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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 ...

  • Pope sends tweet prayer for Catholics

    VATICAN CITY (AFP) – Pope Francis on Friday tweeted a prayer for Catholics in China on the feast day of the Virgin of Sheshan in Shanghai and celebrated mass before a group of Chinese Catholics in the ...

  • Premier League Playoff winners to earn $182m

    LONDON (AFP) – The winners of Monday’s Championship play-off final between Crystal Palace and Watford can expect to receive 120 million ($182 million) if they are relegated from the Premier League after just a season in England’s top flight. Often billed as the ‘richest match in football’, the play-off final has been given extra financial clout by the new improved ...

  • Fresh oil spill hit Bayelsa communities pollutes Taylor Creek

    …it is sabotage–SPDC By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Communities in the downstream of the Taylor creek traversing Bayelsa communities in Yenagoa local government area have been hit by a fresh oil spill from a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) facility. The latest incident, it was learnt, occurred from a spill site three hours after it was clamped by SPDC personnel. A ...

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Louie Bluie [DVD]

Louie Bluie [DVD]

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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  • Sapele Agog for Delta Govs Cup Losers Final

    The city of Sapele will Friday have a taste of the Delta State's Governor's Cup when the third place match is decided at 2pm this afternoon. At stake will be a 30-seater bus worth N13m and cash prize of N500,000. And to fight for these prizes will be Dom Domingo Secondary School who lost to Alegbo Grammar School Ugheli in the semifinal at Oleh and Edjekota Secondary School who lost to ...

  • The League As a Catalyst for Growth

    This presentation, in my judgment, is coming at a most opportune time given the fact that this public hearing in respect of the NFF bill coincides with the reforms in the Nigeria Professional Football League which the League Management Company Ltd (LMC) is currently carrying out under the authority of NFF. As a necessary backdrop to this presentation, it is important to recapitulate some ...

  • Amnesty Cttee to Nigerians - Link Us With Boko Haram Members

    Kaduna - Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts in Northern Nigeria Barrister Kabiru Tanimu Turaki yesterday urged Nigerians who have contact with the Boko Haram sect members to link his committee with the committee for proper dialogue. Speaking when he led members of the committee on a courtesy call to Kaduna State governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero ...

  • 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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