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- March 1, 2003: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Pomona Magazine: Jim Ludden taught chemistry and mathematics at a secondary school in Arochuku, Nigeria, from 1963 to 1965 Friday, August 21, 2009 - 5:53 am [4]
- March 1, 2003: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: PCVs in the Field - Nigeria: PC Day: Sheboygan Press: RPCV Cathy Isa stayed in Nigeria for 16 years Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 3:06 pm [1]
- March 1, 2003: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Pomona Magazine: Jim Ludden taught chemistry and mathematics at a secondary school in Arochuku, Nigeria, from 1963 to 1965 Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 3:05 pm [1]
- January 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: NGO's: Christian Children’s Fund: Nigeria RPCV Dr. John F. Schultz is President of Christian Children’s Fund Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 11:52 am [9]
- November 15, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Art: Sculpture: Newspaper Tree: Ho Baron joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Nigeria where I got caught up in two coups and a civil war Monday, November 29, 2004 - 3:55 am [1]
- November 28, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Obituaries: Sacramento Bee: Nigeria RPCV Judge James T. Ford dies in California Monday, November 29, 2004 - 3:54 am [1]
- January 25, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Honolulu Advertiser: Anson Chong, who served in Nigeria as an assistant lecturer in economics in 1964-66, is now interim principal at St. Joseph School in Hilo, Hawai'i. For him, a more appropriate role for the Peace Corps is "preventive." Sunday, November 21, 2004 - 4:01 pm [1]
- September 12, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Oregon Live: At 49, inspired by President John F. Kennedy's speech at the Cow Palace, John Pincetich joined the Peace Corps and spent the next seven years in such foreign outposts as Nigeria, Malaysia and Boston Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 1:43 pm [2]
- September 24, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Sports: Volleyball: Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Nigeria RPCV Dave Shoji will coach his 1,000th match tomorrow when Hawaii takes on Pepperdine Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 1:35 pm [1]
- August 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Charlotte Sun-Herald: Mary Panikian dies. Nurses and volunteers adored Mary and listened to her stories about joining the U.S. Peace Corps in 1962, spending two years in Nigeria teaching English Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 10:54 am [1]
- August 9, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Speaking Out: New York Times: Nigeria RPCV Charlotte Murphy criticizes foolishness of religious leaders Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 2:22 pm [1]
- July 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Civil Rights: Photography: Lexington Herald-Leader: Nigeria RPCV Calvert McCann captured the images of civil rights movement that papers ignored Sunday, April 22, 2007 - 9:48 am [2]
- June 21, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: University Education: Arizona State University: Deborah N. Losse spent two years teaching French at the Government Secondary School in Katsina, Nigeria, where she taught French and English as a second language as a Peace Corps volunteer Monday, June 28, 2004 - 10:41 am [1]
- June 11, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Travel: Mercury News: Palo Alto High School Principal Sandra Pearson married Scott Pearson in northern Nigeria while the pair taught in the Peace Corps in 1962. Now she and her husband lead international trips for the Stanford Travel/Study Program. Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 9:30 pm [1]
- May 13, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Politics: Election2004 - Martin: Mountain Party: Julian Martin, Nigeria 3 (1961-63), is a Mountain Party candidate for Congress for the 2nd district of West Virginia Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 10:52 pm [1]
- June 11, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Baseball: Sports: All Africa: Baseball, introduced to Nigeria by U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s, went into abeyance after their departure until the game was revived in 1989 Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 7:01 pm [4]
- April 25, 2004: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Art: Art Education: Maine Today: Nigeria RPCV Natasha Mayers works with elementary school students in Portland to bring cultural awareness to schoolchildren Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 1:31 pm [1]
- March 10, 2004 - Washington Post: Nigeria and Malawi Country Director Byron S. Caldwell dies Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 6:52 pm [1]
- March 21, 2004 - Charlotte Sun-Herald: Barely two years after President John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps, Mary Panikian volunteered and flew to Nigeria -- a young woman alone in Africa in 1962 Monday, March 22, 2004 - 12:46 am [1]
- February 22, 2004 - NYPIRG: Donald K. Ross spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching in a rural village in Nigeria Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 9:00 pm [1]
- February 16, 2004 - Glenwood Springs Post Independent: In the Peace Corps Kern had learned to eat glass. The trick is to chew it up fine, so you can swallow it without tearing up your stomach. In Nigeria, Kern once ate a whole beer bottle. Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 7:08 am [2]
- January 18, 2004 - Wild Bird Center: George Petrides Sr was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer high school teacher in Nigeria and Botswana; and a Peace Corps official in Kenya and Washington, D.C. Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 8:23 am [1]
- January 5, 2004 - Morgan Hill Times: Nigeria RPCV Chris Riley selected as Showcase Man of the Year for his commitment to community service Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 6:39 am [2]
- January 1, 2004 - Sequatchie Valley Institute: Nigeria RPCV Johnny Kimmons founded the Sequatchie Valley Institute (SVI), a non-profit educational learning center and model for sustainable living Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 8:56 am [2]
- January 1, 2004 - Weekly Wire: Nigeria RPCV Johny Kimmons founded Moonshadow with communal living, a '60s concept that's finding renewed importance Friday, January 02, 2004 - 10:52 am [1]
- January 1, 2004 - Tennessee: Sequatchie Valley Institute founded by Nigeria RPCV Johnny Kimmons Friday, January 02, 2004 - 10:52 am [1]
- December 27, 2003 - Vanguard, Nigeria: Deputy Senate President praises Nigerian Peace Corps Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 12:47 pm [8]
- November 27, 1968 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Virginia Zink who died while serving in Nigeria in November, 1968 at Age 26 Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 1:32 am [2]
- December 27, 1966 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Diane Nitahara who died while serving in Nigeria in December, 1966 at Age 24 Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 11:14 am [1]
- November 30, 1966 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Henry Shine who died while serving in Nigeria in November, 1966 at Age 63 Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 11:13 am [1]
- November 9, 1965 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Johannes Vonfoerster who died while serving in Nigeria in November, 1965 at Age 25 Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 11:13 am [1]
- April 16, 1965 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Stanley Kowalczyk who died while serving in Nigeria in April, 1965 Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 11:12 am [1]
- November 30, 2003 - Virginian-Pilot: Liberia RPCV Richard Singletary finished book about Bruce Onobrakpeya, a contemporary Nigerian artist Monday, February 27, 2006 - 10:45 am [3]
- November 22, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Nowhere in Africa by Nigeria RPCV Suzy McKee Charnas Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 4:10 pm [1]
- November 22, 2003 - SF Writers of America: Autobiography of Nigeria RPCV Suzy McKee Charnas Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 4:09 pm [1]
- October 31, 2003 - Chicago Herald: Nigeria RPCV Don S. Samuelson invests his time and money in revitalizing urban areas Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 9:17 am [3]
- May 30, 1999 - West Virginia Highlands: Nigeria RPCV Julian Martin's views stir controversy in West Virginia Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 1:05 pm [1]
- September 18, 2003 - The Monroe Times: Nigeria RPCV Andy Oliver writes "Missing What's-Her-Name," Friday, September 19, 2003 - 9:49 am [1]
- July 13, 2003 - Afriscope: Nigeria RPCV Charles R. Larson’s The Ordeal of the African Writer Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 12:09 pm [1]
- July 11, 2003 - Peace Corps Press Release: Peace Corps Reunites Returned Volunteer and Nigerian Student After 37 Year Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 6:37 pm [3]
- June 13, 2003 - Hawaii Herald Tribune: Nigeria RPCV Anson Chong named High School Principal Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 1:08 pm [1]
- June 2, 2003 - The Michigan State News: Nigeria RPCV Jim Cunningham retireds as Professor at MSU, begins career as sculptor Monday, June 02, 2003 - 9:49 am [1]
- Richard Piazza's Web Site on his Service in Nigeria III Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 1:29 pm [9]
- Once Peaceful Nigeria Erupting in Violence says RPCV Donal Brown Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 3:22 pm [3]
- Delano E. Lewis, country director for the Peace Corps in Nigeria and Uganda from 1966 to 1969 Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 9:12 am [8]
- Mary-Joan Gerson was inspired by her two years in the Peace Corps in Nigeria to adapt this ancient African pourquoi tale Thursday, July 05, 2001 - 8:27 am [1]
- Clinton says Peace Corps returning to Nigeria Thursday, July 05, 2001 - 8:25 am [1]
- Alhaji : A Peace Corps Adventure in Nigeria Thursday, July 05, 2001 - 8:24 am [1]
- The first Peace Corps class headed to Nigeria Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 10:48 am [3]
- The infamous Peace Corps postcard Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 12:50 pm [5]
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- January 21, 2002 - Press Democrat: Nigeria RPCV Steven Neustadter dies at 61 Wednesday, January 23, 2002 - 10:46 am [1]
- May 20, 2002 - Press Release: The Peace Corps African Collection Monday, June 10, 2002 - 8:15 am [1]
- August 28, 2002 - Asbury Park Press: Nigeria RPCV Richard A. Hughes retires as editor of The Home News Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 9:07 am [2]
- August 31, 2002 - PCOL Exclusive: Nigeria RPCV John Sherman writes Memoir about War in Biafra Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 12:50 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Gazzette Online: Julian Martin (right) poses with the "amazing athletes" he coached while teaching chemistry and math in Nigeria. Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 7:42 am [2]
- May 25, 2003 - Minnesota Council on Economic Education: Claudia Parliament taught mathematics in the Minneapolis Public Schools and in the Peace Corps in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Liberia Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 4:13 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - National Charrette Institute: William Southworth was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 11:51 am [2]
- May 25, 2003 - Phoenix Theatre: Giles Hogya - Dean of Fine Arts - lived in Kabba, Nigeria, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and established and toured with his Children’s Theatre Company while teaching at the Kabba Teacher’s Training College Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 8:48 am [3]
- May 25, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Dr. Mark Kinney was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria in 1966-67 Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 4:06 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Albion College: President Melvin Vulgamore will be joined at the podium during next month's commencement with Nigeria RPCV Roger Landrum Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 4:05 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Mississippi: Robert Craycroft served in the Peace Corps during 1966-67 in Nigeria. Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 4:02 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Petroleum World: The "Obnoxious" threat to Nigeria and its oil By Nigeria RPCV Ron Singer Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:59 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Fairfield Now: Sola Ogungbe was influenced by U.S. Peace Corps members who had worked at his high school in Nigeria Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:56 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Kansas University: From 1966 to 1969, Delano Lewis served in the U.S. Peace Corps as associate director in Nigeria and later as country director in Uganda Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:55 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Palo Alto Online: Sandra Pearson went to Nigeria in 1962 with her husband, Scott, a member of the Peace Corps Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:51 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Moment: A year after my father’s death I received a letter from my mother. She suggested I find a synagogue and spend the yahrzeit with other Jews. There was just one problem: I was living in a remote African village—a Muslim village—on the outskirts of Nigeria Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:43 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Personal Web Site: "After The Twilight" by Sierra Leone RPCV Peg De Marco who lived in Nigeria Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:40 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Nigeria RPCV Johnny Kimmons Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:35 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - The Desert Sun: Nigeria RPCV David McDowell says Today's youth as hopeful as yesterday's Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:34 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - LGB RPCVs: Informed sources have told us that the decision to withdraw the Peace Corps from Nigeria early this year was due in large part to a deteriorating human rights climate there Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 3:32 pm [1]
- May 25, 2003 - Peace Corps Nigeria Alumni Foundation: Peace Corps Alumni Launch Scholarship Program in Nigeria Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 12:55 pm [324]
- May 25, 2003 - Peace Corps Nigeria Alumni Foundation: Peace Corps Nigeria Alumni Foundation Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 10:52 pm [6]
- 2006.11.30: November 30, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Biafra: Music: Opera: Art: Indianapolis: Nigeria RPCV John Sherman writes libretto for brand-new opera, "Biafra," to be presented at the Artsgarden in downtown Indianapolis at 7pm on Wednesday, December 6 Thursday, August 09, 2007 - 1:26 pm [6]
- 2006.09.26: September 26, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Nature: Television: Inland Empire Online: Nigeria RPCV Joanna Stark wants to teach the world about nature Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 10:06 am [1]
- 2006.08.06: August 6, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Obituaries: Baton Rouge Advocate: Obituary for Nigeria RPCV Alhaji Mustapha "Willie Jr." Ellis Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 11:08 am [1]
- 2006.06.09: June 9, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: COS - Morocco: Peace Corps: From 1964 to 1966, Richard and Ruth Sparks served as Peace Corps volunteers in Nigeria. Their daughter Amelia served in Morocco from 1994-1996. Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 11:43 am [1]
- 2005.07.29: July 29, 2005: Headlines: NPCA: COS Groups: COS - Nigeria: NPCA: Friends of Nigeria Group Leader Greg Zell offers then withdraws vote of no-confidence in the NPCA at 2005 Group Leaders Meeting Monday, September 04, 2006 - 9:02 am [1]
- 2006.07.19: July 19, 2006: Events: COS - Nigeria: COS - Uganda: Staff: Country Directors - Uganda: Canada Newswire: Former Uganda Country Director Delano Lewis to join Chalk's Board of Directors Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 4:22 am [1]
- 2006.08.06: August 6, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Mental Health: Drugs: Big Bear Grizzly: Nigeria RPCV Bert Meltzer is executive director of Operation Breakthrough drug and alcohol treatment facility in Big Bear California Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 10:31 am [1]
- 2006.07.14: July 14, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: City Government: Seaside Signal: Nigeria RPCV John Pincetich resigns as council member over Gearhart City municipal complex Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 11:13 am [1]
- 2006.05.02: May 2, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Daily Gate City: Nigeria RPCV Marvin Nehre retires with 33 years in Keokuk School District Wednesday, May 03, 2006 - 10:48 pm [1]
- 2006.02.24: February 24, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Obituaries: Tulsa World: Nigeria RPCV Lawrence George Fincke dies in Oklahoma Friday, April 14, 2006 - 6:15 am [1]
- February 17, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: AIDS: HIV: The Herald: Nigeria RPCV Jeannine Fosca of Everett has lived with AIDS for almost 10 years Friday, February 24, 2006 - 5:12 pm [1]
- December 30, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: COS - Sri Lanka: Art: Sculpture: Lansing State Journal: Nigeria RPCV Jim Cunningham's donates sculpture to the people of Mullaittivu, Sri Lanka Friday, December 30, 2005 - 12:01 pm [1]
- July 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Art: African Arts: Henry John Drewal says My earliest encounter with African/African Diaspora art dates to my very first attempt at African art "research"-my apprenticeship to the Yoruba artist Sanusi of the Adugbologe Workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1965, while I was a Peace Corps secondary school teacher Monday, December 05, 2005 - 11:21 am [1]
- July 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Art: African Arts: In the 1960s the Peace Corps came to southern Nigeria, the idealism of volunteers an infectious bonus for schools and Local Government Areas (LGAs) Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 9:53 am [1]
- November 7, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Humor: Ethics: Online Journal: Nigeria RPCV Tony Zurlo says White House staff members should attend classes on ethics Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 9:25 pm [1]
- August 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: University Administration: Springdale Morning News: RPCV Howard Brill Named Interim UA Law School Dean Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 1:24 pm [1]
- February 24, 1965: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Chetek Alert: Forty years ago - Mason Davis, a 1960 graduate of CHS, left for New York where he is a Peace Corps trainee at Columbia University Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 2:47 pm [1]
- February 11, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Religion: Ministry: DC Military: Several years ago, Pastor Gerald Durley (RPCV Nigeria) extended an invitation to the people of his inner city community to come and watch the game. Sunday, June 26, 2005 - 2:46 pm [1]
- June 3, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: Genocide: Palm Beach Post: Nigeria RPCV Mary Johnson organizes workshop on genocide Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 2:44 pm [1]
- February 10, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: NPCA: Fund Raising: Westport Now: Nigeria RPCV Catherine Onyemelukwe sits on the Finance Committee for the National Peace Corps Association Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 1:39 pm [1]