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In response to "A Gospel of Intolerance" by The Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chane, Episcopal bishop of Washington (Forum, March 5): Bishop John Bryson Chane invites reaction to the current movement of "intolerance" that threatens the rights of gays and lesbians within the Anglican Communion. This movement of exclusion is led by Archbishop Peter J. Akinola of the Anglican Church of Nigeria. In Bishop Chane's op-ed essay, he urges church members and American citizens to make known their minds on this issue. Being a Nigerian citizen, I offer my opinion to help the wider American public to know the mind...

Wanted tyrant of Liberia vanishes from Nigerian haven By David Blair, Africa Correspondent and Katharine Houreld in Lagos (Filed: 29/03/2006) The Nigerian government was accused of allowing Charles Taylor, Africa's most notorious fallen tyrant, to escape justice after he vanished from his grace-and-favour residence yesterday. Taylor, 58, the former Liberian dictator, had been living in the city of Calabar despite being the subject of an Interpol arrest warrant and an indictment on 17 counts of war crimes. Charles Taylor took refuge in Nigeria when he was deposed The Baptist lay preacher, who devastated Liberia and led a brutal rebel army...

This is the text of an email I received today. Wouldn't it be fun to string this guy out for a while,then hang him out to dry ? Ideas welcome ! Dear Friend, I am Dr.Daniel Nando presently i am practising with a private hospital here in Ivory Coast W/Africa,And you don?t worry because I got your contact through a chamber of commerce and will like to explain to you about a transaction which I hope you can assist which will benefit both of us. I have a patient, a Sierra Leonia woman who was on admission for some weeks...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian government, anxious to avoid a repeat of riots that marked a solar eclipse in 2001, warned citizens they may suffer "psychological discomfort" during a new eclipse this month but urged them not to panic. Information Minister Frank Nweke said an eclipse five years ago caused riots in northern Borno state because people did not know why it happened. "Some people even felt some evil people in their communities were responsible for the eclipse," he said in a statement on Thursday aimed at reassuring Nigerians that the eclipse is expected to darken parts of the country...

Nigerian religious riots continue About 10,000 are still sheltering in an army barracks in Onitsha Violence is continuing across Nigeria where religious riots have claimed more than 100 lives this week. A number of deaths were reported and churches and shops burned on Friday in the towns of Kontagora and Potiskum in the north and Enugu in the south-east. Some 10,000 people are still sheltering in barracks in the south-east town of Onitsha after violence there killed 80. Nigeria's 120m people are about equally divided between northern Muslims, and Christians and animists in the south. The violence began last weekend...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record) sought a cut of a Nigerian telecommunications venture in return for his help setting it up, a former aide said on Wednesday as he pleaded guilty to bribery charges. In return for lobbying Nigerian officials and arranging a loan through the U.S. Import-Export Bank, Jefferson demanded an ownership stake in a venture by two U.S. companies to provide high-speed Internet and cable television to Nigeria, former aide Brett Pfeffer said. "The congressman told me he would require 5 to 7 percent of ownership of the company," Pfeffer...

Nigerian women ignore bike ban Women say there is no public transport alternative Women in the northern Nigerian state of Kano are ignoring a ban stopping them travelling on public motorbike taxis. On Monday religious authorities began implementing the ban passed earlier this year. In accordance with Sharia law, men and women are not allowed to travel together on public transport. The women say there are not enough public transport alternatives in the state that adopted Sharia law in 2000. The BBC's Ado Sale Kankiya in the city of Kano says some 9,000 religious marshals are on the streets to...

A Nigerian man accused of reckless endangerment in relation to a home circumcision he carried out in Waterford two years ago has been found not guilty. Osagie Igbinedion was found not guilty this afternoon by a jury of 10 men and two women at Waterford Circuit Court. 31-year-old Mr Igbinedion, who lives in Kilkenny, left the court this afternoon in the company of his wife Kathleen, who a few minutes earlier had burst into tears as the verdict was delivered. It had taken the jury one and a half hours to reach their verdict in this case, the first of...

Nigeria's Anglican church has deleted all references to the mother church in Britain from its constitution, deepening a rift over homosexuality but stopping short of a feared schism. The Nigeria and Ugandan Anglican churches broke ties with the U.S. Episcopal Church over its 2003 consecration of a gay bishop living with a partner. A new dispute over same-sex unions in England has deepened divisions. On Tuesday, a statement on the Nigerian church's Web site said that "all former references to 'communion with the see of Canterbury' were deleted" at a meeting last week. Instead, the constitution affirms ties with all...

Taxpayer Theft A former Internal Revenue Service contract worker and his partner were sentenced to federal prison for stealing more than $2.6 million in taxpayer remittance checks from an IRS lockbox facility in Richardson, Texas, according to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Texas. The contractor, Edmond Nkem Ekene, was sentenced to almost 6 years in prison without parole for embezzlement by a bank employee. His partner Theophilos Oluyinka Okuribido, also known as Michael Avon, was given 8 years without parole. Twice deported back to Nigeria, Okuribido also pled guilty to illegal re-entry to the United States....

Dear Mr. Ahmed ...05/27/2005 08:52:57 pmAnyone with a common email domain - eg. Yahoo!, Hotmail - has surely received those intriguing offers from friendly Nigerians with too much cash and too few bank account numbers. Today I received one such offer, but with a new twist. The email was addressed to me at my Yahoo! address by my first name (let's say "Bob"), under the assumption that I must be next-of-kin to the recently deceased "Mr. Fredrick Bob" - and therefore entitled to a share of his multi-million dollar estate - if only I would reply with my relevant "informations."...

BROOKLYN, NY (5/6/2005)--A Nigerian priest in the Diocese of Long Island has had his license revoked by Bishop Orris Walker because he wrote and told the bishop he opposed the consecration of V. Gene Robinson an openly gay man to be the bishop of New Hampshire. As a result, the priest who is a U.S. citizen and married with four children now finds he is without income, his car could be repossessed, is $9,000 in arrears in rent, and faces being evicted from his home. The Rev. Emmanuel Sunday Nduka told VirtueOnline that after completing his Master's degree in theology...

prince_fayadbolkiah@zipmail.com.br Greetings, I am Prince Fayad W. Bolkiah, the eldest son of Prince Jefri Bolkiah,former Finance Minister of Brunei, the tiny oil-rich sultanate on the northern coast of the island of Borneo in eastern Asia.I will save your time by not amplifying my extended royal family history,which has already been disseminated by the international media during the controversial dispute that erupted between my father and his step brother,the sultan of Brunei Sheik Muda Hassanal Bolkiah. As you may know from the international media,the sultan had accused my father of financial mismanagement and impropriety of US$14.8 Billion dollars. This was as...

A personable conwoman dubbed "the queen of greed" has been convicted of duping people out of more than $2 million-then losing the money to a classic Nigerian scam. In the Auckland District Court on Tuesday, Patricia Lenine Mabel Walsh, 65, of Howick was found guilty on 47 counts relating to the Nigerian fraud and a further three fraud charges relating to the purchase of a $1.8 million home in Whitford in 1998. Walsh's cousin, 78-year-old Elva Mary Medhurst, also of Howick who faced two charges of misappropriation, died part way through the trial. Walsh was remanded in custody for sentencing...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A Sacramento man of Nigerian descent was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison Friday for running an international investment scam that defrauded investors of more than $2.1 million through a Nigerian advance fee scheme. Roland Adams, 38, admitted that he conspired with others in Nigeria, South Africa and Canada to run the scheme. Potential investors were mailed letters supposedly from African government officials who wanted help in diverting millions of dollars held in bogus trusts or accounts. In exchange for a future share of the fictitious money, the victims were persuaded to send in...

LOS ANGELES A Nigerian national who stole the identities of thousands of people has been sentenced to 5 and a half years in federal prison. Adedayo Benson was also ordered in Los Angeles court yesterday to pay nearly 155-thousand dollars in restitution to ten financial companies. He and his sister were arrested in 2002 on charges of tapping into several public records databases, got access to some seven thousand people and used their I-Ds to buy at least a (m) million dollars in merchandise. Authorities say the siblings posed as real estate agents and opened accounts with ChoicePoint, Advantage Financial...

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Nigerian Strike To Focus On Oil ExportsNigeria’s largest labor organization has called for its 2nd national strike — to start Nov. 16 — against recent government hikes in the domestic retail oil price. This strike, however, is strategically aimed at stopping Nigeria’s lucrative oil exports. Nigeria is the world’s seventh largest oil producer, and is the fifth largest provider of oil imported by the United States. If the strike is effective, its effects could ripple through the global oil economy, causing wholesale prices to rise beyond its recent record levels, and raising U.S. gas and fuel prices.

An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has discharged and acquitted a pregnant teenager of her conviction for adultery, for which she had been sentenced to be stoned to death. Presiding judge Muhammad Mustapha Umar of the Upper Sharia court said on Wednesday that the lower Sharia (Islamic law) court was wrong in sentencing Hajara Ibrahim, 18, to death by stoning last October. "This court observes the following faults in the lower court judgement. Firstly, the judge was wrong in sentencing Hajara to 100 lashes and death by stoning, all at the same time," he said.

Yellowcake: Joe Wilson Skating on Thin Ice By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 14, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Remember President Bush’s State of the Union Address in 2003? During his speech, Bush spoke of Iraqi attempts to buy uranium oxide -- now infamously known as “yellowcake” -- from Niger. The President’s assertion about a Nigerian uranium connection was attributed to British, not American, intelligence. Now, do you remember Joseph C. Wilson IV, the one-time CIA operative in Niger? He told the Washington Post that President Bush ignored his warning that it was “highly unlikely” that Iraq tried to buy yellowcake from Niger....