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Roli Odeka - Orchestra Amazon That Feeds Hope to Hopeless Children
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
oli Hope Odeka is one of the very few notable Nigerian art ambassadors who is doing the country proud in the outside ... more
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Thisday's Third 'Africa Rising' Festival Goes Global
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
HISDAY is set to revolutionise the way awareness is raised for African issues through the annual Thisday Festival. This year's festival with the theme 'Africa Rising' will focus on finding "sustainable solutions" rather than the "problems" facing ... more
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At Last, Akala Axes Oyo CJ
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
FTER three months of dilly-dallying, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has finally succumbed to the directive of the National Judicial Council (NJC) as he has given the approval that Justice Isaiah Olakanmi, the state Chief Judge, should proceed on indefinite leave pending the resolution of his case by the... more
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Oliver De-Coque, Highlife King, Dies
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
GAIN, the Nigerian entertainment and showbiz industry have been thrown into a mourning mood as the cold hand of death Friday snatched Chief Sunday Oliver Akanita, popularly known as Oliver ... more
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We Cannot Forget June 12
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
UNE 12, 1993, simply won't go away by merely wishing it. It was the day for the first time in our political life, we made conscious effort to be welded together as a ... more
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June 12 - Forget Lawyers, Try Professors First
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
ountains will be in labour, and the birth will be a ridiculous little mouse -Horace, 65-8 B.C., (Vanguard Book of Quotations p. 166), The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers -William Shakespeare, ... more
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The Return of June 12
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
UNE 12 returned to the front burner when Prof Humphrey Nwosu thought he was finally going to lay the ghost of the presidential election held on that day to ... more
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Govt Records Budget Surplus in First Quarter
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
HE President Umaru Yar'Adua administration recorded an operational budget surplus of N96.63 billion in the first quarter of the year, the Central Bank (CBN) revealed last ... more
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Concern Mounts Over Attack on Oil Platforms
allAfrica.com - Monday, June 23, 2008
here are mounting concerns in the country over attacks by Niger Delta militants on oil flow lines and installations particularly on Nigeria's deep offshore ... more
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Nigerian navy says U.S. captain taken by gunmen
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
he U.S. captain of an oil supply vessel operating off Nigeria was kidnapped by gunmen on Thursday, shortly after they attacked Royal Dutch Shell's main offshore oilfield, the Nigerian navy said. ... more
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Nigeria Orders Military Offensive on Rebels
Topix - Sunday, June 22, 2008
p>Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has ordered a military offensive to curb the rising mayhem in the oil-rich Niger Delta. ... more
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Again, Militants Attack Chevron Pipeline
allAfrica.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
ovement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has announced the destruction of another crude pipeline belonging to Chevron at Abiteye-Olero in Delta State by some angry youths who are aligned to ... more
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Niger Delta Militants Remain Defiant
allAfrica.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
OVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday, described as empty the order by President Umar Yar Adua to the military to seize militants who attacked the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDCs) Bonga Field, last Thursday, saying it would declare an oil war if the military attacks any... more
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Nigerian president declares war on militants in the Niger Delta
Topix - Sunday, June 22, 2008
p>Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua on Friday in Abuja ordered an offensive on the militants in the Niger Delta, warning them to get ready to face the full consequences of taking up arms against the Federal ... ... more
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Highlife musician Oliver de Coque dies
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
ARELY a month after the demise in quick succession of some top Nigerian music icons, among them, Sunny Okosun and Steve Rhodes, the death of highlife super star, Sunday Oliver Akanite a k a Oliver De Coque, has hit the music industry ... more
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Ugep people don’t eat human flesh, says chief
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
annibalism, like the killing of twins, was among the several socio-cultural accusations leveled against Africans by the Europeans that subsequently colonized the black continent decades ago. They had been piqued with some traditional practices and had made attempts to rid the people of such ... more
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US firm’s oil pipeline blown up in Nigeria
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
igerian militants blew up a key oil supply pipeline operated by US oil group Chevron, slashing output by 120,000 barrels per day, military and industry sources said on ... more
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‘I kidnapped the kids so that JJ Okocha would pay N20m for their ransom’
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
arbouring a stranger in one‘s house could spell disaster, as Mr. and Mrs. James Okocha, of Festac Town in Lagos, have discovered, writes TUNDE ... more
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Gun men abduct former deputy governor’s daughter
OnlineNigeria.com - Sunday, June 22, 2008
ampaging kidnappers have again jolted the relative security in Owerri, the Imo State capital, by abducting the daughter of the immediate past governor of the state, Chief Ebere ... more
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Chevron says pipeline breached in Nigeria
Topix - Saturday, June 21, 2008
p>Chevron Corp. said Saturday that a breached Nigerian pipeline has prompted the company to shut down its onshore oil production. Nigerian media reported that militants had sabotaged the pipeline in the southern Niger Delta late Thursday. But the region's most-potent armed group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the... more
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