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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 ...

  • Pope statue unveiled in Italian potato field

    NAPLES, Italy (AFP) – The first-ever statue of Pope Francis has been unveiled in a potato field near Naples — an unorthodox homage to the fact that the Argentine pope’s ancestors were farmers in northern Italy. The statue will be presented to the pope next month by Italian actor Barbato De Stefano, who comes from the village of Cicciano where it was presented and has financed ...

  • SURE-P to Nigerians Our roads are no longer death traps

    By Favour Nnabugwu The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P has assured Nigerians of smooth driving through the nation's roads as funds are being provided for road rehabilitations. The Convener, SURE-P/ Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA on Public Works, Dr. Ngozi Olojeme, boasted that Nigerian roads are safe for smooth driving. "Roads are actively being ...

  • Military retakes five Boko Haram strongholds

    ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria’s military said Monday it had re-established control in five remote areas of the northeast where Islamist insurgents had seized territory, as it pressed on with a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram militants. The military has ';secured the environs of New Marte, Hausari, Krenoa, Wulgo and Chikun Ngulalo after destroying all the terrorists’ ...

  • LMDGP upgrades facilities in three blighted Lagos communities

    By Kingsley Adegboye As part of its urban renewal efforts, the Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project, LMDGP, has embarked on slum upgrading projects in Mushin, Itire and Ijeshatedo communities. The projects include upgrading of 30 roads and drains, provision of boreholes as well as upgrading of primary schools. LMDGP is a World Bank assisted special purpose vehicle put in place ...

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Theatre of Blood [DVD]

Theatre of Blood [DVD]

William Shakespeare is probably the most sadistically violent author to still be taught on a regular basis in public schools. Dressed up in undeniably beautiful poetry, his plays features a litany of brutal murders and atrocious deeds, from stabbings, to beheadings, to mutilation, to cannibalism, not to mention all the black magic, treachery, and illicit sex. Worried adults who jump on the bandwa ... ...

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  • Why ACN’s form of opposition is extinct

    TO provide a credible opposition you need a political party whose leaders have been tested and trusted and who have provided credible leadership that transcends ethnic or geographical demarcations and have been found to be above board in their individual and official dealings within and outside government. Chief Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memory was no doubt a credible opposition. He was a ...

  • Nigeria says has Islamists on defensive

    MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their ...

  • Nigerian leaders critical of Boko Haram treatment in north

    Nigerian militant group Boko Haram is getting some level of protection from lawmakers in northern states, their critics contend. Nigerian ...

  • Achebe A Man Ahead Of His Generation By Prof Bart Nnaji

    Professor Chinua Achebe had left the University of Massachusetts about a decade before I joined the same University in 1983 as Professor and Director of the Automation and Robotics laboratory. At the time, Achebe's reputation was still looming large at UMass. On realizing that Achebe and I came from the same country and the same state in Nigeria (old Anambra State), students and professors ...

  • IMF okays PIB calls for early passage

    By CLARA NWACHUKWU Global financial watchdog, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has commended Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saying, it "would boost investment, government revenue, and fiscal transparency." The commendation was given in spite of varied criticisms by oil majors and other interest groups against some of the fiscal propositions in the bill. It was the ...

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