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  • Confederations Cup Oduamadi hat-trick sinks Tahiti

    Nnamdi Oduamadi scored a hat-trick as Nigeria crushed a spirited Tahiti 6-1 in their Confederations Cup football Group B clash here at the Mineirao stadium. Uwa Echiejile opened the scoring Monday with a deflected long-range drive before Oduamadi danced around two defenders and coolly chipped over goalkeeper Xavier Samin, reports Xinhua. Oduamadi, AC Milan winger, then doubled his tally by ...

  • Knotty cassava tubers can change Nigeria

    Nigeria's cassava bread initiative is among an ambitious set of programmes designed to transform agriculture and rural livelihoods in this country of 170 million, the most populous of Africa's 55 nations. The sweeping plans include cutting corruption, rebuilding crumbling infrastructure, facilitating agro-processing industries and recapturing once-robust export ...

  • Lagos Special Offences Court

    Residents of Lagos must understand that most of the purported offences created under the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Law are under our criminal jurisprudence known as infractions (not arrestable offences). It is therefore a breach of fundamental human rights of the accused persons to convict them without giving them a reasonable time to prepare for their defence. It should be noted that ...

  • Shell uses sabotage claims to avoid blame for Nigeria oil spills

    Shell's persistent claims that theft and sabotage are responsible for almost all the oil spills at its operation in Nigeria could have been exaggerated, an international watchdog has ...

  • CPN accredits 10 varsities 22 polytechnics

    By Emeka Aginam Registrar of the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, (CPN) Mohammed Sikiru Shehu has disclosed that the regulatory agency as part of its mandate has accredited no fewer than 10 universities across the country and 22 Polytechnics respectively this year. Shehu who disclosed this last week at a press conference to announce the 2013 IT Assembly and 2013 Annual ...

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Land of the Dead

Land of the Dead

George A. Romero's Land of the Dead is the fourth installment in a series of zombie films that started with 1968's landmark Night of the Living Dead, which encapsulated so perfectly the country's Vietnam-era fear that we were eating ourselves alive. Each film in the ser ... ...

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  • Symantec advocates data protection law against smartphone boom

    By Prince Osuagwu From available statistics, the use of smartphones would continue to increase globally in the coming years and Nigeria is one of the emerging ICT economies where the boom would pitch and apparently make more impact. However, there is also rapid increase in cyber attacks from the mobilephone, giving experts concern that good as the boom may become for the economy, if adequate ...

  • Ministry of Commtech to hold stakeholders forum

    The Ministry of Communication Technology has concluded arrangements to hold a Stakeholders Forum tagged ''Connected for Growth'' The forum according to Efem Nkanga, SA (Media) to the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson will hold at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Kuramo Waters on Thursday this week. The event which serves as an avenue for interaction between ...

  • Nwosu dubs Eagles selfish

    Former Golden Eaglets coach, Henry Nwosu has said Super Eagles were wasteful at goal in their first group game against Tahiti at the ongoing 2013 FIFA Confederation Cup in Brazil. Eagles got off to a good start in their title quest at the global football competition with an emphatic 6-1 win against the Oceania champions in Belo Horozonte on Monday. Nigeria lead Group B on three points the same ...

  • Marketer cargo surveyor arraigned over subsidy fraud

    LAGOS -- Managing Director of Stonebridge Oil Limited, Samuel Owa was, Tuesday, arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos by the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, of the Police over alleged economic crime and fraudulent collection of N1.7 billion fuel subsidy from the Federal Government. Owa and his company were arraigned alongside Vibrant Ventures Limited and a cargo surveyor with the firm, Olori ...

  • 20 killed in another attack in Nigeria

    /enpproperty--> MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Hospital and local residents on Tuesday said 20 people may have been killed in another attack on students and fishermen by the Boko Haram insurgents in the Nigeria northeast Maiduguri city currently under a state of emergency. "Thirteen fishermen and tea sellers have been killed at Alau River. Gunmen numbering about five stormed the river area and ...

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