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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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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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  • 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 ...

  • Sand Super Eagles are the team to beat says West

    Lagos - Ex-international Taribo West on Sunday said the Sand Super Eagles had all it took to remain unbeatable as they prepare for the 2013 Beach Soccer World Cup in Tahiti. The Sand Eagles would depart Nigeria on Monday for Casablanca Morocco where Soccer qualifiers would be held. It will be recalled that 18 players were invited to the Badagry Camp, out of which 12 would be selected to ...

  • NAMA’s automated aeronautical centres ready for test run in October

    Ikeja – Mr Ifeanyi Nwankwo of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) on Sunday said that the test run of NAMA’s automated Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) centres in Nigeria, would start in October. Nwankwo, Director, Directorate of Safety Electronics and Engineering Services, NAMA, told aviation correspondents at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, that the first ...

  • Who should be the next CBN Governor

    By Babajide Komolafe It is an almost trivial assertion to state that political imperatives and economic necessities often contradict each other. Central banks reside at the intersection of politics and economics and are therefore potential arenas of conflict between the preferences of politicians and what is considered prudent macroeconomic policy by appointed technocrats. In anticipation of ...

  • Excess crude account drops to $5.27bn

    By NOEL ONOJA …As FG, States, LGs share N721.505bn in April The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Yerima Ngama, has said that the country's Excess Crude Account (ECA) has dropped to $5.27billion. He made this known after the monthly Federal Accounts Allocation Committee(FAAC) meeting in Abuja. Following the outcome of the FAAC meeting, the National Economic Council (NEC) approved ...

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