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  • 25 killed 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger

    At least 25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bomb attacks Thursday at a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, reported Xinhua. A total of 20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a ...

  • London attack Hunt on for terror clues

    A Londoner of Nigerian descent was identified Thursday as one of the two suspects who decapitated a British soldier. The terror strike prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to go into a huddle with top officials and the military put in place additional security measures. Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death the British ...

  • Londoner of Nigerian descent suspect in terror attack

    Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death a British soldier in London, a media report said Thursday. The two terror suspects are being held under armed guard at hospitals in London and one of them has been named by Sky News sources as Adebolajo. The vicious attack on the soldier took place Wednesday in Woolwich, southeast ...

  • Frances Areva says one dead 14 wounded in Niger twin bombings

    French nuclear reactor producer Areva said one was killed and 14 wounded after a car bombing struck its plant in northern Niger on early Thursday morning. "AREVA has learned with the deepest emotion of the death of one of the injured victims during the attack on the site of Somair" at Arlit, the French nuclear company said in the statement, while confirming that 14 people were ...

  • Algerian jihadist claims Niger bombings

    Accra - A twin suicide attack that killed at least 21 people in northern Niger was planned by Algerian Islamist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the Mauritanian news website Al-Akhbar reported on ...

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Louie Bluie [DVD]

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Prior to the release of Terry Zwigoffs independently produced documentary Louie Bluie in the mid-1980s, the name Louie Bluie meant little to even dedicated music collectors and the name Howard Armstrong meant even less. When Zwigoff, a musician and rabid collector of 78s, traded so ... ...

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  • FG plans new tariff regime for industrial sector

    Abuja – A new tariff regime aimed at increasing local manufacturers capacity and boost investments in the industrial sector is underway, The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Olusegun Aganga, said. Mrs Yemi Kolapo, the Special Assistance to the Minister on Corporate Communications, said in a statement that Aganga made the plan known on Thursday when he inaugurated a committee on the ...

  • Confirmed Jim Iyke Nadia Buari now dating

    By Charles Mgbolu After weeks of denial, Nollywood bad boy, Jim Iyke and fair complexioned Ghollywood screen goddess, Nadia Buari have confirmed they are both dating. Helplessly love struck Nadia ...

  • Group linked to Algeria gas plant attack claims Niger raids

    ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday's attacks in ...

  • French president defends African military intervention after attacks in Niger

    PARIS - France's president says his country must fight harder against terrorists in Africa, after two suicide bombings apparently staged by extremists angry over the French military intervention in Mali. Francois Hollande, in a sweeping speech Friday on this nuclear-armed country's military doctrine, said, "We will stay in Mali and around Mali because we haven't finished ...

  • Ilorin South Wins Dr Olusola Saraki Memorial Cup

    The memorial birthday of the former senate leader, great political titan and philanthropist was preceeded by a well organized football tournament tagged "Dr Abubakar Olusola Saraki Memorial Cup." This league which was organized by Emirate Youth Forum engaged under 17 football teams from the three geo-political zones in the state. On May 17th, the birthday of the late political titan, ...

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