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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 ...

  • Nigerian Military Says It Captured Dozens of Boko Haram Militants

    ABUJA -- Less than five days after the Nigerian armed forces began a massive attack on militants in the north, Nigeria's Department of Defense says 65 suspected Boko Haram militants have been arrested and ten have been killed. The Nigerian military says Boko Haram militants are fleeing their camps. Some are in search of fuel while others are running from the armed forces that are ...

  • Kerry urges Nigeria to respect human rights in Boko Haram offensive

    Female student stands in a burnt classroom at Maiduguri Experimental School, a private nursery, primary and secondary school burnt by the Islamist group Boko Haram to keep children away from school in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria on May 12, 2012. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty ...

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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 says 10 rebels killed in northeast 65 arrested

    LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Saturday it had killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 more as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group seen as the main security threat to Africa's top oil ...

  • 75 Heads of State 450 journalists to attend AU summit

    African Union Summit. The summit is scheduled to hold from May 19 to May 27 in Addis Ababa. A statement by the Commission’s Directorate of Information and Communication on Saturday, said 450 journalists had been given accreditation to cover activities of the summit. NAN reports that the ...

  • Boko Haram 24-hour curfew in Maiduguri as Military intensifies raid

    KANO – The 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 ...

  • President Jonathan promises free trade zone for South East

    President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to establish a free trade zone in the South East to boost economic activities in the area. Jonathan made the promise at the ground-breaking ceremony of the international wing of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu on Saturday. The president, who noted that a free trade zone would only be operational where there was an international airport or ...

  • Bundesliga Bayern win Dortmund slump

    BERLIN – Bayern Munich came from two goals down to seal a 4-3 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach, while their Champions League opponents, Borussia Dortmund, lost 2-1 at home to Hoffenheim on the final day of the Bundesliga on Saturday. Champions Bayern dug deep for their 29th league victory in 34 matches as Franck Ribery scored twice, then set up Arjen Robben for the winner after ...

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