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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 ...

  • 20 killed in another attack in Nigeria

    /enpproperty--> MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Hospital and local residents on Tuesday said 20 people may have been killed in another attack on students and fishermen by the Boko Haram insurgents in the Nigeria northeast Maiduguri city currently under a state of emergency. "Thirteen fishermen and tea sellers have been killed at Alau River. Gunmen numbering about five stormed the river area and ...

  • Nigeria Islamists kill nine students in school attack - medic

    MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants opened fire on a school in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing nine students, witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom at Ansarudeen School when gunmen stormed the building, opening fire at random. ...

  • Oduamadi gets Milan recall

    Nnamdi Oduamadi described his hat-trick against Tahiti at the Fifa Confederations Cup as 'massive' and says it is the reward of hard work. The goals have also earned him an immediate recall to his parent club AC Milan. "I am very happy. I really worked hard and getting three goals in the Confederations Cup is massive for me," he ...

  • Navy arrests 6 alleged fake personnel in Lagos

    BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS -- The Nigerian Navy has arrested six persons, among them, a student of the Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, FCFMT, who were allegedly parading themselves as naval personnel, in Apapa area of Lagos. Also, the navy has described as untrue, reports that its personnel shot students of FCFMT during a recent clash in Victoria Island. The suspects, clad in ...

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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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  • WITSA Vice-Chair for Africa to speak at AfICTS 2013

    WITSA Vice-Chair, Mr Roger Latchman of the Information Technology Association of South Africa will be speaking at the opening ceremony of AfICTS 2013. Mr Latchman who will be leading the South African delegation to AfICTS 2013 is also expected to facilitate business talks as the CEO of the South African International Help Desk. Rajendran (Roger) Latchman is the Managing Director - PKF BEE ...

  • Oduamadi believes ‘best yet to come’

    Super Eagles winger, Nnamdi Oduamadi believes he is yet to achieve the peak of his powers playing for the African champions. Oduamadi capped a brilliant performance with a hattrick as Nigeria trounced minnows, Tahiti 6-1 in the Confederations Cup on ...

  • Dolphins Bayelsa in a two-match drama

    Three-time Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) champions, Dolphins proved their mettle as former champions as they beat Bayelsa United 2-0 in a dramatic game decided over two days at the Port Harcourt Liberation stadium. The game which was originally scheduled to hold on Saturday was called off in the 81st minute because of a water-logged pitch with Dolphins leading 2-0 at the time. ...

  • Bauchi lawmaker seeks enforcement of law on horse riding

    Bauchi-- A member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Ilyasu Zwall, has called for the enforcement of the law regulating the use of horses in major cities of the state, to end the harassment of residents by horse riders. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the "Ceremonial Horse Riding (Restriction) Law 2012," was assented to by Gov. Isa Yuguda on August 28, 2012. Zwall, ...

  • Police arrest nine over murder of NURTW leader

    BY OLA AJAYI IBADAN -- The Oyo State Police Command has arrested nine suspects for alleged involvement in the killing of one of the leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Rafiu Adebayo, in Ibadan. Adebayo was reportedly killed at Apaana, Foko area on Sunday. The arrest of the suspects was confirmed, yesterday, by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Olabisi ...

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