Pregnant with Possibility

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The news of a pregnancy should ideally be met with joy – but all too often there is justifiable fear. The African Union Summit this week, set to focus on the health of mothers and children, has a chance to transform this fear into hope.

Ten years into the Millennium Development Goals, we know what African leaders have always appreciated: when you invest in mothers, whole societies benefit, and when you care for children, you raise a new generation of leaders.

This is not a theory; at the United Nations we see it happen in reality.

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Oil Spill is Old News in Nigeria

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Big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land. The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates. The oil pours out nearly every week, and some swamps are long since lifeless. New York Times: Battered by Oil

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Nuhu Ribadu Returns

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Can a defiant individual make a difference in the war on corruption?

WHILE flitting between Oxford colleges and Washington think-tanks in the past 18 months, Nuhu Ribadu (pictured) kept insisting that what he really wanted was to go home. Nigeria’s former anti-corruption tsar was in self-imposed exile, having made powerful enemies while probing his country’s political elite. But last month he returned, setting tongues wagging about his next move. As the first head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), set up in 2003, Ribadu spent four years pursuing politicians and civil servants who were embezzling the country’s vast oil revenues. Now, he is rumored a possible political candidate. Can he do it?

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Fela's Legacy Lives in Femi

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Femi Kuti, the Nigerian singer and saxophonist, admits to being delighted that “Fela!,” the Broadway musical about his father, Fela Kuti, is a hit, attracting new fans to Afrobeat, the politically charged musical genre that Fela created and Femi plays. Even so, he is not planning to see the Tony-winning show during a trip to New York for a performance in Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing series. Femi Kuti performing with his band, Positive Force, at Philadelphia on Saturday. While pursuing his own career, he also sees to honoring the memory of his father, Fela Kuti.
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Too Dumb to Rule!

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Ibrahim Babangida has stated boldly that the Nigerian youth is too dumb to rule.

Responding to a question on why he was not interested in younger politicians ruling the country, Babangida had responded thus, "Because we have seen signs that they are not capable of leading this country and so, we feel we should help them. May be they are not given the proper education, that is why. I have spent 17 years since I left office...... But a country like Nigeria cannot be ruled by people without experience.

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