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  • Nigerian military ‘kills 10 rebels’

    This picture taken on April 30, 2013 shows a Nigerian soldier, part of the "Operation Flush" patrolling in the remote north-east town of Baga, Borno ...

  • NAMA workers cancel planned closure of airspace

    Ikeja – The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) staff has suspended the industrial action slated to start on Monday to press home their demand for additional welfare package. The workers decided to suspend the planned strike after a meeting between the management and union leaders. Mr Supo Atobatele. General Manager, Public Affairs, NAMA, disclosed this in a statement he issued in ...

  • 65 suspected terrorists arrested in Maiduguri

    Abuja – The Defence Headquarters said on Saturday in Abuja that 65 persons suspected to be terrorists had been apprehended by its Special Task Force (STF). A statement signed by Brig.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, Director of Defence Information, said the terrorists were caught while attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri as they fled their various camps now under attack. The statement said the ...

  • Achebe’s body arrives today

    BY VINCENT UJUMADU, Awka The remains of celebrated writer, Chinua Achebe is expected to be flown into the country, today to kick-start a week-long burial rites. Achebe died on March 21, 2013 at 82. Meanwhile, the people of Ogidi, hometown of the literary icon, weekend said they were prepared to work with other committees set up for a befiting buril of their illustrous son. Achebe, a former ...

  • Achebe not father of African literature — Soyinka

    As celebrated author, Chinua Achebe’s final burial rites hold this week, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in this interview with Sahara reporters paid tribute to the famous author but says he(Achebe) is not the father of African literature. Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, also spoke on his personal relationship with Achebe and other Nigerian writers; his regrets about ...

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Shame

Shame

Steve McQueens Shame, which depicts the soulless exploits of a sexually addicted Manhattanite, simultaneously raises two paradoxical questions: How much is too much and how little is too little? The first question revolves around the films depiction of abject sexuality, which is explicit enou ... ...

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  • Man battles to keep motherless twins alive after 13 yrs of wrongful imprisonment

    By Adeola Adenuga With tears dripping down his cheeks, Oluwarotimi Sikiru looked lost. He knelt down as if addressing some audience. "I am appealing to good spirited Nigerians to come to my aid. My suffering has been compounded since going to prison for an offence I did not commit," Sikiru said. Sikiru was in jail for 13 years as prisoner awaiting trial until February 14, 2003 on ...

  • Nigeria Gunmen Attack Police Stations Banks in Daura

    Gunmen, Thursday night attacked two police stations and four banks in Daura town, carting away millions of naira and a number of weapons. JTF spokesperson, Capt Ikedichi Iweha, confirmed that four of the attackers were killed by soldiers and three soldiers were also killed in the attack. Iweha said soldiers who repelled the assailants had recovered 11 AK-47 rifles, 393 rounds of different ...

  • Baker Convicted for Obstructing NAFDAC

    The Federal High Court in Osogbo, Osun State yesterday convicted an Osogbo bread baker, Mr. Afolabi Nurudeen for obstructing officials of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) while performing their duties. Afolabi was arraigned before the court on 12th of May, 2011. According to the charge sheet, Afolabi committed an offence under Section 25(1) of the ...

  • Nigeria army says crackdown to go on

    Nigeria's army has vowed to continue its offensive against militants in the north-east "as long as it takes" to achieve its main objectives. Brig Gen Chris Olukolade told the BBC the aim was to assert Nigeria's "territorial integrity as a nation". Earlier, a 24-hour curfew was imposed in parts of the city of Maiduguri, where the military said it had arrested 65 ...

  • Nigerian president pledges to set up free trade

    Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to establish a free trade zone in the country's southeast geo-political zone to boost economic activities in the area.The Nigerian leader made the promise at the ground-breaking ceremony of the international wing of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu on Saturday.The president, who noted that a free trade zone would only be ...

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