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  • Confederations Cup Oduamadi hat-trick sinks Tahiti

    Nnamdi Oduamadi scored a hat-trick as Nigeria crushed a spirited Tahiti 6-1 in their Confederations Cup football Group B clash here at the Mineirao stadium. Uwa Echiejile opened the scoring Monday with a deflected long-range drive before Oduamadi danced around two defenders and coolly chipped over goalkeeper Xavier Samin, reports Xinhua. Oduamadi, AC Milan winger, then doubled his tally by ...

  • Tahiti thumped 6-1 by Nigeria but deliver a goal

    Jonathan Tehau scored at both ends when they made their debut in a major tournament. Tehau, a delivery driver back home, became the first player to score for both teams in a Confederations Cup match having headed in for the Oceania champions after 54 minutes before finding his own net 15 minutes later in the Group B match. Error-prone amateurs Tahiti, with only one professional player in ...

  • FIFA Confed Cup Brazil sets sight on sfinal

    Hosts Brazil will be looking to secure a FIFA Confederations Cup semi-final spot with a win over Mexico in their meeting today. After their opening victory over Japan, Brazil know that victory in their Group A clash in Fortaleza will guarantee a place in the last four with a game to spare. However, their opponents must avoid defeat in order to maintain hope of progression in the tournament ...

  • FIFA U-20 WCup F Eagles sure of good outing

    Nigeria's U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, on Monday expressed confidence that they would have a good outing at the 2013 U-20 World Cup in Turkey. Samm Audu, the team's media officer, who said this in a statement in Abuja, declared that the team were the first in Group B to arrive in Kayseri, Turkey. The statement said the team flew from Munich, Germany, to Istanbul where they connected ...

  • Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack medic

    MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants opened fire on a school in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing nine students, witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three ...

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Land of the Dead

Land of the Dead

George A. Romero's Land of the Dead is the fourth installment in a series of zombie films that started with 1968's landmark Night of the Living Dead, which encapsulated so perfectly the country's Vietnam-era fear that we were eating ourselves alive. Each film in the ser ... ...

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  • History and Timeline of Arik Air

    Arik Air Ltd is a privately and wholly Nigerian owned commercial airline with a commitment to the people of Nigeria to deliver new standards in aviation. In 2002, with Nigeria Airways in liquidation, Arik Air’s Chairman, Sir Joseph Arumemi-Ikhide (KSG, CON), decided to buy a Hawker jet aircraft. Colleagues and contacts in the gas and oil industry started using the Hawker jet to fly ...

  • Nigeria Year After Church Bombings Kaduna Struggles to Rebuild

    ABUJA - Sectarian violence has plagued central Nigeria for decades and tens of thousands of people have been killed. Many mosques and churches are still rubble and in some cities the population has segregated itself out of fear. It is the first anniversary of triple church bombings that sparked sectarian riots in the central city of Kaduna. There is no roof on this mosque in Kaduna and no walls ...

  • Refugees leave Nigeria for Niger Cameroon U.N. says

    The United Nations said Tuesday an ongoing crisis in Nigeria has caused more than 6,000 refugees to flee to neighboring Niger and Cameroon. A statement from the United Nations said in recent weeks, "anti-insurgent operations and general insecurity" have uprooted thousands during a state of emergency declared in May in Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. "Crossings of ...

  • Microsoft extends 9jApps contest for developers deadline

    By Emeka Aginam The software giant, Microsoft Nigeria has formally announced the extension of its 9jApps contest deadline which originally ended on June 14, 2013 till July 19, 2013. The challenge which was launched on March this year was designed to empower local developers to take advantage of Microsoft's new tools and resources to develop locally appealing and locally-relevant apps for ...

  • Confed Cup Is NigeriaTahiti match sign of things to come

    By Ed Dove While the history books will forever record that Nigeria recorded an emphatic 6-1 victory over Tahiti to open their Confederations Cup campaign, that simple stat will never tell the story of a fascinating and engrossing contest. The reality is that the Super Eagles were wholly unimpressive yet never looked like losing a match that probably has no place at a major international ...

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