China's Nigerian oil bid follows African setbacks

China is seeking large stakes in Nigerian oil after the Asian giant ran into problems with oil deals in other African countries, according to a media report Wednesday.

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Pastor From Nigeria Expanding US Reach

Nearly every week, new visitors arrive. They want to see the megachurch that was built in the unlikeliest of places by the unlikeliest of men.

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Russia is comparatively quite hostile for many racial minorities. There was an earlier very grim report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy that concluded that at least 60% of African immigrants in Russia, had been physically assaulted.

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According to police, the victim and the suspects are all from Liberia, west Africa, and appeared to have known each other.

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Even before U.S. President Barack Obama utters a word of his long-anticipated June 4 address to "the Muslim world," there is already a problem with the rhetoric. As well meaning as it sounds, the term "Muslim world" is a trap. There is no unified Muslim world.

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Spanish police have arrested 23 people suspected of trafficking Nigerian women into the country and forcing them into prostitution by using voodoo curses.

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Kids in Lagos are given cameras with which to document their lives. Great video.

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Nigerian Mail Scams 419

Can someone tell me if it's just me or are there countless others who are continually inundated by the audacious nature of the Nigerian Mail Scam 419? These emails are constantly finding their way into my mail box along with the innumerable ads for sex videos and other schemes.

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Swindles in which someone overseas seeks access to a person's bank account are so well known that most potential victims can spot them in seconds.

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Nine crew members of a French ship taken hostage at the weekend off the coast of Nigeria have been freed. The ship's owner - Bourbon - did not say how it had secured the release of the vessel.

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An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn't a sucker or an easy mark.

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Why did this woman, a reverend and a nurse, give over $400,000 to Nigerian email scammers? It started with just $100. The emails told her a long-lost relative with the same last name had $20.5 million caught up in the banks of Nigeria.

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The Nigerian scam is still with us. Only now it is on the inter-net. Read conversations between the con-man and a would be victim.

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South Korean police have arrested three Nigerians for allegedly obtaining millions of dollars from Citibank with a forged document purportedly from Ethiopia's central bank.

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"The recipients most likely thought they were helping out someone who needed a person in the U.S. to cash a check for them, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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"Users of the professional-oriented social networking site LinkedIn are being warned that scam artists are using the site to nab lucrative bank account information from naive victims, say security experts.

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A female Nigerian politician badly beaten by a local MP is standing by the publication of a revealing photograph showing her injuries in a hospital bed.

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Hottest 25 -- as determined by email, searches of 'net, etc. Updated frequently. (The site also has an extensive archive of older hoaxes, some still in play).

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...A 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria is building helicopters out of old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen here, using the money he makes from repairing cellphones and computers.

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San Francisco (Oct. 8) – Repression in Burma, an environmental disaster in Ecuador's rainforest, and a federal judge's decision last month to force Chevron to stand trial in the U.S.

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A Nigerian who fled to Ireland as an asylum-seeker has just become the country's first black mayor, in what is seen as a landmark in multicultural relations.

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A Belgian businessman rejected a Nigerian job applicant because of the color of his skin. But he insisted he wasn't racist -- it was his dog that was the bigot, he said. The labor office in Belgium was not convinced.

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Last Wednesday, my direct line at Westword started ringing before eight in the morning, and it didn't stop all day. "Why did you send me this money?" asked a woman in Kentucky. "What am I supposed to do with these traveler's checks?" asked a man in Maryland.

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Great article about Nigerian e-mail scammers and how some people are fighting back.

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10 financial urban legends Writing checks in red ink won't prolong the float, and yes, you really do have to pay income tax. Here's a look at these and other lingering myths.

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The Nigerian Scam - Who Gets Rich?

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Riot police have fired at protesters in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing two people and seriously injuring a third.

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