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Scores of women, many of them married and with children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of the port city’s Khori Garden to get free rations of flour.
Then a stampede broke out as the people...
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The dearth of hard news from Saudi Arabia compelled Zero News Network’s (ZNN) news director, Yusuf Yaya, to send me to Jeddah. Here in Jeddah, I am charged with the...
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Nigerian police are carrying out a shocking level of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International says.
The rights group’s...
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A Nigerian hospital has told the BBC it is overwhelmed by the number of corpses being brought to them by police.
The Chief Medical Director at the University of...
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Just like you and I, Yar’Adua will die. Someday.
I want to be the first to write his obituary. It is the greatest honor I can give to the man. Yar’Adua should be...
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Nigeria — A wary peace has settled over this strategic region, a major world oil supplier and for years a combustible nexus of third world militancy, deprivation and...
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Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles are indisputably the Arab world’s best soccer team having qualified four times including the last three games.
But for the first...
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Nigerian star Stephen Worgu, who plays in Sudan, has been convicted of drinking alcohol and has been sentenced to be flogged.
Worgu plays for the Sudanese giants Al...
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African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless...
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When I was a five year old, I watched my first concert. It was performed by the students of St. Monica’s women’s teachers’ training college, in Ogbunike. I...
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Recently I received an email labeled “Strictly Confidential” from Dr. Bakare Tunde, who said he was astronautics project manager at Nigeria’s space...
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Her Execellency Mrs. Margaret Peter Obi (First Lady Anambra State) in collaboration with Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, was yesterday launches...
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Two people were dead while some are hospitalized following a corpse building in Kabi, this building was said to be constructed by a non-qualified engineer.
According...
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The student of University of Science and Technology Port Harcourt were advice to maintain peace in the university, following the protest conducted by the student for...
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Graduation of NYC members ends yesterday been 20th October 2009. The National Youth Service programme lasts for a period of one year. Usually there are two tiers every...
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The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.
His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his...
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Nigerians are not left apart in celebrating with Ghana for their victory over Brazil today. The very unfortunate that Nigeria hope to carry the Cup this year, Eagle...
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A fatal accident occurs around Enugu-Onisha Express Way. The incident was as a result of a Truck full of Petrol (Fuel) that broke down at the Express way.
The road...
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A strange epidemic which hit parts of Adamawa and Borno states, has claimed 100 lives, leaving a thousand others hospitalised.
The disease, which started from Mahi...
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The last prominent militant in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region has given up his weapons after agreeing to a government amnesty deal.
Government Tompolo, who...
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Nigerian musician Nneka Egbuna has told the BBC of her surprise and excitement at winning the Best African Act at the Music Of Black Origin Awards.
“I...
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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a “state of public calamity” to try to mobilise funding to tackle severe food shortages in the...
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Food consumption in Nigeria is expected to increase by 16 per cent to N5.8 trillion, a tendency which is to continue through to 2013, according to yesterday’s...
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The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size...
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As everyone knows, we’re lying under a very strong Israeli closure that has badly affected our life as Palestinians as well as our work here in Gaza. For nearly 20...
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*Note: Apologies to the lyricists of the Ricky Martin single, “Livin’ La Vida Loca” whose title I partially ripped off for this essay.
Awhile after clearing the...
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George.W.Bush is not the most respected president in the world but this seems justified, as he is not even the most respected president in the US. But even then, he is...
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Have those of us who live in a city or suburb been lulled into a false sense of security that the government will take care of us, no matter what happens? I used to be....
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Food riots which have struck several impoverished countries could spread with shortages and high prices set to continue for some time, the head of the United Nation’s...
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