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Rashidi Yekini died on Friday, aged just 48. He was one of the greats of the Nigerian game and was responsible for one of the great World Cup moments — probably, after Marco Tardelli’s in the 1982 final, the greatest World Cup celebration. Having convert Full Article at Irish Examiner
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A group of Nigerians in the United States marked Earth Day Sunday by calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to implement recommendations from a UN environmental report on the Ogoniland, in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. The report, released last Full Article at Voice of America
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Fellow Nigerians, please permit me to start on a medical note today. The scenario I’m about to paint must be familiar to most people. A critically ill patient is rushed to the hospital on emergency. The patient requires urgent fluids in form of drips int Full Article at THISDAY LIVE
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MOSOP Alerts President Goodluck Jonathan of Massive Frauds In an urgent Alert Letter, but open sent by mail and signed on behalf of MOSOP President/Spokesman, by the Secretary General of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Hon. Dum Full Article at Scoop - New Zealand News
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Viewed from a helicopter hovering above the Niger Delta, the traces of humanity’s thirst for oil are all too evident. Far below, tell-tale streaks of oil pollution in vivid ochre and indigo mottle the placid waterways that wind through the verdant jungle Full Article at This Is Money
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New York, NY — Sundance Institute today announced the eight projects selected from nearly 900 submissions to participate in the 2012 Theatre Lab, July 9-29 at the Sundance Resort. Under the supervision of Philip Himberg, Producing Artistic Director, and Full Article at Sundance.org
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Ever since her debut EP of 2005, The Uncomfortable Truth, Nneka Egbuna has quietly built a catalogue of challenging, political soul and hip hop. Best known for her 2008 single Heartbeat, a bittersweet earworm of a hit, her work has been compared to Eryka Full Article at BBC Music
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Court Dismisses President Goodluck Jonathan Constitution Review Panel-Member Motion Covering-up Constitutional Violations ON November 17, 2011, President Jonathan inaugurated a 21-member Presidential Committee on the Review of Outstanding Constitutional Full Article at Scoop - New Zealand News
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A group of 35 Nigerian villages sued Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Friday in a British court, claiming that the company's slow response to two spills in 2008 left their delta region soaked in crude oil that destroyed the environment and Full Article at Kens5.com San Antonio
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Charles Wiwa's old friends from Ogoniland picked him up at his South Side Chicago home a couple of weeks ago in a Chevy Venture van, and they hit the road. Destination: the Supreme Court of the United States. Wiwa had been in court before, like the time Full Article at Chicago Tribune
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In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, Nigerian-born Charles Wiwa, 44, poses for a portrait in Chicago. Wiwa, fled Nigeria in 1996 following a crackdown on protests against Shells oil operations in the Niger Delta. He and other natives of the oil-r Full Article at Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune
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"The corporations have a lot of money and are very attractive targets," said Northwestern University law professor Eugene Kontorovich, an expert in international law. "The idea is that they were in bed with the countries." But the federal appeals court i Full Article at Sify
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WASHINGTON - Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off in a Supreme Court fight over whether foreign victims of war crimes, killings and other atrocities can haul multinational companies into American courts and try to prove they were complic Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, Nigerian-born Charles Wiwa, 44, poses for a portrait in Chicago. Wiwa fled Nigeria in 1996 following a crackdown on protests against ShellÌs oil operations in the Niger Delta. He and other natives of the oil-r Full Article at San Antonio Express
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The world’s attention has recently turned to the question of how to hold companies accountable for knowingly marketing, selling and adapting the tools of surveillance to repressive regimes. U.S. and E.U. companies’ equipment has been linked to torture an Full Article at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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WASHINGTON - Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off in a Supreme Court fight over whether foreign victims of war crimes, killings and other atrocities can haul multinational companies into American courts and try to prove they were complic Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Nigerian-born Charles Wiwa, 44, poses for a portrait in Chicago. Wiwa, fled Nigeria in 1996 following a crackdown on protests against Shell's oil operations in the Niger Delta. He and other natives of the oil-rich Ogoni region claim Shell was eager to st Full Article at The Register Citizen
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on whether or not corporations can be held liable for complicity in human rights abuses outside the country. The specific case on dock concerns the torture and execution of activists in Nigeria and the a Full Article at Voice of America
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Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmentalist. He was the son of Chief Jim Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Initially as... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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