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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 ...

  • Nigeria Tender opens for oil sales

    Nigeria had opened a tender to sell its oil through multibillion-dollar annual contracts starting in August, Africa’s top oil producer said in an official notice yesterday. State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) invited refiners, trading houses and local Nigerian oil companies to submit bids by June 18. The NNPC did not specify the volume of oil to be awarded in the ...

  • Chinua Achebes body arrives in Nigeria ahead of burial

    The body of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday ahead of his burial in his home ...

  • Turaki - Why FG Released Women Children of Boko Haram Leaders

    Minister of Special Duties and Chairman, Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, Alhaji Kabiru Turaki, Wednesday said the Committee prevailed on government to release women and children in detention, as part of its efforts to bring the Boko Haram sect to the negotiation table. Speaking in an interview with the Hausa Service of Radio France ...

  • Enugu Has Lowest Crime Rate Says IGP Abubakar

    The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar Wednesday declared Enugu State as having the lowest crime rate in the country, saying that this fact was buttressed by statistics and empirical evidence. Abubakar who spoke Wednesday while taking delivery of 100 brand new vehicles donated to the police by the Enugu State Government, stated that this was largely a result of the tremendous ...

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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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  • Court Discontinues Students Case Against Osun Govt

    Osogbo - An Osun State High Court yesterday discontinued a case instituted by some students against the State Government and lecturers of the state owned tertiary institutions. The students took their lecturers and Osun State government to court as a result of the industrial action embarked upon by lecturers which lasted for almost three months. Counsel to the students; Daud Akinloye, prayed ...

  • GES- Agric Ministry Targets Five Million Farmers

    The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hopes to register up to five million farmers with subsidized fertilizer and seeds through the Growth Enhancement Support scheme (GES), minister of agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, has said. The minister, who said this while flagging off the program for the South West, in Otiri farm settlement, Iseyin, Oyo state, said 4.5 million farmers ...

  • Nasarawa Killings - Envoy Hopes Perpetrators Are Brought to Book

    Lafia - The Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Chris Cooter, yesterday, expressed hope that the perpetrators of the May 7 murder of policemen and other security operatives at the outskirts of Lafia, Nasarawa State, will be brought to book. He said this during a visit to Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura in Lafia, on his one-day official visit to the state. Dozens of policemen at Alakyo, an ...

  • FG Approves New National Aviation Policy

    The federal government has approved the revision of the more than a decade old aviation policy, which has now been replaced by the new national aviation policy. This was one of the outcomes of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan. The meeting, according to the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, flanked by his counterparts in the ministries of aviation, ...

  • Maku - Jonathan to Give Mid-Term Report May 29

    President Goodluck Jonathan will next week Wednesday, May 29th, submit a major report of his administration in all key sectors and all major programmes in the last two years and high light on-going projects. The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, disclosed this at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Jonathan. He said the President would be live on ...

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