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Patience Jonathan says current president’s bid to retrieve millions allegedly siphoned off is revenge for her stance in 2015 poll Patience Jonathan at an election rally in 2015. She says the Buhari administration’s ‘microscopic scrutiny’ is an act of revenge Photograph: Reuters Nigeria’s former first lady has launched a tirade against the country’s president, Muhammadu …
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Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris The lawmaker representing Bauchi central senatorial district, Isah Hamman Misau, on Wednesday alleged that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, impregnated a serving deputy superintendent of police (DSP), Asta. He says Idris’ conduct contravenes the police act. Misau, a former police officer added that the IGP married Asta secretly in …
For a body of people with manifestly indefensible views, the US gun fraternity continues to enjoy a deferential hearing in Britain, at least on the regular occasions when its principles result in a massacre. The routine attrition, of a mass murder (that is, four or more people) a day, is now so unremarkable, such an …
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Europe is spending billions of dollars to jump-start Africa’s poorest economies. But that may just accelerate the exodus. KOLONDIÉBA, Mali — It had been 10 days since Abdoulaye Traoré did anything at work. The cashew processing plant where he and roughly 200 other Malian laborers made a living by stripping the fleshy husks off …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 