Amnesty International slams Nigerian govt for increasing insecurity

28 may 2021 - 06:58:47
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Amnesty International has slammed the Nigerian authorities for not doing enough to protect lives in 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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Nigerian secret police, activists feud over use of force to disperse Tuesday's protests Nigerian secret police, activists feud over use of force to disperse Tuesday's protests

14 november 2019 - 07:25:35
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), says its operatives did not open fire [...] Full text...

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Renowned Ghanaian Sculptor, El Anatsui, elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters

01 march 2018 - 14:32:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ghana's award-winning and globally-acclaimed sculptor, Prof. El Anatsui, has recorded yet another achievement by being elected [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Tinubu fails to show up for charity boxing bout against ex-World Champ Holyfield

27 may 2017 - 05:54:57
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Bola Tinubu, Nigerian politician and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Evander Holyfield to 'fight' Nigerian politician in charity boxing bout

26 march 2017 - 16:52:28
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Evander Holyfield, the legendary five-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, will hold an exhibition boxing match with [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Buhari charges Nigerian Career Ambassadors-designate to change the narrative of Nigeria abroad

19 december 2016 - 16:06:30
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigerian Career Ambassadors-designate, recently cleared by the Senate, on Monday in Abuja began a Ministry of [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Nobel Laureate endorses govt's anti-corruption fight

10 january 2016 - 08:04:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has endorsed the much-trumpeted anti-graft battle of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Lawmakers' "show of shame" reported in Nigeria

27 june 2015 - 07:19:36
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian media are awash with stories from the National Assembly, particularly the lower chamber (House [...] Full text...

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US: Yale honours Okonjo-Iweala with an Honorary Doctorate Degree

19 may 2015 - 13:30:27
New Haven, US (PANA) - The Nigerian Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Chibok girls: one year after abduction, politics, xenophobic attacks reported

18 april 2015 - 07:46:31
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Chibok girls (276 in number), abducted 14 April 2014, from their school, the Government Secondary School [...] Full text...

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Nigeria Decides 2015: Goodluck Jonathan: Has this President run out of good luck? (A profile by Segun Adeyemi, PANA Correspondent, Nigeria)

27 march 2015 - 08:04:53
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Can a politician who has never been elected to any office in his own right become [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Pres Jonathan accepts US offer to assist in abducted girls' rescue

06 may 2014 - 19:19:46
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday ''welcomed and accepted a definite offer of help from the US'' [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: World Book Capital demands release of abducted school girls

23 april 2014 - 13:23:53
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, which is the 2014 World Book Capital, Wednesday made [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Pres. Jonathan gets flak for 'campaigning' after deadly blast (News Analysis by Segun Adeyemi, PANA Editor)

16 april 2014 - 10:46:09
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - ''President Goodluck Jonathan is exhibiting the traits of an insensitive and utterly hardhearted leader by returning [...] Full text...

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Mandela's demise, Brazil 2014 draws reported in Nigeria

07 december 2013 - 11:23:21
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death on Thursday of the former South African and leading anti-apartheid campaigner, Nelson Mandela, and [...] 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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Annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election dominates Nigerian media

15 june 2013 - 08:38:39
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 20th anniversary of the June 12 presidential election, won by businessman M.K.O. Abiola in 1993 [...] Full text...

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Funeral rites of late Nigerian writer, Achebe, begin

19 may 2013 - 14:48:00
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The funeral rites of the late renowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, began Sunday with prayers at [...] Full text...

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Nigeria should fight Boko Haram with Boko Halal - Nobel Laureate

30 april 2013 - 13:47:57
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Nobel Laureate and renowned author Wole Soyinka has suggested the use of what he called [...] Full text...

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Henry Okah's jail term, oil theft, subsidy highlighted in Nigeria

30 march 2013 - 15:37:28
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The sentencing of Henry Okah to 24 years in jail, oil theft, government's latest stand on [...] Full text...

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Chinua Achebe's death, blood bath in Kano, Obasanjo's warning reported in Nigeria

23 march 2013 - 06:57:25
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The death of literary icon Chinua Achebe, Monday's lorry park suicide bombing in Kano, former president [...] Full text...

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Super Eagles, ghost workers, rising population dominate Nigerian media

16 february 2013 - 08:22:58
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The elaborate reception for the new African football champions, the Super Eagles, discovery of ghost workers [...] Full text...

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Two more political parties axed in Nigeria

15 february 2013 - 09:59:54
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has de-registered two more political parties, bringing the total number [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Soyinka, wins 2012 Awolowo leadership award

19 december 2012 - 18:56:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Africa’s first Nobel laureate in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka, was on Wednesday named winner of the [...] Full text...

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Rare feat by teenage girls, Obama's re-election featured in Nigeria

10 november 2012 - 08:51:45
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A rare feat by teenaged girls who invented generators that run on urine, highly-qualified persons seeking [...] Full text...

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Nigeria police dismiss Sergeant over students lynching

19 october 2012 - 09:17:48
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police have dismissed the police Sergeant who reportedly took part in the 5 Oct. [...] Full text...

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Moves to exterminate malaria, oil subsidy investigation, violence reported in Nigeria

05 may 2012 - 14:22:47
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian government's deliberate measures to exterminate malaria, reactions to the ongoing oil subsidy report and revelations, [...] Full text...

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Group gives Nigerian govt 2 wks to prosecute officials indicted by fuel subsidy probe

01 may 2012 - 11:17:35
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 'Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has issued a two-week ultimatum to the federal government to prosecute [...] Full text...

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Ex-Nigerian warlord laid to rest in blaze of glory

02 march 2012 - 17:15:53
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The remains of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the man who led his breakaway Biafra Republic in a 30-month [...] Full text...

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Nigerian media report the continuing orgy of violence

11 february 2012 - 11:27:24
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The unending orgy of violence, especially the non-stop bombing campaign (almost on a daily basis) by [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Nobel Laureate blames growing cancer cases on poor leadership

09 february 2012 - 08:26:32
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has blamed the growing cases of cancer in the country on [...] Full text...

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Nigeria is on the brink of collapse and needs to be saved - Eminent citizens

07 february 2012 - 09:26:57
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Eminent Nigerian citizens began a two-day meeting here on Monday to take a critical look at [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's Nobel Laureate, Soyinka, says Boko Haram plans to kill him

06 february 2012 - 22:45:25
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has said he is one of the prominent Nigerians who have [...] Full text...

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Domestic issues dominate Nigerian media

04 february 2012 - 08:40:57
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Domestic issues and violence, including the Boko Haram menace and the mass burial of its victims, [...] Full text...

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Mass burial for unclaimed bodies from Boko Haram attacks

25 january 2012 - 08:47:32
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 50 unclaimed bodies of victims of last Friday's deadly attacks in Nigeria's northern city of [...] Full text...

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Nigerian govt withdraws troops from economic capital, Lagos

25 january 2012 - 07:13:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian government has withdrawn the army soldiers it deployed to the economic capital city of [...] Full text...

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Demand for troops withdrawal from Lagos heightens

17 january 2012 - 23:22:00
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Religious and traditional leaders in Nigeria's economic capital of Lagos have joined the growing calls on [...] Full text...

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Massive fuel strike reported in Nigeria

14 january 2012 - 04:53:20
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The massive strike, called by two main workers' unions and their civil society counterparts, following government's [...] Full text...

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Insecurity: Drums of civil strife beat louder in Nigeria

09 january 2012 - 09:39:32
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Monday's start-off of fuel protests in Nigeria is taking place at the worst possible time for [...] Full text...

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Nigeria goes on strike over high fuel prices

09 january 2012 - 08:36:45
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - An indefinite, nation-wide strike aimed at protesting high petrol prices in Nigeria started on Monday, following [...] Full text...

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Ex-Nigerian Supreme Court Justice, Eso, wins anti-corruption defender award

08 december 2011 - 12:07:55
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the 2011 International Anti-Corruption Day to be observed on 9 December, retired Nigerian Supreme [...] Full text...

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'UNESCO must reject President Mbasogo prize'

27 september 2011 - 07:47:21
New York, US (PANA) - UNESCO should reject a new bid to honour President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial [...] Full text...

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Boko Haram: Setback for peace moves as man is shot dead for meeting Obasanjo

18 september 2011 - 09:42:18
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Efforts to kick-start peace talks between the Nigerian government and the violent Islamic sect Boko Haram [...] Full text...

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Soyinka challenges Nigerian President on Freedom of Information Act

21 july 2011 - 22:50:53
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been challenged to set up an enquiry on what happened when [...] Full text...

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Jonathan congratulates Nigerian Nobel Laureate Soyinka at 77

13 july 2011 - 17:36:01
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday congratulated Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on his 77th birthday, describing [...] Full text...

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Boko Haram, M. K. O. Abiola, kerosene scarcity, South Sudan played up in Nigeria

09 july 2011 - 08:01:11
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The continuing menace of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, M. K. O. Abiola's remembrance, kerosene scarcity [...] Full text...

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Politics dominates Nigeria media

30 april 2011 - 06:30:33
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The last of the three-phase general elections, held 26 and 28 April, dominated newspaper headlines in [...] Full text...

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Nobel laureate implores Nigerians to disregard Police Chief's order on elections

25 march 2011 - 09:10:51
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, on Thursday criticised the directive by the Inspector General of Police [...] Full text...

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Soyinka, Jega unveil electoral violence tracking website in Nigeria

22 march 2011 - 08:51:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, and Nobel Laureate, Prof. [...] Full text...

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Two presidential candidates receive boost ahead of April polls in Nigeria

11 february 2011 - 12:40:53
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two presidential candidates in April's general elections in Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples [...] Full text...

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Allowances for ex-leaders, strike, new Super Eagles coach reported in Nigeria

06 november 2010 - 08:38:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The passage by the National Assembly of a bill seeking to provide remuneration for former leaders, [...] Full text...

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Jesse Jackson, Wole Soyinka, Paul Boateng bemoan corruption in Nigeria

03 november 2010 - 10:46:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Three eminent Africans have taken a swipe at the increas ing rate of corruption in Nigeria, [...] Full text...

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Wole Soyinka for AfDB lecture

19 october 2010 - 12:06:00
Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has been invited to the next session of the ''Distinguished Speakers'' [...] Full text...

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Nigeria@50: Today marks dawn of new era - Jonathan

01 october 2010 - 11:15:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has described Frid ay's 50th independence anniversary of the country as the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria@50: US$63m celebration amid hopes, uncertainties

30 september 2010 - 13:32:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Celebrations marking Nigeria's 50th independence anniver sary will peak on Friday, I Oct. , the [...] Full text...

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Nigeria at 50: Federal govt. to celebrate with pomp, pageantry

29 september 2010 - 10:57:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's glistening capital city of Abuja, and indeed t he various state capitals across the country, [...] Full text...

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Nigeria at 50: Federal govt. to celebrate with pomp, pageantry

29 september 2010 - 10:54:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's glistening capital city of Abuja, and indeed t he various state capitals across the country, [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's Nobel Laureate forms political party

26 september 2010 - 08:58:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Ahead of the 2011 general elections, Nigerian Nobel Laur eate Wole Soyinka has launched a new [...] Full text...

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MEND threatens fresh attacks on oil facilities

30 july 2010 - 08:05:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's main oil militant group has threatened to emba rk on fresh attacks against oil facilities [...] Full text...

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Groups welcome reprieve for ex-Nigerian anti-graft Czar

26 may 2010 - 14:36:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Days after Nigeria's Police Service Commission converted the dismissal of the country's former anti-graft czar, Nuhu [...] Full text...

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Nigerian newspapers mourn late President

06 may 2010 - 07:39:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian newspapers Thursday paid tribute to late Presid ent Umaru Yar'Adua, who died late Wednesday from [...] Full text...

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Nigeria media report resentment against Babangida, Senator's marriage to minor

01 may 2010 - 09:52:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Resentment against former Nigerian Military President I brahim Babangida's declaration of interest in the 2011 presidency, [...] Full text...

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Wole Soyinka's 'boldness' applauded by Ghana's vice president

03 april 2010 - 08:48:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" Nigerian Nobel laureate Pro-fessor Wole Soyinka on Friday night won the applause of Vice-President John Dramani [...] Full text...

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Meeting between Nigeria's Acting President, militants fails to hold

27 march 2010 - 13:44:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The meeting between Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan and some of the militants who have embraced [...] Full text...

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Nobel Laureate Soyinka visits Acting President Jonathan

26 march 2010 - 15:08:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Friday came o ff a meeting with Acting President, Dr. [...] Full text...

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UNESCO plans forum on rebuilding Haiti, Wole Soyinka to feature

19 march 2010 - 18:42:00
Paris- France (PANA) -- Haitian intellectuals, artists and decision makers, toget her with international experts, social scientists and members of [...] Full text...

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Group plans protest over Nigeria's lingering leadership crisis

08 march 2010 - 07:16:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A coalition of civil society organisations in Nigeria ha s announced plans to embark on a [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Nobel laureate says NO to â~Illegalâ? exercise of presidential power

25 february 2010 - 18:13:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Save Nigeria Group (SNG), a baby of Nigerian Nobel L aureate Wole Soyinka, on Thursday [...] Full text...

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Nigerian media focus on Yar'Adua, fresh sectarian crisis in Jos

23 january 2010 - 10:30:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The continued absence of Nigerian President Umaru Musa Y ar'Adua from governance, which clocked 62 days [...] Full text...

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Nigerians again protest Yarâ?Aduaâ?s prolonged absence from governance

22 january 2010 - 09:34:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- For more than three hours Thursday, thousands of Nigeria ns took to the streets of Lagos, [...] Full text...

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Yar'Adua's continued absence still making front pages in Nigeria

16 january 2010 - 15:00:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The story of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's absence fro m Nigeria, 55 days this Saturday, continued [...] Full text...

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Nigerian Senate denies issuing ultimatum to the US

13 january 2010 - 12:17:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's upper legislative chamber, the Senate, Wednesd ay backtracked on the seven-day ultimatum it reportedly issued [...] Full text...

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Nigerian parliament to send delegation to ailing President

12 january 2010 - 18:26:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's lower House of Representatives Tuesday resolve d to send a delegation to Saudi Arabia to [...] Full text...

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No respite for Nigerian leader despite breaking 50-day silence

12 january 2010 - 14:27:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The clamour for Nigeria's ailing leader to step down or transfer power to his deputy intensified [...] Full text...

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Nigeria: Anxiety mounts as National Assembly decides on Yar'Adua Tuesday

11 january 2010 - 08:31:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Anxiety is mounting and the week promises to be a most c rucial one for Nigeria [...] Full text...

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US security listing is 'harassment' of Nigerians - Nobel Laurate

08 january 2010 - 12:04:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Nobel Laurate Wole Soyinka has said Nigeria's l isting among the 14 countries whose citizens [...] Full text...

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Soyinka worried about consequences of financial crisis on African literature

17 november 2009 - 21:37:00
Paris- France (PANA) -- Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, 1996 Nobel prize winner for Literature, on Tuesday expressed grave concern about [...] Full text...

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Nigeria's President 'meets' MEND's team

15 november 2009 - 11:51:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (ME ND) said on Sunday the first [...] Full text...

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President's pledge to deal with corrupt Nigerian officials gets media attention

14 november 2009 - 09:22:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian media, this week, turned attention to the pledg e by President Umaru Yar'Adua to deal [...] Full text...

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MEND "appoints new commanders" after amnesty deal

04 october 2009 - 10:59:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As the Nigerian government's amnesty deal ends at midnig ht on Sunday (4 Oct), the oil [...] Full text...

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Key oil militant embraces amnesty in Nigeria

01 october 2009 - 19:24:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- With just three days to the end of the 60-day amnesty pr ogramme for Nigerian oil [...] Full text...

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MEND names Nobel Laureate, others to negotiate peace

29 september 2009 - 07:50:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In perhaps the strongest indication yet that they are wi lling to embrace peace, Nigeria's main [...] Full text...

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Gani's burial, kidnap attempt on 2 ministers capture Nigerian media headlines

19 september 2009 - 11:06:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The burial of Nigeria's most celebrated human rights law yer, Gani Fawehinmi, and the kidnap attempt [...] Full text...

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Gani's burial, kidnap attempt on 2 ministers capture Nigerian media headlines

19 september 2009 - 11:06:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The burial of Nigeria's most celebrated human rights law yer, Gani Fawehinmi, and the kidnap attempt [...] Full text...

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Amnesty for Nigeria oil militants takes off (Corrected)

06 august 2009 - 11:49:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The 60-day amnesty granted to willing Nigerian oil milit ants by the federal government took off [...] Full text...

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Armed robbers attack MEND leader, snatches car

04 august 2009 - 09:25:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have attacked Henry Okah, leader of the Movement for the [...] Full text...

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Escalation of Niger Delta crisis dominates Nigerian papers

23 may 2009 - 09:12:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The escalation of the perennial crisis in Nigeria's Nige r Delta oil region so dominated the [...] Full text...

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Governorship re-run in Nigerian state dominates papers for 2nd week

02 may 2009 - 07:56:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- For the second week running, the governorship re-run in South West Ekiti State dominated the Nigerian [...] Full text...

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Internet site launched on 2nd panAfrican Festival of Algiers

04 february 2009 - 16:58:00
Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Algerian Culture Ministry has launched an Internet site, www. panafalger2009. dz, dedicated to the 2nd [...] Full text...

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Annan to deliver Awolowo centennial lecture in Nigeria

02 february 2009 - 14:09:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka will deliver lectures next month [...] Full text...

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Yar'Adua pours encomium on late Nigerian Opposition leader

30 january 2009 - 18:05:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Twenty-two years after the death of the former Premier o f the defunct Western Nigeria, Chief [...] Full text...

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Abducted Nigerian author freed unharmed

07 january 2009 - 10:20:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Renowned Nigerian author Elechi Amadi, 75, who was abducted by unknown gunmen in Nigeria's restive Niger [...] Full text...

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