12 out of the 18 soldiers standing trial for attempted murder and mutiny in Maimalari cantonment, Maiduguri were on Monday found guilty and sentenced to death by a Military court sitting in Abuja, according to Punch.
Out of the remaining six soldiers, five were discharged and acquitted while the remaining one was jailed for 28 days with hard labour.
It would be recalled it was reported on May 14, that some soldiers, angered by the death of 12 of their colleagues in a Boko Haram ambush, opened fire on the vehicle of the General Officer Commanding, GOC, 7th Division of the Nigerian Army, Ahmadu Mohammed in Maiduguri. Read More...
One of the original writers for Saturday Night Live who was elected a US senator from Minnesota in 2009. He is a prolific writer who has written several best-selling books including 1996's Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.
Before Fame He attended Harvard University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude degree in government in 1973.
Trivia Though he was mostly a writer on SNL he did perform several characters in front of the cameras including Stuart Smalley, a sweater-loving self-help guru, which spawned the 1995 film Stuart Saves His Family. Read More...
Plenty of lovely music -- ineffably sweet and sad and evocative of a lost era -- runs through "Band in Berlin," an unlikely new entry on Broadway that mixes the pleasures of a novel cabaret act with the drearier stuff of a high-school history lecture, replete with slightly cheesy visual aids. Despite the handsome harmonizing by five supremely talented vocalists, "Band in Berlin" is not really a musical. Unfortunately, it's not really a play either, and the show is probably not distinguished enough as a unique theatrical experience to endear itself for long to demanding Broadway audiences. Read More...