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  • 25 killed 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger

    At least 25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bomb attacks Thursday at a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, reported Xinhua. A total of 20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a ...

  • London attack Hunt on for terror clues

    A Londoner of Nigerian descent was identified Thursday as one of the two suspects who decapitated a British soldier. The terror strike prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to go into a huddle with top officials and the military put in place additional security measures. Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death the British ...

  • Londoner of Nigerian descent suspect in terror attack

    Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death a British soldier in London, a media report said Thursday. The two terror suspects are being held under armed guard at hospitals in London and one of them has been named by Sky News sources as Adebolajo. The vicious attack on the soldier took place Wednesday in Woolwich, southeast ...

  • India to train 500 Nigerians in vocational skills

    India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. "Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and remains a priority. A generation of Nigerians have ...

  • Owolabi - Airlines Should Give Passengers Their Moneys Worth Inflight

    , said Nigerian airlines should improve their inflight service to attract more passengers. He also said that to ensure that the airports were protected, handling services should be left for professionals and should not be all-comers' affair. He spoke ...

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Louie Bluie [DVD]

Louie Bluie [DVD]

Prior to the release of Terry Zwigoffs independently produced documentary Louie Bluie in the mid-1980s, the name Louie Bluie meant little to even dedicated music collectors and the name Howard Armstrong meant even less. When Zwigoff, a musician and rabid collector of 78s, traded so ... ...

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  • NAMA to Test Run the First Phase AIS October This Year

    The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is to commence the test run of the first phase of its automated Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) centres across the country in October this year. Speaking to journalists in Lagos the Director of Safety Electronics and Engineering Services (DSEES) NAMA, Ifeanyi Nwankwo said the level of work on the installation that the first phase of AIS ...

  • Ram Charan On Why Some CEOs Excel

    Described by Fortune as the world's leading consultant, Ram Charan consults for leading blue chip companies across the world, and in addition regularly shares his insight on leadership and management. Raheem Akingbolu examines Charan's perspective on what differentiates a good Chief Executive Officer from a great CEO Perhaps at no other time in history has the business terrain ...

  • FG Trains 100 NAF Officers As Controllers

    To categorise air traffic control as essential duty insulated from industrial action and strikes, the Federal Government has sent the first batch of Nigeria Air Force officers for training as air traffic controllers. THISDAY learnt that 100 of the officers made the first batch and another 100 would be taken out for training in the second batch before end of the year. Government sources said ...

  • SAA Targets N20 Trillion Economic Growth in 20 Years

    South African Airways (SAA) expects the downstream economic enablement benefit of its group operations to total close on N20 trillion over the next 20-years Acting Chairperson Ms Dudu Myeni said today. The estimate is based on direct and indirect growth in direct and downstream employment creation with a forecast of 88 000 South African jobs across on aggregate through all sectors including ...

  • NCS Expresses Readiness to Take Over Destination Inspection

    The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reiterated its readiness to take over services of the service providers in the nation's seaports, airports and international borders at the end of a six -month extension, which ends next month. The Federal Government had in 2005 conceived the destination inspection (DI) programme as a viable approach to Customs modernisation. Four firms were engaged on ...

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