Word: sani
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...portable toilet was discovered to have been overturned on Linden Street. Area operators moved the toilet off of the street. Sani-Clean, who owns the toilet, was called and a message was left requesting that they right the unit...
...going nowhere, he says, until Sinn Fein becomes a purely political organization. And that means the I.R.A. has to make a clean break from crime. - By Chris Thornton Bank Order SWITZERLAND The Supreme Court ordered the return to Nigeria of $458 million in accounts held by late military leader Sani Abacha. The Nigerian government has promised to spend the funds on health, education and infrastructure. Hard Graft? TURKEY Former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz appeared in court on corruption charges, the country's highest-ranking official ever to do so. The three-time PM is accused of rigging the privatization...
Soyinka, a writer and political activist whose outspoken opposition to General Sani Abacha’s brutal regime had made it unsafe for him to remain in his native Nigeria, accepted a fellowship at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research...
...fraudulent. One wildly popular form of spam, commonly referred to as the “Nigerian” or “4-1-9” scam (surely you’ve seen the e-mails—from the ex-wife of late Nigerian president GENERAL SANI ABACHA or what have you, claiming that she’ll give you a $10 million commission just for helping her temporarily store her inheritance in your American bank account), dates back in some form to the 1920s. At that time it involved real letters (with stamps—remember...
WOLE SOYINKA. Soyinka, who won a Nobel Prize in 1986 and had a price placed on his head by Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha in the late 1990s, reads from his most recent work and discusses the amazing life he has led. The lecture, sponsored by the Department of African-American Studies, focuses on Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known, a book of poems written while the author was fleeing for his life. His latest effort meditates on his public and private lives, including a work in memory of Francois Mitterand and others dedicated to writers Josef Brodsky and Chinua...