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Atiku extols the virtues of Hajiya Laila Dogonyaro
...Says she was a trail blazer
From Ovaza Ohiare, Abuja
Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar Saturday said that late Hajiya Laila Dogonyaro’s contribution to activism, education and emanc...
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Uganda's Museveni vows to defeat protests
- Heckled at business club speech
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni vowed on Saturday to 'defeat' a wave of deadly protests triggere...
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Nigeria's ruling party wins in riot-hit states
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria's ruling party has won delayed governorship elections in two northern states where hundreds died in rioting after a vote two weeks ago.
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Mubarak could be executed if convicted, says minister
Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak could be executed if convicted of involvement in the deaths anti-regime protesters, the justice minister was quoted on Saturday as say...
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New York state Rotary chapter hosts Niger water projects presentation
LAKEWOOD - The recent dinner meeting of Lakewood Chautauqua South Rotary club in rural New York state, featured a presentation of artifacts and slides of Rotar...
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Documentary showcases Nigerian-born Canadian pharmacists in drug cost saving role
Nigerians Dr. Amina Odidi and Dr. Isa Odidi are changing the future of pharmaceuticals. While raising five children and working long hours, the coupl...
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Nigerian teammates of slain teen soccer player relocate from Chicago South Side
♦ Chicago South Side is notorious for violent crime invested neighborhoods
Nigerian teammates of a teenage soccer player who was shot to deat...
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The African 'Star Wars'
It is the Pentagon's Africom versus China's web of investments - the ultimate prize: Africa's natural resources.
By Pepe Escobar
From energy wars to water wars, t...
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Nigerian opposition parties make gains in State Houses
Nigerian opposition parties have increased their share of the country's powerful state governors in a vote that the Obama administration says reverses a downward slide of democra...
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Somali man jailed for making false claims on US asylum application
Defendant admitted to making false statements concerning role in terrorist organizations
United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in San Antoni...
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Nigerian rising football star gunned down in Chicago
Those who knew Kabiru Adewunmi could easily imagine the 16-year-old flashing his pearl-white smile as he and five friends from his native Nigeria walked to a Chatham-neighborhood convenience stor...
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IB Coulibaly, Ivorian warlord's death: suicide or assassination?
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – IB Coulibaly, the renegade warlord who made no secret of his presidential ambitions, said he was being targeted for assassination just two ...
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Nigeria post-poll killings planned: Nobel laureate
- Murdered corpers to receive national burial
LAGOS (AFP) – Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said killings in the country's north amid widespread ri...
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Imo governorship poll: INEC to hold supplementary election May 6
By Ayomide Mobolaji
As tension gripped Imo state over the stalemate in the governorship election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yester...
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Uganda riots over Kizza Besigye's arrest
KAMPALA, Uganda – Army troops and police fired live bullets at rioting demonstrators in downtown Kampala on Friday, the first time the Uganda's growing protest movement ha...
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Nigerian woman due in Irish court over brothel charges
A 35-year-old Nigerian woman has appeared in court charged with organising, directing and running a brothel in Dublin.
A NIGERIAN WOMAN is due in court this morning ch...
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Results of Gubernatorial election in Nigeria
The Nigeria Electoral Commission, INEC has officially released the results of the gubernatorial election which took place Tuesday in Nigeria. Below are the results of the election in twenty four states o...
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Labor party submits blueprint to Jonathan
The Nigeria's Labor Party has submitted a blueprint to President Goodluck Jonathan as he prepares to strategize for the inauguration of his new government next month.
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Nigeria spends $350 million monthly on oil subsidy
From Ayomide Mobolaji
Nigerian government is spending $350 million monthly on petroleum subsidy, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG), Engineer Chime Ib...
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Close to half a million people traveled SA during Easter holidays
Mkhululi Chimoio, JOHANNESBURG
Over 400 000 travelers entered and some left the country, according to
the Home Affair’s Movement Control System (MCS...
