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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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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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Guinea-Bissau: Yesterday, Posterity; Sands of Time, The Nuno Nabiam Projections

Guinea-Bissau: Yesterday, Posterity; Sands of Time, The Nuno Nabiam Projections

BY: COMR. AMOS KALU (AFK) The Presidential Candidate of the APU Party and one of the favorite contenders in the upcoming Guinea-Bissau General Election, Engr Nuno Nabiam, has continued to make a case for the need to make projections that must usher in the young nation into a brighter and more promising future that will be built on collective participation of every member of the country through a more proactive, pragmatic and participatory-inclusive government premised on people-oriented policies to get all hands on deck, salvage the nation ravaged and plundered in the past by politics of high-handedness and ineptitude. Recall…
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Herdsmen: Southeast do not have lands to donate for ranching – Governors reply FG

Herdsmen: Southeast do not have lands to donate for ranching – Governors reply FG

Southeast Governors, Sunday, said the zone would not donate any land for ranching being proposed by the Federal Government. At the meeting were chairman of the Forum, Engr. David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State; Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State, represented by his deputy, Dr. Ikem Okeke and Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, who was also represented by his deputy, Hon. Ude Oko Chukwu, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, representative of the NNPC, members of the Southeast Traditional Rulers’ Council, among others. Umahi, who read the communique said, “we want to dismiss…
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CAN Declares National Day Of Protest, Tell Buhari – ‘Enough Of Killing Of Christians’

CAN Declares National Day Of Protest, Tell Buhari – ‘Enough Of Killing Of Christians’

Churches across the country are taking to the streets to protest the increasing incidents of killings as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) declares a national day of protest. The churches are making demands on the Muhammadu Buhari administration to stop the incessant killings by herdsmen and persecution of Christians across the country. As led by Olasupo Ayokunle, the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the churches are also asking for the release of the Chibok girls and Leah Sharibu, a young girl kidnapped by Boko Haram from her school in Dapchi. It was earlier reported after the…
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