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  • 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 ...

  • Doctors Without Borders Halts Work in Northern Nigeria

    The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has suspended its medical aid in northern Nigeria's Borno state, after gunmen there hijacked one of its ...

  • Woolwich Machete AttackNigerian Boko Haram islamist barbarism in the middle of London Video UK News

    At least one of the two London Woolwhich terror suspects being held under armed guard at hospitals in London is believed to be of a Nigerian background si doubt Boko Haram ...

  • Uranium mine attacked by suicide bombers in Niger

    By Abdoulaye Massalatchi, Reuters NIAMEY, Niger - Suicide bombers struck a mine run by French nuclear group Areva and a military barracks in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks that underline the widening threat posed by Islamist militants across West Africa.Military sources said several soldiers were killed in a gun battle with Islamists following a car ...

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Clueless [Blu-Ray]

Clueless [Blu-Ray]

Amy Heckerlings Clueless offers some of the best humor, entertainment, and social insight the teen comedy genre has to offer. And, while that may sound like damning praise, I do not hesitate to suggest that the teen comedy is one of the most unfairly maligned and underappreciated genres ... ...

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  • Car bombers strike twice in Niger

    Africa kidnapped five French citizens working for the mining company. Residents in the two towns said that both attacks occurred at around 5:30 am, indicating a level of co-ordination among the attackers.Alhousseiny Moussa, a resident of Agadez, was already awake and just steps away from his local mosque for the first prayer of the day, when he heard the boom coming from the city's military ...

  • Nigeria State of emergency must not lead to more human rights abuses

    Nigerian authorities must not use the state of emergency imposed in the north of the country as an excuse to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International urged today as the military continued its assault on Islamist armed group Boko Haram.Several people have reportedly been killed and hundreds arrested since a state of emergency was declared in the northern states of Adamawa, Borno and ...

  • Nigeria pair out of Fed Cup

    Nigeria Professional Football League clubs Sharks and Dolphins have been disqualified from the 2013 Federation Cup, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed this week. A statement from the NFF revealed the two clubs have been booted out of the tournament following the Rivers State Football Association's failure to adhere to the rules and regulations pertaining to the preliminary matches. ...

  • London attackers ‘of Nigerian descent’

    London - One of the attackers who hacked a soldier to death in London was British-born and of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation ...

  • London attacker British of Nigerian origin source

    LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities have established that one and possibly both of the men who hacked a soldier to death on a London street was born in Britain of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation said on ...

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