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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 ...

  • Lagos 652 lives lost to crashes in six months

    According to the FRSC, eight government vehicles were involved in road accidents, while diplomatic vehicles recorded no crashes during the months under ...

  • 120 Boko Haram Islamists arrested in Nigeria

    About 120 Boko Haram Islamists were arrested in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Monday as they were organizing the burial of a ...

  • CAN ACN seek tighter security in Bauchi

    By Suzan Edeh BAUCHI -- The federal and Bauchi State governments have been asked to provide adequate security to discourage Boko Haram insurgents escaping from either Adamawa, Borno or Yobe states from using Bauchi State as their sanctuary. The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, made the call at separate interviews with Vanguard in Bauchi, ...

  • 2015 Jonathan must contest Clark tells Northern leaders

    By CHARLES KUMOLU & PRINCEWILL EKWUJURU LAGOS -- ELDER Statesman and former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark said yesterday that the Southern part of the country would still produce President in 2015 election, adding that it was not yet the turn of the north. He also said the intrigues of power shift from the south in 2015 was improper at this period of the country's march ...

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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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  • FG warns construction firms to desist from recruiting foreign labourers

    By Favour Nnabugwu Indigenous constructions companies in Nigeria have been warned to desist from recruiting foreign labourers as this is against the tenets of building local capacities. The Minister of Works,Mike Onolememen, who described the situation as unacceptable when he received Kashim Ali, the President of theCouncil for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria,COREN in his office last ...

  • When women survive families and nations thrive – Jill Sheffield

    AHEAD of the Women Deliver 2013 International Conference which opens in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 27, the health, wellbeing and survival of girls and women the world over, have been identified as critical factors for global development. In a call for improved and sustained investment in the health and wellbeing of girls and women all over the world, Jill Sheffield, President/Founder of Women ...

  • FCT minister threatens to revoke land if…

    BY LAIDE AKINBOADE ABUJA--Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, has threatened to revoke the land allocated to genuine operators of parks should they fail to develop such parks. Bala gave this warning in a meeting with some officials of the FCT Parks and Recreation Department. He insisted that efforts must be made to develop the parks in accordance with the ...

  • I asked to be left out of Mexico friendly – Ahmed Musa

    Super Eagles winger Ahmed Musa is not bothered that he was left out of the team that will play Mexico in an international friendly game on the 31st of this month in the United States. Coach Stephen Keshi left out the CSKA Moscow forward from the friendly game but has since said the pacy winger was still part of his plans and the player remains in the 30-man squad penned for the two FIFA 2014 ...

  • We are fulfilling our promises – Ahmed

    Promises Ilorin – Two years into his tenure, Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara says his government is fulfilling its electoral promises to the electorates as encapsulated in the Shared Prosperity Programme. Ahmed said this on Monday at the 2013 New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) Kwara Business and Investment Development Interactive Session held in Ilorin. He highlighted some of ...

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