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  • Indian-origin men jailed in Malaysia

    A court in Malaysia has sentenced two Indian-origin men to separate jail terms for brutally assaulting a Nigerian that led to his death. Judge Noor Azian Shaari of the high court in Shah Alam, the capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, sentenced V. Ganesan, 29, to one year in jail and T. Kumar, 29, to seven years in jail for causing grievous injuries to Nwabudike Emmanuel Chukwuma that led ...

  • 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 ...

  • Nigerian Youth Have Lost The Stomach For Revolution Says Balarabe Musa

    Second Repubic Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has expressed regrets about the decline of Nigerian youth, saying they have grown powerless, and become an instrument for the political gain of others. "There is no evidence that the youth are revolting against the legitimate state of Nigeria," he said of their revolutionary potential. "This used to be the case, even ...

  • Research and Markets Nigeria Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers Challenges Infrastructure ...

    Research and Markets: Nigeria Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Infrastructure, Supply- demand and competitive ...

  • Police arrest 17 year-old kidnappers intercept 3500 live cartridges

    By OLA AJAYI, IBADAN TWO 17 year old suspected kidnappers were among other suspects paraded at the Oyo State Police Command, Eleyele, Ibadan Wednesday. This came just as the same command intercepted about 3,500 live cartridges that were about to be conveyed to Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. The boys attempt to kidnap another teenager whose name was given as Victor were foiled by the ...

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Death Sentence

Death Sentence

There's something deeply, naggingly tricky about James Wan's vigilante thriller Death Sentence, which puts Kevin Bacon's upright family man in an escalating war with a gang of cartoonish inner-city thugs. On the surface, it is all hyperkinetic violence, building u ... ...

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  • Nigeria War Amnesty and Oxymoron

    Nigeria's Federal Government has agreed to release, rehabilitate and grant amnesty to arrested terrorists and secessionist in its custody. This offer of peace is balanced with a continuous war against those who persist with a secession and terror agenda.Boko Haram leaders have often demanded the release of their arrested members. The Nigerian government has agreed to oblige, while it ...

  • Containing cholera in Niger

    The Niger River in Ayorou town NIAMEY, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabery Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees. Among the sick are 31 Malian refugees who are living in Tabareybarey and Mangaize camps near the Mali border, according to the Tillabery health services and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). In the camps ...

  • DPP Says Its Not Merging With Any Political Party

    The Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) says it is not in any merger with any political party or association. This is contained in a communique signed by the party's Director, Media and Publicity, Mr Abubakar Yusuf. The communique was issued at the end of the party's Pre-Convention National Executive Committee (NEC) Meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the communique, the party will ...

  • Nigeria Human Rights Commission to Commence Hearing On Forced Evictions By June

    The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said it will by next month commence a nationwide public inquiry into complaints of forced evictions of persons in the country's six geo-political zones. A statement by Muhammad Ladan, Director of the Commission's Public Affairs and Communications Department, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday. The statement quoted Professor Bem Angwe, the ...

  • Jimoh Ibrahims Troubled Air Nigeria to Pay Passenger N5 Million for Flight Cancellation Court Rules

    A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered Air Nigeria to pay N5 million to Hakeem Ogunniran as damages for cancelling his flight from Nigeria to South Africa. Justice Okon Abang gave the order while delivering judgment in a suit filed by the plaintiff against the airline over loss of business due to cancellation of flight. M. Abang awarded the sum as general damages for the inconvenience and ...

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