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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 ...

  • Secretary-General Strongly Condemns Suicide Bombings in Niger

    The Secretary-General strongly condemns the two suicide bombings which took place today in Arlit and Agadez, ...

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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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  • Ban strongly condemns two suicide bombings in north-west Niger

    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the two suicide bombings which took place today in north-west Niger, and conveyed his sincere condolences to the families of the victims. According to media reports, the jihadist Mujao group claimed responsibility for the attacks at a barracks in Agadez that killed at least 19, including 18 soldiers, as well as an attack on the French-run ...

  • Police officer wept in court as accused jumps bail

    Lagos – A police officer, Cpl. Patricia Agbofurere, who surety an accused, who had jumped bail since 2012, wept profusely on Thursday before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Agbofurere had surety her brother, Joseph Osawe, 38, who was docked before the court on Nov. 2, 2012, on a three-count charge of conspiracy, forging and stealing. The police officer told the court that ...

  • Borno govt to spend N300m on construction of Maiduguri Water Works

    By NDAHI MARAMA MAIDUGURI--The Borno State government is to spend about N300 million on the construction of the Maiduguri Water Works "C" in the Alamderi area of the state. The project which is expected to generate seven million litres of water per day would ease the problems of water scarcity in Bulumkutu and the environs. State Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Mai Sheriff ...

  • Chinua Achebe And Abam People

    By Abali Okoruku Abali Professor Chinua Achebe's pioneer books; "Things Fall Apart" and "Arrow of God", are the most libelous books ever written against an indigenous Nigerian Community. I speak of Abam Community and no one needs be astonished. For decades Chinua Achebe through his books has been dehumanizing Abam people, portraying them as savages, cannibals, war ...

  • Rising cost deflates Learn Africa’s profit two others

    By CHINEDU IBEABUCHI Learn Africa Plc and DN Tyre Plc reported losses in their quarterly results due to growing cost of sales and administrative/distribution cost. This also led RT Briscoe Plc's profit to fall by 87.7 per cent. The poor results prompted a negative return on their share prices within the week. In its 2013 first quarter result filed at the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Learn ...

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