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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio has confessed to manipulating the result of a 2007 Peoples Democratic Party senatorial primary election in the state by single-handedly replacing the winner with the name of his preferred candidate. Akpabio, who is also the PDP Governors Forum chairman, made the confession when a delegation of the National Good Governance […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Things Fall Apart is one of the most successful books on the surface of earth and it was China Achebe’s most successful work.In this extract from his latest book, ‘THERE WAS A COUNTRY, the late writer stated that when he was writing the book he did not know whether it would be published or not. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, March 24th, 2013
The South African President, Mr Jacob Zuma, says Africa owes a debt of gratitude to late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in view of his contributions to African literature. Zuma said this Friday in Johannesburg while expressing his deepest condolences to the Nigerian government and the family of late Achebe. According to a statement by the […]
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Headlines
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
Abuja – The Nigerian Army said on Friday it arrested 14 tankers suspected to be loaded with crude oil stolen from the NNPC pipeline in Abaji, FCT. Brig.-Gen. Emmanuel Atewe, Commander, Guards Brigade, said at a news conference in Abuja that the tankers were arrested on March 10 by the army troops at Toto checkpoint […]
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Headlines
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
“If you don’t like someone’s story,” Chinua Achebe told The Paris Review in 1994, “write your own.” In his first novel and masterpiece, “Things Fall Apart” (1958), Mr. Achebe, who died on Thursday at 82, did exactly that. In calm and exacting prose, he examined a tribal society fracturing under the abuses of colonialism. The […]
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Headlines
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, Friday revealed that a total of 190,000 new Tuberculosis cases were recorded in the country in 2011, out of which 27,000 persons died. The minister, who disclosed this in Abuja, on Friday, at the commemoration of the 2013 World Tuberculosis Day also said Nigeria is listed among 22 high […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
Northerners residing in Enugu said at the weekend that they were safe and going about their business without any fear of attack or molestation. The confirmation came againsty the background of Tuesday attack on the Igbo in Kano State. But the usual piece which existed between the Igbo and their northern guests in areas heavily […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
THE Lagos State Police Command on Thursday began a general raid on criminals’ hideouts in Lagos. The raid, which spilled over to Friday, resulted in the arrest of about 600 suspects who were taken to the premises of the Lagos State Police Command for screening. Many of them, including Nigerien and Beninoise nationals who were […]
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Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
A National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has expressed shock at the news of the demise of Prof. Chinua Achebe. He said in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, in Abuja on Friday, that Achebe was a Nigerian writer that effectively […]
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Headlines, Wole Soyinka
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
Veteran writers and Achebe’s compatriots, Prof. Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark, have linked his death to the bomb attacks that occurred in Kano on Monday. In a joint statement they issued on Friday, entitled “On the Passing of Chinua Achebe,” they noted that his death might have been hastened by the shock from the violence […]
