6 May 2015

Four sentenced to death in Kabul lynching case

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Four Afghan men were sentenced to death Wednesday for the savage lynching of a woman falsely accused of blasphemy, a landmark judgment in a nation where female victims often have little legal recourse.

APC Governors Meet With Gen. Buhari

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For the first time since the March/ April general elections, the Governors-elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have met with the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

Enugu Impeachment: Nigeria Needs Code Of Political, Ethical Conduct – Legal Expert

Impeachment Nigeria’s democracy cannot grow if the practitioners are not willing to be democrats.
A Legal Practitioner, Wahab Shittu, said this on Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, during a conversation on the impeachment brouhaha in Enugu State.

Beings In Colour… Nigeria’s socio-political expression on canvas

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With themes addressing issues of societal relevance and subjects of symbolic influence on the Nigerian historic and contemporary socio-political, the iconoclastic representations of Tochukwu’s works speak in bold terms, Tochukwu bars no holds.

3 May 2015

WHEN ENTERTAINERS Converged on Lagos

Vanessa Obioha reports Nigerian artistes may not be about outward show only, and that some of them should be reckoned with in their brainpower
Alot of in-betweens happened at the recently held Nigeria Entertainment Conference (NEC).

Okonjo-Iweala: With Elections Over, there’s Greater Foreign Optimism about the Nigerian Economy

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Focus of the Spring Meetings
The spring meetings focused on two set of critical issues; the first is weak recovery in the global economy, particularly in Europe and Japan and the rest of the world, with the US showing more robust recovery but not out of the woods per se yet, and the impact of this weak global recovery for the rest of the world.

1 May 2015

Suspected Fulani gunmen kill six soldiers, three others missing in Taraba

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THE dream of putting an end to the ill-activities of suspected Fulani gunmen in Taraba State has no doubt hit the rock, as no fewer than six soldiers have reportedly been killed and three others missing.