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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 ...

  • Good Nigerian talents cost more than expatriates says Airtel’s 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 and that good Nigerian ...

  • French special forces took part in Niger operation government

    Niger on Friday to flush out Islamist militants suspected of involvement in an attack the previous day, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. At least 21 people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday in coordinated dawn assaults on a uranium mine run by French company Areva at Arlit and the military base in the city of Agadez in northern Niger. "As I speak, the situation has been ...

  • Niger government spokesman There were no hostages in Agadez

    A soldier wounded in a car bombing attack on a military camp, lies in a hospital 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 ...

  • Igbo Genocide Day of Remembrance

    Wednesday 29 May 2013, a fortnight away, is the 47th anniversary of the beginning of the Igbo genocide. Starting from that fateful mid-morning of Sunday 29 May 1966 and through the course of 44 months of indescribable barbarity and carnage not seen in Africa for 60 years, the composite institutions of the Nigeria state, civilian and military, murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or one-quarter of ...

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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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  • Before Nigeria Loses the North ...

    Northern Nigeria needs help. Decades of bad governance have continued to traumatize the region. In this period, successive administrative and political leaders have failed to educate the region's poor, pursuing instead conscious policies to lock the vast majority in poverty and illiteracy in order to keep them subservient and passive. In doing so, the north's political elite hope to ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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