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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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American Politics, Headlines
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 […]
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
A DIRECTIVE from the White House has cancelled outright the visit of United States’ (U.S.) President, Barack Obama, to Nigeria on his second trip to the continent, informed U.S. sources have confirmed. While some middle level State Department officials had already intimated some U.S.-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on plans to include Nigeria on the U.S. […]
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Sunday, May 26th, 2013
Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states may have been bolstered by United States drones stationed in Niamey, Niger Republic. The Nigerian government had deployed thousands of troops to the three states after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in their territories on May 14, 2013. A top […]
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American Politics, Latest Politics
Friday, May 24th, 2013
THE Federal Government has identified a total number of 84 legitimate and legal routes through which people could come or go out of Nigeria, while about 1,497 illegal routes that entered the country had also been uncovered. Determinied to put an end to the unending insurgency in the country, the Federal Government has, therefore, approached […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Monday, May 20th, 2013
American civil rights leader and Baptist minister, Rev. Jesse Jackson, has thrown his weight behind the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to offer amnesty to members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Jackson, a two-time United States of American presidential candidate, also said Nigeria “is divided, not so much by religion, region and tribe but […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
2014 applicants asked to check website AS the United States (U.S.) reforms its immigration laws and eliminates the green card lottery, Africans could be the big losers owing to the fact that they are the main beneficiaries of the visa programme, agency report indicated Wednesday. But around 100,000 people were Wednesday picked from several million […]
