Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state on Friday just as he was about to give a lecture. The attack comes 33 years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini ...

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In 2005, when he was declared a Persona Non Grata by an erstwhile Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sherif, the ...