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  • Group to Take Nigeria Government to International Court

    The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria's government of human rights violations, according to spokesman Ango Abdullahi. "What we are doing now is to organize our evidence that would make it possible for us to make a very strong case against the government and its agencies, or up to individuals who may be ...

  • Ignored Importance of Health Services

    NIGERIA is a country of distinct contradictions. Public officers make a round of the world attending seminars and conferences on health, for example. They then conclude health is important to the country's well-being. Budgets at national, state, and local government levels - are never more than three per cent of the total - truly reflecting the priority we place on health services. Most ...

  • Niger Efforts to Help Respond to Cholera Epidemic

    The United Nations refugee agency said today it is working to help contain a cholera epidemic in Niger that has already claimed seven lives, including those of two Malian refugees, in a little over a week. The two refugees are a 45-year-old man who died on 13 May, and a 3-year-old boy who passed away last Sunday, after arriving at the health centre at a late stage of the disease, which is ...

  • Lagos City Orchestra excites MUSON with ‘The Messiah’

    With some members of the MUSON Choir also on stage with it, the award-winning group celebrated the silver Jubilee with the presentation of what many regard as the world's most popular and imperishable oratorio, 'The Messiah', composed by George Frideric Handel. It was delivered as composed in its three parts – with text from the Bible that expresses musically the birth of ...

  • World Bank reviews $5.4bn investments in Nigeria

    The World Bank on Tuesday began a review of its investments and activities worth $5.4bn in Nigeria. The investments are in 26 projects and involve 200 entities across the ...

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The Taking of Pelham 123

The Taking of Pelham 123

In this third crack at John Godeys 1973 novel about the hijacking of a New York City subway, director Tony Scott imposes his signature stylistic grab bag of spastic random zooms, machine-gun editing, bleary slow motion, and other assorted forms of needless visual assa ... ...

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  • Tukur tells returning PDP govs to commence 2015 campaigns

    By Henry Umoru ABUJA -- NATIONAL Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, asked governors elected on the party’s platform, who have plans to return in 2015 to start campaigns now, if they must win the election. Tukur warned the PDP governors against falling prey to the antics of praise singers, adulators and those he termed grovellers, who would always ...

  • Army nabs 9 Fulani ‘mercenaries’ over Benue bloodbath

    BY PETER DURU MAKURDI--After weeks of bloody conflict between Fulani herdsmen and Benue farmers, nine of the suspected Fulani mercenaries have been arrested and arraigned before a Makurdi Chief Magistrate Court. The suspects, who were apprehended at Gbajimba in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State by officers of the Special Forces Squad of the 72 Battalion, Makurdi, were arraigned ...

  • Use infotech to tackle insecurity NCS urges FG

    BY Emeka Aginam Unless information technology, education, employment creation were given urgent attention in governance, the fight against terrorism and other acts of insecurity may be long-drawn, the President of Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, Sir. Demola Aladekomo has warned. The NCS President disclosed this last week in Lagos during a press conference to announce the 2013 edition of NCS ...

  • 8 die 8 injured in Anambra auto crash

    BY OKONKWO EZE NNEWI--No fewer than eight persons were feared dead, yesterday, in an auto crash involving a Mitsubishi commercial bus and a tipper lorry at the Ideani end of Nnobi-Ideani-Ojoto-Umuoji-Nkpor road in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. Eight others also allegedly sustained various degrees of injuries in the accident, which occurred as a result of a head-on ...

  • Mixed reactions greet draft wiretap law at forum in Lagos

    By Emeka Aginam Last week in Lagos when stakeholders in the Nigerian telecoms industry gathered to discuss the draft lawful interception of communications regulations, leading voices contended that except the policy as recently released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), passes through a legislative process, Nigeria may not get the expected results. It would be recalled that the ...

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