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  • Call box business is booming in Cameroon

    There's no official figure to determine its role in the Cameroonian economy but there is evidence that the "call box" business is a booming informal business in the country's mobile telephone sector. The informal business, practised by thousands of Cameroonians in both in the urban and rural areas, entails one getting a mobile phone and a table in an open area on a street, reports Xinhua. This ...

  • Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators on Monday

    Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...

  • ‘Name National Library after Achebe- Prof Nwala

    By Uduma Kalu The burial rites for the eminent novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe who died on March 21 in the United States began Sunday in Abuja with a commendation service at the National Christian Centre. Chairman of the Achebe National Transition Committee, Prof. Uzodinma Nwala also asked the federal government to name the National library after the departed novelist. According to the former ...

  • Serious Big fight during extra time of league match

    Players do have misunderstanding and sometimes, fight in the pitch during matches. However, this one is out of this world; it’s unbelievable. Watch the drama ...

  • Union dares NEMA says airspace will be shut down

    Ikeja – Workers of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) under aviation unions on Sunday insisted that there was no going back on their planned protest slated for Monday, May 20. The unions said that the planned shutting down of the nation’s airspace was to press home their demand for the implementation of the approved salary scale endorsed by the National Salaries, Incomes ...

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Sleepaway Camp [DVD]

Sleepaway Camp [DVD]

With so many slasher films coming out in the early 1980s, it took something special to stand out from the crowd. And, while Robert Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp consists almost entirely of characters, situations, and settings that are interchangeable with any number of other Frid ... ...

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  • Price of gari records 50 rise

    Eket (Akwa Ibom) -The price of gari has recorded more than 50 per cent increase in Eket area of Akwa Ibom, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Other items that also went up in the area, survey revealed, were the prices of other foodstuffs, including rice and fish. The survey showed that a cup of gari, which sold at N30 between February and April, now sells at N70, while the cost of six ...

  • State of Emergency - Thousands Flee to Niger Republic

    Maiduguri and Abuja - Thousands of people including women and children have fled the border towns of Borno and Yobe states into Niger Republic to avoid being caught up in the military operation aimed at rooting out insurgents from the areas, reports said yesterday. The refugees said they fled after seeing armed men in many trucks around their villages and feared a repeat of the Baga-style mass ...

  • Nigeria Gives Up ITU Seats Over Gwandu

    The Federal Government has written to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to stop dealing with Dr Bashir Gwandu as a representative of the country as he is longer in the employ of the Nigerian government. Engr Gwandu, who was the elected Chairman of the technical body of the ITU, the Radio-communications Advisory Group (RAG), and also as Vice-Chairman of another technical body of ...

  • Americanah - The new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    The 'Afropolitan' jet-setter began the year in a swirl of curious and adoring headlines, their multinational lives embodied in the figure of author Taiye Selasi. Having coined the term - combining 'African' and 'cosmopolitan - in a 2005 essay, Selasi captured the identity and roots of the Afropolitan in her smash debut novel Ghana Must Go, which was received with ...

  • Maigari Obaseki Back Elegbeleye to Succeed

    Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari and former Chairman of the Nigeria Premier League (NPL), Chief Oyuki Obaseki have expressed delight with the appointment of Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye as the new Director General of the National Sports Commission, saying they would support him to bring development in the nation's sports sector. The former Chairman, House ...

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