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August2014

Dick Tiger – Nigerian Boxing Legend

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Nigeria

Dick Tiger CBE (born Richard Ihetu August 14, 1929 – December 14, 1971) was a boxer from Amaigbo, Nigeria, was a migrant fighter to Liverpool (and later to America). Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group. Tiger was a talented boxer, commercial venturer, and Biafran rebel. His boxing career record was: Fought 81;…

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Five-year Old Nigerian Girl Claims World Record

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Nigeria

A five-year-old Nigerian girl, who has not yet started primary school, is being hailed as the youngest person ever to pass a GCSE with a C grade in maths. Desiree Alli, from Southwark, south London, set a new record for childhood academic success. Desiree, known as Dee, prepared for the foundation level examination by playing…

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Pfizer to Pay $75 Million to Settle Trovan-Testing Suit

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Nigeria

By Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 Pfizer signed a $75 million agreement Thursday with Nigerian authorities to settle criminal and civil charges that the pharmaceutical company illegally tested an experimental drug on children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic. Nigerian authorities say Pfizer’s test of the antibiotic Trovan killed 11 children…

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Work Is the Medicine Of Poverty – Ise Ni Oguun Ise

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Nigeria

Nursery Rhyme to live by: Isé ni òògùn ìsé – Work is the antidote to poverty We need to remember and teach our children these poems in this complacent and ‘welfare-program for the people of color’ land. Isé ni òògùn ìsé – work is the antidote/solution to poverty Múra sí isé re òréè mi –…

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Dangote’s PhD Drivers

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Nigeria

The news that six PhD holders applied for positions of truck drivers in one of Dangote Group’s companies is shocking because it is Nigeria. We are a people who make a big deal out of a PhD no matter how empty-headed the carrier might be and so we think the title infuses one with anything…

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Is There Anything More Beautiful?

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Hajj

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Hajj Rituals 2010

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Hajj

Mecca, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — The path from the holy city of Mecca to the Mina desert turned a sea of white Wednesday as throngs of Muslims began the annual pilgrimage known as the Hajj. They came from all corners of the Earth to fulfill an obligation — the Hajj is the fifth pillar of…

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Pilgrims launch into final Hajj rituals

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Hajj

Muslim pilgrims perform the final walk around the Kaaba (Tawaf al-Wadaa) at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on November 16, 2010, as more than two million Muslim pilgrims launched into the final rituals of the hajj ahead of their massive exodus from Islam’s holiest city. Photograph: MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images By Ali Khalil, AFP MINA –…

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The Rites of Hajj, Umrah & Visiting The Prophet’s Mosque (In brief)

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Hajj

Some Virtues of Hajj and Umrah The Prophet (pbuh) said: “Umrah is an expiation for the time between it and the previous ‘Umrah’ and an accepted Hajj has no less a reward than Paradise”. (Narrated by al-Bukhari 1683, Muslim 1349). The Prophet (pbuh) said: “He who performs Hajj and does not speak obscenely or commit…

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Saudi Deports Nigerian Women Pilgrims ‘Without Mahram’

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Hajj

Authorities in Saudi Arabia refuse entry to over 1,000 Nigerian women Hajj pilgrims because they were not accompanied by men. ABUJA – Saudi Arabia has refused entry to over 1,000 Nigerian women Hajj pilgrims because they were not accompanied by men, Nigerian officials said on Wednesday. The women had began arriving on Sunday at the…

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