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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 ...

  • India to train 500 Nigerians in vocational skills

    India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. "Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and remains a priority. A generation of Nigerians have ...

  • Nigeria’s northern insurgency A city under siege

    Just your friendly neighbourhood cops SOLDIERS sit sweltering in bunkers made from sandbags on the streets of Maiduguri, a town in north-eastern Nigeria at the centre of a four-year Islamist revolt. Around them, young boys on clanking bicycles carve through sand blown in from the Sahara, which has been slowly burying a town that was once, long ago, a thriving Islamic trading centre. It now ...

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Osmosis Jones

Considering the obsessive attention they have paid to all the gooiest and grossest aspects of the human body in their others movies, it isn't surprising that Peter and Bobby Farrelly have finally directed a movie in which more than half of the action takes place within Billy Murray's guts. ...

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  • Nigerian Writer Chinua Achebe Buried as President Pays Tribute

    Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, whose novel "Things Fall Apart" is one of the most-read books by an African author, was buried today in his hometown of Ogidi in the country's southeast. Achebe, who died ...

  • Academic Chair Dedicated to Cardinal Bernadin Gantin of Benin

    At a press conference held in the Holy See Press Office, a new academic chair was announced by the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, dedicated to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, a native of Benin and the first African-born prelate of a Vatican dicastery. The Chair will focus on ';Political Socialization in ...

  • London terror attack Micheal Adebolaja confirmed confirmed as suspect

    London (AFP) – The two men suspected of butchering a soldier on a London street in a gruesome Islamist attack were known to security agents, government sources suggested on Thursday. Prime Minister David Cameron hinted that intelligence agencies would face probes into how the attackers slipped under the radar, but said police and security services ';will not rest'; until they ...

  • Ekwueme Anyaoku Okonjo-Iweala others pay tribute as Achebe is buried

    Nigerians who graced the funeral service of late Prof. Chinua Achebe on Thursday at St. Phillip's Anglican Church, Ogidi, Anambra state have continued to pour encomiums on the literary icon. The occasion was graced by Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and John Mahama of Ghana, governors of Enugu, Imo, Abia and Anambra states. In his tribute, former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme, described late ...

  • Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria

    ABUJA -- Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds ...

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