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  • Kosmos Comes Up Dry Onshore Cameroon

    Kosmos Energy Ltd. said it failed to find commercial reservoirs at an exploration well onshore Cameroon, sending the oil-and-gas company's shares falling after hours. The Sipo-1 exploration well, drilled on the Ndian River Block in the Rio del Rey Basin, was targeting the Miocene Isongo Formation. Oil and gas shows evidenced during drilling indicated a working petroleum system, but no ...

  • Cross River State Rural Access and Mobility Project in Nigeria

    Cross River State has an enviable history in Nigeria, yet until 2008, most rural roads were in poor, impassable conditions. They had a negative impact on the local economy, especially agricultural activities, with poor rural roads resulting in exorbitant vehicle operating costs and unquantifiable travel times. The situation was worse still in far-flung villages where logs of fallen trees often ...

  • AfDB Project Integrates Nomadic Peoples into Mainstream Education in Nigeria

    Spanning at least 20 different countries across the African continent, nomadic peoples constitute about six per cent of the total African population, or some 50 million people. This large population, categorized into three major groups, as pastoralists, migrant fishing folks and farmers, has a common wandering lifestyle. Shrinking grazing lands, constant blocking of grazing paths, increasing ...

  • NAMA staff resume duty – Official

    Abuja – The staff of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) who were on a one-day strike on Monday have resumed full operation. The NAMA spokesman, Mr Supo Atobatele, told reporters in a telephone interview on Tuesday that the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) had called off the strike on ...

  • Nigeria Survey - 30 Percent of Girls Get Raped

    At least three in 10 young girls have sex for the first time ever through rape, says a survey. The survey by Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA) investigated reasons for high HIV prevalence and lower age of first sex among adolescents aged between 10 and 19 and found "forced sex was the third main reason for sexual debut" after love and peer pressure. More than 31.4% of ...

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The Man in the Iron Mask

"The Man in the Iron Mask," based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, is a well-made adventure film that doesn't have much adventure. It has a lot of beautiful French locations, a stunning A-list cast of actors, and technical merit oozing from every corner, but it never really grabs hold of you the way a good swashbuckling adventure should. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the ... ...

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  • Nigeria Passengers Stranded At Lagos Airport As Aviation Workers Begin Strike

    Scores of air passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) embarked on an indefinite strike. The workers, who spoke to our correspondent, said the strike was to press home their demand for the implementation of the salary structure approved by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages ...

  • Nigeria hit by Moses Uche injuries

    Injuries to Victor Moses and Kalu Uche have left Nigeria short of attackers for June's World Cup qualifiers and the Confederations Cup in Brazil. The pair's withdrawal from the squad deepens problems for coach Stephen Keshi, who was already without Nations Cup joint-top scorer Emmanuel Emenike. Keshi said: "It's unfortunate that they informed us when we have already ...

  • Davido releases hot new single ‘Kalo Connect’

    By Charles Mgbolu Davido is not resting on his oars just yet when it comes to entertaining fans with club raving music as a new single ‘Kalo Connect’ comes hot from his ...

  • LGs not ripe for financial autonomy says Sen. Obende

    Senator Domingo Obende (ACN-Edo), has said that local governments in Nigeria were not ripe for financial autonomy.Instead, he advocated that local governments should only be granted administrative autonomy. Obende made his opinion known in Abuja on Monday during an interactive session with National Assembly Correspondents. He cited `recklessness of elected officials' in the management of ...

  • Nobody can stop Jonathan – Fasehun OPC founder

    Emma Amaize and Akpokona Omafuaire WARRI - FOUNDER of the Niger-Delta People Volunteer Front, NPDVF, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has declared that he was ready, bullet for bullet, for those who want to stop President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. He stated this in Warri, weekend, just as the founder of the Oodua People's Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun , said nobody can stop ...

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