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  • Indian-origin men jailed in Malaysia

    A court in Malaysia has sentenced two Indian-origin men to separate jail terms for brutally assaulting a Nigerian that led to his death. Judge Noor Azian Shaari of the high court in Shah Alam, the capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, sentenced V. Ganesan, 29, to one year in jail and T. Kumar, 29, to seven years in jail for causing grievous injuries to Nwabudike Emmanuel Chukwuma that led ...

  • Group to Take Nigeria Government to International Court

    The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria's government of human rights violations, according to spokesman Ango Abdullahi. "What we are doing now is to organize our evidence that would make it possible for us to make a very strong case against the government and its agencies, or up to individuals who may be ...

  • Can South Africa Help Nigeria to Industrialise

    South Africa has pledged to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation's flagship industrial target. Currently German car manufacturer BMW has a plant at Rosslyn near Pretoria. About 80 percent of the BMWs produced there are for the international market. Credit: John ...

  • Moses Out of Nigerias Matches Obi Mikel Wants a Rest

    (Reuters) - Victor Moses has withdrawn from Nigeria's squad for next month's World Cup football qualifiers and Confederation Cup tournament while Chelsea team mate John Obi Mikel has asked to be rested for a friendly against Mexico next week, Nigerian Football Federation officials said on Wednesday. Both players are in the United States with Chelsea this week for friendlies against ...

  • Nigeria seeks bidders for annual oil contracts

    Nigeria has opened a tender to sell its oil through multi-billion dollar annual contracts starting in August, an official notice showed. ...

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  • Dortmund’s path from cash-crisis to Wembley

    BERLIN, May 21, 2013 (AFP) – Borussia Dortmund’s path from the brink of bankruptcy in 2005 to Saturday’s Champions League final against Bayern Munich has been dubbed ';Ground Zero to Wembley'; by CEO Hans-Joachim ...

  • England braced for Mourinho’s Chelsea return

    LONDON (AFP) – Jose Mourinho looks set to be welcomed back to Chelsea with open arms, but his reputation has been sullied during his three-year stint at Real Madrid and he will return to Stamford Bridge with several thorny issues to ...

  • Shaken Jonathan Shoes Up to Tackle Crises

    President Goodluck Jonathan finally grew up to the reality that the nation was at war when in pronouncing so, he imposed martial law in the North East States of Borno, Bauchi, and Adamawa. It was no longer a monotonous lamentation in the born-with-no-shoes tone, but a firm and resolute reproach of detractors by an angry commander in chief, awake to the stern responsibility of recovering the ...

  • Suspected Insurgents Arrested in Adamawa

    Yola - The Nigerian army confirmed yesterday that many suspected insurgents have been arrested and detained in Adamawa State. The state is one of the three states that are under the emergency rule; the other two are Borno and Yobe. The Commander of the 23 Armoured Brigade Brigadier General Fatai Oladipo Alli, who confirmed this to journalists in Yola, said more arrests would be made. However, ...

  • Nigerian Students in Russia

    The spectacle of Nigerian students in Russia going door to door in search of subsistence must be an embarrassing one for any country. That was the grim picture painted last Wednesday when representatives of Nigerian students on federal government scholarship in Russia visited the National Assembly to highlight the plight of their colleagues abroad. They told members of the House of ...

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