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...early in 1995, after a farmer uncovered a sculpted terra-cotta head. For $30, nearly twice what he made a month selling yams, he peddled it to a traveling antiquities dealer. Word of the windfall spread, and locals started tilling the ground around Kawu, 30 miles northeast of the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Within months, more than 2,000 diggers were burrowing into Kawu's stony earth. Dealers bid against one another, pushing up prices, in Kawu's version of the Gold Rush. Bars and brothels opened, and newly rich locals bought motorcycles. "Everybody was looking for money," says Abubakar Sala...
...thieves with an inside contact smashed open 11 display cases. Their haul, which included some of the best-known 12th and 13th century Ife terra-cotta and brass heads--all uninsured--was worth about $200 million. It was the museum's third burglary that year. Nigerian traders also target villages like Kawu, buying artifacts from locals or encouraging rudimentary digging. "It's not exactly excavation," says Abiye Ichaba, head of research and documentation at the Abuja Council for Arts and Culture. "There's nothing systematic about it, no pattern to it. We call it plundering...
...Sierra Leone is the biggest in the world. By the end of the year 17,500 troops from 31 armies, including large contingents from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan, will be stationed there. "Soldiers all over the world interact with women," says Lieut. Colonel James Oladipo, head of a Nigerian battalion in Makeni. "Women come to the men on roadblocks at night and play music. But our troops are disciplined." Still, in the world's poorest country, women reportedly fight over who gets to sleep with Oladipo's troops. "The RUF told the girls if they fight for the Nigerians they...
...privacy [on the Internet] anyway. Get over it." Privacy advocates resisted that pessimistic assessment at the time. But since then, hardly a week goes by without a news story suggesting McNealy was on to something. Russian hackers breaking into e-commerce sites to steal credit-card numbers. Rings of Nigerian identity thieves. Cyberstalkers...
...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates $25 million to Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Center for International Development for an Aids research and prevention program in Nigeria. The grant is the largest in HSPH history; the money will support the Nigerian AIDS Prevention Initiative...