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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 ...

  • The moral degeneration of Nigerian institutions

    IN theory, Nigerian institutions, like the Church and government agencies, are motivated by the loftiest ideals. Usually, they have mottoes: pithy and poetic expressions defining their guiding principles and objectives. But due to the moral and ethical collapse of the Nigerian society, occasioned by a series of irresponsible, amoral and conscienceless leaders, these institutions generally ...

  • 4 die10 injured as rival youths clash in Anambra

    BY OKONKWO EZE ONITSHA -- No fewer than four persons were feared dead, yesterday, while 10 others sustained various degrees of injury when two rival youth groups suspected to have come from Ogbaru Area Council of Anambra State engaged themselves in a bloody clash. The face-off, according to the source, was over the control and ownership of a motor park known as Aba Park located in the heart of ...

  • Ondo 2007 guber Security reports were forged – DG DSS

    By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State has praised a police report alleging forgery of security reports on the 2007 gubernatorial election as the reason for the judicial defeat of its candidate and former governor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu at the Court of Appeal. The party, in a statement made available to Vanguard alongside a report of the Police on the ...

  • NAPTIP prosecutes 4 over human trafficking

    BY SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN CITY -- FOUR suspected human traffickers in Edo State arrested by officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters, NAPTIP, have been convicted and sent to jail in the past one week. The convicted persons which comprised two males and two females, were found guilty of various offences and were accordingly slammed with ...

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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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  • NASARAWA MASSACRE Arrested policemen still under investigation – IG

    By Evelyn Usman LAGOS -- The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, weekend in Lagos, described the arrest of some policemen in alleged connection with the killings of policemen two weeks ago, by members of the Ombatse cult group in Alayko village, Nassarawa state, as mere allegation, until ongoing investigation proved otherwise. This came as President Goodluck Jonathan has ...

  • MASSOB threatens showdown with SSS over detained leader

    By VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA--THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has threatened a showdown with the State Security Services, SSS, if its regional leader for Awka North, Mr. Tony Nwodo, was not freed within 48 hours. As a result, the movement has given the SSS 48 hours to release one of its leaders or take responsibility for what ever action the group might ...

  • Atiku urges Nigerian leaders to imbibe good management skills

    By MICHAEL EBOH LAGOS -- Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has declared that Nigerian will never be taken seriously among the comity of nations unless its leaders embrace good management practises in all their dealings. Atiku who spoke when management of the Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM, paid him a visit in Yola, Adamawa State capital said: "If we want to be taken ...

  • Ogun speaks on land ceded to Lagos

    By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA -- Ogun State government has broken its silence on the 500 hectares of land allegedly acquired by Lagos State government in Egua in Yewa North Local Government Area of the state, explaining that its counterpart paid N5 million for the land. It also disclosed that Lagos State government had been barred from constructing residential building, but can only use the land ...

  • I’ll appear before Orji’s probe panel – Kalu

    By Emmanuel Aziken UMUAHIA -- Erstwhile governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, has said he has nothing to hide and will as such appear before the probe panel set up by his successor, Chief Theodore Orji, to examine the running of the state's defunct newspaper, Statesman. In a statement issued through his Special Adviser, Oyekunle Oyewumi, the former governor said the decision to ...

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