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Thursday, July 4th, 2013

By: Victoria Ojeme ABUJA: United State Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence McCulley has said that for Nigerian democracy to continue to prosper, the country must figure out a way to address conflicts. This is even as the American envoy noted that Nigeria remains US indispensable ally in Africa. He also noted that the various differences in […]
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Monday, July 1st, 2013

By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo | NNP | July 1, 2013 – As the President of the United States of America, Mr. Barack Obama, tours three African countries, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, the media has been gleefully awash by the exclusion of Nigeria from this latest African tour. It will be recalled that Obama’s first […]
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Monday, July 1st, 2013
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – French President Francois Hollande Monday told the United States immediately to stop spying on its European allies after Secretary of State John Kerry promised to probe the allegations but said information-gathering was “not unusual” in international affairs. “We cannot accept this kind of behaviour between partners and allies,” Hollande told journalists […]
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Monday, June 24th, 2013
WASHINGTON – The White House said Monday it was monitoring Nelson Mandela’s condition, but could not yet say whether his failing health would affect President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa this week. Obama is due to travel to Senegal on Wednesday and spend the weekend in South Africa before journeying on to Tanzania, on a […]
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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
The police in New York, the United States (US), on Tuesday arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of a Nigerian cab driver in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn in downtown New York, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Uro Ama Orji, 54, from Ebonyi State, was stabbed in the eye with an […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013
By Emeka Chiakwelu | NNP | June 9, 2013 – It does not happen often, but five living American presidents recently gathered in Dallas, Texas to dedicate George W. Bush presidential Library. Political and ideological differences notwithstanding, there was a resounding conclusion that George W. Bush policy on Africa was most effective and generous especially […]
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Saturday, June 8th, 2013
LOS ANGELE – A black-clad gunman killed at least four people in a shooting rampage in the US state of California Friday, before police shot him dead in a college library, officials said. The assailant began by killing his father and brother before a random string of slayings in Santa Monica, only a few miles […]
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

Wanted Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, could be tried for terrorism in the United States or in courts of partner nations if caught, the U.S. Acting Assistant Director of Diplomatic Security Threat Investigations and Analysis Directorate, Kurt Rice, has said. Rice whose country on Monday placed $23m bounties on five leaders of terrorist groups in […]
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
As I read our own Ayo Olukotun (PUNCH columnist)’s column of last Friday with the above title, I chuckled. In it Ayo, a political science professor, was lamenting Nigeria’s exclusion from America’s President Obama’s forthcoming African tour, with his wife Michelle, of countries including Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3. […]
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
American civil rights leader, Baptist Minister and two-time Democratic Presidential nominee, Rev. Jesse Jackson, was in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as a Guest Speaker at Isaac Boro Day lecture. He spoke on a wide range of issues in this interview with journalists. MIKE ODIEGWU was there. An excerpt: You are from one of the most advanced […]