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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 ...

  • Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack medical worker

    students , witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom ...

  • Dad Remanded for Allegedly Poisoning Own Son

    Makurdi - A 21-year-old man, John Terver, has been arrested and remanded in Makurdi for allegedly poisoning the food of his three-year-old son, Aondoyima Terver, which led to the death of the toddler. Terver, an automobile panel beater, hails from Zaki Biam in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. Arraigning the suspect at a Makurdi Magistrate's Court, the police prosecutor, Patrick ...

  • A Letter to President Obama

    Dear Mr. President, Greetings from Nigeria. Excuse me for addressing you simply as "Mr. President" which is considered rude here under our shores and where our protocol demands that you should be addressed as "Your Excellency, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Professor of Constitutional Law, Professor President of the United States of America!" And if I wanted a ...

  • A Get-Well Card for Mandela

    The status of the health of former South African President Nelson Mandela has provoked anxious moments not only in his rainbow country, but also across the world. The global scare caused by the current stay of Mandela in the hospital is different from earlier ones given the tone of the medical bulletins coming out of South Africa. Although the man fondly called Madiba by his people remains on ...

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The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum

There have been a lot of threequels this summer--a third Shrek, a third Pirates of the Caribbean, a third Spider-Man--but unlike those, The Bourne Ultimatum feels nothing if not necessary because it genuinely builds on its predecessors. It is the ... ...

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  • FG to Finalise U.S.$6 Billion Loan Deal for Telecoms Infrastructure

    The Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson Tuesday said the federal government was assiduously working towards securing a total of $6 billion investment to promote efficient telecommunication services across the country. The investment, according to the minister, would be done through major telecommunications service providers before the end of the year. According to her, ...

  • FG Designates 13 Airports Cargo Terminals

    The federal government has designated 13 airports across the country as perishable cargo terminals, as a strategy to enable the country benefit from the over N250 billion Africa's annual cargo freight business and also to transform the aviation sector into a major revenue earner for the country. A statement Tuesday, the Group General Manager, Corporate Service of the Federal Airports ...

  • Nigeria Drops Arms Charges Against Nine Russians

    The federal government Tuesday withdrew the case of illegal arms importation against nine out of the 15 Russians who were initially charged before a Federal High Court in Lagos. Those discharged were Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Varlygin Igor, Lopatin Alexey, Baranovskly Nikolay, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov and Kononov Sergel. With this development, Chichkanov ...

  • Nigers Growing Jihadist Problem

    Today, our partners at Stratfor warn that Jihadist activity is on the rise in Niger. They attribute this worrying trend to intensive counterterrorism operations across West Africa and to the Nigerian military's involvement in northern ...

  • FG to launch Fibre-optic Network connecting 27 universities

    Abuja – The Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, said that the Federal Government would launch its Fibre-optic Research and Education Network, connecting 27 universities to the Internet by July. Johnson announced the plan in Abuja on Tuesday at the ongoing Ministerial Platform when she presented the ministry's achievements in the two years of the administration ...

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