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theGRIO's 100 - Afam Onyema turned down jobs from prestigious law firms with starting salaries of $160,000 to help realize…
theGRIO REPORT - First there was Hollywood, then came Bollywood and today we have Nollywood the second largest film industry…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gay sex has been banned in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people, since…
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two…
ATLANTA (AP) - A Nigerian woman convicted of enslaving two young women from her country to work as servants and…
DETROIT (AP) - A Nigerian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to bring down an international flight over Detroit with…
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - The buildings, known as U.N. House, had offices for about 400 employees working for 26 U.N.…
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, 24, is scheduled to be arraigned on charges he breached airport security in…
Bidemi Bello, a Nigerian citizen, was convicted on charges she imported two young women from Nigeria to serve as modern-day…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's most talked-about hip-hop video exhibits all the excesses of its American counterparts -- beautiful, scantily…
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) - Burned corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above this city where rioting…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The Broadway cast of "Fela" introduced Afrobeat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to hundreds of thousands of new…
MIAMI - Mpaka is accused of fatally stabbing girlfriend Coty Paul in North Miami Beach on Dec. 26, 2008. He…
DALLAS-FORT WORTH - Officials are trying to locate a Houston home day care operator who fled to her native Nigeria…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Producers say the show -- starring its original Broadway cast, including actor Sahr Ngaujah portraying Anikulapo-Kuti…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Halliburton and other firms allegedly paid the bribes to win a contract to build a $6…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Jackson later acknowledged such a plan would require accountability, especially in Nigeria, the continent's most populous…
NEW YORK (AP) - Achebe, whose "Things Fall Apart" is regarded as the founding work of postcolonial African fiction, has…
DETROIT (AP) - In February, law enforcement officials said he had turned against Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born Yemeni radical who…