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  • Niger crippled by power cuts

    Niamey - Niger's worst power cuts in years have crippled businesses and government offices in the capital Niamey for more than three weeks, raising fears they could harm the fragile economy of one of the world's poorest ...

  • FAAC FG States and Local Govt shares N620.656 bn for May

    Following a re-convergence of this month’s Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting earlier scheduled for last week but was inconclusive due to an impasse between commissioners of state and the minister of state finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama over the distribution of February arrears. The FAAC has however shared the total sum of N620.656 billion amongst the three tiers of ...

  • Obama’s African outlook splits opinion ahead of visit

    DAKAR (AFP) – Days ahead of only his third official African visit, analysts are split over whether Barack Obama has been overlooking a golden goose in his ancestral continent or shrewdly dodging a white elephant. The 44th US president inspired millions when he told an audience in Ghana during his first year in office that he would help build prosperity in a resurgent sub-Saharan region ...

  • Killing of Students Others in Borno Yobe Are Signs of Weakened Boko Haram - Nigerian Military

    The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Wednesday said the killings of scores of people in Borno and Yobe in the past few days are signs that the Boko Haram terrorists are losing the battle against government forces. The military said the trend of sneaking in to carry out isolated attacks on soft targets as a way of seeking attention is a typical end-game strategy often employed by insurgents all ...

  • Nigerian Wins Commonwealth Women in Leadership Essay Competition

    Ms. Odili drew a link between gender inequality and domestic violence, war, poverty, gang rapes, national unrest, and slow economic growth. A Nigerian has won the Commonwealth Women in Leadership Essay competition for proffering reasons and ways governments could promote women involvement in leadership and policy making in their countries. Nonyem Obiageli Odili took the first position in the ...

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Safety Last! [Blu-Ray]

Safety Last! [Blu-Ray]

It is one of the most iconic images of film comedy, and quite possibly the most iconic image of the silent era: Harold Lloyd, with his round owl glasses and straw hat, dangling perilously from the hands of a clock on the side of a towering building in downtown Los Angeles. Even those who ... ...

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  • VC Scraps Diploma Programmes in Bayero University Kano

    The Bayero University Kano (BUK) is to phase out all diploma and other sub-degree programmes being run by the university with effect from this year. The Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Abubakar Rashid, made this known in Kano on Wednesday while briefing newsmen on the 30th Convocation of the university scheduled for June 23. Mr. Rashid said in line with the new policy, no new ...

  • Pregnant Student Delivers in OAU Toilet

    The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, on Wednesday confirmed that one of its students gave birth to a baby in a toilet. The Public Relations Officer of the University, Biodun Olarewaju, who confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, said the institution was taking care of the mother and the baby. Mr. Olarewaju said the university would give necessary ...

  • Nigeria Govt Rushes Food to Suffering Nigerian Troop in Mali As Army General Threatens to Arrest Premium Times Reporter

    The Federal government has today hurried food to Nigerian troop in Mali twenty-four hours after this newspaper reported that the 873-man contingent were being poorly fed and had not been paid allowances in the last three months. Defence sources in Abuja and Lagos told PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday that the defence headquarters was terribly embarrassed by the report and immediately ordered that food ...

  • Nigeria Thanks Youths Against Terrorism

    Young men in terror-afflicted Borno State recently decided to collaborate with the federal government's military Joint Task Force (JTF) to identify and, if necessary, arrest suspected terrorists and hand them over to the authorities. They know most of the Boko Haram members because they live/lived together with them. As a result of this effort of the courageous youth in Maiduguri and other ...

  • Nigeria PDP Spokesman Olisa Metuh Resigns

    The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has formally announced his decision to resign his position. Mr. Metuh announced his resignation at a brief press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, saying he would throw in the towel on Thursday at the party's National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting. "I want to inform you that I am resigning as the ...

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