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  • 60 killed in Nigerian village attacks

    At least 60 people were killed in Nigeria Tuesday when some gunmen stormed four villages of Zamfara state early morning, residents and security sources said. About 100 gunmen, first stormed Kizara village around 3.00 a.m. and began attacking the residence of poor villagers. In the process, an unknown number of people were killed, including the District Head of Kizara, Bello Ibrahim, who was ...

  • Nigerian cook survives two days under sea in shipwreck air bubble

    Being buried alive is usually near the top of any worst-ways-to-die list. But how about being buried alive 100 feet below the ocean surface in a tiny pocket of air? For Harrison Okene, a 29-year-old Nigerian boat cook, this nightmare scenario became a reality for nearly three grueling days. The story began on May 26 at about 4:30 a.m., when Okene got up to use the restroom. His vessel, a ...

  • Nigeria Mass Infanticide in America

    A report from the office of the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that, in 2009 alone, 784,708 successful abortions were carried out in that country. "That's a breathtaking number, no matter which side of the abortion debate you sit on," the report admits. "What this statistic doesn't convey is a more mysterious number: how many ...

  • WorleyParsons shares rise on Nigeria deal

    SHARES in mining engineer WorleyParsons are up three per cent after a South Korean shipbuilding giant awarded it a $US100 million ($A105.97 million) offshore oil and gas contract in ...

  • World Briefing | Africa 9 Students Killed at School in Nigeria

    Militants opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the troubled northeast, killing at least nine of them, witnesses said Tuesday. The attack on Monday at a private school in Maiduguri was the second on a school in recent days. On Sunday, 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in ...

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The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum

There have been a lot of threequels this summer--a third Shrek, a third Pirates of the Caribbean, a third Spider-Man--but unlike those, The Bourne Ultimatum feels nothing if not necessary because it genuinely builds on its predecessors. It is the ... ...

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  • NSE to review market indices

    Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, Northern Nigeria Flour Mills Plc and Honeywell Flour Mills Plc are likely to be replaced on the NSE Consumers Goods Index with UTC Nigeria Plc, Multi-Trex Integrated Foods Plc and Nigerian Enamelware ...

  • N70000 mysteriously turns to pieces of paper

    BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU ABUJA -- Pension money withdrawn from a second generation bank by a 24-year-old woman for the upkeep of his ailing father mysteriously turned to pieces of newspapers after she alighted from a commercial taxi in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The woman who pleaded anonymity told Vanguard that she had gone to the bank located at Murtala Muhammed Highway, Calabar ...

  • 8 Russian Sailors Acquitted in Nigeria Arms Smuggling Case

    arrested near the West African country’s coast in October 2012 on arms smuggling charges. The sailors were the crew of the MV Myre Seadiver vessel owned by Moscow-based security firm Moran Security Group. Nigerian authorities detained the Myre Seadiver ship with the Russian crew in the port of Lagos on October 19 last year after finding weapons, including 14 Kalashnikov AK-47 assault ...

  • JTF youths rescue French national from kidnappers

    BY SAMUEL OYADONGHA YENAGOA -- A missing 28-year-old French national, Benjamin lan, working on board a chemical vessel, was yesterday, rescued from the kidnappers’ den by operatives of the Joint Task Force code named Operation Pulo Shield in collaboration with youths of Amatu community of Bayelsa State in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. lan, the chief officer of the ship ...

  • Nigeria has over 1499 illegal entry routes – Interior Minister

    By VICTORIA OJEME & RUTH ODINIYA ABUJA – INTERIORMinister, Abba Moro,yesterday, disclosed thatthere were over 1,499 irregular/illegal and 84 regular/legal officially identified entry routes into the country. Moro said Nigeriahas witnessed several instances where foreigners crossed the borders and perpetrated various types of crime, including terrorism. He said as a result, 10,401 ...

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