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  • Group to Take Nigeria Government to International Court

    The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria's government of human rights violations, according to spokesman Ango Abdullahi. "What we are doing now is to organize our evidence that would make it possible for us to make a very strong case against the government and its agencies, or up to individuals who may be ...

  • Nigeria seeks help against Boko Haram

    Niamey/Maiduguri - Nigeria has asked its northern neighbour Niger for help in an offensive against Boko Haram insurgents, as West African states try to cooperate against a spread of Islamist ...

  • Elegy for a nation

    A tribute to the late Prof. Chinua Achebe By WOLE SOYINKA AH, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you, It was to me. I thought the form I spied Beneath the frosted glass of a fifty-carat catafalque Was the face of our own dear land – 'own', 'dear', Voluntary patriotese, ...

  • Chevron Commended On Child Safety Initiative

    Founder of the Children and Business Network Nigeria, Ms Toyin Olakanpo, has commended Chevron Nigeria Limited for the launch of their Child Safety Campaign in Ondo, Delta and Bayelsa States. The campaign was launched in response to the frequent road accidents involving school children and the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s statistics that revealed that a child is killed in an accident ...

  • The Bridge Back to Life

    Chineme Okafor spent time with some of the 56 residents of the Abuja Children's Home in Karu to discover the resilience in their spirit to become useful in a society that once rejected them In the words of Hajia Bilikisu Ajagun, who currently serves as the resident matron of Abuja Children's Home in Karu, every of the 56 children taken in and being nursed in the home have got peculiar ...

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Consider the following passage from Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 pulp classic, "Tarzan of the Apes": ...

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  • Amnesty - FG Releases Detained Suspected Terrorists

    President Goodluck Jonathan, in line with his promise to extend a reconciliation gesture towards peace in the Northern part of the country, has effected the release of some suspected terrorists who are detained in various prisons in Nigeria. The Director of Defence Information (DDI), Brig-Gen. Chris Olukolade confirmed their release Tuesday in a statement, saying that it was in fulfilment of ...

  • Addax Petroleum Supports Childrens Rights

    Addax Petroleum Development (Nigeria) Limited is one of the key participants and lead sponsors of the First Annual Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Forum on Children's Rights and the Business Sector to be held in Lagos later this month. The event, which will be witnessed by the Executive Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, is being organised by an advocacy platform called ...

  • CAF Appoints Maigari Others Into Cttees

    President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari and a number of members of the NFF Executive Committee have been appointed into standing committees of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the period, 2013-2015. In the list of standing committees published on the CAF Media Channel, Maigari will work in the Organizing Committee for the Orange Africa Cup of Nations. ...

  • Senate Okays State of Emergency

    In a unanimous decision devoid of a dissenting voice, the entire 100 senators present in Tuesday's plenary in the Senate endorsed the state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States last week. Although only 72 senators constitute the two-third majority required to approve emergency rule, only nine of the entire 109 senators in Senate were absent ...

  • Elegbeleye Counts On Good Relations With House Sports Ctee

    Newly appointed Director General National Sports Commission (NSC), Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye, who officially resumed duties Tuesday, has vowed to build chummy relations with the House of Representatives Sports Committee. Elegbeleye spent his first day in office as the nation's number one sports technocrat after the acting DG Mustapha Mohammed formally handed over to him. While he was the ...

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