The flight from Abuja to the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the Indian State of Gujirat, took 9hrs and 51 minutes. We flew over Cameroon, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia and
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LAST week, President Goodluck Jonathan told Reuters, in an interview, that the Nigerian government would dialogue
The newspaper of Friday, December 29, 2006, carried very copious quotations from a statement issued by
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Sometime in the month of June 1983, Vice President, Alex Ekuweme, during one of his campaign rallies, was reported as saying that the austerity measures his government clamped down on the country,
During the 1980s, I was very actively involved in the Nigerian trade union movement. I had been elected as the chairman of my local chapter of the Radio, Television and Theatre Workers’
During an international anti-apartheid conference in November 1988, Ike Nwachukwu, Nigeria’s External Affairs Minister, seized the opportunity of the august gathering, to remount the old hobby horse of Nigerian foreign policy- demands
Mankind is in a state of constant change. “The journalist’s task is to write about and, in a sense, promote changes, to prevent society from becoming ossified. Journalists should always test the
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When I read the comments of many perplexed Nigerians who queried President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for passing up yer another excellent opportunity to engage with other influential world leaders at the United Nations last week in the hope of getting us out
