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Ex-Haiti leader Jean-Claude Duvalier dies

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who ruled Haiti from 1971 until he fled the country in 1986, has died of a heart attack aged 63. The death of Duvalier, who returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years of exile, was announced by Florence Guillaume Duperval, the nation’s health minister, on Saturday. President Michel Martelly, reacting on Twitter, called […]

Keshi is ‘killing’ Super Eagles – Ikpeba (Instead of pulling him down, why not support him – Winning African Cup is hardly ‘killing’ Nigerian football)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, October 5th, 2014

By Tony Ubani Ex-international, Victor Ikpeba was among the galaxy of stars who witnessed Delta FA Chairman Melvin Amaju Pinnick enthroned as the President of the Nigeria Football Federation. Ikpeba was happy with the decision of the delegates to vote a young man who loves challenges, a young man who could bring corporate organisations to support football, a man […]

Snap! Hajj selfies gain popularity, spark controversy

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Raising his arm, Yousef Ali hugs his elderly father in front of one of Islam’s holiest sites as they grin for a selfie — a craze that has hit this year’s hajj. But not everyone is happy about young pilgrims from around the world constantly snapping “selfies”, photographs taken of one’s self, as they carry […]

French teen girl stopped ‘on way to jihad in Syria’

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, October 5th, 2014

A 15-year-old French girl was in police custody Sunday after she disappeared from her family home in southern France, suspected of wanting to travel to Syria to wage jihad. Assia Saidi was “found on Saturday night by her parents in a bar, near Marseille station, where she had been working for a few days,” a source close to […]

Sallah: Pastor feeds Muslim prison inmates in Kaduna (Muslim leaders take note – it’s not all about Jihad)

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Kaduna – Pastor Yohana Buru of Christ Evangelical and Intercessory Fellowship Ministries, Kaduna, on Saturday fed 400 prison inmates, mainly Muslims, at the Kaduna Central Prisons to mark the Eid el Kabir celebration. Buru also provided food for 600 inmates of a Destitute Home located on Kano Road in the metropolis. Presenting the food along […]

Nigeria has 15m housing units deficit – Adediji

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 4th, 2014

*’How to stop building collapse’ By Udeme Clement The housing sub-sector is currently in the news for various issues. Recently, the Federal Government launched a mortgage scheme with a take-off grant of $50million to reposition the sector in order to create jobs for the citizens. During his nation-wide broadcast on the occasion of the 54 anniversary of Nigeria, President […]

Seven-Yr-Old’s Distress Cry: ‘Help me with N3m or I die’

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 4th, 2014

*Parents of cerebral palsy girl send SOS to Abia govt, Nigerians By Favour Nnabugwu Childbirth is the most fantastic experience a mother can have. That is not to say a pregnancy that has progressed without hitches cannot give way to complications during delivery. Most new mothers have idealistic vision of how motherhood should be – feel gloriously […]

2015 Presidential Series: I can replicate Kano success story for Nigeria — Kwankwaso

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano Saturday, October 4th, 2014

Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State is among the contenders for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2015 general elections. Kwankwaso, in this piece, unfolds his agenda for Nigeria. By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North Today I look at Nigeria and I feel sorry for the high level of […]

Texas Ebola patient in critical condition

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Saturday, October 4th, 2014

The first person diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on US soil is faring worse and now in critical condition, health officials said Saturday, having previously described him as seriously ill. “Mr. Duncan is in critical condition,” the Texas hospital treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who traveled from Liberia to Texas in late September, said in a brief […]

Waiting for Pastor WF Kumiyi

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 4th, 2014

BY BANJI OJEWALE The people of Kumasi in Ghana did not wait for too long for the much anticipated visit of Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi from Nigeria. Kumuyi-1In 1973, he had been used by God to set up a Bible Study Group that had radicalized Christianity in a country just crawling from an internecine civil […]