Over 8,000 people, including sports and health champions, join 5th WHO Walk the Talk

28 may 2024 - 07:29:19
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The fifth edition of Walk the Talk: The Health Challenge for All, organised by the World [...] Full text...

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Posh Miami enclave to become US football hub with FIFA, Messi set to move in

14 june 2023 - 05:54:36
Miami, US (PANA) - Lionel Messi isn’t the only football powerhouse heading to Miami – FIFA, the organisers of the [...] Full text...

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Ghana approves GE cowpea crop for environmental and market release

30 july 2022 - 09:44:34
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's National Biosafety Authority has approved the release of the GE crop BT Cowpea into the [...] Full text...

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Senegal passes biosafety law to allow approval of GE products

12 july 2022 - 07:38:40
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegalese legislators have passed a new biosafety law establishing a process to allow the entry, research, [...] Full text...

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Senegal enters African male Afrobasket competition

25 august 2021 - 22:00:33
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese national male basketball team has made a big start into the 30th Afrobasket which opened [...] Full text...

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Senegal's new coach convenes 25 players for Afrobasket 2021 qualification

29 october 2020 - 14:29:40
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Former Senegalese international pivot turned national coach of the 'Lions' of basketball, Boniface Ndong,  on Wednesday [...] Full text...

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National Assembly moves to stop #EndSARS protests across Nigeria

20 october 2020 - 17:17:24
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s National Assembly have taken the lead in moves to stop the ongoing #EndSARS protests and [...] Full text...

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Kenya hints at gradual resumption of sporting activities

24 august 2020 - 22:20:18
Nairobi,Kenya (PANA)  -  Kenya's sports ministry Monday unveiled guidelines  for protocols to be used in resuming sporting activities. Sports were among [...] Full text...

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Sierra Leonan/American Victor Williams replaces Amadou Gallo Fall at the head of NBA Africa

12 august 2020 - 18:00:34
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Sierra Leonean-American, Victor Williams, will be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Basketball Association [...] Full text...

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Basketball Africa League Dakar edition put off due to coronavirus

04 march 2020 - 18:28:53
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The start of the all-new Basketball Africa League, scheduled for March 13 at the Dakar Arena [...] Full text...

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South Africa's rugby champions win global award

18 february 2020 - 11:01:07
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Springboks have won the prestigious World Team of the Year award at the [...] Full text...

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Boniface Ndong appointed coach of Senegalese basketball “Lions”

14 february 2020 - 21:25:46
Dakar, Senegal (PANA)  - Former basketball international Boniface Ndong was Friday appointed coach of the Senegalese national men’s basketball team. Until [...] Full text...

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South Sudanese appointed int'l ambassador for Basketball Africa League

11 february 2020 - 17:20:02
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - South Sudanese-born British basketball player, Luol Deng, has been appointed International Ambassador for Basketball Africa League [...] Full text...

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Senegalese pivot Gorgui Sy Dieng leaves The Minnesota Wolves for The Memphis Grizzlies

07 february 2020 - 23:20:06
Dakar, Senegal (PANA)  - After seven years with the Timberwolves of Minnesota, 30-year-old international Senegalese pivot and leader of the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Nigeria's secret Police says activist, US-based publisher Sowore re-arrested over plan to "forceful takeover of government"

08 december 2019 - 15:46:36
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA)  - Stung with widespread outrage over the dramatic re-arrest of Nigerian activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore inside [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Nigeria's secret Police says activist, US-based publisher Sowore re-arrested over plan to "forceful takeover of government"

08 december 2019 - 08:16:58
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA)  - Stung with widespread outrage over the dramatic re-arrest of Nigerian activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore inside [...] Full text...

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Uproar in Nigeria over hate speech bill in Senate that seeks death penalty

13 november 2019 - 11:48:03
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – There is uproar in Nigeria over a bill before the Nigerian Senate that seeks death by hanging for [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Army says reports of planned nationwide operation for citizens to show "positive identification" are fake

30 october 2019 - 16:46:37
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Army has described as ‘Fake Alert’, a viral post of the planned nationwide ‘Operation [...] Full text...

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Fiba Africa unveils Basket Africa League 2019

16 october 2019 - 13:47:43
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Afro-League, the competition bringing together the champion teams from each African country, has been [...] Full text...

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NBA Africa Vice President Amadou Gallo Fall fosters Young African Talent

10 october 2019 - 21:06:38
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Ahead of the official launching next year of the first NBA-affiliated regional league, NBA Africa Vice [...] Full text...

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French Sports Minister to visit Senegal next week "to strengthen sports cooperation" between Paris and Dakar

13 september 2019 - 19:22:44
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The French Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, is expected to visit Dakar on 18 and 19 [...] Full text...

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Senegalese coach names 12 ’Lions’ for Basketball World Cup in China

16 august 2019 - 22:48:36
Dakar, Senegal (PANA)   -   Senegalese new coach Moustapha Gaye has named 12 players for the world championship due from 31 [...] Full text...

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NBA, FIBA to launch Basketball African League in 2020

31 july 2019 - 20:42:44
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The American National Basketball Association (NBA) and the world basketball governing body FIBA will next year launch [...] Full text...

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Kigali is one of 7 African cities to host first-ever Basketball Africa League

31 july 2019 - 16:36:47
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  The Rwandan capital city, Kigali, was chosen to host the first-ever Basketball Africa League (BAL) with [...] Full text...

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Basketball: U-17 BWB takes place 28-31 July

19 july 2019 - 14:54:49
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - From July 28 to 31, sixty basketball players, boys and girls aged 17 and under, from [...] Full text...

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12 Malian players selected for U19 World Cup

26 june 2019 - 16:53:43
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - National coach El Hadj Dicko has published a list of 12 Malian basketball players selected [...] Full text...

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24 Senegalese cubs to prepare for U-19 Men's Basketball World Cup

06 june 2019 - 18:28:57
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal, vice-champion of Africa under-19 men's basketball, is preparing for the final qualifying phase of the [...] Full text...

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Senegalese Fall named NBA Basketball Africa League president

29 may 2019 - 13:36:00
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Senegalese  national Amadou Gallo Fall was on Tuesday named the National Basketball Association  (NBA) Basketball Africa [...] Full text...

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AfDB gives more than 7.3 billion CFA francs to Mali for Integrated Development Programme in Niger River Basin

12 may 2019 - 12:25:03
Bamako, Mali (PANA)   -   The Prime Minister of Mali and minister of Economy and Finance, Boubou Cissé, and the African [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Army denies militarisation of national elections

11 march 2019 - 15:25:52
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Army  (NA) on Monday rose in defence of its personnel and alleged involvement in [...] Full text...

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NBA to launch Africa Basketball League

18 february 2019 - 12:35:43
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya and Nigeria are among the 12 countries that will feature in the NBA African professional [...] Full text...

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Uproar in Nigeria over suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria

26 january 2019 - 13:42:22
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – There is an uproar in Nigeria against the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mr [...] Full text...

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NBA opens training centre in Senegal

27 november 2018 - 13:03:30
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - American professional basketball managing body, the National Basketball Association (NBA), has opened a new training centre [...] Full text...

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Kwese TV to close pay television channels in Africa

05 november 2018 - 15:33:12
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African broadcaster, Kwesé TV, will begin shutting down its pay-television sports and entertainment channels after a [...] Full text...

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Adesina wraps up Canada visit with a plea: “Africa cannot be ignored”

21 september 2018 - 13:48:12
Alberta, Canada (PANA) - “Given the size of its markets, growth, and huge potential across multiple sectors, Africa cannot be [...] Full text...

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Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone basketball club leaves for UK course

10 october 2017 - 11:48:26
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) – A seven-man team of Sierra Leone basketball club Cannon Royals left for United Kingdom on [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: National Judicial Council orders judges under probe to step down

04 november 2016 - 07:07:10
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's National Judicial Council (NJC) has barred judges being investigated for criminal offences from presiding over [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Corruption stories, cases dominate front pages in Nigeria

22 october 2016 - 06:46:18
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The current wave of corruption allegations and cases were the dominant stories in Nigeria this week [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Nigerian emergency agency warns of flooding from rising level of River Niger

06 august 2016 - 14:01:27
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Following intense rainfall and rising water level of the River Niger in Burkina Faso and Niger [...] Full text...

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Tanzania: New survey says Hong Kong public supports elephant ivory sales ban

26 may 2015 - 16:41:52
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) — As elephant poaching crisis continues, over three quarters of citizens living in key [...] Full text...

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US: American billionaire donates US100 million to fight Ebola

25 october 2014 - 20:33:00
New York, US (PANA) - American billionaire, Paul Allen, who owns the Seattle Seahawks, a professional American football franchise based [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Ex-head of Nigerian lawyers' body, OKey Wali, kidnapped

12 october 2014 - 11:34:07
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The immediate past president of the umbrella Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Okey Wali, was kidnapped [...] Full text...

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Cote d'Ivoire: President to ratify Niger Basin Water Charter

14 august 2014 - 11:58:10
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian parliament has passed a bill authorising the President to ratify the Niger Basin [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Proposed National Conference dominates newspaper headlines

01 february 2014 - 08:45:31
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The federal government's modalities for the conduct of the National Conference, designed to bring the people [...] Full text...

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Anambra polls, terror groups, reward for Golden Eaglets highlighted in Nigeria

16 november 2013 - 09:36:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Saturday's polls in South East Anambra State for a successor to outgoing Governor Peter Obi, America's [...] Full text...

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African lawyers urged to promote investment friendly laws

07 november 2013 - 22:27:48
Lagos, Nigeria(PANA) - The President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Okey Wali, on Thursday called on African legal practitioners [...] Full text...

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Coalition petitions UN over higher electricity tariffs in Nigeria

08 september 2013 - 08:56:02
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A coalition of human rights activists, labour, journalists and lawyers have moved against the recent increase [...] Full text...

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93,000 fake voters discovered in Nigerian State

06 august 2013 - 11:08:12
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced here Monday that it had uncovered over 93,000 fake [...] Full text...

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Americans react to Obama’s re-election

07 november 2012 - 08:25:42
New York, US (PANA) - A cross section of Americans on Wednesday morning expressed varying reactions to the re-election of [...] Full text...

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Use of Nigeria's new 5,000 naira note not mandatory- Apex bank

10 september 2012 - 08:32:59
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The apex Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said banks in the country cannot compel their [...] Full text...

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Nigeria papers highlight stolen oil money, power minister's resignation

01 september 2012 - 11:25:00
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Stolen oil money totalling US$400 billion since independence in 1960, President Goodluck Jonathan's pledge to fix [...] Full text...

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MPs back Nigerian govt ultimatum to foreign airlines on discriminatory fares

03 april 2012 - 09:16:12
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian parliamentarians have expressed their support for the government's ultimatum to foreign airlines to end the [...] Full text...

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Group files suit against Nigerian govt over troops deployment

19 january 2012 - 18:15:39
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Lagos state branch of the umbrella Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday filed a lawsuit [...] Full text...

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Fuel subsidy removal, Boko Haram's threats reported in Nigeria

07 january 2012 - 08:06:12
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The fuel subsidy, removed on the 2012 New Year day, and the three-day ultimatum from the [...] Full text...

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Nigerian lawyers seek removal of President Jonathan over fuel prices

06 january 2012 - 10:14:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has asked the National Assembly (parliament) to begin moves to [...] Full text...

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More groups, states join Nigeria fuel protests

06 january 2012 - 08:58:03
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More professional groups as well as states have joined the mounting protests against the New Year [...] Full text...

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US sends basketball legends to Africa as Sports diplomats

27 august 2011 - 07:48:51
Washington D.C., US (PANA) - Using sports as a means to build stronger people-to-people connections and empower young people worldwide, [...] Full text...

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'Nigeria sliding dangerously towards anarchy, imperial presidency'

24 august 2011 - 11:31:14
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's most vocal opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has warned that the country [...] Full text...

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Nigeria rights group sues govt over removal of top judicial officer

23 august 2011 - 08:56:58
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's civil society organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued the Nigerian government [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's opposition harshly criticises President over top judicial appointment

22 august 2011 - 10:28:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Monday harshly criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for appointing [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's President appoints Justice Adamu acting President of Court of Appeal

21 august 2011 - 22:05:09
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday appointed Justice Dalhatu Adamu as acting President of the Court of [...] Full text...

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Nigerian lawyers urge President Jonathan to drop single-tenure bid

02 august 2011 - 09:13:06
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella organisation for Nigerian lawyers has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to drop his plan to [...] Full text...

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Minimum wage, Jonathan's single-term proposal dominate Nigerian Media

30 july 2011 - 08:16:15
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The minimum wage palava and knocks for President Goodluck Jonathan's single-term proposal for the president and [...] Full text...

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Nigerian lawyers want arrested Boko Haram members prosecuted

07 july 2011 - 07:55:40
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has challenged the decision of the country's State Security Service [...] Full text...

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Nigerian lawyers' group calls US$30,000 payment to slain corpers' family 'paltry'

13 may 2011 - 10:02:37
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has described as 'paltry' the 5 million naira (US$30,000) given to [...] Full text...

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50 die in pre-election violence in Nigeria

14 march 2011 - 08:54:44
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More than 50 people have been killed in violence linked to political party primaries and election [...] Full text...

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Nigerian lawyers probe top judges over graft charges

23 february 2011 - 10:04:51
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has named a panel to probe corruption allegations against the [...] Full text...

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'Nigeria's judicial system is corrupt'

21 february 2011 - 09:23:05
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Acknowledging widespread corruption in the country's judicial system, the umbrella Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has decided [...] Full text...

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'Constitution amendment incomplete without President's assent'

08 november 2010 - 11:40:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A federal high court sitting in Nigeria's economic capit al city of Lagos ruled Monday that [...] Full text...

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Trial of alleged 1 Oct bombers, Adamu's bribery scandal reported in Nigeria

23 october 2010 - 08:06:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a very busy week of mixed grill of stories, the trial of the independence-day bombers [...] Full text...

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Congolese basketball player Eyenga signs for NBA

27 september 2010 - 22:40:00
Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) –Christian Eyenga of th-e Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has signed a two-year contract with the [...] Full text...

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Nigerian lawyers group sues Federal govt. over jumbo pay for legislators

22 august 2010 - 10:10:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) filed a suit against t he Federal Government in protest against [...] Full text...

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Looming strikes, politics dominate Nigerian papers (corrected)

24 july 2010 - 12:03:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The looming twin disasters of a nation-wide blackout and oil scarcity, the uncertainty in the 2011 [...] Full text...

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Nigeria media report looming electricity, Oil strikes, Nigeria couple's white

24 july 2010 - 09:04:00
baby Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The looming twin disasters of a nation-wide blackout and oil scarcity, a white baby for [...] Full text...

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Nigerians hail appointment of new electoral boss

09 june 2010 - 07:52:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian stakeholders have reacted favourably to the nom ination of an academic, Prof. Attahiru Jega, [...] Full text...

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Nigeria media focus on power play since Yar'Adua's return

27 february 2010 - 10:56:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The big power play since Wednesday's sudden but surprise return to Nigeria of ailing President Umaru [...] Full text...

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'Votes must count in Nigeria's 2011 polls'

07 december 2009 - 09:16:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, UN Under-Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari and Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President [...] Full text...

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US basketball association names Mutombo global ambassador

17 november 2009 - 19:56:00
New York- US (PANA) -- The US National Basketball Association(NBA), has named a f ormer NBA star, Dikembe Mutombo, as [...] Full text...

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Nigeria opposition accuses govt of destabilising lawyers' group

17 august 2009 - 13:04:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's opposition Action Congress (AC) party has accu sed the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and [...] Full text...

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Clinton, in Congo DR, visits Mutombo's hospital

10 august 2009 - 22:15:00
Kinshasa- Congo DR (PANA) -- Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monda y visited the 300-bed hospital built in [...] Full text...

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Chadian president supports refilling of Lake Chad

07 july 2009 - 23:35:00
N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno has urged countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LTBC), the [...] Full text...

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Nigerian lawyers seek end to university teachers' strike

03 july 2009 - 11:52:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The umbrella Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged t he federal government to honour the agreement [...] Full text...

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June 12 annulled election, Abiola get big play in Nigerian media

13 june 2009 - 09:02:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The biggest story in the Nigerian media this week was th e anniversary of the annulment [...] Full text...

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Halliburton bribe-for-contract scandal dominates Nigerian media

19 april 2009 - 10:19:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The unfolding saga in the Halliburton bribe-for-contract scandal dominated the pages of Nigerian newspapers during the [...] Full text...

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Withdrawal of police orderlies fill Nigerian press

28 march 2009 - 08:23:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The decision of Nigeria's Federal Executive Council (FEC ) to withdraw police escorts from certain categories [...] Full text...

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