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  • Kerry Calls on Nigeria to Stop Human Rights Abuses

    ADDIS ABABA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Nigerian authorities are working to stop human rights abuses by security forces in their fight against Boko Haram militants. The U.S. top diplomat made the remarks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he took part in ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Secretary Kerry said there is no denying the ...

  • Kerry in Ethiopia for Security Talks

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ethiopia for security talks with regional officials and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Kerry's visit is expected to include talks on African and Western efforts to fight Islamist extremists in Mali and northern Nigeria. During recent talks with Nigeria's foreign minister, Kerry reaffirmed U.S. support for Nigeria's fight ...

  • Christians Remain Targets as Nigeria Violence Grows

    Christians warn they are the main target of ongoing violence in Nigeria's restive northeast. Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, says its forces have successfully engaged a large number of heavily armed terrorists during the last few days in an effort to curtail the violence. To date 17 deaths have been reported, 14 suspected Islamic extremists and three soldiers. ...

  • Boko Haram Kills Nigerian Pentecostal Leader

    Boko Haram terrorists are believed responsible for the murder of a popular Pentecostal pastor in Nigeria. Faye Pama was the Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, North East zone. Stefanos Foundation Director Mark Lipdo said Pastor Faye was killed in Borno state Tuesday afternoon. "Gunmen climbed his fence and got into his house and shot him downYou know the sect says they ...

  • Vicious Terrorist Attacks in Niger Kill 30

    Two deadly suicide bombings in Niger have killed about 30 people, including 24 soldiers and at least six jihadists. Reports say suicide bombers simultaneously drove vehicles full of explosives into a military base in the town of Agadez and a French uranium at Arlit. One civilian was reportedly killed in the attack on the mine. A troop of French special forces responded to the call and helped ...

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Terms of Endearment [DVD]

Terms of Endearment [DVD]

In the introduction to the paperback edition of Terms of Endearment, author Larry McMurtry noted that he wrote the novel after having spent a couple of years rereading several 19th-century novelists, including Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, and George Eliot. As McMurtry put it, "All three, of course, had taken a very searching look at the fibers and textures of life; I doubt I aspired to such pr ... ...

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  • When the Senate dissolved party lines for emergency rule

    BY HENRY UMORU The Senate read the mood of the nation correctly when it threw its weight behind the imposition of state of emergency in the troubled states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. Following the nationwide broadcast by President Goodluck Jonathan where he declared the state of emergency and in line with the Senate Standing Orders 2011 as amended, the lawmakers called for a session to ...

  • Emergency Rule How Reps tinkered with proclamation

    By OKEY NDIRIBE Fresh facts have emerged on why President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration of a state of emergency in three north-eastern states got unanimous endorsement in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. It was learnt that security reports concerning the situation in the states had become alarming. A particular report indicated that Boko Haram militants had threatened that they ...

  • Kerry pressures Nigeria on human rights during first visit to sub-Saharan Africa

    US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) attends the 50th African Union Aniversary Summit in Addis Ababa on May 25, 2013, with Africa's myriad problems set aside for a day to mark the progress that has been made. Today's 54-member AU is the successor of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established amid the heady days as independence from colonial rule swept the continent in 1963. ...

  • Boko Haram camps destroyed by Nigerian army

    The Nigerian army said Friday it had destroyed a number of camps used by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeast of the ...

  • Old Yoruba Kingdom Who are the Yoruba people

    By Femi Fani-Kayode In his 2,000 page book entitled, ''Ile-Ife-The Source of Yoruba Civilisation'', Prince Adelegan Adegbolawrote the following about the Yoruba people: "The Yoruba are the progeny of great kingship, efficient kingdom-builders and astute rulers. They have been enjoying for centuries a well-organized pattern of society, a pattern which persists, in spite ...

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