International students coming to the Maritimes from select parts of Africa are being stopped at the door, according to the Nigerian-Canadian Association of New Brunswick. President Adebayo Ogunleye said international students looking to come from his home country of Nigeria have been treated unfairly compared with other countries. Ogunleye said …
Read More »More than 50 people dead after gunmen attack worshippers at Nigeria church, lawmakers say
Gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic church in the city of Owo in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, leaving dozens feared dead, state lawmakers said. The attackers targeted the St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state just as the worshippers gathered on Pentecost Sunday. Many children were …
Read More »One of the 219 Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram found, is pregnant: Kin
Lagos (Nigeria), May 18 Nigerian soldiers have found one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok, making her the first freed from the Islamic extremists since the mass kidnapping more than two years ago. Her uncle describes her as pregnant and traumatized but otherwise fine. Amina Ali Nkeki is …
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