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  2. Diezani Alison-Madueke - Wikipedia

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    Politician. architect. Diezani K. Alison-Madueke (born 6 December 1960) is a Nigerian politician and the first female President of OPEC. [2] She was elected at the 166th OPEC Ordinary meeting in Vienna on 27 November 2014. [3] She became Nigeria's minister of transportation on 26 July 2007. [4]

  3. Henry Dele Alake - Wikipedia

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    Igbobi College. University of Lagos. Occupation. Journalist. activist. politician. Henry Dele Alake ( ( Listen ⓘ); born 6 October 1956) is a Nigerian journalist, activist and technocrat who is the current Nigerian minister of Solid Minerals. He is a former commissioner for Information and Strategy of Lagos State serving from 1999 to 2007.

  4. Daily Nation - Wikipedia

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    The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by ...

  5. Asake - Wikipedia

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    He is signed to YBNL Nation and Empire Distribution. His stage name "Asake" is his mother's name. In September 2022, his debut album Mr. Money with the Vibe was released, breaking the record for the biggest opening day for an African album on Apple Music at the time.

  6. Assassination of Malcolm X - Wikipedia

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    Outside of the U.S., particularly in Africa, the press was sympathetic. The Daily Times of Nigeria wrote that Malcolm X would "have a place in the palace of martyrs." The Ghanaian Times likened him to John Brown, Medgar Evers, and Patrice Lumumba, and counted him among "a host of Africans and Americans who were martyred in freedom's cause."

  7. List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    Wars (1,000–9,999 combat-related deaths in current or previous year) The 15 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.

  8. Nigerian Civil War - Wikipedia

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    According to American political theorist Ernest W. Lefever, the U.S. providing official support to Biafra would have resulted in hostility from not only Nigeria, but also other African nations who supported Nigeria in the war, who had successfully argued to the United Nations that the war was an internal affair that the U.N. should not be ...

  9. Culture of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    The Nigerian national football team, nicknamed the "Super Eagles", is the national team of Nigeria, run by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). According to the FIFA World Rankings , Nigeria ranks 42nd and holds the sixth-highest place among the African nations.