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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 ...

  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school kill 9 pupils

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -; Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, witnesses said ...

  • Kidnapped French sailor freed in Nigeria

    French sailor Benjamin Elman, who was kidnapped last week, is pictured after his release on June 18, 2013 in Yenagoa, southern Nigeria. Elman was taken from a tanker in Togo when attackers sought to use him as a ...

  • Stop patronising itinerant teachers Sultan urges parents

    Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar III, on Tuesday urged parents to stop giving their children to itinerant teachers for Qur’anic education. Abubakar said this in Sokoto at the opening of a one-day national symposium on the almajiri education programme entitled, ';The Journey So Far''. The symposium was jointly organised by the Sokoto State ...

  • Sony confirms Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4

    Sony Pictures has confirmed two more movies in its ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ franchise to be released in 2016 and 2018. Sony Pictures has confirmed two more ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ films. The movie studio will produce a total of four movies in the superhero franchise starring Andrew Garfield after setting release dates for a third and fourth film in 2016 and 2018, ...

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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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  • Bad leadership Only the truth can set us free says Adeoye-Davids

    President of City With Foundations (CWF) a.k.a. Harvesters Fire Family Church, Senior Pastor Kunle Adeoye-Davids has identified lack of truth as the major problem of the country, reports ETOP EKANEM. He made this known during his church's monthly programme, tagged, Wealth Clinic Lagos at Excellence Hotel & Conference Centre, Ogba, Ikeja. According to him, "Until we are able to ...

  • Nigerian LNG says gone to court over tax dispute

    LAGOS, June 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Liquefied Natural Gas company (Nigeria LNG) said on Tuesday it had gone to court to seek "judicial clarity" over levies it believes are unlawful, a month after authorities blocked some of its ships from accessing the Bonny terminal. Nigeria LNG said it was now complying with a government directive to pay freight levies to maritime ...

  • Father arraigned for beating his 14-yr-old child

    Ibadan – A 43-year-old man, Lekan Adeoye, on Tuesday appeared before an Ibadan Chief Magistrates' Court for allegedly beating and inflicting injury on his 14-year-old child. The hearing of the case was, however, unable to commence due to the absence of the prosecution witnesses and Chief Magistrate Durosaro Kehinde-Tijani adjourned the case to July 4. The prosecutor, Insp Olufemi ...

  • FG drops charges against Russian sailors for alleged unlawful arms importation

    Lagos – The Federal Government on Tuesday dropped the charges against eight out of the 15 Russian sailors charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria. They are Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Lopatin Alexey, Baranovskly Nikolay, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov and Kononov Sergel. The 15 sailorshad appearedbefore a Federal High Court, Lagos, on a ...

  • FG approves cut-off marks for 20132014 UTME

    Abuja – The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja approved cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2013/2014 academic session. The Minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, announced the cut-off marks into Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and other degree-awarding institutions as 150 while 180 is for federal ...

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