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Yar'adua Handing Over To Vice President?

Seeded on Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:18 AM EST (Nigerian Curiosity)

Nigeria's President Yar'Adua was rushed to Saudi Arabia for a medical emergency. .. in the over 75 days since the President went to Saudi Arabia, and after various court cases and judgments, it appears Nigeria's President may be ready to bow to public pressure

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Church may split over women bishops and gay priests

Seeded on Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:50 AM EST (The Times)

The Archbishop of Canterbury warned yesterday that damaging infighting over women bishops and gay priests could result in a permanent split in the Anglican Communion.

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Storm over bailout of Greece, EU's most ailing economy

Seeded on Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:40 AM EST (The Times)

Angela Merkel tried to calm fevered speculation in financial markets yesterday that Germany was preparing to lead a bail-out of Greece amid a split in the EU on how to handle its most ailing member.

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How Britain corrupts Africa and makes it poorer

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 6:50 PM EST (Nigeria Village Square)

So now we know – a little more. We always knew that in 2001 Britain's BAE systems sold Tanzania a £28 million air traffic control system. The World Bank and the International Civil Aviation Organisation said it was unnecessarily sophisticated and overpriced.

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Spain and Portugal fight to calm investors

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 2:40 PM EST (FT.com)

Spanish and Portuguese leaders struggled to soothe nervous investors on Friday and limit the loss of confidence that has spread across southern Europe from the financial crisis in Greece.

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Teach immigrants proper British history, not politically correct rubbish

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:41 AM EST (Telegraph)

Lord Tebbit of Chingford is one of Britain's most outspoken conservative commentators and politicians. He was a senior cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's government and is a former Chairman of the Conservative Party.

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You, Britain, are the breeding ground for Muslim terrorists

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:18 AM EST (The Times)

The Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says the UK, not Nigeria, should be on the terrorism watch-list

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Cameron turns fire on lobbyists

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:07 AM EST (The Times)

The Tory leader said that he would dock the ministerial pensions of those who ignored guidelines for lobbying. He promised to shine "the light of transparency" on lobbying, and portrayed the Tories as willing to transfer power from Westminster to ordinary people.

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The heat of the moment

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 4:57 AM EST (234Next News)

The sound of the generator ebbed away and with it the motion of the ceiling fan in the poorly ventilated barbing salon. As the room temperature gradually but steadily increased, Mayowa Adeshina reached for his hand fan.

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Son of Charles Taylor ordered to pay torture damages

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 3:57 AM EST (BBC News)

A US judge has ordered the son of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor to pay more than $22m (£14m) to five people tortured during its civil war.

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Recycling human waste in India to improve sanitation

Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 5:43 PM EST (BBC News)

more than half a billion Indians still lack access to basic sanitation.

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US laundering laws fall under the spotlight

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 4:48 AM EST (FT.com)

The report, which delves into financial transactions by officials from Angola, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, does not accuse the parties of breaking US laws. Instead, congressional aides say, it illustrates how current laws are ineffective

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Ogun lecturers pray over unpaid salaries

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 4:38 AM EST (234Next.com)

Lecturers at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic {MAPOLY}, Abeokuta on Wednesday converged at the S.A.J Ibikunle Hall, within the campus, where they embarked on intensive prayers for God to intervene in the non-payment of their three months salaries by the Ogun State Government.

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Benjamin Zephaniah accuses pop stars of using Haiti to boost careers

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 3:11 AM EST (Telegraph)

Simon Cowell and George Clooney may both have very publicly set about raising money for Haiti, but Benjamin Zephaniah wonders if the phenomenon of charity fundraising is altogether altruistic.

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The three party leaders are among 392 current and former MPs who were told to repay a total of £1.12 million.

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 2:47 AM EST (Telegraph)

The Telegraph's investigation, The Expenses Files, into how politicians - from Gordon Brown's Cabinet to backbenchers of all parties - exploit the system of parliamentary allowances to subsidise their lifestyles and multiple homes.

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Stocks Drop Sharply: Reality Bites

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 2:41 AM EST (TIME)

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 268 points on Thursday as investors took full stock of the troubled world. The weaker members of the European Union are in financial crisis and talk of defaults fill the air.

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Nigeria cabinet split over sick President Yar'Adua

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 6:01 PM EST (BBC News)

Dora Akunyili tabled a memo requesting power be handed over to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan. Cabinet sources told the BBC her motion was shouted down.

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First 5,000 "iBad" petition signatures delivered on giant iPad

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 2:45 PM EST (Defective by Design)

Today Defective by Design will deliver the first 5,000 signatures on a giant iPad postcard, direct to Steve Jobs. We'll send another postcard for each new block of 5,000 signatures.

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Saturn mission 'extended again'

Seeded on Wed Feb 3, 2010 4:52 PM EST (BBC News)

The unmanned Cassini-Huygens probe arrived at Saturn in 2004 on a mission that was meant to come to end in 2008. The mission had already been extended by two years; potentially, the Cassini spacecraft could now explore the Saturn system until 2017.

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Interagency Work

Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 9:08 AM EST (Coming Anarchy)

Yes, wait for it. "My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions" - GWB

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UN turns to forensic science to help combat illegal fishing

Seeded on Tue Feb 2, 2010 12:05 AM EST (UN News Centre)

Forensic science, more often associated with solving murders in prime time television crime series, is now helping the United Nations fight illegal fishing, fraudulent product substitution and false documentation that not only cheat consumers but also endanger fish stocks and thr …

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'The Vice Guide To Liberia'

Seeded on Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:57 AM EST (VBS TV)

Shane Smith in the heart of a country left ravaged by brutal civil wars. Staggering poverty, squalor, and drug-addiction. The film provides a rare and revealing look at a troubled country that is once again teetering on the brink of collapse.

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On Jos

Seeded on Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:34 PM EST (Naijablog)

Like many of you, I have been deeply saddened by the events in Jos in recent days. We see, on our doorstep, how genocide can unfold.

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Top 10 Worst World Leaders (Slideshow, Poll)

Seeded on Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:43 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

The world is full of bad leaders, from dictators to gaffe-prone buffoons, but some are surely worse than others. Below is a selection of 10 leaders who are often criticized in the international news media or by human rights organizations.

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If this were your child - Haiti orphans

Seeded on Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:46 AM EST (Good Intentions Are Not Enough)

Adoptions of Haitian children must be stopped until all efforts of reuniting them with their family have been exhausted. Good Intentions Are Not Enough.

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  • Yar'adua Handing Over To Vice President?

    Source: Nigerian Curiosity

    Nigeria's President Yar'Adua was rushed to Saudi Arabia for a medical emergency. .. in the over 75 days since the President went to Saudi Arabia, and after various court cases and judgments, it appears Nigeria's President may be ready to bow to public pressure

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  • Church may split over women bishops and gay priests

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    The Archbishop of Canterbury warned yesterday that damaging infighting over women bishops and gay priests could result in a permanent split in the Anglican Communion.

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  • Storm over bailout of Greece, EU's most ailing economy

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    Angela Merkel tried to calm fevered speculation in financial markets yesterday that Germany was preparing to lead a bail-out of Greece amid a split in the EU on how to handle its most ailing member.

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