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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 ...

  • Elephant meat dead primate seized from Nigerian in LA

    US Customs and Border Protection officers in Los Angeles have made some unusual seizures, including hundreds of handbags made from the skin of snakes, lizards and crocodiles in the baggage of a passenger from Nigeria. The agency said yesterday that the illegal items _ including a tiny dead macaque from Indonesia and elephant meat from a protected species in Thailand _ were seized between May 6 ...

  • Deadly tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb

    A powerful tornado with winds of up to 200 miles (320 kilometres) per hour pulverized an Oklahoma City suburb Monday, hitting at least two schools and wiping out blocks of homes. At least 37 people were reported ...

  • Nigerian girl going home with new face and new life

    SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - A Nigerian girl who was born with severe facial defects is getting a chance at a new life thanks to San Diego surgeons. After several painful medical procedures, the 9-year-old is now thriving. Favour finally gets to be a kid again. But to get to this point it took a flight from Nigeria, several surgeries and a lot of love. "I'm glad - I'm very glad...Very ...

  • INSECURITY Lagos remains vulnerable as CCTV project goes moribund

    BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI o It's not abandoned - Govt IT seems residents and visitors to Lagos State, will have to wait a little longer for the commencement of the multi million naira contract for the installation of Close Circuit Televisions, CCTVs, in the state aimed at addressing perennial security and traffic challenges. The electronic devices with capacity to capture and register images ...

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Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love

The producers of Eat Pray Love, which stars Julia Roberts and is based on a best-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, are likely hoping that their film will be seen as an adult alternative to all the juvenile nonsense of the summer movie season. A continent-hopping drama about a ... ...

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  • War on Terror Defence HQ moves to strenghten militarycivilian relations

    By KINGSLEY OMONOBI -ABUJA ABUJA--The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, and United States government have commenced a process of initiating a strategy to strengthen civil-military relations. Speaking at a three-day seminar to enthrone the process in Abuja, Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Ibrahim, said the seminar, with the theme "Civil-military in a democracy: Synergizing all potentials for ...

  • Lagos 652 lives lost to crashes in six months

    According to the FRSC, eight government vehicles were involved in road accidents, while diplomatic vehicles recorded no crashes during the months under ...

  • 120 Boko Haram Islamists arrested in Nigeria

    About 120 Boko Haram Islamists were arrested in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday as they were organizing the burial of a ...

  • CAN ACN seek tighter security in Bauchi

    By Suzan Edeh BAUCHI -- The federal and Bauchi State governments have been asked to provide adequate security to discourage Boko Haram insurgents escaping from either Adamawa, Borno or Yobe states from using Bauchi State as their sanctuary. The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, made the call at separate interviews with Vanguard in Bauchi, ...

  • 2015 Jonathan must contest Clark tells Northern leaders

    By CHARLES KUMOLU & PRINCEWILL EKWUJURU LAGOS -- ELDER Statesman and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark said yesterday that the Southern part of the country would still produce President in 2015 election, adding that it was not yet the turn of the north. He also said the intrigues of power shift from the south in 2015 was improper at this period of the country's march ...

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