Word: nigerian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Night after night, Nigerian gangsters trolled the bars and fleshpots of Naples for reckless young Yanks. The bait: a weekend excursion to Turkey, all expenses paid, and a fat wad of walking-around cash. The job: carrying a backpack stuffed with heroin on the return flight from Istanbul to Rome...
...Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, designer of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Maya Ying Lin and medical researcher and humanitarian Harold Amos are three of this year's honorands...
...writing has earned him Nigeria's highest prize for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Order of Merit. He will be given a Doctorate of Letters today...
Thomas was born in Florida, but she grew up in Nigeria (ages 4-8), Senegal (ages 8-14), and Maryland (age 14 to the present day). Her mother, who is second generation Danish and "more American than anyone I know," lives in Maryland, while her Nigerian father lives in Uganda. She has three siblings, to whom she is very close. Tobin is her 16-year-old younger brother ("He's a hottie," said one of Thomas's friends). Jessica, her 22-year-old older sister, graduated from Stanford last year and now lives in Maryland. Justin, her 24-year...
Pressure increased in November after the Nigerian government executed playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists from Ogoniland after convicting them of murder...