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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 ...

  • Armchair Travel Take a Trip to Nigeria with Writer Chinelo Okparanta

    Happiness, Like Water '; comes out this August. Okparanta takes us to the country of her birth, Nigeria. Her three picks cover a lot of ground from Nigeria’s colonial past to the Biafran War of the late 1960′s and early ’70s to present day ...

  • Bombardier wins $297-million aircraft order from Nigerian carrier

    A Bombardier Q400 NextGen turboprop. Montreal-based Bombardier says Nigeria's Arik Air has placed a firm order worth $297-million (U.S.) for three CRJ100 NextGen regional jets and four Q400 NextGen turboprops. ...

  • Chevron to Sell More Nigerian Assets

    ( ) - is planning to divest its ownership in three shallow water oil blocks, off the country's shore. Chevron holds a 40% interest in blocks - Oil Mining Leases (:OML) 52, OML 53 and OML 55. The remaining 60% is owned by Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. ("NNPC") - the state oil corporation of Nigeria. This divesture would be in addition to Chevron Nigeria's planned sale of ...

  • My life in danger NANS President cries

    BY SIKIRU AKINOLA The President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Yinka Gbadebo has told Nigerians to hold the Nigerian Police Force responsible if anything happens to him. The Police were said to have threatened Gbadebo, ordering him to do thorough investigations before blaming them for the incident. Gbadebo spoke in Ibadan after he was released by men of the Oyo State ...

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Alien Resurrection

The last anyone saw of Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), she was hurling herself off a bridge into a vat of molten metal with an alien bursting from her chest. The was the grand finale of "Alien 3," and it was reasonable to assume that this signaled the end of the "Alien" series. Wrong. ...

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  • FG to name bidders of 10 power plants August 8

    BY MICHAEL EBOH The Federal Government, Wednesday, said it will announce the names of prospective buyers of the 10 National Integrated Power Project, NIPP, power plants, August 8, 2013. Mr. Benjamin Dikki, Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, who disclosed this at an investment road show in Hong Kong, said the sale of the power plants falls within the context of President ...

  • Niger Chad receive 75000 refugees from Libya

    The governments of the poor Sahelian states of Niger and Chad are struggling to accommodate a total of 75,000 refugees crossing the Sahara desert from ...

  • Police easily cracks down Cameroon protests

    Cameroon's nation-wide anti-government protests started modestly today, with calls for President Paul Biya to step down. But protesters in Douala and ...

  • Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests

    Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...

  • Are coins polymer notes still parts of Nigeria’s monetary system

    Six years after their introduction by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the public has almost lost interest in monetary transactions involving the exchange of N5, N10, N20, and N50 polymer naira notes. Public attitude to these notes is predicated on what economists describe as their poor quality that has somewhat reduced them, over some periods of transaction, to an insignificant difference ...

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