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An Ivorian doused himself with fuel and set himself on fire at Rome’s Fiumicino airport after

showing officials a deportation order, police said.

The incident occurred in a customs police office at the Terminal 3 of the airport, Italy’s largest.

Police said the man had poured a canister of fuel over himself and ignited it with a lighter. The

man was taken to the hospital in serious condition while a policeman who put out the flames

sustained some level of burn to his arm.

The smoke caused alarm among travelers and a small part of the airport was briefly closed off.

No other injuries or disruption were reported.

AFRICAN STUDENTS ABROAD RETURNING HOME FOR FAST CAREER GROWTH.

In order to grow their...

Read more: A MAN FROM IVORY COAST SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE AT ROME AIRPORT TO PROTEST DEPORTATION.

SPANISH WOMAN ARRESTED FOR MARRYING THREE NIGERIAN MEN.

A 40 year old Spanish woman was arrested in Madrid, Spain for being married to three

Nigerians who she had charged 3,000 pounds each so they could get Spanish nationality.

The investigation began when police discovered irregularities in the request for residency

permit from a Nigerian man.

He had married a Spanish woman and included the marriage certificate in the application submitted.

However, the woman was registered as having married two other Nigerian men in other parts

of Madrid in 2007 and 2008.

UNITED STATES BASED DOCTOR ASSASSINATED IN NIGERIA.

A United States-based financial expert, Dr. Ogbo Edoga, was shot dead by gunmen in...

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Lamin Sillah, 28, was shot to death at RC Petroleum on Sept. 4, in the Bronx, New York area by a

bike-riding thug who opened fire when Lamin grabbed for the gun.

“I want the killer to be punished. It’s good the police caught the killer,” Sillah’s wife, Mariama

Dampha, told reporters in a phone interview from Gambia. “That’s really good news for me.

The best thing is for justice to be done.”

But the grieving widow said no punishment will ever fill the hole left in her heart. “Even if

justice is done, at the end of the day, I lost a very loving husband,” Dampha said. “I lost my

husband under very stupid circumstances. Yes, there is justice to be done to the killer-life in jail

for him.”

Hard...

Read more: A GAMBIAN IMMIGRANT KILLED IN A ROBBERY.

Athletes and coaches numbering more than a dozen from nations including Cameroon, Guinea,

the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Ivory Coast said to have “disappeared” from the Olympic village before the closing ceremony are yet to return home. Meanwhile, of the twelve athletes

from Eritrea, four have already filed for asylum in the United Kingdom.

While most of the asylum-seeking athletes have refused to make any public statements about

their decisions, one of such athletes, Eritrea’s, 18-year-old Olympic flag-bearer, Weynay

Ghebresilasie, has revealed that he claimed political asylum in the United Kingdom on the day

of the Games’ closing ceremony to avoid returning home to the country he had just

represented in the...

Read more: LONDON OLYMPIC 2012- MISSING AFRICAN ATHLETES SEEK ASYLUM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.