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For the flagship at 25...Antista Maria Cecilia Tolado of Germany and the Muson Orchestra back-up on stage at a musical concert at the Muson Centre Onikan, Lagos, as part of the activities marking the silver jubilee anniversary of The Guardian...yesterday
PHOTO: SAM ALADE OLUSEGUN
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Council Polls: Yar'Adua Invites Fashola
By Clifford Ndujihe and Kamal Tayo Oropo
LAST minute consultations between the Presidency and the Lagos State government on issues believed to be connected with today's local council polls in the state took place in Abuja yesterday.
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Odinga Returns Home, Says 'I'm A Friend Of Nigeria'
By Clifford Ndujihe and Ajibola Amzat
KENYA'S Prime Minister, Raila Amolo Odinga, left Nigeria yesterday for home, a day after he delivered a scholarly lecture in Lagos to mark the 25th anniversary of The Guardian.
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CBN May Lose Control Of Banks
From Tunde Oyedoyin, London
ANOTHER restructuring exercise looms in the banking and financial sector. In the forthcoming change, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may not be spared.
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AFRICA
Mauritania parties urge AU pressure on coup leaders
-091008
PRO-DEMOCRATIC parties in Mauritania have urged the African Union (AU) to pressure the ruling junta to obey its directive to reinstate the toppled president.
Mbeki's loyalists threaten split from ANC
-091008
SUPPORTERS of ousted South African president Thabo Mbeki have threatened to split from the ruling African National Congress (ANC), accusing its leaders of abandoning democratic ideals.
WORLD
U.S., others warn Syria against possible Lebanon invasion
-091008
IN a build-up that has raised concerns of a possible Lebanon incursion, a few tents and trucks dotting a green hill across the river are about all that is visible of a Syrian troop deployment on Lebanon's northern border.
Russia completes Georgia buffer zone withdrawal
-091008
BARELY 48 hours to the expiration of deadline withdrawal under cease-fire agreements brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, RUSSIAN forces have completely withdrawn from buffer zones around Georgia's rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, according to the Georgian interior ministry.
POLICY & POLITICS
Democracy and the challenge of good governance in Africa
-101008
OFTEN, people talk about democracy in Africa as if it is a foreign process, strange and exotic to our customs, and an import that has proved a singularly bad fit for the form it must clothe.
ARTS
Prologue: What Is Africa?
By Bola John
ASKING a question with an obvious answer always seems ridiculous until we realise we through we could answer the question but we really cannot.
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