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The deaths of more than a million people in Nigeria as a result of the brutal civil war which ended exactly 50 years ago are a scar on the nation's history. For most Nigerians, the war over the breakaway state of Biafra is generally regarded as an unfortunate episode best forgotten, but for the Igbo …
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The President’s Taxes Doug Mills/The New York Times Long-Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal …
LAGOS, Nigeria — Fifty years ago, on Jan. 15, Nigeria’s civil war ended. Fought between the country’s southeast region, which seceded and called itself Biafra, and the rest of the country, which Britain supported and armed, the war was brutal. Over a million people died during three years of conflict. After being starved into submission …
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An influential Catholic bishop, Matthew Kukah, on Tuesday criticised President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration over its handling of Nigeria’s security challenges. Mr Kukah spoke at a funeral mass for a seminarian who was killed after he and others were kidnapped from a seminary in Kaduna State. “No one could have imagined that in winning the Presidency, …
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James Ibori The United Kingdom has intensified efforts to seize more than $39 million from a convicted lawyer who it said helped former Delta Governor James Ibori launder public funds. Ibori was convicted by a UK court in 2012 after pleading guilty to fraud and money laundering. He was extradited from the United Arab Emirates …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 