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  • Mayhem deaths as cultists invade Lagos community

    No fewer than three people were killed while others were injured on Thursday and Friday after suspected cult members invaded Mushin, Lagos State, and unleashed mayhem on the ...

  • Nigeria team set for Standard Chartered Trophy final

    The team representing Nigeria at the 2013 Standard Chartered Road to Anfield Tournament arrived in Liverpool on Saturday via Amsterdam and Manchester and promised to improve on last year's ...

  • Nigeria says 14 Militants 3 Soldiers Killed in Latest Fighting

    Nigeria's military says it killed 14 Boko Haram militants and captured 20 others Sunday, as it presses its offensive against the al-Qaida-linked group in the country's restive ...

  • Nigeria offensive on Islamists escalates in key city

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AFP) - A key city in northeast Nigeria was on lockdown Sunday as the military enforced a 24-hour curfew and blocked supply routes in its sweeping campaign against Islamist insurgents.The operation against Boko Haram, the group that wants an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is aimed at retaking territory seized by the militants and ridding the country of "terrorist ...

  • Top prisons officer arrested for operating illegal varsity

    BY AUSTIN OGWUDA ASABA -- A senior official of the Nigerian Prisons Service in Delta State has been arrested for allegedly running an illegal university in the state. This came as no fewer than 600 illegal schools have also been uncovered. A team of officials of the National Universities Commission, NUC, accompanied by men of the ICPC had, last Thursday, in Asaba, stormed the illegal ...

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My Man Godfrey [DVD]

My Man Godfrey [DVD]

The screwball comedy genre emerged out of the thralls of the Great Depression in the 1930s as an antidote for those who were down on their luck. It gave them a chance to disappear into a darkened movie theater for a few hours and experience the vicarious thrills of the idle and not-so-idle rich and glamorous. Described also as "madcap" or "daffy" comedies, they first gained popularity in 1934 wit ... ...

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  • In fight against insurgents Nigerian Army cracks down on civilians

    A security man walks pass the charred remains of buses after explosions at a bus park in the northern Nigerian city of Kano March 19, 2013. Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram was suspected of planting the ...

  • Nigerian Troops Kill 10 Militants Arrest 65 in Northeast

    Nigerian troops killed 14 Boko Haram Islamist insurgents and arrested 20 others in clashes yesterday around the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a military spokesman said. The Islamists have deserted their camps and are retreating towards the country's northeastern border, struggling to move scores of vehicles in their possession, Chris Olukolade, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said ...

  • One dies as building collapses in Badagry

    BADAGRY -- One person is suspected to have died in a collapsed building located at Godo Blocks Estate, Ibereko in Badagry, weekend. The victim, Kehinde Williams, 28, a carpenter, was working in the building when it collapsed. The building was said to have collapsed about 10 a.m.on Saturday but the rescue work did not begin till 12.24p.m. An eyewitness said the deceased was trying to remove ...

  • Okonjo-Iweala Maku Okoh Ndukwe pay tributes as Achebe burial rites begin

    The burial rites for eminent novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe who died on March 2, 2013, in the United States began Sunday in Abuja with a commendation service at the National Christian Centre, ...

  • Nigeria Orders Curfew in Muslim Extremist Neighborhoods

    Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that is the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign against insurgents in the region. Soldiers arrested some 65 suspected extremists who were "attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri" after military strikes on the camps in ...

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