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  • Indian Nigerian teams win Africa business contest

    An Indian team comprising IITians and a Nigerian team promoting low-cost farm products have triumphed at an India-Africa business competition held here. India's Life Catalyst Technologies and Nigeria's Jorsey Ashbel Farms won the 2nd Indiafrica Business Venture Competition held as part of the ongoing IndiAfrica Festival here, a statement from the organisers said Saturday. Four teams from ...

  • Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges for population cleansing - UN rights office

    17 May 2013 150 Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram ...

  • Lorry crushes FRSC official in Imo

    By Chidi Nkwopara A female official (names withheld) of Imo State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, was, at the weekend, crushed by a tipper lorry, just as Governor Rochas Okorocha expressed deep shock over the tragedy that befell Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community in Mbaitoli local council area, on Thursday night. The Mbieri tragedy followed a torrential rain that was ...

  • ‘Over 20 lecturers relations kidnapped in Delta varsity’

    CHAIRMAN, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka branch, Dr. Emmanuel Mordi, at the weekend, said at least 20 lecturers, their spouses and relations, had been kidnapped in the last two years by gunmen. He stated this in Abraka while briefing the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, who visited the university, just as the Vice ...

  • Nigeria needs to focus on grassroot sports devt – Akiojano

    By Ephraim Oseji Felix Akiojano is a former football defender from Nigeria. He played for Pedro FC in Sapele, Concord FC Abeokuta and now coach of Jaipur football club of India. In this interview with Sports Extravaganza, he revealed how he rose from grass to grace, his sojourn in India and why Nigeria needs to lay more emphasis on football academy. Excerpts: "All my life, I have always ...

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Michael Collins

It took Irish director Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game," "Interview With the Vampire") twelve years to get his romantic biopic "Michael Collins" to the screen. It went through a number of other hands, but through persistence and a bit of luck, Jordan finally secured $28 million from producer mogul David Geffen. Geffen allowed him complete artistic freedom to paint his own portrait of this mythical ... ...

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  • Calabar 2014 Team Lagos Chess opens camp

    The Lagos State Chess Association has invited 15 players to commence camping preparatory to the 2014 National Sports Festival to be hosted by Cross River State in Calabar.. The camp opened yesterday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium and officials of the LSCA say they are embarking on early preparations to improve on the Team Lagos Chess performance at the last festival hosted by the State. ...

  • Rivers The gathering storm by Itse Sagay

    Since the rumour that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is nursing an ambition to be the next vice president to a northern presidential candidate in 2015 started circulating, many disturbing developments have occurred. Whether this rumoured ambition is true or not, it is totally irrelevant. The truth is that every Nigerian over the age of 40 is entitled to aspire to be president or vice ...

  • I planned to spend just one year in the university – Pat Utomi

    BY FEYI BANKOLE He is popular for his proclamation, "Nigeria has no business being poor!". Christened Patrick Okedinachi Utomi but largely known as Pat Utomi, our inspirational guest is a passionate entrepreneur and social activist. After a brief career in journalism, Patrick was appointed a Special Assistant on Political Affairs in Alhaji Shehu Shagari's administration which was ...

  • Clark solely made Orubebe minister – Evah

    Comrade Joseph Evah, coordinator, Ijaw Monitoring Group (MIG) and former Publicity Secretary, Ijaw National Congress (INC), in this interview, speaks on the state of the ...

  • Woman seeks divorce for lack of sexual satisfaction by husband

    By Adeola Adenuga A former airline cashier, Mrs Grace Oguche, pleaded with an Agege Grade 'A' Customary Court, Lagos to dissolve her seven-year old marriage to her husband, Mr Maxwell Madu, over his alleged poor performance in bed and being unemployed. "Ever since we got married, I hardly enjoyed sex with my husband", she said in her testimony in chief. My husband does not ...

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