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  • Indian-origin men jailed in Malaysia

    A court in Malaysia has sentenced two Indian-origin men to separate jail terms for brutally assaulting a Nigerian that led to his death. Judge Noor Azian Shaari of the high court in Shah Alam, the capital of the Malaysian state of Selangor, sentenced V. Ganesan, 29, to one year in jail and T. Kumar, 29, to seven years in jail for causing grievous injuries to Nwabudike Emmanuel Chukwuma that led ...

  • Chinua Achebe set for hometown burial in Nigeria

    View Photo AFP/AFP/File - Cultural troupe from Ogidi community, Professor Chinua Achebe's native town, dance in honour of the late literary giant at Abuja airport, on May 21, 2013. The body of Achebe, the author of ...

  • Abolish al-majiri system Mark tells Northern Govs

    By HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA--SENATE President, David Mark, yesterday, blamed leaders and politicians from the North for the growing almajiri in the region, saying they must urgently rise up to ban the system. This is even as he said the Federal Government would no longer condone criminal acts by people in the country on excuse of unemployment. Mark, who spoke during a debate on a ...

  • Judicial cleansing I won’t entertain baseless petition against judges – CJN

    By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA--The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Muhktar, yesterday, expressed her determination to flush out corrupt judges from the judiciary, saying judges must be men of probity and impeccable character. However, the CJN, who stated this while administering oath on 12 newly appointed justices of the National Industrial Court, NIC, said her decision to boot out ...

  • Boko Haram detainees ‘ll be released in phases – Presidency

    By HENRY UMORU ABUJA -- THE Presidency, yesterday, disclosed that the order directing the release from Police, DSS and military detention centres of Boko Haram suspects detained in connection with the security challenge, would be carried out in phases. According to the Presidency, the first batch would lay emphasis on women and children who have been in detention on suspicion of involvement ...

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Cloverfield [DVD]

Cloverfield [DVD]

Cloverfield is not so much a reinvention of the marauding-monster movie as it is a riff on its possibilities--a fascinating and largely successful experiment in the manipulation of cinematic perspective. The already tired description of the film as Godzilla meets The Bla ... ...

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  • Lagos goes for vanity tax

    ';Tax collectors and sinners" appear multiple times in the Synoptic gospels. Underlying the construction of that phrase is an attitude that suggests that the iniquities of a tax collector do not make him easily "subsume-able" under the umbrella label of "sinners." In Bible times, a Jewish tax collector is no ordinary sinner; his moral transgressions are interwoven ...

  • Electricity World Bank to assist Nigeria generate 2000MW

    The World Bank has said it will help Nigeria to generate additional 2,000 megawatts of electricity in the next two years through support to independent power ...

  • Aviation policy 20 private jets leave Nigeria

    About 20 private jets registered abroad but flying in Nigeria may have left the country barely one month after the Federal Government unveiled a new policy barring foreign-owned aircraft from staying in the country beyond 15 days, aviation industry sources have ...

  • Kirikiri residents protest neglect by oil firms

    BY WILLIAM JIMOH LAGOS-- FOR second day running, operations of five oil firms in Kirikiri town, Oriade Local Council Development Council Area, LCDA, of Lagos State, were paralysed by residents protesting the deplorable state of roads in the community and lack of employment opportunities for its youths. The community accused the oil firms of not only refusing to offer jobs to the youths but ...

  • 10000 megawatts to be generated by Dec – FG

    By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke ABUJA--THE federal government, yesterday, disclosed that plans had been concluded to move from the present position of power generation of 4,500 to 10,000 megawatts by December. Speaking when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, led by Senator Phillip Adudua, PDP, FCT, Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab ...

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