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  • Nigeria offensive on Islamists escalates

    A key city in northeast Nigeria is in lockdown as the military enforces a 24-hour curfew and blocks supply routes in its sweeping campaign against Islamist insurgents.The operation against Boko Haram, the group that wants an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is aimed at retaking territory seized by the militants and ridding the country of "terrorist activities," the military has ...

  • Nigerian Troops Kill 10 Militants Arrest 65 in Northeast

    Nigerian troops killed 14 Boko Haram Islamist insurgents and arrested 20 others in clashes yesterday around the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a military spokesman said. The Islamists have deserted their camps and are retreating towards the country's northeastern border, struggling to move scores of vehicles in their possession, Chris Olukolade, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said ...

  • One dies as building collapses in Badagry

    BADAGRY -- One person is suspected to have died in a collapsed building located at Godo Blocks Estate, Ibereko in Badagry, weekend. The victim, Kehinde Williams, 28, a carpenter, was working in the building when it collapsed. The building was said to have collapsed about 10 a.m.on Saturday but the rescue work did not begin till 12.24p.m. An eyewitness said the deceased was trying to remove ...

  • Okonjo-Iweala Maku Okoh Ndukwe pay tributes as Achebe burial rites begin

    The burial rites for eminent novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe who died on March 2, 2013, in the United States began Sunday in Abuja with a commendation service at the National Christian Centre, ...

  • Nigeria Orders Curfew in Muslim Extremist Neighborhoods

    Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that is the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign against insurgents in the region. Soldiers arrested some 65 suspected extremists who were "attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri" after military strikes on the camps in ...

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My Man Godfrey [DVD]

My Man Godfrey [DVD]

The screwball comedy genre emerged out of the thralls of the Great Depression in the 1930s as an antidote for those who were down on their luck. It gave them a chance to disappear into a darkened movie theater for a few hours and experience the vicarious thrills of the idle and not-so-idle rich and glamorous. Described also as "madcap" or "daffy" comedies, they first gained popularity in 1934 wit ... ...

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  • 17 killed in offensive against insurgents Nigeria military says

    extremists and three soldiers. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, said in a statement that one soldier also was missing as "forces have been engaging a large number of heavily armed terrorists" for the last two days. He did not say exactly where the fighting occurred but that about 20 people were arrested. There was no independent confirmation of the military's ...

  • Boko Haram In Disarray Nigerian Army Reports

    By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigerian Army has reported that displaced Boko Haram terrorists are in disarray, with a large number of them heading across some borders. Fourteen of the terrorists were confirmed dead in encounters with Nigerian troops in various battles since yesterday, and three soldiers were also killed. A statement today from Defence Headquarters in Abuja, signed by ...

  • Boko HaramNigeria Military Clashes Over 2000 Nigerians Flee Into Niger Republic

    By SaharaReporters, New York Over 2000 Nigerians have fled the Nigerian State of Borno following the clash between Boko Haram and Nigerian troops in Abadam local government area of Borno North Senatorial District. A journalist travelling in the Nigerian-Niger Republic border confirmed to SaharaReporters that between Saturday evening and Sunday over 2000 locals from villages in and around Abadam ...

  • Obasanjo shares 40 cassava bread with African leaders

    By Jimoh Babatunde with agency report Former Nigeria's President ,Olusegun Obasanjo, took the 40 percent cassava flour inclusion in bread to Tanzania recently as he urged the Tanzania President to promote the use of cassava in confectioneries in his country to transform agriculture. He noted that the use of cassava flour in bread would stimulate the demand for the root crop, create jobs ...

  • AD decries tricycle ban in Lagos

    Lagos – A chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in Lagos, Chief Kola Ajayi, on Sunday decried the banning of commercial tricycles on major highways in Lagos. Mr Kayode Opeifa,the Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, had on May 10, announced the ban at a news conference in Lagos. Opeifa said that operation of the tricycles, popularly called Keke Marwa, constituted a ...

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