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  • Kerry Calls on Nigeria to Stop Human Rights Abuses

    ADDIS ABABA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Nigerian authorities are working to stop human rights abuses by security forces in their fight against Boko Haram militants. The U.S. top diplomat made the remarks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he took part in ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Secretary Kerry said there is no denying the ...

  • Niger Attackers came from Libya

    Niger's president said suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern ...

  • Police rescue four kidnapped foreigners in Port-Harcourt

    By JIMITOTA ONOYUME POLICE have rescued four kidnapped foreigners at Borikiri area of Port Harcourt. Confirming the development, Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Angela Agabe, gave the victims names as Vadym Shytov, from Ukraine; Obaya Marak, from Kiribati; Mikhail Teresgji, from Russia and Oleksiv Ishmyetvev, from Ukraine. She said the men were abducted off the coast of ...

  • ‘Exclude Adamawa from emergency rule’

    By CHRIS OCHAYI The National Peace Summit Group, NPSG, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to have a rethink and exclude Adamawa State from among the states under emergency rule, noting that the situation there was not as precarious as in Borno and Yobe states. National Coordinator of NPSG, Mr. Theophilus Ekpon, described Adamawa as the most peaceful state in the North East. While ...

  • Tinubu Opposition leaders to rescue Nigeria

    National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, says leaders of opposition parties remained resolute in their desire to reconstruct Nigeria. According to him, the opposition parties will create a chance of a bright and better future that will erase poverty, unemployment and insecurity. Tinubu noted that there are leaders in this country capable of chasing ...

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Terms of Endearment [DVD]

Terms of Endearment [DVD]

In the introduction to the paperback edition of Terms of Endearment, author Larry McMurtry noted that he wrote the novel after having spent a couple of years rereading several 19th-century novelists, including Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, and George Eliot. As McMurtry put it, "All three, of course, had taken a very searching look at the fibers and textures of life; I doubt I aspired to such pr ... ...

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  • Hunger epidemic in Lagos public schools

    As the world celebrates Children's Day tomorrow, MOTUNRAYO JOEL reports that some pupils in Lagos State public schools are suffering from ...

  • Why centenary celebration is dear to Nigeria – FG

    By CHINWEOKE AKOMA Ahead of plans to mark Nigeria's 100 years, the Federal Government says it will deal with the challenges hampering the nation's progress. Speaking at the unveiling of the official media partners and brand ambassadors of the Nigerian centenary project in Lagos, the Minister of State for Works, Amb. Bashir Yugudu, who represented the Secretary to the Government of ...

  • Intrigues politics in Achebe’s burial

    By McPhilips Nwachukwu & Uduma Kalu It would have been difficult if the burial of Chinua Achebe had passed without any controversy. Apart from the fact that the dust his autobiography, There was a Country raised was yet to settle, the announcement of his death started another round of controversy. The first controversy that came out was when the renowned author was announced dead last ...

  • NOSCEF Why we honoured Oritsejafor

    By Sam Eyoboka THURSDAY, May 9,2013 was the day Christian Elders Forum of 19 Northern States, NOSCEF, gathered together at the National Christian Centre, Abuja to honour the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayodele Joseph Oritsejafor. Oritsejafor, a dynamic preacher, pastor, evangelist, teacher, prophet, apostle and Author, with a unique anointing of God, ...

  • Aero resumes flight to Douala

    By LAWANI MIKAIRU & DANIEL ETEGHE Aero Contractors has announced that, effective May 27, the airline will commence thrice weekly flight operations between Accra and Douala. Addressing aviation reporters yesterday in their corporate head office, Lagos, the Accountable Officer of the airline, Captain Russell Lee Foon, said the Douala flight, which will be operated with a Boeing 737, will ...

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