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  • 25 killed 30 injured in suicide attacks in Niger

    At least 25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bomb attacks Thursday at a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, reported Xinhua. A total of 20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a ...

  • London attack Hunt on for terror clues

    A Londoner of Nigerian descent was identified Thursday as one of the two suspects who decapitated a British soldier. The terror strike prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to go into a huddle with top officials and the military put in place additional security measures. Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death the British ...

  • Londoner of Nigerian descent suspect in terror attack

    Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death a British soldier in London, a media report said Thursday. The two terror suspects are being held under armed guard at hospitals in London and one of them has been named by Sky News sources as Adebolajo. The vicious attack on the soldier took place Wednesday in Woolwich, southeast ...

  • India to train 500 Nigerians in vocational skills

    India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. "Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and remains a priority. A generation of Nigerians have ...

  • State of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway affecting economy —ACN

    The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has said the worsening state of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is negatively affecting the economy of Lagos. It urged the Federal Government to take a serious affirmative action to rescue the road from total ...

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Osmosis Jones

Considering the obsessive attention they have paid to all the gooiest and grossest aspects of the human body in their others movies, it isn't surprising that Peter and Bobby Farrelly have finally directed a movie in which more than half of the action takes place within Billy Murray's guts. ...

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  • Why Buhari Tinubu set aside differences – Obono-Obla

    By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Barrister Okoi Obono-Obla before his foray into the murky waters of politics was a human rights activist. Presently the Assistant National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, he is also the secretary of CPC merger committee and a strong member of the All Progressives Congress merger committee. A two time gubernatorial candidate in Cross River State, he ...

  • Low interest rates not feasible now – CBN

    By BABAJIDE KOMOLAFE Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, said a regime of low interest rate is not feasible at the moment in Nigeria. Speaking at the Risk Management Conference organised by the apex bank in Lagos, Sanusi said the threat of inflation was still high in the economy, especially with government spending expected to increase in 2014 to 2015 due ...

  • Enugu has lowest crime rate – IGP

    By TONY EDIKE ENUGU--The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, yesterday,declared that Enugu State has the lowest crime rate in the country, explaining that this fact was buttressed by statistics and empirical evidence. Abubakar, who spoke while taking delivery of 100 brand new vehicles donated to the police by Enugu State government, stated that this was largely a result of ...

  • Our official didn’t strangle boat driver – Bomadi maritime chair

    By Emma Amaize WARRI -- CHAIRMAN of maritime workers in Bomadi, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr. Jonathan Ogodobiri, has denied reports that an official of the association, Mr. ThankGod Whisky, killed a boat driver, Mr. Kuku Endurance. He said though Endurance’s death was a mystery, detractors made the false allegation ostensibly to incite the public against the union and ...

  • ObioAkpor NLC TUC threaten strike over sealing of secretariat by Police

    BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT-- RIVERS State chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to embark on a two-day warning strike from Monday next week, if the Police failed to allow workers of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area resume duties at the council’s secretariat. It will be recalled that despite a court order asking the Police to allow the workers resume at the ...

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