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  • Security Council Press Statement on Attacks in Niger

    The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks that occurred in Agadez and Arlit, Niger, on 23 May, for which MUJWA has claimed responsibility, and which have caused numerous deaths and ...

  • French help Niger to kill last jihadist bombers

    Twisted metal lies at the site of a morning car bomb attack inside a military camp in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to ...

  • Niger defense minister Hostages freed in Agadez

    Twisted metal lies at the site of a morning car bomb attack inside a military camp in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to ...

  • Niger Al-Qaeda Attack 20 people dead as dozens others left injured in Niger Africa News

    Both attacks were carried out as people prepared for early morning prayers known as Fajir just after 05:00 local time (04:00 GMT). Local reporters say a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west of the country were the target of the terrorists. A bomb at a barracks in Agadez killed 19, including 18 soldiers while four terrorists died in the attack and a passbyer. ...

  • French special forces intervene in Niger amid Al-Qaeda attacks

    Terrorism French special forces assisted Nigerien troops in an operation at an army base in Niger to flush out Al-Qaeda-linked militants suspected of a string of deadly attacks Thursday in the West African country. At least 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded in coordinated car bombings and assaults on a uranium mine run by French company Areva in the town of Arlit, and at a ...

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Stranger Than Fiction [DVD]

Stranger Than Fiction [DVD]

Stranger Than Fiction is a better-than-average gimmick movie, one that takes a grabby, clever premise that would seem to have little weight and stretches it successfully over a feature-length story. The gimmick is that, one day, an ordinary man suddenly begins he ... ...

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  • Mother of nine commits suicide in Zamfara

    GusauA – 45-year-old house wife, Malama Hadiza Sani of Gada Village in Bungudu Local Government area of Zamfara has allegedly committed suicide. Hadiza, who until her death was a local comedian, was said to have killed herself with a sharp object in her husband’s compound. Her husband Sani, a meat seller, told reporters on Friday in Gada that he left his wife alive for prayers in a ...

  • Gunmen kill father son Almajiri in Borno

    BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Despite the emergency rule and the deployment of over 3000 Joint Taks Force troops in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, some gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect yesterday shot dead provision store dealer, Mr. Bitrus Kwaji and his son (name witheld), while one child suspected to be Almajiri(destitute) was killed by a stray bullet in Chescon area of Federal low ...

  • Nigeria Senate Discusses Urgent Need for Rivers Dredging

    This program will include: urgent need for dredging and desilting of the River Niger, the Cross River, River Benue and other inland waterways in Nigeria; and accordingly resolved to mandate the relevant Committees of the Senate to ascertain the level of preparedness of the Ministries in tackling this menace. The Senate commenced the consideration of the NOSDRA amendment Bill Committee Report. ...

  • AU Countries Endorse Nigeria for UN Security Council

    Nigeria was unanimously endorsed Thursday by African Union members in the nation's quest to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in October. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, who disclosed this after a closed door meeting with other foreign ministers at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, said the major hurdle now is ...

  • Good Nigerian Talents Cost More Than Expatriates Says Airtels CEO

    Lagos - Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya has called on the leadership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) to celebrate and promote local talents, saying African talents should be adequately empowered and supported to take up corporate leadership opportunities across the continent as good Nigerian talents ...

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