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160 more rescued from Sambisa Forest

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According to AFP, the Nigerian Army says it has rescued about 160 more hostages  from Sambisa Forest.<br />
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"We are still trying to compute the actual number of those rescued. But 
tentatively there are about 60 women of various ages and around 100 
children," Army spokesman Sani Usman told AFP.

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He also said one woman was killed in the fighting and eight other 
rescued hostages were injured. A soldier was also killed and four others
 wounded.
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160 more rescued from Sambisa Forest

According to AFP, the Nigerian Army says it has rescued about 160 more hostages from Sambisa Forest. "We are still trying to c...

Pics: Teju Babyface's wife mugged on Eko Bridge, her car windows smashed

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Comedian, Talk Show host and TV producer Teju Babyface's wife, Tobi 
Oyelakin, was on her way to the mainland at about 8pm last night when 
her car was attacked by hoodlums on Eko Bridge. She 
was in the car with her driver and 3 other girls in the back seat and 
were approaching the National Theater area of the Eko bridge when they 
encountered some traffic.<br />
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They had barely come to a stop when
 4 boys leaped out of the shadows and knocked on the windows 
with torch lights and asked them to roll down the windows. They were 
still trying to come to terms with rising levels of panic when the 
hoodlums shattered the rear windows on both sides of the car and 
proceeded to rough-handle the ladies in the back seat and collect all 
valuables. Continue...</div>
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The hoodlums proceeded with impunity 
to open all the bags and pour the contents into nylon bags they brought 
along. This
 was in the presence of all other motorists on the bridge. The robbery 
went on for well over 2minutes from start to finish. </div>
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When
 they had finished and disappeared into the shadows and the occupants of
 the car were able to drive away, they saw policemen further down the 
bridge on patrol and reported t‎o them that they had been robbed, 
whereupon the policemen empathized (or sympathized) with them simply by 
saying 'ah, those boys have started again'. </div>
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<span>Luckily no one sustained grave injuries in the attack and Teju's wife is fine but very shook up. </span></div>
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<span>Speaking about the incident, Teju said;</span></div>
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<span>"One
 realizes that this is becoming almost commonplace and acceptable in 
Lagos as reports reaching us indicate that it happens daily. That may 
very well be an axiom but I share this with you to bring attention to 
what threatens to become endemic. A great contretemps I must confess."</span></div>
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South African women narrate discrimination they face for marrying Nigerian men

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South African women married to Nigerian men have narrated the 
discrimination they face for marrying men outside their country. Seeing 
the disaffection their kinsmen show them after finding love in  the 
hands of Nigerian men, the women decided to form an association, the 
United Nigerian Wives in South Africa (UNWISA) club about two years ago 
where they give support and succor to each other.<br />
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42 year old Lindwela Uche who serves as the chairwoman of the group told
 AFP that they saw the xenophobic attacks coming and alerted their 
husbands but they did not take their warning seriously

"We saw this thing coming and that’s why we formed this association. If 
only they (the authorities) had listened to us… they would have known 
that there’s a fire burning slowly and they would have seen how to 
tackle it.”she said

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One of the members of the association,“Lufunu Orji who is married to a 
Nigerian resource consultant, Ogbonnaya Orji, says being married to a 
foreigner is very challenging<br />
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"Being married to a foreigner is very challenging. You often spend your 
time defending yourself and then you defend your foreign husband for 
being himself. Just before I got wed to my husband, I lost two very best
 friends of mine. They thought I was out of my mind" she said

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Another member of the group who gave her  name as Uche, said her  
13-year-old daughter returned from school a while ago, complaining that 
her teacher had told her “not to bring that Nigerian mentality here” 
after she and classmates were noisy in class.<br />
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“We need to be protected, we need our children to be protected… and our husbands to be treated with dignity,” Uche said
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37 year old Thelma Okoro, says the attitude towards them  “are negative 
everywhere we go,”. According to her,  wearing traditional Nigerian 
dress on the street can attract bad comments. She spoke of how her 
eight-year-old daughter gets mocked by schoolmates over her name “Ngozi”
 which means “blessing” in Igbo but literally translates to “danger” in 
Zulu. 
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South African women narrate discrimination they face for marrying Nigerian men

South African women married to Nigerian men have narrated the discrimination they face for marrying men outside their country. Seeing ...

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