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Nigeria: Palestinian Authority, NSCIA Blast Nigeria for Abstaining at UN
This Day, 2 January 2015
The Palestinian Authority's (PA) representative to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) criticised Nigeria on Wednesday over its abstention during a UN vote on Palestinian… Read more »
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Nigeria: NSCIA Chides FG On UN Palestine Vote
Daily Trust, 2 January 2015
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) yesterday condemned the decision of Nigeria's representatives to abstain from voting on the United Nations (UN) Security… Read more »
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Nigeria: Islamic Council, Group Fault Nigeria's Role in UN Resolution on Palestine
Guardian, 1 January 2015
THE Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Thursday slammed the Federal Government for abstaining from voting at the recent… Read more »
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Nigeria: Statehood Bid At the UN Nigeria Abstains, Palestine Loses
Daily Trust, 1 January 2015
A last-minute decision by Nigeria to abstain from voting at the United Nations (UN) Security Council session Tuesday had helped defeat a resolution calling for an end to Israeli… Read more »
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Nigeria: In a Foreign Policy Shift, Nigeria Sides With Israel Over Palestine
This Day, 1 January 2015
In a pivotal foreign policy shift, Nigeria on Tuesday night abstained from voting on a crucial United Nations Security Council resolution that would have ended Israel's occupation… Read more »
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Nigeria: Palestine Statehood - Nigeria's Abstention Contradictory, Distasteful - MURIC
Daily Trust, 1 January 2015
Nigeria's last Tuesday's abstention from voting for a Palestinian Statehood is cowardly, distasteful and contradicts the nation's long held anti-apartheid stance, the Muslim Rights… Read more »
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Nigeria: Palestine Statehood - Nigeria's 'No Vote' Is Support for Injustice - MPAC
Daily Trust, 1 January 2015
The Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) yesterday said the refusal of Nigeria to vote for Palestinian Statehood by abstaining is historic with serious implications for peace in the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Nigeria's Position Signals Foreign Policy Change - Don
Daily Trust, 1 January 2015
A political scientist has described Nigeria's abstention during the United Nations Security Council vote on Palestine on Tuesday as signal of major change in the country's foreign… Read more »
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Nigeria: Palestine and the Stirrings of Global Conscience
Daily Trust, 1 January 2015
The recent spate of 'recognition' of the 'State of Palestine' by major European countries represents a shift, even if symbolic from the past practice of tacit support for the… Read more »
Nigeria's Role in UN Vote on Palestine Faulted
This comes after Nigeria's representatives pulled out from voting on the United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory by 2017.
A Palestinian man looks out towards destroyed buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City (file photo).
