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  • Excess crude account drops to $5.27bn

    By NOEL ONOJA …As FG, States, LGs share N721.505bn in April The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Yerima Ngama, has said that the country's Excess Crude Account (ECA) has dropped to $5.27billion. He made this known after the monthly Federal Accounts Allocation Committee(FAAC) meeting in Abuja. Following the outcome of the FAAC meeting, the National Economic Council (NEC) approved ...

  • Ferguson bows out as West Brown hold United 5-5

    WEST BROMWICH – English football witnessed the end of an era on Sunday as Alex Ferguson signed off as Manchester United manager with an extraordinary 5-5 draw at West Bromwich Albion in his 1,500th and final game. On a sun-kissed afternoon at The Hawthorns, the ground with the highest altitude in the Football League, the 71-year-old Scot who propelled United to the summit of English ...

  • ‘Imposition of 35 import duty on CPO detrimental to industries’

    By NKIRUKA NNOROM The recent imposition of 35 percent duty on importation of Crude Palm Oil, CPO, into the country by the federal government is beginning to take a toll on associated food industries, as they have started to experience acute shortages in supply of the product, industry stakeholders have said. They lamented that Nigeria produces a meagre 750,000 MT to 800,000 MT of CPO every ...

  • No management contract with Rivers to operate aircraft – Caverton

    By LAWANI MIKAIRU Caverton Helicopters has told the House of Representative Committee on Aviation, and its counterpart on Justice that they had no management contract with Rivers State government to operate its aircraft and consequently could not have been under pressure to disown it over the aircraft. Caverton had reacted to the House Committees request to supply information concerning the ...

  • Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the country's ...

Movie Review

My Man Godfrey [DVD]

My Man Godfrey [DVD]

The screwball comedy genre emerged out of the thralls of the Great Depression in the 1930s as an antidote for those who were down on their luck. It gave them a chance to disappear into a darkened movie theater for a few hours and experience the vicarious thrills of the idle and not-so-idle rich and glamorous. Described also as "madcap" or "daffy" comedies, they first gained popularity in 1934 wit ... ...

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