MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Army troops traded fire with Islamic militants Tuesday and surrounded the suspected hideout of a radical Muslim leader accused of orchestrating three days of violence in Africa's most populous nation. A tense calm returned to several towns elsewhere in northern Nigeria after authorities imposed curfews and poured security forces onto the streets to quell militant attacks against police, which have killed dozens of people since Sunday.
The band is composed of truly seasoned musicians. Drummer Russ Lawton has logged time with Trey Anastasio and Strangefolk, among others. Before joining Zzebra, lead singer Milton Randle ran with The Cars' Ric Ocasek. Guitarist Kevin Griffin is a San Francisco-based author who currently performs with Rough Draft. Bassist Scipio lives in London and tours extensively through Europe and Asia with Tuvan rock band Yat-Kha. Saxophonist/composer Noah Bernstein-Hanley is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has played with jazz titans Donald Byrd, Frank Foster and Roscoe Mitchell. [Amao]'s ex-wife, Andrea "Mina" Haulenbeek, is a keyboardist, singer and composer. A veteran music instructor, she was Zzebra's chief arranger during the band's heyday. What was so special about Amao wa...
... solos note for note while living in Nigeria to touring with a Ghanian army band in Russia. He ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Army troops traded fire with Islamic militants Tuesday and deployed armored vehicles to surround the suspected hideout of a radical Muslim leader accused of orchestrating three days of violence in Africa's most populous nation. A tense calm returned to several towns elsewhere in northern Nigeria after authorities imposed curfews and poured security forces onto the streets to quell a wave of militant attacks against police, which have killed dozens of people since Sunday.
... oil platform in the Gulf of Guinea, along Nigeria's coast. (228) While clashing with the Nigerian ar...
ABUJA, Nigeria - Muslim extremists might have planted the bomb that exploded at an army barracks in Nigeria's capital, the country's president said Saturday after the latest attack in a nation beset by violence in recent weeks. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday's explosion, which killed at least four people and wounded 21 as they celebrated New Year's Eve in the barracks'open-air beer garden and market. President Goodluck Jonathan promised people attending a church service in Abuja that those responsible would be found.
...Secondly, as a retired Army General, he was, most probably, chosen to protect ...
Those familiar with Fela Anikulapo Kuti's work and his festival-like concerts will be struck by the precision and accuracy of [Bill T. Jones]' production. Not only is Fela's Afrobeat sound breathtaking, the dancers are engaging and eyecatching, and the theater is festooned with images from Fela's unconventional and often-controversial lifestyle. One picture on the wall is the center of attention for Sahr Ngaujah, who portrays Fela with astonishing believability. It's a depiction of Fela's mother. Like her offspring, she was a political activist who died after she was thrown from a window by the Nigerian army. The army and the government of Nigeria were constantly harassing Fela and his followers, and his mother was a victim following a raid at Kalakuta, a commune founded by Fela in the ...
He already had been involved in Army special operations for more than a decade -- taking part in often-clandestine missions in Bosnia, various African nations and throughout the Middle East -- when he heard the numbing news that September morning in 2001. I was at Fort Bragg getting ready to fly out the next morning to Nigeria, where we were going to work with peace keepers from Sierra Leone," recalled Army Master Sgt. Greg Marolo of Beavercreek. "I was in my hotel room with the TV on when the towers fell and I remember I broke down. There was a whole mix of emotions. I felt an absolute helplessness. Here I was trained to do all these things and yet I was sitting there watching it. I became angry. I felt a real rage about it.
The number of people in need of care, support and assistance from afflictions (natural and artificial) keeps expanding by the day. From a simple traditional based dislocation to a sophisticated 'man induced' social problems of wars, refugees, drug addiction, homosexuality, HIV/AIDS pandemics etc, the society today (either developed or under-developed) have had to grapple with increasing number of the un-served (mostly adults) requiring different types of support and assistance. As divergent as these problems and the people affected are, the means of resolving these problems by government remains exclusively, contemporary social work practice. This paper is an attempt at appraising the traditional practices with a view to drawing out practices capable of helping resolve some 'emerging' s...
... social work in Nigeria are the Salvation Army and the Green triangle group in Lagos. The idea of...
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