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Frederick Forsyth attacks Britain: You committed crimes against Igbo.

Frederick Forsyth attacks Britain: You committed crimes against Igbo.

Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, the English journalist and author will be 82 this year. He was born on 25 August 1938. At such age when a man is inching closer to his grave or Maker, his conscience becomes sharper, his propensity for remorse greater. He tends to make all crooked ways straight; he confesses his sins or does so vicariously- that is, on behalf of his clan or community or country.    That is exactly what Frederick Forsyth has done, blaming his country, Britain, for its bias against the Igbo during the Nigeria-Biafra war that spanned three years, 1967 to 1970.…
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Guinea-Bissau Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Presidential Election Result

Guinea-Bissau Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Presidential Election Result

BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau's Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a challenge against Umaro Cissoko Embalo's victory in last month's election run-off by the defeated candidate, who complained of fraud. The ruling confirms a surprise election win for Embalo, a 47-year-old former prime minister and ex-army general. He will replace outgoing Jose Mario Vaz, who was eliminated in the first round of voting in November after a five-year term marked by political dysfunction and corruption allegations. The court's ruling said runner-up Domingos Simoes Pereira, the candidate of the majority party in parliament, should have first filed his complaint with the national electoral commission,…
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Gov. Ikpeazu, Ogah, Otti Set To Grace, Receive AFN Awards

Gov. Ikpeazu, Ogah, Otti Set To Grace, Receive AFN Awards

The Abia State Governor Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu PhD, has praised the efforts of the Abia Facts Newspaper in maintaining balanced and objective journalism. Speaking through his Chief of Staff Dr. ACB Agbazuere, at government house Umuahia, Dr. Ikpeazu accepted his nomination as Media Friendly Governor of the year 2019 and thanked Abia Facts Newspaper for recognizing his efforts in governance. Mean while, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) gubernatorial candidate in the just concluded general election in Abia State Dr. Alex Otti and the All Progressives Congress counterpart Honorbale Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Sampson Ogah…
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BISSAU: The trend of media strangulation by American Press worrisome

BISSAU: The trend of media strangulation by American Press worrisome

By Comr Amos Kalu For the umpteenth time. America and her press should stop this media strangulation of Africa occasioned by bias and preconditioning of their minds based on unverified reports. It is very inconveniencing for few people to continue to psychologically blackmail Africans from thousand of miles away. Guinea Bissau What yardsticks did they use to predict the "Presumed" Prediction of the presidential outcome because have stayed here to observe over two weeks, the narratives is quite the contrary. The only thing I see here is attempt by ECOWAS to place other candidates at disadvantage in favour of a…
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Should ECOWAS be partisan in Guinea Bissau politics?

Should ECOWAS be partisan in Guinea Bissau politics?

By Comr Amos Kalu (AFK) The role ECOWAS is playing in the upcoming Guinea Bissau election is very worrisome, dangerous and unacceptable, especially at a time when the Republic believe they need opportunity to move from backwardness and stagnation in the hands of self-aggrandising political stooges who place the interest of their sponsor against the growth and development of their nation. It is clear that Guinea Bissau are people who has learn to say no to any bad government and has always done their best to unseat such government because they want to move on. But it is sad that…
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