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  • Indian-origin men jailed in Malaysia

    A court in Malaysia has sentenced two Indian-origin men to separate jail terms for brutally assaulting a Nigerian that led to his death. Judge Noor Azian Shaari of the high court in Shah Alam, the capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, sentenced V. Ganesan, 29, to one year in jail and T. Kumar, 29, to seven years in jail for causing grievous injuries to Nwabudike Emmanuel Chukwuma that led ...

  • Lagos goes for vanity tax

    ';Tax collectors and sinners" appear multiple times in the Synoptic gospels. Underlying the construction of that phrase is an attitude that suggests that the iniquities of a tax collector do not make him easily "subsume-able" under the umbrella label of "sinners." In Bible times, a Jewish tax collector is no ordinary sinner; his moral transgressions are interwoven ...

  • Electricity World Bank to assist Nigeria generate 2000MW

    The World Bank has said it will help Nigeria to generate additional 2,000 megawatts of electricity in the next two years through support to independent power ...

  • Aviation policy 20 private jets leave Nigeria

    About 20 private jets registered abroad but flying in Nigeria may have left the country barely one month after the Federal Government unveiled a new policy barring foreign-owned aircraft from staying in the country beyond 15 days, aviation industry sources have ...

  • Kirikiri residents protest neglect by oil firms

    BY WILLIAM JIMOH LAGOS-- FOR second day running, operations of five oil firms in Kirikiri town, Oriade Local Council Development Council Area, LCDA, of Lagos State, were paralysed by residents protesting the deplorable state of roads in the community and lack of employment opportunities for its youths. The community accused the oil firms of not only refusing to offer jobs to the youths but ...

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Cloverfield [DVD]

Cloverfield [DVD]

Cloverfield is not so much a reinvention of the marauding-monster movie as it is a riff on its possibilities--a fascinating and largely successful experiment in the manipulation of cinematic perspective. The already tired description of the film as Godzilla meets The Bla ... ...

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  • 10000 megawatts to be generated by Dec – FG

    By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke ABUJA--THE federal government, yesterday, disclosed that plans had been concluded to move from the present position of power generation of 4,500 to 10,000 megawatts by December. Speaking when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, led by Senator Phillip Adudua, PDP, FCT, Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab ...

  • Nasarawa massacre Director arrested accused of leaking information to cultists

    By SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, ABUJA Still trying to fish out the masterminds of the massacre of dozens of policemen and security agents in Alakyo in Nasarawa State about two weeks ago, security operatives have arrested a senior director working with the state government in connection with the killings. The officer was alleged to have passed strategic security information to the cultists ...

  • Robbers attack female doctor snatch LCDA van

    By Evelyn Usman LAGOS--Robbers, who posed as stranded visitors, Monday, snatched a Toyota Hilux pick-up van belonging to Iba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Ojo Lagos. The four-man armed gang as gathered, stormed a building located in Shogunle area of Lagos at 7a.m. and reportedly accosted occupant of the vehicle, a woman later identified as Dr. Nkiruka Ubani. While two of them ...

  • Lagos earns N29bn IGR begs FG to pay N13bn debt

    By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo Lagos State Government,yesterday, said it recorded a monthly revenue increase of N29.0 billion in 2012 as against an average of N18.9 billion in 2008, even as it appealed to the Federal Government to urgently pay N13, 373, 919, 675.55 being verified indebtedness it owed pensioners in the state. Commissioner for Pensions, Establishments and Training, ...

  • Nigeria’s troubling epidemic of rapes

    By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu LAST week, the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, an NGO, reported that in 2012, no fewer than 1, 200 girls were raped in Rivers state. The state Project Officer of the body, Michael Gbarale, who is also the chairman of the Child Protection Network, added that: "of this figure (of 1,200), gang rapes were more frequent". 49 cases were ...

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