http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/boko-haram-detainees-ll-be-released-in-phases-presidency/ “The order for the release of the detainees would be in phases. Concerning the first batch, the emphasis is on women and children who have been in detention on suspicion of involvement and/or connection with insurgency in some parts of the country.

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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/you-will-never-be-safe-london-attacker/ “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you unless you leave us alone,” he says. “We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

‘We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting – London attacker

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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/elegy-for-a-nation/ A tribute to the late Prof. Chinua Achebe By WOLE SOYINKA AH, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you, It was to me. I thought the form I spied Beneath the frosted glass of a fifty-carat catafalque Was the face of our own dear land – ‘own’, ‘dear’, Voluntary patriotese, you’ll note – we try to please. An…

THE death of Africa’s foremost writer, critic and cultural pathologist, Chinualumogu Albert Achebe is a great loss to a world where the wisdom of sacred spoken and written words is observed with high reverence.

Chinua Achebe: 1930 – 2013