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  • Group to Take Nigeria Government to International Court

    The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria's government of human rights violations, according to spokesman Ango Abdullahi. "What we are doing now is to organize our evidence that would make it possible for us to make a very strong case against the government and its agencies, or up to individuals who may be ...

  • Nigeria $1bn fund to start investing

    Nigeria would begin investing the initial $1 billion (R9.4bn) allocated to a new sovereign wealth fund by June, a statement from the fund showed, after it delayed the start date twice. Africa’s biggest oil producer is one of only three Opec member states that do not yet have a wealth fund (SWF) set up. Global markets and investors are closely watching Africa's second-biggest ...

  • Oritsejafor rallies support for emergency rule

    By Sam Eyoboka NATIONAL President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritse-jafor has appealed to Nigerians to support the current emergency rule in three North Eastern states, arguing that no progressive nation would fold its hands and allow few fundamental insurgents to overrun its democratic structures with ...

  • Obi Behind APGA Crisis Umeh Says

    National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh yesterday in Abuja accused Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state of sponsoring the latest wave of crisis rocking the party. Umeh who made the accusation at the inauguration of the 20-man rebuilding and crisis review committee as part of measures to rebuild the crisis ridden party, said the protracted leadership ...

  • Ignored Importance of Health Services

    NIGERIA is a country of distinct contradictions. Public officers make a round of the world attending seminars and conferences on health, for example. They then conclude health is important to the country's well-being. Budgets at national, state, and local government levels - are never more than three per cent of the total - truly reflecting the priority we place on health services. Most ...

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The Taking of Pelham 123

The Taking of Pelham 123

In this third crack at John Godeys 1973 novel about the hijacking of a New York City subway, director Tony Scott imposes his signature stylistic grab bag of spastic random zooms, machine-gun editing, bleary slow motion, and other assorted forms of needless visual assa ... ...

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  • Niger Efforts to Help Respond to Cholera Epidemic

    The United Nations refugee agency said today it is working to help contain a cholera epidemic in Niger that has already claimed seven lives, including those of two Malian refugees, in a little over a week. The two refugees are a 45-year-old man who died on 13 May, and a 3-year-old boy who passed away last Sunday, after arriving at the health centre at a late stage of the disease, which is ...

  • Lagos City Orchestra excites MUSON with ‘The Messiah’

    With some members of the MUSON Choir also on stage with it, the award-winning group celebrated the silver Jubilee with the presentation of what many regard as the world's most popular and imperishable oratorio, 'The Messiah', composed by George Frideric Handel. It was delivered as composed in its three parts – with text from the Bible that expresses musically the birth of ...

  • World Bank reviews $5.4bn investments in Nigeria

    The World Bank on Tuesday began a review of its investments and activities worth $5.4bn in Nigeria. The investments are in 26 projects and involve 200 entities across the ...

  • Tukur tells returning PDP govs to commence 2015 campaigns

    By Henry Umoru ABUJA -- NATIONAL Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, asked governors elected on the party’s platform, who have plans to return in 2015 to start campaigns now, if they must win the election. Tukur warned the PDP governors against falling prey to the antics of praise singers, adulators and those he termed grovellers, who would always ...

  • Army nabs 9 Fulani ‘mercenaries’ over Benue bloodbath

    BY PETER DURU MAKURDI--After weeks of bloody conflict between Fulani herdsmen and Benue farmers, nine of the suspected Fulani mercenaries have been arrested and arraigned before a Makurdi Chief Magistrate Court. The suspects, who were apprehended at Gbajimba in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State by officers of the Special Forces Squad of the 72 Battalion, Makurdi, were arraigned ...

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