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NY Mayor Bloomberg to Launch $12M Anti-Gun Violence Ad Blitz

Mayor of America’s largest city, Michael Bloomberg of New York, along with his anti-gun violence group, will (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Bereaved Nigerian Embassy Staff in Nude Drama

RESIDENTS of a neighborhood in the Romanian capital Bucharest watched helplessly as a woman reported (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

Looking Ahead with Bayo Oluwasanmi

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’

by Chinua Achebe (1975) IN the fall of 1974 I was walking one day from the English Department at (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Critical Russian Oligarch Berezovsky Found Dead in Bathroom

BORIS Berezovsky, the high-profile Russian oligarch who became a vociferous critic of the Kremlin from (more…)

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Nigerian Government Delegation Visits Achebe Family in Boston

A NIGERIAN government delegation paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Professor Chinua (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Questions Persist as Gov. Suntai is Transfered to US Hospital

INTRIGUES continue to trail the health condition of the incapacitated governor of Taraba State, Danbaba (more…)

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24Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Ambassador Adefuye Refutes ‘False’ Reports On Frosty Nigeria-US Relations Over Alamieyeseigha Pardon

NIGERIA’s ambassador to the United States, Professor Ade Adefuye, over the weekend issued a strong (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Diya Thanks Jonathan, Asks for Implementation of Oputa Report

FORMER Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant-General Oladipo Diya, on Friday in Lagos insisted that the coup (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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‘We Confidently Assert that Chinua Lives’ – Soyinka, J.P. Clark-Bekaderemo

WRITER and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka and poet and playwright J.P. Clark-Bekaderemo released a (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Vice President Sambo Convoy In Deadly Auto Wreck

Two Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, supporters died in an accident Friday while on their way to receive the (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Achebe and the power of words: A collection of African proverbs

- After a war life catches desperately at passing/hints of normality like vines entwining a hollow/twig; its famished roots close on rubble and/every piece of broken glass.” – a poem from the 2012 memoir “There Was a Country.” (more…)

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23Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Chinua Achebe: What Nigeria Means To Me

Chinua Achebe looks back on his troubled relationship with his country. (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Ace Writer Chinua Achebe Dies in Boston at 82

WORLD-RENOWNED Nigerian novelist, poet and essayist, Chinua Achebe, is dead. (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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UNIUYO Lecturer Regains Freedom After Kidnap

FOUR days after her shocking kidnap, Dr. Ime Udotong was freed by her abductors. (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Boko Haram issues threat in new video

A VIDEO of a French family of seven kidnapped last month in Cameroon and which also purported to show (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Real reasons Alamieyeseigha was pardoned •How he reached agreement with Yar’Adua

IT emerged in Abuja on Thursday that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan decided to grant (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Fulani Herdsman kill abducted Veterinary doctor

-IGP says owners of tinted cars can be arrested for terrorism AS the government and Special Task Force (STF) in charge of security (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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SSS blames Civil Society’s Lethargy For Kano Attack

The State Security Service (SSS) yesterday blamed Monday’s bombing of vehicles at a motor park (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Darkness envelops Nigeria

-Power firms: FG pockets N88.3bn as bidders meet deadline A major system failure on the national power grid is responsible for the blackout (more…)

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22Mar By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Pastor Adeboye and Casino Pentecostalism, By Ebenezer Obadare

As an observer of African Pentecostalism in general and the dynamics of mega-churches in Nigeria (more…)

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