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  • 60 killed in Nigerian village attacks

    At least 60 people were killed in Nigeria Tuesday when some gunmen stormed four villages of Zamfara state early morning, residents and security sources said. About 100 gunmen, first stormed Kizara village around 3.00 a.m. and began attacking the residence of poor villagers. In the process, an unknown number of people were killed, including the District Head of Kizara, Bello Ibrahim, who was ...

  • Bandit attacks displace northern Nigeria herders

    Displaced Fulani families take shelter in a school in Kaduna's Birnin Gwari district KANO, 19 June 2013 (IRIN) - Incessant deadly attacks on Fulani settlements and villages in northern Nigeria by armed bandits - made up partly of disgruntled Fulani who themselves have lost cattle - are threatening herds and upping tensions in northern Nigeria. Gangs of heavily armed bandits prowl the ...

  • Kim Kardashian names baby Kaidence Donda West

    Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reportedly named their daughter Kaidence Donda West. The reality TV star gave birth to the couple’s first child on Saturday (15.06.13) in Los Angeles, California, and a loose-lipped nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the hospital where she had her baby, has allegedly revealed their new arrival’s name. According to gossip website ...

  • Hollywood actor Johnny Depp is almost blind

    Johnny Depp has revealed he is almost completely blind in one eye and near-sighted in the other. The ‘Lone Ranger’ star, who is rarely photographed without a pair of tinted glasses, claims he has been ';basically blind as a bat'; in his left eye since birth and the problem is impossible to correct. The 50-year-old actor told the July issue of Rolling Stone magazine that ...

  • Again APC fails to unveil Nat’l Officers

    BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & GABRIEL EWEPU ABUJA- THE three political parties, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, seeking registration under the All Progressives Congress, APC, failed again to unveil national officers that would run the affairs of the party. Speaking shortly after merger committees' meeting with ...

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The Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Ultimatum

There have been a lot of threequels this summer--a third Shrek, a third Pirates of the Caribbean, a third Spider-Man--but unlike those, The Bourne Ultimatum feels nothing if not necessary because it genuinely builds on its predecessors. It is the ... ...

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  • ”I will be with you through fire” Lady D tells Charly Boy in Bday letter

    By Charles Mgbolu In a very moving letter, Lady D wife has congratulated her husband Charles Charly Boy Oputa aka Areafada who turns 62 today, June 19th, vowing to remain with him even when their love passes through fire… Read her heart touching letter… My dear Charles, you have been in our lives for many- many seasons, and I have chosen to lay my heart out for that reason. This ...

  • Suarez Eagles will fall

    Uruguay striker, Luis Suarez has boasted that the Super Eagles will suffer for the 2-1 defeat inflicted by Spain on the Uruguay when the champions of Africa and South Americans clash tomorrow in a Group B Confederations Cup match in Salvador. Uruguay opened their campaign at the FIFA Confederations Cup, Brazil 2013, with a defeat, but that does not necessarily mean there are no positives to be ...

  • Expert hails proposed ban on pure water packaging

    Port Harcourt – Dr. Chukwuemeka Oluoha, Executive Director, Abia Primary Healthcare Development Agency, has said that the proposed ban of the packaging of sachet water in cellophane was in the interest of public health. Oluoha in Port Harcourt on Tuesday said that the plastic material used in packaging pure water was not good for products meant for consumption. He said when a plastic ...

  • Vanguards Publisher Decries Child Abuse

    Lagos - Publisher of Vanguard newspaper, Mr. Sam Amuka, yesterday, reaffirmed his organisation's commitment to fight child sex abuse in the country, even as Mrs. Kuburat Okoya, wife of industrialist, Razaq Okoya, said the trend had become a silent epidemic. Addressing participants during the 5th edition of Vanguard's Children's Annual Conference that attracted over 40 schools in ...

  • UN concerned over refugee outflows from Nigeria crisis

    New York, June 19 : The United Nations refugee agency Tuesday reported that the ongoing crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is continuing to send people fleeing to Niger and now to Cameroon amid the insecurity resulting from confrontations between the army and ...

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