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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 ...

  • India to train 500 Nigerians in vocational skills

    India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. "Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and remains a priority. A generation of Nigerians have ...

  • Group set for $10bn direct investment in Nigeria

    The drive of Federal Government for Foreign Direct Investment into the Nigerian economy has yielded fruit as a multinational group of high net-worth private investors with base in Europe and Singapore has concluded plans to make major investments in the oil and gas sector, real estate, agriculture, university education and power generation in the ...

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Osmosis Jones

Considering the obsessive attention they have paid to all the gooiest and grossest aspects of the human body in their others movies, it isn't surprising that Peter and Bobby Farrelly have finally directed a movie in which more than half of the action takes place within Billy Murray's guts. ...

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  • Suicide bombers strike northern Niger killing at least 20

    Niger At least 20 people have been killed in coordinated suicide bombings on a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in northern Niger.The country's Interior Ministry says a suicide bombing at a military barracks in northern Niger's largest town, Agadez, killed at least 18 soldiers and a civilian.Several trainee soldiers have been taken hostage.A separate attack on a uranium ...

  • Nigeria’s Northern Elders Will Soon Come Home To Roost By Paul Omoruyi

    Lately, there has been so many "elderly rascality" taking place in Nigeria. From Gabriel Igbinedion’s complete disregard for the law of the land on election-day in Edo State to the recent preposterous and outlandish statements by Northern Elders Forum (NEF) regarding Nigeria’s Government fight against Boko Haram, elderly rascality is on full display all over ...

  • Blame your leaders for state of emergency Erewa tells northerners

    LAGOS--A prominent Itsekiri youth leader in Delta State, Comrade Benson Erewa, has called on northerners to blame their governors, elders and leaders, who failed to avert the declaration of state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Aamawa states. Reacting to comments by some Northern leaders condemning President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration of state of emergency in the affected states, ...

  • You’ll account for our women children someday – NEF tell Jonathan

    By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor ABUJA -- Northern elders yesterday spurned the benevolence by President Goodluck Jonathan ordering the release of terror suspects from prisons across the region, saying he would at some point in time be made to account for the women and children seized by security agents based on unverified terrorism charges. The northern elders are miffed that the Federal ...

  • Adefemi tips Elegbeleye to succeed

    President of Gymnastics Federation of Nigeria, Folorunsho Adefemi has vowed that the new Director General of the National Sports Commission, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye would be a hit for Nigerian sports. ''He is surely going to be a success story because of his immense wealth of experience and his passion for sports", Adefemi said. While congratulating the new DG, Adefemi traced his ...

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