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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 ...

  • Military Thurayas banned in northeast Nigeria

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -; Soldiers fighting to halt an insurgency by Islamic militants are banning the use of Thuraya satellite telephones by civilians in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, throttling communications already made difficult by cut cell phone ...

  • Nigerian President Calls for More Cooperation to Fight Terrorism

    Abuja, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, calls for a higher international cooperation and coordination to fight terrorism, said a communique spread today by his special assistant for public relations, Reubens Abati. During separated meetings with recently appointed ambassadors of Israel, Russia, Greece and Algeria in Abuja, Jonathan said that a higher collaboration ...

  • Nigerian naira at week high vs dlr on cbank intervention

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A money dealer counts the Nigerian naira on a machine in his office in the commercial capital of Lagos, January 13, 2009. REUTERS/Akintunde ...

  • Nigerian U of R students spend one year in sanctuary

    Victoria Ordu has one wish for her 22nd birthday on June 28 - to be granted permission to continue her studies at the University of Regina.She and fellow Nigerian student Ihuoma Amadi have been in sanctuary for one year today, compelled into hiding after they were ordered to leave Canada after unknowingly breaking their study permits by working for two weeks off-campus.The Leader-Post told their ...

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The Killer (Die xue shuang xiong)

It is not without a truckload of irony that the two men--one a discontented assassin, the other a determined cop--find out for the first time that they have something in common while pointing guns at each other's heads. It is also not without similar amounts of irony that these two men, who stand on opposite sides of the law, eventually discover they are more like each other than anyone else, and ... ...

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  • 1 year later no resolution for Nigerian students in asylum

    It has been a year since two Nigerian students have been in asylum in Regina and despite support from local advocates, the university and province they still face deportation. Victoria Ordu and Favour Amadi have taken sanctuary in a church after learning they would be forced to leave the country. "Living here is not the most comfortable it has been," Ordu told CBC News Tuesday in a ...

  • Togo admit using banned Romao in World Cup qualifier

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Togo have joined Ethiopia in admitting that they fielded a suspended player in a 2014 World Cup Africa zone qualifier. A Togolese football federation spokesman told reporters that Marseille midfielder Alaixys Romao should not have started a June 8 Group I home game against Cameroon. ';Alaixys received yellow cards in two earlier matches but we did not check if ...

  • Tinubu’s Speech ACN slams presidency’s reaction

    The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has condemned the presidency’s hysterical reaction to the recent speech at the British African Diaspora Conference in London by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing as unnecessary and diversionary the name calling and personal attacks against the ACN leader. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai ...

  • Brazilians protest ahead of Mexico match

    FORTALEZA (AFP) – More than 500 people blocked access to a stadium where Brazil was to play Mexico on Wednesday to demand government spend more on health and education and less on the World Cup. ';Brazil, we are going to wake up, a professor is worth more than Neymar,'; they shouted, referring to a popular star of the national team. Brazil is currently hosting the ...

  • The US has sent troops to Niger

    President Barack Obama today informed the US Senate that he had ordered the stationing of around 100 soldiers in Niger to support the French military operation in neighbouring Mali. The Niger government had agreed to the move, Mr Obama ...

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