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  • Indian Nigerian teams win Africa business contest

    An Indian team comprising IITians and a Nigerian team promoting low-cost farm products have triumphed at an India-Africa business competition held here. India's Life Catalyst Technologies and Nigeria's Jorsey Ashbel Farms won the 2nd Indiafrica Business Venture Competition held as part of the ongoing IndiAfrica Festival here, a statement from the organisers said Saturday. Four teams from ...

  • Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office

    17 May 2013 150 Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram ...

  • Air Strikes Hit Nigerias Militant Camps

    Nigerian forces have launched air strikes against suspected Islamist militant camps in the country's northeast. A military spokesman said all known militant camps in three northeastern states are being attacked and that several camps in Borno state have been destroyed or taken over. The spokesman, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, said earlier Friday that the attacks killed an ...

  • I planned to spend just one year in the university – Pat Utomi

    BY FEYI BANKOLE He is popular for his proclamation, "Nigeria has no business being poor!". Christened Patrick Okedinachi Utomi but largely known as Pat Utomi, our inspirational guest is a passionate entrepreneur and social activist. After a brief career in journalism, Patrick was appointed a Special Assistant on Political Affairs in Alhaji Shehu Shagari's administration which was ...

  • Clark solely made Orubebe minister – Evah

    Comrade Joseph Evah, coordinator, Ijaw Monitoring Group (MIG) and former Publicity Secretary, Ijaw National Congress (INC), in this interview, speaks on the state of the ...

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Michael Collins

It took Irish director Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game," "Interview With the Vampire") twelve years to get his romantic biopic "Michael Collins" to the screen. It went through a number of other hands, but through persistence and a bit of luck, Jordan finally secured $28 million from producer mogul David Geffen. Geffen allowed him complete artistic freedom to paint his own portrait of this mythical ... ...

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  • Woman seeks divorce for lack of sexual satisfaction by husband

    By Adeola Adenuga A former airline cashier, Mrs Grace Oguche, pleaded with an Agege Grade 'A' Customary Court, Lagos to dissolve her seven-year old marriage to her husband, Mr Maxwell Madu, over his alleged poor performance in bed and being unemployed. "Ever since we got married, I hardly enjoyed sex with my husband", she said in her testimony in chief. My husband does not ...

  • The bee venom as HIV cancer cure

    By Ebele Orakpo If reports from the researches of a team of medical practitioners at the Washington University School of Medicine, USA, and the testimony of an Ibadan-based apitherapist are anything to go by, perhaps the world should get ready to heave a sigh of relief from AIDS and cancer. Unlike most other ailments where the bodyfs defence apparatus fights foreign objects thereby protecting ...

  • Husband drags wife to court for indecent dressing

    BY ADEOLA ADENUGA ';I am not angry with my wife for not having kids but with the way she dresses provocatively, leaving her breasts and buttocks virtually naked. Anytime I complained, she will say that is what is in vogue. She brought a concubine to my mother's burial but I didn't catch her then". With these words, a 42-year-old man pleaded with an Agege Grade 'A' ...

  • Sexual Harassment Poly to kick out culprits

    The Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, has warned that it will apply commensurate punishment on any teaching staff found to be engaging in sorting, mutilation of results, sexual harassment and all forms of exploitation. The Rector, Dr. (Mrs.) Celestina Njoku, read the riot act during the institution's Quarterly General Assembly. "I urge any staff involved in any of these vices to desist ...

  • Abomination How son killed mother hid body for 10 years

    BY CHIDI NKWOPARA WARNING: This story contains a graphic picture. Reader’s discretion is advised. Dr. Chimezie Osigwe, 64, is a retired school principal of Awa Community Secondary School, Ejemekwuru in Oguta local government area of Imo State. He not only allegedly killed his mother, he was said to have also dried her remains and stored them in a cupboard in a room that allegedly served ...

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