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American Politics, Headlines
Monday, December 24th, 2012
The United States government has warned its citizens against travelling to Nigeria, particularly during the holiday season, saying they could be kidnapped, robbed or attacked by gunmen. The US Department of State, in a message to Americans, warned them not to embark on any trip to Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Yobe, Kaduna, Bauchi, Borno, […]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
UNITED States of America (USA) lost about $50.4 million to various forms of scam including the popularly called “419” (Advanced Free Fraud) from Nigeria in 2011. US Consulate in Nigeria, Michael Bonner, who disclosed this in Lagos at a workshop on “the dynamics of cashless economy and emerging methods in financial crime for investigators and […]
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American Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, November 24th, 2012
BOTH Presidents Barack Obama and Goodluck Jonathan wanted to talk on phone, but twice calls from the White House to Aso Rock failed to make the connection. Authoritative sources confirmed during the week that efforts by President Obama to personally speak with Jonathan to return his congratulatory message has been aborted at least twice by […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
What sad irony! That no matter the political brand on offer in any human aggregate the ‘few’ always seem to weigh more than the ‘many.’ The hypocrisy peaks in those polities (worse in poor countries), that pride themselves a ‘one man, one vote’ democracy when in reality, the moneyed few always find a way to […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
The United States government has said there is no magic formula to ending the Boko Haram insurgency. It urged the Federal Government to adopt a multi-faceted approach to combating the sect’s violent attacks on Nigerians. The US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Michael Posner, said this during a press conference […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
The election of Barack Obama as the first black president remains huge to African Americans and to a large extent to Africans in America. His recent re-election speaks volume to the fact that majority of Americans consider his program in his first term more than enough to reward him with another term. However, some of […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
In Texas, Nigerian woman convicted of murder in day care fire Recall the Nigerian woman, Jessica Tata, owner of a day care center in Texas, USA where four kids died, and three others seriously injured in a fire that gutted her day care center? Authority said that last year, Jessica Tata, 24, carelessly left hot […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
An appeal calling on the federal government to allow Texas to “withdraw from the United States of America” following President Barack Obama’s re-election doesn’t have the support of the Lone Star State’s governor, his office said in a statement, on Tuesday. “Governor (Rick) Perry believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Former CIA Director, David Petraeus REUTERS Already reeling from an embarrassing sex scandal involving former Army General David Petraeus, the U.S. military on Wednesday will release a report on widespread sexual abuse of women recruits at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The Air Force report is expected to provide details of systematic sexual abuse […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, Femi Fani-Kayode, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

By Fani Femi-Kayode | NNP | Nov. 13, 2012 – The American Presidential election will take place in a few days time and frankly some questions still need to be answered. I wish that Governor Mitt Romney had put one of those questions particularly to President Barrack Hussein Obama during their last Presidential debate which […]