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Supreme Court sacks Idris, Nyako, Wammako, others
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Societies all over the world develop through debate and dialogue but not diktat and dogma, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Media Trust Limited Malam Kabiru Yusuf said in Abuja…
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Change in Nigeria foreign policy is mere pronouncement — Rep Nkoyo
Former Nigeria Ambassador to Ethiopia and the permanent representative at the African Union, Rep Nkoyo Toyo, has said that for Nigeria to effect it new foreign policy, all ministries and Nigeria missions abroad must be able to explain what is it all about and apply it.
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It was indeed more than anything else the brutal and barbaric killings of the Boko Haram leader Muhammad Yusuf, the Late Borno state Commissioner Alhaji Foi and several others, as shown live by Aljazeera satellite channel in 2009, that attracted widespread deep feelings of sympathy amongst other Muslims and all...
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