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  • 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 ...

  • Nigerian soldiers kill 21 suspected Islamist fighters in northeast

    Soldiers in Nigeria launched their first raid against suspected Islamic extremists in a campaign to take back control of the nation's northeast, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday.The fighting happened Thursday in the Sambisa Forest Reserve, just south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which soldiers previously targeted hunting for fighters belonging to the ...

  • Can eating yams really give you twins

    By Bimpe Adea If you are a woman of a certain age, better think twice before you down those plates of yam, or you may get pregnant with twins. Did you know that a small town in Oyo State called Igbo-Ora has the highest number of twin births in the whole world? Population experts say that the small town of about 100,000 people in the south-west has the world's highest twinning rate. In ...

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [DVD]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring [DVD]

The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a towering feat of visual virtuosity. It takes a much beloved literary classic--unfilmable in just about every sense of the word--and turns it into an astounding cinematic spectacle. Director Peter Jackson has done what many thought would be impossible: He adapted the complex world of J.R.R. Tolkien's im ... ...

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  • Why my father honoured Oshiomhole – Crown Prince Eridiauwa

    BY SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY Edo state stood still last Saturday May 12, 2013 for Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, when his people in Edo North senatorial district, known as the Afemai people conferred a traditional title of Oshiosimua (Divine Redeemer) on the governor. The Auchi Sports Complex where the grand reception held was filled to the brim. It was a very remarkable and joyous ...

  • I paid N2700.000 for triplets says victim of baby factory

    Ababy delivery syndicate was recently unearthed by the Police and a key suspect arrested and paraded in Lagos, alongside two other women who were believed to have paid certain sums of money respectively, to be delivered of babies. Forty three years old Joy Ibe who lives at Ajah area of Lagos, said she has been married for 18 years without any issues, a dilemma that prompted her to run up and ...

  • Nigeria launches air raids on militant Islamist group Boko Haram

    Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm ...

  • Eagles will thrash Kenya in Nairobi says Hamilton

    Former Super Eagles coach, Paul Hamilton has tipped the Stephen Keshi led team to top Kenya in their June 5 World Cup qualification match in Nairobi Kenya. The Eagles put themselves in a precarious situation, when they played out a 1-1 draw at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar and now they must win in Kenya to keep alive their hope of featuring at the Brazil 2014 World Cup. 'I am ...

  • May Mary and a house for God

    By Muyiwa Adetiba Iam not sufficiently grounded in the Catholic traditions to understand why the month of May is devoted to Mary, the virgin mother of Christ. It could be because the first two alphabets of the name and the month are the same and they therefore sound alike. It could be more. I hope someday, to know more about this (Fr Kukah where are you?) What I do know however, is that every ...

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