| In 1984, the Nigerian authorities tried to smuggle their kidnapped foreign minister out of London in a diplomatic bag. |
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| The Nigerian let the ball beat him before a little jink wrong-footed Robinson, and he clipped it into the net. |
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| In South Africa, a university president has drained the brains from Ghanain and Nigerian universities in order to Africanize his staff. |
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| Was it strange for a white Afrikaner to seek help from a black Nigerian faith healer? |
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| The documentary captures the vibrant music scene in Lagos and reveals the major young Nigerian Afrobeat, hip hop and fusion artists. |
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| I've got Nigerian, Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean blood but was born in Paddington and lived there for the first 15 years of my life. |
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| Nigerian presidential aides said at midday yesterday that Obasanjo had departed for Liberia. |
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| On January 1, 1947, having been made airworthy, the aircraft was handed over to the Nigerian Government. |
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| A large portion of imported Nigerian oil is refined into gasoline due to its low sulfur content. |
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| The friend was badly beaten before disappearing into the depths of the labyrinthine Nigerian justice system. |
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| Drinkers could purchase a tot of liquor for as little as 1d or a few cowrie shells, and so it reached the poorer sections of Nigerian society. |
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| Now they are bent to the task of creating the first Nigerian pages on the university's Web server. |
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| By 1968, Port Harcourt and Enugu, the Biafran capital, had come under Nigerian control, making Biafra land-locked. |
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| Many argued that the professor did not write a balanced account and wrote more as a Biafran than as a Nigerian. |
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| Julius, a 53-year-old Nigerian with flecks of grey hair, lifted up his tracksuit trouser to show the slashed skin around his calves. |
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| The Nigerian naira recorded its first appreciation of the week, gaining ground against the dollar. |
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| It said the top five asylum-seeking nationalities in Ireland in 2004 were Nigerian, Romanian, Somalian, Chinese and Sudanese. |
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| His cement-and-metal screens draw on the forms of African ritual sculpture to create scenes of contemporary Nigerian life. |
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| In spite of the challenges, he is confident in the future of Nigerian film. |
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| I'm someone of Nigerian heritage so it's an issue that's quite close to me. |
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| Ballyroan-African drummers gave a great demonstration which was complimented by Nigerian traditional drumming and dancing. |
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| The military officers include Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, a Nigerian and a Brit. |
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| They are the products of Nollywood, as the Nigerian film industry is affectionately known. |
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| With embarrassment, feeling a fool, I admit I was a victim of a Nigerian fraud. |
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| But the best thing, says Cheryl, is the fact that Nigerian milk has extremely high butterfat and protein content. |
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| Nigerian starlet Justice Christopher could be the next player to win a place in Kevin Keegan's Maine Road blueprint. |
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| They have a Nigerian and a Bulgarian in the forward line, a Trinidadian and a Dutchman at the back, and have just bought a Croatian. |
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| Nigerian folk art ranges from ivory carvings to body painting to wall decoration. |
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| Once this term began to be used, specificity disappeared and it became a catch-all phrase for all problematic Nigerian metalwork. |
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| Meanwhile, the Nigerian education sector is also being hit by strike action. |
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| His vibrant paintings offer traditional scenes of Nigerian villages and tribal customs, with only a few subtle political overtones. |
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| Nigerian Americans also celebrate the major public holidays in the United States. |
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| Different bottles signal whether it's cheap Nigerian gasoline, lamp oil or palm oil for sale. |
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| Claiming fusion as the essence of Nigerian modernism, the curators selected works of visual art that exhibited a hybrid character. |
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| The conference opened with selected hymns designed to encourage hymn singing in Nigerian churches. |
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| The mandate of the unit is telemarketing fraud, identity theft, and the Nigerian scam. |
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| Nigerian music is dependent on strong rhythms supplied by countless drums and percussion instruments. |
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| English words have found their way into most of the traditional languages spoken by Nigerian Americans. |
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| More than 105 people were believed dead after a Nigerian airliner crashed into a densely populated area in the northern city of Kano yesterday. |
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| Many consider him the father of Afrobeat, that is the combination of Nigerian high-life and Yoruba rhythms with funk, soul and jazz. |
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| In the dying minutes of the game, Nogwana pulled one forward to surprise the Nigerian goal-minder but her shot was sent over the cross bar. |
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| The Nigerian film industry has garnered much attention over the past few years. |
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| I asked Rolake Bamgbose, an off-air reporter for ABC News who happens to be a stunning Nigerian woman, what she thinks. |
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| Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale. |
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| Fluent in Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer. |
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| According to these experts, as many as nine million Nigerian children could suffer from retardation in the next 10 years if iodized salts are not consumed regularly. |
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| The narrator, a Nigerian psychiatry student, is emotionally distant, ruminative, and intellectual. |
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| Inside her home, she was an obedient Nigerian child, eating beef stews for breakfast and wearing the traditional garb. |
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| The venture will see both companies work together to build a production facility in Nigeria, which will supply evaporated milk and milk powder to the local Nigerian market. |
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| This mid-price album is a must-buy for newcomers to Nigerian music. |
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| Anyone with an unsatisfactory answer is held until the Nigerian military can deal with them the next morning. |
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| As supplies ran short the Nigerian miners found a new source of tourmaline in brownish-red to red colors, some of which is considered to be rubellite. |
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| Basildon police and immigration officers are hunting a Nigerian conman who has fleeced several banks and may be creating false passports for other criminals. |
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| Just last year, over 200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from their school by the radical islamist group Boko Haram. |
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| Later, a Nigerian publisher showed interest, and he revised his posts for book publication in Nigeria. |
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| Nigerian intellectuals, in particular, and African intellectuals, in general, have also debated other alternative forms of democracy similar to diarchy. |
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| These airlines include Nigerian Airways, Kenya Airways, and Air Mauritius. |
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| The court is regularly used by a mixture of Anglos, Koreans, Polynesians, and Armenians and by a Nigerian contingent who live in North Parramatta. |
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| May we humbly request your immediate and urgent attention to tell you the story of a Nigerian e-mail scammer convicted of wire fraud in Houston, Texas? |
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| England fans in Otley tucked into a traditional Nigerian breakfast of spicy black-eyed pea fritters and friend bananas at Korks Wine Bar and Brasserie. |
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| They were boosted by the return from injury of Nigerian international Jay Jay Okocha, who was back in harness after a four-match lay-off with a hamstring problem. |
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| In contrast, the Angolan kwanza and the Nigerian naira have depreciated against the US dollar over the period which may have protected their competitiveness. |
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| They also suggest that the area's history of fusion and fission present a microcosm of the ethnic and political tensions of the Nigerian nation since independence. |
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| The same is true for an Ijaw Nigerian or a Shona Zimbabwean. |
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| It may be impossible to replace Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the unsilenceable Nigerian dissident who was the patriarch of Afrobeat. |
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| Angolan government has called on the Nigerian business community to take advantage of the available investment opportunities in their country. |
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| Nigerian police said he had escaped in the northern city of Zaria on Saturday while his captors were praying. |
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| Thirty Islamist gunmen stormed his home in the north Nigerian state of Katsina, killing a security guard and a neighbour in the raid. |
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| Extraordinarily, Lagos State's economy is larger than that of19 of the smaller Nigerian states' economies added together. |
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| A Nigerian was arrested on Sunday for raping a Manipuri nursing student in Bangalore. |
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| On Sunday, Nigerian troops were battling scores of Boko Haram fighters outside the northeast city of Bauchi. |
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| The Rubin Kazan backline failed to clear the ball with Chelsea pressuring to set up the Nigerian ripped the ball from distance. |
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| The Nigerian international returned to his homeland to take charge of leading club Lobi Stars three months ago but opted for a clearout. |
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| We raise Nubian, Saanen, and a few Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats that provide us with delightfully delicious milk. |
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| The heavier and maltier drink, long produced at the company's Nigerian plant, will once again be produced at Dublin's James Gate brewery. |
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| Nigerian military leaders have been refocusing their strategy towards Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. |
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| Nigerian commercial banks' earnings were hit by the apex bank's tight money policies. |
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| He recruited umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian underwear bomber. |
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| He argued that Muswa, a Nigerian illegal overstayer in the UK, did not pose a grave risk to people in this country. |
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| Ironsi was the last Nigerian leader to shun nepotism and to be truly detribalised. |
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| Piracy off the Nigerian coast and elsewhere in the Gulf of Guinea is on the rise. |
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| Afara is the common Nigerian name and a British Standard name for the commercial timber. |
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| In other transfer news, Betar Jerusalem added Eran Levy, Haim Megrelashvili and Nigerian Harmony Ikande to its squad on Tuesday. |
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| On August 27, 2002, a Nigerian court ordered the mother of a newborn child, Amina Lawal, to be publicly lapidated for adultery. |
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| For example, the Nigerian university system is similar to the British system, while the Ivorian system is akin to the French. |
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| In 2009, it was announced that McQueen has been tapped to direct Fela, a biopic about the Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti. |
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| In August 2014, the company disclosed it was in the process of finalizing the sale of its interests in four Nigerian oil fields. |
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| The lawsuits were brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Brian Anderson, the head of its Nigerian operation. |
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| The same executive also boasted that the Nigerian government had forgotten about the extent of Shell's infiltration. |
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| Today, the Nigerian Methodist Church has a prelate, eight archbishops and 44 bishops. |
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| On 24 March 2009, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, NigComSat Ltd. |
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| In recent times there has been some collaboration between Ghanaian and Nigerian crew and cast with a number of productions being turned out. |
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| When elections were held in 1965, the Nigerian National Democratic Party came to power in Nigeria's Western Region. |
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| Britain and the Soviet Union were the main military backers of the Nigerian government while France and others aided the Biafrans. |
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| The Shagari government became viewed as corrupt by virtually all sectors of Nigerian society. |
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| It is estimated that over a million Nigerians have emigrated to the United States and constitute the Nigerian American populace. |
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| In August 2014, Shell Oil Company said it was finalising its interests in four Nigerian oil fields. |
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| Nigeria has a space satellite that is monitored at the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency Headquarters in Abuja. |
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| The Nigerian government has commissioned the overseas production and launch of four satellites. |
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| Nigerian film studios are based in Lagos, Kano and Enugu, forming a major portion of the local economy of these cities. |
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| Nigerian cinema is Africa's largest movie industry in terms of both value and the number of movies produced per year. |
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| Nigerian cuisine, like West African cuisine in general, is known for its richness and variety. |
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| Nigerian feasts are colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are plentiful and varied. |
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| In the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom about 15,000 children were branded as witches and most of them end up abandoned and abused on the streets. |
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| Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in May 2014 claimed that Boko Haram attacks have left at least 12,000 people dead and 8,000 people crippled. |
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| In other accents, such as varieties of Caribbean English, Nigerian English, and Liberian English, such pairs are indeed merged. |
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| The Nigerian Army in partnership with its British counterpart started the training of 150 warrant officers and senior non-commissioned officers. |
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| The first group of 300 pilgrims arrived Sunday, sources at the Nigerian Embassy said. |
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| Corruption was one of the main issues during the recent Nigerian elections. |
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| Nigerian Foreign Minister Aminu Wali made the comment during a meeting with foreign diplomats, according to the Nigerian newspaper Daily Post. |
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| The abduction of hundreds of young Nigerian girls by the militia Boko Haram has been front-page news for weeks. |
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| Nigerian Raphael Chukwu, last season's top scorer for Premier League side Sundowns, had been publicly linked with a move to Italian side Bari. |
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| Testicular infarction complicating strangulated inguinal herniae in Nigerian children. |
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| The Blues' Nigerian striker produced a towering display in Sunday's derby match, just days after his mountain climbing technique also raised spirits in the Blues camp. |
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| Taylor's aim was for the RUF to attack the bases of Nigerian dominated peacekeeping troops in Sierra Leone who were opposed to his rebel movement in Liberia. |
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| The Nigerian Military consist of an army, a navy, and an air force. |
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| The NYSC was established by law after the Nigerian Civil War. |
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| Also, Nigerian filmmakers usually feature Ghanaian actors and actresses in their movies and Ghanaian filmmakers feature Nigerian actors and actresses in theirs. |
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| The Nigerian was later suspended from voting after a FIFA ethics court ruled he solicited bribes from undercover Sunday Times reporters posing as lobbyists. |
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| The event was organised by Inhaba, a business development and knowledge-network venture founded by Nigerian Olugbenga Adesida and Cape Verdean Jose Brito. |
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| On his part the head of the Nigerian Council, Hennery Bin Danto, has pointed out they intends to invite President Omar Al Bashir to attend that conference. |
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| Johnson hesitated with his back to goal and was dispossessed by Mulumbu, who instantly played Odemwingie through on goal. The Nigerian kept his composure to wrong-foot Reina. |
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| The terrorists, also called the Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa, killed a guard during the raid and freed Nigerian household staff. |
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| Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox Church and Cardinal of Brazil participated in the forum, in addition to a number of Austrian and Nigerian cardinals. |
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| Subsequently, the Church of Nigeria appointed an American cleric to deal with relations between the United States and Nigerian churches outside the normal channels. |
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| As per the report, Abuja announced that it is ready to launch Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine into the Nigerian routine immunization schedule on 15 December. |
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| Although Nigerian films have been produced since the 1960s, the country's film industry has been aided by the rise of affordable digital filming and editing technologies. |
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| In 2009, Nigerian security forces extrajudicially killed Yusuf, an admirer and would-be emulator of Afghanistan's Taliban, during a crackdown on his sect. |
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| Operational guidelines for the development and implementation of adapted physical education programs for the orthopedically handicapped in Nigerian schools. |
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| The ILO has also asked the Nigerian government to remove certain worker categories from its essential services list so trade union conventions may be enforced. |
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| The international community has been observing Nigerian elections to encourage a free and fair process, and condemned this one as being severely flawed. |
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| This week, the Nigerian military rescued 338 Boko Haram hostages, mostly women and children, in the group's northeastern stronghold in the Sambisa forest. |
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| The pidgin English or Nigerian English is widely spoken within the Niger Delta Regions, predominately in Warri, Sapele, Port Harcourt, Agenebode, Ewu, and Benin City. |
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| The Sri Lankan becomes the fifth competitor to fail a drugs test at the Games in India, along with three Nigerian track runners and an Indian race walker. |
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| The Sri Lankan becomes the fifth competitor to fail a drugs test at the Delhi Games, along with three Nigerian track runners and an Indian race walker. |
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| On 10 October 2013, the BBC announced that films of eleven episodes, including nine missing episodes, had been found in a Nigerian television relay station in Jos. |
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| For sometime now, interest has been greatly shown in the chemical composition of some Nigerian medical plants by phytochemist, biochemist and chemist. |
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| Chief of Training of the Nigerian Airforce, Air Vice Marshal Ahmed Iya, said this in Bauchi, when he paid a courtesy call on the state governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar. |
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| The large community of Ghanaian and Nigerian immigrants have established African churches, often in parking garages in the Bijlmer area, where many have settled. |
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| Contemporary Nigeria has a class of traditional notables whose titles are tied to those of its reigning monarchs, the Nigerian traditional rulers. |
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| The image of the Nigerian police became worse during the military era as the force became a ready tool of repression for incessive repressive military regimes. |
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| Many other Commonwealth writers have achieved an international reputation for works in English, including Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, and playwright Wole Soyinka. |
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