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Global Intercessory Prayer Organisation (GIPO), a non governmental organization, has called on Ghanaians to show more concern for Nigeria’s current instability by praying for the country. This according to the NGO, was due to the crucial deepening relationship that existed between the two countries. In a statement copied to the GNA on Friday, the Association noted with concern the rate ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has on Thursday challenged the violent Islamist sect Boko Haram to identify themselves and state clearly their demands as a basis for talks, adding that military confrontation alone will not end their insurgency. In an interview with Reuters at the presidential villa in Abuja, Mr. Jonathan also said there was no doubt that Boko Haram had links ...

Supporters and opponents of Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade rallied Monday in Dakar just days before a ruling on the legality of his controversial bid to seek a third term in February polls. At the Place de l’Obelisque in Dakar, thousands of Wade supporters dressed in white and waving white handkerchiefs welcomed the 85-year old leader, who arrived with his son ...

By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, please permit me to sound American today. The type of arrant nonsense going on in Nigeria today would have elicited some exclamatory remarks from the Americans. What I admire in them is their no-nonsense attitude to life. Love them or loathe them, the Americans would always fight for their rights. They have a long history ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s bungled effort to raise the country’s fuel prices to the market rate has hurt his international reputation as a potential reformer and infuriated a population tired of decades of rapacious government. Almost $1.3 billion in economic activity was lost during a nationwide strike that followed Jonathan’s announcement Jan. 1 to end a fuel subsidy that kept ...