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INDEPENDENT MEDIA File picture: Cindy Waxa Tshwane – South African universities are currently struggling financially and the situation is worsened by the huge, ballooning debt owed to the institutions by students, the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training chaired by Justice Jonathan Arthur Heher heard on Wednesday. |
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The Bibles are the size of pill boxes.
An evangelical church in Sweden is looking to convert Muslims in the Middle East to Christianity, and it's planning to use to do so. military drones The Livets Ord church, whose name translates to "Word of Life," announced this week it's going to use the.... |
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Groups of teenage boys in greasy clothes are lost in conversation. A number of them keep smoking and, sniffing into dirty, old mineral water bottles containing petrol. Despite the heat from the glaring midday sun, younger children lay spread-eagled on abandoned iron sheets. |
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Jide Ojo. In my article on this page on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, I wrote about the “Unique features of Ogun State.” In that piece, I X-rayed the immense contributions of the state to the political economy of the South West geopolitical zone as well as Nigeria in general. |
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MORGANTOWN, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police believe foul play was involved in the deaths of a pastor and his wife who were found inside their Butler County home. Sgt. Jeremy Smith tells news outlets a family member discovered 71-year-old Kenneth Neafus and 70-year-old wife Dorothy Neafus inside the home in Morgantown on Tuesday afternoon. |
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HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — A man accused of shooting his daughter after she came home from her first day of middle school moved his family moved to the Nashville suburb so they could have a better life than he had, said a Baptist pastor who had become friends with him. |
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The Spiritual leader of the Celestial Church of Christ in Nigeria, Paul Suru Maforikan (Baba Maforikan) is dead. He reportedly died at age 86 around 10:30 pm on Tuesday 9th August 2016 after a protracted illness. His death was announced by Akossou Severin of the CIRCUIT HEAD at Celestial Ado-Ekiti 3, Ekiti State. |
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A Chicago activist arrested last month during downtown protests of fatal shootings by police has been indicted on charges he physically assaulted officers. Ja'Mal Green, 20, was surrounded by 11 supporters at the Branch 42 courthouse at Belmont and Western avenues Wednesday as Judge Marvin Luckman told Green he had been indicted on seven counts. |
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MORGANTOWN, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police believe foul play was involved in the deaths of a pastor and his wife who were found inside their Butler County home. Sgt. Jeremy Smith tells news outlets a family member discovered 71-year-old Kenneth Neafus and 70-year-old wife Dorothy Neafus inside the home in Morgantown on Tuesday afternoon. |
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The Subaru driver, 62-year-old Susan Deserio, suffered minor injuries. Snyder said the circumstances of the crash remained under investigation and no charges had been filed as of Wednesday. Speed, alcohol and drugs are not considered factors, he said. House was ordained in 1991, the non-denominational Christian church wrote on its Facebook page. |
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Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas, reopened today, three days after a 10-year-old boy died on one of the park's waterslides. The victim, Caleb Schwab, suffered a fatal neck injury on the Verruckt waterslide on Sunday, officials said. While the Verruckt ride will remain closed for the.... |
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BREAKING NEWS Longtime ESPN host John Saunders dead at age 61.
Kansas Waterpark to Reopen Today After Boy's Death.
Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas, is set to reopen at noon local time today, three days after a 10-year-old boy died on one of the park's waterslides. |
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The Rev. Danny Digal, who worked tirelessly to rebuild Our Lady of Prompt Succor Roman Catholic Church in Chalmette and reunite the scattered faithful of St. Bernard Parish after Hurricane Katrina , has died in his native Philippines after a long battle with diabetes and kidney disease. He was 64, according to the Clarion Herald. |
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Sioux City, IA (51101) Today. Partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 93F. Winds SSE at 15 to 25 mph.. Tonight. Partial cloudiness early, with scattered showers and thunderstorms overnight. Low near 75F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Updated: August 10, 2016 @ 10:52 am;
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INDEPENDENT MEDIA You do know that there has been acts of violence and arson at our institutions. I think it doesnt make sense to burn our universities, Wits vice chancellor Adam Habib said. Picture: Werner Beukes Pretoria – Students are the worst affected when violent protests erupt leading a.... |
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Mourners gathered at a South Memphis church Saturday morning for a funeral for four children allegedly killed by their mother. Four open caskets sat at the front of the church sanctuary. Before the funeral began, hundreds stood in a line to offer words of prayer and condolence to surviving family.... |
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Caleb Schwab died while riding a water slide at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, police said. In the aftermath of his death, concerns have risen about the safety of the ride and the lack of federal regulations on rides at American theme parks. |
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“You do know that there has been acts of violence and arson at our institutions. I think it doesn’t make sense to burn our universities,” Habib told African News Agency (ANA) after making submissions to the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training chaired by Justice Jonathan Arthur Heher in Pretoria. |
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– Nigeria has been reeling under a very harsh economy and Donald Duke, former Cross River governor, is hitting hard at politicians. – Duke also criticised the ‘change agenda’ of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration even though the government has continued to raise hopes. |
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HARARE - 1 comment World Politics professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (OAS) University, London, Stephen Chan, says the current wave of protests against President Robert Mugabe including the social media campaign #ThisFlag are not good enough to cause a revolution similar to the.... |
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“Character counts.” That was evangelicals’ rallying cry in their all-out assault against Bill Clinton beginning in 1993. In response to what they perceived as widespread moral decline, some religious groups had become aligned with the Republican Party during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. |
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The Rev. Danny Digal, former pastor of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Chalmette who worked tirelessly to rebuild his church and reunite the scattered faithful of St. Bernard Parish after Hurricane Katrina, died in his native Philippines after a long battle with diabetes and kidney disease. |
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This week the California Assembly begins final deliberations on Sen. Ricardo Lara’s “Equity in Higher Education Act” (SB 1146). The bill, which passed the Senate in late May, has a salutary purpose -- to ensure against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation at California campuses. Unfortunately, this legislation goes far beyond that. |
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A Tennessee father is facing reckless homicide charges after police say he accidentally fatally shot his 11-year-old daughter on her first day of sixth grade. , to the emergency room on Monday from their home in the city of Hendersonville, NBC News reports. Timea had a gunshot wound in her chest and died at the hospital. |
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Mr McCord said that the DUP have failed to do enough to tackle paramilitaries in Belfast but DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson said his comments were insulting and that he had been on an "anti-DUP vendetta for years". Speaking to the BBC following the murder of leading UDA man John Boreland , Mr McCord said:.... |
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