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  • Call box business is booming in Cameroon

    There's no official figure to determine its role in the Cameroonian economy but there is evidence that the "call box" business is a booming informal business in the country's mobile telephone sector. The informal business, practised by thousands of Cameroonians in both in the urban and rural areas, entails one getting a mobile phone and a table in an open area on a street, reports Xinhua. This ...

  • Nigerian leaders critical of Boko Haram treatment in north

    Nigerian militant group Boko Haram is getting some level of protection from lawmakers in northern states, their critics contend. Nigerian ...

  • Achebe A Man Ahead Of His Generation By Prof Bart Nnaji

    Professor Chinua Achebe had left the University of Massachusetts about a decade before I joined the same University in 1983 as Professor and Director of the Automation and Robotics laboratory. At the time, Achebe's reputation was still looming large at UMass. On realizing that Achebe and I came from the same country and the same state in Nigeria (old Anambra State), students and professors ...

  • IMF okays PIB calls for early passage

    By CLARA NWACHUKWU Global financial watchdog, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has commended Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saying, it "would boost investment, government revenue, and fiscal transparency." The commendation was given in spite of varied criticisms by oil majors and other interest groups against some of the fiscal propositions in the bill. It was the ...

  • Customs intercept $2.7m from 5 suspects at Murtala Mohammed airport

    The Murtala Muhammad Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 2.7 million dollars (or N432 million) from five suspected money launderers while attempting to travel abroad. The Public Relations Officers of the command, Mrs Thelma Williams, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos that the arrests were made between January and March 2013. She said that ...

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Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti ignoti) [DVD]

Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti ignoti) [DVD]

Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti ignoti) features a group of good-natured, but utterly incompetent criminals who try to rise above their station in life by pulling off one big heist, the one that will set them up for life. The entire film is a non-too-subtle satire on both the crime genre, with especially good pokes at Jules Dassin's heist masterpiece Ri ... ...

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  • I can only play for Barca says Messi

    DOHA – Argentine football star Lionel Messi said Monday he could not play for any team other than Barcelona, where he has been since the age of 13. ';I cannot play with any team other than Barcelona,'; he told reporters in Qatar, where he took part in a charity event. But he added in answering a question about a possible transfer that he ';did not know what the future ...

  • Presidential reception for Eaglets FEagles

    President Goodluck Jonathan will on Tuesday host the country's U17 and U20 teams, officials disclosed. The names of the players were on the list of 30 players Obuh selected for camping in Germany. But NFF officials were said to have deleted their names at the Embassy of Germany where they were submitted for visas. The Golden Eaglets were beaten finalists at the African U17 Championship in ...

  • “Nigeria Will Become History …” Nigeria Is Already History By Bayo Oluwasanmi

    During the briefings, he threatened fire and brimstone if he was arrested for the threats he made regarding the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, "Nigeria will become history." As we watch helplessly the slow but steady destruction of Nigeria, those who refused to listen to the words of truth will expedite its final fall. It is a case of terrible blindness and ...

  • Nigeria eases curfew in northeast fights on against Boko Haram

    MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria relaxed a curfew on Monday in parts of the northeast where its troops are mounting their biggest offensive yet against militants from the Islamist group Boko ...

  • Achebes Homeward Journey Begins Sunday

    Onitsha - The final burial of Prof. Chinua Achebe, who died on April 23 in the United States of America (USA) where he lived and worked, begins sunday. The remains of the late literary icon is expected to arrive Abuja today amidst other activities en route his Ikenga Ogidi country home in Anambra state, where he would be laid to rest on Thursday, May 23. Coming exactly one month after his ...

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