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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 ...

  • Microsoft extends 9jApps contest for developers deadline

    By Emeka Aginam The software giant, Microsoft Nigeria has formally announced the extension of its 9jApps contest deadline which originally ended on June 14, 2013 till July 19, 2013. The challenge which was launched on March this year was designed to empower local developers to take advantage of Microsoft's new tools and resources to develop locally appealing and locally-relevant apps for ...

  • Confed Cup Is NigeriaTahiti match sign of things to come

    By Ed Dove While the history books will forever record that Nigeria recorded an emphatic 6-1 victory over Tahiti to open their Confederations Cup campaign, that simple stat will never tell the story of a fascinating and engrossing contest. The reality is that the Super Eagles were wholly unimpressive yet never looked like losing a match that probably has no place at a major international ...

  • TECNO joins Android fray with Phantom A

    By Emeka Aginam TECNO Mobile on Monday in Lagos unveiled its latest Android smartphone series, Phantom A into the Nigeria market. With the new product designed to battle Samsung galaxy tab, the smart phone maker at the launch said that it was designed for users with higher demand from ...

  • Sterling Bank raises fund to increase market share

    By JONAH NWOKPOKU Sterling Bank Plc has commenced a capital raising exercise aimed at increasing its market share in the banking industry. The first step in this regard is a Rights Issue of N5, 888, 949, 162 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N2.12k per share. According to the rights circular made available at the company's completion board meeting held in Lagos, the offer is on the basis ...

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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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  • Nigeria in space by 2015 says Ewa

    By EMMA ELEBEKE Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Ita Okon Ewa, has said that plans have been perfected to send the first Nigerian into space by 2015. This he said was part of a 25-year plan to establish Nigeria on the global map of space technology. The minister who stated this at the 2013 Ministerial Platform on Monday, also said that Nigerian universities must collaborate with ...

  • Nigeria Is Caught Between Military Abuses and Islamist Rebels

    Nigerian Army soldiers stand as part of preparations for deployment to Mali, at the Nigerian Army peacekeeping centre in Jaji, near Kaduna on January 17, 2013. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters) A month after President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency on northern Nigeria, the first eyewitness accounts are only now emerging about the Nigerian military's brutality. The state of ...

  • Thiago hat-trick sees Spain retain U-21 title

    Italy - leading 2-1 after this victory that handed them a fourth title - took less than seven minutes to open the scoring with a nicely worked goal. Isco, a target for Manchester City and Real Madrid, played a neat exchange of passes with Real Madrid youngster Alvaro Morata.Morata, scorer of three goals in the tournament, got to the byline on the left side of the box and put in the perfect cross ...

  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school kill 9 students

    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 on Tuesday. Bodies of the children in their school uniforms were brought to the local morgue, according to a hospital official who insisted on anonymity ...

  • IBM offers tech solution to Lagos traffic

    BY PRINCE OSUAGWU A team of IBM experts completing a month-long consulting assignment, at the weekend presented recommendations to the Lagos State Government which they believed could help ensure a more efficient flow of traffic in Lagos. Working with the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, the agency responsible for developing and implementing the state's transportation ...

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