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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 ...

  • Early endgame for Uruguay Nigeria

    Uruguay must take something from this game if they are to have any chance of progressing. To achieve that, Oscar Tabarez's will need to reproduce the kind of form they showed late on against the world champions, when they rallied after being very much second-best for fully 70 minutes. With that idea in mind, ...

  • Fracking Nigeria Economy On The Bed Of Shale By Ehi Oyabure

    The outcome of last OPEC meeting held in Vienna, Austria on the 31st of May 2013 was an unexpected departure from the past, openly admitting for the first time, the threat to its dominance in global oil supplies – hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Fracking is indisputably changing the geopolitical dynamics of global energy supplies and challenging the survival of oil export ...

  • Nigerian students killed during exam

    Suspected Islamists have shot dead nine students as they sat an exam in an attack on a private school in northeast Nigeria, local people say. The attack, in a region that is a stronghold of the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram, happened in Maiduguri, they said. Mohammed Saleh, a relative of one of the deceased students, said school officials had told him that the attack happened soon after the ...

  • Nigeria bans sat phones in northeast after attacks

    Nigeria's military on Wednesday banned the use of satellite phones in much of the restive northeast after cutting mobile phone service, further isolating the area after a series of fresh attacks. The military claimed in announcing the ban that Islamist extremist group Boko Haram had used satellite phones to plan attacks on schools. The insurgents have attacked two schools in the northeast ...

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The Killer (Die xue shuang xiong)

It is not without a truckload of irony that the two men--one a discontented assassin, the other a determined cop--find out for the first time that they have something in common while pointing guns at each other's heads. It is also not without similar amounts of irony that these two men, who stand on opposite sides of the law, eventually discover they are more like each other than anyone else, and ... ...

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  • Soldiers drafted to broken oil installation

    Yenagoa -The Joint Task Force in Niger Delta has tightened security around the Agip Oil's Well 9 facility in Ogbuinbiri community, Southern Ijaw local government in Bayelsa. A gas explosion from the facility had forced residents of the community to flee the area while the oil firm reportedly evacuated its workforce to a safe location. On Wednesday an additional detachment of armed ...

  • FIFA Declares Nigerias First Goal Against Tahiti As Own Goal

    The goal was initially credited to Elderson Echiejile The first goal of the match between Nigeria and Tahiti, scored by Elderson Echiejile, has been declared an own goal by the world football ruling body, FIFA. After its investigation of the game, FIFA released a statement on Tuesday saying, "Following further studies of the video of the match between Tahiti and Nigeria on 17 June in Belo ...

  • Abuja Court Strikes Out Terrorism Charges Against Amigo Supermarket Owner Other Lebanes

    Weapons discovered in Kano An Abuja court has struck out a case of illegal arms importation filed against the co-owner of Amigo Supermarket, Mustapha Fawaz, and three other Lebanese, Channels Television is reporting. Magistrate Muyiwa Oyeyipo of the Chief Magistrate Court in Karu, an Abuja suburb, stuck out the suit following an application by the prosecutor, Cliff Osagie. Mr. Fawaz, Talal ...

  • Nigeria Boko Haram Declares War On Borno Yobe Youth Over Vigilante Activities

    A spokesperson for the Boko Haram, Abu Zinnira, has said his group will launch a manhunt for youth in Borno and Yobe states who partake in vigilante activities to identify and arrest members of the terrorist group. Some youth in both states have formed vigilante groups to assist the Nigerian military to identify and arrest the terrorists in the towns. Their activities have been commended by the ...

  • Nigeria Jonathan Drags Tambuwal Before Journalists

    "Why are you hiding?" the president asked the speaker. A mild drama occurred at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa on Tuesday night as President Goodluck Jonathan dragged the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, before television cameras, shortly before the commencement of the closed-door meeting of the National Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). ...

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