and are at an average age of 56. Those individuals who have been here for 25 years or more are now eager to go back to Nigeria to spend their final years. But the dream of going back to live […]