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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
  • IFC Partners with Advans S.A. to Set Up Microfinance Bank in Oyo State
    IFC (Washington, DC)-IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is investing $1.1 million (174.5 million Nigerian naira) alongside Advans S.A., German development bank KfW, and Dutch development bank FMO to establish La Fayette Microfinance Bank in Oyo State, Nigeria.
  • Wada Sworn in Amidst Confusion
    Leadership (Abuja)-Captain Idris Wada, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the December election in Kogi State has been sworn following the sack of former governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris by the Supreme Court .
  • A Call for Protection of Journalists Amid Violence
    IFJ (Brussels)-The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined its African regional organisation, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), in calling on the Federal Government of Nigeria to protect journalists as the increased violence by the Islamist group Boko Haram continues to claim lives of citizens and threatens to ignite a wider conflict.
  • Jubilation in Yenagoa As Police Seal Up Govt House
    Vanguard (Lagos)-Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital, Friday, erupted in celebration as the news of the ouster of Governor Timipre Sylva by the Supreme Court hit the airwaves.
  • Supreme Court Sacks Five PDP Governors
    Leadership (Abuja)-The Supreme Court has sacked five state governors from office in a tenure elongation ruling delivered Friday morning in Abuja.

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We stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people.

In accepting the Nobel Peace joint prize with FW de Klerk:  Nelson Mandela


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