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  • Kerry in Ethiopia for Security Talks

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ethiopia for security talks with regional officials and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Kerry's visit is expected to include talks on African and Western efforts to fight Islamist extremists in Mali and northern Nigeria. During recent talks with Nigeria's foreign minister, Kerry reaffirmed U.S. support for Nigeria's fight ...

  • US Human Rights Abuses Continue in N. Nigeria

    A U.S. official said Friday the State Department has been monitoring the situation and concludes that human rights abuses are continuing. The official says Secretary of State John Kerry plans to meet with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Ethiopia. Nigeria has declared a state of emergency in the north, where Boko Haram extremists have launched ...

  • Taribo tips Nigeria for World Cup glory

    Taribo West has tipped the Flying Eagles to win the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey. The tournament kicks off on June 21 and ends on July 13, and Nigeria have been drawn against Cuba, former champions Portugal and South Korea in Group B. Nigeria's best effort in the championship is second-place finish at the 1989 edition in Saudi Arabia and the 2005 edition in Holland. The Flying ...

  • French Niger troops kill Islamists holding out at Niger base

    NIAMEY (Reuters) - French special forces and Niger troops shot dead on Friday the last two Islamists involved in a twin attack on a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger claimed by the mastermind of January's mass hostage-taking in Algeria. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a one-eyed veteran of al Qaeda's North African operations, said in a statement that his Mulathameen brigade ...

  • MTN project fame season 6 auditions begin

    By IYABO AINA Africa's most productive musical reality TV show, MTN Project Fame season six is set to hit the airwaves soon as auditions for the show begin today. Kicking-off in Monrovia, before moving on to Accra, Freetown and then Nigeria, the audition train will end up in Lagos, in ...

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Night of the Creeps [DVD]

Night of the Creeps [DVD]

Cult auteur Fred Dekker, whose reputation is based entirely around a small handful of horror and science fiction films made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, likes to describe his directorial debut Night of the Creeps as a stew. The film is very much a reflection of ... ...

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  • Court grants Atuche wife time to file no-case application

    By Onozure Dania A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has granted a former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche and his wife, Elizabeth, an additional time to file their no-case submission applications concerning the charges preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC. Francis Atuche and his wife Elizabeth, are being prosecuted alongside a former Chief ...

  • 18426 youths from SSouth employed under SURE-P scheme – Labour Minister

    By AUSTIN OGWUDA, Asaba OVER eighteen thousand youths have so far been recruited under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment (SURE-P) scheme from the South-South geopolitical zone of the country, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu has said. Wogu who stated this in Asaba yesterday during the sensitization and appraisal tour named the South- South states that benefited from ...

  • JAMB takes step against exam malpractices

    By Ola Ajayi Ibadan THE Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor 'Dibu Ojerinde Friday explained that the use of Computer Based Testing in Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was aimed at checking examination malpractices in Nigeria. The don gave the reason while delivering a lecture entitled 'Classical Test Theory (CTT) versus Item Response ...

  • NGF Amaechi floors Jonathan

    By Emeka Mamah The Governor of Rivers State, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, CON, was yesterday re-elected as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF."Amaechi, whose re-election was fiercely opposed by both President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, got 19 votes to beat his challenger, Jonah Jang of Plateau State who got 16 ...

  • Nigeria shines at Cannes 2013

    The great achievements,impact, and investment opportunities that abound in the Nigeria Film Industry were re-echoed at an interactive forum on Film Funding and Collective Management Organization of the 66th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival n France. At the well attended forum, filmmakers from around the world, including potential investors averred that the Nigeria Film Industry ...

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