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Nigeria and it’s fleeting Space program

By Rab Bakari • Nov 13th, 2008 • Category: Tech

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Oh well! We engineers and tech people knew that this was not done right. What I mean is that the most populous; oil-rich nation but ‘economic basket case’ could not or would not maintain the NigComSat-1 satellite launched by them into orbit around the Earth eighteen months ago.
They are shutting the power down to [...]



20 African football teams World Cup/Nation Cup qualifier groups decided

By Rab Bakari • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: African Cup of Nations GHANA 2008

The line-up for the five African groups in the third and final round of qualifying games for the 2010 Fifa World Cup was finalized at Fifa headquarters in Zurich on Wednesday.
The games - which will be played between March and November 2009 promise some great African fixtures.

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US Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery is here again

By Rab Bakari • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Africa, Lead Story

The DV-2010 Lottery online entry begins today at Noon EDT/1600hrs GMT on October 2, 2008, and ends at Noon EST/1700hrs GMT on December 1, 2008. The English version of the DV-2010 Lottery Instructions is available in PDF format for your convenience.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a United States congressionally mandated lottery program for receiving [...]



FESTAC - New Nigerian Restaurant in NYC

By Rab Bakari • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Food

New Nigerian Restaurant in New York City. A rare sight indeed!
FESTAC GRILL - 263 Hendrix Street,
East New York, Brooklyn - NY 11207-2623
+1-718-627-5151

Photo by Flickr User -EOS Chaos
While the Senegalese have boldly opened semi-upscale restaurants in Harlem and Clinton Hill, complete with annotated menus, and the Ghanaians have established numerous small groceries and cafés in [...]



SONNY OKOSUNS DEAD AT 61

By Rab Bakari • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Music

Famed musician, freedom fighter and evangelist Sonny Okosuns died Saturday, May 24 at Howard University Teaching Hospital, Washington, D.C., at the age of 61. Considered as one of Nigeria’s leading artists, Mr. Okosuns succumbed after a prolonged battle with colon cancer.

He was one of my favorite pan-African musicians!
The anti-apartheid singer turned evangelist and praise singer [...]