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  • Indian Nigerian teams win Africa business contest

    An Indian team comprising IITians and a Nigerian team promoting low-cost farm products have triumphed at an India-Africa business competition held here. India's Life Catalyst Technologies and Nigeria's Jorsey Ashbel Farms won the 2nd Indiafrica Business Venture Competition held as part of the ongoing IndiAfrica Festival here, a statement from the organisers said Saturday. Four teams from ...

  • Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office

    17 May 2013 150 Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram ...

  • Air Strikes Hit Nigerias Militant Camps

    Nigerian forces have launched air strikes against suspected Islamist militant camps in the country's northeast. A military spokesman said all known militant camps in three northeastern states are being attacked and that several camps in Borno state have been destroyed or taken over. The spokesman, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, said earlier Friday that the attacks killed an ...

  • Dozens killed in Nigerian military strike against Boko Haram

    Dozens of people have been killed in a military strike launched by Nigerian army since Thursday night in the northern part of the West African country, reported Xinhua citing security sources. The casualties include three soldiers involved in the army's unprecedented action against insurgents of the Boko Haram sect, which suffered the heaviest losses since emerging in 2009, the sources ...

  • ICPC to install free toll line for information on corruption

    The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it is planning to install free toll line for Nigeriansto report corrupt ...

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The Faculty

"The Faculty" makes both director Robert Rodriguez and writer Kevin Williamson look like one-trick ponies--hot Hollywood commodities who can't deliver the goods over the long-haul. "The Faculty" is basically a watered-down and disappointing version of what they do best: Williamson's ability to write believable teenage characters and subvert the horror genre, and Rodriguez's ability to choreograph ... ...

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  • NAMA cancels its planned closure of airspace

    The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) staff have suspended the industrial action slated to start on Monday to press home their demand for additional welfare package. The workers decided to suspend the planned strike after a meeting between the management and union ...

  • Church constructs N4.5 m clinic in Adamawa

    Gombi (Adamawa) -The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria has constructed a health clinic worth N4.5 million in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa. The acting Bishop of Yola Diocese, Reverend Ishaku Bala, disclosed this at the opening of a three-day conference of the diocese on Friday in Gombi. He said that the clinic was built to address the health needs of the people in the area. Bala ...

  • Lagos Employs 70 Women Truck Drivers

    Ikeja - The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had just employed 70 women as truck drivers, as part of efforts to empower women in the state. The Deputy Gov., Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, announced this at a news conference in Ikeja organised to mark Gov. Babatunde Fashola's sixth year in office. She said that the women had been trained on driving large vehicles before they were ...

  • Nigeria Rebels Could Face War Crimes Charges for Population Cleansing - UN Rights Office

    Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram and other extremist ...

  • NYT Morgue overflowing as Nigerias dirty war rages

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria  — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. "They were not properly shot," recalled a security official here. "I had to call the J.T.F." -- the military's joint task force -- "and they gunned them ...

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