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  • Indian Nigerian teams win Africa business contest

    An Indian team comprising IITians and a Nigerian team promoting low-cost farm products have triumphed at an India-Africa business competition held here. India's Life Catalyst Technologies and Nigeria's Jorsey Ashbel Farms won the 2nd Indiafrica Business Venture Competition held as part of the ongoing IndiAfrica Festival here, a statement from the organisers said Saturday. Four teams from ...

  • Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office

    17 May 2013 150 Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram ...

  • Air Strikes Hit Nigerias Militant Camps

    Nigerian forces have launched air strikes against suspected Islamist militant camps in the country's northeast. A military spokesman said all known militant camps in three northeastern states are being attacked and that several camps in Borno state have been destroyed or taken over. The spokesman, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, said earlier Friday that the attacks killed an ...

  • Dozens killed in Nigerian military strike against Boko Haram

    Dozens of people have been killed in a military strike launched by Nigerian army since Thursday night in the northern part of the West African country, reported Xinhua citing security sources. The casualties include three soldiers involved in the army's unprecedented action against insurgents of the Boko Haram sect, which suffered the heaviest losses since emerging in 2009, the sources ...

  • Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign against insurgents in the region.A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas of Maiduguri where people must remain inside their ...

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The Faculty

"The Faculty" makes both director Robert Rodriguez and writer Kevin Williamson look like one-trick ponies--hot Hollywood commodities who can't deliver the goods over the long-haul. "The Faculty" is basically a watered-down and disappointing version of what they do best: Williamson's ability to write believable teenage characters and subvert the horror genre, and Rodriguez's ability to choreograph ... ...

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  • Nigeria imposes curfew in campaign against Islamists

    Nigeria's military on Saturday imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of a northeastern city as it pressed on with a campaign against Boko Haram Islamists that has sent residents fleeing the region. Locals in a remote insurgent stronghold near the border with Cameroon have begun fleeing their homes after military fighter jets and helicopters carried out air strikes on Islamist camps. Nigeria ...

  • 24-hour curfew in Nigeria’s Maiduguri

    Nigeria - Nigeria's military on Saturday imposed a round-the-clock curfew in parts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the home base of Boko Haram Islamists, as a massive offensive against the insurgents presses on across the ...

  • A Nigerian-Americanah Novel About Love Race and Hair

    School romances face a lot of obstacles: the big decision at graduation, the competing demands of two burgeoning careers, perhaps a period spent in a long-distance relationship. But the young lovers in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest novel, Americanah, must overcome even more challenges than usual: military rule, immigration restrictions and, during their years apart, other ...

  • Islam - the Question That Changed My Life - Ex-Outlawz Member

    is a former rapper and member of Tupak Shakur's rap group Outlawz popularly known as Napoleon. Born in Newark, New Jersey on October 11, 1977 to Muslim parents (Puerto Rican Aquillah Beale and African Amreican father Salek Beale), Mutah whose parents were killed in his presence when he was three years old was raised as a Christian. Mutah, who reverted to Islam a decade ago, was in Abuja ...

  • Four Gunmen Three Soldiers Two Cops Killed in Daura

    Katsina and Kano - FOUR gunmen were killed by security forces during an attack on banks and police stations in Daura town in Katsina State on Thursday night by suspected insurgents. Three soldiers and two policemen also died, in addition to two soldiers that sustained injuries in the coordinated attack that lasted about six hours in the historic city located near Nigeria's border with ...

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