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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 ...

  • Thiago hat-trick sees Spain retain U-21 title

    Italy - leading 2-1 after this victory that handed them a fourth title - took less than seven minutes to open the scoring with a nicely worked goal. Isco, a target for Manchester City and Real Madrid, played a neat exchange of passes with Real Madrid youngster Alvaro Morata.Morata, scorer of three goals in the tournament, got to the byline on the left side of the box and put in the perfect cross ...

  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school kill 9 students

    MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, witnesses said on Tuesday. Bodies of the children in their school uniforms were brought to the local morgue, according to a hospital official who insisted on anonymity ...

  • IBM offers tech solution to Lagos traffic

    BY PRINCE OSUAGWU A team of IBM experts completing a month-long consulting assignment, at the weekend presented recommendations to the Lagos State Government which they believed could help ensure a more efficient flow of traffic in Lagos. Working with the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, the agency responsible for developing and implementing the state's transportation ...

  • Embattled Tukur NWC members rush to Jonathan

    By Henry Umoru ABUJA- THE Embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC Tuesday held a marathon meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential villa. The meeting, Vanguard gathered, was part of moves by Tukur and his team to have a soft landing ahead of Thursday's National ...

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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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  • Kidnapped French sailor freed in Nigeria

    French sailor Benjamin Elman, who was kidnapped last week, is pictured after his release on June 18, 2013 in Yenagoa, southern Nigeria. Elman was taken from a tanker in Togo when attackers sought to use him as a ...

  • Stop patronising itinerant teachers Sultan urges parents

    Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar III, on Tuesday urged parents to stop giving their children to itinerant teachers for Qur’anic education. Abubakar said this in Sokoto at the opening of a one-day national symposium on the almajiri education programme entitled, ';The Journey So Far''. The symposium was jointly organised by the Sokoto State ...

  • Sony confirms Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4

    Sony Pictures has confirmed two more movies in its ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ franchise to be released in 2016 and 2018. Sony Pictures has confirmed two more ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ films. The movie studio will produce a total of four movies in the superhero franchise starring Andrew Garfield after setting release dates for a third and fourth film in 2016 and 2018, ...

  • Bad leadership Only the truth can set us free says Adeoye-Davids

    President of City With Foundations (CWF) a.k.a. Harvesters Fire Family Church, Senior Pastor Kunle Adeoye-Davids has identified lack of truth as the major problem of the country, reports ETOP EKANEM. He made this known during his church's monthly programme, tagged, Wealth Clinic Lagos at Excellence Hotel & Conference Centre, Ogba, Ikeja. According to him, "Until we are able to ...

  • Nigerian LNG says gone to court over tax dispute

    LAGOS, June 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Liquefied Natural Gas company (Nigeria LNG) said on Tuesday it had gone to court to seek "judicial clarity" over levies it believes are unlawful, a month after authorities blocked some of its ships from accessing the Bonny terminal. Nigeria LNG said it was now complying with a government directive to pay freight levies to maritime ...

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