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New Sectarian Violence in Jos Outskirts (Video)(4)

March 8, 2010

WARNING!!!!!! This Video Is Graphic! If you have a weak stomach, please don’t watch.

This video came is from a source in Jos. Speechless is the only word I can use to describe how I felt after seeing this. Below is the message from the source.
Barely 2 months  after the sectarian crisis that engulfed some parts [...]

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2010 African Economic Forum: Columbia University

The SIPA Pan-African Network, the African Business Club, and the African Law Students Association at Columbia University present  the 7th Annual African Economic Forum (AEF).
The African Economic Forum has grown to be the largest Africa-focused event at Columbia University.  Each year, AEF strives to highlight opportunities and challenges through stimulating discussion, insights and strategies for [...]

Renewed Violence in Jos… Over feared 200 Dead

Scores of people are thought to have been killed in clashes between pastoralists from the surrounding hillside region and villagers close to the central Nigerian city of Jos.
Police sources on Sunday put the number of dead at just eight, but witnesses reported many more bodies, with one estimate rising to more than 100 people.
Some of [...]

IBB might replace Sick President Yar’Adua in 2011

Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, may end up being the beneficiary of the raging political crisis and the seeming rot in governance of Nigeria if the wave of local and international pressures on him to contest the 2011 presidential election is anything to count on.
Rumors have it that some diplomats from the United States [...]

Dora Akunyili Under Fire for Stand Against Cabal & Yar Adua

Some members of the cabinet urged the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to caution the Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, against what they called persistent inflammatory remarks.
In an interview a couple of days ago, Dora went on the record by stating that the Cabal should tell the truth about the health condition [...]

Yar’Adua Returns to Nigeria (Apparently Sneaked In)

Over 3 months after leaving Nigeria to receive medical treatment for a heart condition, President Umaru Yar’Adua returned home to Abuja. Mr. Yar’Adua was finally removed from his bed on Tuesday and taken aboard an Abuja bound flight at about 2100 Saudi time.
Two planes, one of them an air ambulance, landed in the presidential wing [...]


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