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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 ...

  • Customs arrest suspects with $2.7m at Lagos airport

    Murtala Muhammad Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted $2.7m (or N432m) from five suspected money launderers while attempting to travel ...

  • Workers’ protest NAMA beefs up Lagos airport security

    The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency on Monday deployed police officers in strategic locations within the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, in a bid to maintain law and ...

  • Nigeria Must Get Real About Its Oil By Mohammed Dahiru Aminu

    The ultimate goal of every benign government, especially of countries so categorised as ‘developing’, and so intended for a keen march into 21st century modernity is to adopt global best practices as regards governance. And as regards countries with huge oil reserves, the efficient management of petroleum wealth is of utmost significance for both present and future ...

  • Nigerian military claims breakthrough against Boko Haram

    Nigeria's military has claimed to have re-established control of swathes of the northeast of the country in an operation against Islamist militants. Several thousand troops were deployed last week for the ...

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Theatre of Blood [DVD]

Theatre of Blood [DVD]

William Shakespeare is probably the most sadistically violent author to still be taught on a regular basis in public schools. Dressed up in undeniably beautiful poetry, his plays features a litany of brutal murders and atrocious deeds, from stabbings, to beheadings, to mutilation, to cannibalism, not to mention all the black magic, treachery, and illicit sex. Worried adults who jump on the bandwa ... ...

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  • Nigerian student loses appeal against High Court judgement

    KUCHING: A Nigerian student who was sentenced to 10 years' jail and whipping by 10 strokes of rotan for possessing 147.85g of cannabis last year had his sentence affirmed by the Court of Appeal here yesterday.Dokubu Otokini Charles, 24, had his last appeal dismissed in the unanimous decision made by the panel of three judges consisting of Datuk Azahar Mohamed, Datuk Balia Wahi Yusof and ...

  • Jonathan Nigige Obi others eulogise Achebe

    BY Uduma Kalu President Goodluck Jonathan has said Professor Achebe's truthful interventions in Nigeria’s affairs will be greatly missed. Speaking yesterday at the evening of tribute for Achebe at the International Conference centre, Abuja, the President who was represented by the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said while others may have disagreed with his views, most ...

  • NGF poll Pro-Jonathan Northern Govs root for Yuguda

    BY SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH Northern governors, who are in support of the election of a new chairman for the Nigerian Governors' Forum, NGF, have reportedly thrown their weight behind the candidature of Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, Vanguard, has learnt. Vanguard investigation reveals that eight out of the 10 pro-Jonathan northern governors, who are opposed to the ...

  • Akpabio bags Best Governor in Africa Award

    Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has bagged the best Governor in Africa Award from an Accra-based Africa Development Magazine, for his development strides in the state. Presenting the award in Accra, Ghana, renowned Ghanaian Professor, Walter Alhassan, described Governor Akpabio as an icon of democracy and a good example of what leadership should represent. He said that ...

  • UEFA Champions League MasterCard plans big for Nigerian soccer fans

    BY JACOB AJOM and UCHE UDEH The 2013 UEFA Champions League final will mean different things to different Nigerians as MasterCard, the official sponsor of UEFA Champions League, has elaborate plans to celebrate the final of Europe's most lucrative club football competition. In a show of appreciation to Nigerian card holders whose passion for football is very high, MasterCard, the ...

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