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June 3, 2012
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city, killing all 153…
May 7, 2012
In the city of Kano, Nigeria, members of the Islamic sharia police have decided to take the love lives of…
March 13, 2012
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's largest city has again played host to a Fashion Week event in an attempt to…
February 16, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - At least five passengers were expected to speak Thursday at the sentencing of a Nigerian man who…
January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Afam Onyema turned down jobs from prestigious law firms with starting salaries of $160,000 to help realize…
January 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - First there was Hollywood, then came Bollywood and today we have Nollywood the second largest film industry…
November 29, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gay sex has been banned in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people, since…
October 18, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two…
October 13, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - A Nigerian woman convicted of enslaving two young women from her country to work as servants and…
October 12, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - A Nigerian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to bring down an international flight over Detroit with…
August 26, 2011
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - The buildings, known as U.N. House, had offices for about 400 employees working for 26 U.N.…
July 18, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, is scheduled to be arraigned on charges he breached airport security in…
June 14, 2011
Bidemi Bello, a Nigerian citizen, was convicted on charges she imported two young women from Nigeria to serve as modern-day…
May 4, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's most talked-about hip-hop video exhibits all the excesses of its American counterparts -- beautiful, scantily…
April 19, 2011
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) - Burned corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above this city where rioting…
April 14, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The Broadway cast of "Fela" introduced Afrobeat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to hundreds of thousands of new…
March 14, 2011
MIAMI - Mpaka is accused of fatally stabbing girlfriend Coty Paul in North Miami Beach on Dec. 26, 2008. He…
March 1, 2011
DALLAS-FORT WORTH - Officials are trying to locate a Houston home day care operator who fled to her native Nigeria…
February 28, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Producers say the show -- starring its original Broadway cast, including actor Sahr Ngaujah portraying Anikulapo-Kuti…
January 3, 2011
HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama is quietly but strategically stepping up his outreach to Africa...