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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 ...

  • World Islamists kill 21 in suicide attacks in Niger

    The attacks suggested Malian groups, despite the French campaign, remained capable of complex strikes against high-profile targets in remote parts of the vast ...

  • Belmokhtar supervised Niger attacks

    Algerian commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar "supervised" twin suicide bombings that have killed at least 20 people in Niger, the Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar reports."It was Belmokhtar who himself supervised the operational plans of attacks" on the Agadez army base and a French-run uranium mine, El-Hassen Ould Khalil, spokesman for Belmokhtar's "Signatories in ...

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Louie Bluie [DVD]

Louie Bluie [DVD]

Prior to the release of Terry Zwigoffs independently produced documentary Louie Bluie in the mid-1980s, the name Louie Bluie meant little to even dedicated music collectors and the name Howard Armstrong meant even less. When Zwigoff, a musician and rabid collector of 78s, traded so ... ...

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  • South Africa to help Nigerias auto industry a milestone in inter-African cooperation

    The lack of economic diversification throughout sub-Saharan Africa may stymy South Africa’s pledges to help Nigeria industrialize. And making the automotive sector Nigeria’s flagship industrial target may not be so easy, experts ...

  • ‘Poor reading culture not peculiar to Nigeria’

    Those who feel that poor reading culture is peculiar to Nigerians may have to think again. A Nigerian author based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Femi Onasanya, says in the western world, those who read after leaving school or the university constitute about 20 per cent of the ...

  • Hundreds attend Nigerian writer Chinua Achebes funeral

    Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honours, never fearing to criticise those he felt ruined his country. Yesterday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise ...

  • Four-goal comeback lifts Man City over Chelsea

    ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) – Micah Richards scored in the 90th minute to complete a stunning comeback from a three-goal deficit and give Manchester City a 4-3 victory over Chelsea in an exhibition thriller Thursday. The English Premier League sides, both bound for next year’s European Champions League after top-three finishes behind league winner Manchester United, attracted 48,263 ...

  • Japan’s J-League still blazing trails at 20

    TOKYO (AFP) – Japan’s J-League was a trailblazer for Asian football when it debuted in 1993 and now, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary, it is still pointing the way forwards for the region. Gone are the days when J-League clubs spent lavishly to recruit the likes of Gary Lineker, Zico and Pierre Littbarski, who lit up the early years of Japan’s first professional league. ...

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