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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 ...

  • Lekoil announces placing and admission to AIM

    Lekoil Limited is a holding company that intends to use its access to potential oil and gas licence interests and its experienced management team to build a multi-asset exploration, development and production business in Africa. Its founders consist of a group of leading professionals with extensive experience in the upstream international oil and gas sector and in the global fund ...

  • Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde Nigerian Artist Dies of Stomach Cancer at 45

    By Ademola Bello Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde, award winning Nigerian writer, visual artist, performance poet, public speaker, filmmaker and actress is dead. She passed away in her home in Houston, Texas on Saturday May 18 around 1:30 am after a courageous and protracted battle with stomach cancer. She was 45 years old. She received treatment for stomach cancer at the University of Texas MD Anderson ...

  • Nigeria says switching to foreign debt to lower costs

    Nigeria will increase the amount it borrows overseas to around 40 percent of all debt over the next three to five years, from 12 percent currently, to lower its cost of funds, the head of the debt office said on Monday. DMO Director ...

  • African film enjoys rare Cannes outing

    ABIDJAN -(AFP) – African film is enjoying a rare invitation to cinema’s top table with a film by French-Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun competing for the coveted Palme d’Or, as the continent strives to satisfy an appetite for films made by Africans for Africans. Haroun, who left Chad during the civil war, won plaudits for his autobiographical 1999 film ';Bye Bye ...

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Sleepaway Camp [DVD]

Sleepaway Camp [DVD]

With so many slasher films coming out in the early 1980s, it took something special to stand out from the crowd. And, while Robert Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp consists almost entirely of characters, situations, and settings that are interchangeable with any number of other Frid ... ...

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  • Anambra ready for Achebe’s burial – Gov. Obi

    Ogidi (Anambra) – Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra, on Sunday said that the state was ready to accord Prof. Chinua Achebe a befitting burial. Obi stated this while inspecting the St. Philip’s Anglican Church, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area, where the burial service will take place on May 23. The governor had inspected his country home and the author’s final resting ...

  • Nigeria and the cross of reform

    FORMER Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Honourable Justice Alfa Belgore, once reminded us of how the German government in 1962, came and set up our Defence Industries Corporation, DIC; and how in the same 1962, the same German government planted the same seed in Brazil, the Brazilian Defence Industries. While the Brazilians have since blossomed their own seed, such that Brazil now produces a wide ...

  • Ban Ki-Moon Asks Boko Haram to Cease Attacks

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has called on members of the Boko Haram sect and other extremist groups in Nigeria to cease their attacks amid deteriorating security in the northern part of the country. His plea came three days after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. "The secretary-general has been and ...

  • Borno Under 24-Hour Curfew As Fighting Rages

    The crossfire between soldiers and suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, which escalated on Friday, continued until yesterday morning in parts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Troops, which had earlier captured 17 towns and villages in the state, reportedly took over more areas yesterday. Residents, who had been holed up in their homes, especially in the Maiduguri metropolis, claimed ...

  • Nigeria Nigerian Military Shut GSM Telecommunications in Maiduguri in Hunt for Boko Haram

    residents lamented the collapse of telecommunications services in Maiduguri. There has been a partial telecommunications shut down in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital over the State of Emergency declared in the state by President Goodluck Jonathan. Residents of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital woke up on Friday to realise that what they thought was a minor problem with mobile telephone ...

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