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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Australia’s first black African member of federal parliament was sworn in on Tuesday in Canberra. Lucy Gichuhi filled the South Australian seat in the Senate which was left vacant for over six months after the resignation of Bob Day from the Family First party. Gichuhi, 54, who has spoken openly about her faith, was warmly […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Nude photos of Diane Shima Rwigara, a Rwandan presidential aspirant has surfaced online. The photos surfaced on Friday morning to the chagrin of the young presidential candidate. It is believed that her political opponents have made the move in order to humiliate the her. Rwigara had recently called out the country’s incumbent President, Paul Kagame […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

Yaya Toure has played in every match that Ivory Coast have played at their three World Cup final appearances The Fifa Council has ratified the decision to give Africa nine automatic places when the World Cup expands to 48 teams in 2026. The move was confirmed on Tuesday in Bahrain – the continent currently has […]
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Africa & World Politics, Canadian Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Written by New Nigerian Politics – Black Canadian senator, Don Meredith, has resigned in disgrace to avoid expulsion from the Senate for his illicit affair with a 16 year-old foreign university student he met at a church function in February of 2015 in Ottawa, the Canadian capital. The relationship which lasted for at […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
By Udeme Akpan, Ediri Ejoh & Prince Okafor- Nigeria’s petroleum products refining capacity is set to rise by additional 150,000 bpd as the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NOAC, has concluded plans to construct a new plant in the nation. The planned project is expected to increase the nation’s refining capacity from the current 445,000 barrels […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Eighty-two Nigerian schoolgirls who were released from Boko Haram captivity after more than three years face a wait to be reunited with their families, a town elder said on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari (standing) speaking during a reception for the 82 Chibok girls. ABOVE RIGHT: A cross-section of the girls. BELOW RIGHT: Members of the […]
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Corruption Politics, EFCC Politics, Headlines, Raw Politics
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

Moves by former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr Andrew Yakubu, to recover his $9.8m seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has hit the rock. The Federal High Court in Kano refused to grant the ex GMD’s application for overturn the interim order of forfeiture given to the EFCC […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to hire “someone who will do a far better job” after firing James Comey as head of the FBI, defending the decision on Twitter Wednesday as his critics cried foul. “James Comey will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job, bringing back the spirit […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Nigeria’s young, aspiring leaders have a thing or two to learn from the political sagacity of French liberal centrist politician, Emmanuel Macron, who blazed to an emphatic victory after the two-stage presidential election that ended on Sunday, 7th May 2017. He beat his sole opponent of the ultra-rightist National Front, Ms Marion Anne Perrine Le […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
President Adama Barrow on Wednesday fired Gambia’s central bank governor and three other bank officials considered loyal to former dictator Yahya Jammeh, a senior official at the bank said Wednesday. Central bank governor Amadou Colley, two of his deputies and the bank’s financial director, who all served during Jammeh’s iron-first rule, received their letters of […]