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In apparent response to calls for amnesty for the deadly Boko Haram, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, stated that government was prepared to reintegrate and rehabilitate those who took arms against the state provided they lay down their arms. The President who renewed earlier calls on those who chose to live on the fringes of the law to retrace their steps ...

Reactions have continued to trail President Goodluck Jonathan’s negative reaction to the decision by popular writer and novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe to reject the national honor conferred on him by the administration. Achebe had in rejecting the honor of the Commander of the Federal Republic conferred on him declared that the issues which made him to reject the same award ...

The last has not been heard about the late ‘King of Pop’, Michael Joseph Jackson, as he remains news-worthy even in death as in life. This time however, the late megastar is in the news over an unreleased and unseen tour film he made sometime in 1993 during the height of his career and which reportedly is to fetch over ...

Rising global temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns could affect water flows on Africa’s mighty Nile and Limpopo rivers, an agricultural research group said Monday. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, a global think-tank, warned the changes could have major effects for countries that share the rivers — raising the risk of conflicts erupting over water use, already a subject ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron is “mad” to suggest that aid to developing countries which ban homosexuality is to be cut, President Robert Mugabe said. Ending bans on homosexuality was one of the recommendations of a highly-critical internal report into the future relevance of the Commonwealth – authored by experts from across the member nations including Britain’s ex-Foreign Secretary Malcolm ...