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  • 25 killed 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger

    At least 25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bomb attacks Thursday at a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, reported Xinhua. A total of 20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a ...

  • Gunmen kill father son Almajiri in Borno

    BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Despite the emergency rule and the deployment of over 3000 Joint Taks Force troops in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, some gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect yesterday shot dead provision store dealer, Mr. Bitrus Kwaji and his son (name witheld), while one child suspected to be Almajiri(destitute) was killed by a stray bullet in Chescon area of Federal low ...

  • Nigeria Senate Discusses Urgent Need for Rivers Dredging

    This program will include: urgent need for dredging and desilting of the River Niger, the Cross River, River Benue and other inland waterways in Nigeria; and accordingly resolved to mandate the relevant Committees of the Senate to ascertain the level of preparedness of the Ministries in tackling this menace. The Senate commenced the consideration of the NOSDRA amendment Bill Committee Report. ...

  • AU Countries Endorse Nigeria for UN Security Council

    Nigeria was unanimously endorsed Thursday by African Union members in the nation's quest to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in October. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, who disclosed this after a closed door meeting with other foreign ministers at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, said the major hurdle now is ...

  • Good Nigerian Talents Cost More Than Expatriates Says Airtels CEO

    Lagos - Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya has called on the leadership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) to celebrate and promote local talents, saying African talents should be adequately empowered and supported to take up corporate leadership opportunities across the continent as good Nigerian talents ...

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Stranger Than Fiction [DVD]

Stranger Than Fiction [DVD]

Stranger Than Fiction is a better-than-average gimmick movie, one that takes a grabby, clever premise that would seem to have little weight and stretches it successfully over a feature-length story. The gimmick is that, one day, an ordinary man suddenly begins he ... ...

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  • Jonathans Half-Time - Club Down Manager Out

    May 6th 2013 would make it 3 years since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became president of Nigeria. As an elected government, the administration would be celebrating its second anniversary next week. It therefore is the right time to look at how well it has fared. Two years is sufficient time to examine what promises have been kept, what projects are on schedule and which have been dumped altogether. ...

  • Windstorm Sacks 2000 Bakassi Returnees From Cross River Refugee Camp - SEMA

    About 12,000 people were displaced across the state by the flood. No fewer than 2,000 people have been displaced by a windstorm that ravaged a school block serving as refugee camp for Bakassi returnees in Cross River. The building, located in St Mark's Primary School, Akwa Ikot Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River, was used as a temporary camp since March 7 by the ...

  • Fresh Oil Spill Hit Bayelsa Communities Pollutes Taylor Creek - It Is Sabotage-SPDC

    Yenagoa - Communities in the downstream of the Taylor creek traversing Bayelsa communities in Yenagoa local government area have been hit by a fresh oil spill from a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) facility. The latest incident, it was learnt, occurred from a spill site three hours after it was clamped by SPDC personnel. A source told Vanguard, "about three hours after Shell ...

  • Legislative Activities for May 15 2013

    i. National Agricultural Development Fund (Est.etc) Bill 2013 (SB.299). Sponsor - Sen. Abdullahi Adamu ii. Economic and Financial Crime Commission Act (amendment) Bill 2013 (SB.300). Sponsor - Sen. Barnabas Gemade iii. National Institute for Sports Act (amendment) Bill 2013 (SB. 301). Sponsor - Sen. Barnabas Gemade iv. National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act 2011 (Amendment) Bill ...

  • Overzealous Security Aides Shut Bishops Nigerian Governors Out of Achebes Burial Service

    The security officials were there to protect President Jonathan. Overzealous security officers on Thursday shut invited bishops, ministers, as well as state governors out of the burial service of Chinua Achebe. This happened moments before the arrival of President Goodluck Jonathan, who was accompanied by his Ghanaian counterpart, John Dramani. At the end of a moving sermon in which he ...

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