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HERMAN J. COHEN
Trouble in the House
(Culled
from TELL Magazine.)
PROMINENT JOURNALIST
REPORTEDLY DEAD IN ERITREA
IRAN BARS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AND
JOURNALISTS FROM INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
R.C.C.G. GENERAL OVERSEER IS
CYNOSURE OF ALL EYES, AT LASU CONVENTION.
By
Abiodun Fanoro , The Guardian
Lagos
State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (left), General Overseer, Redeemed Christian
Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Chairman of the Governing Council of the
Lagos
State University (LASU), Akin Kekere-Ekun and the Chancellor, Chief Omolade
Okoya-Thomas during LASU's 14th convocation and award ceremonies at the Ojo
Campus,
Lagos... yesterday.
50 NIGERIAN
OFFICERS BACK TO CLASS IN US COMMUNITY POLICING STYLE
LAOLU AKANDE, in Houston,
Texas
SEYI
ODUYELA, AYOWOLE FAWIBE AND FEMI SONEYE/AFRICANANEWS
THE BUHARI CONTROVERSY II
Seyi Oduyela
NIGERIA MANY PROMO’S
BY OYELEKE TEMITAYO SUNDAY.
BUHARI, YAR’ADUA AND THE REST OF US
By Francis Ebi Porbeni/Woodbury,
MN USA
FRANKLIN
DELANO ROOSEVELT AND JAMES AJIBOLA IGE
By AUGUSTINE TOGONU-BICKERSTETH,
NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP AND RULERSHIP IN
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE IV:
THE BUHARI
CONTROVERSY
BY
SEYI ODUYELA
BETWEEN CHICAGO AND IBADAN
By Augustine Togonu
CORRUPTION
AND POVERTY IN AFRICA
By Solomon
Magbagbeola/Boston
WHEN
REALITY KICKS IN
By, Bonkoo Tombari
Tobby
ATIKU WILL
NEVER STEP DOWN FOR BUHARI
By Ladi Ibarahim
OBASANJO IS OLD
AND INFIRM By Saliu Iyanda
THE $10 SOLUTION: MALARIA KILLS
2 MILION AFRICAN CHILDREN A YEAR
By JEFFREY D. SACHS
NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP AND RULERSHIP IN
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE III:
THE INEC AND DOUBLE STANDARD,
By Seyi Oduyela
UTOMI, OSHIOMOLE , 2007 ELECTIONS AND
BEYOND
By Dr Abayomi
Ferreira
Thinking the
Unthinkable
By Wole
Soyinka
NOW THAT SADDAM HAS
BEEN KILLED By Pastor Peters Omoragbon
NIGERIAN
LEADERSHIP AND RULERSHIP IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE II
By
SEYI ODUYELA
REPLAYING 1979
TRANSITION By Oduntan Oluwatoyin
Babatunde
MID-WEEK
ESSAY: 10 Minimal Ways to Combat Rigging In 2007,
By Professor Bolaji Aluko
Nigeria must
adopt pipelines safety regulations, By Kayode oladele
NIGERIAN
LEADERSHIP AND RULERSHIP IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
by SEYI ODUYELA
 Just
lighten up a little
 The
Ouagadougou Oscars
 Planting
the future
Wangari Maathai's environmental activism
in Kenya has earned her a Nobel peace prize - and a number of
powerful enemies.
Stuart Jeffries meets her
38.png) Corporate
America Continues to Change Workplace Culture for the Better
Seyi
Oduyela
 Doing
it the Smart Way: A Story of Senator Smart Adeyemi
By
Our Correspondent/Abuja
 WORLD-CLASS
SECONDARY SCHOOL SEEKS AFRICA’S MOST OUTSTANDING YOUNG LEADERS
By Ogbeni Lanre Banjo
Seyi Oduyela/Washington DC
 
World
Bank Conducts First Gas Flaring Survey, Says Companies Need To Step Up
Efforts
African Community Endorses Mayor Dixon
By
Seyi Oduyela/Baltimore
 Questions
over Ogun State Speaker’s Presence at Hon. Etteh’s Birthday
By Seyi
Oduyela
 President
Kibaki Rejects Media Law as Threat to Press Freedom
 Madam
Speaker’s Baggage of Crisis
By Seyi
Oduyela
Honorable
Okoya-Thomas i n
Dishonorable Act
By Olufemi Soneye
Tempo7408@verizon.net
“House Speaker Does not Approve
Contracts-” Hon. Enang
By Seyi Oduyela
 Madam
Speaker Honored in U.S.-
Seyi Oduyela &
Olufemi Soneye
 Group
Honors Aregbesola- Seyi Oduyela
& Olufemi Soneye
Journalists barred from Yoruba Convention Gala Night
 Who
is lying Oyinlolá or Speaker?
-Seyi
Oduyela/Olufemi Soneye in Baltimore
.jpg) Osun
Speaker Snatches Microphone from Moderator-Seyi
Oduyela in Baltimore
Mr.
Adejare Bello
 Yoruba
Convention 2007: Yorùbá Urged to Unite-
By Seyi Oduyela
Heavy
Fines and Suspended Prison Sentences for Two Newspaper Editors for Libeling
Former Minister
Ethiopian
Government Frees Three More Opposition Journalists
 Yoruba Convention Kicks
Off in Maryland- By Seyi Oduyela
PG County Executive,
Jack Johnson Endorses U.S. Mayor’s Amended Climate Protection Agreement
GROUP PROTESTS ORJI
KALU’S INCARCERATION -by Olufemi Soneye
"WTO Negotiators Closer to
Bearing Fruit"- World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick
Brong
Ahafo Regional Minister To Attend GhanaFest 2007
PG Police Department Records Sixteen Percent Reduction in Crime- By Our
Correspondent
 PG
COUNTY EXECUTIVE JOHNSON INVITES
COUNTYWIDE PARTICIPATION IN 5TH ANNUAL GORGEOUS PRINCE GEORGE’S
DAY-
Seyi
Oduyela
PG COUNTY COUNCIL CONFIRMS NIGERIA’S NWABUKWU AND OTHERS AS MEMBERS OF
COMMISSION ON WOMEN AND REVENUE AUTHORITY
by Seyi Oduyela
In Prince George’s County
Twenty-five Families Achieve Self-Sufficiency -By Seyi Oduyela
President Yar'Adua Appoints
New Head of Service, Others
New
Warning of Famine in Dafur
David Cronin/Brussels
 Yar'Adua
Wants Country's Constitution Reviewed
Swaziland Parliament Threatens Editor
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO: THE
WRONG MAN, AT THE WRONG PLACE, AT THE WRONG TIME
By Jide Ayobolu
WHICH WAY NIGERIA: THE
REALITY CHECK By Farouk
Martins, Omo Aresa
THE 2007 ELECTION: A VICIOUS
CYCLE By Seyi Oduyela
CAN’T FAULT HAUSA/FULANI OLIGARCHY FOR
ELECTION 2007
By
Farouk Martins, Omo Aresa
What the
Opposition Must Do Now
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
The Believer
As Apostate
By Kennedy Emetulu(Culled
from ThisDay Newspaper)
HEAD OR TAIL THE
NORTH WINS
By
Farouk Martins, Omo Aresa
The Law Almighty: Afe
Babalola/Obasanjo v. Ben Nwabueze/Atiku
ByFarouk Martins,
Omo Aresa
NIGERIA'S
OBASANJO: WHEN IS CORRUPTION NOT CORRUPTION
By Chika Onyeani/African Sun Times
A Pox upon Mr. Armstrong’s
Wonderful World: Of
Illusory Democracies, Rogue States, and Accelerating Humanity’s Demise
By Jason Miller
NIGERIA’S 2007 PRESIDENCY: LET THE
ONE-EYED MAN BECOME
KING
Top Prince
George's County Official Named One of Washington's 150 Most Powerful People
IN FORESTVILLE
MARYLAND, NEW AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING DEDICATED
Prince George's Council
Confirms County Executive Nominee For School Board
 THE Netherlands’ Ambassador to
Nigeria (1997-1999) and current Director of Gallery Art Korner, Dr. Bastiaan
R. Korner, spoke on his experience in Nigeria, the EU expectations from
Nigeria and other international issues with ROTIMI OLADUNJOYE in his office
in The Hague, Netherlands.
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
HOW TO IMPROVE
POLICING IN NIGERIA, BY US POLICE VETERANS
Our Correspondent
Intrigues,
gerrymandering and high political maneuvering characterize the run up to the
April general elections in Nigeria, Olufemi Soneye and George Nduka write.
LAOLU
AKANDE
SEYI ODUYELA
 My
Book Should Provoke A Conversation
—Chimamanda Ngozi
Our Correspondent
Seyi Oduyela
By LAOLU AKANDE
 "I
WILL GO TO COURT IF ARRESTED"- ATIKU DARES
LAOLU AKANDE
Editor-in-Chief
Seyi
Oduyela
Seyi Oduyela
OUR
CORRESPONDENT
Empowered Newswire
BREAKING NEWS
*Harry Akande tipped as his running mate?
 OBASANJO
CELEBRATED IN
NEW YORK,
ENCOURAGED TO LEAVE OFFICE HONORABLY
By LAOLU AKANDE
Associated Press Digitizes Image Archives
LAOLU AKANDE, NEW YORK
By Rotimi
Oladunjoye/Africananews exclusive
Seyi
Oduyela/Washington, DC
By
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Tayo
Adelaja/Ago Iwoye
By Empowered Newswire
Africa says it's time to deliver |
 African
is Founder of US Company Of The Year
Related Story
BY LAOLU AKANDE, Editor-in-Chief.
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AP Images September 11 - 5th Anniversary |
 THE
GOOD, THE OK AND THE UGLY
BOB GELDOF'S ANTI POVERY REPORT |
 ANNAN
CALLS FOR EVIDENCE AS TAYLOR ARRIVES AT THE HAGUE FOR TRIAL |
 HOW
ANNAN, US, OTHERS MOUNTED PRESSURE ON NIGERIA OVER BAKASSI
By LAOLU AKANDE |
THE ARMY
AZAZI INHERITED
By Seyi Oduyela |
|
NIGERIA HAS 60-90 DAYS TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM BAKASSI, HANDOVER TO
CAMEROON By LAOLU AKANDE |
 G8
SNUBS OBASANJO FOR NEXT SUMMIT IN RUSSIA By LAOLU AKANDE |
US
ON TRACK TO EXCEED ITS $15B TARGET ON AIDS IN AFRICA
US GOVT GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR, DR MARK DYBUL SPEAKS WITH FOREIGN
JOURNALISTS, INCLUDING LAOLU AKANDE, IN NEW YORK JUST AS THE UNITED NATIONS
HIGH LEVEL AIDS MEETING WAS IN PROGRESS |
 Bush
Welcomes Rwandan President at White House, says Kagame is a man of action
By Scott Stearns |
Nigerian, Obadare, wins
best doctoral thesis in UK
From Laolu Akande |
Obstacles Test African
Force in Grim Darfur
By LYDIA POLGREEN
|
Obasanjo's Bad Example for Africa
OPINION by Gambian journalist, culled from allafrica.com |
In an exclusive interview with The Guardian's team,
including africananews.com editor-in-chief, last week at the UN
headquarters in New York, the Secretary General of the world body says
correcting the democracy deficit of the Security Council is something to
be done "sooner or later."
|
A Roadmap for Successful 2007 Elections in Nigeria
by Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD |
US based- Liberian journalist returns home to serve new govt
An international commute awaits Gabriel Williams, in his job with new
government By Blair Anthony Robertson -- Bee Staff Writer |
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OBASANJO'S FORMER AIDE: I AM READY TO LEAD CAMPAIGN AGAINST 3RD TERM
LEGISLATORS
by Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba,
ace journalist, Abuja |
|
Re- How to Move Nigerian Army Forward-Agwai By Olusegun Oyewole,
Editor-in-Chief, Defence Times Newsmagazine, U.K |
2007
& Constitutional Breach: Genesis of Fathom Coup
By Olusegun Oyewole, Editor –in-Chief, Defence Times Newsmagazine, U.K |
|
AP
Images Look Ahead June |
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Deadly
oil blast in Nigeria! More than 100 people are feared dead in
an explosion at an oil pipeline near Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos.
|
It’s Over: NEPA,
Ige, And, Secrets Behind Obasanjo/Atiku’s Feud—Revealed
By Carlisle U.O. Umunnah |
 SEEKING
OUT A PERTURBED PRESIDENT OBASANJO ON A TESTY AMERICAN TRIP By
Laolu Akande |
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'You Must Set
Forth at Dawn: A Memoir,' by Wole Soyinka |
|
AP
Images Look Ahead July 2006 |
|
UK:
TENSIONS RUNNING HIGH IN NIGERIA OVER THIRD TERM By Laolu
Akande |
Forget the Middle East:
North America Harbors the World's Most Dangerous Terrorists By
JASON MILLER |
|
Mobile Handsets Generated $117 Billion in Revenue in 2005, says Telecom
Trends International By Seyi Oduyela |
Soyinka Warns:
 THIRD
TERM AGENDA IS A MOCKERY OF PAST STRUGGLES, A NIGHTMARE, TREACHERY AND THE
BEGINNING OF FASCISM
*God Has Broken Communication With Obasanjo |
 BLACK
CONGRESSMEN BACK VIRGIN NIGERIA'S BID TO FLY US-NIGERIA DIRECT
By LAOLU AKANDE, NEW YORK |
|
“STOP
PRESIDENT OBASANJO FROM THIRD TERM NOW.”
-ARMGON Tells President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair |
|
OBASANJO
CALLED DICTATOR BY US PASTOR OVER TAYLOR SAGA By Laolu Akande |
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HOW
OBASANJO, ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION BLOCKED QUESTION ON 3RD TERM, SIT-TIGHT
LEADERS By LAOLU AKANDE, NEW YORK |
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AP
Images Look Ahead April |
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In
Nigeria, things fall apart |
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Plight Deepens for
Black Men, Studies Warn By ERIK ECKHOLM |
|
Ojomo recognized for his Diversity efforts at Citigroup |
Leon H. Sullivan Summit
VII Opens in Nigeria July 17
(Organizers see Africa as continent of opportunities) (590)
By Charles W. Corey
By
Laolu Akande
By Our Correspondent
By Laolu Akande and
Seyi Oduyela
 SOYINKA CALLS
FOR REVOLUTIONARY UPHEAVAL IN NIGERIA
By Laolu
Akande/Editor-in-Chief
By Our Correspondent
|
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MILITARY PLANE TRAGEDY ALTERS OBASANJO'S UN, US MEETINGS |
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WHY NIGERIA'S
PRESIDENT WAS EXCLUDED FROM G8...
Obasanjo and other African leaders, with G8 leaders in Canada 2002. |
Rebutting The British … And Their Visas, In Verse
By Adefayi Martins |
By Seyi
Oduyela/Africananews
By Laolu Akande
 PORT
OF CORRUPTION: This Port Stinks By
Seyi Oduyela and Osawemwenguan Airhuoyo
Military
Coup: Lessons from Thailand
AIDS Toll May Reach 100 Million in Africa
By TERRY LEONARD (Associated Press Writer) |
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Historian who shone new light on Africa's past and campaigned for democracy
in Ghana |
African migrants perished in deadly voyage
By MIRANDA LEITSINGER |
 FBI
DENIES CLEARING ATIKU
Plus: How US Congressman Lied About Nigeria's VP
By LAOLU AKANDE |
|
VII from AP
Images |
THE POLITICS
OF IGBRUDE’S REMOVAL
Seyi Oduyela & Femi Soneye |
|
Bush says defeat of 3rd term is victory for democracy |
Columbia Professor Latest High-Profile Defection
By Jamal Eric Watson |
UN FINANCES
NOT BRIGHT, NIGERIA, US OWING DUES
LAOLU AKANDE |
.gif) Famous
African Historian Adu-Boahene, 76, of Ghana is dead |
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Why
I Wrote My Life Story —Wole Soyinka |
PRESS
STATEMENT: FBI Clears Atiku
Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been cleared of any wrongdoing in
the celebrated investigation of American Congressman, William Jefferson
over a communication project for Nigeria. |
NIGERIANS
ABROAD: STRUGGLE CONTINUES AFTER THIRD TERM
LAOLU AKANDE |
|
A Look
Ahead at August, 2006 |
Obasanjo
gives up!
Statement by
HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
To the PDP National Executive Committee as the Leader of the Party |
 DELTA ASSEMBLY MEMBERS IN US VISIT JAMBOREE
Legislators from the oil-rich state came to the US to attend a 4-hour
Seminar of Parliamentary and Budgetary processes with their spouses. What
is the purpose of such a trip with public funds?Seyi Oduyela and
Femi Soneye, in Washington DC/ Africananews Exclusive
DELTA STATE REMOVES SPEAKER WEEKS AFTER OUR
(AFRICANANEWS.COM) EXPOSE ON JAMBOREE US VISIT Responses from
our readers:
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AFRICAN
FEMALE JOURNALISTS IMPRESSED AFTER MEETING WITH US FIRST LADY
By Jim Fisher-Thompson |
 OBASANJO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED TAYLOR, LIBERIAN PRESIDENT
SAYS AT THE UN BY LAOLU AKANDE
RELATED STORY
CHARLES TAYLOR SHOULDN'T BE LIBERIA'S
PRIORITY
By Chika Onyeani
|
Panti Policemen Sack Igbo-Olomu Village
By Seyi Oduyela/Africanannews, USA |
|
Crippling the
Military to Sustain Selfish Political Ambition: Threat to Professionalism
by Olusegun Oyewole |
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THE
DANISH CARTOON AND THE NIGERIAN CARNAGE |
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WHY
OPRAH WINFREY WAS CONNED |
|
BREAKING NEWS: DR BEKO IS DEAD, AT 66, SOYINKA SAD! |
|
AMERICAN
AIRLINES, PRONACO PETITION US GOVT OVER VIRGIN NIGERIA'S PLAN TO FLY NEW
YORK DIRECT By Laolu Akande |
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Outbreak of bird flu causes jitters in Africa |
US,
BRITAIN DIFFER IN STYLE, BUT DETERMINED TO STOP OBASANJO'S 3RD TERM
AMBITION
*MBEKI'S ROLE CRITICAL By LAOLU AKANDE
|
|
CRIMES AGENCY PETITIONED OVER OBASANJO'S BACKING FOR
ABUBAKAR IN US CASE By LAOLU AKANDE |
 Talented
teens lead Nigeria's soccer campaign by Mark Gleeson |
 GENERAL
VICTOR MALU: The Other Side of the Story by SEYI ODUYELA
|
 Martin
Luther King's wife is dead
Corretta Scott King - In Pictures RELATED
STORY
We Can Still
Change America - The Legacy of Coretta Scott King,
By Rep. CYNTHIA McKINNEY
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AFRICA LOOSING GRIP ON UN COUNCIL REFORMS By
LAOLU AKANDE |
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Would Capitalist Niggerism Save Africa? by Ngozi Awa |
IN
LATEST TRAVEL WARNING, US CALLS NIGERIA LAWLESS -
Advisory by the United States Department of State |
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What
does Obasanjo want? by Laolu Akande, New York |
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AU Summit: Protests
trail Sudan bid for chairmanship |
 HOW
TO TACKLE BRAIN DRAIN BY NIGERIAN BORN, TOP AMERICAN PLASTIC SURGEON
Interview by Laolu Akande, New York |
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President's
hand in Oyo crisis is blatant, says Wole Soyinka |
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Is
Nigeria's product of democracy trying on a crown? By
Ebere Onwudiwe |
|
Liberians Celebrate First Woman President in Africa |
NIGERIAN GOVT BERATED OVER CORRUPT POLITICS By
Cosmas Attayi-Elaigu
|
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BBC Afrique increases French coverage of African Nations
Cup RELATED STORY
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HOW
OBASANJO DISGRACED MEDIA CHIEFS OVER THIRD TERM QUESTION
By LAOLU AKANDE |
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Why are Nigerian movies popular? |
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As Obasanjo disdains the nation by LAOLU AKANDE |
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CALIFORNIA
WOOING OBASANJO FOR AGRIC EXPO NEXT YEAR
By
Laolu Akande |
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A Congolese
Proverb By Wale Adebanwi |
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Africans,
camera, action: 'Nollywood' catches world's eye |
|
Ghana's
Uneasy Embrace of Slavery's Diaspora By LYDIA POLGREEN |
|
How two American brothers drove from Ghana to Nigeria
by Dan Hoyle |
 NIGERIAN
DOCTOR NAMED TOP HEART PHYSICIAN IN NEW YORK AREA |
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2007:US SET TO PUSH OBASANJO TO RESPECT TERM LIMITS by Laolu Akande |
|
AP IMAGES -
Winter Olympic Games |
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Demands for
Presidential Power Rotation in Nigeria - and Present Dangers By
Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD
|
 NIGERIAN
PLANES ARE 'MOLUE' IN THE AIR, SAYS RETIRED PILOT CULLED
FROM VANGUARD NEWSPAPERS |
 "I
HAD NO SHOES UNTIL I WAS 18"-Pastor Adeboye |
|
Strangers in the Dazzling Night: A Mix of Oil and Misery By LYDIA
POLGREEN |
Nigerians in the Diaspora and National Development:
Defining Moment for Constructive Partnership
by Amb. Segun Apata |
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Eason, One of Baba
Olatunji's African-American Disciples Dies at 56 |
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ATIKU
WORRIED!
Statement by the Nigeria's VP
|
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SOYINKA
WANTS NIGERIANS TO BEWARE OF FASCISM |
 SOYINKA
LEADS PRONACO TO RESOLVE ITS DIFFERENCES |
 AP
Images captures the World Cup moments that become sports history |
|
Gabon: Landslide Win for Africa's Longest Serving President
by UN Integrated Regional Information Networks |
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WHAT
IS YOUR FAVOURITE POWER CUT? By Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng |
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AU: Africa
could be wiped out |
 Emeka
Offor: Whose Front is He? by Jonathan Elendu and Sowore Omoyele
|
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OBASANJO
UNDER WATCH BY AFRICAN LEADERS |
 THE
SHAME OF BAYELSA GOV'S ESCAPE FROM UK by LAOLU AKANDE
Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha broke his bail conditions and evaded
capture in Europe by dressing up as a woman! |
THE
SCANDAL THAT IS CALLED NIGERIA'S OIL SECTOR
by LAOLU AKANDE |
|
SOYINKA
GETS GERMAN AWARD, CALLS FOR PEACE IN PRONACO by LAOLU
AKANDE, NEW YORK |
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World Bank Distances itself from list of Nigerian Looters
|
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Devastating Exodus of Doctors From Africa and Caribbean Is
Found |
 Underfunded
and Overrun, 'Harvard of Africa' Struggles to Teach by Emily
Wax |
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Youth
Power in Liberia: From Bullets to Ballots by Lydia Polgreen, NY
Times |
 HOW
OKONJO-IWEALA STOPPED TAKING DOLLAR SALARY By Laolu Akande |
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